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“One of the more popular activities was “Talk-O-Matic”. Five people at a time could write messages, and read each other's messages, on the same screen. Today, Internet chat rooms work on the same principle. One of the remarkable new features of this page was that you could log in with an invented name, and pretend you were anyone you wanted - any name, any age, any gender. One favorite trick was to log in using the name of someone else already logged into the page, simply to confuse everyone else.”

People Writing Age Today Wanted Names Rooms Principles Five Internet Activity Messages Pages Gender Screens Tricks Features Remarkable

Author:Guy Consolmagno

“Ask any school-boy up to the age of fifteen where he would spend his holidays. Not one in five hundred will say, "In the streets of London," if you give him the option of green fields and running waters. It is, then, a fair presumption that there must be something of the child still in the character of the men or the women whom the country charms in maturer as in dawning life.”

“Conquest, tyranny, treachery, and the clash of cultures bring about corrupt societies, and so does old age. Sometimes the five faces of corruption are visible at the same time.”

Doe Sometimes Age Faces Culture Five Corruption Tyranny Old Age Visible Conquest Clash Treachery Corrupt Society

Book:The Corrupt Society: From Ancient Greece to Present-Day America

Source: The Corrupt Society: From Ancient Greece to Present-Day America

“No one seriously disputes that today a woman in Afghanistan is less likely to die giving birth to a child, that the child is more likely to reach the age of five years old, and having reached the age of five that child is far more likely to have a chance to go to school.”

Giving Years Children Age Today School Dies Chance Five Birth Five Years Afghanistan Disputes Giving Birth Five Year Olds

Author:Graeme Smith

“I am totally convinced that most grown-ups have completely forgotten what is it like to be a child between the ages of five and then... I can remember exactly what it was like. I am certain I can.”

Children I Can Age Remember Certain Five Forgotten Convinced

Author:Roald Dahl

“We live in a world, it's very hard for Americans to understand that every 20 seconds a kid dies, a kid under the age of five, right, dies somewhere on the Earth because of lack of access to clean water and sanitation. Every 20 seconds that happens on our planet. It's just very hard for us to relate to.”

World Hard Happens Kids Age Earth Dies Water Five Planets Clean Access Relate Seconds Our Planet Clean Water Sanitation

Author:Matt Damon

“I've always loved music. I wasn't one of those "composing since I was five" kids, but I was definitely involved with music since I was that age - singing in musicals and taking lessons. Lots of lessons! Singing, dancing, acting, drums set. My mom pretty much had a full-time job carting me all over town six days a week.”

Kids Age Jobs Acting Five Week Mom Involved Lessons Six Singing Towns Dancing My Mom Composing Full Time Jobs Singing Dancing

Author:Jason Graves

“I started playing drums at a pretty early age because my parents were musicians. My dad was an amazing multi-instrumentalist and I can play a lot of instruments, but my dad actually played all the instruments I could play and then added another twenty five or thirty five different categories on there ...he was incredible! He got an act actually in Vegas, my parents Bobby and Phyllis Sherwood.”

I Can Different Play Age Parent Five Dad Musician Twenties Instruments Incredibles My Dad Thirty Categories Vegas Twenty Five Playing Drums Instrumentalists

Author:Billy Sherwood

“I became really creative around the time I started understanding that people could be creative with music and that that was allowed. I stated taking piano lessons at age five, but I never did what my piano teacher told me to do. I would just do whatever I wanted.”

People Age Wanted Understanding Creative Five Teacher Lessons Piano Be Creative Piano Lesson Piano Teachers

Author:Michael Angelakos

“I grew up extremely fast. I was racing at the age of five. I was racing on a semi-national level by the time I was 16. It makes you grow up fast.”

Age Grows Levels Growing Up Five Grew Grew Up Racing

Author:Justin Allgaier

“I had literary interests my whole life. I decided at the age of five I was going to be a writer. So I had done a great deal of reading. I suppose I was more at home in Greenwich Village than, say, any of classmates from Warsaw High School. But in any case, it was an overwhelming experience for me. It took me some time to begin to assimilate it.”

Done Whole Home Age School Reading Interest Deals Cases Five High School Decided Whole Life Village Overwhelming Classmates Greenwich Greenwich Village Warsaw

Author:Tom Robbins

“I like the aspect of technology. For me to spin the way I do, I would have to carry five crates of records with me everywhere I go, which in this day and age would be like two hundred extra dollars in baggage fees. All I need now is a hard drive and a computer and I can rock anywhere in the world.”

World Way Needs I Can Two Hard Would Be Age Technology Records Five Rocks Computer Hundred Aspect Dollars Extras This Day Baggage Fees

Author:Neil Armstrong

“My father played in high school. My uncles played. From age five or six, I remember watching all the games. And I remember saying to my mom and dad even then that I was going to play in the NFL, and buy them a house and a car.”

Play Age School Remember Father Games House Five Car Mom Dad Six High School My Mom Nfl Uncles Mom And Dad

Author:Thomas Jones

“At the age of five or six I just used to kick the ball with both feet. I wasn't very good to start with but I practised and practised. Once I finally got it, it was an unbelievable sensation. It was then that I realised that if you work at something, it pays off.”

Ifs Age Used Pay Five Feet Six Balls Very Good Kicks Sensations Unbelievable Realised

Author:Filo Tiatia

“I'm sixty-five and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics, but if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be forty-eight.”

Ifs Years Age Five Months Aging Eight Forty Sixty Fifteen Forty Eight Geriatrics

Author:James Thurber

“I was getting rewarded for writing well, from about the age of five or six. A teacher would say, "Look what Andrew has written," and I thought, "Maybe I could be a writer."”

Writing Wells Looks Age Five Teacher Written Six Andrew Writing Well

Author:Andrew Davies

“When I was thirteen, I had a nervous breakdown, and I was put into this grown-up mental hospital with all these 50-, 60-year-old men and women. This big, Victorian mental house. There were like five boys in there, all my age, looked after by this woman who was 22 or 23. And it was like "Empire of the Sun" meets "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"-type of arrangement where you've got this young boy overcoming and becoming heroic in the face of this awful place.”

“What's the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that's at a normal job - and I ain't there yet.”

Stills Bigs Age Jobs Deals Five Normal Retirement Sixty Big Deal Retirement Age

Author:Keith Richards

“When people watch me on TV they see part of my life. I wanted to let them know the real me behind the scenes. The child who was a concert violinist from the age of six. The young woman who took on the challenge to compete in the Miss America pageant. The television journalist for twenty-five years. The mother of two who, just like most women, struggles to balance work and family.”

“If you're a parent, the five worst words you can say to your children are, "When I was your age ..." You were never their age. You were older in the womb.”

Ifs Children Age Parent Five Worst Our Children Your Children Womb

Author:Bill Cosby

“The period of a [Persian] boy's education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.”

Use Age Three Speak Boys Five Taught Periods Twenties Bows Three Things Speak The Truth Persian

Author:Herodotus

“There is no doubt that every healthy, normal boy...should own a dog at some time in his life, preferably between the ages of forty-five and fifty.”

Should Age Boys Doubt Five Dog Healthy Normal No Doubt Fifty Forty

Author:Robert Benchley

“If you did not know at age five that the gods are made up beings and the myths made up stories, you are a fool.”

Ifs Knows Made Stories Age Five Fool Myth Made Up Stories

Author:Suetonius

“I have confused ideas of deity, heavily influenced by mind-altering years of reading science fiction, that do not often trouble me, but one thing I know for certain, and have known since the age of five or six, is that I really can't stand the God of Abraham. In fact, I consider him to constitute the pattern to which every true asshole I have ever known in my life has pretty well conformed.”

Knows Years Mind Wells Ideas Facts Age Certain Reading Fiction Known Five Trouble One Thing Six Science Fiction Patterns Confused Deities Abraham Very True

Author:Michael Chabon

“In the present age when communication is so rapid, we should create a different tradition, traditions are created everyday. Five years now is like 100 years before. We are living in a society that has no history. There’s no precedent for this kind of society so we can break the old patterns.”

Should Years Kind Different Age Break Five Communication Tradition Everyday Patterns Five Years Rapids Precedent

Author:Yoko Ono

“I'm appalled at how many people my age, or even five or ten years younger, have no tangible memories of important history that happened when we were growing up.”

People Years Important Age Memories Growing Up Five Growing Happened Ten Tangible

Author:Jello Biafra

“It was in Shizuoka, where my home was. I first attended this school when I was five years old. I also attended a regular elementary school, and I was taking piano lessons with a local teacher. I began to study composition at the Yamaha school. And I continued to study there until the age of 15.”

Years Firsts Home Age School Study Five Teacher Lessons Locals Piano Five Years Composition Five Year Olds Elementary School Piano Lesson Yamaha

Author:Hiromi

“I'm seventy-five now. I also have the peculiar luck of having a sister and brother who are fourteen and sixteen years older than me. Their health is not good. It couldn't be at that age. But their spirits are. Both my brother and my sister are an example to me.”

Years Age Spirit Five Example Brother Luck My Brother Peculiar My Sister Brothers And Sisters Seventies Sixteen Fourteen

Author:Grace Paley

“I became a tabla-player at the the age of five. However, I should have learned singing also. I mean I know about singing, but I have been never practicing it.”

Knows Should Mean Has Beens Age Five Player Singing Should Have

Author:Trilok Gurtu

“The correct assumption is that what individuals have learned by age twenty-one will begin to become obsolete five to ten years later and will have to be replaced-or at least refurbished-by new learning, new skills, new knowledge.”

Years Age Individual Five Ten Skills Twenties Assumption Replaced Obsolete Twenty One New Knowledge Learning New New Skills Learning New Skills

Book:Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Source: Innovation and Entrepreneurship

“As far as I'm concerned playing 'Dress Up' begins at the age of five, and never truly ends.”

Ends Age Five Concerned Dresses Playing Dress Up

Book:Manners

Source: Manners

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