Retirement Quotes - Page 24

• I think the notion of retirement is just a dreadful, dreadful idea and I hope I never have to do that.

  Michael Moritz

  Thinking, Ideas, Notion

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• Speaking as he unintentionally launched his farewell tour by announcing that the 2000 season would be his last before retirement: Honestly, I had never, ever in my wildest dreams believed I would ever do this. All I wanted to do was to play it out and when it was time to go, hang it up, take off and sail into the sunset somewhere.

  LaVell Edwards

  Dream, Farewell, Sunset

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• [The US] budget is dominated by the retirement programs, Social Security and Medicare - loosely speaking, the post-cold-war federal government is a big pension fund that also happens to have an army.

  Paul Krugman

  War, Army, Government

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• A careful physician . . . before he attempts to administer a remedy to his patient, must investigate not only the malady of the man he wishes to cure, but also his habits when in health, and his physical constitution.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Healthy, Wish, Physicians

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1942). “Cicero: De oratore ...”

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• BYU takes on defending national champion Florida State in the Pigskin Classic in Jacksonville, Fla., eight days after announcing that the 2000 season would be his last before retirement: I do know this, that I'm finally a little bit more relieved than I've been for some time. Patti (his wife) and I have talked about it a lot and came to that conclusion (to retire). I had a feeling of serenity, if you will. In fact, I was feeling so serene that I put in a film of Florida State, and that got me out of that mood in a hurry.

  LaVell Edwards

  Time, Florida, Eight

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• No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Humor, Mind, Wells

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge, Kathleen Coburn, Bart Keith Winer, Carl Woodring (1990). “Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Table Talk (2 v.)”, Bollingen Foundation

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• Considering retirement? When that happens, I don't want that to be the story of whatever the season it is. I don't want to have to be talking about it all the time. My plan is when the time is up, it'll be time to hang it up. When that comes, it'll come. But right now, I don't have any clue as to when that'll be. It's been that way the last couple of years. . . . I've often felt if I ever get to a point where I don't want to go recruiting and can't get excited about it, then maybe it's time. That's a pretty good indication that's probably it. And I haven't reached that point at all yet.

  LaVell Edwards

  Time, Couple, Talking

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• If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

  Confucius

  Leadership, Dance, Teacher

  Confucius (1907). “The Sayings of Confucius”

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• If anything could have pulled me out of retirement it would have been an Indiana Jones film.

  Sean Connery

  Indiana, Film, Has Beens

  "No more Indiana Jones for Connery". www.theguardian.com. June 8, 2007.

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• Never drink black coffee at lunch; it will keep you awake all afternoon.

  Jilly Cooper

  Coffee, Food, Lunch

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• It's too many questions about what I'm going to do, why I'm retiring, and this and that. So I answer the same question, I don't know, a thousand times.

  Marat Safin

  Answers, Retiring, Thousand

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• For these reasons, women tend to rely more heavily on Social Security in their retirement than do men.

  Steve Israel

  Reason, Social, Rely

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• We shouldn't be put out to pasture just because we've reached somebody's idea of retirement, which was certainly happening in Australia, and I think elsewhere as well.

  John Noble

  Thinking, Ideas, Australia

  "Fatherhood on the Fringe". Interview with Larry Getlen, www.aarp.org. November 18, 2010.

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• My 12 years in New York were very, very special, the fans were very special, and it's something I will take with me wherever I go and into retirement.

  Joe Torre

  New York, Years, Special

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• Well, I think some people are very happy in retirement. And in a year and a half I'm going to see how happy I feel in retirement. I'm just going to not work quite so hard, but I'll continue to write as long as God gives me breath.

  Jan Karon

  Writing, Thinking, Years

  "Leaving Mitford: Jan Karon on Life and Writing". Interview with Belinda Elliott, www.cbn.com.

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• When you are 25, 30, you know, you have no responsibility, no mortgage, no kids, no retirement to think about, nothing.

  Eric Ripert

  Kids, Responsibility, Thinking

  "Q & A With Eric Ripert: His New Book, More Fun With PBS + Le Bernardin's Numbers". Interview with Amy Scattergood, www.laweekly.com. January 14, 2011.

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• I know a lot of people in the retirement village that I have a house in in Florida that are on the Internet and are reading the paper on the Internet, and they're communicating on the Internet.

  Davy Jones

  Reading, Florida, People

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• It used to be 65 when you went into retirement. Before that, when you got into your 50s, you were getting older.

  Davy Jones

  Getting Older, Used, Used To Be

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• The promise of Social Security was reflected in President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's inter-generational compact that rewards hard work and provides retirement security.

  Christine Pelosi

  Hard Work, Promise, President

  "The Roadmap for Republicans Is a Roadmap to Ruin for Social Security" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 14, 2010.

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• Social Security not only helps Americans enjoy a secure retirement, it has also kept millions of Americans out of poverty.

  Zoe Lofgren

  Poverty, Helping, Social

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• The great increase in longevity has produced a surge in the desire to accumulate assets for retirement. It has outpaced the ability of the private sector to produce assets, so we need a larger government debt.

  William Vickrey

  Government, Desire, Needs

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• Obviously, people with low or even moderate incomes could not afford such savings rates, and even diligent savings from their low wages would not be enough to pay for either retirement or healthcare.

  William Greider

  People, Income, Saving

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• The retirement system that is in place for members of Congress and other federal workers features what is known as the Federal Employment Retirement Plan.

  Virgil Goode

  Employment, Congress, Members

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• The President and I agree that Social Security needs to be preserved so that we can ensure that all Americans receive the retirement benefits they've been promised. But we disagree as to how best to fix the system.

  Steve Israel

  President, Needs, Benefits

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• Americans are not saving enough for retirement.

  Tammy Baldwin

  Saving, Enough

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