"Reagan is the only man to take the presidency as a part-time job, a means of filling up the otherwise empty hours of retirement."

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Source : "Sports Coverage? It's Not Cricket". www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2004.

Simon Hoggart

#Retirement Quotes #Jobs Quotes #Mean Quotes

“At seventy-four I'm getting minor raves on my looks, but I'm caught in the middle. Who knows what seventy-four looks like? Who cares? But if I'd listened to my friends, I could now lie and say I'm eighty-four. For eighty-four, the way I look is spectacular.”

Source : Ruth Gordon (1971). “Myself Among Others”
“I enjoyed school, I was a bit of a square. I did very well in exams. I was quite lucky I was academic.”
“Maybe you's a stank ho, maybe that's a bit mean/Maybe you grew up and I'm still living like I'm sixteen”

Source : "Song: 'Deeper'". 2014.
“Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.”

Source : Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1873). “Notes of Thought”
“Lithuania is a small country, so our contribution would not be that large. We are not afraid of our responsibility. We receive 25 percent of our national budget from the European Union. We understand the value of solidarity.”
“I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.”
“Before you approach a production entity or even a potential producer, you should write up a treatment and register your show with the Writers Guild of America.”
“So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray.”

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