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If I'd known how old I was going to be I'd have taken better care of myself.
Author:
Adolph Zukor
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I think we grew up thinking that the funniest things on TV were the old, serious movies. I always liked the Marx Brothers, but the thing that always made us laugh were movies like Zero Hour. That's what inspired us.
Author:
David Zucker
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Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised.
Author:
Shoshana Zuboff
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As soon as you get a certain amount of attention, then everybody kinda wants to start taking pot shots at you. All your old friends that supported you don't support you any more.
Author:
John Zorn
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I am what you might call abstractly anti-capitalist. For instance, I am suspicious of the old leftists who focus all their hatred on the United States. What about Chinese neo-colonialism? Why are the left silent about that? When I say this, it annoys them, of course. Good!
Author:
Slavoj Zizek
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Liberal democracy - as you know, in the old days, we were saying we want socialism with a human face. Today's left effectively offers global capitalism with a human face, more tolerance, more rights and so on. So the question is, is this enough or not? Here I remain a Marxist: I think not.
Author:
Slavoj Zizek
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When I was old enough to ride a motorcycle and got my license, I bought a '69 Sportster.
Author:
Chuck Zito
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While I had often said that I wanted to die in bed, what I really meant was that in my old age I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love.
Author:
Roger Zelazny
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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?
Author:
Jamie Zawinski
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The best mirror is an old friend.
Author:
Peter Zarlenga
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It occurred to me, when I was old enough to make rules of my own, that they should be fair and simple.
Author:
Moon Zappa
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There used to be an old thing where every team had a heavy bag in their locker room for people to punch, but again, it was more about conditioning because if you hit a heavy bag for a minute, it feels like your arms are about to fall off.
Author:
Steve Yzerman
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No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.
Author:
Lin Yutang
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Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.
Author:
Lin Yutang
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I was just 20 years old when I wrote Broken Arrow.
Author:
Neil Young
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I feel like I could be likened to an old hound circling on a rug for the last five years.
Author:
Neil Young
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At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age.
Author:
Marguerite Young
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The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write.
Author:
Marguerite Young
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No one is ever too old, too rich, too poor, to pray.
Author:
Loretta Young
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I was 20 years old and felt I had a lot to offer, even to myself.
Author:
Tina Yothers
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We have listened here to the delegates who have recalled the terrible human suffering, and the great material destruction of the late war in the Pacific. It is with feelings of sorrow that we recall the part played in that catastrophic human experience by the old Japan.
Author:
Shigeru Yoshida
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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.
Author:
Shigeru Yoshida
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It became a metaphor for the lives of the people in this film and for the Old West, for the abandonment that occurred in the early part of the 20th century.
Author:
Dwight Yoakam
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But that is a valid, continuing service that that music - which is, in some cases, 80 or 90 years old - is rendering. And proving its own timelessness.
Author:
Dwight Yoakam
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I hope before I am getting too old and when my mind is still functioning, I can tell some better stories.
Author:
Zhang Yimou
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How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.
Author:
William Yeats
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I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'
Author:
William Yeats
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When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.
Author:
William Yeats
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Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.
Author:
William Yeats
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If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off.
Author:
Chuck Yeager
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The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old.
Author:
Rosalyn Yalow
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But why is it that in music, anything more than 5 years old - apart from a few hits - is never played on radio to the young public?
Author:
Bill Wyman
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If anybody doubts my loyalty to my country, I'll punch him in the nose, and I don't care how old he is.
Author:
William Wyler
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There is an old saying that all roads lead to Rome. It seems the administration so often clearly believes that no matter what the evidence was at any particular time, essentially everything led to Saddam Hussein.
Author:
Ron Wyden
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Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.
Author:
William Wycherley
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I know people who grow old and bitter. I want to keep making a fresh start. I don't want them to defeat me. That would be suicidal.
Author:
Robert Wyatt
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My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn't ever have done in their youth.
Author:
Robert Wyatt
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I stayed in a really old hotel last night. They sent me a wake-up letter.
Author:
Steven Wright
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How young can you die of old age?
Author:
Steven Wright
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When I look at some of my old work, the pieces I find most interesting are the ones with people in them.
Author:
Peter Wright
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You amaze me. You're 229 years old and that's what you think is funny.
Author:
Max Wright
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"Think simple" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.
Author:
Frank Wright
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Another hero was Tom Swift, in the books. What he stood for, the freedom, the scientific knowledge and being and engineer gave him the ability to invent solutions to problems. He's always been a hero to me. I buy old Tom Swift books now and read them to my own children.
Author:
Steve Wozniak
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But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.
Author:
William Wordsworth
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When you're doing the traditional musicals, singing songs that are 40 and 50 years old, you realize there's a reason why those musicals are hits. These are amazing songs!
Author:
Tom Wopat
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In the old days we were probably educated in cricket in a far more serious way than now.
Author:
Frank Woolley
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I would like to go to University and be like a normal 20 year old.
Author:
Louise Woodward
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It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love.
Author:
Victoria Woodhull
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The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
Author:
John Wooden
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I'm just going to have to grow old, because I'm too terrified to have anything done.
Author:
Natalie Wood
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Right now, writing for me is most rewarding because I'm old enough now to have something to say, which probably wasn't always the case.
Author:
Douglas Wood
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I'm Anna May Wong. I come from old Hong Kong. But now I'm a Hollywood star.
Author:
Anna Wong
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My grandmother always told me you must keep to your old roads and stick to your original friends and just go through smooth, be careful and stay positive.
Author:
Wayne Wonder
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I started with Sam Cooke when I was 6 or 7 years old.
Author:
Bobby Womack
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All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.
Author:
Thomas Wolfe
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A few regular troops from old France, weakened by hunger and sickness, who, when fresh, were unable to withstand the British soldiers, are their general's chief dependence.
Author:
James Wolfe
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The first American ancestor of our name was a younger son of these old Devonshire people, and came to the Virginia colony in the reign of Charles the First.
Author:
John Wise
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But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs.
Author:
Niklaus Wirth
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When I got old enough to go to night clubs to hear that music at the age of 15.
Author:
Johnny Winter
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We started out when I was 6 years old. We played ukuleles and sang Everly Brothers songs.
Author:
Edgar Winter
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One of the best things about folklore and fairy tales is that the best fantasy is what you find right around the corner, in this world. That's where the old stuff came from.
Author:
Terri Windling
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There's that old adage about how there's only seven plots in the world and Shakespeare's done them all before.
Author:
Terri Windling
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I decided I wanted to be a physician when I was seven years old.
Author:
Samuel Wilson
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Old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
Author:
E. Wilson
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When I was five years old I knew I wanted to act.
Author:
Debra Wilson
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Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit.
Author:
Thomas Willis
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Everybody, no matter how old you are, is around 24, 25 in their heart.
Author:
Bruce Willis
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Since childhood she had walked the Devon rivers with her father looking for flowers and the nests of birds, passing some rocks and trees as old friends, seeing a Spirit everywhere, gentle in thought to all her eyes beheld.
Author:
Henry Williamson
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You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.
Author:
Tennessee Williams
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By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.
Author:
Ted Williams
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Whether something is old-fashioned or not doesn't resolve the question of whether it's true or not. I can see the temptation of simply thinking, 'Well, there's a cultural mainstream which flows neatly in one direction. You just align with it'. And that really won't do.
Author:
Rowan Williams
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Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old.
Author:
Rowan Williams
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I feel like I'm always having to justify why I haven't kept in touch with anyone from the old days in Stoke-on-Trent, but I'm like that with anybody. I don't let anybody in. I just rely on myself.
Author:
Robbie Williams
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The old jazz singers or old blues singers, you always just saw them kind of sitting down and singing. They weren't worried as much about their voice sounding perfect. They would make the song kind of fit their voice.
Author:
Lucinda Williams
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With the rise of America, the global balance of power shifted away from the old European powers.
Author:
Armstrong Williams
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Suddenly you're like a pirate, you're 65 years old and you've got an earring.
Author:
Fred Willard
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Pa did not like a country so old and worn out that the hunting was poor. He wanted to go west. For two years he had wanted to go west and take a homestead, but Ma did not want to leave the settled country.
Author:
Laura Wilder
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It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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It takes so long to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.
Author:
Eugene Wigner
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Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.
Author:
Eugene Wigner
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Incorruptibility by money is the old story... Now it's incorruptibility by media.
Author:
Leon Wieseltier
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Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.
Author:
Walt Whitman
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I am an old, old friend of Aaron Sorkin's, who is the executive producer and writer. He had been talking about doing a political show for a long time and I had been interested in it for a long time. The moment I became available, he called me last year and asked me if I wanted to do it and then I just had to audition for the powers that be, and I got it.
Author:
Bradley Whitford
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Of an old tale which every schoolboy knows.
Author:
William Whitehead
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Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.
Author:
Theodore White
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My name is Ryan White. I am sixteen years old. I have hemophilia, and I have AIDS.
Author:
Ryan White
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I came face to face with death at thirteen years old.
Author:
Ryan White
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The thing you've got to watch for is going broke when you're old. Look at all the people that go down and out at the finish. The man who built my country place is blind now and penniless. That's terrible!
Author:
Pearl White
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Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.
Author:
E. White
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I don't know anything about cars. A business is a business, and I think I can learn about cars. I'm not that old, and I think the business principles are the same.
Author:
Edward Whitacre, Jr.
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Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.
Author:
Benjamin Whichcote
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Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
Author:
Edith Wharton
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Even though it was the 70s, we found old stocks of clothes that had never been worn from the 50s and took them apart. I started to teach myself how to make clothes from that kind of formula.
Author:
Vivienne Westwood
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Well, now I'm an old photographer and I still don't sell.
Author:
Kim Weston
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I start with the story, almost in the old campfire sense, and the story leads to both the characters, which actors should best be cast in this story, and the language. The choice of words, more than anything else, creates the feeling that the story gives off.
Author:
Donald Westlake
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It's my first record since my son is old enough to understand and I can't even show it to him. Yes, it's affected me, probably in the opposite of how anyone would have thought.
Author:
Paul Westerberg
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I forever felt that I've fallen right between the crack of way too young for the first generation of classic rock 'n' roll and too old to be brand-new. It's hard.
Author:
Paul Westerberg
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If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.
Author:
Jessamyn West
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A lot of people stop short. They don't actually die but they say, 'Right I'm old, and I'm going to retire,' and then they dwindle into nothing. They go off to Florida and become jolly boring.
Author:
Mary Wesley
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I would have liked the old days.
Author:
David Wells
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The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.
Author:
Bob Wells
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The stone which Jacob consecrated at Bethel the generation of the living continues to anoint, paying the tithes which of old he vowed to the house of God there.
Author:
Julius Wellhausen
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Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.
Author:
Orson Welles
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Fake is as old as the Eden tree.
Author:
Orson Welles
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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
Author:
Fay Weldon
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These dudes were 30 years old, and they would compete about getting the best chick. That came before their friendships. Some of them treat women like they're objects. I never felt like that.
Author:
Brian Welch
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All of us, whether guilty or not, whether old or young, must accept the past. It is not a case of coming to terms with the past. That is not possible. It cannot be subsequently modified or undone.
Author:
Richard Weizsaecker
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We all participate in weaving the social fabric; we should therefore all participate in patching the fabric when it develops holes mismatches between old expectations and current realities.
Author:
Anne Weisberg
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They keep the old business. We keep the ongoing business.
Author:
Harvey Weinstein
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New York lost a classic. Carmine was an old school New Yorker.
Author:
Anthony Weiner
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Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.
Author:
John Webster
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No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time.
Author:
Max Weber
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I am a classical music lover - not necessarily the contemporary stuff, but the old stuff.
Author:
Eberhard Weber
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I think Michael Crawford realised, I think we all realised, once we'd gone the route of casting a very young girl, you can't really cast a 65 year old man opposite. Slightly different resonance I think. No, we weren't going to go there. We'd have Jack Nicholson in the lead.
Author:
Andrew Webber
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I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting.
Author:
Jackie Weaver
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Slot machines are like crack for old people.
Author:
Keenen Wayans
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I'd rather be a creature of the night than an old dude.
Author:
Gerard Way
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I never weigh myself, but the brutal truth of television is that they don't employ old people or fat people.
Author:
Ruby Wax
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I've told so many lies about my age I don't know how old I am myself.
Author:
Ruby Wax
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Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
Author:
Evelyn Waugh
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Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore.
Author:
Auberon Waugh
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The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.
Author:
Alan Watts
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Now that I'm gettin' old enough to get some money, I'd like to have some money. I don't get much made, I need to conquer a big chunk of money. Not quit playin' but quit playin' so hard.
Author:
Muddy Waters
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That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through.
Author:
Muddy Waters
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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.
Author:
Muddy Waters
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Paul Newman's an old friend of ours out of Cleveland, Ohio. He used to sit around our house. He's the only man I've ever known to drink a case of beer all by himself. That's talent in a way.
Author:
Lew Wasserman
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We had an interesting thing at that first dinner. It was prior to the availability of several new hotels in Los Angeles, and we were more or less committed to the old Ambassador Hotel that has the famous Coconut Grove.
Author:
Lew Wasserman
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The old Court you and I served so long will not be worthy of its traditions if Nixon can twist, turn and fashion If Nixon gets away with that, then Nixon makes the law as he goes along - not the Congress nor the courts.
Author:
Earl Warren
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All old music was modern once, and much more of the music of yesterday already sounds more old-fashioned than works which were written three centuries ago.
Author:
Peter Warlock
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In this play we're dealing with relative truths - who's lying, who's telling the truth. But underneath that, Ed and I have hit this deeper level of intimacy between old friends that comes out in the play.
Author:
Fred Ward
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Keep up the old standards, and day by day raise them higher.
Author:
John Wanamaker
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We should not be afraid to go into a new era, to leave the old beyond.
Author:
Zack Wamp
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Frankly, alcohol leads to a lot of other things when you start drinking at 12-years old. It is a big problem that needs to be addressed. Frankly, the industry has pushed us back and pushed us back.
Author:
Zach Wamp
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Everything I've done is an old Marvel comic in its' own way.
Author:
Rob Walton
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The other thing is this industry has decided it only has one market. Unlike any other industry in the world, unlike film or books or sports even, this industry has decided it has only one market and that's 14 year old boys.
Author:
Rob Walton
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My grandmother lived with us for a short time while I was a child. Old people tend to be slightly more eccentric - they can behave the way they want.
Author:
Julie Walters
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It seems that when you get to a certain age you almost give yourself permission to misbehave and say what you think. People allow it, with very old people.
Author:
Julie Walters
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Hell, I'm an old man. I'm 70 years old. I'm supposed to be sitting on a rocking chair watching the sunset.
Author:
M. Walsh
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Medicaid is a vital safety net for New York's poor and vulnerable, young and old alike.
Author:
James Walsh
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I think the new spirituality will be a spirituality that's not based on a particular dogma. And that steps away from the old spiritual paradigm that we have created on this planet, which comes from a thought that there is such a thing as being better.
Author:
Neale Walsch
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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.
Author:
Horace Walpole
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I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.
Author:
Horace Walpole
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My father was gone when I was three years old.
Author:
Marc Wallice
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Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.
Author:
Edmund Waller
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To expect the world to receive a new truth, or even an old truth, without challenging it, is to look for one of those miracles which do not occur.
Author:
Alfred Wallace
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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.
Author:
Larry Wall
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Grandchildren are God's way of compensating us for growing old.
Author:
Mary Waldrip
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I am growing old, and my future, so to speak, is already behind me.
Author:
George Wald
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I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poet's language at that point in history, and so it's even more exciting when you read a poet like Yeats, almost 100 years old now, and you think that perhaps no one can really top that.
Author:
Diane Wakoski
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I read numerous books - loads in fact - and, as I always do when recording a historical project, immersed myself into the subject matter. I spent many hours at Henry's old homes, such as Hampton Court, and visiting the Tower of London. I read no other books during that period.
Author:
Rick Wakeman
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However, that old mode of Polish filmmaking virtually disappeared.
Author:
Andrzej Wajda
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With the Internet, kids today learn things quicker than we do and they have everything there is to see, so you have to do more than just remake some old '70s film.
Author:
Donnie Wahlberg
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What impresses me is the young actors with terrific talent arriving on the scene. They'd have blown us all away in the old days. Guys like Brad Pitt.
Author:
Robert Wagner
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We're still stymied by the old stand-off between those who wish to fight terrorism and resistance fighters.
Author:
Gijs Vries
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I get younger people who watch Conan or The Daily Show, but before that it was mostly people who knew me from public radio. Those people are kind of old.
Author:
Sarah Vowell
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Let us embrace Science and the new technologies unfettered, for it is these which will liberate mankind from the myth of god, and free us from our age old fears, from disease, death and the sweat of labor.
Author:
Claude Vorilhon
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There's the young Jon Voight and the old Jon Voight.
Author:
Jon Voight
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I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
Author:
A. Vogt
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No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.
Author:
David Viscott
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When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my father's guidance. Thereafter, my father regularly taught me all the good old fashioned songs.
Author:
Tony Visconti
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I love Logic Audio and have been using it for years. All my track outputs used to come up on my old board in the same order as in the old Mac G4 - 1 through 32, came up as 1 through 32, for instance.
Author:
Tony Visconti
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The more the years go by, the more difficult it gets. I'm getting old.
Author:
Richard Virenque
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You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.
Author:
Judith Viorst
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It is a point where our old models must be discarded and a new reality rules.
Author:
Vernor Vinge
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Besides, wouldn't it be wonderful if no one ever had to worry about the random cruelty of fatal illness or the woes of old age attacking them or their loved ones?
Author:
Joan Vinge
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At 6 years old I knew there was no place for me.
Author:
Herve Villechaize
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If you're asking if my breasts are natural, yes, this is how I've looked since I was 13 years old.
Author:
Sofia Vergara
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I used to be good with kids, but as I get older, I'm grumpy and terrible with them. As for doing a gig at a 6-year old's birthday party, you couldn't pay me enough.
Author:
Johnny Vegas
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I think I am too old to be doing teen movies. I am just kind of annoyed, because you have all these teen movies coming out with usually either Lindsay Lohan or Hilary Duff doing four of the exact teen movies over and over again.
Author:
Alexa Vega
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It's easy for me to say that now, now I'm a father, I've got a four-and-a-half year old boy, I'm a different person. Well, I'm still the same person, but I'm different.
Author:
Alan Vega
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I was in the game for love. After all, where else can an old-timer with one leg, who can't hear or see, live like a king while doing the only thing I wanted to do?
Author:
Bill Veeck
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I loved Old School. I thought Old School was very different than a lot of the comedies that had come out. And that character I liked. I tried to ground him very much in reality and play him very much finding things important to him that are somewhat ridiculous.
Author:
Vince Vaughn
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A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.
Author:
Bill Vaughan
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An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
Author:
Bill Vaughan
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By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.
Author:
Bill Vaughan
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I could go through a lot of my old emails from when I first started doing comics. Back then the lowest age of fans was like 15 or 16 up to people in their 20's and 30's.
Author:
Jhonen Vasquez
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I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music.
Author:
Edgard Varese
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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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Nia Vardalos
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The best part is still ahead of me - I haven't experienced my 'good old days' yet.
Author:
Luther Vandross
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Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.
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Jack Vance
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I don't want to be 35 years old and still popping out songs in miniskirts and la-la-la.
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Holly Valance
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The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.
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John Updike
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A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.
Author:
Miguel Unamuno
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Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
Author:
Samuel Ullman
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Baseball hasn't forgotten me. I go to a lot of old-timers games and I haven't lost a thing. I sit in the bullpen and let people throw things at me. Just like old times.
Author:
Bob Uecker
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The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.
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Sun Tzu
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Sometimes I put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters.
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Mike Tyson
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In the old covenants the people were sprinkled with blood of calves without, in their bodies, to bind them to keep the law; else we were bound to just damnation, for the breaking of it.
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William Tyndale
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I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.
Author:
Liv Tyler
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Every time I release an album my old record company releases another one.
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Bonnie Tyler
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Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.
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Anne Tyler
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Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.
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Mark Twain
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I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
Author:
Mark Twain
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Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.
Author:
Mark Twain
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When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.
Author:
Mark Twain
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I play chess badly and I've been beaten by my 10-year old son.
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John Turturro
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I'm very old-fashioned in some ways because of my father, who thought that being a public servant was an honor. Everyone must find a capacity in which they can serve, because we all benefit from society.
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Kathleen Turner
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Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
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Ivan Turgenev
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I really like Alan Jackson, in Country Music. I think he's really very, very talented along with George Jones, and Merle Haggard, the same old favorites.
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Tanya Tucker
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The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.
Author:
Barbara Tuchman
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Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.
Author:
Barbara Tuchman
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I'd read Up in the Old Hotel, and I wanted to do something with Mitchell's stuff for a long time.
Author:
Stanley Tucci
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It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work.
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Harry Truman
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I won't lock my doors or bar them either if any of the old coots in the pictures out in the hall want to come out of their frames for a friendly chat.
Author:
Bess Truman
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Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
Author:
Leon Trotsky
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You can't be too old to be a writer, but you can definitely be too young!
Author:
Joanna Trollope
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It's the same old story you've heard a thousand times. Somebody's trust gets broken. Somebody's left behind.
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Travis Tritt
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I would say old school cats like Redman and Wu-tang. My style is my style, those are just cats that I liked.
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Obie Trice
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He is an old bore. Even the grave yawns for him.
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Herbert Tree
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I was born old and get younger every day. At present I am sixty years young.
Author:
Herbert Tree
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Of course I'm respectable. I'm old. Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.
Author:
Robert Towne
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In that, Blade 2 is very much like a rock concert... if it's too loud, you're too old.
Author:
Guillermo Toro
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I've got two old Volvos, two old Subarus, and an old Ford Ranger. If you've got an old car, you've gotta have at least several old cars, 'cause one's always gonna be in the garage.
Author:
Rip Torn
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I was a singer professionally when I was four years old, and I did not really begin to play any instrument - the first one, of course, was drums - till I was about nine years old.
Author:
Mel Torme
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Shoe Suede Blues is ten years old this year. The Band consists of four members.
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Peter Tork
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The four of us couldn't have made a record with the time left over when we were shooting the show. We were on stage from 7.30 in the morning 'til 7 at night. Later on, when there was a break from filming, and we were sick of doing it the old way.
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Peter Tork
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I am more of an old black and white movies fan.
Author:
Peter Tork
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It's weird, I never wish anything bad upon anybody, except two or three old girlfriends.
Author:
Carrot Top
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There are people worse off than me. I've had a very long run. I'm fine really. I'm just old.
Author:
Barry Took
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To me, the noise of a threshing machine is better music than a lot of music I hear nowadays. I took a man's place in the threshing crew when I was only 14 years old.
Author:
Clyde Tombaugh
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We thrust our fingers into our ears to stop its moan; but it was no good; the cry cut like a drill into our heads, dragging minutes into hours, hours into years. We withered and grew old between those cries.
Author:
Ernst Toller
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The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.
Author:
Alexis Tocqueville
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I would not have so many scripts being driven by demographics. The play's the thing - not the 18-35 year old male age group.
Author:
Stephen Tobolowsky
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No, but women are saying, and they say, are you crazy? But because they've had children since they were 20 years old. I haven't. So I had a child when I was 43, and now he's really out with his friends.
Author:
Cheryl Tiegs
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It's very important to have the right clothing to exercise in. If you throw on an old T-shirt or sweats, it's not inspiring for your workout.
Author:
Cheryl Tiegs
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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
Author:
James Thurber
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The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.
Author:
James Thurber
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Me and Jerry left because we felt we weren't getting anywhere playing our old songs in tiny clubs. The group was getting stale and staying behind the times.
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Johnny Thunders
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I'm talking like 10, 12 years old. Either junior brings Mom and Pop or Mom and Pop bring the kids. I'm talking young here, not a college drinking crowd.
Author:
George Thorogood
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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.
Author:
John Thorn
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The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin,' in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same.
Author:
John Thorn
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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Henry Thoreau
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To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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For example, lead paint in old houses can be a greater threat to children's health than lead that may be under some industrial site where there are no children.
Author:
Fred Thompson
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While we believe there are fruitful opportunities to update and improve old rules, we do not want to set up a review process that could create a litigation morass.
Author:
Fred Thompson
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Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.
Author:
Dorothy Thompson
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I was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system.
Author:
Clarence Thomas
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I have very talented people dress me and put my makeup on, stuff like that. But I do love that look, and I think it's maybe because I grew up on that old glamour.
Author:
Charlize Theron
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Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
Author:
Margaret Thatcher
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It's a funny old world.
Author:
Margaret Thatcher
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Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.
Author:
Twyla Tharp
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Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.
Author:
William Thackeray
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I was 23 years old. It was a wild time. I was covering everything that blew up - blackouts, Studio 54, son of Sam killer, and all of that stuff.
Author:
John Tesh
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If someone doesn't know their Old Testament, they don't know right doctrine, right correction, and they can't be equipped for good works.
Author:
Randall Terry
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The early Church had nothing but the Old Testament. The New Testament lies hidden in the Old; the Old Testament lies open in the New.
Author:
Randall Terry
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Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.
Author:
William Temple
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There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.
Author:
William Temple
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Then, like an old-time orator impressively he rose; I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.
Author:
Sara Teasdale
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We took Beowulf, the epic poem in Old English, and put it right together with John Gardner's contemporary retelling. If you bring it into today, we really feel that it has something very fresh to say now.
Author:
Julie Taymor
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Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins.
Author:
Major Taylor
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To passively get up and play a bunch of old songs wouldn't have really motivated us. So we are bringing the new material into the set and it goes down really well.
Author:
Andy Taylor
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The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
Author:
A. Taylor
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The President today once again took the opportunity to reiterate his old, failed national security strategies and present them to the American people as new, dynamic ideas intended to better protect the American people.
Author:
Ellen Tauscher
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Well, I do have some maiden aunts that are not quite like the aunts in the book, but I definitely do have a couple of them, and a couple of old aunties.
Author:
Donna Tartt
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Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.
Author:
Booth Tarkington
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My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.
Author:
Quentin Tarantino
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I'm not comfortable with just entertaining. Although I like entertaining, I also like bringing forward the truth of our times as minstrels used to in the old days.
Author:
Serj Tankian
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The old welfare system was hurting people by discouraging work and marriage. Welfare reform, and now this legislation, will build on the understanding that work and strong families are the foundation upon which we build our future.
Author:
James Talent
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Do I regret taking the company public? Yes and no. Yes, because it put us under enormous pressure for a young company to go public at that point in its history, something you never could have done in the old days.
Author:
David Talbot
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I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody... I am old fashioned.
Author:
Toru Takemitsu
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My memories of camp - I was four years old to eight years old - they're fond memories.
Author:
George Takei
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
Author:
Tacitus
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We have groups that do that, but I can't rap with the mentality of an 18 year old when I'm in my 30's.
Author:
Ice T
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Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.
Author:
Thomas Szasz
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I'm getting too old to play some parts, but I'm still greedy.
Author:
Max Sydow
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The most difficult part of playing Christ was that I had to keep up the image around the clock. As soon as the picture finished, I returned home to Sweden and tried to find my old self. It took six months to get back to normal.
Author:
Max Sydow
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A man is as old as his arteries.
Author:
Thomas Sydenham
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Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives.
Author:
Algernon Swinburne
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Observation is an old man's memory.
Author:
Jonathan Swift
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
Author:
Jonathan Swift
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He helped make Living Things even more crazy than I wanted it to be. He added old-fashioned piano and classical folk music - that weird otherworldly vibe - all these elements got onto the record.
Author:
Matthew Sweet
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If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived.
Author:
Gloria Swanson
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But I think theatre in a repressive society is an immensely exciting event and theatre in a luxurious old, affluent old society like ours is an entertaining event.
Author:
Janet Suzman
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For all my criticisms of the current system, it doesn't mean that I would like to return to the old one.
Author:
Helen Suzman
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When I was younger, my whole sense of self-worth was based on whether or not I was working, which was awful. And I had a baby at 20 years old, so it wasn't just about me. At around the age of 30 there was a stretch where I wasn't working - certainly not on anything I liked, anyway - and I started to do other things.
Author:
Kiefer Sutherland
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I'm 31 years old and I want to be part of a championship team before my career is over.
Author:
Mats Sundin
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After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world.
Author:
Billy Sunday
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I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old.
Author:
Charles Sumner
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My son is old enough to respond to my work. To me, that's what it is all about.
Author:
Tara Strong
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I am just old-fashioned enough to prefer long hair.
Author:
Erich Stroheim
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As a result of the World War, this old Germany collapsed. It collapsed in its constitution, in its social order, in its economic structure. Its thinking and feeling changed.
Author:
Gustav Stresemann
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I must begin by saying something about the old Germany. That Germany, too, suffered from superficial judgment, because appearances and reality were not always kept apart in people's minds.
Author:
Gustav Stresemann
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As a consequence of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, the officer corps of the old army became part of this class, as did that part of the younger generation who, in the old Germany, would have become officers or civil servants.
Author:
Gustav Stresemann
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Just as the British subject loves England despite her faults, so we must insist that all Germans who were part of the old Germany and helped shape her, recognize the greatness and worthiness of present-day Germany.
Author:
Gustav Stresemann
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Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him.
Author:
Gustav Stresemann
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This old Germany was partly defeated in its conflict with the progressive ideas of socialism, for it had given the people nothing that could serve as a successful alternative to socialism.
Author:
Gustav Stresemann
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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.
Author:
Meryl Streep
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In the old days, people used to risk their lives in India or in the Americas in order to bring back products which now seem to us to have been of comically little worth.
Author:
Levi Strauss
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Fear and I were old buddies, despite my best efforts to the contrary.
Author:
Peter Straub
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The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization.
Author:
Lytton Strachey
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So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
Author:
Harriet Stowe
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I loved old black and white movies, especially the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals. I loved everything about them - the songs, the music, the romance and the spectacle. They were real class and I knew that I wanted to be in that world.
Author:
Sharon Stone
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Before I was a year old I walked and talked and I was even potty trained. When I started going to school I think I got on everyone's nerves because I used to ask adult questions rather than settle for the stuff usually fed to kids.
Author:
Sharon Stone
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I swear by that old expression, 'One monkey don't stop no show!' The reality is, we still have some good men out there, and we should hail those men as the kings they are.
Author:
Angie Stone
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Count Dracula had directed me to go to the Golden Krone Hotel, which I found, to my great delight, to be thoroughly old-fashioned, for of course I wanted to see all I could of the ways of the country.
Author:
Bram Stoker
