- 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
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like everyone, I was a kid who played chess when I was young. And I am admittedly old enough to have been around during the fervor of the match in Reykjavik and the rise of Bobby Fischer, so those two things conspired to pique my interest.
- Devices
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always liked the idea of taking old dramatic ideas and devices and making them feel relevant or contemporary or whatever.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very stodgy. I'm always looking at old photos of California and Los Angeles, knowing that what I'm looking at is now full of houses. There used to be vacant lots in Los Angeles, now all taken up by three-storey boxes - it's all getting infilled.
- Animals
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- Nov 07, 2020
Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga - stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Land of opportunity, land for the huddled masses where would the opportunity have been without the genocide of those Old Guard, bristling Indian tribes?
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was an old man with a beard, who said: 'It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, four larks and a wren have all built their nests in my beard.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
Two old Bachelors were living in one house; One caught a Muffin, the other caught a Mouse.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 18 years old, I moved into Neneh Cherry's house in Kensal Rise with Judy Blame and our friend Michael Boadi.
- Hawks
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a big fan of the old Howard Hawks films from the 30s and 40s, I was a big Hepburn and Tracey fan for a while and Woody Allen films that are a very different kind of romantic comedy.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have a maxim in the House of Commons, and written on the walls of our houses, that old ways are the safest and surest ways.
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm old enough to remember in the 1930s and the 1940s when thrift, frugality, was considered an important virtue.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.
- Nov 07, 2020