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I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.
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Everything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that's down can come up.
I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
I'm very pleased to be here. Let's face it, at my age I'm very pleased to be anywhere.
I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.
You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.
I'm at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.
Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.
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Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help, and that's my method.
Drill everything, mine everything, roll back regulations, tweak the science, expedite permits. Sound familiar? The Republicans offer up more 19th-Century solutions to our 21st-Century energy problems.
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
The happy Union of these States is a wonder their Constitution a miracle their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.
It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.
I want my music to do the explaining.
Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.
Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.
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