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  • Alexander Pope There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, ''Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.''
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Arthur Hailey There I was, an 18-year-old mimic rooming with a blind whistler.
    Arthur Hailey
    British-Canadian novelist (1920 - 2004)
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  • Bo Bennett There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Hubert Humphrey There is in every American, I think, something of the old Daniel Boone - who, when he could see the smoke from another chimney, felt himself too crowded and moved further out into the wilderness.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • T. S. Eliot There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Euripides There is nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Seneca There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Ben Affleck There is nothing worse that a thirteen-year-old boy. You're embarrassed by your parents, and you're trying to find your independance because, deep inside, you are so dependent on your mom.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Peace Pilgrim There is something to that old saying that hate injures the hater, not the hated.
    Peace Pilgrim
    American activist, mystic and pacifist
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  • Carl Edward Sagan There is today-in a time when old beliefs are withering-a kind of philosophical hunger, a need to know who we are and how we got here. It is an on-going search, often unconscious, for a cosmic perspective for humanity.
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  • Ernest Hemingway There isn't any symbolism. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are all sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is shit. What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you know.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Bernard Hill There was an undercurrent of poverty throughout my childhood. We lived with my grandmother in her two-bedroom flat, and I slept with my parents. We had cheap holidays, I had to save for my bike and get a paper round as soon as I was old enough.
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  • J. B. Priestley There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age I missed it coming and going.
    J. B. Priestley
    English novelist, playwright and scriptwriter (1894 - 1984)
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  • Aaron Sorkin There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.
    Aaron Sorkin
    American screenwriter, director, producer, and playwright (1961 - )
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  • Beth Broderick There's a lot more to being a woman than being 18 years old on the cover of Maxim magazine.
    Beth Broderick
    American actress (1959 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein There's an old adage about speakers: You won't remember what they said, but you'll never forget how they made you feel. Trump knows that in his bones. He gives his supporters - and they are growing - a terrific feeling of safety and security, along with a laugh and a smile.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Ben Stiller There's an old saying in Hollywood: It's not the length of your film, it's how you use it.
    Reported in Inside Oscar 2
    Ben Stiller
    American actor, comedian, film producer, film director, and writer (1965 - )
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  • Ben Lovett There's no platform for an unsigned music scene in the main cities - it's all hyped acts or showcases behind closed doors. I read about artists that are doing it 'the old-fashioned way' and touring, as if that's a unique thing to do - well, that should just be the way it is.
    Ben Lovett
    American recording artist, film composer, songwriter and producer (1978 - )
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  • Edith Wharton There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
    Edith Wharton
    American Author (1862 - 1937)
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