927 private quotes tagged age

“In my old age, I'll be in L.A.” — David Hockney

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“I'm not busy... a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy.” — Garrison Keillor

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“The surest sign of age is loneliness.” — Annie Dillard

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“The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline... because you need to be alone to find out anything.” — Vivienne Westwood

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“I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.” — Nadia Comaneci

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“Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.” — Jack Nicholson

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“Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.” — Bennett Cerf

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“What I think is amazing is not that 85% of people who get married under the age of 25 get divorced, it's that 15% of them stay together. How did they manage to pull that off? You almost can't wait too long. It's the single simplest measure to predict divorce.” — Elizabeth Gilbert

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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.” — Robertson Davies

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“Craziest thing I've done for love is getting married. I think it's crazy. I think it's crazy, crazy, crazy. I'm never going to say I wouldn't do it again but I have to make sure it's love and not settling for the 'I have to do this by a certain age,' which is kind of what I did.” — Jenny McCarthy

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“There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.” — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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“I was a mixture of being incredibly old for my age and incredibly backwards. I was born quite old, but then I stopped growing. I lived with my mum and dad till I was 30.” — Helena Bonham Carter

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“TV is sort of the only way to go for an actress my age to make a decent salary with independent films, you just can't.” — Jessica Lange

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“I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.” — Horace Walpole

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“Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.” — Washington Irving

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“I want to age with some dignity.” — Pete Townshend

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“My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.” — Warren Beatty

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“This is my 20th year in the sport. I've known swimming and that's it. I don't want to swim past age 30 if I continue after this Olympics, and come back in 2016, I'll be 31. I'm looking forward to being able to see the other side of the fence.” — Michael Phelps

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“If you age with somebody, you go through so many roles - you're lovers, friends, enemies, colleagues, strangers you're brother and sister. That's what intimacy is, if you're with your soulmate.” — Cate Blanchett

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“Although it is generally known, I think it's about time to announce that I was born at a very early age.” — Douglas Horton

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“Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.” — Michael Caine

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“What goes on in Europe concerns us greatly because, if Europe comes apart, the E.U. comes apart, then you're going to have enormous impact on America, that's a very big trading partner of ours, and people own securities around the world in this day and age.” — Michael Bloomberg

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“I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.” — Danica McKellar

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“My sister and I shared a bedroom our entire lives and I believe she discovered the Beatles when she was about 11 and I'm four years younger. So from the age of 7 until 17 we had nothing but Beatles paraphernalia in our room, even those little stuffed Beatles that went on stands that are dressed as the Sgt. Pepper band.” — Christina Ricci

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“Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?'” — Sydney J. Harris

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