What scares you about getting older?

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I don’t want to get into an early death spiral, when you’re scaling down your life unnecessarily because you’ve already been there or done that. I never want to stop adventuring.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 August 2025 source ↗

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Mario Molina Atmospheric chemist; Nobel laureate in Chemistry, 1995
Certainly not. As a young child, I remember just dreaming about the Nobel Prize, but that was just a dream. It’s not something I would have ever thought was possible for me.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interviewer, Academy of Achievement interview, 1996, 1996 source ↗

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