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  • Audrey Hepburn As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
    Audrey Hepburn
    British actress, model, dancer and humanitarian (1929 - 1993)
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  • Harper Lee As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash.
    Harper Lee
    American writer (1926 - 2016)
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  • Brad Gilbert At 21, there's lots more room there, plenty of things to improve on as you get older.
    Brad Gilbert
    American tennis player (1961 - )
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  • Vladimir Nabokov Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers, twice or many times older than they, reveal their true nature which is not human, but nymphic (that is, demoniac); and these chosen creatures I propose to designate as ''nymphets.''
    Vladimir Nabokov
    American writer and poet (1899 - 1977)
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  • Bruce McCulloch But we wanted to work in a way we never had, which was write everything together. We had to face each other in the same creative room, which gets tougher as you get older, because you don't want to be confrontational.
    Bruce McCulloch
    Canadian actor, comedian, writer (1961 - )
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  • Hector Hugh Munro Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.
    Hector Hugh Munro
    British Novelist, Writer (1870 - 1916)
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  • Buddy Wakefield Dear Angry Older People, over 21-ish, anyone who considers themselves an adult, still bitter: Next time you're wondering what wrong with kids today, you might wanna check the examples you've been giving us to work with.
    Poetry Older People
    Buddy Wakefield
    American poet and actor (1974 - )
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  • Joey Adams Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.
    Joey Adams
    American comedian (1911 - 1999)
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  • Gore Vidal Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players, and Tennessee Williams has about 5, and Samuel Beckett one - and maybe a clone of that one. I have 10 or so, and that's a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Thomas Szasz Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • John Berger Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn't changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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  • Barbara Cartland Every man has been brought up with the idea that decent women don't pop in and out of bed; he has always been told by his mother that nice girls don't. He finds, of course, when he gets older that this may be untrue - but only in a certain section of society.
    Barbara Cartland
    English author of romance novels (1901 - 2000)
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  • Bobby Vinton Everybody goes through a stage where you have it. And, all of a sudden, you don't have it anymore. You get older and the audience gets younger.
    Bobby Vinton
    American singer and songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Samuel Butler Everyone should keep a mental wastepaper basket, and the older he grows, the more things will he promptly consign to it.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Adam Sandler Feels good to try, but playing a father, I'm getting a little older. I see now that I'm taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.
    Adam Sandler
    American actor, comedian, and filmmaker (1966 - )
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  • Mario Puzo Fredo you're my older brother and I love you. But don't ever take sides against the Family.
    The Godfather
    Mario Puzo
    American author, screenwriter and journalist (1920 - 1999)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Keith Richards Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
    Keith Richards
    British musician, guitarist and songwriter (1943 - )
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  • Claude D. Pepper Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep peddling, you'll fall.
    Claude D. Pepper
    American politician of the Democratic Party (1900 - 1989)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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