Arnold Ross Quotes
The young man taught all he knew and more; The middle-aged man taught all he knew; The old man taught all that his students could understand.
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In some Old Testament books, it's very evident that an editor has been at work. That's quite all right. It's part of the process.
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Among the lesser effects of quantum theory are gaping holes in old ideas about causality.
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My perspective was always being on a number one show doesn't mean anything if I'm not still working consistently at 40 to 50 and 60 years old.
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That's all gone, now, the old, Hollywood.
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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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My go-to jeans are old Levi's I've gotten from boyfriends; they're worn-in and really yummy and perfect.
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Go West, young man.
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I still have my old Nintendo 64 that works. And I hook it up, and I still play the original 'Goldeneye.' I'm that geek. I have an 'NBA Jam' arcade machine in my office at 'SNL.'
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I wrote my first novel when my daughter was about six months old.
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I watched a lot of old movies. Clint Eastwood movies, a lot of John Wayne films, a lot of movies that celebrated the region of where I lived.
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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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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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My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in – like her expectation that I'd be a missionary nurse in a religious order.
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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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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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Rarely has a new player on the world stage captured so much attention so quickly - young and old, faithful and cynical - as has Pope Francis.
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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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I was never good at painting. The great turning point came when I had a block of wood and I carved a shape into the wood and put a small piece of timber into that space - like a negative - and so it made an endless column, only inward.
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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Going back to Hemingway's work after several years is like going back to a brook where you had often fished and finding the woods as deep and cool as they used to be.
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The young man taught all he knew and more; The middle-aged man taught all he knew; The old man taught all that his students could understand.
