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I believe that each of us-no matter what our age or background or walk of life-each of us has something to contribute to the life of this nation.

I believe that even 'returning-to-nature' and anti pollution activities, no matter how commendable, are not moving toward a genuine solution if they are carried out solely in reaction to the over development of the present age.

I believe that the development of language - of naming, categorization, conceptualization - destroys our ability to see as we age.

I believe that we have to be so race-conscious in this day and age.

I believe that the time has come for women to take more active roles in all domains of human society, in an age in which education and the capacities of the mind, not physical strength, define leadership. This could help create a more equitable and compassionate society.

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

I believe the second half of one's life is meant to be better than the first half. The first half is finding out how you do it. And the second half is enjoying it.

I calculated the total time that humans have waited for web pages to load. It cancels out all the productivity gains of the information age. Sometimes I think the web is a big plot to keep people like me away from normal society.

I call it nirvana, the complete destruction of old age and dying.

I came to Los Angeles and did auditions for television. I made a terrible mess of most of them and I was quite intimidated. I felt very embarrassed and went back to London. I got British television jobs intermittently between the ages of 23 and 27, but it was very patchy.

I came of age believing that, no matter what happened, I would always be able to support myself.

I call the '70s the "golden age of television"; in the early '70s there were sensationally good shows.

I came of age at the end of the 1960s, just when video was also coming into the world. Companies such as Sony and Panasonic were starting to market it and we artists immediately knew how it could be used.

I came to water late. I learned to swim at the age of 20.

I can deal with it now, but 13 is a tough age to be recognized and famous. It's a tough age, period.

I can feel the 60S looming. In my profession, I've just moved along with my age. By thinking in decades, rather than whether someone's 42 or 47, you can give yourself a whole 10 years to turn yourself around in.

I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether it is true or not.

I cannot escape from the conclusion that the great ages of progress have depended upon a small number of individuals of transcendent ability.

I cannot always sympathize with that demand which we hear so frequently for cheap things. Things may be too cheap. They are too cheap when the man or woman who produces them upon the farm or the man or woman who produces them in the factory does not get out of them living wages with a margin for old age and for a dowry for the incidents that are to follow. I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth or shapes it into a garment will starve in the process.

I cannot, in my old age, live off pieces of my youth.

I cannot say who, precisely, came up with the idea of a Stone Age family.

I cannot imagine why we should be at the expense to furnish wit for succeeding ages, when the former have made no sort of provision for ours.

I can remember at the age of about six being fascinated by the planets and learning all about Mars and Venus and things.

I can say now is that sneaking up on people is a major delight in my old age, but it always has been. A desire, even a need, to shock.

I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Guthrie song.

I can't accept "our nervous age," since mankind has been nervous during every age. Whoever fears nervousness should turn into a sturgeon or smelt; if a sturgeon makes a stupid mistake, it can only be one: to end up on a hook, and then in a pan in a pastry shell.

I can't actually see myself putting make-up on my face at the age of sixty, but I can see myself going on a camel train to Samarkand.

I can't date women my own age any more - I hate going to cemeteries.

I can't age on the inside, and I'm totally okay with that. I have no need to grow up and see myself as mature.

I can't experience my brain because I'm inside of it. If you're imaging your brain, you can also find scary things. As one ages, your brain shrinks. And how much it shrinks, and where it shrinks, relates to conditions like Alzheimer's and dementia.

I can't imagine being a woman in the world of acting, like where you age starts to weigh you down - you go from being attractive to where they [directors] decided you're out... I feel like with stand-up comedy, it doesn't matter if I've gotten fatter.

I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.

I can't hit on women in public any more. I didn't decide this; it just doesn't feel right at my age.

I can't even count how many times I did interviews with people and they asked me if I had a boyfriend. Keep in mind that I was, I guess, mild to moderately famous from ages 6 to 13. Of course I didn't have a boyfriend then. I didn't even have a camp boyfriend then.

I can truthfully say, in arts I have pretty much seen and done it all and, at my age, I have no patience with wide-eyed artists fooling themselves about their place in history. We should know by now that it is the whim of the elite few who set the rules... those who have fooled themselves into believing that they are God's gift to the ages.

I can't look in the mirror and look at fake things. I just can't. I'd rather age.

I can't remember much about the early flights, except that it was ages before we got into First Class.

I can't tell you his age, but when he was born the wonder drug was Mercurochrome.

I can't minimize the terror factor. As you get older you get more and more frightened because the terrible indignities of old age become closer to you.

I can't think of anything better to do with a life than to wear it out in efforts to be useful to the world.

I can't wear yellow anymore. It's too matchy-matchy with my catheter.

I come from a place where there's violence and inarticulacy. I worked in a pub from the age of 12 or 13. I used to see people smashing glasses over each other. I was never tough. I was scared of them.

Ice ages have come and gone. Coral reefs have persisted.

I congratulate myself on not having arrived into the world until the present time. This age suits my taste.

I caught the look Benjamin gave me. "What?" "Nothing. We just thought a svetocha would be more, well, difficult." Leon's mouth twitched. "I do seriously want a slushie." I tried a tentative smile. I definitely liked him now. "I haven't had one in ages. Maybe the guys outside—the double blonds—would want one, too?" For some reason Leon found that utterly fricking hysterical. He snorted and chuckled all the way through Housewares to the Health and Beauty section, and even Benjamin unbent enough to grin.

I come from a family of tall, curvy women. I developed in my body and my shape far earlier, so from a young age I accepted it. I embraced it and saw it as an advantage.

I complain that the years fly past, but then I look in a mirror and see that very few of them actually got past.

I could cook from quite an early age - purely because I liked it.

I couldn't stand it. I still can't stand it. I can't stand the way things are. I cannot tolerate this age.

I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half, was a born teacher in advance of her own times.