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  • Burton Cummings When I'm not touring, I sing at home, either at the piano or I'll pick up my guitar, singing old Buck Owens songs.
    Burton Cummings
    Canadian musician, singer and songwriter (1947 - )
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  • Ben Shapiro When Limbaugh entered the world of talk radio, the AM dial was essentially moribund. He turned it into a weapon for conservatism, and in the process, led the revolution that has ended in the disintegration of the old media monopoly.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Alexander Pope When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.
    Thoughts on Various Subjects (1727)
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • William Blake When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Barbara Mikulski When one gets old and they are sick, there are not many things they can count on but they should be able to count on Social Security. Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.
    Barbara Mikulski
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Zora Neale Hurston When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
    Zora Neale Hurston
    American novelist, short story writer, folklorist and anthropologist (1891 - 1960)
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  • Cary Grant When people tell you how young you look, they are telling you how old you are.
    Cary Grant
    English-born American actor (1904 - 1986)
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  • Caroline Lawrence When someone talks about Western films, you probably think of those old black and white cowboy films your granddad likes. But the Western is a wonderful genre because it is usually a story of a lone hero fighting against corruption in a dangerous world.
    Caroline Lawrence
    English American author (1954 - )
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  • Samuel Ullman When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.
    Samuel Ullman
    American businessman, poet and humanitarian (1840 - 1924)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter. The body is an old crock that nobody will miss. I have never known a man to think of himself when dying. Never.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Amartya Sen When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.
    Amartya Sen
    Indian economist and philospher
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  • William Butler Yeats When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Cameron Sinclair When you as a designer design something that burdens a community with maintenance and old world technology, basically failed developed world technology, then you will crush that community way beyond bad design; you'll destroy the economics of that community, and often the community socially is broken.
    Cameron Sinclair
    British architect and writer (1973 - )
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  • Ruth Gordon When you finally learn how to act, you're too old for the good parts.
    Ruth Gordon
    American actress (1896 - 1985)
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  • William Somerset Maugham When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Joyce Carol Oates When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.
    Joyce Carol Oates
    American writer (1938 - )
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  • Brit Hume When you're five years old, and you're running a business that people did not think there was room for, getting attention is not a bad thing. Letting it be known by whatever colorful language is necessary is not a bad thing.
    Brit Hume
    American journalist and political commentator (1943 - )
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  • Carine Roitfeld When you're getting old, obviously you try to put on the best cream, you have massages, you try to stay beautiful, but I think wrinkles can sometimes be more beautiful than having none.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Mark Twain When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Washington Irving Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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