I love being an older comic now. It's like being an old soccer or an old baseball player. You're in the Hall of Fame and it's nice, but you're no longer that person in the limelight on the spot doing that thing.
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Related I love being an older comic now. It's like being an old soccer or an old baseball player. You... ERIC IDLE Were you there?” She shook her head. “No. I was here in Nain having a child.” �... FRANCINE RIVERS Now that I am alone, I don't have to hide it; I don't have to hide anything any longer. I can let my... ROALD DAHL Punch a man on the nose, kick an old man downstairs, shoot somebody or any old thing like that, that... MIKHAIL BULGAKOV If youre in an awkward position, feel comfortable enough to walk away. BEAU MIRCHOFF There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls! TENNESSEE WILLIAMS Buck O'Neil deserves to be in the Hall. Not just as a player, but as a human being and as a person t... BOB FELLER Every believer should be an apostle since each believer is sent by the Lord Jesus to go and bear fru... HENRY HON Chese now," quod she, "oon of thise thynges tweye: To han me foul and old til that I deye, GEOFFREY CHAUCER It is so torturous to be in the crowd not only because the voice there is usually loud, but also oft... ANUJ SOMANY There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old perso... ELIZABETH MOON When an old truth ceases to be applicable, it does not become any truer by being stood on its head. HANNAH ARENDT An idea is not necessarily good because it is old, or necessarily bad because it is new, but if an o... HENRY FORD Man, I'm in the World Golf Hall of Fame. Don't forget that, now. I'm in the World Golf H... CHARLIE SIFFORD I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Thats the thing about the Internet. You can put a lot of distance between yourself and the person yo... ELLEN WRIGHT It's an elite group. And once you're in the Hall, you're in the Hall. Up until now, I th... RYNE SANDBERG The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way. RICHARD HARDING DAVIS Restoring the canyon is no longer an abstract notion now that people can actually experience its bea... CHRIS PETERSON Being an old radical, I like films like Spartacus. I could relate to the hero. ALEX NORTH It may be an old cliche, but I think true love will last; it has no end. But finding the right perso... BRUCE FORSYTH I think I could have become an outstanding professional baseball player, but I don't think I cou... JOE NAMATH I finally understood the fraction of young, middle age, and older. Young plus all the old stuff from... SUSIE L HILL When the Sun comes up a Lion awakens he knows that he must outrun the slowest Gazelle or he will sta... AN OLD AFRICAN PROVERB We had an old, patched-together PBX system that was on its last legs. ERIC OTTAWAY Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked. LAWRENCE DURRELL I'm like an old warrior who can galvanize himself when he's threatened, but I'm pretty idle when I'v... JOHN ASPINALL There's nothing more fun than putting on an old costume and jewelry and being in a house that... MARIANA KLAVENO The Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum will never accept an artifact from any company whose business i... JEFF IDELSON Let your little inspire someone greatly and greatly be the reasons for the smiles of someone in litt... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Let your little inspires someone greatly and greatly be the reasons for the smiles of someone in lit... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH you can not understand what i feel for you. because your heart beats for some other one. PRASOON DWIVEDI i am not rich, but my heart is enough rich that you can stay there for the rest of your life. PRASOON DWIVEDI For what is a man if he is not succesful in love DANIEL ROBERT O'NEILL What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. Why I need to live has been given to me by yo... STEPHEN D'MELLO You can't go home with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. You don't sleep with the Rock and Roll Hall o... BILLY JOEL Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of avera... ARNOLD BENNETT Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of av... ARNOLD BENNETT In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don't ... ALFRED HITCHCOCK The text loses its virginity simply by being staged: it's no longer the abstract ideal version; ... TOM STOPPARD In an internet-ridden world, power is no longer much about guts or guns, but the level of quality in... JOSEPH ANNANG SOWAH Omnia Cellula e Cellula JOHN GREEN Those governmental services being in Old Town helped give this place its lifeblood. One of the neat ... JAY MACANIFF Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its ... CHARLOTTE BRONTë You are comparing an old system and old implementation against a new system and new implementation. ... DEAN MCCARRON Britain has lost one of its greatest comic artists, but he lives on in an incomparable body of work. BEN ELTON One of my heroes growing up was Jackie Robinson. My mom, an ardent baseball fan from whom I got my l... JARED POLIS I'm like an eight year old with the dressing-up box. I have the luxury of being able to change on a ... KYLIE MINOGUE When 'Friends' began 10 years ago ... the actors and actresses on that show were relatively unknown.... GARY R. EDGERTON I feel even old people can do a nice love story, but here we don't make that kind of films. In t... OM PURI Getting older is something you make a decision about. You can get old without becoming an older pers... HOWARD STONE One, who chews the food till it become liquid, may not require to take liquid diet in old age. DR HITESH C SHETH The worth of a rich and/or famous personality’s QUOTE is just the value that it fetches through LI... ANUJ SOMANY A young man idle, an old man needy. ENGLISH PROVERB An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now. KILROY J. OLDSTER It has been nice to own a building that has room for growth. To me, being located in the strip mall ... JEFF MERTZ Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked. LAWRENCE DURRELL I have lost and put on big batches of weight in my life many, many times. But what concerns me is th... ALISON MOYET Here’s to all the places we went. And all the places we’ll go. And here’s me, whispering again... JOHN GREEN I'm not interested in dating a girl I'm not gonna marry JOHN GREEN The future will erase everything--there's no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend ob... JOHN GREEN The passenger liner Ossifar Distana was one of the most luxurious of its kind in space anywhere. It ... CHRISTINA ENGELA I have a nice car, a Mercedes. And then I have an old El Camino truck that I'm crazy about. I li... B. B. KING I like being independent; I like doing things myself. I'm an instinctual person. CATHY MORIARTY I was in the game for love. After all, where else can an old-timer with one leg, who can't hear ... BILL VEECK Jason hated being an old man. RICK RIORDAN I've played a lot of baseball in my time and I coach my son now and it's really hard for us to pass ... CRAIG BROWNING JR The most important aspect of love is not in giving or the receiving: it's in the being. When I need ... RAM DASS I don't think I do look like an A-Lister. I'm more interested in being comfortable in my own... NATHAN PARSONS An awakened and a continuous watch on your own self and its being engaged in right kind of activitie... JYOTSNAJHA Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON China is an old nation with a colourful history. Its booming economy has triggered an appetite and a... AI WEIWEI Two hundred years ago an old Dutch voyager likened its shape to that of a shoemaker’s last. And in... HERMAN MELVILLE I have an innate fear of fame. I've never thought being famous looked like such a good place to ... PHOEBE PHILO Music resonates in so many parts of the brain that we can’t conceive of it being an isolated thing... DAVID BYRNE When you have nothing nobody knows you.
When you have something everyone knows you.
If you're not wi... REGINA MARIE CHRISTENSON My father always told me, "Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life. JIM FOX Live for today with your eyes on the future. THOMAS FLAJNIK - ANTICHIMERAPODAL Don't let anyone blind you with their criticism, you're just beautiful. AMAN JANGDA Everyone is good at something as long as they love that something. ARDIT BALISHA The hardest step to take is always the first one. THOMAS FLAJNIK - ANTICHIMERAPODAL To rule an iceberg, you must swim,.. Deep.
Pour régner sur l'iceberg, il faut savoir nager en profo... CARL MATHIEU Behave with kind with surrendorist, but behave with cruelty with enemy. NITIN S DHARKAR Words are magic to those who chose to listen, to those who don’t are bones. PABLO D. RODRIGUEZ şarabın gazabından kork çünkü fena kırmızıdır kan tutar / tutan ölür s... ATTILâ İLHAN That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to d... MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. To put it simply - you know, a lot of people believe that the benefit of this job is fame and fortun... EVANGELINE LILLY Being inducted into the Hall of Fame is one of the greatest honors a person can receive. BOB LASKOWSKI Memory offers up its gifts only when jogged by something in the present. It isn't a storehouse of fi... SIRI HUSTVEDT The one thing I regret is that he passed before he got a chance to get into the baseball Hall of Fam... LON SIMMONS If New Orleans is not fully in the mainstream of culture, neither is it fully in the mainstream of t... TOM ROBBINS Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one. WILLIAM WYCHERLEY In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we ha... KNUT HAMSUN The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wi... WILL DURANT A person being patient with an insane person is my favorite thing in the world. BILL HADER As you get to know what takes you away from life, you have more moments throughout your day where yo... MARY O'MALLEY In art, truth and reality begin when one no longer understands what one is doing or what one knows, ... HENRI MATISSE It doesn't make sense to give a young kid like Hernandez an old man's spot like that this early. WILLIE RANDOLPH As I said just now, the world has gone past me. I don't blame it; but I no longer understand it. Tra... CHARLES DICKENS
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