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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• In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.

  Russell Baker

  Fashion, Love You, Age

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• The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality.

  Shimon Peres

  Loneliness, Land, Growth

  "Shimon Peres welcomes Arab uprisings" by Conal Urquhart, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2011.

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• I've gotten crankier in my old age.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Age, 60th Birthday, Old Age

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• I came of age believing that, no matter what happened, I would always be able to support myself.

  William J. Clinton

  Believe, Support, Age

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• The longer I live, the less future there is to worry about.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Worry, 60th Birthday

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• If I had to live again I would do exactly the same thing. Of course I have regrets, but if you are 60 years old and you have no regrets then you haven't lived.

  Christy Moore

  Regret, Years, Courses

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• I was born old and get younger every day. At present I am sixty years young.

  Herbert Beerbohm Tree

  Years, Born, Young

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• After you're finished celebrating your 60th birthday, feel free to stop supporting your children, and start supporting your parents!

  Joe Dean

  Children, Parent, Celebrate

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• Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?

  John Dryden

  Long, World, Vain

  Juvenal, John Dryden, Nahum Tate, Persius, Richard Duke (1713). “The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis: and of Aulus Persius Flaccus”, p.210

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• Don't worry about middle age: you'll outgrow it.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Worry, Age, Middle

  Carl Sagan, Jerald F. TerHorst, Allan J. Mayer, Sharon S. McKern, Laurence J. Peter (1980). “Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science”

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• Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm sixty-four?

  Paul McCartney

  Needs, Unanswered Questions, Four

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