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“In the old days people never bothered about what others did, so long as they were free to do what they liked themselves. Today, one cannot sneeze without being corrected, let alone enjoy oneself. That's what politics have done to our society”

Author:Higa Yuchoku

“In the old days talks would have made me angry. But now that I've come out, everyone knows the truth. That's like a protective shield against comments like that. Stupid remarks and jokes no longer hurt me, because I can stand by being gay. Nowadays I can even laugh at jokes about gays. Now I feel free, hungry and strong.”

Strong Hurt Laughing Stupid Gay Jokes Hungry Comment Hurt Me Being Gay

Author:Orlando Cruz

“In the old days the studios guided your career. Now it's all up to you.”

Careers Studios Up To You Old Days

Author:Bill Paxton

“In the old days, there were bogles, the horrid things, creeping in the darkness, ready to take people. And even in the daytime, when there weren't bogles, people were always fretting about them, or something or other else -- or the Church was worrying for them. The priests were always on at people about their souls, and between hell and the bogles, people's minds were never easy.”

Humor Religion Fear Church Christianity Hell Folklore

Author:Lisa Schneidau

Source: Botanical Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland

“In the old days they, the promoters, wanted more and more from me. They wanted me to jump or spill my blood and break my bones. Every time they wanted me to jump further, and further, and further. Hell, they thought my bike had wings.”

Wanted Break Hell Blood Wings Bones Bike Old Days Spills Promoters

Author:Evel Knievel

“In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don't want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.”

Want Humans Today Faces Human Beings Audience Failing Dog Crime Ordinary Green Thrown Villain Smarter Old Days Limelight Moustache

Author:Alfred Hitchcock

“In the old days we used to get more referrals, because people had insurance that paid for therapy. Now they belong to HMOs, and we can only be affiliated with a few HMOs.”

People Used Paid Therapy Old Days Referrals

Author:Albert Ellis

“In the old days we were probably educated in cricket in a far more serious way than now.”

Way Serious Educated Cricket Old Days

Author:Frank Woolley

“In the old days, when Hawaiians wanted to give a gift, they doesn't have Safeway. Or any money. They had to take from nature what the gods gave them. Gather the flowers, make the twine, string the flowers. Lots of time and effort. We do the work just to say, 'I love you.' No meaning when we buy a lei in the supermarket.”

Love Meaning Lei

Author:Clemence McLaren

Source: Dance For The Land

“In the old days when I first was coming up, you would turn up on set in the morning with your coffee, script, and hangover and you would figure out what you were going to do with the day and how you were going to play the scenes. You would rehearse and then invite the crew in to watch the actors go through the scenes. The actors would go away to makeup and costume and the director and the DP would work out how they were going to cover what the actors had just done.”

Firsts Done Play Turns Actors Watches Morning Figures Scene Directors Scripts Work Out Coffee Makeup Going Away Invites Crew Costumes Old Days Hangover

Author:Paul Bettany

“In the old days when I was enforcing illegal immigration laws, when I had the authority from the 287G, everybody accused me that 100,000 people from foreign countries left town. They either went back to where they came from or whatever. So if this little old sheriff can cause, if you want to believe it, many, many people leaving and going back to their country, why can't you do that nationwide?”

“In the old days, when travelers would get lost, they would follow the stars and I love that idea. I wish that I could rely on something as simple and magnificent as a star for all of my aching questions.”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“In the old days, women were expected to have as many children as possible. That was because many families then relied heavily on labour-intensive sectors of the economy, such as agriculture, to make a living.”

Children Women Economy Living Labour Agriculture

Author:Insight 2021/2022 - Ep 30 China's Population Crisis

“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.”

People Men Wells Real Would Be Gone Crime Be Good Miles Looking Good Old Days Miles Away Well Dressed Suave

Author:Frank Abagnale

“In the old days, a TV sync was perceived as not so cool or whittling away at your indie cred. Now it's seen as much more of an opportunity than a sellout, as a way to find fans who wouldn't have ordinarily come across their genre of music.”

Way Opportunity Fans Tvs Genre Old Days Sync Genres Of Music Whittling

Author:Alexandra Patsavas

“In the old days, advertisers ventured on their own opinions. The few guess right, the many wrong. Those were the time of advertising disaster”

Opinion Disaster Advertising Old Days Advertisers

Author:Claude C. Hopkins

Source: Scientific Advertising Origins

“In the old days, athletes got worked up about the strict rules - today they get worked up about these rules being ignored elsewhere.”

Today Athlete Elsewhere Ignored Being Ignored

Author:Travis Tygart

“In the old days, I just could not leave characters alone. Now I just try to keep the ones that still have something in the way of stories to tell.”

Way Trying Stills Character Stories Old Days

Author:Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

“In the old days, if a neighbors apples fell into your yard, you worked it out over the back fence or picked them up and made pies. Today, you sue.”

Ifs Made Today Neighbor Apples Pie Yards Fence Old Days

Author:Lee Iacocca

“In the old days, it was not called the Holiday Season; the Christians called it "Christmas" and went to church; the Jews called it "Hanukka" and went to synagogue; the atheists went to parties and drank. People passing each other on the street would say "Merry Christmas!" or "Happy Hanukka!" or (to the atheists) "Look out for the wall!"”

“In the old days, land was important as the giver of all things. That period is gone now. Technology and brainpower are all that matters and yet conflicts over land, specially one like on the India-China border, that yields nothing, continue. This is a burden of ancient history that we continue to carry. If tomorrow there is settlement on planet Mars, we will begin to worry if others are interested.”

“In the old days, one married a wife; now one forms a company with a female partner, or moves in to live with a friend. And then one seduces the partner, or defiles the friend.”

Moving Form Company Wife Married Female Partners August Old Days Seducing Living Together

Author:August Strindberg

Source: Plays

“In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.”

People Technology Computer Truck Old Days Knocking Server Stagecoaches

Author:Richard Power

“In the old days, people thought that wouldn't be amenable to life. Modern studies with computers have shown that it's okay to be tidally locked. If a planet heats up on one side and not the other, the atmosphere can still circulate, because heat wants to move around.”

People Ifs Want Stills Moving Sides Study Modern Planets Computer Okay Atmosphere Heat Locked Old Days Amenable

Author:Sara Seager

“In the old days, people used to risk their lives in India or in the Americas in order to bring back products which now seem to us to have been of comically little worth, such as brazilwood and pepper, which added a new range of sense experience to a civilization which had never suspected its own insipidity... From these same lands our modern Marco Polos now bring back the moral spices of which our society feels an increasing need as it is conscious of sinking further into boredom, but that this time they take the form of photographs, books, and travelers tales.”

“In the old days, people would gather around the fire, or they would gather at a tavern, and they'd tell a story. And then, maybe a week later, someone would tell the same story, but with a different twist on it. That's how folk takes evolved.”

People Different Stories Fire Week Folks Twists Old Days Taverns

Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“In the old days, ptomaine poisoning was a cover-all. If you missed a show and you were young, it meant you were having an abortion. If you were old, it meant you were having a face lift.”

Ifs Shows Faces Young Moral Manners Lifts Abortion Old Days Poisoning

Author:Ruth Gordon

“In the old days, spies had done they'd done because they loved their country, because they believed in what they were doing. But he'd never been given a choice. Nowadays, spies weren't employed. They were used.”

Country Done Used Choices Given Employed Spy Old Days

Author:Anthony Horowitz

Source: Stormbreaker

“In the old days, that was my ad-lib for hecklers in the joints I worked. It stuck with me. I hardly say it now, say, to fans, even though people do send me hockey pucks.”

People Fans Stuck Hockey Ads Joints Old Days Puck Hecklers

Author:Don Rickles

“In the old days, the media is who held people accountable when they lied in politics. That isn't happening anymore.”

People Media Happenings Lied Old Days

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“In the old days, they killed the messenger who brought the bad news... a Cassandra is never popular in her time.”

Science News Biographies Old Days Bad News Messengers

Author:Alice Stewart

“In the old days, we painstakingly copied our emails onto paper, put a stamp on them and mailed them to arrive 4 to 5 days later. We also churned our own butter and used our phones for talking.”

Funny Used Talking Technology Paper Phones Email Stamps Old Days

Author:Peter Sagal

“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.”

Way Made Stills Shows Might Left Stars Talking Office Normal Killing Finals Celebrate Stretching Old Days

Author:Rob Sheffield

“In the old days, when Muhammad Ali was fighting Ken Norton, Joe Frazier and George Foreman, there was a lot of excitement in the heavyweight division, I have to admit it.”

Fighting Excitement Division Muhammad Old Days Heavyweights

Author:Wladimir Klitschko

“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.”

Ifs Humans Jobs Lost Human Beings Trouble Sick Unions Credit Locals Loan Payment Mortgage Old Days Trouble Making Credit Unions

Author:Matt Taibbi

“In the old days, words like sin and Satan had a moral certitude. Today, they're replaced with self-help jargon, words like dysfunction and antisocial behavior, discouraging any responsibility for one's actions.”

Self Helping Today Action Sin Responsibility Moral Self Help Behavior Satan Replaced Discouraging Old Days Dysfunction Jargon Antisocial Certitude Self Responsibility Antisocial Behavior

Author:Don Henley

“In the old days, you became an adult when suddenly your life went from learning to doing the same thing for the rest of your life, but today you can't afford to do that.”

Today Adults Rest Of Your Life Old Days

Author:Joichi Ito

“In the old days, you could segment happily. You could put out one message to one segment of the audience, and one to another. That has now gone. You say something to one community and instantly, literally at a click, it's available to everybody. What it means is that if you're trying to craft a message, it's very difficult.”

Ifs Trying Mean Difficult Community Audience Gone Messages Available Crafts Old Days Clicks

Author:Martin Sorrell

“In the old days, you would have one lawyer to handle everything: speeding tickets, buying a house, contracts, litigation, real estate, copyrights, leasing, entertainment, intellectual property, forensic accounting, criminal offenses... the list goes on. Now, you have to have a separate lawyer for each one of those categories!”

“In the old days, Zen was not really practiced so much in a monastery. The Zen Master usually lived up on a top of the mountain or the hill or in the forest or sometimes in the village.”

Sometimes Masters Mountain Forests Hills Village Introduction Old Days Monasteries Zen Master

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes.”

Facts Use Natural My Own Opinion Producers Vehicle Old Days Programmes Cardinals Factual Natural History

Author:David Attenborough

“In the old economy, it was all about having the answers. But in today’s dynamic, lean economy, it’s more about asking the right questions. A More Beautiful Question is about figuring out how to ask, and answer, the questions that can lead to new opportunities and growth.”

Today Beautiful Asks Opportunity Growth Answers Economy Asking New Opportunity Right Questions Asking The Right Questions

Author:Eric Ries

“In the old generation, if one kid bought a PlayStation 2 and the other kid bought an Xbox, at his house you played PlayStation, at your house you played Xbox. Now that it's online, all those early buyers who... you want to play with, they've got their reputation online of who they are and how good they are at these games.”

Ifs Want Play Kids Games House Generations Reputation Online Buyers Xbox Playstation

Author:Bill Gates

“In the Old Language, she hissed, “If any harm shall befall him, I will come after you, and find you where you sleep. I do not care where you lay your head or who with, my vengeance shall rain upon you until you drown.” That last word was drawn out, until its syllable was lost in more growling. Dead silence. Until Doc Jane said dryly, “Annnnd this is why they say the female of the species is more dangerous than the male.”

Ifs Said Care Lasts Lost Language Sleep Silence Dangerous Rain Female Lays Species Males Harm Vengeance Last Words Jane Syllables Growling

Author:J.R. Ward

“In the old legend the wise men finally boiled down the history of mortal affairs into a single phrase: 'This too will pass.'”

Men Wise Investing Affair Mortals Phrases Legends

Author:Benjamin Graham

Source: The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

“In the old legends, Arachne had gotten into trouble because of pride. She’d bragged about her tapestries being better than Athena’s, which had led to Mount Olympus’s first reality TV punishment program: 'So You Think You Can Weave Better Than a Goddess?' Arachne had lost in a big way.”

Thinking Way Firsts Bigs Reality Lost Trouble Tvs Pride Program Punishment Legends Goddess Reality Tv Tapestry Athena Olympus

Author:Rick Riordan

“In the old patrician world there was a custom once a week you had to eat a meal with your slaves and get to know them as people.”

People Knows World Week Slave Meals Customs

Author:Jared Harris

“In the old physics, three times two equals six and two times three equals 6 are reversible propositions. Not in quantum physics. Three times two and two times three are two different matters, distinct and separate propositions.”

Two Different Matter Science Three Six Mathematics Physics Quantum Propositions Three Times Quantum Physics

Author:Paul Auster

“In the old romantic comedies, those of our childhoods, there was always the running scene, was there not? Through the crowd. Dashing, not a moment to spare. To the choice that should’ve been clear as day. To destiny. When you know how the rest of your life should be lived, you want to start the rest of your life as soon as possible. My destination, though—not a man, but my true and best self.”

Spirit Strength Women S Inspirational Save Yourself

Author:Lauren Edmondson

Source: Ladies of the House: A Modern Retelling of Sense and Sensibility

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