Walter Scott Quotes
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I think the show does better with newsmakers and politicians than it does with actors.
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When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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The truth is everybody does it from time to time. People dial telephone numbers and they get a wrong number only to find that they've read the last two digits backwards. Everybody does it, but dyslexics have this tendency to a higher degree.
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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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Instead of waiting until the holiday season - when mail solicitations flood in from worthy organizations - and making a flurry of gifts because this is the time of year to give, sit down and take stock. Identify your passion, learn about it, and direct your time, mind, and dollars to aligned causes and organizations.
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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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I love edgy comedy. 'Coming to America' still gets me and 'Friday.' I watch old Richard Pryor stand-up on VHS, too.
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For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.
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It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.
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I was eight years old when I knew I wanted to be an actress. I slowly started by getting into commercials, and then I was an extra on a TV show. And then the movies happened.
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The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.
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I actually don't shop very much. I have a tendency to rotate a few pairs of ripped jeans and an old cashmere sweater.
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When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.
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I don't have my novel outlined, and I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to say it over again.
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Elvis was just like a big old kid. It was like he never got past 19, I don't think, in a lotta ways.
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Paint goes a long way in making old look like new.
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My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.
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All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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A lot has changed in India in the last decade. We can attribute the growth of India's startup ecosystem to the increased penetration of affordable smartphones and data connectivity across the country. Technology is no longer a luxury. People across generation and geographies are making use of mobile technologies. Startups have capitalised on this phenomenon.
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As old as the hills.
