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Even older than the one you saw.
And, of course, the thing that shows up last and eventually is the schools, because the people have to move in, the young pioneers have to move in, get older, have kids and fight, and then the schools get pretty good eventually.
At that point I realized that actually Hala was probably much older than 13.
But, sorry, by the time they're older, odds are they will be sexting.
Only three out of a hundred films featured an underrepresented female driving the story, and only one diverse woman that was 45 years of age or older at the time of theatrical release.
Turns out, the female directors are associated with, in terms of short films and indie films, more girls and women on-screen, more stories with women in the center, more stories with women 40 years of age or older on-screen, which I think is good news for this crowd.
We would spend hours and hours playing tag with his older sister, Alexia, and when we said: "I caught you!" he would look around for us, and at that moment, I could feel he was alive.
2:00: Assistance The hero needs some help, probably from someone older, wiser.
It's what allows elephants who survived a drought in their youth to recognize its warning signs in adulthood, which is why clans with older matriarchs have higher survival rates.
Chris Anderson: Do you have a hunch or a hope for what the answer to that is? Murray Gell-Mann: Well, I would guess that modern language must be older than the cave paintings and cave engravings and cave sculptures and dance steps in the soft clay in the caves in Western Europe, in the Aurignacian Period some 35,000 years ago, or earlier.
GK: And now baby sister has surpassed older sister.
I grew up when I got older, and I had to work really hard, and I think one of the reasons why I fight so hard and I work so hard is because I was really, really, really small.
How many people here are 40 years old or older?
We can't do anything about getting older or the genes we've inherited.
When my older brother and I graduated from high school at the very same time and he later dropped out of a two-year college, I wanted to understand why he dropped out and I kept studying.
That's when my older brother's trajectory began to make complete sense to me.
I've thought a lot about what I'm going to say to her when she's older.
But then, you get a little older and you're too old to read fairy tales.
But she did have an outlet, and it wasn't her parents, who she adored, who just didn't quite understand her yet, or her three older brothers, who were too busy with hair gel and light sabers to pay any attention to her.
When my older brother was in fourth grade, he had a term paper on birds due the next day, and he hadn't started.
When you're a little bit older, like my tiny personal self, you realize that death is as sacred as birth.
The family escaped to Pakistan, and the two older boys, age eight and 10 at the time, wove rugs for 10 hours a day to provide for their family.
There was this amazing, amazing, fantastic, beautiful, smart woman, four years older than me, and I wanted to go out with her.
We then went back and did forensics and did a fulsome investigation and found that two other, much older, different heights, different hairstyle, two other people committed the crime, not these two boys.
And then I learned that only four percent of older Americans are living in nursing homes, and the percentage is dropping.
So I started feeling a lot better about getting older, and I started obsessing about why so few people know these things.
It's embarrassing to be called out as older until we quit being embarrassed about it, and it's not healthy to go through life dreading our futures.
Older people can be the most ageist of all, because we've had a lifetime to internalize these messages and we've never thought to challenge them.
We are all worried about some aspect of getting older, whether running out of money, getting sick, ending up alone, and those fears are legitimate and real.
And it is not the passage of time that makes getting older so much harder than it has to be.
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