Retired Quotes - Page 9

• Today there are about 40 million retirees receiving benefits; by the time all the baby boomers have retired, there will be more than 72 million retirees drawing Social Security benefits.

  Tony Snow

  Girl, Baby, Drawing

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• Compare the scale and magnifcence of Versailles with St James's - the brick-built hovel in which the 18th-century kings of England lived. What was then the most powerful monarchy in the world housed its sovereigns in a converted leper hospital, yet, at the same time, parliament provided the magnificent palaces of Chelsea and Greenwich as hospitals for retired soldiers and sailors.

  David Starkey

  Kings, Powerful, History

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• It is almost better to be an impulse shirt-buyer than an impulse shoe-buyer. I have worn shirts that made people think I was a retired Mafia hit-man or a Yugoslavian sports convener from Split, but I have worn shoes that made people think I was insane.

  Clive James

  Sports, Men, Thinking

  "Falling Towards England". Book by Clive James, 1985.

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• I remember what Ron Greschner said when he retired. 'The thing I'm going to miss most is showering with 23 guys.' And that's what it's all about: camaraderie.

  Mike Richter

  Nhl, Guy, Missing

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• I never really officially retired from the WNBA, I just left the doors open.

  Sheryl Swoopes

  Doors, Wnba, Left

  "Sheryl Swoopes' finishing move". Interview with Adena Andrews, www.espn.com. June 20, 2011.

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• I’m fortunate to have found out early, in 1990, just two years after I retired, that I have neurological damage. I try to manage it. I know what can trigger headaches and try to avoid it. I have short term memory problems, so I make a special effort to remember people and names. I have to work harder, but it’s important.

  Harry Carson

  Memories, Hard Work, Names

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• When you pay social security taxes, you are in no way making provision for your own retirement. You are paying the pensions of those who are already retired. Once you understand this, you see that whether you will get the benefits you are counting on when you retire depends on whether Congress will levy enough taxes, borrow enough, or print enough money.

  W. Allen Wallis

  Retirement, Benefits, Pay

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• The coaching profession has lost one of its true legends. Though he was best known for winning more football games than any other coach when he retired, Eddie Robinson's impact on coaching and the game of football went far beyond wins and losses. He brought a small school in northern Louisiana from obscurity to nationwide, if not worldwide, acclaim and touched the lives of hundreds and hundreds of young men in his 57 years at Grambling. That will be his greatest legacy.

  Grant Teaff

  Football, School, Loss

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• The goal is a society in which the basic social unit is you and your television set. If the kid next door is hungry, it’s not your problem. If the retired couple next door invested their assets badly and are now starving, that’s not your problem either.

  Noam Chomsky

  Couple, Kids, Doors

  Noam Chomsky (2011). “How the World Works”, p.224, Soft Skull Press

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• During my boxing career, you did not see the real Muhammad Ali. You just saw a little boxing and a little showmanship. It was after I retired from boxing that my true work began.

  Muhammad Ali

  Real, Careers, Boxing

  FaceBook post by Muhammad Ali from Jun 11, 2014

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• Just when summer gets perfect-fresh nights, soft sun, casual breezes, crushingly full and quietly cooling trees, empty beaches, and free weekends- it ends. Life is like that too. Just when we get it right, it starts to change. The job gets easy and we know just how to do it, and they tell us we're retired. The children grow up and get reasonable and they leave home, just when it's nice to have them around. . . . That's life on the edge of autumn. And that's beautiful-if we have the humility for it.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Life, Beautiful, Summer

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• I quit driving, I'm not retired.

  Richard Petty

  Driving, Quitting, I Quit

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• Part of the redesign of FEMA is that they have so many people on standby, whether it is a retired nurse or a doctor who will take time off to go exactly where they are needed.

  Ginny Brown-Waite

  Doctors, Nurse, People

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• When I retired, I felt that I lived more in that year than I had the previous 27 years of my life.

  Ricky Williams

  Years, Felt

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• Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing

  A. A. Milne

  Happiness, Being Happy, Retirement

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• I've retired a couple of times. It's great, because you can just say, 'Oh, I'm sorry. I'm retired.'

  Bill Murray

  Sorry, Couple, I'm Sorry

  "Bill Murray Is Ready To See You Now". Interview with Dan Fierman, www.gq.com. July 18, 2010.

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• I've always been a writer because I've always been a student. My mom's a retired professor, so I come from a very academic background. I love writing, you know?

  Kerry Washington

  Mom, Writing, Students

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• 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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