Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
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When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.
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If I can't drive my old pickup to wherever I'm going, well, chances are good that I just won't go.
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Rushing to war is not a wise course of action.
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Being 16 years old and getting an electric guitar is never going to get old. There's always going to be kids making music. There's always going to be kids in bands.
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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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I grew up with all these old jazz guys in the '70s in L.A., and they grew up idolizing Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, Lester Young - all of these incredible musicians.
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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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When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.
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A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
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I've been auditioning since I was 7 years old.
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I saw things at an early age because my mom was a theater actress. I did a play with her when I was 10 years old.
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Dementia is such a terrifying thing for all of us, and we are particularly bad at coping with old people in this country.
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When I was little, I wasn't so little. I had a big old round belly and I was really clumsy, but I was super confident.
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It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.
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The early Church had nothing but the Old Testament. The New Testament lies hidden in the Old; the Old Testament lies open in the New.
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I'm just going to have to grow old, because I'm too terrified to have anything done.
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What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
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The man or woman at home who prays often has as much to do with the effectiveness of the missionary on the field, and consequently with the results of his or her labors, as the missionary.
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If you ask any police officer what the worst part of the job is, they will always say breaking bad news to relatives, but this is not the truth. The worst part is staying in the room after you've broken the news, so that you're forced to be there when someone's life disintegrates around them. Some people say it doesn't bother them - such people are not to be trusted.
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For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form of lived experience.
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How is it possible for someone who believes that the world was created in six days to have a rational conversation with me, who doesnt believe that, about other possibilities?
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The Navy is very old and very wise.
