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I was raised in an atmosphere of 'everything's fine.' But as I got older, I was like, 'Well no, everything's not fine. There is stuff that's sad.' I am a really sensitive person. I think I am too sensitive sometimes.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

People are going to get older and young guys are going to come in and race and get more competitive.

My older sister is bossy, my brother is a stirrer and me - well, I am perfect!

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

As you get older, you look at things differently.

New molecular methods that add or modify genes can protect plants from diseases and pests and improve crops in ways that are both more environmentally benign and beyond the capability of older methods.

The older I get, the more I realize that religion is not going to be easily marginalized by one of its wannabe successors - science, capitalism, consumerism.

I don't have that kind of voice, the big baritone or rousing tenor sound. My wheelhouse was in the frothier pieces. So my appreciation for those older musicals and revivals grew.

As I get older, I don't aggressively pursue songs. All the great ones just appear.

I like to describe myself as a proudly visible member of the most invisible segments of our society - older women.

I realized I was an attractive older woman who never wanted to settle down.

Putting somebody else's pants on and pretending to be somebody else is occasionally, as you grow older, horrifying.

I like those older theaters - the acoustics are perfect, I mean, you just have that feel of there's been a thousand shows in there and now you get to be one.

Also, as I've gotten older and more mature, I've become much more comfortable in my own skin. After 25 years of doing stand-up, that's reflected onstage.

They told me that I had a leaky valve, which is something that is certainly not life-threatening. It's common and it's something that had I not known about it, would I have lived? Sure. But it's something that I think is important to know, especially as I get older and given that I have heart disease in my family.

But I believe the older I get, I'm wiser and I train smarter.

As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.

The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.

I feel like girls in general will always worry about the same things, and it's all appearance related. That will always be there. When you grow older, you grow more confident with who you are.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

My grandfather was Orthodox, and he was religious, but neither of my parents were. Of course, as they got older, it seems like they get more religious the older they get, even though they're still not practicing Jews.

I was the youngest. The yule lamb. The one who always got away without doing the washing up. My sister was four years older, and my brother six years.

In the U.S., with very few exceptions, actresses older than 35 are simply discarded.

My first gig was in Philadelphia and I played the drums for my older brothers. That same night, I also played drums for Martha and the Vandellas. Ah, the fond memories of being 14.

I mean, my voice has gotten a little deeper sounding as I've gotten older, I think. I noticed that.

I've had to live with women all my life. I grew up with four older sisters, and I was the baby and the only boy.

The older you are, I think you realize what you enjoy and what you don't need, what wears you out and what's important.

I've always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.

Ronald Reagan was older than I was when he ran for president.

You have to get through the Hamlet hoop as a young actor. Your classical qualifications are based on the quality of your Hamlet. And then, as an older actor, you have to get through the Lear hoop. And I'm approaching the Lear hoop.

It's the same thing now. When I go onstage the young people scream and holler as much as the older generation.

As a kid, we would drive up and down 77 North - that's our highway - there would be office buildings on the side of the highway and I'd be like, that's what my house is going to look like when I get older. I'm going to start making my house look like this.

A further point is that, little by little, in the current universe, everything is slowly being named; nor does this have anything to do with the older Aristotelian universals in which the idea of a chair subsumes all its individual manifestations.

Then I got a gig with an older friend who had the equipment and he played in this bar. They would bring me in the bar through the backdoor and I would DJ in the back room most of the night. Then they'd take me out the backdoor, so I was never really in the bar.

The older ideas are rendering more and more bland music.

Older people sit down and ask, 'What is it?' but the boy asks, 'What can I do with it?'.

You're never going to see the fat Elvis in me. People I admired like Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and John Belushi all died at 27. I've got jeans older than that.

I'm more confident now than I've ever been. As you get older, you have to be.

I think we brothers realised his loss more and more as we grew older. We actually grew closer after his death.

Even the people I surround myself with... are wiser, a little bit older than me, where before, all my boyfriends were younger.

As you get older, you think about things differently from when you do in your twenties, when you think you'll live forever.

Well... you know, I love motorcycles. They're just beautiful, and there's a certain craftsmanship in older bikes, older Triumphs or BSAs or Norton. I'm just very attracted to it.

Jazz is like wine. When it is new, it is only for the experts, but when it gets older, everybody wants it.

Some people when they get older are so firm in their beliefs that you'll never move them.

There's less pressure to look good as you get older.

The older I get, the more I embrace who I am.

If you're lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a skill.

You know, as you get older, the first thing you lose is memory. It seems to be happening with me.

It's wrong to put the drug lobby's interests ahead of older Americans.

I think it is nice to get older.

As I got older, I got into all kinds of things in the streets - but for some reason, I never got caught up with the gangs growing up. Everybody dug me, man. I never had problems.

I love being an advocate for women as we get older so that we can feel comfortable with ourselves. It's all about being healthy for me now.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.

The older I've got, the easier I've found it to accept myself. I think I've finally learnt not to beat myself up so much.

Naturally enough when I was a young dancer, I was terribly anxious to get ahead, and to get ahead quickly. I was impatient with all those older people who talked of the long grind to the top, who turned me down for jobs I knew I could do.

The visual information of art history is going to students seamlessly, without the enormous trouble those of us who are older had when we studied art history many years ago.

The older you get the stronger the wind gets and it's always in your face.

I'm older and wiser, but I still dream of doing new things and creating new things.

But that is the only thing that slows me down is the system. No one, two or three was big enough to slow me down, only the system. It was the system that slowed me down to make my numbers fall. Not because I am older.

The body is forever teaching us lessons. There are all sorts of things that we can't do, shouldn't do, had better not do very often or do for too long as we get older. The body makes its presence known.

When you're older and wiser a lot of the ego has gone out of the window.

You can play older than yourself. You can play younger than yourself up to a point, and then that just becomes impossible because you carry a weight with you that you can't shift, unless you have very boyish looks.

The older I get, the more I feel almost beautiful.

When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part.

The older you get the more you understand what you're doing.

What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older generation. There was a rupture in continuity, since most young people influenced by those breakthroughs did not enter the professions.

As we grow older I always think, why didn't I do more when I was young, why didn't I risk more?

The first census in 1790 asked just six questions: the name of the head of the household, the number of free white males older than 16, the number of free white males younger than 16, the number of free white females, the number of other free persons, and the number of slaves.

The older I get, the more open-minded I get, the less judgmental I get.

Usually older players, late in the season, start to get cold.

There's definitely some sort of dissent brewing between labels, publishing companies and artists. A lot of it has to do with older licensing schemes.