Famous Quotes: Old

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.
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You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
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He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man.
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Was this an old disease, and, if so, which one? If it was new, what did that say about the state of medical knowledge? And in any case, how could physicians make sense of it?
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Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.
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I don't think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don't think they know how to run a trailer park.
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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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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 smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.
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Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.
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I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday.
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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual.
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Family and moral values are so central to everything that I am.
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If you're lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a skill.
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I have a wonderful respect for old people.
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When we were doing 'Freaks and Geeks', I didn't quite understand how movies and TV worked, and I would improvise even if the camera wasn't on me. I thought I was helping the other actors by keeping them on their toes, but nobody appreciated it when I would trip them up. So I was improvising a little bit back then, but not in a productive way.
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You know what makes me feel old? When I see girls who are 20-something, or the new crop of actresses, and think, Aren't we kind of the same age?
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