Old Quotes
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I got into rhythmic gymnastics when I was four years old.
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I've always read books and loved human behavior since I was ten or twelve years old. Maybe even that's why I wanted to do comedy.
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I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul.
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Because of what I did when I was 10 years old, I'm not living from paycheck to paycheck, and I can do things because I want to do them.
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A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
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I quite like antiques. I like things that are old and the history they bring with them. I would rather fly to Morocco on an $800 ticket and buy a chair for $300 than spend $1,100 on one at Pottery Barn.
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I won my first medal when I was nine years old. It was at the Boston Open.
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Storytelling is as old as speech. It existed before humans first began to carve shapes in stones and press their hands upon the rocky walls of caves.
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Modelling wasn't a passion of mine, so that made it get old kind of quickly. I was getting very frustrated.
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A new breed of Republicans has taken over the GOP. It is a new breed which is seeking to sell to Americans a doctrine which is as old as mankind - the doctrine of racial division, the doctrine of racial prejudice, the doctrine of white supremacy.
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Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.
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I'm an old trial lawyer.
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My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.
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When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier.
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The old Dodgers were something special, but of my teammates overall, there was nobody like Pee Wee Reese for me.
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You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.
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I haven't been to a job interview since I was 16 years old. When I was approached by Givenchy it was more like a courtship.
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It's not like my old self – I'm not in character anymore, I'm me. I'm not hiding behind that anymore.
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Our cultural capital has changed tremendously on its way into the twenty-first century. Manhattan has been secured and sanitized; it's smoke- and trans-fat-free. In the boroughs, many of the old jungles have been cleared as well.
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I was just about 6 weeks old when we moved to Detroit.
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'Theogony' should be read before the great Homeric epics because it gives an account of the cosmology that is taken for granted by Homer. It does for paganism what the Old Testament attempted to do for monotheism.
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When James Bond gets old, you get rid of him and bring a new James Bond in.
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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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As a writer given to the old formalities of rhyme and meter, I sometimes feel endangered these days.
