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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
- Lady
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've shut myself inside these walls, and I'm going to be a very lonely old lady if I'm not careful.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid, I loved watching kung fu movies - in San Francisco, we had 'Kung Fu Theater' on TV on Saturdays, and they'd air old Shaw Brothers movies with English dubbing, things like that.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started when I was six years old. My first coach was my granny, she was the best player in Slovakia.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
They studio were flabbergasted when they discovered how interested everybody was in 'those old people.' And now many upcoming projects feature older people; it's become a trend.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
A friend often says I'm an old man in a young man's husk. I like that. I am old-fashioned in some ways.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mesh networking is an old idea. Oddly enough, the low-cost XO Laptop built by the 'One Laptop Per Child' organization - the so-called $100 laptop - was designed with built-in mesh networking. The idea with the XO machine was that many kids using those laptops would be out in rural areas without reliable Internet access.
- Had
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was twenty years old, I had gum grafts put in.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my favorite stores in the Old Town is Buchbinderei. It's this tiny stationery shop where the owner, Doris Feldman, makes these beautiful hand-bound notebooks I always buy for gifts.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was sixteen years old, I was sentenced to two years in prison; the Swedish government changed it, so I could go to a boarding school as part of a social programme. I was in this boarding school with some of the richest kids in Sweden.
- Concert
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I played my first concert with an orchestra, I was eight years old in Berlin.
- Remember
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- Nov 07, 2020
I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure out the stories. I couldn't read the words, so I made up my own stories.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.
- Nov 07, 2020