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Old Quotes


"No one knows if Saddam is still alive. They keep showing old footage of him on TV saying that it's live. You know, it's like the same thing we do with Dick Cheney."


"Call me old-fashioned, but I like my conditioners to be conditioners and my shampoos to be shampoos."
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"I decided I wanted to be a physician when I was seven years old."


"We are similar to a museum. My function is to present old masterpieces in modern frames."



"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."
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"I don't want to be 35 years old and still popping out songs in miniskirts and la-la-la."


"High-level, big-deal publicity has a way of getting old for me, but what never fails to thrill me is when I make personal appearances."


"I would like to go to University and be like a normal 20 year old."



"Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are."
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"You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly."


"I consider you as old as you look and feel. And in that case I feel - I feel I'm about 39, like Jack Benny."
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"I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level."


"It was very unusual, because normally the producer requests the test to determine whether they want to hire someone or not. Olivia was concerned about playing a seventeen year old."


"Flea and Anthony are into funk, like old school Meters and stuff like that."


"Well, in the sense that we do not tour or record together anymore - then I suppose not. But if our old recordings get heard more we shall be delighted."


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


"I am not close to retirement. I still have a lot more that I can achieve. There are younger guys coming into F1, but I am not old and I'm not finished."


"When we grow old, there can only be one regret - not to have given enough of ourselves."


"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."


"There's still is a status-quo group at City Hall who likes things done the old way, behind closed doors."
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"All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives."


"If you listen to a lot of old funk records, the drums are really small. But you don't perceive it like that because the groove is so heavy."
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"The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way."


"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."


"Whatever happened to the good old days: you know, dirty attics, tuberculosis and general all-round suffering?"


"To be honest, I look at my Pinball program and feel that it is old stuff. I could do much better."
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"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."
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