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"Industrial-strength foolishness sets in-in males, at least-at about the age of 18. This is why the military prefers males in the 18-to-25-year-old range when there's combat to be done."
"Hollywood is like a stock market - you're always up and down and all around. With age, you start to invest less in the outcome of that."
"Age is not an accomplishment, and youth is not a sin."
"Age, habits of business and experience have modified many characters."
"The coming-of-age story has sort of become a joke. It's something to capitalize on, and that is painful because when you are coming of age - when you are going through something like that - the genre is so meaningful."
"In the case of the Indian villager, an age-old culture is hidden under entrustment of crudeness."
"Beauty with character ages better than perfection."
"Many talents preserve their precociousness right into old age."
"Why didn't Eternity have this deformed age aborted ? Its birthmark is the stamp of a newspaper, its medium is printer's ink, and in its veins flows ink."
"Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood."
"Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness."
"Because of my age, the roles that I'm in doesn't have as much depth as I would like, but that will change. Halle Berry, Angelina Jolie, they play heavy, meaty roles, which are the sort that I want to play...because of what I look like, I play with my looks, which is cool, but I've done it so many times. But one day I would love to play against my looks."
"At my age days dissolve like salt in water; the day's gone and I don't even know what I've done with the hours."
"I work for posterity, these things requiring ages for their accomplishment."
"If the soul has food for study and learning, nothing is more delightful than an old age of leisure."
"To those who are engaged in commercial dealings, justice is indispensable for the conduct of business."
"Youth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood; age retains its tastes by habit."
"Any age is the perfect age to follow your dream!"
"To be a minister means above all to become powerless, or in more precise terms, to speak with our powerlessness to the condition of powerlessness which is so keenly felt but so seldom expressed by the people of our age."
"Only the schools’ inefficiency can account for creativity surviving after age 25."
