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Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again.

I consider the 70s to be the youth of old age. So all you women out there who are afraid of getting older, just keep your orgasms in place, eat a lot of vegetables, take exercise, and you'll be fine.

I think I'm past the age of getting lost.

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

I would often find myself, at the age of 21, at midnight, running down a dark street on my own with 10 men chasing me. And the fact they had cameras in their hands made that legal.

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.

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.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Of late I appear To have reached that stage When people who look old Who are only my age.

And currently, there are four to five new works in the pipeline for upcoming celebrations such as the Sydney 2000 Olympics, Australian Federation, my 50th Birthday, and Sydney Dance Company's 25th Anniversary.

A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.

The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs.

You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.

Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.

One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late.

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

I celebrated [my 50th birthday] by throwing a big bowl on the pottery wheel, then going for a water ski at the lake on our property in the Catskills, and that night, skinny-dipping under the stars. Just being free and joyful. And that's how I [felt] about turning 50.

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.

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.