- Leadership
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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
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a brain is exercised properly, anyone can grow intelligence, at any age, and potentially by a lot. Or you can just let your brain idle - and watch it slowly, inexorably, go to seed like a sedentary body.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd started doing fanzines from the age of nine. I'd been doing as many copies as you can get carbon paper into an upright typewriter, and I'd try to sell them at school.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since the '60s, we've lived so much in an age of quick fixes that the culture itself has become a quick fix.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
From an early age my mother told me that there were so many of us that if I was to get anything in life I would have to get it myself. So I did.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cable is a dynamic and highly innovative industry, providing cutting edge services and content that Americans love. The broadband platform the industry has deployed is a critical part of the infrastructure needed to realize our national ambition to be a great nation in the Information Age.
- School
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's something intrinsically Australian about a bunch of brothers and school friends getting together as a band at a very young age and all pulling together as a band at a very young age and all pulling together as mates to make something happen.
- Depression
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think I was awake for much of my childhood. I did a lot of napping. This might have been a defensive measure against encroaching depression. Until about the age of eleven or twelve, I had zero interests other than trying to steal gumballs from supermarket gumball machines.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be perfectly honest, I think that as I'm growing older, I'm just growing more impatient. I'll be very happy if at some point people say, 'Michael's grown wiser and softer in his old age.' But we'll have to wait and see what my next project is.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents adopted me, and then, by the age of four or five, I was asking all sorts of questions, and they found themselves with a son who was interested in the sorts of things that they valued but weren't natural to them.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
From an early age, I had always loved drawing. Laying on the floor, in front of the fire, drawing from my imagination, marching soldiers, dive bombers, spaceships and monsters. Now, suddenly, I was drawing from real life!
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the death of his brothers, my dad lied about his age and joined the army in 1918. He was in the trenches long enough to be gassed and contract the early stages of tuberculosis from which he would eventually die just before my birth.
- Groups
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think about 'age groups.'
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every age, after all, must have its own aisling and dream of a better, kinder, happier, shared world.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020