Getting Old Quotes - Page 15

• It used to be 65 when you went into retirement. Before that, when you got into your 50s, you were getting older.

  Davy Jones

  Retirement, Getting Older, Used

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• When you start thinking about death more than sex, you know you're getting old.

  Nick Nolte

  Sex, Thinking, Knows

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Getting old is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out of breath, but the view is much better!

  Ingrid Bergman

  Climbing, Views, Mountain

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• I suppose playing an older man is a way of preparing myself for getting older.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Men, Getting Older, Way

  "Leonardo DiCaprio On Playing A Repressed Gay Man". Interview with John Scott Lewinski, www.askmen.com.

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• It's horrible getting older. I mean, it's wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it's horrible losing your looks.

  Erica Jong

  Mean, Circles, Getting Older

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• Basically, when I'm writing something, I think about what is the subject of the piece. The subject of the piece is our fear of getting old, which is a variation on our fear of dying.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Writing, Thinking, Dying

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.

  Erica Jong

  Cycle Of Life, Understanding, Getting Older

  "Erica Jong is back - as fearless as ever". Interview with Carole Burns, www.washingtonpost.com. September 8, 2015.

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• I'm getting old. And I'm disappointed in everything just the way old people traditionally, boringly are. That bothers me because is it too traditional? Am I not fighting hard enough? I don't feel the fight. I don't feel it.

  Maurice Sendak

  Fighting, People, Way

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There's another part of getting older that's just wonderful. Which is you see the way the stories turn out with peoples' lives.

  Erica Jong

  Getting Older, Stories, Way

  Interview with Whitney Joiner, logger.believermag.com. October 17, 2013.

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• Why is it that private insurance companies are not in trouble because people are getting older? Aren't they subject to the same demographics? The difference is that they've accumulated a fund, not a pay-in, pay-out system.

  Milton Friedman

  Differences, People, Getting Older

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Maybe I've lost a little, but I think everyone does over time. People have been writing that I'm getting old every year, and eventually they're going to be right. There's nobody in this game that's doing the same things they once did in the peak years of their career.

  Randy Johnson

  Writing, Thinking, Years

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• Maybe it's because I'm getting older, I'm finding enjoyment in things that stop time. Just the simple act of tasting a glass of wine is its own event. You're not downing a glass of wine in the midst of doing something else.

  David Hyde Pierce

  Wine, Simple, Glasses

  "Locations: A Wine Life Hack" by Tara Fass, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 25, 2016.

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• Maybe I'm just getting old, but I remember when your average NFL player would come to the sideline, spit out three bicuspids, Scotch-tape his humerus together and get back out there.

  Rick Reilly

  Player, Nfl, Scotch

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• Act as young as you feel. You're not getting older; you're getting more entitled to be your fabulous self.

  Gwen Stefani

  Self, Getting Older, Fabulous

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• One of the things that goes with getting older is that one becomes more conservative - and I emphasise that when I use the word conservative I do not mean politically.

  Jeffrey Bernard

  Mean, Getting Older, Use

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• You know you're getting old when kids start to dress like you used to and movies are made about your teen life.

  David Brenner

  Inspirational, Motivational, Family

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It was about the preciousness of that, and how they viewed those birds as art, as something valuable. I didn't care one way or another back then, but now, thinking about my grandparents - who are still alive but getting older - I see the birds as sort of time capsules. Now I go home during the holidays and they hold a lot of weight in terms of nostalgia and memory. Now they mean everything.

  Nick Cave

  Art, Memories, Holiday

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• At 50 you now have realized
  ?Getting old isn't fair?
  And that it's hard to make a comeback
  ?When you haven't gone anywhere

  John Walter Bratton

  Birthday, Age, Gone

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• Twilight is about getting older and relationships - not about a murder mystery. It's about love when you reach a certain age; nothing is in primary colors.

  Robert Benton

  Twilight, Color, Murder Mysteries

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Cancer got me over unimportant fears, like getting old.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Cancer, Survival, Unimportant

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• Everything runs its course. We had told a lot of stories that happened in our life. My kid was getting older, and we were running out of stories to tell.

  Howie Mandel

  Running, Kids, Getting Older

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• One of the few graces of getting old - and God knows there are few graces - is that if you've worked hard and kept your nose to the grindstone, something happens: The body gets old but the creative mechanism is refreshed, smoothed and oiled and honed. That is the grace. That is what's happening to me.

  Maurice Sendak

  Creative, Grace, Noses

  "Interview: Why Is Maurice Sendak So Incredibly Angry?". Interview with Leonard S. Marcus, Parenting Magazine (October 1993); later quoted in Leonard S. Marcus "Ways of Telling: Conversations on the Art of the Picture Book" (p. 181), 2002.

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• I do sometimes worry about getting older and the fact that I am not going to be a model for ever...[But] The fact that Helen Mirren can look so great in swimwear is an amazing boost for all women.

  Kelly Brook

  Thinking, Worry, Getting Older

  "Kelly Brook talks bikinis, bodies and reckons having 'boob jobs and botox is really sad'" by James Robertson, www.mirror.co.uk. March 31, 2013.

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• I don't think of getting older as looking better or worse; it's just different. You change, and that's OK. Life is about change. I don't have anxiety about it, so I'm not running to get Botox. Maybe that will change, but I don't think so. I feel comfortable in my skin and comfortable with ageing, so I think it's okay that I get wrinkles.

  Heidi Klum

  Running, Thinking, Wrinkles

  Self Magazine, www.self.com. December 2010.

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• Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.

  Kate Beckinsale

  Thinking, Choices, Creepy

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