Quotes 341 till 360 of 1253.
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How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!
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However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents people from distinguishing between order and those who stand for order, and leads them in practice to respect individuals under the pretext of respecting order itself.
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I am an old man and have known a great many sorrows, but most of them never happened.
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I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.
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I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.
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I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and new.
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I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.
Source: As quoted in "Accountable: Making America as Good as Its Promise", Tavis Smiley, Simon and Schuster, 2009, p. 198 -
I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients, not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients, but even to strangers.
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I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.
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I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
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I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal.
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I could name a few songs and say exactly what summer they came out and what boy I thought I was in love with when I was fourteen years old, but I think that music used to be really more a part of the culture when people went out dancing in a different way than they do now.
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I do 100 shows a year, but I do it in fits and starts, as opposed to going on a long run.
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I don't accept at all the quite popular argument that the press is responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. The monarchy's responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. To blame the press is the old thing of blaming the messenger for the message.
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I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap.
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I don't have a permanent place where I live. I'm in Atlanta about six or seven months out of the year. I gave up on my place in New York. I don't have a place in L.A., but sometimes when I go there for the hiatus, I stay in temporary housing. It's all over the place, and I don't know where I live!
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I feel like I almost didn't grow up in the business, because my parents worked so hard at sheltering us from that. I was raised in Connecticut. And I honestly wasn't aware that my dad was a celebrity until I moved to Los Angeles a year ago.
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I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things.
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I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
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