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

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John Forbes Nash, Jr.

" The age factor means nothing to me. I'm old enough to know my limitations and I'm young enough to exceed them. "

" You start at a young age, going on auditions, and you think you did a good job and expect to get that role, and you don't, and it's a letdown, a disappointment. So you tell yourself to just do the work and disconnect, because you have no control over the outcome. "

Michael B. Jordan

" Regardless of age, regardless of position, regardless of the business we happen to be in, all of us need to understand the importance of branding. We are CEOs of our own companies: Me, Inc. To be in business today, our most important job is to be head marketer for the brand called You. "

" I like texting as much as the next kidult - and embrace it as yet more evidence, along with email, that we live now in the post-aural age, when an unsolicited phone call is, thankfully, becoming more and more understood to be an unspeakable social solecism, tantamount to an impertinent invasion of privacy. "

" Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age. "

Albert Einstein

" 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. "

" We live in an age of technology and science that demands proof, and yet we desire mystery. But when God gives us mystery, we seek to destroy it by gross indifference or childish reasoning. "

Mother Angelica

" I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world. "

" Cancer cells are fixed at an age where they are still too young to have learned the rules of the society in which they live. As with so many immature individuals of all living kinds, everything they do is excessive and uncoordinated with the needs or constraints of their neighbors... they are reproductive but not productive. "

Sherwin B. Nuland

" The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right. "

" In the U.S., the '50s and '60s marked the documentary's golden age, especially at CBS, where pioneering television journalist Edward R. Murrow, immortalised in George Clooney's 'Good Night, and Good Luck,' produced such landmark investigations as the CBS Reports programme 'Hunger in America.' "

" I'd always tried to resist playing the supervirility thing. I liked showing the vulnerability of age. "

" Your grandparents came of age in the Great Depression, when everyday life was about deprivation and sacrifice, when the economic conditions of the time were so grave and so unrelenting it would have been easy enough for the American dream to fade away. "

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

" There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure. "

" 'Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age' was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age. "

Christopher Hitchens

" So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable. "

" I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery. "

" Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese. "

" 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. "

" Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. "

" I didn't have a normal background - I was completely demented from a very early age! "

" An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her. "

Agatha Christie

" As a father, I believe that involving children in sports at a young age is generally, a wise proposition. I believe that healthy competition is... well... healthy; that sporting events foster a spirit of teamwork that far surpasses the events themselves; and that active participation keeps children moving and is good for their self-esteem. "

" When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age. "

" Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts. "

Jose Ortega y Gasset

" My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age. "

" What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy. "

" Chinese people age overnight. "

Karl Pilkington