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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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• There won't be any more white folks around who think the 1950s were the good old days, because there won't be any more white folks around who actually remember them.

  Tim Wise

  Thinking, White, Remember

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• It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to get records louder and louder to overcome that.

  T Bone Burnett

  Always Trying, Ironic, Overcoming

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• I used to have trust with reporters. Give them scoops. Those were the old days. It's very strange, when you give a story and it doesn't come out the right way.

  Joe Arpaio

  Giving, Stories, Way

  "Joe Arpaio is tough on prisoners and undocumented immigrants. What about crime?" by William Finnegan, www.newyorker.com. July 20, 2009.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I wouldn't go back on my old days, though; everybody needs to have their wild years. It's just a question of when and I'd rather have had them early than be doing it as a mid-life crisis type thing.

  Rob Lowe

  Years, Needs, Type

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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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• 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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• The old fellow who was cadging drinks from me the other night at the Cafe Royal told me he had known Julian Bern's people in the old days at Rome.

  Robert Briffault

  Book, Night, Rome

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• But I knew - in the old days, if a song was a good song, I don't care if it was 'Yellow Submarine' or, you know, or 'The Times They Are a-Changin' or 'Don't Be Cruel', you knew it, you know? You heard that song, and you were talking about it, and you knew it.

  Don McLean

  Song, Talking, Yellow

  "'American Pie' Doesn't Belong To Saratoga Springs". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. December 1, 2011.

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• A lot of people live much more simply than in the old days. That doesn't bother me. Keeping busy is the problem. Television guest shot fees are going down. You can do a dozen guest shots a year, but you're not making that much money.

  Harry Morgan

  Years, People, Television

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 1976.

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