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• Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not.

  Richard Armour

  Teacher, Retirement, Firsts

  Richard Armour (1976). “Going Like Sixty: A Lighthearted Look at the Later Years”

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• The workers of the nation were tired of waiting for corporate industry to right their economic wrongs, to alleviate their social agony and to grant them their political rights. Despairing of fair treatment, they resolved to do something for themselves.

  John L. Lewis

  Rights, Agony, Waiting

  Labor and the Nation, delivered 3 September 1937 in Washington D.C.

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• I'm so incredibly tired of giving respect to a lot of delusions and crazy ideas just because they are regarded as religions.

  Bjorn Ulvaeus

  Respect, Crazy, Ideas

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

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• Sometimes I sit in my den at home and read stories about myself. Kids used to save whole scrapbooks on me. They get tired of them and mail them to me. I'll go in there and read them, and you know what? They might as well be about (Stan) Musial and (Joe) DiMaggio, it's like reading about somebody else.

  Mickey Mantle

  Reading, Home, Kids

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

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• Directors like William Friedkin (Killer Joe), Steven Soderbergh (Magic Mike) and Lee Daniels (The Paperboy) got in touch with me and wanted me to be part of their films. That was a whole new chapter for me. I didn’t chase any of those films and it made me think that I was right to take a chance, say no to the kind of thing I had grown tired of doing, and wait until something good came around. And it did.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Thinking, Waiting, Magic

  "All-american? no more". IN Magazine Interview, inmagazine.ca. December 23, 2013.

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• If I'm tired of me, I'm sure the public is as well.

  Michael Stipe

  I'm Tired, Wells, Ifs

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• 'What was being on the moon literally like?' [. . .] 'Being on the moon?' His tired gaze inspected the narrow street of cheap jewellery stores, with its office messengers and lottery touts, the off-duty taxi-drivers leaning against their cars. 'It was just like being here.'

  J. G. Ballard

  Moon, Car, Office

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• Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can't help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won't want to worry.

  B. C. Forbes

  Workout, Sleep, Exercise

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• We must pray without tiring, for the salvation of mankind does not depend upon material success . . . but on Jesus alone.

  Frances Xavier Cabrini

  Success, Christian, Jesus

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• Hope is a song in a weary throat.

  Pauli Murray

  Inspirational, Hope, Song

  Pauli Murray (1970). “Dark testament: and other poems”

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• If you think, you are late. If you are late, you use strength. If you use strength you get tired. And if you get tired, you die!

  Saulo Ribeiro

  Strength, Art, Thinking

  "Saulo Ribeiro: 'We Should Drop The 'Brazilian' in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu'". Jits Magazine Interview (translated from French), www.bjjee.com. February 11, 2016.

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• The revolution has been dubbed “The Orange Revolution,” orange being the campaign color of Viktor Yushchenko. The demonstrators say they are tired of living under a corrupt government...

  Bob Schaffer

  Government, Color, Orange

  "Go Orange!". National Review Online Interview, www.nationalreview.com. November 30, 2004.

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• If one could run without getting tired I don't think one would often want to do anything else.

  C. S. Lewis

  Running, Thinking, Want

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• If we grow weary and give up, the goal remains for someone else to achieve.

  Zig Ziglar

  Motivational, Giving Up, Goal

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Nov 21, 2014

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• I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  War, Night, Worry

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• I'm tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and defend my rights under the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution.

  L. Neil Smith

  Exercise, Rights, Criminals

  "I'm Tired (With Apologies to Pearl Bailey and Madeleine Kahn)". Second annual Liberty Round Table Conclave near Estes Park, Colorado, July 2, 1998.

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• I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.

  Alexander Woollcott

  Government, Democracy, Hearing

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• One of the reasons I started Tzadik, which is my own label, is to keep things in print. I got tired of labels dropping things out of print when they don't sell.

  John Zorn

  Labels, Reason, Dropping

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• The demonstrators in Ukraine will persevere and succeed, or grow tired, cold and fade.

  Bob Schaffer

  Ukraine, Succeed, Cold

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• Are you tired of sand being kicked in your face? I promise you new muscles in days!

  Charles Atlas

  Promise, Faces, Sand

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• The American public is sick and tired of being lied to.

  Patrick Leahy

  Sick, Being Lied, Lied

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

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• One day it was about getting married that mother talked with me, and I said I was so glad that when you didn't like being married, or got tired of your husband, you could get Unmarried.

  Eleanor Porter

  Mother, Husband, One Day

  Eleanor H. Porter (2008). “Mary Marie (Volume 2 of 2) (EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition)”, p.38, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• They weren't crazy. They were tired of being locked up. Even I could see that.

  Kate Millett

  Crazy, Locked Up, Locked

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• Living in New York is like being at some terrible late-night party. You're tired, you've had a headache since you arrived, but you can't leave because then you'd miss the party.

  Simon Hoggart

  New York, Party, Night

  Simon Hoggart (1990). “America: A User's Guide”, HarperCollins

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• We don't hate the media, it's just that when there's too much of it we get bored, but it happens to every human being. I don't think we even hated the media by the time that movie was made. We were just tired.

  Ed O'Brien

  Hate, Thinking, Media

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