- Enough
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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
- Journalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
My aunt got me interested in journalism - she found an old typewriter, had it worked over, put it on the dining room table, gave me a stack of paper and said, 'Play like you're a writer.'
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mum's family would all get together, with guitars, harmonica, mandolins and upright bass and play old blues and folk songs. That was normal to me.
- Plant
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never listen to Led Zeppelin. But, I mean, I don't think Robert Plant or Jimmy Page listen to Led Zeppelin, either. We all probably obsessed over the same old blues records growing up.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I strive to create new opportunities in terms of partnerships and new works being presented and things you haven't seen anywhere else. Also to help you see old things in ways you haven't seen them before.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always, especially through old Hollywood musicals, loved just to watch tap dancing; I adore it. I think it's fantastic.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not like my old self - I'm not in character anymore, I'm me. I'm not hiding behind that anymore.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was pretty strict. We didn't even get to watch any of his movies until I was, like, 17 years old. I didn't even see his stand-up, really, until I started doing stand-up, and that was when I was 22. So he's pretty strict. We had curfews until I was 17... he didn't play around.
- Challenge
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- Nov 07, 2020
My challenge is to convince Ontarians that the old world is not coming back.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I get done playing basketball, I'm definitely not going to be a rapper. I'm not going to be an old person who is focused on being a rapper.
- Rock
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought that I was going to have to pay them to do what I wanted to do, that was how much fun I was having. You're 20 years old and you're hanging out with rock stars and going to fabulous parties, and then you talk about it!
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love to come to L.A. to visit, and then I like to come to rainy old London because it's home.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
I felt we must separate political responsibility. The Dalai Lama should not carry that burden. So that is my selfish reason - to protect the old Dalai Lama tradition. It is safer without political involvement.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went through a big Kurt Vonnegut phase. But the writers who made me decide at a very early age that this is probably something I wanted to do were Stephen King and Douglas Adams, when I was probably, like, ten years old.
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- Nov 07, 2020