- Pretty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Old Quotes
Old age, old habits, and old traditions worth keeping.
This set uses 'old' loosely, from feeling worn down by constant criticism in a creative career to impatience with distractions that don't matter anymore. For quotes centered on the number itself, see Age quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old wizards, old rich people.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My kids are old enough now that they can watch that, but I like to do the family movies.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like growing up; I feel like I have an old soul. I like the age to match as much as it can.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
When scientists get old, they get interested in the brain, and I'm a little bit afraid I'm falling into that.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a model or an actress; I'm just a 23 year old who likes to talk about science. Why does what I look like matter so much?
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start, When memory plays an old tune on the heart.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
For many years, I decided not to do television because I have three children, but now my youngest is finally old enough to be in kindergarten. So I'm not feeling that kind of tug of not being with her as much.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
What SAT tutoring does is it invisibly alters the admissions pool so a school could try to be as egalitarian as they can, but if a student is SAT-tutored, and their score goes up 200 points in a year, and the college admissions committee has no idea that the student got tutored, all of a sudden it's shifting the pool back toward old money.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started listening to a lot of Jimi Hendrix and Neil Young when I was 8 or 9 years old - I had siblings that gave me good music instead of the crap that was on the radio in the '90s.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 10 years old, we moved to Spain with my mother. I learned Spanish before I learned English. But the English language stayed with me.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I may be getting old, but not foolish.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Words are not too old, only people are too old if they use the same words too frequently.
- Aroused
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is, of course, quite natural that a biologist whose attention had been aroused by noticing in his own case the phenomena of precocious old age should turn to study the causes of it.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020