50th Birthday Quotes - Page 7

• Canada has a passive-aggressive culture, with a lot of sarcasm and righteousness. That went with my weird messianic complex. The ego is a fascinating monster. I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.

  Alanis Morissette

  Birthday, Sarcasm, Thinking

  "I've been a thorn in people's sides just by existing" by Lucy O'Brien, www.theguardian.com. May 21, 2008.

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• If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.

  Michel Foucault

  Birthday, Power, Age

  Michel Foucault (2012). “The History of Sexuality: An Introduction”, p.5, Vintage

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• I think, if you put a camera in anyone's life and document it daily from the age of 21 to 27, there are going to be things that aren't always pretty.

  Sienna Miller

  Birthday, Thinking, Age

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• I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14... I competed until I was 34, kind of old for a contact sport. I coached the sport until I was 47. I think the discipline of wrestling has given me the discipline I have to write.

  John Irving

  Birthday, Sports, Writing

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• I feel we live in the kind of culture now where you have to be very smart to navigate the right way, and I just don't have those smarts. I think with age and time it will change, but I can't obsess about it.

  Sienna Miller

  Birthday, Smart, Thinking

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• It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Birthday, People, Age

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• I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere when I was a very little boy, and my father told me that when he was a boy about my age, he wanted to be an Episcopal priest, because he so admired his priest, a black man from someplace called Haiti.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Birthday, Father, Boys

  "Black In Latin America" by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., www.huffingtonpost.com. July 28, 2011.

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• Old age is just a record of one's whole life.

  Muhammad Ali

  Birthday, Age, Records

  Twitter post from Jan 16, 2011

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

  Mark Twain

  Birthday, Growing Up, Memories

  "Mark Twain's Own Autobiography," North American Review, 1 Mar. 1907

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• What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

  Voltaire

  Birthday, Loss, Aggravation

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• If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Napoleon Hill (2013). “The Law of Success”, p.47, Courier Corporation

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