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"I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York City."
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"Personal savings accounts to me are one of the most powerful things, not necessarily in saving, solvency, or bankruptcy of the program, but in guaranteeing, the words I used a few minutes ago, a safe and secure retirement for our seniors."

"From today I am no longer a racing driver. I'm retired and I am very happy."

"I can enjoy a vacation as well as the next person, as long as I know it's a vacation and not a premature retirement."

"Since Social Security faces a large gap between what it promises younger workers and what it can afford to pay them, private savings will likely need to play a larger role in retirement planning for younger workers."

"I try not to play two days in succession. I usually try to space it so I have a day in between."

"Who knows whether in retirement I shall be tempted to the last infirmity of mundane minds, which is to write a book."

"I'm never gonna play again, and I know I'm really, really going to miss it."
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"But, finally, I just realized a few years ago that this is where I belonged. I mean everything I had was invested here, emotionally and every other way. And the country had invested enormously in me."

"Television has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world."

"Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit."

"We spent a month in Japan last year, a week in Istanbul for the United Nations, and nearly three months in my native Nova Scotia, where my two brothers have homes; and we'll go back there this summer."

"Yes, after some time spent last year on other commitments, most of them speaking engagements, I am now about halfway through a novel that I hope will come out in 1998."

"You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy."

"And I'm in favor of that because I have a gay son, who's a very successful theater designer."

"Well, I had a small degree, that little infection of skepticism about America which resides in the minds of even America's closest friends. That America can't be quite as good as it says it is. And why does it need so relentlessly to keep saying how good it is?"
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