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I remember once having to stop performing when I thought an elderly man a few rows back from the front was actually going to die because he was laughing so hard.

~Adrian Edmondson

Topics: Actually Back Because Die Elderly Few Front Going Hard Having He Laughing Man Once Performing Remember Rows Stop Thought I Remember

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In terms of foods for me, I think I have more of the usual associations - foods from childhood that I associate with care and love, from relatives or special restaurants like the kind elderly man who dusted seasoning salt on French fries at the corner burger joint.

~Aimee Bender

Topics: Associate Associations Burger Care Childhood Corner Elderly Foods French French Fries Fries Joint Kind Like Love Man Me More Relatives Restaurants Salt Special Terms Think Usual Who I Think

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Did you hear the one about the elderly Jew on his deathbed who sent for a priest, after declaring to his astonished relatives that 'I want to convert.' Asked why he would become a Catholic, after living all his life as a Jew, he answered: 'Better one of them should die than one of us.'

~Alan King

Topics: About After Answered Asked Astonished Become Better Catholic Convert Deathbed Declaring Did Die Elderly He Hear His Jew Life Living Priest Relatives Sent Should Than Them Us Want Who Why Would You

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I believe that if you are elderly, physically or mentally handicapped we have an obligation too you, but if you are able-bodied, you should be working.

~Alphonso Jackson

Topics: Believe Elderly Handicapped Mentally Obligation Physically Should Too Working You I Believe I Believe That

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We must continually work to obtain and preserve the right to vote and future votes of babies in the womb, their parents, the sick, the elderly, the poor, all Americans.

~Alveda King

Topics: All Americans American Babies Continually Elderly Future Must Obtain Parents Poor Preserve Right Sick Vote Votes Womb Work

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Obviously, you look for something that is commensurate with your age. You know that you can't be playing the young hero anymore, and you have to be relegated to something smaller and something elderly, and you just try and do your best.

~Amitabh Bachchan

Topics: Age Anymore Best Do Your Best Elderly Hero Just Know Look Obviously Playing Smaller Something Try You Young Your

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My family kept its history to itself. On the plus side, I didn't have to hear nightmarish stories about the Holocaust, the pogroms, terrible illnesses, painful deaths. My elderly parents never even spoke about their ailments.

~Amy Bloom

Topics: About Deaths Elderly Even Family Hear History Holocaust Illnesses Itself Kept Never Painful Parents Plus Side Spoke Stories Terrible

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I had always been literary, in the sense of loving poetry and discovering novels, but I found my voice, as they say, in an office full of elderly people who looked after blind ex-servicemen.

~Andrew O'Hagan

Topics: After Always Been Blind Discovering Elderly Found Full Had Literary Looked Loving Novels Office People Poetry Say Sense They Say Voice Who

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During all my undergrad years and in high school, I was involved in tutoring and public service. At Harvard, I spent over 35 hours a week doing service. I was a Big Sister, I worked for the homeless, the elderly; it was the epicenter of my focus.

~Angela Duckworth

Topics: Big Doing Elderly Focus Harvard High High School Homeless Hours Involved Over Public Public Service School Service Sister Spent Week Worked Years

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In the high-income English-speaking world, the elderly get treated very well indeed.

~Angus Deaton

Topics: Elderly English-Speaking Get Indeed Treated Very Well World

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