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" Difficult choices, unlike red wine, rarely improve with age. "

Richard N. Haass

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" It was a melting pot in Las Vegas. You got every age level, every ethnic background, every social aura - it was an absolute Americana audience... people who were there to celebrate occasions; people who were there to gamble; people who were there because they were awed by the whole Vegas operation. Tourists. "

" In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age. "

" I have a philosophy that white people would be interested in Native Americans because, first of all, it's probably the only group as a country we all study and know the history and then never study again past the age of 10. So I think we have these things we believe are true, that are just not true about what an audience wants. "

Soledad O'Brien

" In the 1940s, traveling for an African was a complicated process. All Africans over the age of sixteen were compelled to carry 'Native passes' issued by the Native Affairs Department and were required to show that pass to any white policeman, civil servant, or employer. Failure to do so could mean arrest, trial, a jail sentence or fine. "

" I'm very mature for my age, but I'm also innocent in a lot of ways. "

" I'm glad I was born when I was. My time was the golden age of variety. If I were starting out again now, maybe things would happen for me, but it certainly would not be on a variety show with 28 musicians, 12 dancers, two major guest stars, 50 costumes a week by Bob Mackie. The networks just wouldn't spend the money today. "

" Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. "

" Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending. "

Anne Bradstreet

" Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age. "

Booth Tarkington

" There's something unique about the United States, a sense of individual rights and freedoms, and a sense of social and civic responsibility that we contributed to so much of the world. We lost that mission in the 1980s and 1990s, when we entered a gilded age, and the culture of individualism became a culture of avarice. "

George Hickenlooper

" My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s. "

" Indeed, in foreign policymaking, inconsistency is often a virtue. I speak not of principles but of policy. "

Richard N. Haass

" Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy. "

" A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance. "

Jawaharlal Nehru

" My mom was always keen I stayed in school and got good grades, and she was always keen for me to do medicine. I used to go to drama classes when I was younger, and she would always take me. But when I got to an age when I decided it was what I wanted to do, when she accepted it, she had actually been the most supportive person ever. "

Iain De Caestecker

" The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth. "

" I'd like to talk about free markets. Information in the computer age is the last genuine free market left on earth except those free markets where indigenous people are still surviving. And that's basically becoming limited. "

" Age carries all things away, even the mind. "

" What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy. "

" By the age of 24, I found myself convicted in prison in Egypt, being blacklisted from three countries in the world for attempting to overthrow their governments, being subjected to torture in Egyptian jails, and sentenced to five years as a prisoner of conscience. "

" I wasn't one of those kids who get up on the table and dance at a young age, but I always wanted to be an actor. "

" You are as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fears; as young as your hope, as old as your despair. "

Self-Confidence

" From my perspective, there's no reason to be afraid of aging, because if you age, you're lucky! The alternative is death. "

" My mother is Turtle Mountain Chippewa, and she lived on her home reservation. My father taught there. He had just been discharged from the Air Force. He went to school on the GI Bill and got his teaching credentials. He is adventurous - he worked his way through Alaska at age seventeen and paid for his living expenses by winning at the poker table. "

" I read all the time that people think I'm arrogant. They say I am cocky, a bad character. I had that from a young age. But when they meet me, they say, 'That image doesn't fit you.' "

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

" By Time and Age full many things are taught. "

" Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair. "

" I would also like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age. "

" There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity. "

Arthur Schopenhauer