Birthday Quotes - Page 22

• It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.

  Gore Vidal

  Believe, Exercise, Age

  Encounter Dec. 1967, "French Letters: Theories of the New Novel"

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• As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.

  Gore Vidal

  Perfect, Progress, Age

  The Observer, February 7, 1982.

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• There probably aren't a lot of actors my age who tap dance.

  Christopher Walken

  Age, Actors, Tap Dance

  "Christopher Walken Interview - HAIRSPRAY" by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. July 8, 2007.

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• No, but way before that, I've been doing little dances in movies for years. Yeah, that was an amazing chance. You know, at my age to be able to do a music dance video, very unusual.

  Christopher Walken

  Years, Age, Video

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• It seems that when you get to a certain age you almost give yourself permission to misbehave and say what you think. People allow it, with very old people.

  Julie Walters

  Thinking, People, Giving

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• To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.

  Earl Warren

  Children, Heart, Race

  Brown v. Board of Education (1954) See John M. Harlan (1833 - 1911) 1; Kerner 1

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• I started running around my 30th birthday. I wanted to lose weight; I didn't anticipate the serenity. Being in motion, suddenly my body was busy and so my head could work out some issues I had swept under a carpet of wine and cheese. Good therapy, that's a good run.

  Michael Weatherly

  Running, Women, Wine

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• The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline... because you need to be alone to find out anything.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Young Generation, Discipline, Curiosity

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• I think it's your mental attitude. So many of us start dreading age in high school and that's a waste of a lovely life. 'Oh... I'm 30, oh, I'm 40, oh, 50.' Make the most of it.

  Betty White

  Attitude, School, Thinking

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

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• Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.

  E. B. White

  Special, Age, Able

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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

  People, Worry, Age

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

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• I feel like women are asked their age more than men.

  Kristen Wiig

  Men, Age, Feels

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

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• No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

  Oscar Wilde

  Witty, Time, Humorous

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1389, GENERAL PRESS

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• High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted' and groomed for a prizewinning future; self-esteem was considered something you had to pick from the garden yourself.

  James Wolcott

  Children, Self Esteem, Garden

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• I'm not as far along as Jack Nicklaus was at this age, but I'm trying.

  Tiger Woods

  Sports, Age, Trying

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• It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.

  Virginia Woolf

  Hard Work, Age, Extravagance

  Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.26, Oxford University Press

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• It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

  Virginia Woolf

  Running, People, Laughing

  1922 Jacob's Room, ch.6.

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• The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

  William Wordsworth

  Wise, Time, Mind

  William Wordsworth, “Fountain, The: A Conversation”

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• But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.

  William Wordsworth

  Love, Time, Night

  'To a Young Lady' (1802)

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• Time draweth wrinkles in a fair face, but addeth fresh colors to a fast friend.

  John M. Lyle

  Wrinkles, Color, Faces

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• No regrets, just love. We can dance until we die. You and I, we'll be young forever!

  Katy Perry

  Regret, Forever, Young

  Song: Teenage Dream

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• Other arms reach out to me, Other eyes smile tenderly, Still in peaceful dreams I see, The road leads back to you.

  Ray Charles

  Romantic, Dream, Eye

  Song: Georgia On My Mind

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• Old age is not for sissies.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Age, Sissy, Elegy

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• When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.

  James M. Barrie

  Baby, Laughter, Laughing

  Peter Pan act 1 (1928)

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• Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

  George William Curtis

  Friends, Years, Elderly

  George William Curtis (1856). “Prue and I”, p.111

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