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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. "

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" It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age. "

" There is a line between scurrilous nonsense and serious discussion that laps over, especially in this day and age when you've got all this electronic media and these blogs and this kind of fanatical impulse to bring down the opposing candidate. "

" I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar - hide in the back and just play. "

" He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden. "

" I don't like it when people who are young act like they're 40. That's taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you're so mature or whatever - I don't try to act mature. Some people might say I'm mature for my age, but it's not something I'm trying to do, you know? I'm just me. "

" I've always wanted male friends that I could be real intimate with and talk about important things with and be as affectionate with that person as I would be with a girl. "

" The goal of my diet-style is eating for optimal health and longevity. What greater benefit could there be than living healthfully and actively into old age with no dependence on medications and almost no risk of heart disease, diabetes or dementia? "

" I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel. "

Henri Frederic Amiel

" Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles. "

" America has been the country of my fond election from the age of thirteen, when I first saw it. I had the honour to hoist with my own hands the flag of freedom, the first time it was displayed, on the Delaware; and I have attended it with veneration ever since on the ocean. "

John Paul Jones

" When I stepped down from the evening news at the age of 65, in '81, things were still going well. Immediately after that, the whole tenor of the CBS News Department changed. "

Walter Cronkite

" I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved. I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I am very happy to do that, I want to do that. "

" There are times when the presence of more choices can make us choose things that are not good for us. For me the clearest example is that the more retirement fund options a person has, the less likely they are to save for their old age. "

" Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" Bullying, to me, starts very small around the kindergarten age where the first thing we learn is to call each other names. Something so small can be so long lasting in someone's life. "

" How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete. "

" At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment. "

Benjamin Franklin

" Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age. "

Booth Tarkington

" 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. "

" We were never supposed to live until 40. We were built to self-destruct at 30, whether from cancer or mental illness. We're all going way beyond our expiration date. "

Douglas Coupland

" In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age. "

" This idea that being youthful is the only thing that's beautiful or attractive simply isn't true. I don't want to be an 'ageless beauty.' I want to be a woman who is the best I can be at my age. "

" My mom, she was, at a young age, caught up in the worldly ways. At that time, it was very intriguing to be out partying and having fun. As a young mother, she was caught in that. "

Amar'e Stoudemire

" Death, torture and prison are part of daily life for the youth of Iran. They are not like us, my friends and I at their age; they are not scared. They are not what we were. They hold hands and scream: 'Don't be afraid! Don't be afraid! We are together!' They understand that no one will give them their rights; they must go get them. "

Marjane Satrapi

" I've never considered musical equipment very sacred. "

" It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship. "

Henry A. Wallace

" Minds ripen at very different ages. "

" You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned. "

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

" 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? "