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" Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch. "
J. B. Priestley
Changes
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Perfect
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" 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. "
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" In an interconnected age when opportunistic adversaries can work in tandem to destroy stability and prosperity, our country needs to regain its strategic footing. We need to bring the clarity to our efforts before we lose the confidence of the American people and the support of potential allies. "
James Mattis
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" You don't stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older because you stop laughing. "
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Older
" I must confess, I was born at a very early age. "
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" You need some insecurity if you're an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven't yet started to think about retiring. I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers. "
Al Pacino
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" Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts. "
Jose Ortega y Gasset
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" Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age. "
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" In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show. "
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You
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" Live your life and forget your age. "
Jean Paul
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Live
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" To join or not to join films was the biggest choice I had to make. I'd done two years of biogenetic engineering, was an economics graduate and a gold medalist. I had also been a Bharatanatyam dancer from age five, always won the best actress award in school. Finally, I decided to do things for my soul, chose to act. "
Amisha Patel
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Soul
Gold
" I wasn't a jock in school, and by the 10th grade, when I was in boarding school I was carrying water buckets for the girls' hockey team. I was the kid with long hair and glasses and acne trying to learn how to play guitar and piano in the music center. I was not an athlete past the age of 13 or 14 when they start throwing the ball really fast. "
Michael Weatherly
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Music
Past
" In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an institution is a moral & political evil in any country. It is useless to expatiate on its disadvantages. "
Robert E. Lee
Believe
Slavery
Political
" The growth of art seems to be in cycles, and often its vigorous lifetime is restricted to a century or two. The periods of distinctive drama, Greek, English, Spanish, fall within such a limit; the schools of painting and sculpture likewise; and, in poetry, the Victorian age or the school of Pope will serve as examples. "
George Edward Woodberry
Fall
Art
Age
" Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and finding connections. "
Dean Kamen
Age
Finding
Today
" 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. "
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Soul
Age
Evil
" We're in an age of enlightenment, and we have a choice as a society which path to take. "
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Take
" With age, you get to a place where you don't want to knock people out. You just want to give people a hug. "
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Hug
You
Want
" I conclude, therefore, that this star is not some kind of comet or a fiery meteor... but that it is a star shining in the firmament itself one that has never previously been seen before our time, in any age since the beginning of the world. "
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Age
Kind
" Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy! "
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" Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. "
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" Why do so many children love the idea of being snowed in or shipwrecked, of having to survive on one's own? When I was a child, I was no exception. I wanted to hunt with a bow and arrow like the Stone Age people: to skin deer and build my own shelter. And I desperately wanted a wolf. As we lived in London, my options were limited. "
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" To me, age doesn't make a difference in terms of how playful or fun life can be. "
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" It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair. "
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" Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act. "
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Play
" This is the strange thing: Dancers don't age. "
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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. "
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Team
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" The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion or ethnic background, is that we all believe we are above-average drivers. "
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" There ought to be more grants that go to people in their late twenties and early thirties. That's a crucial age, although it's very hard to judge who is worth supporting and who is not. Looking back on my own life, I see that was the period when I was closest to giving up as a novelist and when I most needed some encouragement. "
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" I embrace old age. Look, I'm never going to dunk on LeBron James, and I've learned to accept that. I got a pretty good life, and I'm very fortunate, and I have my blessings. "
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