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" For me, it's always been draining to be around people for too long because I'm naturally a pretty expressionless person. From an early age, I found being alone incredibly liberating. "

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" At age eleven, I became a member of the circulating library of my home town. From there on I was rarely seen outside but was reading two to four books per week, the subjects ranging from archaeology over ethnology and geography to zoology. Needless to say that I did not do much homework. "

Hartmut Michel

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" A man who correctly guesses a woman's age may be smart, but he's not very bright. "

" When I was 13, I entered the seminary in the hope of becoming a priest. But I often found myself helping the nuns in the kitchen and thus discovered my passion for cooking. I began to cultivate my skills and aspirations at the age of 15, when I embarked on my first apprenticeship. "

" The irony is that the more we fight age, the more it shows. Paint on a 50-year-old face brings to mind a Gilbert and Sullivan comic figure. Smooth the cheeks, and suddenly the ear lobes and hands look out of place. Do we run around in October, painting the gold leaves green? "

" If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasent waters for our old age. "

" The great thing about show business is that there's no mandatory retirement age. "

" Age is inevitable. Aging isn't. "

" Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age. "

" I can't wait to be that age and hanging out with a bunch of people hanging out all day playing golf and going to the beach, all my own age. We'd be laughing and having a good time and getting loopy on our prescription drugs. Driving golf carts around. I can't wait. "

" We're not in an information age anymore. We're in the information management age. "

" There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow. "

" I don't really think about what's 'age appropriate' for my audience because I think they can handle quite a bit, but I do try to think about what's honest and true to my characters who have grown up in situations where they've been taught to handle these things very carefully and that they're very powerful. "

" In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty. "

" You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them. "

" For some reason, we stopped getting gold stars at some age. It's time to bring them back. "

" There are signs that the age of petroleum has passed its zenith. Adjusted for inflation, a barrel of crude oil now sells for three times its long-run average. The large western oil companies, which cartellised the industry for much of the 20th century, are now selling more oil than they find, and are thus in the throes of liquidation. "

" People have to understand one thing: at the age of 18, I arrived at a dream club like Manchester United. It was a dream come true. But, even at that moment, I was thinking about playing in England for some years and then going to play in Spain. Even at that time I was thinking that way, and I always gave 100% everything. "

" Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age. "

" The golden age is before us, not behind us. "

" High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted' and groomed for a prizewinning future; self-esteem was considered something you had to pick from the garden yourself. "

" Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately. "

" It's a great thing to live in a digital age. It's convenient; it's fast. "

" Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty. "

Coco Chanel

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" 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. "

" Tobacco marketing often reaches children and youth and entices them to start using tobacco while they are still at an impressionable age. Nearly four out of five high school cigarette smokers will become adult smokers, even if they intend to quit in a few years. By the time they want to quit, they're hooked. "

" As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage. "

" But now in this day and age, people are more prone to go out to try new things to enhance their performance on the field - to enhance their physical appearance. "

" Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning. "

Johan Huizinga

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" Girls' inner critics are starting to reveal themselves at a younger and younger age. And body image issues are an aspect of their lives which is causing them low self esteem and day-to-day suffering. "

" We tried not to age, but time had its rage. "