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You can't be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning: 'Holy Christ, whaddya know - I'm still around!' It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career. ↗

— Paul Newman

#am #amazing #around #booze #career

I think of myself as no more than 60. What I could do at 60, I can still do now. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

#i #i can #i think #more #myself

It seemed pathetic and terrible to me and it still does, that men and women work eight hours a day at jobs that bring them no joy, no reward save a few dollars. ↗

— Hortense Odlum

#day #does #dollars #eight #few

I tell my brethren in Palestine: be patient and continue your blessed struggle. We did not forget you. We are still healing another wound in the Muslim nation, which is the occupation of our land by the Americans. Your battle and ours are one and the same. ↗

— Mohammed Omar

#battle #be patient #blessed #brethren #continue

I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body. ↗

— Joe Orton

#body #envy #familiar #fifteen #i

Every man may reign secure in his petty tyranny, and spread terror and desolation around him, until the trump of the Archangel shall excite different emotions in his soul. ↗

— James Otis

#desolation #different #different emotions #emotions #every

There's not a big gun culture in England at all still. ↗

— Clive Owen

#culture #england #gun #still

I didn't know who my daddy was until I was 10 or 12. Surprising as it may seem, he was living right across the street. ↗

— Terrell Owens

#daddy #i #know #living #may

In the due exercise of your official power, in strictest accordance with law and the Constitution, you can deprive the enemy of that which, above all else, has given, and still gives him, aid and comfort. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

#accordance #aid #comfort #constitution #deprive

I was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander. ↗

— Grace Paley

#fantastic #i #mind #student #ten