Old Quotes
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There's enormous energy required to carry grudges - enormous energy! And I'm getting too old to expend my energy that way, cause I think every person has a limited amount of energy. So I have given up all grudges.
Ed Koch
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I started collecting couture when I was about 10 or 11 years old, and the very first piece I bought was a Balenciaga suit from 1962.
Hamish Bowles
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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.
Walton Goggins
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I'm an old trial lawyer.
Patrick Leahy
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I won my first medal when I was nine years old. It was at the Boston Open.
Nancy Kerrigan
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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.
Socrates
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A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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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.
Kate Forsyth
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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.
Macaulay Culkin
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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.
Caitriona Balfe
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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.
Tariq Ali
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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.
Malcolm Bradbury
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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.
Edmund Hillary
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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.
Jackie Robinson
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My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.
Manuel Puig
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The old Dodgers were something special, but of my teammates overall, there was nobody like Pee Wee Reese for me.
Jackie Robinson
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We spent most of our life almost like street rats just running around the street until we were ten years old.
Quincy Jones
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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.
Ozwald Boateng
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You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.
Jack Kerouac
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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.
Damon Albarn Blur
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When James Bond gets old, you get rid of him and bring a new James Bond in.
Irwin Winkler
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I was just about 6 weeks old when we moved to Detroit.
Eddie Floyd
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It is the old battle, between those who use a toothbrush and those who don't.
Lady Gregory
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'The Conversation' was the first film I edited on a flatbed machine - a KEM editing machine. I've been using Final Cut or the AVID for 12 years now, so I was interested in looking at this film and seeing if I could tell if it had been edited the old way.
Walter Murch