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" I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary. "

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" My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias. "

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

" Artists - musicians, painters, writers, poets - always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life. "

" If you're 90 and look good in a mini-skirt, go for it. What is 'age appropriate'? Such nonsense. My mother lived to 106, so what's middle-age? Seventy is the new 50. "

" There's no way to approach anything in an objective way. We're completely subjective; our view of the world is completely controlled by who we are as human beings, as men or women, by our age, our history, our profession, by the state of the world. "

Charlie Kaufman

" I grew up in the age of polyester. When I got to touch real silk, cotton and velvet, the feel of nonsynthetic fabrics blew me away. I know it's important how clothing looks, but it's equally important how it feels on your skin. "

" For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. "

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

" At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since. "

" We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art. "

" A woman tells her doctor, 'I've got a bad back.' The doctor says, 'It's old age.' The woman says, 'I want a second opinion.' The doctor says: 'Okay - you're ugly as well.' "

" 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

" Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years. "

" Your body actually reminds you about your age and your injuries - the body has a stronger memory than your mind. "

Mikhail Baryshnikov

" To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it. "

Bertrand Russell

" We live in an age where people will watch epic entertainment on their phones. "

" We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man. "

Lyndon B. Johnson

" I prefer to put myself in an environment that's further afield and look through the eyes of someone who differs from me in age, ethnicity, gender, and/or social class. I think a little displacement makes me a sharper observer. "

" Being young isn't about age, it's about being a free spirit. You can meet someone of 20 who's boring and old, or you can meet someone of 70 who's youthful and exciting. I met Fred Astaire when he was 72 and I was 21, and I fell in love with him. He certainly was a free spirit. "

" I was trying to be 27 at age 47, but God had to get rid of my vanity. I had trouble letting go of the old Lex physically. My human fleshly nature didn't want to let go of what had come to be billed as 'The Total Package.' I guess God had to help me get rid of the last remnant of that vanity and pride. "

" 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

" At a young age winning is not the most important thing... the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence. "

" If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings. "

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

" The biggest disease this day and age is that of people feeling unloved. "

" In the industrial age and in analog clocks, a minute is some portion of an hour which is some portion of a day. You know, in the digital age, a minute is just a number. It's just 3:23. It's almost this absolute duration that doesn't have a connection to where the sun is or where our day is. "

Douglas Rushkoff

" In an age when so many groups are rolling out restaurants faster than your local baker makes donuts, my goal is that each restaurant feels hand-crafted. That they have their own soul. "

" Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength. "

" The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm. "

" Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. "

Albert Einstein

" What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it. "

Brigitte Bardot