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" You are as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fears; as young as your hope, as old as your despair. "

Self-Confidence

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" If youth knew; if age could. "

" Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards. "

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" You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy. "

" Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. "

" 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. "

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" A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world. "

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" For me, it's always been draining to be around people for too long because I'm naturally a pretty expressionless person. From an early age, I found being alone incredibly liberating. "

" I was very successful from a very early age, and I want to keep it. "

" Every age has its storytelling form, and video gaming is a huge part of our culture. You can ignore or embrace video games and imbue them with the best artistic quality. People are enthralled with video games in the same way as other people love the cinema or theatre. "

" Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator. "

" In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest. "

" Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer. "

" The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job. "

" There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age. "

" It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair. "

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

" The fact that I've lived this long is not really an achievement. Time passes; we age... it's natural. This is why it annoys me when a person watches a movie and tells me that it was 'time pass.' Would time not have passed if he hadn't watched the film? "

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" 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'd been taught from an early age that I was in the 'other' category on the standardized tests. You know, I had to go down the checklist - Caucasian, African-American, Latino, Asian-Pacific Islander, and then, you know, at the bottom is other. So, you know, very early on I was taught, in a way, that I was somehow this anomaly. "

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" Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places. "

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