Senior Quotes - Page 14

• We also know that Iraq is harboring a terrorist network headed by a senior al Qaeda terrorist planner. This network runs a poison and explosive training camp in northeast Iraq, and many of its leaders are known to be in Baghdad.

  George W. Bush

  Running, War, Iraq

  "Bush: 'All the world can rise to this moment'". www.cnn.com. February 6, 2003.

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• If you’re a parent in 2013, you have to get your hands on this book. Wise, engrossing, and so real that I fear Senior has been spying inside my house, All Joy is a must-read for those of us whose lives have been enriched and derailed by having kids.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Wise, Real, Book

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• Spending and tax cut decisions must be both fiscally responsible and fair to our working families. I believe that fiscal responsibility is the way to create prosperity for America and secure the retirement of America's seniors.

  Blanche Lincoln

  Retirement, Believe, Responsibility

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• Now that he's gone, I feel like I'm a senior citizen who gave away her life savings over the phone. And this is the crux: I never in my life believed in someone as much as I believed in him. The shame is overwhelming.

  Emma Forrest

  Phones, Citizens, Saving

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• When I was little, I used to go to the local ice-skating rink. In my mind, I always felt like I could twirl and jump, but when I got out onto the ice, I could barely keep my blades straight. When I got older, that's how it was with people: In my mind, I am bold and forthright, but what comes out always seems to be so meek and polite. Even with Evan, my boyfriend for junior and most of senior year, I never quite managed to be that skating, twirling, leaping person I suspected I could be. But today, apparently, I can skate.

  Gayle Forman

  Years, Ice, People

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• Kat picked up a folder labeled Senior. "What are these? Bank records?" She did a double take, looking at Hale. "Did your dad really pay two million dollars to the campaign to elect Ross Perot?" "I..." Hale said, stumbling for words and thumbing through another file. "Wow. I guess my cousin Charlotte isn't really my cousin." "Don't worry," Kat said. "It looks like there might be a kid in Queens who is.

  Ally Carter

  Cousin, Queens, Dad

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• She even learnt the language of a strange country which Senior Cosetti had been told some people believed still existed, although no-one in the world could say where it was. The name of this country was Wales.

  Susanna Clarke

  Country, Names, People

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• We're seniors." "I know," I said "So aren't you... curious?" "About what?" "About life. Out there. Life!" she said again. "Tell me, Cameron Ann Morgan, what do you want to be when you grow up?" We'd reached another door, and I stopped and looked up at the camera that monitored the entrance, just as I whispered, "Alive.

  Ally Carter

  Growing Up, Doors, Alive

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• Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates.

  Abbott Lawrence Lowell

  Funny, Cute, Graduation

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• You're beautiful, every part of you. I love your hair, the way it looks, the way it feels. I love touching it, smelling it. I love the way you wrinkle your nose when you laugh. It makes me laugh, too, every time. And I love watching you eat. Sometimes you can't shovel it in fast enough, but when you get interested in a conversation, you forget there's anything in front of you. God knows, I love making love with you. I can't even talk about that without wanting you. I love your pathetic attachment to those seniors. I love how hard you work.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Beautiful, Love You, Wrinkles

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• I'm really happy for Coach Cooper and the guys who've been around here for six or seven years, especially our seniors.

  Bobby Hoying

  Football, College, Seven Years

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• It's a bit disappointing when board members who don't know a thing about football are making decisions on your career. When you look at it you've got coaches, senior players and CEO's who wanted me but then it gets to a board meeting and you've got fat businessmen who are making the decision on your career. It was frustrating and it made me a bit angry.

  Willie Mason

  Football, Player, Rugby League

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• 'The Committee has identified eight senior leaders who were in a position to prevent or to stop the IRS's targeting of conservative applicants,' the Oversight report states. 'Each of these leaders could have and should have done more to prevent the IRS's targeting of conservative tax-exempt applicants.'

  Patrick Howley

  Should Have, Eight, Leader

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• I can say I won a Senior British Open at Turnberry. I think that's the best thing about it, the whole week, was playing this course. It's a challenging, very tough course, under extreme weather. But you know, it's nice to win any event.

  Fred Couples

  Nice, Winning, Thinking

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• Board meetings should not be for the benefit of the board. They should be for the benefit of the CEO and the senior team.

  Fred Wilson

  Team, Boards, Benefits

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• As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it.

  William Westmoreland

  Public Opinion, Vietnam, Worried

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• Low levels of vitamin D in the population as a whole suggest that most people need to take a vitamin D supplement. This may be especially true for seniors, as the ability to synthesize vitamin D in the skin declines with age.

  Andrew Weil

  People, Age, Skins

  "New Recommendation: Why You Need More Vitamin D" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 9, 2010.

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• I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated.

  Denzel Washington

  Success, Jobs, College

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• The drug plans our seniors choose will define their health care options for years to come. If they do not make a decision and wait until the May 15 deadline passes, they will face penalties and higher prices for the drugs that they need.

  Mike Fitzpatrick

  Years, Waiting, Decision

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• Believing that no one is better than the other. You know I grew up in the South. My senior year there was a very big racial tension.

  Herschel Walker

  Sports, Believe, Years

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• The only reason I got into broadcasting was, I needed money to pay for my junior and senior years at college, and they hired me, those fools!

  Alex Trebek

  College, Years, Pay

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• I confess that when I first read that smog is particularly hazardous to children, senior citizens, and physically active people, for a brief moment I thought, “I’m in the clear for at least 10 more years.”

  Paula Poundstone

  Children, Years, People

  "Lean, Green Fighting Machine". www.motherjones.com. March/April 1997.

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• Oklahomans value our children and our seniors. Oklahomans value traditions of faith. Oklahomans value our heroes, our veterans. Oklahomans value innovation and the creative arts.

  Brad Henry

  Art, Children, Hero

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• At the end of the day, my hope is that when the new Medicare- Prescription Drug Law gets up and fully running a lot more seniors will pay a whole lot less than they do today for their much-needed medications.

  Dennis Hastert

  Running, Law, Romance

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• I took a couple of creative writing classes with Joyce Carol Oates at Princeton University, and in my senior year there, I took a long fiction workshop with Toni Morrison. I fell in love with it.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Couple, Writing, Class

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