Cynthia Kenyon

Generally, older people in their fifties, sixties, and seventies are running most countries and are CEOs of corporations. Which isn't to say there aren't entrepreneurs, but if the young were better in every respect, there'd be no reason for the old. Our life span reflects our particular life strategy.

American Scientist

John Lautner

Inherent in architecture, it involves everything in life so that there is absolutely no end to it. By the time you're seventy or eighty, you're still beginning. So, that's the kind of life I've preferred to being the expert at forty and dead, you know.

American Architect

Justin Bartha

Everyone loves the seventies because that's when movies were character-based, and you saw great characters and you saw very interesting filmmaking. There are interesting movies being made now, but it's harder and harder to make them.

American Actor

Casey Stengel

They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the club going. I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again.

American Baseball Player

Ben Affleck

I'm sure I can make a movie that doesn't feel like a seventies movie! But the truth is, that's my favorite era in American filmmaking. To me, those were the great years.

Rodney Dangerfield

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he knows he can't.

American Comedian

Joe Cocker

People have said I played some pretty amazing gigs in the seventies, but in all honesty, I probably played one good show in three.

English Musician

Helen Hayes

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

American Actress

Woody Allen

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

American Director

Golda Meir

Israeli Leader

Used to express an approximate number, not always exact.

Numerical Range

'Seventy' often highlights a significant age, implying wisdom or a long life.

Emphasis on Age

'Seventy' can refer to a memorable decade in history, like the 1970s.

Historical Context

 you have a system where over seventy percent of those who are in prisons are indeed awaiting trial presence you may think it's not a problem but when I tell you that some of them save ten years or more in those situation you can understand so we need to help them so that they don't be your friend we need

Can we improve prison...

 important for imitation and emulation but why is that important well let's take a look at the next slide so how do you do imitation why is imitation important mirror neurons in imitation emulation now let's look at culture the phenomenon of human culture if you go back in time about seventy five hundred

The neurons that shaped...

 In the seventies, it was punk music that drove the whole generation. In the eighties, it was probably money. But for my generation of people, software is the interface to our imagination and our world. And that means that we need a radically, radically more diverse set of people to build those products,

A delightful way to...

 I was pretty good at the video games. I was not very good at the other part, so I stayed alone with the cosmos. And that's when it happened. An elderly couple came walking down the street. I would say they were in their late seventies, and I would say that they were on a date,

John Hodgman: A brief...

 six hundred seventy billion dollars that's the kind of business the global non-alcoholic ready to drink beverage industry does every year the largest player in that business is the coca-cola company with a massive worldwide

Secret Formula of...

 about the country two things to keep in mind as you study Civil War history we were a young country seventy years old when civil war broke out equally as important of the 27 and a half million

James Robertson: The...

 seventy Celsius, which is hot enough to melt lead. Air pressure on the surface is what it would feel like to be about a mile under the ocean. Because the clouds of sulfuric acid are so

Are There Aliens on...

 He said, "Seventy million rice farmers are having trouble growing rice." That's because their fields are flooded, and these rice farmers are living on less than two dollars a day.

Pamela Ronald: The case...

 even though scientists are baffled they know this thing called dark energy makes up seventy percent of what's out there in the cosmos it's stronger than gravity

The Expanding Universe PIPE...

 these oceans have a hundred and seventy times more living space than all of the world's other environments put together