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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.
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- Grateful
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm super grateful that there wasn't social media when I was a kid, but that sort of self-doubt crept in at a young age. It's bullying. It's the comments here and there, and maybe somebody says something to you that they don't even mean to be a mean-spirited comment, but they'll just kind of say it to you in passing.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Things were so much better in the 1970s, when I was a young women undergraduate at Yale. I am grateful to have come of age during that period.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started modelling at the age of 16 and always aspired to be an actor. But my family only agreed to it on the condition that I would not let my studies suffer because of my work.
- Personality
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 20, I had these furrowed lines between my brows because I was always angry. And I was 20. I don't think that was a mark of age; it was just my personality.
- Handling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to the U.S. to start my modeling career at a very young age. So, venturing into films and handling the pressure isn't a big task.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, age doesn't matter. You've got to go with your heart.
- Christian
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a Christian, and since the age of five I have been singing... chanting hymns containing the word 'Hosanna.'
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to be a boy when I was young because boys got to do all the good stuff. So I became very aggressive and very competitive at a young age.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most successful hyperpowers are the ones where there was actual intermixing. Tang dynasty China was China's golden age, and contrary to what I was told when I was growing up, Tang China was founded by a man who by today's standards was no more than half Chinese. It was a mixed-blood dynasty that pulled in 'barbarians' from the steppe.
- Legend
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to retire from boxing by the time I am 25 or 26 and be a legend by that age.
- Gold
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- Nov 07, 2020
To join or not to join films was the biggest choice I had to make. I'd done two years of biogenetic engineering, was an economics graduate and a gold medalist. I had also been a Bharatanatyam dancer from age five, always won the best actress award in school. Finally, I decided to do things for my soul, chose to act.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020