#young man

As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn't understand, but Yeats I could. It was his subject matter and also I really admired the way he put his personal life on the line. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

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I believe you have a responsibility to comport yourself in a manner that gives an example to others. As a young man, I prayed for success. Now I pray just to be worthy of it. ↗

— Brendan Fraser

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It well becomes a young man to be modest. ↗

— Plautus

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I love writing about my job because I loved it, and it was a particularly interesting one when I was a young man. It was like holidays with pay to me. ↗

— James Herriot

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I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor am I of any caste. ↗

— Guru Nanak

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I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. ↗

— Billie Joe Armstrong

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Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

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As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through. ↗

— Otto Dix

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It's interesting, winning an Academy Award as a young man... life-changing, but I'm just me within that. It's been very helpful for my career, but I'm trying to stay on the path I was on before. ↗

— Adrien Brody

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Joining the Liberal Party was a no-brainer for me... And when you are a young man, you don't get a calculator out saying, 'Am I going to get to power?' You get propelled forward by idealism. ↗

— Nick Clegg

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