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BIBLE My mom is a breast cancer survivor of five years. And my best friend since I was 8 years old was dia...
LORI PERKINS I was 22 years old when I met Robert Johnson. I was there the night he was poisoned.
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JOE HALL He was always full of adventure. He wasn't scared of a challenge. He loved his job as a constable.
JOE LOFTIS Jehoram was thirty and two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem...
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KRIS KRISTOFFERSON I've been writing about James Fenimore Cooper. He was not a writer. Here was a man who was 30 ye...
LESLIE FIEDLER And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
BIBLE And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
BIBLE When you're 6 years old and you're in my house, you're a scout automatically, ... My dad was involve...
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NIGEL HAMILTON Everyone says Francois Mitterrand had huge charisma. But before he was president they used to call h...
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE He really looks like the running back I remembered from when he was 11 to 12 years old.
RON MCBRIDE You know he[George W. Bush] is there[in the White House] illegally. You know he was not elected eith...
MICHAEL MOORE I was compulsively overeating when I was eight years old.
DEMI LOVATO My husband will never chase another woman. He's too fine, too decent, too old. [said when George Bur...
GRACIE ALLEN My real father died when I was two years old, so I never knew him. He was a barber in Chicago.
DONALD JOHANSON I started boxing when I was 5 years old because my father was a boxer. He taught me how to fight.
MANNAA MANNAA I was 7 years old when the '80s began and 17 years old when they ended, so it was an incredibly ...
ERNEST CLINE Dad started playing when he was 8. I've been playing since I was 4 years old and started writing son...
HENRY GARZA Who's going to hire me at 60 years old when they can hire a 30-year old or a 40-year old?
CONNIE BAKER My dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years. And when he opened his campaign ...
HARRY CONNICK, JR. When George Bush used the Willie Horton ad, he knew what he was doing.
PAUL TSONGAS And Aaron was an hundred and twenty and three years old when he died in mount Hor.
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BIBLE When my brother-in-law, BIll Clinton, was elected, he had gay friends. That was a coming out.
KATE CLINTON And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his
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BIBLE It was a long 30 years.
DONNA KRIER Like I said, a 30-year-old hockey player, even when I came to New York when I was 30, I was on the d...
MARK MESSIER It is an old project launched by Ariel Sharon when he was housing minister nearly 15 years ago,
ARIEL SHARON When I was 6 years old we were called up into his office and John Wayne was sitting there. He deputi...
CHERI BROWN I'm a 50 year-old guy and I'm not in shape like I was when I was 30.
RICHARD GERE I started skating when I was six years old.
NANCY KERRIGAN When I was hired to 'SNL,' I was 25 years old.
AIDY BRYANT I don't think his fundamental views changed over the roughly 30 years he was on the court.
MARK TUSHNET He's worked since he was 14 years old and he's 52.
JANET GAMET Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. Hi...
BIBLE I was 30 years old and this girl I knew found out I had never gotten high. Nobody had ever told me a...
JACK HERER George told me that three years ago when he was in Cinema for Peace, he was called a traitor in Amer...
JAKA BIZILJ I crashed my boyfriend's birthday when I was 12 years old. He didn't invite me and so I showed up.
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MICHAEL KELLY We know that when he was 14 years old, he was adjudicated as a delinquent. He was found guilty of mo...
DAVID FISCHER No, my father passed away when I was 13 years old. I was very young.
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TOM ELLIS I was a trial lawyer when I was elected to Congress.
GERALDINE FERRARO I got into rhythmic gymnastics when I was four years old.
YANA KUDRYAVTSEVA When this old cap was new
'Tis since two hundred years.
OLD SONG I was nine-years-old when I first put on skates.
SCOTT HAMILTON My father's life was so decimated by his earliest experiences. His mother died when he was 7 yea...
WALTER MOSLEY In those days, a constable didn't just serve warrants, they did whatever was needed.
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VANESSA PARADIS Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in J...
BIBLE Back 30 years ago, it was a fire department and that was all it was.
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TERRY PRATCHETT Postal service of today is far removed from that of 30 years ago when reform was last enacted.
JOHN M. MCHUGH Back when I was hired at General Motors 30 years ago, it seemed like a good, secure job.
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HAROLD LEMAY This golf course is brutally difficult in place. This golf course is all you want. It's like boxing ...
OLIN BROWNE My mother born in Mexico, but was Lebanese in origin. She born 1902 the same year my father arrived ...
CARLOS SLIM I didn't discover Terry until I was 10 years old, he was a legend by that time,
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ANONYMOUS I became involved in photography when I was about thirteen years old.
LEONARD NIMOY I started making puppets and sets when I was 9 years old.
JAMES RACIOPPI I was like a mutant when I was a boy. I learned to read when I was four years old; it was like a mir...
ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY Two and twenty years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. A...
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SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE It never occurred to me that I was a leading man until I was 19 years old. I had been acting since I...
CHRISTOPHER REEVE I won my first medal when I was nine years old. It was at the Boston Open.
NANCY KERRIGAN When I was 5 years old, Hulk Hogan was the world to a lot of little kids.
DOLPH ZIGGLER When I was eight years old, I was always starving. My brother and sister died from starvation.
CHEN GUANGBIAO When I went off to the army when I was 17 years old, I believed in America and the rights of freedom...
JACK HERER I was raised thinking that the world would end in 1975 - that Armageddon would come when I was 18 ye...
FAYE RESNICK He was twice as old as when they sentenced him to die, and he certainly wasn't the same person that ...
CLIVE STAFFORD SMITH A male, aged between 30 and 40-years-old was reported to be floating in a river in Ivory Park by an ...
MALCOLM MIDGLEY Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and did no...
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BRIAN STACKPOLE Back when he was 8 years old, they had a 90-day visa on him and his grandfather didn't do anything a...
ASHLEY PAINTER When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.
HARRIET ANN JACOBS I was 12 years old when I had my first job, delivering packages.
DAMON WAYANS I started running when I was 21 years old and studying in China.
LISA LING I was 5 years old when the stock market crashed; I lost everything.
DICK VAN DYKE My mom put me in dance classes when I was 5 years old.
DANNY PUDI I started with Sam Cooke when I was 6 or 7 years old.
BOBBY WOMACK I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
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CONRAD BROOKS Jeremy was actually with the Cleveland Browns when I was there. His father was a defensive coach, Ji...
VINNY TESTAVERDE He was elected democratically, but hasn't given any positive results,
CARLOS SALINAS He was elected democratically, but hasn't given any positive results.
CARLOS FLORES I started styling people when I was just eight years old, without even knowing what a stylist was.
RACHEL ZOE I was 17 years old when I was killed by a vampire"-Ruby Kennedy from My Handsome Vampire.
VIANKA VAN BOKKEM I was obsessed with girls when I was 13 years old; I wasn't really into books.
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BOOKER T. WASHINGTON I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. -Booker T. Washington.
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BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Character is power.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardl...
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to th...
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in li...
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the pla...
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be...
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a ...
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to bea...
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that...
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or ...
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