Retired Quotes - Page 10

• I get along with everyone except for men my age, who are bourgeois or retired or boring.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Hate, Men, Age

  "FOR THE LOVE OF LAGERFELD / Maverick designer's new line inspired by the energy of New York" by Sylvia Rubin, www.sfgate.com. March 12, 2006.

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• I retired because I had a knee injury, my cartilage was wearing out, it was painful and I couldn't put in the four hours of practice each day that I needed to.

  Guy Forget

  Practice, Knee Injuries, Each Day

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• 22 of 52 top (FDA) officials have worked for regulated industries, or organizations that cater to those industries...During a hearing held in 1969 by the House Inter-governmental Relations Subcommittee, it was disclosed that of 49 high ranking FDA officials who had recently resigned or retired, 37 joined or served as consultants to regulated industries.

  Michael F. Jacobson

  Dark, Fda, Organization

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• My parents moved to Los Angeles when I was really young, but I spent every summer with my grandparents, and I'd stay with my grandfather on the farm in Longview. He was retired from the railroad, and he had a small farm with some cows and some pigs. I remember part of my youth was feeding hogs and plowing fields and stuff, so that's a part of me.

  Forest Whitaker

  Summer, Pigs, Grandparent

  Interview with Evan Smith, www.texasmonthly.com. December 2006.

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• Oh, God. The Sixties are coming back. Well I've got a 12-gauge double-barreled duck gun chambered for three-inch Magnum shells. And - speaking strictly for this retired hippie and former pinko beatnik - if the Sixties head my way, they won't get past the porch steps. They will be history. Which, for chrissakes, is what they're supposed to be.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Hippie, Gun, Past

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• Throughout his life, General Wesley Clark has stood up to some tough opponents. He battled the Viet Cong, and went toe-to-toe with Slobodan Milosevic. But today the retired four-star general capitulated to the fiercest enemy he's ever confronted: the American voter.

  Jon Stewart

  Stars, Enemy, American Voters

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• It [retirement] was absolutely boring. You can't go and say, 'I'm retired now. That's it!' It won't take long and you're really gone for good and someone throws the last shovel of dirt on a coffin with your name on it. That's the moment you're really retiring - when you die.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Retirement, Names, Long

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• If things were half as bad as some people persist in believing, I'd have retired with a bottle of Scotch and a pistol a long time ago.

  Robert Maxwell

  Believe, Scotch, Long

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• When I used to be the captain of India, many people literally hated me for being overly expressive.
  Once I retired, the same people used to say COME BACK DADA, WE MISS YOU. The same thing will happen in the case of MS Dhoni.
  The ones who criticise him right now will understand his importance once he retires.

  Sourav Ganguly

  Dhoni, People, Missing

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• I know he's retired, but I'm a big fan of Shaquille O'Neal, his game and his personality. I have a pair of his shoes in my office. You see the size of his shoe and think, 'This is not real, this couldn't belong to a human being.' But he is human!

  Wladimir Klitschko

  Real, Thinking, Games

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• After I retired and came off the road, I gathered up all my musical instruments and suddenly, I wanted them all to be perfect.

  Tom T. Hall

  Perfect, Musical, Instruments

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• I was honored to wear 'Arizona' across my chest. I am extremely blessed to have my education completely paid for and take part in the great tradition of Wildcat softball. To have my jersey
  number retired was the ultimate compliment.

  Jennie Finch

  Softball, Blessed, Numbers

  Interview with Art Eddy, manjr.com. May 20, 2013.

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• The rare, delicate flavor of a life after retiring in one's sixties, whatever one has "retired" from, the pleasure I experienced beyond my job at Columbia, is a gift of life in the last decades. but it is not easily learned. . . . But sometimes, the only way to live is to get out, or at least seriously to contemplate getting out, doing the impossible,flinging the conventional tea.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Jobs, Delicate Life, Tea

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• Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

  H. L. Mencken

  Horse, Jobs, Society

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.622, Vintage

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• I am Retired Leisure. I am to be met with in trim gardens. I am already come to be known by my vacant face and careless gesture, perambulating at no fixed pace nor with any settled purpose. I walk about; not to and from.

  Charles Lamb

  Retirement, Garden, Purpose

  Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia [both series]; to which are added, Letters, and Rosamund, a tale”, p.218

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• Have you ever noticed that Jesus is never recorded as taking a holiday? He retired for the purposes of his mission, not from it. He was never destroyed by his work; he was always on top of it. He moved among people as the master of every situation. He was busier than anyone; the multitudes were always at him, yet he had time, for everything and everyone. He was never hurried, or harassed, or too busy. He had complete supremacy over time; he never let it dictate to him. He talked of my time; my hour. He knew exactly when the moment had come for doing something and when it had not.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Jesus, Holiday, People

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• I'm retired from the daredevil business.

  Felix Baumgartner

  Daredevil

  "Felix Baumgartner 'recuperating' after surviving jump from the edge of space" by Matt Williams, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2012.

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• Raking over the past and sifting its dust is an occupation for the idle or the elderly retired.

  Armand Hammer

  Work, Past, Elderly

  Armand Hammer, Neil Lyndon (1988). “Hammer”, Perigee

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• Gay marriage has jumped out of the closet on to the front page. Everyone from the president of the U.S. to retired four-star general Colin Powell is embracing the issue, now supported by most Americans. Still, a few people, like former First Lady Laura Bush appear to be conflicted.

  Kitty Kelley

  Stars, Gay, Issues

  "Goosey Lucy and Gay Marriage" by Kitty Kelley, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1, 2013.

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• It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the '50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud of having a gay poet of a certain minor fame. It was a very satisfactory change!

  Thom Gunn

  Teacher, Gay, Proud

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• If you're retired, it's a blessing. You know, if you want to keep working and doing what you want to do, it's not a blessing as all - it's a curse.

  Pat Benatar

  Blessing, Doing What You Want, Curse

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. August 26, 1997.

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• Before me, sprinters retired at 23 or 24. I run because I still like it, I can make a living, and I feel I was born to do it. And because people tell me I can't do it.

  Evelyn Ashford

  Running, People, Born

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• When I retired from tennis I wanted to do other things with my life.

  Bjorn Borg

  Tennis, Wanted

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• I retired from everything except work.

  Lee Friedlander

  "Lee Friedlander: American Icon" by Elisabeth Biondi, www.newyorker.com. September 02, 2010.

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• Technically, I've been retired for some time now. All I ever do is occasionally write songs for friends, such as one, for a friend who had just turned 80. I wrote a song for him called, The First 80 Years are The Hardest.

  Tom Glazer

  Song, Writing, Years

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