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" Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form. "
Andre Maurois
Growing Old
Time
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" I actually think the whole concept of retirement is a bit stupid, so yes, I do want to do something else. There is this strange thing that just because chronologically on a Friday night you have reached a certain age... with all that experience, how can it be that on a Monday morning, you are useless? "
Stuart Rose
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" As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost. "
Margaret Mead
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" I would also like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age. "
Paul Desmond
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" The rewards for biotechnology are tremendous - to solve disease, eliminate poverty, age gracefully. It sounds so much cooler than Facebook. "
George M. Church
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" He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled. "
Gene Fowler
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" The finest lesson I've learned with age is that all I need is a small team of comrades who inspire me, try not to judge me, and remind me when I'm judging myself. "
Lake Bell
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Me
" I use a lot of sunblock, which is something I learned from my mother at a young age - to stay out of the sun and be careful of skin cancer. We live in a time where global warming is at its maximum level. The ozone is destroyed, and our skin is exposed to sunbeams on a daily basis. "
Eiza Gonzalez
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" Next year, I hope there will be even more parties, lots of holidays and just having a good time, really. Plus wing-walking, air shows and learning to fly, as they are all things I want to do. I won't be restricted by age. "
Carol Vorderman
Age
Hope
Time
" Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age. "
Hesiod
Marriage
Wish
Age
" I'm not a New Age person, but I do believe in meditation, and for that reason I've always liked the Buddhist religion. When I've been to Japan, I've been to Buddhist temples and meditated, and I found that rewarding. "
Clint Eastwood
Meditation
Religion
New
" My Girl Scout leader. She told me if I listened more and talked less, I could grow up to be a good writer. I thought that was interesting advice at age 12. "
Judith Viorst
Age
Thought
Me
" The exhaustion of old age is something people who are younger don't fully appreciate. "
Tony Benn
Appreciate
Old Age
People
" There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going. "
J. B. Priestley
Now
Respect
Young
" I was a young boy when I met the Surrealists and the Dadaists. I admired them, and that is what they taught me: to admire. Admiration is very important. People who are unable to admire others lose an important part of their soul. My soul developed from a very early age through encounters with admired people. "
Stephane Hessel
People
Me
My Soul
" If I could have gone on describing to you the beauties of this region, who knows but I might have made a fine addition to the literature of our age? "
Robert Gould Shaw
You
Made
Literature
" I had a very happy childhood. But I was sent off to boarding school at quite a young age, this massive Victorian house that was suffocated in ivy. I think there is a part of that school in 'Heap House.' "
Edward Carey
Happy
Age
Childhood
" Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed. "
A. N. Wilson
Power
School
Strength
" Art in the age of the digital image is completely different from experiencing art in physical form. "
Kehinde Wiley
Art
Image
Digital
" With age comes common sense and wisdom. "
Nas
Age
Wisdom
Sense
" As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage. "
Frances Conroy
Family
Face
Age
" My father was a Jewish immigrant who settled in Argentina and was left to his own devices at the age of 15. My mother was a teacher, herself the daughter of a poor immigrant family. "
Cesar Milstein
Mother
Family
Age
" People think children's books are about teddy bears and little flowers. I realize people sometimes don't know what to do with my books because they say, 'Is it a children's book, and what age group?' "
Peter Sis
Flowers
Book
People
" No, no, I was only funny on stage, really. I, I, think I was funny as a person toward my classmates when I was very young. You know, when I was a child, up to about the age of 12. "
Rowan Atkinson
Child
Age
Think
" In every age and every man there is something to praise as well as to blame. "
James Beattie
Blame
Age
Man
" There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison. "
Andre Maurois
Poison
Truth Is
Truth
" What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy. "
Voltaire
Age
Most
Virtue
" There is a Fountain of Youth: It is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age. "
Sophia Loren
Love
Creativity
Age
" My wife came here at age 8 not speaking a word of English and ended up in the president's Cabinet. "
Mitch McConnell
President
Here
Wife
" In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century. "
Mary Wollstonecraft
Opinion
Age
Character
" But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave. "
William Wordsworth
Lovely
Age
Bright