Quotes with coming-of-age

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  • Baz Luhrmann At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
    Baz Luhrmann
    Australian director, writer, and producer (1962 - )
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  • Arsene Wenger At a young age winning is not the most important thing... the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence.
    Arsene Wenger
    French football manager and former player (1949 - )
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  • Anne McCaffrey At age 77, I need the help of someone with more energy than I can now summon to finish a book.
    Anne McCaffrey
    American-Irish writer (1926 - 2011)
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  • Candice Bergen At an age when most actresses are being phased out, I am being phased in - with a vengeance.
    Candice Bergen
    American actress (1946 - )
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  • Pearl S. Buck At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.
    Pearl S. Buck
    American novelist (1892 - 1973)
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  • Gloria Steinem At my age, in this still hierarchical time, people often ask me if I’m passing the torch. I explain that I’m keeping my torch, thank you very much-and I’m using it to light the torches of others.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales At the age of 19, you always think you are prepared for everything and you think you have the knowledge of what’s coming ahead.
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  • Carlos Ghosn At the age of 20 I bought a used Fiat 127. This was the only one I could afford!
    Carlos Ghosn
    Brazilian-born businessman (1954 - )
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  • Salvador Dali At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
    Salvador Dali
    Spanish painter (1904 - 1989)
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  • Busta Rhymes At the end of the day, man, you can't protect yourself from a haymaker that's coming in toward your face if you don't see it coming.
    Busta Rhymes
    American rapper, musician, record producer and actor (1972 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • C. S. Lewis Autumn is really the best of the seasons; and I'm not sure that old age isn't the best part of life. But of course, like autumn, it doesn't last.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Samuel Johnson Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Colin Powell Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.
    Colin Powell
    American elder statesman and four-star general (1937 - 2021)
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  • Aristotle Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Bernadette Devlin Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I've allowed the people to sacrifice me at the top and let go the more effective job I should be doing at the bottom.
    Bernadette Devlin
    Irish civil rights activist (1947 - )
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  • Bernard M. Baruch Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation... Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.
    Address to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission (14 June 1946)
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Billy Childish Being a fan of authentic Dada, I find today's art - what I call 'Bankers' Dada' - mind-numbingly dull. The most challenging work I've seen of late is by The British Art Resistance. Their document, 'A Call for Heroes in an Age of Cowards', is apt in these days of witless chancers.
    Billy Childish
    English painter, author, poet and photographer (1959 - )
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel Being is both presence and absence. God had to conceal His presence in order to bring the world into being. He had to make His absence possible in order to make room for the world's presence. Coming into being brought along denial and defiance, absence, oblivion and resistance.
    Who Is Man? (1965)
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Brooke Shields Being nice to everybody, saying hello to everyone in the room, signing every autograph; it was instilled in me at a very young age that this was what I was suppose to do. But I don't think it helps at all. I see more people who are rude or arrogant being rewarded - but, this way, I can put my head on the pillow at night.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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