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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.
Bernard M. Baruch
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Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
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Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry, a hundred in dress.
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A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.
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Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask, ''What's in it for me?''
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At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.
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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.
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At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.
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But when I disappeared, it sort of pissed me off, that guys get to go on being sexual until they're seventy or eighty, and we disappear at forty-five or fifty.
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But you talk to most filmmakers and it is six, seven, eight years trying to get things off the ground. It is incredible really.
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By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.
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Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.
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Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.
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Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.
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Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts.
The New Hollywood : American Movies in the 70s (1975) -
Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.
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Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
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