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Old Quotes


"I was 20 years old and felt I had a lot to offer, even to myself."


"Between parts I was too old for and roles that were too overwhelming, out of reach then for my voice. I carved out a niche with the Wagnerian repertoire since I am attracted by its theatrical intensity."


"There's still is a status-quo group at City Hall who likes things done the old way, behind closed doors."
Old,


"These three movements were born spontaneously and independently of the initiative of a few French patriots who had a place in the old political groups and parties."
Old,


"Pamphlets on Sabbath writing are in request here I have been applied to for them by several of the old Methodists knowing that I had them to sell before."


"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."


"To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old."


"For all my criticisms of the current system, it doesn't mean that I would like to return to the old one."


"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."
Old,


"It's sad - it's sad for us old enough to remember when directors ruled, and films were substantially better than they are today. But it's hard to argue with those kinds of grosses."



"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."


"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."


"When I was 14 years old, I decided I could cook. It was either that or puberty."


"I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved."


"Mostly it was Mad magazine. And I did read a lot of - I had a subscription when I was little, but I also had access to some old collections, the little paperbacks of the really good stuff."
Old,


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


"I was 30 years old and this girl I knew found out I had never gotten high. Nobody had ever told me about marijuana."


"Racism is essentially natural, it's old fashioned it's an evolutionary phase that we're going through. Ultimately it wont exist."


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


"Oh, I started out young. They handed me a cotton sack when I was about 8 years old. Give me a little small one, tell me to fill it up. I never did like the farm but I was out there with my grandmother, didn't want to get away from around her too far."


"I've said it once and I'll say it a a hundred times, I'm forty-four years old."


"Old #64 chose... a gentle jog, fast enough to prove I was alive, slow enough to savor the cheers. They washed over me. They warmed me. I knew I could live without them but I loved them."
Old,


"Suddenly Star Wars came out while we were on hiatus, and we looked like the old Buck Rogers series, where they had cigarette smoke blowing out the back of the rocket ship."
Old,


"Years ago I had a house in Sussex, it was like Arcadia, with an old Victorian bridge, a pond and the Downs."
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