60th Birthday Quotes - Page 6

• Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Birthday, Jobs, Yesterday

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• If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Birthday, Age, Chairs

  1964 UnderstandingMedia.

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• I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12.

  Alexander McQueen

  Birthday, Fashion, Book

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• I don't want to look at other people my age in leather. Why would I put it on?

  George Michael

  Birthday, People, Age

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• I nearly died of double bronchial pneumonia at the age of five.

  Roger Moore

  Birthday, Pneumonia, Age

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• To me age is a number, just a number. Who cares?

  Jeanne Moreau

  Birthday, Numbers, Age

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

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• If you're extremely, painfully frightened of age, it shows.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Birthday, Age, Frightened

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

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• Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men still are compensated substantially more - even in professions, like nursing, dominated by women. No wonder there's a gender gap.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Birthday, Children, Nursing

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• Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.

  Jack Nicholson

  Birthday, Age, Encounters

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• What is wrong with the Iranians in addition to the nuclear bomb? This is the only country on Earth in the 21st century that has renewed imperialistic ambitions. They really want to become the hegemon of the Middle East in an age that gave up imperialism.

  Shimon Peres

  Birthday, Country, Ambition

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• Light and funny has a more compelling quality when you're younger. But I haven't abandoned the genre: I love falling down; I love Lucille Ball. It's just that a lot of those stories revolve around problems that I can't convincingly portray at this age.

  Julia Roberts

  Funny, Birthday, Fall

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• O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Birthday, Regret, Age

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• Even in this day and age, if you're not married, there are people who are like, 'Don't worry, it'll happen for you someday.'

  Kristen Wiig

  Birthday, People, Worry

  "Would you like to be my bridesmaid?" by Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2011.

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• The age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because I'm 19?

  Fiona Apple

  Birthday, People, Age

  "New Again: Fiona Apple". Interview with Colleen Kelsey and Tracey Pepper, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 28, 2012.

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• Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were.

  Russell Baker

  Birthday, Age, Rereading

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• I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you're not going to get played on radio and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.

  David Bowie

  Birthday, Past, Age

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• A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.

  Robert Browning

  Birthday, Dream, Age

  Robert Browning (1872). “In a balcony. Dramatis personae. Dramatic romances”, p.141

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• I think it's quite extraordinary that people cast me as if I'm Warren Beatty: until I met my present wife, at the age of 35, you could name two girlfriends.

  Colin Firth

  Birthday, Girlfriend, Thinking

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• We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.

  Jane Fonda

  Birthday, Motivation, Inspiration

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• I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don't believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be.

  Morgan Freeman

  Birthday, Believe, Age

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• A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Birthday, Justice, Age

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.8, Shambhala Publications

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• There's no way to approach anything in an objective way. We're completely subjective; our view of the world is completely controlled by who we are as human beings, as men or women, by our age, our history, our profession, by the state of the world.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Birthday, Men, Views

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• I think love can happen at any age... it has no age.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Birthday, Thinking, Age

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• Even from a very early age, I knew I didn't want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous.

  Nicole Kidman

  Birthday, Missing, Age

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Jul 17, 2012

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• Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Birthday, Ideas, Age

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