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Old Quotes


"You're not ethnic enough. You're not fat enough. You're not thin enough. You're not blond enough. You're not dark enough. You're not young enough. You're not old enough."
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"We are who we're going to be when we're very old, and when we're very old we are who we were when we were 8."
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"I was watching Monster's Ball, which is a fabulous movie. It's just a little gem: beautifully shot, and shot in a way I never would have done. It made me feel very old, really, because it wasn't eccentric for its own sake, it was just very original."
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"If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old."
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"It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink."
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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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"I was born in Massachusetts and lived there until I was thirteen years old."



"I think they all went too far. Their jeans got too low, their tops got too see-through. Personally, I think that sexy is keeping yourself mysterious. I'm really an old-fashioned girl, and I think I'm totally sexy."
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"I suppose the old natural stuff would be ok, the old mushroom, but I wouldn't advise anyone to do it."
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"Most of the locks and dams on the upper Mississippi River system are over 60 years old and many are in serious need of repair and rehabilitation."


"They often ask me to shoot for them. But I say no. I think an old guy like me ought not take pages away from young photographers who need the exposure."
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"What we see is what they're trying to sell us. It's not true nostalgic as much as it is repeating old material because it's less expensive than new material."


"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."


"If you're a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring."


"I look back at old photographs and videotapes, and I go, Who was I trying to be? Who was I doing this for?"


"The United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it's kicked in the flanks."


"Very interesting for an old duffer like me to try his hand at something new. If I don't do that once in a while, I might just turn into a fossil, you know!"
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"I was 20 years old and felt I had a lot to offer, even to myself."



"She would have been a very remarkable woman, if she had not been an old maid."


"I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I - if I'm not interested in something, I don't grasp it."


"Well, you know, I left Cuba as a kid when I was 6 years old back in 1971."


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


"He's only 4 years old, so I don't think he realized, you know, that I played so many years. Of course, we watch tapes here from the Stanley Cup years, but I don't think he realized how many years I played."



"I was too young for Korea and too old for Vietnam."


"I became involved in photography when I was about thirteen years old."


"So it's really nice after about a year and a half to get back on stage and flex those old muscles."
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