Michael Jordan
Professional Basketball Player
"I'm retired 99.9%. Of course, there always is that .1%."
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Retired
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Lee Friedlander
Photographer
"I retired from everything except work."
Samuel Beckett
Playwright, Novelist
"As it is with the love of the body, so with the friendship of the mind, the full is only reached by admittance to the most retired places."
Simone de Beauvoir
Philosopher, Writer
"The role of a retired person is no longer to possess one."
Sally Rand
Dancer
"I have never retired - I have averaged 40 working weeks a year since 1933."
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"Being a retired major looks like an ideal thing to me. What a pity you couldn't eternally have been just a retired major."
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"Golly,' said Edmund under his breath, 'He's a retired star."
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"I'm not semi-retired, I'm just taking it easy."
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"I've retired a couple of times. It's great, because you can just say, 'Oh, I'm sorry. I'm retired.'"
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"When I retired, I felt that I lived more in that year than I had the previous 27 years of my life."
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"I am not retired! I will be retired the day I die."
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