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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
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started doing theater at the age of six. I also took tap and jazz lessons. I refused to take ballet, which is one of my biggest regrets to this day.
- Watching
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was watching Orson Welles and Jean Vigo films at a ridiculously young age.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
After working for a while, I realized that acting was only satisfying about 30 percent of what interested me about the filmmaking process. Somewhere around age seventeen, I started to realize that if I'm very particular about the people I work with, then I can have the best sort of master class possible.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father taught me Basic and rudimentary C, I learned everything else on my own, including studying computational complexity on my own. That's more a function of my age than anything else though - back when I was in school there were hardly any programming classes.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Raising the age of Social Security retirement is not the answer. For so many jobs that are back-breaking jobs, physically burdensome jobs, we're raising the age already to 67. These people are going to struggle to get to that point.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had been fascinated with Islam since college - particularly how it could inspire such fervor in our modern age and move a significant number of its followers to horrific acts of violence. That invisible hand moved me to study more and more about Islam.
- Happen
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've watched my peers get better with age and hoped that would happen with me.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to think I get better with age, but maybe absence makes the heart grow fonder.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
In blues, classical and jazz, you get more revered with age.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think people like it when I tell them, 'I'm lucky to be here, because they are, too. Ain't nothing to do with age. There ain't nothing promised to you. Everybody's going to die.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents put skates on me at age 2, the way it should be if you're serious, and I've always liked it.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020