Old Guys Quotes - Page 3

• Maybe one day the old guys will die off and things will change, 'cuz it's officially getting scary over here in America.

  Hank Williams III

  America, Guy, Scary

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• I'm officially near-famous. If you've got four year old kids and you've got cable, then you've got no choice but to know who I am. But if you're one of my peers - a 26-year old guy who lives in Manhattan - you have no idea who I am. I'm only famous if you're four.

  Steve Burns

  Kids, Ideas, Who I Am

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• My biggest complaint about drivers out in the country has tended to be that they're not in a great hurry to get where they're going. This is particularly true of old men wearing hats. If you get behind an old guy wearing a hat on a winding road, you might as well just phone ahead on your cell and tell your friends you're going to be late.

  Linwood Barclay

  Country, Men, Phones

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• It sounds strange to say it, but you can be in a war zone and have a lot of fun. Even though war is essentially pain on all sides, human beings have the capacity to enjoy themselves. The soldiers are mostly young people, full of enthusiasm and energy, and that's an exciting thing for an old guy like me.

  Bruce Cockburn

  Fun, Pain, War

  "Gavin's Woodpile". www.brucecockburn.org. December 15, 2012.

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• I'm an old guy. I've been doing this a long time. And I don't hustle and I don't bustle. I have seen the people who hustle and bustle, and they are already gone, at a young age.

  Kumar Pallana

  Hustle And Bustle, Long, People

  The Believer interview, www.believermag.com. March 2003.

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• We get these questions a lot from the enterprising young. It's a very intelligent question: You look at some old guy who's rich and you ask, 'How can I become like you, except faster?'
  Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up. Discharge your duties faithfully and well. Step by step you get ahead, but not necessarily in fast spurts. But you build discipline by preparing for fast spurts... Slug it out one inch at a time, day by day, at the end of the day -- if you live long enough -- most people get what they deserve.

  Charlie Munger

  Intelligent, Discipline, Long

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• I was in a bar and I said to a friend, 'You know, we've become those 40-year-old guys we used to look at and say, 'Isn't it sad?'

  George Clooney

  Years, Guy, Looks

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• Tradition or not, I sometimes thought putting children on an old guy’s lap was already creepy enough. We didn’t need to mix alcohol into it.

  Richelle Mead

  Children, Guy, Alcohol

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Succubus Revealed”, p.2, Kensington Books

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• Cynicism is kind of like folding your arms and stepping back and commenting on things, like the old guys in 'The Muppets,' just throwing out comments all the time, whereas there are other people on the ground really trying to affect things and improve their lives and the lives of other people. I think it's noble and I think it's cool.

  Josh Radnor

  Thinking, People, Guy

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

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• I'm waiting to get old - I think old guys with tattoos look good.

  Ryan Gosling

  Tattoo, Thinking, Guy

  "Michelle Williams & Ryan Gosling: Heart to Heart" by Lynn Hirschberg, www.wmagazine.com. October 1, 2010.

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• But when I am around strangers, I turn into a conversational Mount St. Helens. I'm dormant, dormant, quiet, quiet, old-guy loners build log cabins on the slopes of my silence and then, boom, it's 1980. Once I erupt, they'll be wiping my verbal ashes off their windshields as far away as North Dakota.

  Sarah Vowell

  Silence, Guy, Loner

  FaceBook post by Sarah Vowell from May 18, 2015

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• Before I began The Cider House Rules, I thought I wanted to write about a father-son relationship that was closer, more conflicted, and ultimately more loving, than most. Then I began to think of a relationship between an old orphanage director and an unadoptable orphan - a kid who goes out into the world and fails and keeps coming back, so that the old guy ends up with someone he's got to keep.

  John Irving

  Father, Kids, Writing

  Interview with Suzanne Herel, www.motherjones.com. May/June 1997.

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• A lot of old guys in movies are like cowboys - they talk like cowboys and they dress like cowboys.

  Val Kilmer

  Cowboy, Guy, Dresses

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• I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Movie, Golf, Play

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• We all experience many freakish and unexpected events - you have to be open to suffering a little. The philosopher Schopenhauer talked about how out of the randomness, there is an apparent intention in the fate of an individual that can be glimpsed later on. When you are an old guy, you can look back, and maybe this rambling life has some through-line. Others can see it better sometimes. But when you glimpse it yourself, you see it more clearly than anyone.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Fate, Guy, Suffering

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• Not all writers are artists. But all of us like the idea of somebody in the year 2283 blowing the dust off one of our books, thumbing through it and exclaiming, “Hey, listen to what this old guy had to say back in the twentieth century!

  William Attwood

  Book, Artist, Dust

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• Every man has to settle down eventually. You know why you gotta settle
  down eventually? Because you don't want to be the old guy in the club.
  You know what I'm talking about. Every club you go into, there's always
  some old guy. He ain't really old, just a little too old to be in the
  club.

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Humor, Men

  "Chris Rock: Bring the Pain". TV Special, June 1, 1996.

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• I like playing on this team. We actually been doin' real good. Got a different mix here. Most important thing is you gotta keep pickin' up in paces. That's why we're playing contentious play. We got top names, guys can still hit in the majors, guys been out of the game hittin' the ball, shockin' it. Don't have no old, old guys. Not sayin' they don't get a good job done. Fact is, they've been vice versa. So that's incentive right there. It's been a plus.

  Mickey Rivers

  Jobs, Real, Team

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• I came up with a new game-show idea recently. It's called The Old Game. You got three old guys with loaded guns onstage. They look back at their lives, see who they were, what they accomplished, how close they came to realizing their dreams. The winner is the one who doesn't blow his brains out. He gets a refrigerator.

  Chuck Barris

  Dream, Blow, Gun

  "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind". www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• In 2006, the Blockbuster board got together and said, ‘Do you know anyone using Netflix.’ …Look how that worked out. That is what happens when you put ten 80-year-old guys in a room…Be on record. Be on the right side of history. You don’t want to be the person that supported the Blockbuster decision.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Years, Guy, Decision

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• There seems to be more opportunities for old guys like me to do a little fighting and running because the lead characters also require a bit of depth and maturity and gravitas that one is likely to acquire doing drama all those years.

  Liam Neeson

  Running, Drama, Character

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• Old guys can still do fun things.

  George H. W. Bush

  Fun, Guy, Stills

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• We get these questions a lot from the enterprising young. It's a very intelligent question: You look at some old guy who's rich and you ask, 'How can I become like you, except faster?'

  Charlie Munger

  Intelligent, Guy, Looks

  "Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor". Book by Tren Griffin, September 15, 2015.

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• I'm going out with these old guys. One guy gave me a hickey and left his teeth in my neck. Another man, we were having a perfectly lovely dinner; he looked up and me and went: You're not my wife! Another guy died during dinner. I had to go in his pocket to get the American Express card. Then you wonder: What would he tip? Another guy said: I want you to meet my family, and took me to the cemetery.

  Joan Rivers

  Men, Wife, Guy

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• Full House was a show that was done for ten-year-olds. The critics hated it. They said terrible, terrible things about it. But it should have been reviewed by ten-year-olds. That's who it was made for. They loved it. And if they loved it, great. Why the hell does a fifty-year-old guy working at a big newspaper have to tell me I'm a piece of crap?

  Bob Saget

  Should Have, Years, Guy

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