- 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
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are an awful lot of bands out there doing our old act. An awful lot of fake moustaches and underwhelming performances.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one realized that I needed eyeglasses until I was 12 years old. My parents were writers, so I was around the sounds of words and developed a vocabulary with my sense of hearing. I play guitar by ear.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up in the Midwest, I was very close to my maternal grandmother, who, as a young widow running a small business in 1920s Kansas City, had known firsthand the old Pendergast regime and its classic combine of politics and organized crime.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, you know what, I'm 60 years old, and I've been interested in politics since I was on my daddy's knee. During the 1948 election, we were praying for Truman. I know a lot about politics.
- Get
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hope I die before I get old.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most churches are run by preachers who went to seminaries, who decided to be preachers when they were 18, 19, 20 years old. These preachers never met a payroll. They don't know how the world works.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the most part, this record is autobiographical. At some point, the story of 'The Houston Kid' takes my experiences from 6 to 15 years old, and it sort of cross-pollinates with other kids in my neighborhood. It fuses their experiences with what was going on in my life.
- Ego
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 22 years old, and I first got to Nashville, women or girls were objects. It was a conquest. My emptiness inside and the external manifestation of my ego was to somehow conquer women.
- Nov 07, 2020
We got an old saying: I would rather you punch my teeth down my throat than throw a popcorn punch!
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It took me nine years to get through the fourth grade. When I got into television commercials, I had to take a crash course in reading. I was 32 years old, and I couldn't read the cue cards.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
At what point is a person old enough to say, 'I own my body, and I get to do what I want with it'?
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020