"Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay."
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"Now, we live in an age where we have so much information that we do tend to overload. The Greeks did too, though."
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"I don't like guys my age because they are normally either married or divorced and grumpy, fat and balding."
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"I don't believe there's a certain age where you can't say and feel and be who you want to be."
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"In this day of wonders no one will say that a thing or an idea is worthless because it is new. To say it is impossible because it is difficult is again not in consonance with the spirit of the age. Things undreamt of are daily being seen, the impossible is ever becoming possible."
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"The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty."
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"Both for the production on a mass scale of this communist consciousness, and for the success of the cause itself, the alteration of men on a mass scale is necessary, an alteration which can only take place in a practical movement, a revolution; this revolution is necessary, therefore, not only because the ruling class cannot be overthrown in any other way, but also because the class overthrowing it can only in a revolution succeed in ridding itself of all the muck of ages and become fitted to found society anew."
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"When I had to fill in my immigration papers, I gave my age as 19, and my profession as genius; I added that I had nothing to declare except my talent."
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"She was a curious woman, whose dresses always looked as if they had been designed in a rage and put on in a tempest. She was usually in love with somebody, and, as her passion was never returned, she had kept all her illusions. She tried to look picturesque, but only succeeded in being untidy."
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"He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best."
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"The first time an autograph hunter told me, 'You are my mother's favorite actress,' I aged twenty years."
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"At my age...I'm going to do what I want and I haven't got time for anything else."
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"When you reach a certain age, suddenly there are lots of people younger than you, which is really startling."
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"I always liked people who are older. Of course, every year it gets harder to find them."
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"You don't need to be a scientist to know Earth's age or that life evolved. You just need be one who embraces objective truths"
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"When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child we were and the souls of the dead from whom we have sprung come to lavish on us their riches and their spells."
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"It's great to have an acting job in the age of Reality TV."
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"Society decides when we get old. But the spirit never ages."
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"Great ages of art come only when a widespread creative impulse meets an equally widespread impulse of sympathy . . ."
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"I am my age. I'm not making any effort to change it."
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