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“At 10,000 feet, the 3 parachutes would come out, a little lower the pressure of the atmosphere outside was greater than inside, and we could smell the salt air and it was very encouraging to return to earth.”

Littles Earth Greater Air Feet Return Pressure Smell Atmosphere Salt Parachutes

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“At 100, I have a mind that is superior - thanks to experience - than when I was 20.”

Mind Superiors Thanks

Author:Rita Levi-Montalcini

“At 11.25 a.m. on 16 July 2016, Adil Nizami, a twenty-five-year-old rookie reporter from Multan, broke the biggest story of his career. ‘Famous model Qandeel Baloch has been killed,’ he blurted out in a live call that interrupted 24 News’ regular morning bulletin.”

Pakistan Qandeel Baloch

Author:Sanam Maher

Source: The Sensational Life and Death of Qandeel Baloch

“At 11 years old I made a very definitive decision. And my decision was that I wanted to be happy.”

Years Made Wanted Decision

Author:Goldie Hawn

“At 11, 12 I thought I was clumsy, ugly, a mess, an unappealing person, but I did have the gift of the gab. I had the school record at Haberdashers for consecutive detentions for simply speaking out of turn.”

Persons School Turns Records Ugly Mess Clumsy Speaking Out Detention Consecutive

Author:Simon Schama

“At 11, I could say ‘I am sodium’ (Element 11), and now at 79, I am gold.”

Elements Gold Sodium

Author:Oliver Sacks

“At 11, I got my first job in a mini-series for America, and it was very exciting.”

Firsts Jobs America Exciting Series

Author:Tamsin Egerton

“At 12 I dropped out of school but I had lost interest in it at a much earlier age. For me, school was very very stressful.”

Age School Lost Interest Stressful

Author:Ahmet Zappa

“At 12 years old in the dangerous world that I was in, with a very difficult home life, I found the stage was the safest place to be. It was predetermined and predictable - and furthermore you got to be someone else. All the problems only began when you left the building.”

World Years Problem Home Found Left Difficult Stage Dangerous Building Predictable Predetermined Home Life Dangerous World

Author:Patrick Stewart

“At 12, I knew that the point of being human was to spend one's life fighting social injustice.”

Humans Fighting Social Justice Injustice Being Human Social Injustice

Author:Richard Rorty

Source: Philosophy and Social Hope

“At 13 I was someone that didn't have a personality yet. It's a fascinating period in a human life. It's so exciting because you are in between childhood and adulthood.”

Humans Childhood Personality Periods Exciting Human Life Fascinating Adulthood

Author:Pirjo Honkasalo

“At 13 years old, I realized I could start my own band. I could write my own song, I could record my own record. I could start my own label. I could release my own record. I could book my own shows. I could write and publish my own fanzine. I could silk-screen my own T-shirt. I could do this all myself.”

Writing Years Book Shows Song My Own Records Band Screens I Realized Release Labels Shirts T Shirt Publish Silk

Author:Dave Grohl

“At 13 you're not even thinking about that, you know? I was just playing for fun and uploading videos on YouTube because I wanted to show my family.”

Thinking Knows Shows Wanted Fun My Family Video Youtube

Author:Justin Bieber

“At 13, I realized that I could fix anything electronic. It was amazing, I could just do it. I started a business repairing radios. It grew to be one of the largest in Philadelphia.”

Grew Radio I Realized Just Do It Philadelphia Repairing

Author:Amar Bose

“At 13, I was a big, totally uncoordinated, hopeless football player. I responded to somebody elses rules, and I stayed just good enough to get a scholarship to Columbia, which was looking for scholar-athletes.”

Enough Bigs Player Football Athlete Hopeless Good Enough Scholar Scholarship Football Player Columbia

Author:Brian Dennehy

“At 13, I was fearless. I looked at everything so positive. When you're older and been through it all, you know how bad it can get. There is a fear of failing.”

Knows Know How Failing Fearless Fear Of Failing

Author:Michelle Kwan

“At 13, when I was a runaway, I was taken in by the most amazing drag queens in Portland, Ore. We didn't always know where our next meal was coming from, but there was so much camaraderie and love. Not to mention, those girls could paint a face, and I learned how because of them.”

Knows Faces Girl Next Taken And Love Paint Queens Meals Drag Most Amazing Camaraderie Runaway Portland Drag Queen

Author:Rose McGowan

“At 14 I discovered girls. At that time dancing was the only way you could put your arm around the girl. Dancing was courtship. Only later did I discover that you dance joy. You dance love. You dance dreams.”

Way Dream Joy Girl Love You Arms Dancing Courtship Dance Love

Author:Gene Kelly

“At 14 you are still in most respects a dependent youth, in some respects a child. At 24 you are an adult. In between, extraordinary turbulences take place.”

Children Stills Youth Adults Extraordinary Dependent Turbulence

Author:Daniel Patrick Moynihan

“At 15 [my father] revolted against his father like any teenager, and said, "I'm out of here! What are you doing to me?" He thought he wouldn't be involved in that kind of stuff for the rest of his life. He just wanted to make money. He was one of those people who took over the family responsibility. His own father was pretty irresponsible with money and borrowed from people all the time.”

People Kind Said Wanted Father Stuff Responsibility Involved Making Money Teenager Irresponsible Borrowed Family Responsibility

Author:Paul Laffoley

“At 15 I auditioned for 42nd Street in Australia. Dein Perry was in that show. I actually got the job but I couldn't do it because I was only 15. Legally I needed to have another 15-year-old to cover consecutive nights.”

Years Shows Jobs Night Streets Needed Australia Consecutive 42nd Street

Author:Adam Garcia

“At 15 I had moved out of my parents' place, and my options were looking pretty narrow. But I had this acting thing and I just wanted to be able to keep going because it was really good. That was all I wanted.”

Able Wanted Parent Acting Moved Keep Going Looking Pretty

Author:Ben Mendelsohn

“At 15 I set my heart on learning; At 30 I firmly took my stand; At 40 I had no delusions; At 50 I knew the Mandate of Heaven; At 60 my ear was attuned; At 70 I followed my heart's desire without overstepping the boundaries of right.”

Heart Desire Heaven My Heart Ears Boundaries Delusion Mandates Overstepping

Author:Confucius

“At 15, 16, you think you're going to be captain of England. But I realised it wasn't going to happen for me on a windy November night in Darlington, coming to my peak at the age of 23 but still playing for Mansfield Town.”

Thinking Stills Happens Age Night Player Football England Towns Soccer Captains Realised November Windy

Author:Aidy Boothroyd

“At 15, I had to choose a vocational school, and I was delighted, of course, to go to culinary school. But learning the basics was not as exciting as being the chef I am today.”

Today School Courses Exciting Culinary Chef Delighted Basics Culinary School

Author:Eric Ripert

“At 15, I knew someone whose mother cooked macrobiotic, so I persuaded my mother to go macrobiotic with me.”

Mother

Author:Tori Amos

“At 15, you have to decide if you're going to go into professional dancing and really pursue it. I just a) knew that I couldn't stop acting, and b) I had that sort of foresight to understand that when I was 35 - if I was lucky and if I hadn't gotten injured - my career would be on its way to ending. Now, at 34, I really understand that. But at 15, I understood that as well. I was like, "I can't. That's just too risky.".”

Acting Lucky Dancing Foresight

Author:Elisabeth Moss

“At 16, 17, you have no fear. You don't think or analyze. You just play on automatic. You can get smarter as you get older, but in sports you can be too smart, you know?”

Thinking Knows Play Sports Smart Smarter No Fear Have No Fear

Author:Anna Kournikova

“At 16, I decided to do something brave: I went on a prehistoric dig. In fact, I've had my name in a museum since I was 18 years old, not for my painting but for the prehistoric objects I found. That's how I started thinking about art.”

Thinking Years Art Facts Found Names Objects Painting Decided Brave Museums Prehistoric

Author:Pierre Soulages

“At 16, I dropped out of school and spent five years working as a bicycle mechanic and volunteering in a Trauma Centre before ultimately deciding to go to university.”

Years School Five University Trauma Five Years Volunteer Centre Mechanic Bicycle

Author:Philipp Meyer

“At 16, I got a part-time job selling double-glazing door to door. That was soul destroying but the worst part-time job I did was at university working on reception in a sexually transmitted disease clinic. Because no one else wanted to do it, they paid £8 an hour.”

Soul Wanted Jobs Hours Doors Worst Disease Paid University Selling Destroying Sexually Reception Clinic Part Time Part Time Jobs Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Author:Kate Thornton

“At 17, all I wanted was to be a famous junky. Like all my heroes.”

Wanted Hero My Hero

Author:Jerry Stahl

“At 17, I dreamed of seeing the world. At 19, I had been around the world and back.”

World Seeing Around The World Seeing The World

Author:Tony Curtis

“At 17, I signed a recording contract right out of high school, so I started touring and traveling the world. I sort of missed out on the college experience.”

World School College High School Contracts Touring College Experience

Author:Tommy Lee

“At 17, the first time I saw a dead body, I froze. By 31 it was a natural occurrence for me, and no group of people should live like that.”

People Should Firsts Body Natural Saws Groups First Time

Author:Leymah Gbowee

“At 17, the smallest crises took on tremendous proportions; someone else's thoughts could take root in the loam of your own mind; having someone accept you was as vital as oxygen. Adults, light years away from this, rolled their eyes and smirked and said, 'This too shall pass' - as if adolescence was a disease like chicken pox, something everyone recalled as a milk nuisance, completely forgetting how painful it had been at the time.”

Ifs Years Mind Said Light Eye Forget Accepting Disease Adults Roots Crisis Painful Proportion Chickens Milk Smallest Adolescence Oxygen Nuisance Light Years Pox This Too Shall Pass

Author:Jodi Picoult

“At 17, we all think we know what we're doing.”

Thinking Knows

Author:Jessica Brown Findlay

“At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery.”

Firsts Shows Age New York Painting Gallery

Author:Andrew Wyeth

“At 18 I was attracted to bad boys.”

Boys Bad Boy

Author:Carmen Electra

“At 18, I felt I was too young to think about having my eggs frozen.”

Thinking Young Felt Eggs Frozen

Author:Delta Goodrem

“At 18, I guarded the parking lot at the Catholic Church bingos. Now my dad made sure I could take care of myself. I carried a Smith and Wesson 357 Magnum .”

Made Care Church Dad Catholic My Dad Take Care Catholic Church Parking Guarded Parking Lot Bingo

Author:Susana Martinez

“At 18, if someone had said to me, "I think you should go to rehab and get cleaned up," I would have thought, "You're fucking mad."”

Ifs Thinking Should Said Mad Rehab

Author:Ozzy Osbourne

“At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly.”

Looks Tomorrow Birthday Friendly Milestone Birthday 20th Birthday

Author:Jim Bishop

“At 19, I basically held the position that if you were intellectually honest and really wanted to get in touch with political reality then you had to smell tear-gas.”

Ifs Reality Wanted Political Honest Position Tears Smell Gas

Author:Thomas Metzinger

“At 19, I was still figuring out how to throw a fastball.”

Stills Fastballs

Author:Gio Gonzalez

“At 19, if a woman said no, no meant no. If she didn't say anything and she was open, and she was down, it was like how far can I go? If I touch her breast and she's down for me to touch her breast, cool. If I touch her lower, and she's down and she's not stopping me, cool. I'm going to kiss her or whatever. It was simply if a woman said no or pushed you away that was non-consent.”

Ifs Said Kissing Down And Breasts Consent Say Anything Stopping

Author:Nate Parker

“At 19, you know everything; by the time you're 40, you haven't got a clue.”

Knows Havens Clue

Author:Hugh Bonneville

“At 19, your brain hasn't finished wiring itself. So the first time you have a good friend die, most people don't go through that at 19. Soldiers do. They're facing life in this accelerated, compressed form, and a lot of times, they're not ready for it.”

People Firsts Form Dies Brain Ready First Time Soldier Finished Good Friend Not Ready Wiring Facing Life

Author:Sebastian Junger

“At 1970 rates of production, Canada's reserves represent 923 years supply for oil and 392 years for gas”

Years Rate Productions Oil Canada Gas Reserves Oil Industry

Author:Joe Greene

“At 2:00 sharp on the afternoon of his internment, with his body resting in a casket in the front room of his home, the pallbearers--all bridge players--stuck a deck of cards in Mr. Hampton's cold hands, shut the lid over his head, and played bridge.”

Humor Bridge Southern Fiction Southern Lit Southern Literature Southern Humor Bridge Playing Card Playing

Author:Brenda Sutton Rose

Source: Dogwood Blues

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