Old Days Quotes - Page 6

• In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind.

  Henri Poincare

  People, Mind, Function

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• I remember in the old days, when we were promoting a show, we'd be out taping flyers to high-school lockers. Now you just announce the show online, and it's a full house.

  Kerry King

  School, House, Lockers

  "Kerry King of Slayer". Interview with Leonard Pierce, music.avclub.com. December 8, 2009.

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• Those [old] days are gone... accept the reality and do it.

  Ava DuVernay

  Reality, Gone, Accepting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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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• In the old days people had far fewer channels in which to place their imaginative time. There's definitely more competition for time . . . and yet people seem to be reading [books] as much.

  Douglas Coupland

  Book, Reading, People

  Source: feathertale.com

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• In the old days, a con man would be good looking, suave, well dressed, well spoken and presented themselves real well. Those days are gone because it's not necessary. The people committing these crimes are doing them from hundreds of miles away.

  Frank Abagnale

  Real, Men, People

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• I don't think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do is it needs to make sure that the pricing is fair, that you don't have monopolies out there, so that people don't have a chance to compete fairly.

  Dan Glickman

  Thinking, Government, People

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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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• Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.

  Camille Paglia

  Wise, Men, White Man

  "Obama’s Hit — and Big Miss". Salon Column, www.salon.com. June 10, 2009.

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• When it comes to jobs, President Obama makes the Jimmy Carter years look like good old days. If we fired Jimmy Carter then, why would we rehire Barack Obama now?

  Paul Ryan

  Jobs, Years, President

  "Democratic National Convention Coverage; "Are You Better Off Than You Were Four Years Ago?". Live Coverage of Obama's Speech in Norfolk, Virginia, edition.cnn.com. September 4, 2012.

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• In the old days, when a star left a still-thriving hit show, they'd celebrate by killing him or her off. But 'The Office' dispatched Michael Scott in a crueler and more final way: they made him normal. Since we're talking about Michael Scott, 'normal' might be stretching it, obviously.

  Rob Sheffield

  Stars, Talking, Office

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• In the old days, when you took out a mortgage, it was probably through a local bank or a credit union, and whoever gave you your loan held on to it for life. If you lost your job or got too sick to work and suddenly had trouble making your payments, you could call a human being and work things out.

  Matt Taibbi

  Jobs, Sick, Credit

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• In the bad old days, men kept women from choosing to work. In the bad new days, women keep women from choosing to stay home.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Home, Men, New Day

  Jennifer Crusie (2007). “Manhunting”, p.188, HQN Books

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• Was it Aristotle who said the human soul is composed of reason, will, and desire?” “No, that was Plato. Aristotle and Plato were as different as Mel Tormé and Bing Crosby. In any case, things were a lot simpler in the old days,” Komatsu said. “Wouldn’t it be fun to imagine reason, will, and desire engaged in a fierce debate around a table?

  Haruki Murakami

  Fun, Plato, Soul

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• In general, I would think that at present prose writers are much in advance of the poets. In the old days, I read more poetry than prose, but now it is in prose where you find things being put together well, where there is great ambition, and equal talent. Poets have gotten so careless, it is a disgrace. You can’t pick up a page. All the words slide off.

  William H. Gass

  Ambition, Thinking, Together

  "William Gass, The Art of Fiction No. 65". Interview with Thomas LeClair, www.theparisreview.org. Summer 1977.

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• Wow. When he started looking back on the war with Kronos as the good old days--that was sad.

  Rick Riordan

  War, Wow, Looking Back

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• For the crown of our life as it closes Is darkness, the fruit thereof dust; No thorns go as deep as a rose's, And love is more cruel than lust. Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Time, Love Is, Dust

  'Dolores' (1866) st. 20

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• Alas! those good old days are gone, when a murderer could wipe the stain from his name and soothe his trouble to sleep simply by getting out his blocks and mortar and building an addition to a church.

  Mark Twain

  Block, Sleep, Names

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• I told my wife 'hey honey come on, let's make love like the old days.' She asked me for 50 bucks.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Wife, Dating, Making Love

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• When we are young, friends are, like everything else, a matter of course. In the old days we know what it means to have them.

  Edvard Grieg

  Real, Mean, Young Friends

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• Don't focus on the good old days, look forward towards the good new days.

  Joel Osteen

  Heartbroken, New Day, Focus

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• The fight between life and death is to the finish, and death ultimately is the victor . . . I do not deplore the passing of these crude old days.

  Jack Johnson

  Fighting, Life And Death, Passing

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• The old days were the old days. And they were great days. But now is now.

  Don Rickles

  Great Day

  "What I've Learned: Don Rickles" By Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• People want to go back to those old days, but it's probably not going to happen.

  Philip Yancey

  People, Want, Happens

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• THE GUYS IN THE OLD DAYS WHO BELIEVED THE EARTH WAS ROUND MUST HAVE HAD A VERY ROUGH TIME WITH ACADEMIA

  Jacque Fresco

  Guy, Academia, Earth

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