"You need to act your age and not your girl's age"
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"We all have some experience of a feeling, that comes over us occasionally, of what we are saying and doing having been said and done before, in a remote time - of our having been surrounded, dim ages ago, by the same faces, objects, and circumstances."
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"The best armor of old age is a well-spent life preceding it."
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"I've heard that one-half of the students at elite schools want to go into private equity or hedge funds. They want to keep up with their age cohorts at Goldman. This can't possibly end well in terms of meeting these expectations."
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"I stopped appearing as Dracula in 1972 because in my opinion the presentation of the character had deteriorated to such an extent, particularly bringing him into the contemporary day and age, that it really no longer had any meaning."
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"The whole conception of a God is a conception derived from the ancient oriental despotisms. It is a conception quite unworthy of free men. We ought to stand up and look the world frankly in the face. We ought to make the best we can of the world, and if it is not so good as we wish, after all it will still be better than what these others have made of it in all these ages."
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"Sometimes the gift of an inquisitive nature to the young can be greater than that of the wisdom which comes of age."
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"So face with calm that heritage And earn contempt before the age."
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"I was wrong to grow older. Pity. I was so happy as a child."
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"When you're eighteen your emotions are violent, but they're not durable."
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"There was never any more inception than there is now, Nor any more youth or age than there is now; And will never be any more perfection than there is now, Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now."
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"Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety."
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"It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly."
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"I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts."
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"And therefore education at the University mostly worked by the age-old method of putting a lot of young people in the vicinity of a lot of books and hoping that something would pass from one to the other, while the actual young people put themselves in the vicinity of inns and taverns for exactly the same reason."
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"Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly."
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"I want to do a movie, but it has to be the right movie, whether it's independent or a studio movie. I'm much more open to being a supporting actor. At the age of 60, I'll be second fiddle. Fine. I'm happy to do it."
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"Age doesn't make a man."
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"I lost myself to music at a very early age, and I remained there."
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"I was a buffoon and an idiot until the age of forty"
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