Birthday Quotes - Page 39

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

  Jeanne Moreau

  Age, Frightened, Shows

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

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• Canada has a passive-aggressive culture, with a lot of sarcasm and righteousness. That went with my weird messianic complex. The ego is a fascinating monster. I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.

  Alanis Morissette

  Sarcasm, Thinking, Ego

  "I've been a thorn in people's sides just by existing" by Lucy O'Brien, www.theguardian.com. May 21, 2008.

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• I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.

  Alanis Morissette

  Thinking, Age, Taught

  "'I've been a thorn in people's sides just by existing'". Interview with Lucy O'Brien, www.theguardian.com. May 21, 2008.

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• We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.

  Christopher Morley

  Children, Kids, Luck

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• I think women should start to embrace their age. What's the alternative to getting older? You die. I can't change the day I was born. But I can take care of my skin, my body, my mind, and try to live my life and be happy.

  Olivia Munn

  Thinking, Mind, Getting Older

  "Olivia Munn's DOs and DON'Ts". Glamour Interview, www.glamour.com.

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• You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

  Haruki Murakami

  Sympathy, Age, Tough

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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

  Children, Nursing, Men

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• I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post-World War II films. I thought the romantic presentations of war influenced my joining and my presentation of war to my younger siblings.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Sibling, War, Army

  "A Conversation With Walter Dean Myers About Sunrise Over Fallujah". Scholastic Interview, www.scholastic.com.

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• I came to water late. I learned to swim at the age of 20.

  Liam Neeson

  Water, Swim, Age

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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

  Age, Encounters, Roles

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• In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Funny, Witty, Keys

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• All my favorite stars, my family and my friends are here. I'm having the happiest birthday that an 18-year-old girl could ever have.

  Brandy Norwood

  Girl, Stars, Years

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• In your 50s, time becomes precious and must not be wasted. Every minute is an excellent opportunity for a good nap. Happy 50th birthday!

  Bill Cosby

  Opportunity, Naps, Age

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• I was a mixture of being incredibly old for my age and incredibly backwards. I was born quite old, but then I stopped growing. I lived with my mum and dad till I was 30.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Dad, Age, Growing

  "Helena Bonham Carter: 'We're the bonkers couple'" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2010.

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• My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Views, People, Age

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• Work is transformative. It gives you a greater chance of a greater income. You can affect your life while you're of working age, so you have scope and opportunity. Pensioners do not.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Opportunity, Giving, Age

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• I can't hit on women in public any more. I didn't decide this; it just doesn't feel right at my age.

  Jack Nicholson

  Age, Feels Right, I Can

  "Jack Nicholson's long list of Hollywood's leading ladies that have left him scared of dying alone" by Natalie Evans, www.mirror.co.uk. January 14, 2015.

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• I want to be part of the resurgence of things that are tangible, beautiful and soulful, rather than just give in to the digital age. But when I talk to people about this they just say, 'Yeah, I know what you mean,' and stare at their mobiles.

  Jack White

  Beautiful, Mean, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's hard for women at my age in Hollywood, but I'm not discouraged.

  Jane Fonda

  Age, Hollywood, Hard

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• The reality is sobering: in the United States one in three girls will become pregnant before age 20, totaling more than 750,000 girls per year.

  Jane Fonda

  Girl, Reality, Years

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• We can no longer waste time and money. Every day, more than 2,000 girls in America, age 15-19, give birth - in the wealthiest, most educated nation in the world! Neither you nor I should accept this statistic.

  Jane Fonda

  Girl, America, Giving

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• I've never worried about age.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Age, 60th Birthday, Worried

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

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• What is amazing for a woman of my age is that I change as the world is changing-and changing very, very fast. I don't think my mother had that opportunity to change.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Mother, Opportunity, Thinking

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• Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

  John Dryden

  Strong, Age, Literature

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• Today more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most urgent is this: How can humanity know so much, achieve so much, and still fail so many people so badly?

  Abdallah II

  Issues, People, Creative

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