Senior Quotes - Page 4

• I developed my training routine going into my senior year at Jackson State. I found this sandbank by the Pearl River near my hometown, Columbia, Miss. I laid out a course of 65 yards or so. Sixty-five yards on sand is like 120 on turf, but running on sand helps you make your cuts at full speed.

  Walter Payton

  Running, Cutting, Years

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• I went to a high school that didn't have many people in it. There were, like, 60 people in my senior class. There was a group of cool kids and a group of really dorky kids, and I was probably the coolest of the really dorky kids.

  Matthew Perry

  School, Kids, Class

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• I went to a large consolidated school in Appalachia. And I wrote the story when I was in the second grade and I took it up to the third floor to the school newspaper office that was written and edited by juniors and seniors.

  Tom Robbins

  School, Office, Stories

  "Novelist Tom Robbins Plays Not My Job". Interview with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. June 5, 2010.

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• Make no mistake: Bob Ritchie's up early in the morning taking pictures of his son on the first day of his senior year. Kid Rock is passed out in a hotel room somewhere with four scantily-clad women.

  Kid Rock

  Morning, Mistake, Kids

  "Kid Rock: What I've Learned" by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. April 20, 2011.

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• I don't have much interest in being on a senior tour. I don't think I retired so that I could be on tour.

  Andy Roddick

  Thinking, Interest, Retired

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• The American people I talk to don't spend every moment thinking, 'How can I tax my neighbor more than they're being taxed?' They say, 'How can I get a good job? How can my kids get good jobs? How can seniors have a confidence in their future when they know that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are bankrupt?'

  Mitt Romney

  Jobs, Kids, Thinking

  "The Kudlow Report" with Larry Kudlow, www.cnbc.com. April 12, 2011.

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• It's strange but I suppose I'm one of those senior players now and I'll be helping the young players as much as I can.

  Wayne Rooney

  Inspirational, Player, Helping

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• In Pennsylvania, 38 percent of Pennsylvania seniors chose to get their Medicare from a plan called Medicare Advantage. It's their choice. Forty-seven percent of them are going to lose it under 'Obamacare' according to Medicare by 2017.

  Paul Ryan

  Obamacare, Choices, Pennsylvania

  "Ryan: Happy to cling to guns, religion" by Juana Summers, www.politico.com. August 21, 2012.

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• We're saying no changes for Medicare for people above the age of 55. And in order to keep the promise to current seniors who've already retired and organized their lives around this program, you have to reform it for the next generation.

  Paul Ryan

  Birthday, Order, People

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• Every once in a while, you live long enough to get the respect that people didn't want to give while you were trying to become a senior citizen.

  Gil Scott-Heron

  Long, People, Giving

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• It's easy to dislike the few senior women out there. What if women were half the positions in power? It would be harder to dislike all of them.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  What If, Would Be, Half

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• Low-income people, racial or ethnic minorities, pregnant women, seniors, people with special needs, people in rural areas - they all have a much harder time accessing a dentist than other groups of Americans.

  Bernie Sanders

  People, Special, Low Income

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

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• I had three jobs my junior and senior year of high school. I worked for the gas station and worked for a pizza place.

  Curt Schilling

  Jobs, School, Years

  "MLB great Curt Schilling thriving in second career". "The Sean Hannity Show", www.foxnews.com. March 16, 2012.

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• I will continue to support legislation that provides American families and Seniors affordable health care.

  Ed Pastor

  Support, Care, Legislation

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• Desmond O'Grady is one of the senior figures in Irish
  Literary life, exemplary in the way he has committed
  himself over the decades to the vocation of poetry and
  has lived selflessly for the art

  Seamus Heaney

  Art, Way, Figures

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• When we stand up for America, we stand up for what America stands for, which is a safety net for our seniors and really helping our families be able to help themselves

  Barbara Mikulski

  America, Safety, Able

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• I know of no serious proposals that would change the way Social Security operates for today's seniors.

  Mac Thornberry

  Change, Today, Way

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• And because of these programs like Medicare, Medicare prescription drugs, Social Security, we now have the healthiest and wealthiest group of senior citizens that the world has ever seen. This is a continuing commitment to that.

  James T. Walsh

  Commitment, Drug, Groups

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• Today, Medicare provides health insurance to about 40 million seniors and disabled individuals each year. The number is only expected to grow as the baby boomers begin retiring.

  Jim Bunning

  Girl, Baby, Years

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• This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid;
  Regent of love-rhymes, lord of folded arms,
  The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans,
  Liege of all loiterers and malcontents.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Dwarves, Arms

  'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 3, sc. 1, l. [189]

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• Although professors regard improving critical thinking as the most important goal of college, tests reveal that seniors who began their studies with average critical thinking skills have progressed only from the 50th percentile of entering freshmen to about the 69th percentile.

  Derek Bok

  College, Thinking, Average

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• Target prices? How that works? I know quite a bit about farm policy. I come from Indiana, which is a farm state. Deficiency payments - which are the key - that is what gets money into the farmer's hands. We got loan, uh, rates, we got target, uh, prices, uh, I have worked very closely with my senior colleague, (Indiana Sen.) Richard Lugar, making sure that the farmers of Indiana are taken care of.

  Dan Quayle

  Taken, Keys, Hands

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• Tutelage is a comfortable relationship for the senior partner, but it is demoralizing in the long run. It breeds illusions of omniscience on one side and attitudes of impotent irresponsibility on the other.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Running, Attitude, Power

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• It's true, some senior Hungarian writers are not known for their laughter. There is a strong Germanic influence - an attitude that if it's enjoyable it can't possibly be literature.

  Tibor Fischer

  Strong, Laughter, Attitude

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• I tried writing fiction as a little kid, but had a teacher humiliate me, so didn't write again until I was a senior in college.

  Janet Fitch

  Teacher, Writing, Kids

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