Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes
We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.
Quotes to Explore
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I started composting in 1970 by taking my food scraps out behind where I lived and burying them in a hole next to the railroad tracks - and green things started to grow there!
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Seventy years old! How did that happen? I was part of the generation that wasn't going to die.
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Even though I got a late start, first publishing an essay when I was 50 years old, I've since written eight suspense novels.
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I have been surfing since I was six years old.
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I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it.
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I had absolute freedom to create things on my own and in silence. No rush, the artificial rush by media. Certainly no rush to grow up. We had plenty of boyhood, plenty of girlhood.
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When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.
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These trees and these old people have one thing in common, they're both going in the ground soon!
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For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
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It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.
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I have a lot of vinyl, but I only buy old records on vinyl. Like secondhand. It's too expensive otherwise.
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Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
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I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.
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I have to grow with my audience.
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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
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Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
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I don't listen to my old music of Vanity's unless I have to hear it playing in a mall or something place like that.
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No matter what you do, no matter what your profession is, no matter how old you are, everybody deals with haters,
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Remember, if you want to love your life and live it to the fullest, don't let the sun go down on your anger. If you don't have a solution to the issue, agree to disagree and focus on the importance of the relationship.
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Napoleon's The One Concealer is amazing. Pantene Styling Treatment Foam makes my stupid-crazy hair behave, and I love hair powders such as Aveda Pure Abundance and Batiste Dry Shampoo.
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I've never seen any character I've ever played as a bad guy or a good guy.
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We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.
