Famous Quotes: Old

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
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Being successful at a very young age gave me the confidence and the capability to try out other things.
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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
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Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time.
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Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.
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It's as though all the terms of a family were present at one time rather than his dad and his mum. Not just a present authority, but the resident memory of what qualifies what else is the case.
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Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
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I love all kinds of movies. I'd especially like to make some, you know, violent crime drama.
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Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own.
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The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.
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What's more important than who's going to be the first black manager is who's going to be the first black sports editor of the New York Times.
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Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
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Like all Israelis, I yearn for peace. I see the utmost importance in taking all possible steps that will lead to a solution of the conflict with the Palestinians.
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For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night.
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I recently spent quite a bit of time in Sheffield, England, which is where I'm from. I wouldn't move back there, but it's funny when you spend a bit of time in the place where you were brought up. You kind of realize how that place has had quite a big effect on you or made you a certain way.
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I always keep a ball in the car. You never know.
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The old studios that mass-produced dreams are gone with the wind, just like the old downtown theaters that were the temples of the dreams.
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Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over; but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning; and life at that price is not worth living.
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I am of the very last generation who didn't have computers at school. As we grow old we'll become something of an aberration.
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Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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