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- Nov 07, 2020
Forties Quotes
Careers, style, and sport past forty.
These forties quotes celebrate a decade often written off too early, from NASCAR drivers still racing in their forties and fifties to actors whose careers only reach their Able prime around then.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Every Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been embracing the red lip and just wearing it every day, not just for going out. And I get so many compliments on it. I love the Julie Hewett Rouge Noir: it's sort of a forties red.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know how we're going to have this baby because I'm in my forties and I can't even remember my first son's name. But I'm going to have another baby because I'm feeling good.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Other people get moody in their forties and fifties - men get the male menopause. I missed the whole thing. I was just really happy.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Here's an irony of the history of conservatism's relationship with business and business's relationship with conservatism: 'Wall Street' used to be the right-wing industrialists of the forties and fifties' greatest term of derision. (Wall Street was the place that humiliated them by forcing them, hat in hand, to beg for capital).
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
Certainly I was a bully. I'm not ashamed of it at all. The hostility of the establishment to what you were able to do in the Forties and Fifties was very strong. Sometimes you have to fight against your society.
- Hat
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- Nov 07, 2020
The classic hat image was during the Forties and Fifties, and Elizabeth Taylor was the epitome of that; she was the ultimate celebrity of excess and glamour, and she worked major sun hats.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England in the eighteen forties and fifties.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
It sounds so weird, but I'm totally pro-aging. If you look at the film industry, it's so funny how it's so much more accepted that actors begin their prime in their forties or fifties, and for women, it's so different. I think it's time to change that. Aging is a beautiful thing.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the South America of the forties and fifties, everyone was into beauty and glamour and fashion.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
A few of us who are around the sixty mark don't play that much these days and if you are taking on a couple of guys in their forties it is very difficult.
- Bump
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was an odd coincidence that my career took off the same decade as having babies. I often wished it had been different, that I had my big career bump in my thirties and my babies in my forties or vice versa.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
The forties are the time when you begin to take notice of certain aches and pains. Your body and brain behave in inexplicable ways: Less hair on your head, more in your ears and nostrils. More memories in the bank, less synaptic firepower with which to access them. Gravity has started to show its inexorable pull.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's like I'm thin skinned, I guess, but I thought I could never write about my youth for the longest time. It took getting to my forties before I could even look back on it.
- Ego
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forties and then hair growing out of unusual parts of your body in your fifties. It's tough on the ego.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
- Eras
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- Nov 07, 2020