"If Britain is to have a stable, affordable pension system, people need to work longer, but we will reward their hard work with a decent state pension that will enable them to enjoy quality of life in their retirement."

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Source : "Politics live blog" by Andrew Sparrow, www.theguardian.com. June 24, 2010.

Iain Duncan Smith

#Retirement Quotes #Hard Work Quotes #People Quotes

“I haven’t been right all year. I guess, you know, when you don’t feel good, and you still get hits, that’s when you know you are a bad man.”
“When I go to karaoke, I'm still the worst guy there.”
“Careful economic research has shown public-sector workers receive a level of compensation, pension benefits, and retiree health coverage in excess of what comparable workers in the private sector enjoy. In some instances, the total premium can be 30 percent or higher.”
“I love religion but I don't need it for votes.”
“You can trust a few some of the time, and most none of the time. Feel lucky if you have even one to trust all of the time.”

Source : Virginia C. Andrews (1981). “If there be thorns”, Pocket Books ; Markham, Ont. : Distributed in Canada by PaperJacks
“I saw sensuality as sacred, indeed the only sacredness, I saw woman and her beauty as divine since her calling is the most important task of existence: the propagation of the species. I saw woman as the personification of nature, as Isis, and man as her priest, her slave; and I pictured her treating him as cruelly as Nature, who, when she no longer needs something that has served her, tosses it away, while her abuses, indeed her killing it, are its lascivious bliss.”
“This is a setback. You get back up, you dust yourself off, and you get back in the game. We had a great singer named Ray Charles who wrote a song called 'Drowning in My Tears.' You can't afford to drown in your tears. You gotta go back, rededicate yourself, redouble your efforts, and persevere.”
“For me, when we came out with a TV show, my HBO show, so much of the feedback was, "How do I do it?" And my response was always the same: "Just make something." Stop talking about it. You do in a way that the work takes on a life of its own. Like the "Signature" series [(2008), in which the artist trekked across the United States in the shape of his own signature] was a simple concept that became this story about the people you met along the way.”

Source : "Marc Horowitz". Interview with Casey Neistat, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 3, 2010.

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