- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
Age Quotes
On the ages we pass through.
This collection moves from a childhood memory shaped by early pressure over appearance to a university course named for an 18th-century literary period, showing how differently 'age' can be used. For life-stage reflections, browse Life.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my cranky old age, I actually prefer recording alone now, on 'The Simpsons,' for example, because I find that the director can just focus on what I'm doing and I can do a lot of variations. A lot of times, when I record with a group, I'll stay after class for another hour or two.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Miss Catherine Middleton we have the faintest, intoxicating glimmer of a New Age Cinderella story.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just never subscribed to the theory that at age 55, you fall off the face of the earth on the Tour. I always felt that was too young of an age for that.
- Phone
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, the puzzle of Ronald Reagan is how a comparatively ordinary man, someone with not extraordinary talent, accomplished such extraordinary results. At the age of 50, no one expected that this was going to be the guy who would become, at least in my interpretation, one of the two most important presidents of the 20th century.
- Medicine
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents have always been incredibly supportive, driving me back and forth to Stratford and so on. They realised from an early age that I wouldn't go into medicine because I couldn't do biology and chemistry.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Child labour is a global problem that needs a response from all sides. This means measures to help reduce poverty, improve education, enforce laws, improve employment prospects for adults, and ensure there are no benefits in employing children under working age.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things that was a blessing for me is my parents were music lovers. Neither of my parents played an instrument, but they were avid record buyers. And I grew up at every age listening to all kinds of music.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are all shaped by where we grow up, though that shaping takes different forms. I don't think there's any doubt that coming of age in Winnipeg both opened my eyes and made me hungry - if I can subvert all claims to be a real writer by mixing metaphors like that.
- Safe
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one was safe in the Viking age. You could die from any cause at any time. It's a brutal time and a brutal environment.
- Busyness
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- Nov 07, 2020
If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020