Jeanne Calment quotes
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“Always keep your smile. That's how I explain my long life.”
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“I see badly, I hear badly, and I feel bad, but everything's fine.”
-- Jeanne CalmentSource : "In France, A Citizen Turns 120" by Craig R. Whitney, www.nytimes.com. February 22, 1995.
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“I have legs of iron, but to tell you the truth, they're starting to rust and buckle a bit.”
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“I think I will die laughing.”
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“I took pleasure when I could. I acted clearly and morally and without regret. I'm very lucky.”
-- Jeanne CalmentSource : "Your very good 'ealth", www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2001.
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“I wait for death and journalists.”
-- Jeanne CalmentSource : "Genes, Aging and Immortality". Book by Charlotte A. Spencer (p. 6), 2005.
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“I'd like to go to the Moon.”
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“I'm interested in everthing but passionate about nothing.”
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“I'm not afraid of anything.”
-- Jeanne CalmentSource : "Jeanne Calment: From Van Gogh's Time to Ours : 122 Extraordinary Years". p. 67. Book by Michel Allard, Jean-Marie Robine, Victor Lebre, 1998.
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“There are so many good authors; there's no shortage of them.”
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“Excuse me if I'm clinging on to life, but my parents wove me from tight thread.”
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“I had to wait 110 years to become famous. I wanted to enjoy it as long as possible.”
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“Not having children is one less worry. Children are a worry!”
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“In life, people sometimes make rotten deals.”
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“Death doesn't frighten me; now I can think peacefully of ending a long life.”
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“If you can’t do anything about it, don’t worry about it.”
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“I only have one wrinkle and I'm sitting on it.”
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“Every age has its happiness and troubles.”
-- Jeanne CalmentSource : "Jeanne Calment: From Van Gogh's Time to Ours, 122 Extraordinary Years". Book by Michel Allard, Victor Lebre, Jean-Marie Robine and Jeanne Calment (p. 48), 1998.
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“I never wear mascara; I laugh until I cry too often.”
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