Debbie Reynolds
Actress, Singer
"I don't have to retire to be happy."
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Retiring
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Tony Parker
Professional Basketball Player
"The day when I am satisfied with what I have, will be the day I retire from the sport."
Baltasar Gracian
Philosopher, Writer
"Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself."
B. B. King
Musician
"I never use that word, retire."
Ray Charles
Musician, Singer
"I cant retire from music any more than I can retire from my liver. Youd have to remove the music from me surgically—like you were taking out my appendix."
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"If I retire doing the character, I don't think the character has to retire. There will still be caricatures of Elvira. You know, Dracula still works, and he's dead."
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"I don't think anybody ever really just retires where they don't do anything."
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"Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial."
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"I believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young."
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"When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world."
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"Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire."
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"I'm retiring from competitive running, not from running. You cannot stop running, this is my life."
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"The home is a tryst-the place where we retire and shut the world out."
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"I am a retiring, silent, unsociable, and discontent person."
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"I'm mad, you know? I don't think of retiring at all."
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"Do I wish I could retire? Sure, but that's not life."
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"I will never retire unless I have to."
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"We'll all retire from life at some point. The great thing about acting is you don't necessarily have to retire."
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"The Stoics say, "Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest." And that is not true. Others say, "Go out of yourselves; seek happiness in amusement." And this is not true. Illness comes. Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us."
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"Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that."
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"I never want to retire until the day I drop dead. I want to work and work and work because work, I don't do for money, I do for love. And I love to work."
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"I'm starstruck everyday. The day I'm not starstruck, I'll have to retire."
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"If you're going to retire, retire early."
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"Be careful never to retire to rest in a room not properly ventilated."
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