Quotes 521 till 540 of 653.
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There's to be a film about my life. I can give this as an exclusive now. Meryl Streep was offered the part but, no, I wanted Kate Winslet. Kylie Minogue is playing me in middle age. In old age, I'm not sure who's going to play me. I haven't got there yet. Perhaps Cate Blanchett. Or Jacki Weaver.
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They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old.
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning,
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Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.
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This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.
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This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.
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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.
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Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
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Those who love not their fellowbeings live unfruitful lives, and prepare for their old age a miserable grave.
Alastor -
Though age from folly could not give me freedom, it does from childisness.
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Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.
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Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.
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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
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To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.
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To eat is to appropriate by destruction.
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To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes, we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.
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To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
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To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
Bernard M. Baruch
American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965) -
To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
The Observer, 21 August 1955Bernard M. Baruch
American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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