Old Days Quotes - Page 5

• I have compromised down the line. I've disliked it intensely in the old days when you were trying to talk race relations and they would not allow you to talk about the legitimacies of race relations. In the old days, you didn't talk about black, you talked about Eskimo or American Indian, and the American Indian was assumed not to be a problem area.

  Rod Serling

  Race, Black, Trying

  Source: www.rodserling.com

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• The pandering and ignorance-across-party-lines represented by the John McCain-Hillary Clinton united front for a temporary reduction in the gasoline tax should make Americans hold their heads in their hands and moan [...] Please. This is embarrassing. It makes me long for the good old days of debating about flag pins on the lapel.

  James Fallows

  Party, Ignorance, Hands

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• If we believe the Bible, we must accept the fact that, in the old days, God and his angels came to humans in their sleep and made themselves known in dreams.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Dream, Believe, Sleep

  Abraham Lincoln, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (1950). “The Lincoln treasury”

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• My personal style is over-the-top dowager. The old days they said get dressed and take one thing off, I say get dressed and put one thing on.

  Joan Rivers

  Style, Said, Over The Top

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• We are digital archives of the African Pliocene, even of Devonian seas; walking repositories of wisdom out of the old days. You could spend a lifetime reading in this ancient library and die unsated by the wonder of it.

  Richard Dawkins

  Reading, Sea, Library

  Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love”, p.103, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Used to be in the old days, only the pulp writers wrote like machines. Now everybody is expected to be literary John Henrys. So in that context someone like me is an anomaly.

  Junot Diaz

  Machines, Anomalies, Used

  Interview with Gina Frangello, therumpus.net. September 30, 2012.

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• The old actors in the old days, they used to go on tour, to get the play ready for the West End, and to learn their lines. The old timers used to say, "Be very careful, dear boy, what you get in to during the first weeks of a long tour."

  Tom Courtenay

  Boys, Play, Long

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I am now of all humors that have showed themselves humors
  since the old days of goodman Adam to the pupil age of this
  present twelve o'clock at midnight.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Age, Midnight

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Henry IV”, p.69, Penguin

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• The experts or the cynics say, "Oh, those were the good old days, that's when drivers were really drivers. They didn't have all these aids." You know what? What we had, we did the best with and when we got more we provided what was needed.

  Mario Andretti

  Experts, Aids, Needed

  "The Mario Andretti Indy 500 Interview: Part II". Interview with Steven Capwell, www.littlepocketguide.com.

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• Mem'ry
  All alone in the moonlight
  I can smile at the old days
  Life was beautiful then.

  Trevor Nunn

  Beautiful, Song, Memories

  "Song: 'Memory'". 1981.

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• Even in the old days, we'd make an effort. When I'd go out to score on Eighth
  Avenue, I'd get my junk and a chocolate doughnut. But I'd always also pick up one of
  those pita-pocket health food sandwiches. You know, something really good for me.

  Steven Tyler

  Effort, Chocolate, Pockets

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• Everybody thinks making films back to back is a big deal but they did it all the time in the old days.

  Clint Eastwood

  Thinking, Film, Bigs

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• In the old days we used to get more referrals, because people had insurance that paid for therapy. Now they belong to HMOs, and we can only be affiliated with a few HMOs.

  Albert Ellis

  People, Referrals, Used

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• We didn't used to be so precious about women in comedy back in the old days.

  Paul Feig

  Comedy, Used, Used To Be

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• But in the old days, visual artists used to fall into two distinct categories: those of us who created images with cameras and those of us who applied stuff onto other stuff, with brushes or other tools.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Fall, Artist, Two

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• They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Death, Country, Sweet

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades”, p.189, Simon and Schuster

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  I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Guitar, Wish, Cotton

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• I think in the old days, the nexus of weirdness ran through Southern California, and to a degree New York City. I think it's changed so that every bizarre story in the country now has a Florida connection. I don't know why, except it must be some inversion of magnetic poles or something.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Country, New York, Thinking

  "Carl Hiaasen reports from 'Paradise': Con artists and land developers". Interview with Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. November 9, 2001.

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• In the old days they, the promoters, wanted more and more from me. They wanted me to jump or spill my blood and break my bones. Every time they wanted me to jump further, and further, and further. Hell, they thought my bike had wings.

  Evel Knievel

  Blood, Wings, Bones

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• No one tells you that your life is effectively over when you have a child: that you're never going to draw another complacent breath again... or that whatever level of hypochondria and rage you'd learned to repress and live with is going to seem like the good old days.

  Anne Lamott

  Children, Levels, Life Is

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• In the old days, the media is who held people accountable when they lied in politics. That isn't happening anymore.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Media, People, Lied

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• If you look at life as a whole, we have to admit life's good where we live. But in an evil Twilight Zone kind of way there's nothing else to choose. In the old days there was always a Bohemia or a creative under-world to join if the mainstream life wasn't your bag - or a life of crime, or even religion.And now there's only the system. All other options have evaporated. For most people it's the System or what... death? There's nothing. There's no way out now.

  Douglas Coupland

  Fear, Twilight, People

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• The way prices are rising, the good old days are last week.

  Les Dawson

  Rising, Way, Lasts

  Les Dawson (2012). “Les Dawson's Joke Book”, p.22, Michael O'Mara Books

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• Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.

  Jim Carrey

  Obscurity, Poverty, Life Is

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• The main thing is to get what little happiness there is out of life in this wartorn world because ‘these are the good old days’ now.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  World, Littles, Good Old Days

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