Senior Quotes - Page 21

• Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.

  Barbara Mikulski

  Retirement, Political, Promise

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• ...The asbestos industry...has for decades successfully suppressed and manipulated information on the carcinogenicity and other hazards of asbestos. Involved in this conspiracy network were senior industry executives, their medical staff, attorneys, insurance companies, trade associations, scientific consultants, and commercial labs.

  Samuel Epstein

  Dark, Age, Asbestos

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• Though I hope to have a few more seasons still in senior football, I am studying to be a physiotherapist and masseur when my playing days are over. We married men have to look to the future, you know.

  Bob Paisley

  Football, Men, Looks

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• A fascinating, insightful, and new treatment from the perspective of an intimately involved former Iranian senior official on Iran's nuclear program and responses to it. For those familiar with the details, there is much new information about the Iran side, its ideas, strategies, disputes, and aims. U.S. experts will have some key questions but will learn much from this extraordinary book.

  Thomas R. Pickering

  Book, Keys, Iran

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• Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.

  Norman Cousins

  Country, Business, Government

  Norman Cousins (1972). “World”, s.n.

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• It simply isn't fair for senators to cut to the front of the line when seniors around the country have been forced to wait for hours to get a flu shot.

  Dick Durbin

  Country, Cutting, Waiting

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• Long gone are the days when hospital stays and surgeries made up the bulk of seniors annual medical expenses.

  Jim Gerlach

  Long, Gone, Medical

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• When blame inevitably arises, the most senior people in the room should repeat this mantra: if a mistake happens, shame on us for making it so easy to make that mistake.

  Eric Ries

  Mistake, People, Rooms

  Eric Ries (2011). “The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses”, p.235, Crown Business

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• Bisexuals are really attracted to senior Lib Dems - as they are both a man and a great big pussy.

  Frankie Boyle

  Men, Pussy, Bigs

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• I got thrown out of school several weeks in my senior year being caught in the girls' dorm. This was 1954, friends. The girls' dorm was off limits. Even to girls, I think.

  Robert B. Parker

  Girl, School, Thinking

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• I think baseball is a great support to people who have emotional voids, gaps, emotional difficulties. That is to say: all of us. Those parts of us that don’t function well. Those parts of us that are sad or depressed—not every day. They can really use baseball. It isn't just the child in a wheelchair or the shut-in senior citizen listening to the radio that needs the game. There’s part of us, part of everybody who’s a baseball fan, who needs the game at that level.

  Thomas Boswell

  Baseball, Children, Emotional

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• I acted in junior high in the junior high school group, and then when I got into senior high I was, you know, the main actor of the senior high school.

  Richard Foreman

  School, Aggravation, Groups

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• Give serious thought to why your company should care about your strategy. Specifically, find problems that the board wants to be solved. What are senior managers scared of? Part of becoming a credible strategic thinker is learning effective approaches to selling ideas for your situation. You’ll know that you’re getting better at selling (or pitching) strategy when managers start coming to you when there is strategic thinking to be done.

  Max McKeown

  Thinking, Ideas, Giving

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• I made my first Australian senior team when I was 16, first Olympics when I was 19, and I retired. I'm 32, I retired four years ago, so a good third of my life or nearly a third of my life has been all about running.

  Cathy Freeman

  Running, Team, Years

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

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• Everything depends on a good job - strong families, strong communities, the pursuit of the American dream, and a tax base to support schools for our kids and services for our seniors.

  Bob Taft

  Dream, Strong, Jobs

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• And if you like socialized medicine, you will love this government bureaucracy under [then-Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee] Al Gore that will actually cost seniors who get $500 a year in prescription drugs right now - it will end up costing seniors more money and take away control from those seniors.

  J. D. Hayworth

  Medicine, Government, Years

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• [The Republican plan will] make sure we bring down the cost of health care for all Americans and that ensures affordable access for all Americans and is pro-life because it will not put seniors in a position of being put to death by their government.

  Virginia Foxx

  Government, Pro Life, Cost

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• Today, its expensive prescription medications burdening seniors on fixed incomes with thousands of dollars in yearly out-of-pocket costs.

  Jim Gerlach

  Pockets, Dollars, Income

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• The Senior Moment has become the Google moment, and it has a much nicer, hipper, younger, more contemporary sound, doesn't it? By handling the obligations of the search mechanism, you almost prove you can keep up.

  Nora Ephron

  Google, Sound, Moments

  Nora Ephron (2011). “I Remember Nothing and other reflections”, p.24, Random House

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• I look at the Senior Al Gore that I had the chance to serve in the Senate with. A great human being. He went down to defeat to this right wing bunch back at the time.

  Birch Bayh

  Wings, Looks, Als

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• Eisenhower had run the Army; he knew all the ways decision making can go off the rails, and insisted on collective debate precisely to prevent senior officials from freelancing, or putting their departmental interests first. For all the formal machinery, Eisenhower was very literally the commander in chief, making the key decisions himself and monitoring closely how they were carried out. Even years after D-Day, when critics needled him for not being on the front lines with the invading forces, he retorted, “I planned it and took responsibility for it. Did you want me to unload a truck?

  Nancy Gibbs

  Running, Responsibility, Army

  Nancy Gibbs, Michael Duffy (2012). “The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity”, p.118, Simon and Schuster

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• A senior always feels like the university is going to the kids.

  Thomas Lansing Masson

  Kids, College, Feels

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• Most of the State of the Union will not be about Iraq. Most of the State of the Union will be about improving America's economy and providing greater access to health care for millions of American people, including senior citizens.

  Ari Fleischer

  Iraq, America, People

  "Economy, Iraq on State of the Union agenda". www.cnn.com. January 28, 2003.

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• I will seek to reverse the shift of benefits from Medicaid to Medicare and hold harmless our seniors and disabled.

  Jeff Bingaman

  Benefits, Medicare, Reverse

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• Recently, lobbyists for the pharmaceutical industry wrote a prescription drug bill that increased their profits and did nothing to help seniors. The result: seniors are stuck with a confusing prescription drug plan that does little to help them with their costs.

  Marty Meehan

  Drug, Confusing, Lobbyists

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