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"It seems to me there is a change in what audiences want to see…I can only hope that’s correct, because there’s an awful lot of people of my age around now and we outnumber the others."
"I feel now like a hinge between generations, which is strange. It just happened recently. I think it's because my daughter is so much like me at her age. I feel like I'm reliving my own mother's experience of raising me."
"The yajna of our age and for us is the spinning wheel."
"Tolstoy was the greatest apostle of nonviolence that the present age has produced."
"I have called spinning the yajna of this age of India."
"India has the right, if she only knew, of becoming the predominant partner by reason of her numbers, geographical position and culture inherited for ages."
"For a nonviolent struggle, there is no age limit. The blind, the maimed and the bed-ridden may serve, and not only men but women also."
"In the highest antiquity, the people did not know that there were rulers. In the next age they loved them and praised them. In the next they feared them; in the next they despised them."
"In the Golden Age, Rulers were unknown. In the following age Rulers were loved and praised. Next came the age When rulers were feared. Finally the age When rulers are hated."
"And it is not our part here to take thought only for a season, or for a few lives of Men, or for a passing age of the world."
"At my age I'm exactly the kind of person who has lived through one of the most quickly changing periods known to history. Surely there could never be in seventy years so much change."
"Go ahead: Live with abandon. Be outrageous at any age. What are you saving your best self for?"
"Age had not made him less handsome, as is so often the case; it had simply made him less visible."
"Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of."
"I discovered at the age of six that everything was a phony, worked with mirrors. Since then, I've always wanted to be a magician."
"[At a young age] I had learned enough about women to know not to pressure them when they're thinking something out; they'll tell you when they're ready."
"I never - you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped."
"At my age, I don’t need to be a sexy bundle of muscles, thank you very much."
"...[the photographer] can be considered a kind of disembodied burrowing eye, a conspirator against time and its hammers. His work, print after print of it, seems to call to be shown before the decay which it portrays flattens all... Here are the records of the age before an imminent collapse."
"Eager for bread and love."
