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Ageing means a loss of a number of skills over time. -- Julie Bishop
Ageing's alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here. -- George H. W. Bush
Ageing doesn't mean giving up on style and individuality; it doesn't mean abandoning fashion and living in comfy slippers and flannel knickers. -- Twiggy
Ageing footballers never lose their commitment; they just lose their pace -- Gary Lineker
Ageing is very exciting. But if I didn't work on ageing, I'd want to work on the brain. There are really cool techniques you can use now. And bioinformatics. The methods you can use for comparing large data sets - that's so powerful. -- Cynthia Kenyon
In my life and career I want to embrace ageing because I think that's what's interesting. -- Kim Cattrall
These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism. -- Virginia Woolf
For healthy adult people, the really big thing we can foresee are ways of intervening in the ageing process, either by slowing or reversing it. -- Nick Bostrom
Getting older is a struggle. I always feel that just under the surface of acceptance and enjoyment of the ageing process is a terrible hysteria just waiting to burst out. -- Michael Sheen
It's true about the eyes being the window to the soul. Your face can be etched with worry, and twisted by ageing, but the eyes tell the true story of who you are. -- Naomie Harris
I see a wiser person than when I was younger: having babies, and passing 30, were the turning points. What women in their 40s - I am 39 - lack in gorgeousness, they make up for in wisdom. I love ageing, despite the drawbacks - thinner, drier skin. -- Thandie Newton
Ageing is a privilege not a predicament -- Martin Firrell
Age isn't important until you run out of it. -- Malcolm Forbes
Ageing is a process of exchanging hope for insight -- Sheridan Hay
Ageing is something that both men and women are utterly terrified about. -- Cate Blanchett
I just don't like the idea of having an operation to hold up the ageing process. -- Demi Moore
Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth. -- W. Somerset Maugham
Ageing is, simply and clearly, the accumulation of damage in the body. That's all that ageing is. -- Aubrey de Grey
Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean. -- Ted Dexter
within that ageing outer shell we remain very much the same as we did in our late teens and early twenties. -- M.M. Kaye
Fighting the ageing process just doesn't work. I think that actresses, ultimately, are responsible for the faces we give to women. -- Juliette Binoche
Ageing is so many different things, and cells being able to self-renew is part of the picture but not all of it. -- Elizabeth Blackburn
Ageing's a difficult thing, moving closer to death, but it's okay. I've had a good time living, so I'm gonna have a good time dying. -- Nick Nolte
Personally I like ageing. With age comes wisdom and I have said it before and I say it again, I will take wisdom over youth any day. -- Brad Pitt
Gloria Steinem's marriage is proof positive of the emotional desperation of ageing feminists who for over 30 years worshiped the steely career woman and callously trashed stay-at-home moms. -- Camille Paglia
I'm really a strong advocate of ageing because the messages that the media and advertising give to women infuriate me: ie that it's a bad thing to get old. -- Sophia Myles
I think that laughter and smiling are some of the best antidotes to ageing that you could possibly have. In general, I pretty much think of myself as still being about 5. -- Demi Moore
People's opinions don't interfere with me. Ageing gracefully is supposed to mean trying not to hide time passing and just looking a wreck. That's what they call ageing gracefully. You know? -- Jeanne Moreau
The reason some younger women were willing to go out with my flabby, ageing self was that no one of their own age would put up with them for more than 10 minutes. -- Mark Barrowcliffe
Ageing is one of those battles you're not going to win. I'll try to look as good as I can as long as I can. I don't think I'll do cosmetic surgery because I'm a wimp. -- Mariella Frostrup
Dying is a matter of slapstick and pratfalls. The ageing process is not gradual or gentle. It rushes up, pushes you over and runs off laughing. No one should grow old who isn't ready to appear ridiculous. -- John Mortimer
In modelling or football, being 30 is very bad. But, for an actress, ageing is like wine. You taste better and better because your body, your mind, your feelings, all this is a tool and it's getting sharper with time. -- Ludivine Sagnier
You may have learned from your mother or any other hunted woman. Smiling at devils is a useful learned thing. Swallowing discomfort down in spades. Holding it tight in your belly. Ageing on the inside only. Keeping it forever sexy. -- Yrsa Daley-Ward
Ageing is very rare. We only see it in humans and laboratory animals and in zoo animals and in our pets. Basically, organisms that are protected from the external world. Once you create that protection, you live long enough to see ageing. -- S. Jay Olshansky
Theres no such thing as ageing gracefully. I dont meet people who want to get Alzheimers disease, or who want to get cancer or arthritis or any of the other things that afflict the elderly. Ageing is bad for you, and we better just actually accept that. -- Aubrey de Grey
There's no such thing as ageing gracefully. I don't meet people who want to get Alzheimer's disease, or who want to get cancer or arthritis or any of the other things that afflict the elderly. Ageing is bad for you, and we better just actually accept that. -- Aubrey de Grey
The lack of manpower and infrastructural capacity in our Intermediate and Long-term Care sectors are problems that have been with us for the past 10 years. The demand for rehabilitation services will only increase with a rapidly ageing population. I hope the Ministry will share its roadmap to meet the rising demand for rehabilitation services. -- Low Thia Khiang
I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious. -- Glenda Jackson
Will you still need me,will you still feed me..When I'm sixty-four? -- Paul McCartney
Age is not different from earlier life as long as you're sitting down. -- Malcolm Cowley
At my age getting a second doctor's opinion is kinda like switching slot machines -- Jimmy Carter
French culture takes ageing very seriously. There's much less ageism than in Anglo-Saxon countries. -- Kristin Scott Thomas
If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it. -- Bette Davis
I think there are two aspects to ageing: there's the physical side and what's happening inside. -- Rachel Weisz
The great comfort of turning 49 is the realization that you are now too old to die young. -- Paul Dickson
The strongest initiative that government can take to ensure Australia is prepared for population ageing, is to maintain a strong economy, and a secure nation. -- Julie Bishop
Tomorrow I shall be sixty nine, but I do not seem to care. I did not start the affair, and I have not been consulted about it at any step. -- William Dean Howells
I know I'm supposed to say ageing doesn't bother me, then suddenly you're like, 'Yeah, I care about it, I really worry about it. I'm getting old. I'm old!' -- Tracey Emin
Incidentally, one of the most worrying problems in the impact of Western modernity on traditional culture is that it quite rapidly communicates its own indifference or anxiety or even hostility about age and ageing. -- Rowan Williams
I really believe less is more. When you get older, too much makeup can be ageing, and when you're young, you should enjoy the fact your skin is free from lines and wrinkles rather than overloading it with products. -- Louise Nurding
Feeling I'd scarcely arrived at a style, I now find I'm near the end of it. I'm not quite sure what Late Style means except that it's some sort of licence, a permit for ageing practitioners to kick their heels up. -- Alan Bennett
If I had had plastic surgery, I would have asked for something better than the face you are seeing! I actually really hate plastic surgery when it's just for aesthetics and anti-ageing. I think ageing is beautiful and expressive and characterful. -- Miranda Hart
For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does not see that old age in this universal man ought not to be sought in the times nearest his birth, but in those most remote from it? -- Blaise Pascal
There's nothing wrong with making the best of one's declining years, but what does annoy me is the fatalism. Now that we're seriously in range of finding therapies that actually work against ageing, this apathy, of course, becomes an enormous part of the problem. -- Aubrey de Grey
Issues relating to global health and sustainability must stay high on the agenda if we are to cope with an ageing and ever-increasing population, with growing pressure on resources, and with rising global temperatures. The risks and dangers need to be assessed and then confronted. -- Martin Rees
The field of ageing research is full of characters. We have hucksters claiming that cures for ageing can be bought and sold; prophetic seers, their hands extended for money, warning that immortality is nigh; and would-be Nobelists working methodically in laboratories in search of a pill to slow ageing. -- S. Jay Olshansky
I do believe that we baby-boomers are reinventing ageing as we enter it. We're living longer and expecting more from life; the success of 'The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel,' and other films and novels about finding love late in life, have shown that if we're up for it, there are adventures awaiting us. -- Deborah Moggach
Oh, I had, 'No one will ever fancy me!' I had that well into my teens. Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. I don't mind the way I'm ageing. No reason to panic just yet. I think I look my age, and that's fine. -- Kate Winslet
Science is, rightly, searching for drugs to arrest ageing or to slow the advance of dementia. But the evidence suggests that many of the most powerful factors determining how you age come from what you do, and what you do with others: whether you work, whether you play music, whether you have regular visitors. -- Geoff Mulgan
Women are not forgiven for ageing -- Jane Fonda
I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy. -- Laura Linney
I admire artists who are ageing and still retaining their edge. -- Paul McGann
The idea that ageing was subject to control was completely unexpected. -- Cynthia Kenyon
For all mortals, birth is suffering, ageing is suffering, sickness is suffering. -- Gautama Buddha
I have a fantastic method for anti-ageing. It's eating. Plumps out your skin beautifully. -- Miranda Hart
As I am ageing, naturally, how I want my videogames to be played must be changing. -- Shigeru Miyamoto
I think ageing suits me because I was born old, like Spencer Tracy or Dolly the Sheep. -- Jeremy Hardy
In an ageing society, it makes sense to support older adults to develop new skills, prolonging their working lives. -- David Blunkett
One characteristic aspect of ageing is the increased susceptibility to disease, particularly age-related diseases such as cardiovascular diseases and cancer. -- Elizabeth Blackburn
Clever, witty and absorbing, Amortality is a much-needed anatomy of our profound malaise about ageing. Its charms will never fade. -- David Baddiel
Most people look at ageing as a disease. They do. They have prescriptions and places where you go to eradicate it. -- Kim Cattrall
The debate around the ageing population should, in my view, focus much more on how we grow the active, working population. -- Nicola Sturgeon
After all the many changes in my life, Olay Total Effects has helped me fight not just 1 but 7 signs of skin ageing. -- Kris Aquino
Surely being a Professional Beauty - let alone an ageing one - is one of the most insecure and doomed careers imaginable. -- Julie Burchill
What is the noble truth of suffering? Birth is suffering, ageing is suffering and sorrow and lamentation, pain, grief and despair are suffering. -- Gautama Buddha
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. -- Vera Farmiga
So many interests compete for our young people, from drug baronsto sex traffickers who are constantly looking for ways to revive their ageing workforce -- Oche Otorkpa
Probably the most important reason we are seeing more cancers than before is because the population is ageing overall. And cancer is an age-related disease. -- Siddhartha Mukherjee
All of my friends are my age and we are all ageing at the same time. We talk about it and moan, but it doesn't bother me. -- Claudia Schiffer
When the Australian Government looked at how to meet the challenges, and the opportunities, presented by our ageing population, it saw that an all-encompassing approach was a prerequisite. -- Julie Bishop
I have the face of an ageing choirboy and the build of an undernourished featherweight. If you can figure out my success on the screen you're a better man than I. -- Alan Ladd
I've become totally hooked on Cellex-C. It's an anti-ageing serum and is fantastic. I use it morning and evening and even on my hands, where it has faded those dark spots. -- Joan Collins
Of course, the young male demographic has always been the target demographic for 'Star Trek,' the men ageing fifteen to about twenty-five or thirty, a very tough market to appeal to. -- Kate Mulgrew
I first became an Alan Moore fan in Covent Garden on a Saturday afternoon in 1987, when I bought a copy of 'Watchmen,' his graphic novel about ageing superheroes and nuclear apocalypse. -- Susanna Clarke
I'm not very keen on ageing. I'm not keen on the physical decay. I probably am quite vain. I think you want to try and look OK for the benefit of other people. -- Jarvis Cocker
There's a rising cancer trend and, as I said, one of the major contributors is the overall ageing of the population - we aren't dying of other things, so we're dying of cancer. -- Siddhartha Mukherjee
The German Emperor is ageing me; he is like a battleship with steam up and screws going, but with no rudder, and he will run into something some day and cause a catastrophe. -- Edward Grey
Basically, the body does have a vast amount of inbuilt anti-ageing machinery; it's just not 100% comprehensive, so it allows a small number of different types of molecular and cellular damage to happen and accumulate. -- Aubrey de Grey
I had always been led to believe that ageing was a slow and gradual process, the creep of a glacier. Now I realise that it happens in a rush, like snow falling off a roof. -- David Nicholls
We know that so many of the conditions and diseases that we associate with ageing can often be prevented or in fact their onset delayed if we just took preventative steps earlier in our lives. -- Julie Bishop
There are many issues in the global economy in general and in the western economy as well: population ageing, drop in labour productivity growth rates. This is obvious. The overall demographic situation is very complicated. -- Vladimir Putin

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