My function as a writer is to provide an atmosphere in which people can think wisely about what we're doing on this planet.

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A clean hand wants no washing.

English Proverb

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It is easier to blame than do better.

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It took me like 15 years to mellow out.

John Mayer

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Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.

William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

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I used to be a party monster, very into Acid House, which I saw as my weekend reward for working hard all week.

Bernard Sumner

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I'm not intimidated by embracing a familiar form and what's familiar about it and making it my own. It is, I think, one of my gifts.

Alan Menken

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In the past, I think my films that focused on African subjects struggled in the marketplace because of their subject matter.

Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

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In a city like New York, you're aware of the rich and poor.

John Updike

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I don't believe anyone deserves to go through this.

Robert Taylor

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You know, I'm from Boston, and in Boston, you are born with a baseball bat in your hand.

Eli Roth

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There is little success where there is little laughter.

Andrew Carnegie

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I don't think I was a good enough coach to help an NBA team win a game when I first got to that league.

Kelvin Sampson

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Israel welcomes the wind of change, and sees a window of opportunity. Democratic and science-based economies by nature desire peace. Israel does not want to be an island of affluence in an ocean of poverty. Improvements in our neighbours' lives mean improvements to the neighbourhood in which we live.

Shimon Peres

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Actually, I'm looking forward to being 50. Because to me, that's when a woman is at the pinnacle of her femininity and her womanhood.

Helen McCrory

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Oh, my gosh, I'm listening to everything from Bruno Mars to Beyonce, to Arthea Franklin and Patti LaBelle.

Leslie David Baker

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Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.

Isak Dinesen

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Age for me is just a number.

Haile Gebrselassie

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Older fatherhood isn't all bad: testosterone rates drop about 1% per year as men age, making them less reactive and more patient, and a professionally established middle-aged man is likely to have more time and money to devote to his kids than a twenty-something who's just getting started.

Jeffrey Kluger

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I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.

Vera Farmiga

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Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.

Geoffrey Chaucer

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No Congress ever has seen fit to amend the Constitution to address any issue related to marriage. No Constitutional Amendment was needed to ban polygamy or bigamy, nor was a Constitutional Amendment needed to set a uniform age of majority to ban child marriages.

Judy Biggert

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I came back to work when my children were two months old. At that early age, they seem to have little awareness of anybody but their Raggedy Ann dolls, so it wasn't a matter of them missing me. I was missing them.

Jane Pauley

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Well, once you've resigned yourself to the fact that you are the more mature pop performer and you're past the age you ever thought you would do it, you might as well do it as long as you can. As long as I can still lift a microphone, then I'll do it, you know.

Jarvis Cocker

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Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

Maurice Chevalier

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I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn't want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn't want a boss.

Barbara Corcoran

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Regardless of age, regardless of position, regardless of the business we happen to be in, all of us need to understand the importance of branding. We are CEOs of our own companies: Me, Inc. To be in business today, our most important job is to be head marketer for the brand called You.

Tom Peters

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There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should not be given too much responsibility.

Maria Callas

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Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time.

Frederick Jackson Turner

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The wonderful thing about age is that your knees don't work as well, you can't run down steps quite as easily and obviously you can't lift heavy weights. But your mind doesn't feel any different.

Roger Moore

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My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents.

Jack White

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My function as a writer is to provide an atmosphere in which people can think wisely about what we're doing on this planet.

– Barry Lopez –

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