A Quote by Frankie Boyle
They say that the older you get, the more conservative you become: perhaps that's the reason there are no Tories in Scotland.
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I decided to live as an individual and as I grew older, and thought more, and read more and experienced more, my views became more conservative. But my group is liberal. Not only that, they say, 'If you're not liberal and not a Democrat, you're not black. If you're conservative, you're a sellout.' Here, then, I'm living with that kind of a pressure against my individuality.
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Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, 'Just wait.'
The older I get, the less conservative I become.
The fact is that not only do people get more wise and more conservative as they get older, they get more kind and more generous, too.
I've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older.
Just as I got older, I think I've become more and more conservative.
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There was a time when a certain type of Tory could have been relied on to swing from the chandeliers in defence of the rights of freeborn Britons. I suppose a lot of those Tories would have been what you might call 'one-nation Tories.' That tradition has died in the Conservative party.
We'll need to revise the tired assumption that people automatically become more conservative as they grow older.
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I come more to Scotland than I ever used to, so I feel more connected to it, more part of the zeitgeist. You know when you realize you have a choice and I'm choosing my homeland. It's funny: when you get older these things creep up to you.
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