Retired Quotes - Page 12

• I had no problem going into retirement mode, ... I do what other retired guys do. I putter around the house and travel.

  Drew Carey

  Retirement, Guy, House

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• In what other business can a guy my age drink martinis, smoke cigars and sing? I think all people who retire ought to go into show business. I've been retired all my life.

  George Burns

  Thinking, People, Guy

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I retired from acting the same time they stopped hiring me. But following my own thing of making these small indie movies has been the happiest I've ever been.

  Bobcat Goldthwait

  Acting, Hiring, Indie Movie

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Dr. Kissinger was a former child. Jerry Ford was a former child. Even F.D.R. was a former child. I retired from the movies in 1949, and I'm still a former child.

  Shirley Temple

  Children, Drs, Former

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• Literally thousands of lawsuits have been filed against the NFL by retired players, many of whom say that information on brain injury in football was withheld from them.

  Henry Rollins

  Football, Player, Nfl

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• There's this Lebanese lady I dearly loved who raised 13 children in Toledo, and she retired in Phoenix. She said, I get up every morning and say, Thank you, God. I do the same thing now.

  Jamie Farr

  Morning, Children, Phoenix

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• Seek out some retired and old-world spot, far from the madding crowd, and dream away a sunny week among its drowsy lanes - some half-forgotten nook, hidden away by the fairies, out of reach of the noisy world - some quaint-perched eyrie on the cliffs of Time, from whence the surging waves of the nineteenth century would sound far-off and faint.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Dream, Sound, Half

  Jerome K. Jerome (1998). “Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel”, p.9, Oxford Paperbacks

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• When Viv Richards retired I thought it was end of entertainment. But then came Sehwag,the King of entertainment!

  Rameez Raja

  Kings, Entertainment, Ends

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• As you get older, the assumption is you get wiser. I try to earn it by not staying still, not resting on laurels. A lot of people in other professions are retired at my age. I care about music more than ever.

  Lorin Maazel

  People, Age, Trying

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• I wasn't blessed with this unique talent for nothing. I have to put it on display. The game hasn't retired me. When I went through all of my struggles, I became a champion right then. Now I just have to walk through my destiny.

  Antonio Tarver

  Struggle, Blessed, Unique

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• The right honorable gentleman [Robert Lowe, Viscount Sherbrooke] is the first of the new party who has retired into his political cave of Adullam and he has called about him everyone that was in distress and everyone that was discontented.

  John Bright

  Party, Political, Gentleman

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• I usually dig the single-digit numbers, but No2 is retired. I'm going to change it up and wear No10. I'm going to wear it for Messi, my favourite soccer player. I've been playing a lot of FIFA lately and watching the games. He's the best little guy to do it and I've got to be the best little guy to do it at No10 in the NBA. That's my goal.

  Nate Robinson

  Soccer, Player, Nba

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• I still have a dream of one day - I would love to hire a semi-retired contractor and just build a house - him and I building a house for me. I would truly love to do that

  Christopher Meloni

  Dream, House, One Day

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• I was fortunate enough to win a Super Bowl before retiring, and in fact I retired immediately after winning the Super Bowl. I went out on top, and intend to come out of the Guinness Pro Challenge on top, too.

  Jerome Bettis

  Winning, Challenges, Facts

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• Of course I could have retired anytime. But retiring would drive me crazy.

  Ted Knight

  Crazy, Retiring, Courses

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• Ive always had an affinity for lawyers. My dad is a lawyer. Hes retired now. My brother is a lawyer.

  Scott Bakula

  Brother, Dad, Lawyer

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• Since I've retired, I eat less, weigh less, train less and care less.

  Ray Mancini

  Funny, Boxing, Care

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• The business being thus closed . . . dined together and took a cordial leave of each other After which I returned to my lodgings, did some business with and received the papers from the secretary of the Convention, and retired to meditate on the momentous work which had been executed.

  George Washington

  Together, Paper, Conventions

  George Washington (1835). “The writings of George Washington: being his correspondence, addresses, messages, and other papers, official and private, selected and published from the original manuscripts; with a life of the author, notes, and illustrations”, p.541

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• Hey, if I don't have a job, I don't know why I bother to get up. Any time the phone rings, I'm ready to go. What else am I going to do? See, I've never retired. I don't even know what it means.

  Morgan Freeman

  Success, Jobs, Mean

  "The Stars of 'Last Vegas' Have Fun - Lots of Fun". Interview with David Hochman, www.aarp.org.

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• As in all successful ventures, the foundation of a good retirement is planning.

  Earl Nightingale

  Inspirational, Retirement, Successful

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• I retired when I was 30 and I was bored shitless.

  Clive Palmer

  Bored

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• I still love what I do and I've done OK over the years ... You're a long time retired and anyway, I'd get bored.

  Bart Cummings

  Sports, Years, Long

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• The Prophet introduced a system of prayer in that it was interwoven into man's daily work: a prayer in the morning when he arose from his bed; a prayer at lunch time, as an indication that if his body needed a diet, so did his spirit; a prayer in the afternoon when he retired from his daily work; a prayer at sunset and a prayer when going to bed.

  Muhammad Ali

  Morning, Prayer, Sunset

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• I have never left the company. I keep a tiny residual salary to this day because that's where my loyalty should be forever. I want to be an "employee" on the company data base. I won't engineer, I'd rather be basically retired, due to my family. (talking about his relationship with Apple Inc)

  Steve Wozniak

  Loyalty, Commitment, Talking

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• Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.

  Samuel Johnson

  Life, Retirement, Sorry

  On Jeremiah Markland, in James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 4, p. 161, n. 3 (10 October 1782)

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