Birthday Quotes - Page 36

• We're saying no changes for Medicare for people above the age of 55. And in order to keep the promise to current seniors who've already retired and organized their lives around this program, you have to reform it for the next generation.

  Paul Ryan

  Senior, Order, People

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• I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.

  Zoe Saldana

  Age, Skins, Different

  "Zoe Saldana's Star Turn". Interview with Monica Corcoran, www.womenshealthmag.com. April 13, 2009.

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• The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.

  George Santayana

  Passion, Pride, Age

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.22, Рипол Классик

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• Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Philosophy, Class, Creating

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• Anyone who writes an autobiographical work at the age of 34 is, at best, presumptuous. It occurred to me that it was time to set the record straight.

  Jessica Savitch

  Writing, Age, Records

  Jessica Savitch (1982). “Anchorwoman”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Age, Aging, Curious

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• Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Power, Idols, Age

  Friedrich Schiller (2012). “On the Aesthetic Education of Man”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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• There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Men, Self, Community

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• I'm most comfortable in my birthday suit.

  Amanda Seyfried

  My Birthday, Suits, Comfortable

  Interview with Justin Timberlake, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 18, 2011.

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• It's sad, actually, because my anxiety keeps me from enjoying things as much as I should at this age.

  Amanda Seyfried

  Anxiety, Age, Aging

  "Amanda Seyfried: The Most Down-To-Earth Member of the Glam New Guard". Interview with Amy Spencer, www.glamour.com. March 2, 2010.

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• I've been very competitive by nature from a young age, whether it was eating a bowl of pasta faster than somebody else, or always wanting to be the first one in line.

  Maria Sharapova

  Age, Pasta, Lines

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• The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.

  Gail Sheehy

  Perception, Age, Middle

  Gail Sheehy (1977). “Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life”, Bantam

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• I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age.

  Charlie Sheen

  Should Have, Guy, Age

  Interview with David Rensin, www.playboy.com. April 15, 2011.

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• I saw Richard Linklater's film 'Slacker' for my twenty-first birthday. That was the moment when it all seemed possible. This guy gave me hope.

  Kevin Smith

  Guy, Saws, Firsts

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• When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Women, Thinking, Wrinkles

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• I want a chainsaw very badly, because I think cutting down a tree would be unbelievably satisfying. I have asked for a chainsaw for my birthday, but I think I'll probably be given jewelry instead.

  Susan Orlean

  Cutting, Thinking, Tree

  "Prune" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. September 28, 2010.

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• My ace in the hole as a human being used to be my capacity for remembering birthdays. I worked at it. Whenever I made a new friend, I made a point of finding out his or her birthday early on, and I would record it in my Filofax calendar.

  Susan Orlean

  Calendars, Records, Aces

  "Birthday Alert" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. July 14, 2011.

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• In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

  George Orwell

  Lying, Political Language, Issues

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.282, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

  George Orwell

  Fifty, Faces, Thrive

  Notebook, 17 Apr. 1949. These were Orwell's last words in his notebook. He died on 21 Jan. 1950, at the age of forty-six.

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• Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

  George Orwell

  Trust, Eight, Feelings

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.

  William Osler

  Truth, Philosophy, Science

  Sir William Osler, Mark E. Silverman, T. J. Murray, Charles S. Bryan, American College of Physicians--American Society of Internal Medicine (2003). “The Quotable Osler”, p.18, ACP Press

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• Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn't know anything.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Years, Bully, Age

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• As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

  Jean Paul

  Time, Winter, Age

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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

  Country, Ambition, Age

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• This is my 20th year in the sport. I've known swimming and that's it. I don't want to swim past age 30; if I continue after this Olympics, and come back in 2016, I'll be 31. I'm looking forward to being able to see the other side of the fence.

  Michael Phelps

  Sports, Swimming, Past

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