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A lot of people my age are so hyper. I like hyper people.

A lot of people my age who are working right now have never acted; they get a show and suddenly they're making millions. It's always those people who get it fast who have the most trouble staying grounded and being themselves.

A lot of times, when you start a show at a young age, you get stuck. You get six years of high school, but I didn't have that.

Also, I gained lots of weight between ages 18-20 because I was drinking alcohol at night. Alcohol has lots of calories and that does not help.

Although it is easier to find information these days, it is easier than ever before to find misinformation, pseudo-facts, unsupported and fringe opinions, and the like. Children should be taught at an early age what constitutes evidence, how to detect biases or distortions in newspaper accounts, and that there exist hierarchies of information sources. In the medical field, for example, a controlled experiment published in a peer-reviewed journal is a better source than a blog by the Ginseng Growers Association, promoting the health benefits of their own product.

Although the patriarchal ego prides itself on being reasonable, the twentieth century has been anything but the Age of Reason. In our collective neurosis, we have raped the earth, disrupted the delicate balance of nature, and created phallic missiles of mass destruction.

Altogether, the task of estimating the length of human life is beyond our capacity, for directly we say that it is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer than the fall of a rose leaf to the ground.

Always, our eyes look backwards with the conviction that then, and not now, was the golden age.

A magical blending of mystery, romance, and deep and dangerous secrets. Kelly Parra’s Invisible Touch is an action-packed coming-of-age novel, sure to keep readers turning pages and begging for a sequel.

Amanda [Bynes] and I are the same age so I grew up watching her and really looking up to her and for me, to see this path that's happening and to watch it, is kind of really affecting me in ways that I didn't think it would. It's weird to be in a situation where you can't help. I obviously don't know her at all but I want to bring her back and I want to make her happy and healthy for some reason and she's not there and we can't do anything to help so it kind of sucks. All we're doing is hurting it.

A man growing old becomes a child again.

A man is more than one being in his life. If the last persists, why not the first? If there be a hereafter for his age, why not for his youth?

A man's age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories.

A man's diary is a record in youth of his sentiments, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his reflections.

A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious to the superficial observer.

A man who cannot win fame in big own age will have a very small chance of winning it from posterity. True, there are some half-dozen exceptions to this truth among millions of myriads that attest it; but what man of common sense would invest any large amount of hope in so unpromising a lottery?

A man without a heroic bent starts dying at the age of thirty.

Amazing Donald Trump, your age and IQ are the same.

Amebic dysentery is endemic throughout the world, affecting 17.6% of the population. In the US, it affects 13.6%. ...No one..really knows the extent of the parasites and the diseases they cause.

America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.

America has begun her career at the culminating point of life, as Adam did at the age of thirty.

America is a country that has been skating for ages on its unparalleled ability to look marvelous on the outside.

American Idol transcends age, gender, ethnicity, everything.

America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself.

American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture.

American politics is always somewhat fluid. In this age of social media, it means that voters can swing back and forth.

A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure.

Americans work a long away ahead of themselves because of the size of the place. To make any impact at all you have to promote yourself with live performances ages before a release.

Americans of all ages are earning less than they did two decades ago when adjusted for inflation. Yet they’re paying more in taxes.

Americans spend more money on Botox, face lifts and tummy tucks than on the age-old scourges of polio, small pox and malaria.

Amid the stirring and manifold activities of the age in which we live, to be neutral in the strife is to rank with the enemies of the Saviour. There is no greater foe to the spread of His cause in the world than the placid indifferentism which is too honorable to betray, while it is too careless or too cowardly to join Him.

Amid the most mercenary ages it is but a secondary sort of admiration that is bestowed upon magnificence.

Among the most urgent political priorities of our age is the separation of economy and state.

A modern author would have died in infancy in a ruder age.

Amygdalin ('Laetrile')..has been employed medically for many centuries. Ancient herbal pharmacopeias recommended the bitter almond for the treatment for a variety of illnesses.

Amusement should be used to do us good “like a medicine”: it must never be used as the food of the man...Many have had all holy thoughts and gracious resolutions stamped out by perpetual trifling. Pleasure so called is the murderer of thought. This is the age of excessive amusement: everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle.

Among the writers of all ages, some deserve fame, and have it; others neither have nor deserve it; some have it, not deserving it; others, though deserving it, yet totally miss it, or have it not equal to their deserts.

An age is the reversal of an age: When strangers murdered Emmet, Fitzgerald, Tone, We lived like men that watch a painted stage. What matter for the scene, the scene once gone: It had not touched our lives.

Analogies and metaphors have often proved pivotal in expanding our thoughts both within and without science, and so one should not discourage the attempt to synthesize apparent opposites. However, citizens of the New Age often forget that, when they involve science, analogies should be tempered by experiment and calculation.

An age builds up cities: an hour destroys them.

An age deficient in idealism has ever been one of immorality and superficial attainment, since without the sense of ideas, nobility of character becomes of rare attainment, if possible.

An age is best revealed by its artists of the second rank.

An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away.

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.

An acting assistant stage manager in a theater in Canterbury, a rep theater. A small wage but just enough to get by on, and I made props, and I walked on, and I changed scenery, and I realized that I just loved it.

An age where you feel like you could love anyone, where you put everything on the line for the smallest of things. Eighteen. Adults say that it's an age where we laugh if a leaf tumbles by. But back then, we were more serious than any adult, more intense, and had our strength tested. 1997. That was how our eighteen was beginning.

An artist cannot get along without a public; and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and turning his back on his age, he looks toward the future for what the present denies.

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

An aphorism is a synthesis of poetry and prose, it is a narrative precipitate, a didactic parable, an ideological concept, in practice it 's compressed and zipped philosophy . It is literature that adapts itself to the digital age.

And almost everyone when age, disease, or sorrows strike him, inclines to think there is a God, or something very like him.