- 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
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had an awkward moment when I got a phone call from the person pretending to be Winnie Mandela. 'Winnie' sounded about 12 years old, unfortunately - she'd probably been pushed to the telephone because she was the only one who spoke English.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Medicaid is a vital safety net for New York's poor and vulnerable, young and old alike.
- Hard Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many of my old friends are gone now. I have a hard time dealing with the fact that they're just not there to talk to. I can't call them up for a rabbit-skin glue recipe anymore.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Airport security is a particular bugbear. At the risk of sounding like a grumpy old man, while I can see that averting terrorism is manifestly important, the measures taken seem, simultaneously, absurd.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I ran into my old friend Michael Kenneth Williams, who I worked with on a show called 'The Philanthropist' for NBC. He was going to be doing this show called 'Hap and Leonard.' He was playing Leonard, and they were looking for somebody to play Hap.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The New Age? It's just the old age stuck in a microwave oven for fifteen seconds.
- Busy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Week by week my orders grew, and the flat of the old mill soon assumed a very busy aspect.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't get me started on Americans and war. One of the things I learnt over in Italy is how they mythologised the war so that it's all good old gung-ho guys from Omaha and ignored everyone else's role.
- Library
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the most exciting intellectual moments of my career was my 1948 discovery of Knut Wicksell's unknown and untranslated dissertation, 'Finanztheoretische Untersuchungen,' buried in the dusty stacks of Chicago's old Harper Library.
- Ireland
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone, young and old, must have access to the knowledge and skills to participate in the evolving economy.
- Nov 07, 2020