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I was always amazed about how much I could finally squeeze into a thirty second commercial.


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I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it.


Richard Brautigan
It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
William James
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For me from a pretty young age up until about 21 years old hallucinogenics had a huge place in my life.
Jon Fishman
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We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.


Will Rogers
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I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn't want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn't want a boss.
Barbara Corcoran
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I think that something photographers find about me is that I work really hard to make sure I know what they want before I start shooting.
Gigi Hadid
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Thirty was a big deal for me. It was the age where I reevaluated everything - how I approached life and how I thought about myself. When I look at my 20s, or when I look at any period in my life, I think about how much time I've wasted trying to find the right man.
Amy Adams
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If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to get to the good stuff, you need to slow down.
Laurie Helgoe
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The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.
Charles Caleb Colton
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As long as designers want to dress me, photographers want to take my picture and companies think my face will help their products, then I won't go anywhere until they're done with me.
Linda Evangelista
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I try and have a relaxed attitude and stay quite switched off until about an hour before kick-off.


Roy Keane
The real problem is that there's a tendency to associate ageing with loss and decline and things that aren't desirable. But experiencing all that there is to experience in life - whether that's at the age of ten or thirty or fifty or eighty - is what life is all about.
S. Jay Olshansky
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You want calamities? What about the Ice Age?


Mario Cuomo
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The truth is that from the age of 14, I felt about 40, and for that reason, I felt that I would never succeed as an actor until my looks caught up with my actual age.
Rory Kinnear
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My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day.
Amy Tan
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Some people will lie to you because they mean to. Others will do it to tell you what you want to hear.
Robert Herjavec
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I want to work endlessly and tirelessly until I'm an old, old lady.


Ginnifer Goodwin
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Mercury emissions will continue to harm the environment and to endanger the health of children and pregnant women, until this Administration puts public health before politics.
Mark Dayton
I just came into my own sexuality at thirty. I don't think it's something you can deeply experience at 18 or any time before that.
Eva Longoria