Getting Old Quotes - Page 5

• You know you're getting old when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work.

  Joan Rivers

  Retirement, Fun, Aging

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• I don't like mushiness. I'm a very emotional person but I hate sentimentality. I don't like great demonstrations of emotion. But as I'm getting older, I'm getting much more open about all that.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Hate, Emotional, Getting Older

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• I was surprised when I started getting old. I always thought it was one of those things that would happen to someone else.

  George Carlin

  Happens

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• Getting old we can deal with. Being old is the problem

  Mitch Albom

  Problem, Deals, Being Old

  Mitch Albom (2009). “Have a Little Faith: A True Story”, Hyperion

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• [Getting older is] experience but it's also changing your mindset.

  Boy George

  Getting Older, Mindset, Changing Your Mind

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• the first time you are reconciled to the terrible unfairness of disappointment, you are getting old.

  Mary Lee Settle

  Disappointment, Firsts, First Time

  Mary Lee Settle (1954). “The Love Eaters”

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• The 40s onwards are when we can really begin to enjoy ourselves. For many women, this is when everything comes together, and they look better than ever. The great thing about getting older is you don't have to do/wear/say anything you don't want to. It wasn't until my very late 30s that I stopped worrying about what other people thought.

  Twiggy

  People, Worry, Getting Older

  "Should we really take celeb advice from Victoria Beckham, Gwyneth Paltrow and co?". www.mirror.co.uk. March 25, 2009.

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• Yes and our obsession with youth in our culture and how we, women lie about their age after 35 obsessively and no one wants to let anyone know they're getting older, et cetera.

  Sela Ward

  Women, Lying, Getting Older

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• And getting older, what's happening is, I play only mothers.

  Sonia Braga

  Mother, Play, Getting Older

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• I don't want to know I'm getting older. Then I'll start to think about getting checkups and insurance. I don't want that.

  Akon

  Thinking, Getting Older, Want

  "Akon Says His Age is a 'Mystery'". www.foxnews.com. January 21, 2009.

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• I’ve been an investigative reporter for a long time, and almost always, the government says that [‘you can’t publish that because of the national security risk’] when you write a story. And then they can never back it up. They say that about everything. And it’s like the boy who cried wolf. It’s getting old.

  James Risen

  Writing, Boys, Government

  "James Risen's risk of prison means journalism is being criminalised" by Lindsey Bever, www.theguardian.com. August 10, 2013.

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• But now it seems possible that the truth about getting older is that there are fewer and fewer things to make fun of until finally there is nothing you are sure you will never be.

  Jenny Offill

  Fun, Getting Older, Fewer

  Jenny Offill (2014). “Dept. of Speculation”, p.77, Granta Books

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• Stop whining about getting old. It's a privilege. A lot of people who are dead wish they were still alive.

  Amy Poehler

  People, Wish, Alive

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.84, Pan Macmillan

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• I'm not afraid to play my age. I never was. I've never been an ingenue. I like getting older.

  Maria Bello

  Play, Getting Older, Age

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• I don't understand people getting depressed about getting older. There is nothing you can do about it, so you might as well embrace it.

  Twiggy

  People, Getting Older, Might

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• People going into the cities for the opportunities and the towns are getting older, no young people.

  Rachel Griffiths

  Opportunity, Cities, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If we spent as much time feeling positive about getting older, as we do trying to stay young, how much different our lives would be.

  Rob Brown

  Feelings, Getting Older, Trying

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• It is coincidence, I decide, and I am getting old and batty, thinking the universe revolves around me.

  Katherine Dunn

  Thinking, Coincidence, Universe

  Katherine Dunn (2011). “Geek Love: A Novel”, p.40, Vintage

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• I'm getting older now, so I should think about a family, but certainly not tomorrow.

  Christina Ricci

  Thinking, Getting Older, Tomorrow

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• As my friend George Oppen once said to me about getting old: what a strange thing to happen to a little boy.

  Paul Auster

  Boys, Littles, Strange

  Paul Auster (2010). “Collected Prose: Autobiographical Writings, True Stories, Critical Essays, Prefaces, Collaborations with Artists, and Interviews”, p.501, Macmillan

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• I want to be older. I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older. I feel way better now than I did when I was 20. I'm stronger, I'm smarter in every way, I'm so much less crazy than I was then.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Crazy, Thinking, Self

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• Getting old is not a matter of age; it's a lack of #‎ movement . And the ultimate lack of movement is death.

  Tony Robbins

  Age, Movement, Matter

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.182, Simon and Schuster

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• The beauty of getting older is the surprise of what else you can do to make the world a better place with the wisdom that you've accrued over those years.

  Goldie Hawn

  Years, Getting Older, World

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• What surprises me about getting older is that I remain so young.

  Hugh Hefner

  Getting Older, Age, Surprise

  "Hugh Hefner: What I've Learned" by Wil S. Hylton, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Wise, Odds, Smoking

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