George Washington Quotes
Every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome.George Washington
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'I can't get no satisfaction,' in political terms, has haunted Hungarian politics for 20 years.
Viktor Orban -
What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 years ago are no worse and no better - there's a consistency.
Randy Newman -
I'm a much healthier eater and I've lost quite a bit of weight over the years.
Randy Jackson Breakfast Club -
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.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I think I've become more modest as the years have gone on.
Ian Mckellen -
I had auditioned for 'The Vampire Diaries' years ago before 'The Originals' happened, so I was familiar with that mythology.
Nathan Parsons
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After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.
J. A. Konrath -
Shockingly, the Bidens donated under $1,000 to all charities combined every year for the ten years prior to 2008.
Larry J. Sabato -
I taught sixth grade for three and a half years.
Ed Bradley -
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.
Walter Cronkite -
I would rather do twenty TV series than go through what I went through under that Rank contract I signed a few years ago for which I blame no one but myself.
Patrick McGoohan -
Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.
Iain Duncan Smith
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Over the years, so many exceptions and amendments were made to China's one-child policy that it was hard to pinpoint a moment to pronounce it dead.
Barbara Demick -
A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow.
J. B. Priestley -
I think I do myself a disservice by comparing myself to Steve Jobs and Walt Disney and human beings that we've seen before. It should be more like Willy Wonka... and welcome to my chocolate factory.
Kanye West -
I feel like the American years were my apprenticeship for doing a Bond movie.
Sam Mendes -
As a reader I want to be present and entertained. I don't want to be taught lessons, and I don't want to be spoken down to. I want to be treated as a peer and to be made to feel welcome.
Patrick deWitt -
Darryl Strawberry has been voted to the Hall of Fame five years in a row.
Ralph Kiner
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Tony Judt's remarkable 'The Memory Chalet' was written from the prison of mute immobility.
Edith Pearlman -
I would go to war with words, not weapons. I would die talking before I lifted a weapon.
Mandy Patinkin -
Only votes talk, everything else walks.
Dan Rather -
There's no magic solution for us, we just don't have the resources at the moment. The guys we've got here are the best front-rowers in Australia at the moment.
Eddie Charles Jones -
Every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome.
George Washington