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Old Quotes



"Generation X is dead. It has come to mean anyone aged 13 to 55 years old."



"I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It's not possible."



"Everyone, Republican or otherwise, has their own particular part to play. No part is too great or too small; no one is too old or too young to do something."


"I don't want to pierce anything. I think it's outdated. Belly rings and all are, like, old."



"Well, that's the old story I heard about the Jackie Chan films. That, like, Jackie Chan will just keep going and when crew members drop he just replaces them. I don't know if that's true but after having worked in Japan I believe it might be true."


"I don't know how long I'll be trick or treating. Maybe I'll be 80 years old and still trick or treating."


"I was making films when I was about 12 years old - Super-8 films."


"You know when you take the paint off an old canvas and you discover that something's been painted underneath it? That's what I feel like - that part of the old is coming through the new."
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"If you're old and you lose, they say you're outmoded. If you're young and you lose, they say you're green. So don't lose."
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"I always say I was born too late in the world, too old."



"And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world it is best to hold hands and stick together."


"To be seventy years young is sometimes for more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old."


"We owned a bearded collie for many years. Sophie. She was old, and she died last year."


"Shoe Suede Blues is ten years old this year. The Band consists of four members."


"Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old."


"You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, 'See if you can blow this out.'"
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"Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We're all over the map."
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"I speak of the old Japan, because out of the ashes of the old Japan there has risen a new Japan."
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"Medicaid is a vital safety net for New York's poor and vulnerable, young and old alike."


"Should l go on playing bridge and dining, going in the same old monotonous circle? It's easy that way, but it's a sort of suicide, too."


"I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing."


"That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through."


"Why should someone have to retrain themselves to use a new application that does the same basic thing as the old application, just because something as trivial as the operating system changed out from under them?"
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"But the citizens of Cincinnati loved their Reds because they won, no matter what their addresses had been the year before. They rooted for the Old-English 'C' on the players' shirts."
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"I've said it once and I'll say it a a hundred times, I'm forty-four years old."


"I warn you not to be ordinary, I warn you not to be young, I warn you not to fall ill, and I warn you not to grow old."
Old,


"Yeah I'm thirty-six, but on the show I'm thirty-two. Nobody wants to watch a thirty-six year old woman, so they decided to make me thirty-two. Much more appealing somehow."


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


"Suddenly you're like a pirate, you're 65 years old and you've got an earring."



"There is a lack of critical assessment of the past. But you have to understand that the current ruling elite is actually the old ruling elite. So they are incapable of a self-critical approach to the past."
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