Quotes with young

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  • Adam Sandler When I got into this, I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me, I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor, and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.
    Adam Sandler
    American actor, comedian, and filmmaker (1966 - )
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  • Carla Bruni When I met Eric Clapton, I was a very young girl. I was 20 years old. And we were linked for a very short time, and then we became friends. And then we lost touch, which I'm really sorry about.
    Carla Bruni
    Italian-French singer-songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Bonnie McKee When I moved to Seattle in fourth grade, I joined the Seattle Girls' Choir. It's a world-class choir, and we competed, toured Europe, and went and sang at the Vatican, so it was a really awesome experience to have that young.
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  • Queen Victoria When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.
    Queen Victoria
    Queen of Great Britain (1819 - 1901)
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  • Agnes Smedley When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • Bella Abzug When I was a young lawyer, working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.
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    Bella Abzug
    American lawyer and politician (1920 - 1998)
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  • George Bernard Shaw When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Billy Collins When I was a young man, I understood that poetry was two things - it was difficult to understand, but you could understand that the poet was miserable. So for a while there, I wrote poems that were hard to understand, even by me, but gave off whiffs of misery.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Billy Joel When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • Ben Barnes When I was at school, I was in choirs more than anything else, from a very young age, about 9 years old. And then I started taking drum lessons.
    Ben Barnes
    English actor (1981 - )
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  • Bruce Forsyth When I was in the business as a young performer, it was a recognised fact that when you got to 60 you were out, because there'd be a new crop of comics coming up all the time, every 10 years or so.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Bob Dole When I was quite young, I put my trust in God — not government; and I never get the two confused.
    Bob Dole
    American politician and attorney (1923 - )
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  • Anita Desai When I was very young, I used to share much of what I wrote with my family, but as I got older and more self-conscious, it became a much more private process.
    Anita Desai
    Indian novelist (1937 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen When I was very, very young, I decided that I was gonna catalogue my times because that's what other people who I admired did. That's what Bob Dylan did, that's what Frank Sinatra did, Hank Williams did, in very different ways.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Beyonce Knowles When I was writing the Destiny's Child songs, it was a big thing to be that young and taking control. And the label at the time didn't know that we were going to be that successful, so they gave us all control. And I got used to it.
    Beyonce Knowles
    American singer and actress (1981 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • William Somerset Maugham When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Carmen Busquets When I was young I would spend more money than I should with my credit card but my father cut it off, so I had to find creative ways of making money.
    Carmen Busquets
    Venezuelan entrepreneur, philanthropist and investor (1965 - )
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Cai Guo-Qiang When I was young, I didn't want to do traditional painting and calligraphy. I deliberately wanted to separate from my father so I could feel I existed myself.
    Cai Guo-Qiang
    Chinese artist (1957 - )
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