“Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.”
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“Starting a new retirement plan for those below a certain age is something tens of millions of Americans have already been through at work.”
“Anybody under the age of forty knows hip-hop, gospel and R&B pretty well, and it's all a part of what we consider to be 'black music.' There is a natural synergy between the three.”
“Well, Jeff Buckley for me is one of the greatest singers I've ever heard. And the reason why is he has an amazing range, amazing emotional power in his voice. And the music he put around it also just had this passion and this soul to it and this spirit to it that very few artists have, and he passed at a very young age.”
“It's getting better generally, daily, especially in TV, for women in acting and age and looks count less. As more women come into the business. Change of any sort takes a long time to happen.”
“I think the most exciting thing is that you expect people our age to know the music, but actually a lot of kids know the music, and if anything is left, we have left really good music, and that's the important part, not the mop-tops or whatever.”
“Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.”
“You watch yourself age and it's hard to feel like a sex symbol.”
“I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to be some stress casualty in early middle age.”
“I'd always thought the Rats were good fun, but one of the very nice things about being of Saga age is that I can actually look back and think, When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.”
“I do think I feel it but you don't think you are cause at a certain time you are no age but you don't think you are anything. You feel the life you have lived. I feel that. It's been a long fifty years.”
“The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being.”
“My first job was in retail at the age of 14, and I have worked in the industry ever since.”
“I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women, and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves.”
“Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.”
“The age we live in is a busy age in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.”
“In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied.”
“What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.”
“If there is anything I would do differently in my life, it is that I would study business more. I'm trying to teach my daughter Chloe at an early age about investing and money so she's not afraid of it.”
“Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.”
“Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.”
“The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age, and it was a rescue.”
“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.”
“Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.”