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"I can't accept "our nervous age," since mankind has been nervous during every age. Whoever fears nervousness should turn into a sturgeon or smelt; if a sturgeon makes a stupid mistake, it can only be one: to end up on a hook, and then in a pan in a pastry shell."
"Lunatics have no age. If we were crazy, you and I, we might be a great deal younger."
"I made my first investment at age eleven. I was wasting my life up until then."
"Energy, energy? Energy is, is, it's nothing more than a lot of new age hokum masquerading as religion."
"I don’t know if this is statistically right, but I’m assuming I have the most Grammys of anyone my age, but I haven’t won one against a white person."
"Once there was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time is called the Dark Ages. He who can, does. He who cannot teaches."
"It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist."
"I am still learning. (at age 87)"
"In an age where community involvement and partnerships with civil society are increasingly being recognized as indispensable, there is clearly a growing potential for cooperative development and renewal worldwide."
"Today, as you know, I am famous and very rich. But when I am alone with myself, I haven't the 'courage' to consider myself an artist, in the great and ancient sense of that word... I am only a public entertainer, who understands his age."
"Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do."
"If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it."
"Age has given me the gift of me; it just gave me what I was always longing for, which was to get to be the woman I've already dreamt of being. Which is somebody who can do rest and do hard work and be a really constant companion, a constant, tender-hearted wife to myself."
"Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age."
"Because my mom always told me that I could. From a very early age, I felt comfortable leading."
"In short, the best thing to do is behave in a manner befitting one's age. If you are sixteen or under, try not to go bald."
"The nervous system of any age or nation is its creative workers, its artists. And if that nervous system is profoundly disturbed by its environment, the work it produces will inescapably reflect the disturbances, sometimes obliquely and sometimes with violent directness."
"Old age is life's parody."
"There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning."
"No man loves life like him that's growing old."
