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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the early Europeans first met Africans, at the crossroads of history, it was a respectful meeting and the Africans were not slaves. Their nations were old before Europe was born.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't really listen to my old music.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are no new facts about the Kennedys, only new attitudes, a literature that, like the automobile industry, puts new bodies on old chassis.
- Phone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even though I'm totally dependent on modern electronic gizmos, from my laptop to my iPod to my cell phone, I love to embrace old technology or no technology at all.
- Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
I collect old rusty hand tools and sharpen and polish them, then use them to build things out of walnut and cherry that I harvest from fallen trees in the woods.
- Saturday
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those old westerns are the movies I grew up with on Saturday afternoons at the theater.
- Here
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm from Cebu. I was one year old when I came here to Cebu from Fujian, south China. I'm Cebuano. I left for Manila when I was 22.
- Remember
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ever since I was 7 years old, I was writing. I remember being in the basement of my house, this dank, horrible basement, putting on plays with not-very-willing participants, and I would promise kids in the neighborhood that I'd play Nintendo 64 with them after we'd rehearse this stupid play that I wrote.
- Fool
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was interviewing an elder, Chief Fool's Crow, who was the ceremonial chief. He was 103 years old. I was getting his information on the history of Lakota horses. He told me the story of Hidalgo and Frank Hopkins.
- Now
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm now comfortable playing a lot of the old songs, and I've gotten out a lot of the old equipment.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.
- Curtains
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- Nov 07, 2020