Retired Quotes - Page 14

• 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, Senior, Order

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• Live performance really terrifies me. I haven't done it, really, in years. I think that's why I retired from my brief career in stand-up.

  Mindy Kaling

  Thinking, Years, Careers

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2011.

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• If I had quietly retired as governor in 2007 and went into banking or something of that nature, I would have been, at most, a footnote in the story and probably never mentioned.

  Mike Huckabee

  Banking, Stories, Footnotes

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• Right up until the time I retired at age 37, I felt like there were still things that I could do better.

  Julius Erving

  Basketball, Age, Stills

  "The Wondrous Dr. J". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.

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• I'm always announcing my retirement. I'm still not retired.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Retirement, Stills, Announcing

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• It's not that I'm retired, I just no longer accept acting work.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Acting, Accepting

  "People" by David Ward, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2005.

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• They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.

  William Congreve

  Tea, Scandal, Ancient

  'The Double Dealer' (1694) act 1, sc. 1

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• I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.

  Nadia Comaneci

  Sports, Gymnastics, Years

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• A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime.

  Chris Christie

  Teacher, Careers, Vision

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• The plan was criticized by some retired military officers embedded in TV studios. But with every advance by our coalition forces, the wisdom of that plan becomes more apparent.

  Dick Cheney

  Military, Tvs, Embedded

  "A NATION AT WAR: THE VICE PRESIDENT; After Weeks of Criticism, Cheney Claims Vindication as Iraqis Hail Outcome of War" by Richard W. Stevenson and Eric Schmitt, www.nytimes.com. April 10, 2003.

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• When I thought I was retired, I wanted to travel around the world and watch soccer games.

  Drew Carey

  Soccer, Travel, Games

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• I started beach football in Monte Carlo when I retired from football in 1997. I liked the game very much.

  Eric Cantona

  Football, Beach, Games

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• My own mentality is that I've retired. They send me these scripts and if I absolutely have to do it, then I go to work.

  Michael Caine

  Scripts, Ifs, My Own

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• I regard myself as someone who is retired but who occasionally goes out to work. In fact, I'm offered so much good stuff that it's not so occasional.

  Michael Caine

  Stuff, Facts, Occasional

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• I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and to mothball his opinions.

  Omar N. Bradley

  Military, Tongue, Suits

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• When you look at facing retirement in your mid-30s, and all of a sudden the outlet for that passion and work ethic goes away, you can't just sit back in a rocking chair and be retired at 35. I'm not a good enough golfer to play golf every day.

  Drew Bledsoe

  Retirement, Passion, Golf

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• I retired simply because I didn't have the passion and motivation anymore, I was tired. At the time I thought, 'Well, I had a great time, there is the end.' At some moment there is the right time to call it an end.

  Michael Schumacher

  Motivation, Passion, Tired

  "Michael Schumacher: Life in the fast lane". Interview with Susannah Palk, www.cnn.com. December 15, 2010.

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• Remember Judy Garland? She retired 40 times.

  Willard Scott

  Remember, Garlands

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• Donna Summer would be remembered as a ground-breaking artist today even if she'd retired the day after she recorded 'I Feel Love' in 1977.

  Rob Sheffield

  Summer, Artist, Would Be

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• If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.

  Doug Larson

  Funny, Witty, Retirement

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• People may live as much retired from the world as they please; but sooner or later, before they are aware, they will find themselves debtor or creditor to somebody.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  People, World, May

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

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• Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial.

  Seneca the Younger

  Retirement, Letters, Retiring

  "A Little Book of Aphorisms". Book by Frederick B Wilcox, p. 173, 1947.

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• One teacher recently retired with a half-million dollars after 30 years of working hard, caring, dedicating herself and totally immensing herself in the problems of the students. That gave her $50. The rest of the money came from the death of a rich uncle.

  Milton Berle

  Education, Teacher, Uncles

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• Essentially, he has been retired since he was 21.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Has Beens

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• And add to these retired Leisure, That in trim gardens take his pleasure.

  John Milton

  Garden, Add, Leisure

  'Il Penseroso' (1645) l. 49

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