I think if you went back to the eighteenth century and you asked a fifteen year old boy, 'Would you like to marry a woman who has had plastic bags needlessly inserted into her breasts?', that fifteen year old boy would probably be like, 'what's plastic?'.
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Related A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy un... PHILIP ROTH Good Christ, a Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-ye... PHILIP ROTH The Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy and will remain a fifteen-year-old until... PHILIP ROTH I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and gu... BETTE DAVIS I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, an... BETTE DAVIS A woman went to a plastic surgeon and asked him to make her like Bo Derek. He gave her a labotomy. JOAN RIVERS Doctors tell me I have the body of a thirty year old. I know I have the brain of a fifteen year old.... PETE ROSE Doctors tell me I have the body of a thirty year old. I know I have the brain of a fifteen year old.... PETE ROSE It is not so far-fetched for a 63-year-old woman to be with an 18-year-old boy. IAN GRAY I think memory is the most important asset of human beings. It’s a kind of fuel; it burns and it w... HARUKI MURAKAMI If you knew that a 16-year-old boy was looking at high-end Porsches, that's very different than if i... ELLEN SIMINOFF Some people might look at the park and think it looks clean. If you look closer, you'll see trash in... KRISTI FLIPPIN I guess it comes back to the old motto, you have you're fifteen minutes a fame. STEVE BROWN If you are a 24-year-old man, you believe that old age begins about 55 [while] if you are a 62-year-... DOMINIC ABRAMS I have a 15-year-old boy, and we are about to give him car keys, which seems like an act of insanity... NICK HANAUER I remember going to the East Village for the first time as a fifteen-year-old and going to Tompkins ... MIKE D I was a 14-year-old boy for 30 years. MICKEY ROONEY I had a friend who was a plastic surgeon, so he would do little things. I never had, like, a full th... JOAN RIVERS If I had had plastic surgery, I would have asked for something better than the face you are seeing! ... MIRANDA HART I wonder, though…what would it be like? To be that close to a boy and have him see all of you, no ... JENNY HAN Well, what we usually do is in every city we got to, we hire a fifteen-year-old boy and we turn it u... BILLY CORGAN "Well, what we usually do is in every city we got to, we hire a fifteen-year-old boy and we turn it ... BILLY CORGAN You can be a girl at any age, you know. Girls at forty. Girls at fifty. There's a kind of flightines... ROBERT JACKSON BENNETT I was a thirteen-year-old boy for thirty years MICKEY ROONEY Presidential campaign getting kind of ugly, did you hear about this? Yesterday, a 27- year-old woman... CONAN O'BRIEN I'll tell you what me scares me is plastic. Plastic bags and plastic bottles and these things. W... HELEN MIRREN When he died he had the body of an 84-year-old man, but a spirit of an 11- or 12-year-old boy. JAMES REILLY When I'm out with my girlfriends at the bar, and I see some young 18-year old boy, just for fun I sa... YASMINE BLEETH Every country is like a particular type of person. America is like a belligerent, adolescent boy; Ca... DOUGLAS ADAMS [Calvin: A 6-year-old boy who thinks like a grown-up and fantasizes like a child.] Calvin is very fr... BILL WATTERSON I am not a twenty-two-year-old boy; I am not a besotted fool. If you think to jilt me, think again. ... BRENDA JOYCE If this place were closer to Terra there’d be empty beer cans and plastic plates strewn around. Th... PHILIP K. DICK I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I'... NICHOLAS SPARKS 'The 41-Year-Old Whore,' ... That would probably be the sequel. STEVE CARELL I'm in hell. I'm separate from everyone and everything. I'm John Travolta in The Boy in the Plastic ... ANNE CLENDENING You can't treat an illness with cosmetic surgery, and that's why it would be great if there ... SHARON STONE Fifteen- and 18-year-old women e-mail me and say what an influence and impact I've had in their life... AMBER FREY I do think there is a 15-year-old boy in that character, but with the power of an adult. DAVID SHORE In 1957, I was a 16-year-old office boy for the Dodgers. MARV ALBERT You know you're getting old when you look at a beautiful 19-year-old girl and you find yourself thin... GERMAN PROVERB I knew I wanted to sing when I was a very small boy. When I was probably 4 years old. My mother play... JOHNNY CASH In fact, once when I imprinted on a young lady’s lips a chaste and fatherly kiss for about five mi... ISAAC ASIMOV When I'm out with my girlfriends at the bar, and I see some young 18-year old boy, just for fun ... YASMINE BLEETH A teacher observed a boy entering the classroom with dirty hands. She stopped him and said, "Johnny,... UNKNOWN What makes a man's 80 year-old Irish uncle skip like a little boy? "Me Father is very fond of me! JOHN ORTBERG JR. Usually I like playing other people. I like finding myself through other characters. But when you do... FAITH PRINCE Nixon is the kind of guy who, if you were drowning twenty feet from shore, would throw you a fifteen... EUGENE J. MCCARTHY She is very self-reliant and capable. While she handles some things like a 12-year-old still, I don'... ALICIA BICKLEY When you see a 14-year-old boy who has never known what peace looks like for a day in his life, ther... AMANDA LINDHOUT You'd think a 40-something-year-old woman would have better sense than that, but she didn't. NICK KIRBY It was an excellent job, ... I like the idea of playing a 42-year-old woman -- actually, 41, I was 4... FRANCES MCDORMAND That was my greatest achievement because I was just a 19-year-old boy who thought dreams could never... GEORGE FOREMAN If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am. CYRIL CUSACK All the kids you see here are good kids - they're just not thinking. My daughters fell into this tra... MICHAEL GEHM I felt exactly like the man in the advertisement who has not devoted fifteen minutes a day to the st... BURTON RASCOE Let me get this straight. The future of our relationship hinged on advice from a fifteen-year-old gi... RICHELLE MEAD Old is always fifteen years from now. BILL COSBY When I was 15, I worked as a bag boy in a grocery store. I also needed to walk old ladies to their c... ADAM DEVINE I would still have old ladies come up to me after the show and pat me on the cheek after I had said ... DANE COOK The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a ... JEAN KERR Usually for a movie, if you want a 13-year-old, you get a 16-year-old who looks 13, because 13-year-... ROBBIE COLTRANE Fifteen seconds, seems huge to me. We have engineers who say, if you could give me 100 nanoseconds, ... LUCY JONES Fifteen seconds, seems huge to me, ... We have engineers who say, 'If you could give me 100 nanoseco... LUCY JONES Fifteen seconds, seems huge to me, ... We have engineers who say, if you could give me 100 nanosecon... LUCY JONES I like to think that next year, they'll go someplace else. But there's a lot of money to be made her... CLYDE FOREMAN Suppose you went to your priest and asked for help - he would refer you to the Bible, but if you wen... JOHN TEMPLETON A 29-year-old woman was found with a stab wound on her forehead and a 45-year-old woman was found bu... INSPECTOR PAUL RAMALOKO I almost can't believe that I rejected Grant. Even a girl who wasn't in her right mind would say yes... BRYNNA GABRIELSON Would I be surprised if Boston College jumped? Are you kidding? I think they've been waiting to be a... RICH RODRIGUEZ I'm called the saint maker. People say any woman who would marry you would have to be a saint. JIM GENOVESE a case about a 6-year-old boy and the sacred bond that exists between he and his father. JANET RENO When I look at 'Napoleon Dynamite's style I'm reminded of how I spoke when I was an eigh... JASON REITMAN Kenji is a walking paradox of Unflinchingly Serious Person and 12-Year-Old Boy Going Through Puberty... TAHEREH MAFI Some coaches prefer players who will just do whatever he tells them to. It's like, if you're... ZLATAN IBRAHIMOVIC There is nothing worse that a thirteen-year-old boy. You're embarrassed by your parents, and you... BEN AFFLECK You can talk about things indirectly, but if you want to talk how people really talk, you have to ta... BOB SAGET The boy had the towering arrogance only seen in the greatest of artists and all nine-year-old boys. NEIL GAIMAN You've got the brain of a four-year-old boy, and I bet he was glad to get rid of it GROUCHO MARX poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would... WALT WHITMAN Before you leave here, Sir, you’re going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world ... PHILIP CAPUTO I think everyone went into last year hoping for the best. I think if you had polled the folks on the... RANDY THOMPSON I bought Justin Bieber's house... He had, like, this nook under the stairs which I didn't ne... KHLOE KARDASHIAN There's the 7-year-old me that pretended to be Wonder Woman running around the schoolyard. Like,... PATTY JENKINS Soulja Boy is on his dance, down south, young, 18-year-old, comedic swag. It's really just each ... SOULJA BOY Those who had the remaining jobs would have to buy the cheapest stuff possible with their drasticall... MICHAEL MOORE My wife changes the way that I dress. She makes me dress nicer than I want to dress. I feel like I p... ADAM DRIVER Nobody wants to take their chances with a tough 2-0 17-year-old. You lose to a 17-year-old, it's kin... JEFF LINENFELSER In my experience (I am the lone father of an eight-year-old boy who lost his mother when he was one ... MARTIN JACQUES If you have a 50-year-old man connecting to a bunch of 15-year-old girls, that's something you can l... DANAH BOYD I like women to be attracted to me. See, when you get 60 years old, and they know you're 60, the onl... GEORGE BURNS If you act like you've only got fifteen minutes, it will take all day. Act like you've got all day, ... MONTY ROBERTS I think every boy would quite like to play James Bond! CHARLIE ROWE If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I'd never heard anything ... B. B. KING This boy needs a dog. What makes you say that? He needs someone or something to play with ... KENT HARUF Does anyone else have plastic bags full of plastic bags or is it just me? ANONYMOUS Why would I cry over a boy? I would never waste my tears on a boy. Why waste your tears on someone w... KIRSTEN DUNST I notice in my midsection, I've got to watch what I eat, boy. Last year, I was heavier than I wanted... CLIFF ROBINSON How can a fifteen-year old girl defend her love when that love is dismissed by everyone? It’s impo... COLLEEN HOOVER I have only ever liked one boy in my life. I have only wanted one man to have as my own. I have only... TILLIE COLE If you look at what a 70-year-old person is doing now versus what a 70-year-old person was doing 50 ... ARLAN RICHARDSON
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JOHN GREEN Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to t... JOHN GREEN Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinc... JOHN GREEN Some infinities are bigger than other infinities... JOHN GREEN It seemed like forever ago, like we've had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities ar... JOHN GREEN There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. There's .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection o... JOHN GREEN Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. JOHN GREEN What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person. JOHN GREEN Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about sufferi... JOHN GREEN You could hold me and I could hold you. And it would be so peaceful. Completely peaceful. Like the f... 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