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" I don't tap dance, and I don't think you can learn to tap dance in three weeks at my ripe old age. "

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" My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist. "

" 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

" You should never reveal your true age. "

" Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders. "

F. Scott Fitzgerald

" The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

" I was depressed at a very young age - mental illness runs in my family, especially on the female side. "

" I went to engineering school, I went to physics class. I said, 'Screw this, I don't want to be here. I'd much rather be at a club playing music.' "

" Kids are naturally gifted at art from a very young age. The problem is when they get older and become self-conscious. The process should always be fun, though. "

" 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. "

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

" In this age, I don't care how tactically or operationally brilliant you are: if you cannot create harmony - even vicious harmony - on the battlefield based on trust across service lines, across coalition and national lines, and across civilian/military lines, you need to go home, because your leadership is obsolete. "

" Being healthy is something I learned from a very young age. Looking after yourself on the inside helps with your energy, makes your skin glow, and changes your whole outlook on life. "

" True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. "

" I think of dying every day... At a certain age, you should be prepared to go at any time. "

" The information age has ushered in a networked and interdependent world, one in which challenges and opportunities appear and disappear faster than traditional organizational models can manage. "

" Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry. "

Jean-Paul Sartre

" It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years. "

" We all want to be special, to stand out; there's nothing wrong with this. The irony is that every human being is special to start with, because we're unique to start with. But we then go through some sort of boot camp from the age of zero to about 18 where we learn everything we can about how not to be unique. "

" Truly, learning appears to be a reverse geometric progression with experiences at one hour, one day, one month or one year dramatically more influential and formative than later experiences. As has often been quoted, 85% of brain development takes place by age 3, and yet we spend only 4% of our educational dollars by that point. "

" If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age. "

" My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head. "

" Knowing how to age and not being afraid of aging is very healthy. "

" Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi. "

" I've always been involved with the performing arts from a young age. "

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

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" Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

" Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution. "

Gustave Flaubert

" Age is just a number, and your talent will never fail you. It has no expiry date. "

" Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul. "

" 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. "