- Nature
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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
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
The onslaught of new and complex information, the academic and thinktank cults of expertise, not to mention the impossibility of bohemia in the age of high rents, have conspired to assassinate the public intellectual.
- Busy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The cultural decoding that many American writers require has become an even harder task in the age of globalisation. The experience they describe has grown more private; its essential background, the busy larger world, has receded.
- Old Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm speaking in very broad brushstrokes, but in France, there's generally this idea that you should look like the best version of the age that you are.
- Innocence
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- Nov 07, 2020
If Edith Wharton lived in the Age of Innocence, surely we now live in the Age of Deception.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember going to the Gap when I was in the fifth grade, and I desperately wanted a pair of blue jeans. I was with my dad, and I remember picking up the jeans, looking at them, and thinking that they had to fit me. But there was nothing that fit me. This was before the age of stretch, so I was trying on adult Gap.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd say that, first and foremost, I'm a performer; I started performing when I was four years old, and being on stage from a young age set me up.
- World
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- Nov 07, 2020
You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want everyone to know that they can accomplish anything they want at any age if they just be themselves. I want to encourage millions to chase their dreams and to never change. Everyone should also know how to throw a good right hook!
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
I couldn't really get a grasp on wrestling at a young age. I knew it was what my parents did, and they fought people. It scared the crap out of me, so I thought, 'No, I can't do that. I'll get beaten up!'
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was 18 when I was presented with the Arjuna Award. To say it feels really good would be an understatement. But I don't know how else to convey the feeling. I am grateful for having received this prestigious award at such a young age.
- Nov 07, 2020
Youth has no age.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020