"I can't hit on women in public any more. I didn't decide this; it just doesn't feel right at my age."
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"I am in an age group where it is rude to discuss money, and now it is all anyone cares about."
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"From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine."
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"I wondered, as I wondered so often when I was that age, who I was, and what exactly was looking at the face in the mirror. If the face I was looking at wasn't me, and I knew it wasn't, because I would still be me whatever happened to my face, then what was me? And what was watching?"
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"Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called."
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"As we age, we become our parents; live long enough and we see faces repeat in time."
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"The limits on your enlightenment come not from the age you stopped going to school but from the age you stopped being curious."
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"We live in the digital age, and unfortunately it's degrading our music, not improving."
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"When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child that we were and the souls of the dead from whom we sprang come and shower upon us their riches and their spells, asking to be allowed to contribute to the new emotions which we feel and in which, erasing their former image, we recast them in an original creation."
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"She was "a woman of uncertain age."
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"I never got into debt because my parents had drummed into me at a young age: if you can't afford it, you can't have it."
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"At my age, people prefer to stay in a relationship that is not working. I do not understand that. I think it takes a lot of courage to separate. But it takes more energy to stay in something that is not working."
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"A thousand ages in Thy sight Are like an evening gone; Short as the watch that ends the night Before the rising sun."
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"Fancy and humour, early and constantly indulged in, may expect an old age overrun with follies."
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"There is no barrier to Indiana Jones growing older. It's not an age-based character. We can't bang him up as much as we used to, maybe. But I guess I can pretend to have the capacity as well as I pretended before."
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"When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18."
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"I call it nirvana, the complete destruction of old age and dying."
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"I'm always scouring the universe for great old instruments from the '50s and early '60s. That's really, for me, the golden age of basses, when they had just been invented within 10 years of that period and they had just started to come into their own, especially the old Fender jazz basses and old Rickenbackers and Gibsons. I'm always on the lookout. It's fun."
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"He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task; but that is ever good for the public. But he that plots to be the only figure amongst ciphers is the decay of a whole age."
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"He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age."
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