I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
ELIZABETH ARDEN I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
HENRI AMIEL I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Man becomes man only by the intelligence, but he is man only by the heart. -Henri Frederic Amiel.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL You'll find people who rib you about their age are petrified about getting old. It doesn't b...
NOEL GALLAGHER Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
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JOHN LOGAN Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the pa...
MARTHA GELLHORN We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You'...
JANE FONDA I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden a...
DAVID BOWIE You're only as old as you feel, and I feel pretty young. I've got one gear, and till it gets...
A.J. STYLES In my old age I've come to find that if you respect other people, you feel better about yourself...
BIJOU PHILLIPS I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are ...
RACHEL WEISZ Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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IRA GLASS You have to make the effort with children. You can't have them thinking that I reckon I'm sp...
NOEL GALLAGHER I love funny people, and when I'm with funny people, or people who are amusing in their weirdnes...
PAUL FEIG Surround yourself with people who are smarter than you. Pick people who are interested in what you...
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ALEXA VEGA I consider you as old as you look and feel. And in that case I feel - I feel I'm about 39, like ...
JOAN COLLINS I'm not as far along as Jack Nicklaus was at this age, but I'm trying.
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TAYLOR SWIFT One of the things you learn in football is that you're only as good as your last outing. I don...
CHUCK NOLL I'm just a pack mule. I've played leads and I've played character roles. Any actress in ...
MARCIA GAY HARDEN I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!
TINA TURNER Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
MUHAMMAD ALI At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can't tell...
BARNABY C. KEENEY I suppose I'm trying to build an architecture that's as timeless as possible, although we...
DAVID CHIPPERFIELD There's to be a film about my life. I can give this as an exclusive now. Meryl Streep was offere...
BARRY HUMPHRIES I think if you're gonna do something as silly and lighthearted as entertainment, then why not be...
CHELSEA HANDLER As soon as you reach a certain age, you're thrown onto a kind of mental scrap heap.
JOANNA LUMLEY When I talk about my husband, I feel as if people roll their eyes. It's like when you're 16 ...
MEGAN FOX I don't know if you know you're funny, but you enjoy being funny. I know I'm funny becau...
GREG BEHRENDT People who pigeonhole us for our queerness are not people I'm interested in knowing. They're...
BEN HOPKINS I was always a character actress, even when I was an ingenue. But as you age, people know what to do...
MARYLOUISE BURKE I didn't get a formal introduction to horror until right about the age of 12, when my uncle show...
JOSH MALERMAN I think people who go out and tell you how much they're gonna change things are the people who e...
DARIUS RUCKER I don't like it when people say, 'You're 45, so you should be wearing X and never Y.'...
TWIGGY There's no such thing as old age. I'm no different now than I was 50 years ago. I'm just...
PHILIP JOHNSON People who meet me as an adult are often surprised that I'm alive and have never been in prison ...
MARA WILSON I'm 68 years old, and I'm as much a criminal now as I was at the age of 22. And, I'm eve...
FELICE PICANO I'm really not interested in acting as a facade, I'm interested in it as an emotional expres...
BRIE LARSON I'm tired of playing people who are complete washouts and bums. I don't mind waiting for the...
HARRY DEAN STANTON I had racially prejudiced comments directed at me on different blogs. People think that just because...
KAT GRAHAM When you're put in a position to really affect young people who are going to run the world one d...
ZENDAYA The advantage of age is that you swap youth for wisdom. You're so full of insecurities when you&...
CHERIE LUNGHI You know, there's chronological age, there's biological age, and there's psychological a...
CHERYL TIEGS We're not in an information age anymore. We're in the information management age.
CHRIS HARDWICK I think it's quite extraordinary that people cast me as if I'm Warren Beatty: until I met my...
COLIN FIRTH That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly
old men, not to age itself.
UNKNOWN Age is not important unless you're a cheese.
HELEN HAYES I look at it this way. I'm not putting age limits on what I can do. As long as I can do the job ...
DAN MARINO I'm as loyal as anyone and will do anything for people I respect. But if you don't give that...
ERIC WEDDLE I'm an old guy. I don't hustle and I don't bustle. So sometimes you're behind, but t...
KUMAR PALLANA You hit a certain age and - especially because of TV - the young cooks coming up say, 'You'r...
TOM COLICCHIO Being a grandparent doesn't interest me whatsoever. Babies are all right if they're your own...
ANGELA BOWIE I'm not at all interested in the brave who fight against the odds and win. I am interested in th...
KAZUO ISHIGURO I'm tired of people questioning me because of my age. If you looked at my numbers and watched me...
RANDY JOHNSON Whatever age you think I am, you're probably right.
VANESSA RAY Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can ...
GOLDA MEIR Age is not different from earlier life as long as youre sitting down.
MALCOLM COWLEY People always tell me I'm nothing like my character. Well, hopefully not! He's a character w...
TOM FELTON As long as I'm able to write across the media and across the age groups, I'm happy.
BERLIE DOHERTY You become more tolerant when you become older. You're not interested in rapping people over the...
CLAIRE TOMALIN The highs were high, the awe, I'm not a religious person, but I'll tell you, to be in the az...
DIANA NYAD One of the hardest aspects of this protracted public persona is not knowing others as well as they f...
CHRISTOPHER KNIGHT The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old,...
PAOLO SORRENTINO People ask 'do you make a conscious effort not to swear?' - if you're doing silly stuff ...
TIM VINE If death is in the room, it's pretty interesting. But I would also say that I'm interested i...
GEORGE SAUNDERS At a certain age you're always uncertain how other people will take you.
AL PURDY Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people want it.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people seek it.
DAVID GEMMELL I think when you're younger, you need to socialize and be with people your own age.
BONNIE WRIGHT I'm interested in youth culture - when your parents are running your life, but you think you'...
CHRIS LILLEY The age factor means nothing to me. I'm old enough to know my limitations and I'm young enou...
MARV LEVY I'm not interested in meeting people's expectations, and I'm not interested in pleasing ...
JOHN FRUSCIANTE I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that ...
LAUREN GROFF For me, I skate as masculine as I can. I'm not a big strong guy. I'm not interested in fight...
JOHNNY WEIR I'm finally watching 'Mad Men.' As a child of the '60s, I can't believe how old ...
LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON I don't feel as if I belong to an age group.
QUENTIN BLAKE People say to me, 'You don't seem that interested in interviews.' Well, you know, I'...
ANDY MURRAY I think that age as a number is not nearly as important as health. You can be in poor health and be ...
BOB BARKER You are mortal. You age, you die. If that is not hell, pray tell me, what is?
CASSANDRA CLARE I'm 19, and, being a public figure, I'm supposed to present myself in a certain way, but it&...
KRISTEN STEWART I'm moving into that eldership age, you know? I'm at the 'wise woman' age where it...
IYANLA VANZANT And people who know me would tell you that away from hockey I'm really not that competitive.
WAYNE GRETZKY A woman tells her doctor, 'I've got a bad back.' The doctor says, 'It's old age....
TOMMY COOPER Nike came to me and said, 'We're interested in the decathlon and interested in seeing if we ...
ASHTON EATON When you're on TV and in people's houses - it's great that anybody watches anything you&...
NICHOLAS HOULT You just never know when you're living in a golden age.
ALEXANDER PAYNE As a comedian, I don't know if they're laughing because it's funny or if they're lau...
LARRY THE CABLE GUY People who want to remember me as Cat Stevens - welcome. Those who want me as Yusuf, you're here...
CAT STEVENS Well, we certainly need to raise the retirement age. I've told my 19-year-old and my 22-year-old...
KEN BUCK A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issue...
ANNIE LENNOX I think age is just something written down on a piece of paper. I mean, you come across 20-year-olds...
EMMANUELLE SEIGNER I like performers who I know are for real. You can tell, man, there's an intensity about their s...
ALAN VEGA In my old age I've come to find that if you respect other people, you feel better about yourself.
BIJOU PHILLIPS Maybe our young people are not as vacuous as we would like to lead ourselves to believe - that all t...
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HENRI-FRéDéRIC AMIEL all appears to change when we change
HENRI-FRéDéRIC AMIEL It is not what he has, nor even what he does, which directly expresses the worth of a man, but what ...
HENRI-FRéDéRIC AMIEL Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.
AMIEL Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
AMIEL Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
HENRI-FRÉDERIC AMIEL Charm: the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
HENRI-FRÉDERIC AMIEL An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
HENRI-FRÉDERIC AMIEL By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
BARBARA AMIEL I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring ...
BARBARA AMIEL I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver's Jack Webster on t...
BARBARA AMIEL In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.
BARBARA AMIEL It did not occur to us that the Marxists' solution was fraudulent or that their vision was disto...
BARBARA AMIEL Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships.
BARBARA AMIEL Our society is not perfect and this will come as no surprise to many of you.
BARBARA AMIEL Outside the walls, among others, is the Soviet Empire. It is malevolent, destructive and expanding. ...
BARBARA AMIEL Since Europe is dependent on imports of energy and most of its raw materials, it can be subdued, if ...
BARBARA AMIEL The People's Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It r...
BARBARA AMIEL The world today is divided into the free and the enslaved.
BARBARA AMIEL There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military...
BARBARA AMIEL It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.
BARBARA AMIEL There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or w...
BARBARA AMIEL When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.
BARBARA AMIEL Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expe...
BARBARA AMIEL Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political ...
BARBARA AMIEL They are feeding the world that will devour them and their children.
BARBARA AMIEL All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.
BARBARA AMIEL The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benef...
BARBARA AMIEL The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
BARBARA AMIEL When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling o...
BARBARA AMIEL Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.
BARBARA AMIEL I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver's Jack Webster on telev...
BARBARA AMIEL But to be frank and I think probably to the relief of many of you, I am withdrawing from the speakin...
BARBARA AMIEL