Later In Life Quotes - Page 4

• I cleaned up. I quit drinking, I quit doing drugs, I quit stealing, I quit breaking into houses, I tried to quit being a bad human being. I developed a conscience later in life than many. I call it the lost-time-regained dynamic.

  James Ellroy

  Drinking, House, Drug

  "The Onion talks to crime-fiction kingpin James Ellroy". Interview by John Krewson, www.avclub.com. November 20, 1996.

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• It's a cliché to state that one should think like a child, but it's clear that kids know something that the world tries to make you unlearn later in life.

  John Darnielle

  Children, Kids, Thinking

  "The Mountain Goats". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. October 1, 2012.

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• I think it's one of the reasons I wrote my book later in life. My parents didn't have these extreme alternations of conduct. They were very sweet to me.

  Francine du Plessix Gray

  Sweet, Book, Thinking

  "Conversation: Francine du Plessix Gray and Sean Wilsey". Interview with Boris Kachka, nymag.com.

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• Later in life, the memories I have of my mother are of constant work balanced with caring for my ailing father.

  Gloria Estefan

  Mother, Memories, Father

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• I ain't got no reverse. I've learned, a little later in life, it works out pretty good to have one every once in a while.

  Waylon Jennings

  Work Out, Littles, I've Learned

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• I think if you are young and you have children, you still have so much to prove. When you have children later in life, you lose a bit of that urge for working.

  Salma Hayek

  Children, Thinking, Young

  "Salma Inc". Interview With Laurie Sandell, www.marieclaire.com. April 11, 2012.

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• When I was a kid, my grandfather said that "if you say a word often enough, it becomes you." Thinking of that later in life gave me this idea that I could try to become America by learning the words of people from many aspects of the country.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Country, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• No one can bar me from joyfully proceeding on what the great masters have left us; after all, to rediscover everything again, should be understood to be unfounded. But one should however proceed on merit, and not simply repeat wat was. All genius, sincere, deserves his place, even though maybe later in life.

  Felix Mendelssohn

  Bars, Genius, Merit

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• My father said that I could always become an actress, but I couldn't go back to college later in life. So I had to first finish my education, and then I could do what I wanted. At the time, I was not pleased, but now, I can't thank him enough. My parents were absolutely right.

  Vidya Balan

  Father, College, Parent

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• I often see cases of Internet news where there's no reconciliation for what's gone before and what's newly arrived. That training for me - which was absolutely brutal and I was terrified - was so important, especially later in life when one was faced with conflicting stories and conflicting evidence.

  Harold Evans

  Training, Important, News

  "Harold Evans Sees Bright Future for Print-on-Demand Newspapers". Interview with Mark Glaser, mediashift.org. October 29, 2009.

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• I was relatively isolated from people of color. My parents are too old to be Baby Boomers; they had me later in life. So we didn't listen to any black music at all in the house, not even Ben E. King.

  Jess Row

  Baby, Kings, Color

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Delayed gratification is the one thing we ignore these days. And if you delay it, it becomes more pleasurable later in life.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Delay, These Days, Gratification

  Source: nation.foxnews.com

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• My kind of success has come a little bit later in life. I'm not 20 any more and these people I've been working with have been successful and good at what they do for a long time.

  Jeffrey Dean Morgan

  Successful, Long, People

  "Jeffrey Dean Morgan Interview - P.S. I LOVE YOU". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 18, 2007.

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• I see lots of women having beautiful children later in life. And, if not, just freeze your eggs!

  Nicole Scherzinger

  Beautiful, Children, Eggs

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

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• I got into Taekwondo when I was nine, and I started training Muay Thai and Brazilian Jujitsu later in life.

  Sean Patrick Flanery

  Training, Taekwondo, Nine

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It took me a long time to find out that I was born to be an actor. It was the last thing on my list, although my list was very small. I didn't know what to do. But kids weren't supposed to know what to do back then; we were all cute and we'd find out what we'd do later in life.

  Rutger Hauer

  Cute, Kids, Long

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• Much later in life, though, Gracie made a major contribution to the opera world. She stayed out of it.

  George Burns

  Funny, Humorous, World

  George Burns (1988). “Gracie/Caeser Spec Ed”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• We think in youth that our bodies are identical to ourselves and have the same interests, but discover later in life that they are heartless companions who have been accidentally yoked with us, and who are as likely as not, in our extreme sickness or old age, to treat us with less mercy than we would have received at the hands of the worst bandits.

  Rebecca West

  Thinking, Hands, Heartless

  Rebecca West (2010). “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia”, p.382, Open Road Media

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• ...But we enjoyed playing games and were punished for them by men who played games themselves. However, grown-up games are known as 'business' and even though boys' games are much the same, they are punished for them by their elders. No one pities either the boys or the men, though surely we deserve pity, for I cannot believe that a good judge would approve of the beatings I received as a boy on the ground that my games delayed my progress in studying subjects which would enable me to play a less creditable game later in life.

  Saint Augustine

  Believe, Boys, Men

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• So I developed very early a massive inferiority complex, and I've told the story often about how that inspired me later in life to get involved in other things, because I couldn't out-do my brothers in sports, and it's a very competitive relationship.

  George J. Mitchell

  Relationship, Sports, Brother

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• I became an actor at a very young age, but I also had a deep respect for nature and I think I was sort of a little biologist when I was younger. I watched documentaries on rainforest pollution and the loss of species and habitats for animals around the world. It affected me in a very hardcore, emotional way when I was younger. So, later in life I wanted to continue that path more and investigate and learn more about ecological issues.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Loss, Emotional, Thinking

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• I guess one of the reasons I'm doing the Poe piece is that I think Poe demonstrates that no matter how difficult things are, if you continue to move forward in life, you can eventually become victorious, even if it's later in life.

  John Astin

  Moving, Thinking, Forward In Life

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

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• Both of my grandparents died of lung cancer. So I got quite a lesson in the payback later in life of smoking, and if you keep it up how bad it can be.

  George Clooney

  Cancer, Grandparent, Smoking

  Interview with Norman Lear, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 7, 2012.

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• All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Men, Evil, Realizing

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• Later in life, suddenly, if you're an outsider, it's something to be celebrated, I think, rather than getting on people's nerves.

  Nick Lowe

  Thinking, People, Nerves

  Source: www.gq.com

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