Retirement Quotes - Page 27

• I don't know why people thought I was retiring.

  Billy Joel

  People, Retiring, Knows

  "Pop quiz classic: Billy Joel". Interview with Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. 2001.

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• Retiring was scary and it was tough to give up gymnastics, but so many great opportunities have come from it that I never expected.

  Shawn Johnson

  Giving Up, Gymnastics, Opportunity

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• What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

  Helen Keller

  Teacher, Self, Needs

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• People don't want other people to get high, because if you get high, you might see the falsity of the fabric of the society we live in.

  Ken Kesey

  People, Fabric, Getting High

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• Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Inspirational, Life, Teacher

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• I'm so lucky to have a career in my fifties. And to still have the desire to do it. I don't think about retirement.

  Kim Cattrall

  Thinking, Careers, Desire

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• I have to struggle to change people's perceptions of me. I grew very frustrated with the perception that I'm this shy, retiring, inhibited aristocratic creature when I'm absolutely not like that at all. I think I'm much more outgoing and exuberant than my image.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Struggle, Thinking, People

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• Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens.

  Charles Kuralt

  School, Trying, North Carolina

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• As long as I'm still able to have a hit on the radio and sell a few albums and some tickets, I don't see that it would be worth retiring.

  Alan Jackson

  Long, Albums, Would Be

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

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• In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.

  Lee Iacocca

  Inspirational, Thank You, Education

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• You may be a redneck if... you have spent more on your pickup truck than on your education.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Teacher, Work, Educational

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• Pay no heed to those who tell you that they have relinquished place and power of their own accord, and from their love of quiet. For almost always they have been brought to this retirement by their insufficiency and against their will.

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Pay, Quiet, Accord

  Francesco Guicciardini (1890). “Counsels and Reflections of Francesco Guicciardini”

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• One state retiree, 49 years old, paid, over the course of his entire career, a total of $124,000 towards his retirement pension and health benefits. What will we pay him? $3.3 million in pension payments over his life and nearly $500,000 for health care benefits - a total of $3.8m on a $120,000 investment.

  Chris Christie

  Years, Careers, Benefits

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• He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.

  Joseph Heller

  Funny Life, Farewell, Forever

  Catch-22 ch. 3 (1961)

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• There was no last animal I treated. When young farm lads started to help me over the gate into a field or a pigpen, to make sure the old fellow wouldn't fall, I started to consider retiring.

  James Herriot

  Fall, Animal, Lasts

  "But It Did Happen To A Vet" by Jonathan Margolis, Time Magazine, December 12, 2002.

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• The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.

  Eric Hoffer

  Art, Nursing, Age

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Thinking, Trying, Acting

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• The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and that the true teacher is a learner.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Teacher, Teaching, Literature

  "Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers". Volume XXII,

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• Many seniors understand that Social Security is social insurance as opposed to a program where we put money aside for our own retirement. But most elderly individuals think they're getting their money back. So it isn't selfishness as much as a misunderstanding.

  Richard Lamm

  Senior, Thinking, Elderly

  "Lamm on the Line". Interview With Peter Doskoch, www.psychologytoday.com. September 1, 1996.

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• What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Life, Motivational, Education

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• The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.

  John Lennon

  Responsibility, Glimpse, Answers

  KFRC RKO Radio Interview, December 08, 1980.

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• Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “The Enemies List”, p.7, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• If you pay off your mortgage before retirement, you take a huge financial load off your shoulders. You also become eligible to take out a reverse mortgage once you turn 62.

  Suze Orman

  Pay, Financial, Mortgage

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• To enjoy a long, comfortable retirement, save more today.

  Suze Orman

  Long, Today, Enjoy

  "Suze Orman: Are you making these financial mistakes?". Article by Suze Orman, www.cnn.com. May 27, 2010.

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• Take free money. No matter how in debt you are, if your employer offers a matching contribution on a 401(k) or other retirement vehicle, you must sign up and contribute enough to get the maximum company match each year. Think of it as a bonus.

  Suze Orman

  Thinking, Years, Debt

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