- Hockey
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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
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Europe has to avoid old prejudices and new ones. That means north versus south, rich versus poor.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have had demanding jobs since I was 18 years old. I have had two sick days in all my working life.
- Self
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- Nov 07, 2020
I recognise my old self in a lot of the letters I get from single women who are unrealistic about what they want.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I began to act, I was about 6 years old. Everything you learned, every period of history you studied, you did a play about it.
- Decorated
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's nothing more fun than putting on an old costume and jewelry and being in a house that's decorated from the '20s or '30s or whatever.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm interested in teasing out the contemporary issues in what I'm working on, however old the piece might be, whenever I'm working on it.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back.
- Rock
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not one of those spoiled rock stars who complains about how tedious it is to perform my old hits.
- Playing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been yelled at by coaches since I was 12 years old playing AAU basketball.
- Speak
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- Nov 07, 2020
We were kept at work, and permitted to speak with each other only on such subjects as related to the Convent, and all in the hearing of the old nuns who sat by us.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
The study of expression ought to form a part of the study of psychology, but it also comes within the province of anthropology because the habitual, life-long expressions of the face determine the wrinkles of old age, which are distinctly an anthropological characteristic.
- Expressed
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write.
- Hot
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- Nov 07, 2020
I played Big Mama in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' when I was 20 years old at the University of Michigan.
- Will
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- Nov 07, 2020