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Age Quotes
"Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter."
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"In youth we learn; in age we understand."
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"I think one of the greatest joys I have now in my career and in my profession is to be playing at an age where I can appreciate it more than I used to... It's a whole different lens you look through the older you get."
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"It's a great pleasure having survived six generations of TV critics."
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"I started writing seriously about 1960, at the fairly advanced age of 30."
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"The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other."
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"I think it's quite extraordinary that people cast me as if I'm Warren Beatty: until I met my present wife, at the age of 35, you could name two girlfriends."
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"Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19."
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"All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?"
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"I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age."
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"At a young age winning is not the most important thing... the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence."
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"It's easier to learn things for life by the age of 12 and not the age of 18. This is just my guess."
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"Any time a running back reaches the age of 31 or 32, he has to lose a step. No one is a freak of nature. No one is going to be able to take the pounding a running back has to take over a 10- or 12-year career and not lose a step."
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"You still stand watch, O human star, burning without a flicker, perfect flame, bright and resourceful spirit. Each of your rays a great idea - O torch which passes from hand to hand, from age to age, world without end."
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"At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do."
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"Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance."
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"Old age is, so to speak, the sanctuary of ills: they all take refuge in it."
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"The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need."
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"Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi."
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"At my age the only problem is with remembering names. When I call everyone darling, it has damn all to do with passionately adoring them, but I know I'm safe calling them that. Although, of course, I adore them too."
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"Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see all the Broadway shows and feel that they were sentimental, that they were pandering to the audience and trying to manipulate the audience. I had no use for practically any of the shows that were hits."
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