Anthony Fantano Quotes

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

Once you get older, you get a little closer to yourself, intimate.

The woman over 50 must be very frank with herself.

When Tupac came out, my writing changed for sure. I learned from it. It was a cultural thing.

Any attempts at autobiography before the age of eighty seem pretty self-involved to me. There are a lot of smart middle aged people but not many wise ones.

In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel; and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which they uttered long ago.

I'm older, and I wish that a lot of things that I did in my life, I didn't do, but I'm able to talk about it.

I'm trying to grow older with wisdom.

The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.

I'm older and older. With any experience you have, you know more about yourself.

Well, I'm in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.

Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.

But I'm not an idiot. At the end of the day, I've learned a lot.

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Like everybody, my views on many issues have changed as I have gotten older.

In your 20s you can be pretty, but you don't accomplish real beauty until you find wisdom and depth.

When I turned 45, I lay in bed reflecting on all life had taught me. My soul sprang a leak and ideas flowed out. My pen simply caught them and set the words on paper. I typed them up and turned them into a newspaper column of the 45 lessons life taught me. When I hit 50, I added five more lessons and the paper ran the column again.

I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other genres.

I want to write about grown-up things.

I feel more grounded and more settled than I ever have. I don't know whether that is to do with my spirituality or whether I'm wiser about life, but as you age you become more selective about what you listen to, devote your time to and who you hang out with.

When you're older and wiser a lot of the ego has gone out of the window.

I realized through my personal travels how little I know about certain conflicts, because I was too vain or self-absorbed to ask the questions. That's been the focus while I'm in my thirties - to become an accomplished woman, rather than some actress.

The older one gets the more one comes to resemble oneself.