Quotes with old-timers

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  • Bria Skonberg People hear traditional jazz and think it's stale, where there are so many ways it can be opened up. With New Orleans and old-time grooves, there's no limit in what can be done with that. I want to break the stereotype of what traditional jazz is.
    Bria Skonberg
    Canadian jazz trumpeter and vocalist (1983 - )
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  • Bill Irwin People keep telling us, that they didn't know when they were booking tickets for it, but afterwards they say that they've had no sense that they were watching an old fashioned play.
    Bill Irwin
    American actor, clown and comedian (1950 - )
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  • Brandi Carlile People that could yodel always fascinated me. People that could sing loud always fascinated me. So I started trying to mimic at a really young age: 6, 7 years old.
    Brandi Carlile
    American singer-songwriter and producer (1981 - )
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  • Billy Corgan People try to make a big deal, like I don't want to play my old songs. That's not it. I don't want to play my old songs if that's my only option. That's a different thing.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Philip Larkin Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.
    Philip Larkin
    English poet, novelist and librarian (1922 - 1985)
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  • Pearl S. Buck Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
    Pearl S. Buck
    American novelist (1892 - 1973)
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  • Olive Schreiner Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.
    Olive Schreiner
    South African author and anti-war campaigner (1855 - 1920)
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  • Alan Cohen Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but of unlearning old limits.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Eugene Wigner Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Arthur Koestler Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.
    Arthur Koestler
    Hungarian Born British Writer (1905 - 1983)
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  • Jean Anouilh Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that it's enough to be just a little bit wounded and sad in order to obtain everything without fighting for it.
    Jean Anouilh
    French playwright (1910 - 1987)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Arthur E. Morgan Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Arne Jacobsen Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.
    Arne Jacobsen
    Danish architect and designer (1902 - 1971)
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  • Francis Bacon Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • William Blake Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Charles A. Stoddard Rapidity does not always mean progress, and hurry is akin to waste. The old fable of the hare and the tortoise is just as good now, and just as true, as when it was first written.
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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