Late Quotes - Page 14

• Your parents leave you too soon and your kids and spouse come along late, but your siblings know you when you are in your most inchoate form.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Sister, Brother, Sibling

  "Why we can never escape our siblings". Interview with Mandy Van Deven, www.salon.com. September 11, 2011.

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• When I first decided to open a restaurant, I was turned down by several banks. It was the late 80's and many restaurants were failing. I refused to give up because I knew I had a good concept.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Giving Up, Firsts, Failing

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• I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  War, School, Artist

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• I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.

  Charles Lamb

  Funny, Hilarious, Witty

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• My ambition was to be a record producer, and I had started doing that in the late '60s with my work with the MC5 and my friend Livingston Taylor.

  Jon Landau

  Ambition, Records, Producers

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• To her audience, Janis Joplin has remained a symbol, artifact and reminder of late Sixties youth culture. Her popularity never derived from her musical ability, but from her capacity to link her fantasies of freedom and immortality with ours.

  Jon Landau

  Musical Ability, Culture, Links

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• I am not one to turn down macaroni and cheese, even late at night. I love Italian food. I love pasta... A refrigerator full of water and Gatorade? Honey, that's just not gonna happen.

  Queen Latifah

  Funny, Food, Italian

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

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• Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

  Stephen Leacock

  Life, Learning, Too Late

  Stephen Leacock (2012). “Feast of Stephen”, p.105, McClelland & Stewart

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• To me, Ennis stands for the conservative side of America. He's the biggest homophobe in the whole movie - culturally and psychologically - but by the time he admits his feelings, it's too late.

  Ang Lee

  America, Feelings, Too Late

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• Many of you might already recognize me as the guy in the question-mark suits appearing in the late night TV commercials and on the cover of educational books and CDs.

  Matthew Lesko

  Educational, Book, Night

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• I became conflicted in my late teens.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Teens

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

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• Obama is not the messiah any longer. He is now your standard, ordinary, everyday politician who lies, who breaks promises, who's in it for himself, who can't do anything on his own. He's not qualified. All of this is becoming known, sadly, too late.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Lying, Everyday, Promise

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• Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day.

  Franz Liszt

  Music, Missing, Too Late

  Speech by Joseph W P Wong at "Hong Kong: Turning China into Opportunity" Seminar, www.info.gov.hk. November 06, 2006.

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• I really got into the cricket and staying up late watching the World Cup.

  Jeremy London

  Stay Strong, World, Cups

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• I grew up in the Bronx where you would stay up late with your girlfriends, just being silly in our bedrooms, whatever. And I was always the clown.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Girlfriend, Silly, Just Being

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• I realized late in life that my twin passions are music and people.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Passion, People, Twins

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• You know you poor when you eatin' breakfast food late. You fryin' toast? At nine o'clock at night? With bacon? You're broke.

  Bernie Mac

  Night, Breakfast Food, Nine

  Bernie Mac (2002). “I Ain't Scared of You”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• I started on 'Saturday Night Live' the same time Conan started on 'Late Night.' We just had a relationship because I would be upstairs in the studio and whenever he couldn't get a guest - which was often back then since he was just starting out - he would just call me down to be a guest.

  Norm MacDonald

  Night, Would Be, Guests

  Interview with Andy Seifert, www.avclub.com. May 14, 2010.

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• Someday perhaps change will occur when times are ready for it instead of always when it is too late. Someday change will be accepted as life itself.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Too Late, Someday, Accepted

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• At this late hour a wagon has been procured, and I have had it filled with plate and the most valuable portable articles, belonging to the house.

  Dolley Madison

  House, Wagons, Hours

  Dolley Madison (1886). “Memoirs and Letters of Dolly Madison: Wife of James Madison, President of the United States”, Boston ; New York, Houghton, Mifflin

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• The great and unlooked for discoveries that have taken place of late years have all concurred to lead many men into the opinion that we were touching on a period big with the most important changes.

  Thomas Malthus

  Taken, Men, Discovery

  Thomas Robert Malthus (1986). “The Works of Thomas Robert Malthus”

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• There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.

  Og Mandino

  Motivation, Distance, Too Late

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World, Part II: The End of the Story”, p.85, Bantam

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• 'Show up at the desk' is one of the first rules of writing, but for 'Wolf Hall' I was about 30 years late.

  Hilary Mantel

  Writing, Years, Firsts

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• I beg Osama to stop warring. He is a Muslim, and Islam means peace. Nobody wins in a war... I wish I were tapped in the problem about Iraq. I knew Saddam enough that I could have talked him into surrendering. But it's too late.

  Imelda Marcos

  War, Mean, Winning

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

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• Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Home, Whales, Wife

  FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from Dec 09, 2011

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