“People quit on jobs. They quit on marriages. They quit on school. There's an immediacy of this day and age that doesn't lend itself to being committed to anything.”
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“I nearly died of double bronchial pneumonia at the age of five.”
“The wonderful thing about age is that your knees don't work as well, you can't run down steps quite as easily and obviously you can't lift heavy weights. But your mind doesn't feel any different.”
“In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.”
“But I think it's a little different in Europe, because 40 is really the best age for a woman. That's when we hit our peak and become this ripe fruit.”
“My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents.”
“In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance.”
“Just call me a family man and an actor who digs his whole scene, side interests and all. Just say I feel mighty good at the ripe old age of 27.”
“Maybe back in the day you didn't need to be the greatest looking to be on TV and you didn't need to speak the best, but in this day and age, I think you need to be the package. You need to look the part for your sponsors, you need to be able to speak the part for the media and to big CEOs.”
“The culture of independent film criticism has totally gone down the drain and this seems to come with the territory of the consumer age that we are now living in.”
“There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.”
“They say eyes clear with age.”
“Growing up on stage, I was introduced to makeup at a young age and I will never forget the first time I tried on a L'Oreal Paris iconic lipstick - it was instant glamour and I've been hooked ever since.”
“I don't mind my age.”
“Despite what anti-aging ads say, growing older can be better. I feel better in my skin, 100 percent. You have greater effects of gravity, but the better sense of yourself you have is something I wouldn't trade. Women who lie about their age - 'why?'”
“For the moment I prefer to be a beautiful woman of my age than try desperately to look 30.”
“It's a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere.”
“It's not always possible to sit down and eat at home in this day and age of fast-paced living, but if you are going to eat out, do so as a family and support all the great local places in your areas. I'll still eat at the same diner I did as a kid with my parents.”
“I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.”
“India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.”
“Back in the 1960s, I saw Peter, Paul and Mary. I was at that age, about 14, and I was mesmerized.”
“For me from a pretty young age up until about 21 years old hallucinogenics had a huge place in my life.”
“A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.”
“Stop living a day at a time and stop worrying about age.”