- Exhibit
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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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote a story about a man who is orphaned during the 1927 Mississippi River flood in Louisiana, and he's on the banks of levee, and he's starving. And there are other people starving, too. And he's so desperate, he's seven years old, that he finds a pig that's been abandoned. He kills it with a hammer, and he drags it back.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents wanted us to be pool-safe, so I had lessons when I was 18 months old. I would like to share with all the parents out there that I was that kid who cried during every one of my lessons. But it wasn't an option for my parents; we had a backyard pool, so I needed to learn how to swim.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most middle-aged white men probably don't know about little old Stormzy from London.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bands like Little Mix do represent youth culture because loads of 16 year old girls listen to them.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
Vince McMahon is a workaholic; he sleeps 4 hours a night. The last thing that you want to tell the old man is that you are burned out - you need a break.
- Nineties
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had had since the nineties.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in New York, in the Village, and I started going to Stella Adler pretty young. I was 13 or 14 years old. But I was also really shy when I was growing up.
- Glued
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am old enough to have grown up glued to a screen offering only three alternatives, each of which was an all-powerful national network that seemed permanently ensconced in the entertainment stratosphere.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Inevitably, we will spend a multiple of the amount we used to drop on a new router once the old one petered out. The New Wifi is the $5 latte to the standard cup of coffee.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020