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When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don't get wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.
Erik Erikson
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Don't hustle old people.


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Old people should be heard but not seen. Young people should be seen, not heard.


Grace Slick
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My father was a little frightening - a huge man, six foot four - and he looked like God. He was always a visitor, as far as I was concerned, because my parents separated when I was nine. We only became friends when he was old and began to shrink. During the war, he was a BBC war correspondent and did some extraordinary broadcasts.
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I like cups of tea and reading books and poetry and old people things.


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Frankly, I wish they would do 'The Bachelorette' for old people. And I could be the bachelorette.


Julie White
Commissioners are obsessed with young people, which is funny because they don't watch telly - only old people do.
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I hope that when I'm 80 years old, people will still be talking about my wedding.


Jennifer Hudson
I never weigh myself, but the brutal truth of television is that they don't employ old people or fat people.
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Health care does not worry me a great deal. I've been impressed by some wonderful old people.


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Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.


Phyllis Diller
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Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That's probably why they get along so well.
Jonathan Carroll
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I've had old people in my life that I really loved - especially women - so I'm not scared about getting old. It's what's inside that makes us beautiful on the outside.
Monica Bellucci
The Silverlake Conservatory is a nonprofit music school in Los Angeles where we teach music, mostly to kids, but to people of all ages - people who are old, people with beards, all kinds of people.
Flea
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I can see myself as a very old man in a terrific wheelchair. Only, I won't be photographing the tree outside my window, the way Steichen did. I'll be photographing other old people.
Richard Avedon
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We filed a constitutional rights lawsuit on my reservation, and I had to go out and interview all these old people. And I found that many of the old people on my reservation didn't know who was president. That kind of pointed out to me the irrelevance at times of who is in Washington.
Winona LaDuke
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I welcome him like I welcome cold sores. He's from England, he's angry and he's got Mad Power Disease.
Paula Abdul
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At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery.
Andrew Wyeth
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It's human nature to be curious about people, and to be more curious about young people than old people. We want to cheer something on at the same time we want to tear it down. That's just so normal.
Amy Grant
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
Doris Lessing
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