- Must
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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
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was 16 years old, and I was just flailing around, looking for an interest. I heard, you know, these jazz records. They were modern records, at the time in the '50s, and I realized that I didn't fully get what was going on. But I liked a lot of what I heard.
- First Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
I graduated in 1952 and went to Europe, with Niki and our first child Laura, who was then a year old.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised in Brooklyn and in Baltimore. My father was a bookkeeper. When I was 36 years old, my mother told me I was adopted.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave.
- Fool
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's an old Elizabethan idea. The fool is the only one who is allowed to make fun of the king because he is a fool. I can say whatever I want about anybody else because I'm just an idiot talking - I'm not insisting that I'm any smarter than anyone else. It's satire.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.
- Champion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started wrestling when I was 15 years old, and back when I was world champion, I was wrestling 7 nights a week.
- Nov 07, 2020
I've been in this business since I was 15 years old and will continue to be in it until I say I'm done.
- Over
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- Nov 07, 2020
I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned to play the git-tar from an old colored man in the streets of Montgomery. He was named Tetot, and he played in a colored street band.
- Dark
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandfather always sang about the light, and for some reason, I don't know why, it even goes back to when I was seven, eight years old, I've always been attracted to the dark.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020