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    The dreadful thing about getting older is you cry at the drop of a hat.

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    The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

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    The fun thing about getting older is finding younger people to mentor.

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    The great thing about getting older is that you get a chance to tell the people in your life who matter what they mean to you.

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    The great thing about getting older is living life.

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    The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren't as black and white, and you become much more tolerant. You can see the good in things much more easily rather than getting enraged as you used to do when you were young.

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    The great thing about getting older is that you learn not to care about being cool. I'm happy with who I am, I know what I like and I can't see myself changing… not for a little while, at least.

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    The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.

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    The older I get, the better I used to be.

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    The older I get the less I listen to what people say and the more I look at what they do.

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    The older we get, the fewer things seem worth waiting in line for.

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    The older I get, the better I was.

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    The older I get, the more I feel.

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    The problem with getting older is you still remember how things used to be.

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    The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.

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    The readers get younger all the time, and we're getting older.

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    There's another part of getting older that's just wonderful. Which is you see the way the stories turn out with peoples' lives.

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    There is no advantage getting older. You don't get smarter, you don't get wiser, you don't get more mellow, you don't get more kindly, nothing good happens. Your back hurts more, you get more indigestion, your eyesight isn't as good, you need a hearing aid. It's a bad business getting old and I would advise you not to do it if you can avoid it. It doesn't have a romantic quality.

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    The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.

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    The way that I feel about my Jewish identity has been really radically changed by events in life. Like, becoming a writer is one. Having children is another. And getting older and watching, you know, my parents and grandparents get older has been another, the seasons of - being witness to the seasons of life and wanting to have some kind of infrastructure to deal with it, to cope with them. Ritual has become more important to me as I've gotten older. It's not always religious ritual, but it often borrows from Judaism.

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    There are no other factors that cause me stress when I get inside the Octagon. I guess that's an advantage of getting older.

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    There's nothing good about getting older-absolutely nothing-because the amount of wisdom and experience you gain is negligible compared to what you lose. You do gain a couple of things-you gain a little bittersweet and sour wisdom from your heartbreaks and failures and things-but what you lose is so catastrophic in every way.

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    We are getting older, and we are getting wiser, and we are getting freer. And when you get the wisdom and the truth, then you get the freedom and you get power, and then look out. Look out.

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    We are very lucky to be men because women have a terrible time getting older parts. It's much more difficult.

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    We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be.

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    Twilight is about getting older and relationships - not about a murder mystery. It's about love when you reach a certain age; nothing is in primary colors.

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    What is getting older if it isn't learning more ways that you're vulnerable?

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    When I started in the business, years ago, people would always say, "You better get as much work as you can now because, once you get over 40, it's over." I don't see that with TV. Maybe it's because I am getting older, but the kinds of roles I'm drawn to are more mature roles.

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    This weekend President Obama attended the annual Gridiron Club Dinner, and during his speech he joked that he is getting older and crankier. Which explains why he announced he no longer supports President Obama.

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    Why are people afraid of getting older? You feel wiser. You feel more mature. You feel like you know yourself better. You would trade that for softer skin? Not me!

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    When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

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    Working with Chaplin was very amusing and strange. His films are so funny, but working with him, I found him to be a very serious man. Whereas the films of Hitchcock are macabre, he could be a very funny man to work with, always telling jokes and holding court. Of course, when I worked with Charlie he was getting older.

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    When I'm not writing, I tend to get depressed and a little bit surly. And then when I'm writing, suddenly I feel enlivened. Now the only thing as I'm getting older that I notice is that it's a pattern.

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    Why is it that private insurance companies are not in trouble because people are getting older? Aren't they subject to the same demographics? The difference is that they've accumulated a fund, not a pay-in, pay-out system.

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    You know you're getting older when they're making TV shows, sequels or plays for things that you did. It's very flattering and very humbling, indeed.

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    You know you're getting older when you don't care where your wife goes, just so you don't have to go along.

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    You know you're getting older when your haters now want to kill you.

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    Your life may be draining away. Every day you may be getting older instead of younger, more frustrated instead of happier. Your job, your relationships may not be evolving - then your power is dwindling.

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    Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

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    Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it has given me me . It has provided time and experience and failures and triumphs and time-tested friends who have helped me step into the shape that was waiting for me. I fit into me now. I have an organic life, finally, not necessarily the one people imagined for me, or tried to get me to have. I have the life I longed for. I have become the woman I hardly dared imagine I would be.

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    .. at a certain age we learned to see right through it, and that age is now.

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    You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.

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    You start doing your research and realizing that the fertility rate for women drops considerably. And you're like, "Oh my God, now I want to get pregnant, and now it's a crazy time where I might not be able to get pregnant because I'm getting older and my eggs are aging and my uterus isn't as fertile as it used to be and my loins are not where they used to be.

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    Youth is a disease from which we all recover.

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    In the fifties... when they had their summer parties - there were always different colored lanterns on the lawn... and I get the funniest chill. In the end the bright colors always go out of life, have you noticed that? In the end, things always look gray, like a dress that's been washed too many times.

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    Getting older is a question of coming to terms with the fact that you’ll never know the secrets; and the resulting equilibrium is what gives the illusion of actually knowing them.

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    Maybe this is what growing old was like, she thought. Maybe the world gets smaller and smaller until there's nothing but the walls around you to show you where you end and the rest of the world begins.

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    My first interview was with eighty-eight-year-old folk artist Marcia Muth… ‘Your life does change as you get older,’ she told me. ‘You get into what’s important and what’s not’.

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    Never complain of getting older, it's privilege and opportunity. comparing ourselves with those 'God love more' who end their life early; i can see life and the ability of age as an tremendous gift from God. When i see my 'almost to 70 years old' parents make me think, if I 70 look like and act like them i am not worried about getting older (which i never) because they has set of pleasant example of life at that age. (Ejump,2016)

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    One by one they are being picked off around him: in his small circle of colleagues the ratio slowly grows top-heavy, more ghosts, more each winter, and fewer living... and with each one, he thinks he feels patterns on his cortex going dark, settling to sleep forever, parts of whoever he's been losing all definition, reverting to dumb chemistry...