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Carl Barks

"I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts."

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"I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts."

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"In our heads we're all about 33 years old."

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"We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing."

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"I'm 37 years old and don't have a steady paycheck."

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"That was one of the best, exciting things for me to play with them. They were very young and eager to go. I'd been playing with a band that was mostly old folks that had been together so long we couldn't do anything to excite each other."

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"I don't plan to grow old gracefully. I plan to have face-lifts until my ears meet."

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"New York lost a classic. Carmine was an old school New Yorker."

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"A museum has to renew its collection to be alive, but that does not mean we give on important old works."

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"Redd Foxx was the same gruff old codger you saw on television."

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"You just witnessed an old-fashioned rump kicking."

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"I always traveled. I left Cameroon when I was 11 years old. I lived in the USA, in Switzerland."

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"I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts."
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