Old Days Quotes - Page 2

Forget about what you used to do. Don't make those same mistakes again. Everybody says, "Oh the good old days" - the good old days are right this second! This moment controls the next moment.

Jack LaLanne

Mistake, Next, Forget

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I heard that you did not have a judge to interview this month in the Bulletin, so I thought I'd help out. Besides, with the Stock Market tanking recently, it reminded me of the good old days.

Joseph Force Crater

Judging, Tanks, Months

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Sitting around on your big fat gluteus maximus talking about the good old days. The good old days are right this second. You've got to exercise VIG-OR-OUSLY! Life is tough. Life is a challenge. Life is a battlefield... . Life is an athletic event, and you must train for it.

Jack LaLanne

Exercise, Talking, Athletic

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Whatever happened to the good old days: you know, dirty attics, tuberculosis and general all-round suffering?

Arnold Wesker

Dirty, Suffering, Tuberculosis

"Commercial productions sweep up at theatre awards" by Mark Honigsbaum, www.theguardian.com. November 29, 2005.

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I saw a nice interview with Dave Binney recently. He was saying, "Man it was never easy. It's not like 'Oh wow, the good old days.' What, when certain people couldn't vote?" There was more work for musicians in the '40s, '50s, '60s. But I don't think it was ever easy.

Jon Gordon

Nice, Men, Thinking

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What happened to the good old days of "Woman as passive recipient?" What happened to being courted? What happened to sitting back under a parasol and granting someone a chance to try to win us over?

Cathy Guisewite

Winning, Trying, Sitting

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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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I know what it's like to have someone coming home who looks at you not in the way they used to in the old days, and I've seen my own face contorted with sadness and rage in the mirror.

Jane Birkin

Sad, Home, Mirrors

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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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In the old days drivers were fat and tires were skinny.

Jose Froilan Gonzalez

Racing, Skinny, Tire

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Do I regret taking the company public? Yes and no. Yes, because it put us under enormous pressure for a young company to go public at that point in its history, something you never could have done in the old days.

David Talbot

Regret, Yes And No, Done

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The good old days were never that good, believe me. The good new days are today, and better days are coming tomorrow. Our greatest songs are still unsung.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Song, Believe, New Day

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In the old days all you needed was a handshake. Nowadays you need forty lawyers.

Jimmy Hoffa

Power, Needs, Management

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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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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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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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In the old days, advertisers ventured on their own opinions. The few guess right, the many wrong. Those were the time of advertising disaster

Claude C. Hopkins

Opinion, Advertising, Disaster

Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Claude C. Hopkins, John E. Kennedy, Albert D. Lasker “Scientific Advertising Origins”, Lulu.com

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It's a dimissive term to say the Irish team are plucky because it rings back to the old days when we went out and gave it a lash, set our hair on fire and ran after the opposition for 20 minutes and, if they survived that, they beat us by 50 points.

Eddie O'Sullivan

Team, Fire, Hair

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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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It was clear: I was sick. I never used to dream. They say in the old days it was the most normal thing in the world to have dreams. Which makes sense: Their whole life was some kind of horrible merry-go-round of green, orange, Buddha, juice. But today we know that dreams point to a serious mental illness. And I know that up to now my brain has checked out chronometrically perfect, a mechanism without a speck of dust.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

Dream, Orange, Dust

Yevgeny Zamyatin (1993). “We: New Edition”, p.46, Penguin

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It's sadness coming on like the old days, the vast seamless hopeless weight of sadness looking for a place to rest.

Tim Winton

Sadness, Weight, Hopeless

Tim Winton (2014). “Cloudstreet: Picador Classic”, p.281, Pan Macmillan

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I long for the old days of Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn, stars who had real glamour and mystique. We only knew so much about their lives; the rest was a mystery.

Pixie Lott

Stars, Real, Long

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