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Age Quotes


"A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day."


"Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white; rich, middle-class or poor, we are ALL touched by poverty."


"The existence is a tremendous curiosity, with in the course of the years, the discovery of yourself in your inmost evolutions. With the age you feel better than you are, what you represent. Which means a little at the planet's scale."


"So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!"


"The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity."


"Despite what anti-aging ads say, growing older can be better. I feel better in my skin, 100 percent. You have greater effects of gravity, but the better sense of yourself you have is something I wouldn't trade. Women who lie about their age - 'why?'"



"They say that Madison Avenue will only pay high dollars in advertising if they get the 18-35 age range."



"Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer."


"I get on the floor, and I can do things a woman a fifth my age can't do."



"I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion."


"Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization."


"Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you won't get run over."


"Unfortunately, we are still in an age where individuals may be discriminated against because of health conditions."


"When I came to Los Angeles, it was the first time that I ever felt like I belong somewhere. Not because it was wacky, but because people here understood what I felt like to perform, and there were other kids my age who wanted to do it. I didn't get looked at as God, you freak."


"The fine print in the President's Social Security proposal is that all present and future workers under age 55 will have their promised retirement benefits cut."


"A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations."



"I'm probably so out of it at my age that I don't know what people think."


"Well, for Blow I had to age from 20 to 60, starting out in shape and then later putting on fat pads."
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"It's wonderful to me that bees have this simple, age-old thing going on."


"But in our age the appeal to authority is weak, and I am of my age."


"In an age robbed of religious symbols, going to the shops replaces going to the church. We have a free choice, but at a price. We can win experience, but never achieve innocence. Marx knew that the epic activities of the modern world involve not lance and sword but dry goods."



"When I first met my agent, I said, If something comes up and it fits my age range and personality, I would like you to send me up for it, even if it specifies blonde or brunette."


"Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way."



"Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas."
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