Hank Greenwald Quotes
I like to tell people that I finally found something I'm really good at, and that's retirement.
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We want to encourage people to talk to one another.
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It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.
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The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all.
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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
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The car provided Americans with an enviable standard of living. You could not get a steady job with high wages and health and retirement benefits working on the General Livestock Corporation assembly line putting udders on cows.
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When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.
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I wanted to have more time to play and reflect, but I find retirement more stressful than having a nice, steady job because I have to make decisions about where I want to be.
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Well, it'd certainly be fascinating if we discovered that gays were better at being married than heterosexuals are. Talk about irony.
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What 'Deadwood' did was to talk about how capitalism started, how civilised society came in, and how that brought its own problems.
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The 'soul' is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.
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The retirement age needs to be raised. A portion of Social Security ought to be privatized, if not all. And there probably needs to be some means testing. It's a Ponzi scheme that's not sustainable.
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It's such a joy to talk to a roomful of people who have read my novel and are eager to talk about it.
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To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly divorced from certain other shortcomings.
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Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't smile anything you can nod. Don't nod anything you can wink.
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If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
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To make the bloody thing talk the way I do when I'm on a verbal roll, in my idioms and rhythms.
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You should not quarrel with your neighbour, for he will remain where he is, but your high handedness will become the talk of the people.
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I had a very bad torn groin, my abdomen right through my legs. I was finding it really hard to get in the ring and run around and function at a decent rate. Then they had the idea that it might be better to do a retirement thing.
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If I was going onstage, of course I would talk about it. How could I not?
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The more people talk about eating disorders, the more people get the real story about what they're like.
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The only stuff I don't like are Broadway musicals. I hate them. I don't even like to talk about it. I can't bear musicals.
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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
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Sometimes friends move apart from each other for whatever reason.
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I like to tell people that I finally found something I'm really good at, and that's retirement.
