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" 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. "

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" 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

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" Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. "

" I think women should start to embrace their age. What's the alternative to getting older? You die. I can't change the day I was born. But I can take care of my skin, my body, my mind, and try to live my life and be happy. "

" At the age of 21, I had never even stepped on a treadmill. "

" Chinese people age overnight. "

" The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis. "

" Love makes those young whom age doth chill, and whom he finds young keeps young still. "

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

" The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow. "

" It is instilled in thousands of American males from an early age that one of their requirements is to be able to both dish out and take a lot of pain. They are taught the rules of this road in gyms, rings, backyards and fields all over America. "

" I'm glad I was born when I was. My time was the golden age of variety. If I were starting out again now, maybe things would happen for me, but it certainly would not be on a variety show with 28 musicians, 12 dancers, two major guest stars, 50 costumes a week by Bob Mackie. The networks just wouldn't spend the money today. "

" I wasn't one of those kids who get up on the table and dance at a young age, but I always wanted to be an actor. "

" We will not continue to be in the post-'79 era. That age is over. "

" I'll tell you, there is nothing better in life than being a late bloomer. I believe that success can happen at any time and at any age. "

" Looking back, I realise I had to grow up and be responsible at a very tender age. "

" 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. "

" I have a Ph.D. in philosophy and sports science. At 14, I went through this really tough Soviet training system. A lot of my roommates got psychologically broken or physically injured. Either you came through, or you were out. I made my Ph.D. work in the field of young athletes aged 14-19 because at this age any human is changing. "

" I was in my second year at NYU. I knew what I wanted to do, and I just walked out of college. So, from the age of 17, I've been able to do what I wanted, and that makes for a kind of contentment, a fairly pleasant demeanor. "

" I would never bet against Peyton Manning. You know about the age and the neck and the strength. But I had George Blanda, and as he got older, he got smarter, and he just got rid of the ball quicker. I watch Peyton, and I see George Blanda. "

" To me - old age is always ten years older than I am. "

Bernard Baruch

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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. "

" I love high heels from the age of 10! Short skirts and then high heels. My classmates used to make fun of me. Like, 'Ooh, she's so skinny and she's wearing high heels.' But I just wore what I like, and I didn't care about people's opinions, the same as I don't care now. "

" The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. "

Helen Keller

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" This is the strange thing: Dancers don't age. "

" I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table. "

" In this media-drenched, multitasking, always-on age, many of us have forgotten how to unplug and immerse ourselves completely in the moment. We have forgotten how to slow down. Not surprisingly, this fast-forward culture is taking a toll on everything from our diet and health to our work and the environment. "

" Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light. "

" None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. "

" We seem to live in an age where we are quietly appalled by the idea of appetites, whether they be for sex, food or diamonds. "

" In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Who do you think you are?' "