"I have sketched since a young age, so there's always been an artistic side, a visual side to my personality."
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"I could cook from quite an early age - purely because I liked it."
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"I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way."
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"As soon as a man recognizes that he has drifted into age, he gets reminiscent. He wants to talk and talk; and not about the present or the future, but about his old times. For there is where the pathos of his life lies - and the charm of it. The pathos of it is there because it was opulent with treasures that are gone, and the charm of it is in casting them up from the musty ledgers and remembering how rich and gracious they were."
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"I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television."
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"It was like seeing Bill Gates at age thirteen, times two. And half of him was wearing a cheerleader uniform. Yes, I know that’s a weird image."
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"Fine # wine is a living liquid ... Its life comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death."
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"There is no place in which to hide when Age comes seeking for his bride."
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"What is very little understood about the electronic age is that it angelizes man, disembodies him. Turns him into software."
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"One of the good elements of old age is that we no longer have to prove anything, to ourselves or to anyone else. We are what we are."
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"Take care that old age does not wrinkle your spirit even more than your face."
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"Good work and joyous play go hand in hand. When play stops, old age begins. Play keeps you from taking life too seriously."
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"One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late."
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"It was at that age that poetry came in search of me."
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"Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age."
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"Old age, after all, is merely the punishment for having lived."
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"Most of our difficulties come from losing contact with our instincts, with the age-old forgotten wisdom stored up in us."
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"I don't know what's happened to me. I've got a bit more sophisticated in my old age. I like a bit of jasmine tea. I love it."
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"I did Albert Hall, I got to play the Hall of Fame with Prince. So I've done that kind of stuff for ages. It wasn't until after we finished working on Brainwash, my dad's album after he died, then it was like 'That phase is over in my life now, now we can get on with our music, with our band.'"
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"In the acceptance of depravity the sense of the past is most truly captured. What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance? Corruption is the Age of Time."
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