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• Dave Chappelle is about as gifted as it gets, as a performer and comedian. [...] It's always great to watch him work. He started around fourteen and he's in his forties now, so he's probably been doing it for close to thirty years. He's brilliant.

  Ted Alexandro

  Years, Comedian, Watches

  "Laughing at something is a form of accepting it, or at least making peace with it" by Chris Cobb, logger.believermag.com. September 19, 2014.

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• My last kids were born when I was in my forties, so I still had little kids around me, which gave me the illusion of feeling younger.

  Frank Langella

  Kids, Feelings, Littles

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Because of our library system anyone in America can educate themselves in any field they desire. If they are confused, librarians (that without exception in my forty-seven years experience with them) actually want to help; they take the time to try and get whatever is needed. For free. For anybody.

  Nevada Barr

  Confused, Years, America

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• And believe me, darling, there's no man more faithful than a reformed playboy. They make far better husbands than men who haven't had time to sow their wild oats before they marry, so go off the rails at about forty-five because they suddenly realise that they've missed out on life and if they don't hurry up it's going to be too late.

  Sally Wentworth

  Husband, Believe, Men

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• I just think it's rather odd that a nation that prides itself on its virility should feel compelled to strap on forty pounds of protective gear just in order to play rugby.

  Rupert Giles

  Pride, Thinking, Order

  "Fictional chracter: Rupert Giles". TV Series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" ("Some Assembly Required", 1997), www.imdb.com. 1997–2003.

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• I'm not getting married until I'm forty. If ever.

  Zac Efron

  Married, Getting Married, Ifs

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Better one bite at forty, of truths bitter rind, than the hot wine that gushed from the vintage of twenty.

  James Russell Lowell

  Wine, Vintage, Twenties

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.426

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• In the dream of approaching forty I saw myself as about to die and realized that I was no longer myself, but a creature inhabited entirely by parasites, as a caterpillar is occupied by the grubs of the ichneumon fly. Gin, whisky, sloth, fear, guilt, tobacco, had made themselves my inquilines; alcohol sloshed about within, while tendrils of melon and vine grew out of ears and nostrils; my mind was a worn gramophone record, my true self was such a ruin as to seem non-existent, and all this had happened in the last three years.

  Cyril Connolly

  Dream, Years, Self

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• Jewish Christmas' - that's what my gentile friends called Chanukah when I was growing up in Michigan in the thirties and forties. Anachronistic, yes, but they had a point. Observing the dietary laws of separating milk and meat dishes was far easier for the handful of Jewish families in our little town than getting through December without mixing the two holidays.

  Faye Moskowitz

  Christmas, Growing Up, Holiday

  Faye Moskowitz (2011). “And the Bridge Is Love”, p.33, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• I am also four, and twelve, and fifteen, and twenty-three, and thirty-one, and forty-five and . . . and . . . and . . .

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Twenties, Twelve, Three

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.169, Convergent Books

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• I saw the sunset forty-four times!

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Sunset, Four, Saws

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• My after forty face felt far more comfortable than anything I lived with previously.

  Nancy A. Collins

  Faces, Felt, Comfortable

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• Why should Canada, wild and unsettled as it is, impress us as an older country than the States, unless because her institutions are old? All things appeared to contend there, as I have implied, with a certain rust of antiquity, such as forms on old armor and iron guns,--the rust of conventions and formalities. It is said that the metallic roofs of Montreal and Quebec keep sound and bright for forty years in some cases. But if the rust was not on the tinned roofs and spires, it was on the inhabitants and their institutions.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Gun, Years

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “Journeys, Adventures & Life in Harmony with Nature – 6 Book Collection (Illustrated): Including Walden, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, A Yankee in Canada & Canoeing in the Wilderness - North American Highlands Series”, p.961, e-artnow

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• I'm forty four; I'm way closer to dead than I am life of the party.

  Doug Stanhope

  Party, Four, Way

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• In my own work, I usually revise through forty or fifty drafts of a poem before I begin to feel content with it.

  Mary Oliver

  Fifty, Feels, My Own

  Mary Oliver (1994). “A Poetry Handbook”, p.111, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early 'forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Balls, Bulls, Bells

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• Women are opening businesses at twice the rate of men ... Forty percent of businesses will be owned by women. Women are saying, I don't belong in this company. I'm sick of fighting this battle.

  Faith Popcorn

  Fighting, Men, Sick

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• It may be that 'the voice of the people is the voice of God' in fifty one cases out of a hundred, but in the remaining forty nine it is quite as likely to be the voice of the devil, of, what is still worse, the voice of a fool.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Voice, People, Devil

  Theodore Roosevelt (1951). “Letters, Selected and Edited by Elting E. Morison”

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• Forty years spent in wandering in a wilderness like that of the present is not a sad fate - unless one attempts to make himself believe that the wilderness is after all itself the promised land.

  John Dewey

  Believe, Fate, Years

  John Dewey, Larry Hickman, Thomas M. Alexander (1998). “The Essential Dewey: Pragmatism, education, democracy”, p.21, Indiana University Press

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• New York is part of the natural world. I love the city, I love the country, and for the same reasons. The city is part of the country. When I had an apartment on East Forty-Eighth Street, my backyard during the migratory season yielded more birds than I ever saw in Maine.

  E. B. White

  Country, New York, Cities

  Interview with George Plimpton and Frank Crowther for The Paris Review (1969); later published in "Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews", Series eight, 1988.

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• I learned about forty years ago that money and things wouldn't make people happy. And this has been confirmed many times. I have met many millionaires. They had one thing in common. None of them were happy....I realize that if you don't have enough you won't be happy. Neither are you happy if you have too much. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Years, People, Too Much

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• Some men look at Constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them, like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well; I belonged to and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very like the present, but without the experience of the present; and forty years of experience in Government is worth a century of book-reading; and this they would say themselves, were they to rise from the dead.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Book, Reading

  1816 Letter to Samuel Kercheval, 12 Jul.

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• There aren't four seasons a year in the mountains; there are forty seasons a day up there in those divine altitudes!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Years, Mountain, Four Seasons

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• We have waited for more than three hundred and forty years for our constitutional and God-given rights.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Rights, Years, Three

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1968). “I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr”

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• As if a man's soul were not too small to begin with, they have dwarfed an narrowed theirs by a life of all work and no play; until here they are at forty, with a listless attention, a mind vacant of all material of amusement, and not one thought to rub against another, while they wait for the train.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Men, Play, Waiting

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses”, p.4581, e-artnow

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