Dan Mangan Quotes

I used to be so young, how did I get so old?

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• A lot of young chefs today get carried away by trends, by influences, by movements.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Today
  • Young
  • Trends

• The treatment by some towards these young refugees is hideously racist and utterly heartless. What's happening to our country?

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Country
  • Young
  • Heartless

• Seventy years old! How did that happen? I was part of the generation that wasn't going to die.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Die
  • Old
  • Generation

• Among the lesser effects of quantum theory are gaping holes in old ideas about causality.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Ideas
  • Old
  • Quantum

• There are just so many young designers now.

  

  Jack McCollough
  • Young
  • Just
  • Now

• That's all gone, now, the old, Hollywood.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Old
  • Now
  • Hollywood

• When you have a core group of young players as we do, the future looks bright.

  

  Saku Koivu
  • Future
  • Young
  • Group

• These trees and these old people have one thing in common, they're both going in the ground soon!

  

  Bam Margera
  • People
  • Old
  • Trees

• There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.

  

  Barbara Park
  • Young
  • Books
  • Laugh

• A fascinating breed, Old Etonians. Impeccable in their social skills and very portable - you can put them anywhere, and they are absolutely charming.

  

  Laura Wade
  • You
  • Old
  • Skills

• I got the travel bug when I was quite young. My parents took me and my sisters out of school and we travelled all over Europe. It was an eye-opening experience and, although I love Norway, I also enjoy visiting new countries. I don't get homesick.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Experience
  • Parents
  • Travel

• I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Love
  • Soul
  • Young

• I was always falling in love at a very young age - kindergarten is when I can remember. There was always a crush. And when I was in sixth grade, I started picking up guitar, so I started wanting to write about it and sing about it.

  

  Babyface
  • Write
  • Young
  • Falling

• 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.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Up
  • Old
  • Jazz

• Football has been everything to me since I was 10 years old.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Me
  • Football
  • Old

• Elvis was just like a big old kid. It was like he never got past 19, I don't think, in a lotta ways.

  

  Mac Davis
  • Think
  • Past
  • Old

• Young readers are the most challenging, demanding, and rewarding of audiences. Adults often ask why I write for the younger set. My reply: 'I can't think of anyone I'd rather write for.'

  

  Karen Hesse
  • Why
  • Think
  • Young

• Paint goes a long way in making old look like new.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Long
  • Look
  • Old

• I've seen the Pokemon movie, which is probably the worst movie ever made on any subject ever.

  

  Ian Hislop
  • Movie
  • Worst
  • Ever

• Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing.... For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Enough
  • Eternity

• Never apologize for having high standards. People who really want to be in your life will rise up to meet them.

  

  Ziad Abdelnour
  • People
  • Rise Up
  • High Standards

• When I first played '1234' it was on stage in San Francisco at some kind of, like, sticky-floored club. And it felt like a punk song. I mean it's ridiculous to say that now, but it had that kind of, like, piercing straight melody. And then this fist-pumping ending, you know that pa-dap-pada.

  

  Feist
  • Song
  • Know
  • Ending

• I have a list in my mind and in my heart of actors who have been extraordinarily kind, and Hugh Laurie is near the top.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Kind

• I used to be so young, how did I get so old?

  

  Dan Mangan
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