"For years I've been hearing 20-somethings say they don't expect Social Security to be around when they hit 65. Eventually, I came to realize that they really mean that they just don't expect to be 65. Or 40. Neither did I, when I was 22."

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Source : "The Fiscal Riff". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. January 2, 2013.

Gail Collins

#Mean Quotes #Years Quotes #Hearing Quotes

“I have my own religion. I'm sort of one-quarter Baptist, one-quarter Catholic, one-quarter Jewish.”
“Don't lose your happiness on the pursuit for more”
“Data-driven statistics has the danger of isolating statistics from the rest of the scientific and mathematical communities by not allowing valuable cross-pollination of ideas from other fields.”
“I will personally never ever get over the communal experience of theatrical cinema. I will never get over the scale of a big screen in relation to your small body, big sounds in a big room with a bunch of other people.”
“We would be glad to have your friend come here to study, but tell him that we teach Chemistry here and not Agricultural Chemistry, nor any other special kind of chemistry. ... We teach Chemistry.”
“Ive been competitive since day one. Even in little things as a child, like having a twin and a direct competitor for who makes better cookies.”
“I've had offers to sign a record deal, but the people I've talked to have wanted to package me and have me meet with songwriters who've written stuff for Whitney Houston, that sort of thing. That's not at all my style.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“It ain't no use putting up your umbrella till it rains.”

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