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" You know, from age 17 on, my paycheck was coming from cooking and working in kitchens. "

Anthony Bourdain

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" We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination. "

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" In this day and age, when you can use a machine or computer to simulate or emulate what people can do together, it still can't replace the magic of four people in a room playing. "

" One line I'd draw would be on raising the eligibility age for Social Security and Medicare. It sounds fair, since people are living longer. But it isn't. Lower income workers are the ones who find it hardest to keep working after 65. And they'll get penalized with lower benefits. "

" Nobody in Singapore drinks Singapore Slings. It's one of the first things you find out there. What you do in Singapore is eat. It's a really food-crazy culture, where all of this great food is available in a kind of hawker-stand environment. "

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" As time goes by and you're getting older and stuff like that - getting older sucks. You know, I hear all this crap about, 'Oh, you can age with dignity.' Really? "

" I've been very lucky and I have a happy old age with good family and friends still around. "

" Age is something only in your head or a stereotype. Age means nothing when you are passionate about something. "

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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. "

" Knowing how to age and not being afraid of aging is very healthy. "

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" I've seen zero evidence of any nation on Earth other than Mexico even remotely having the slightest clue what Mexican food is about or even come close to reproducing it. It is perhaps the most misunderstood country and cuisine on Earth. "

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" I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. "

" The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more. "

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" It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years. "

" As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. "

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" At a young age, I was interested in comic books, which was really how I learnt to read. The name Cage came from a comic book character called Power Man. "

" I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that. "

" In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century. "

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" Every chef I know, their cholesterol is through the roof. And mine's not so great. "

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" 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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" After 3 years, I left the army at the ripe old age of 20, but I'd like to think some of the skills are still with me. I'm great at physical movement; I can still remember Morse code, and perhaps most importantly, I can fold my socks up into little balls with smiley faces. "

" Live your life and forget your age. "

" You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them. "

" Retro looking stuff but a lot of these guys doing these shows are my age or younger. I was just disgusted. I hated being around that kind of thing. Not that it affected what I did because when it comes down to it I was doing my own show. "