- Nov 07, 2020
Late Quotes
On timing, second chances, and knowing when it's too late.
These quotes look at lateness from several angles—the reassurance that starting fresh is possible at any age, an older historical reference to a delayed arrival, and wry lines about timing that shows up too early or too late to matter. See our life quotes for more.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nov 07, 2020
Apologizes are pointless, regrets come too late. What matters is you can move, on you can grow.
- Realize
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- Nov 07, 2020
We realize too late that President Bush shouldn't have taken us into Iraq, and President Obama shouldn't have taken us out.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Al Qaeda attacked the U.S.S. Cole and bombed several U.S. embassies in East Africa in the late 1990s. We knew who did it, but we didn't go after them. Instead, we beefed up security at our embassies and changed the Navy's rules of engagement. It only served to embolden Al Qaeda.
- Eminence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at the right time.
- Game Show
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to be obsessed with game shows. When the Game Show Network became popular in the late '90s, I was all about reruns of 'The Price Is Right.' I knew all the prices from the '70s.
- Got
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the late '90s, we kind of took a sabbatical, and I got an invitation to play with a Japanese band and formed a supergroup called NiNa. It was Yuki from Judy and Mary and Masahide Sakuma from The Plastics, a Japanese equivalent of the B-52s. It went to No. 1 in Japan.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's interesting: in the late '80s, there was this really random mix of new wave, industrial, and these early house records. And a lot of it was coming out of Chicago because of Wax Trax! So I always visited Wax Trax Records.
- Husband
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had three influential teachers. The first was Uta Hagen. The second two, Bobby Lewis and my late husband, Charles Kakatsakis, were both from the Actors Studio.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was really inspiring to be in West London in the late 1980s and early 1990s, especially in Mark Lebon's Crunch Studios, where I met people like Ray Petri, Neneh Cherry, Judy Blame, Nick and Barry Kamen, Zoe Bedeaux, and Venetia Scott.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was not awesome at dancing. For a ballerina, I probably started too late. Plus I enjoyed entertaining people too much.
- Egyptian
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obama was late to affirm the Egyptian revolution as a democratic movement, and even then he was eager to have installed those military leaders who were known for their practices of torture.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a credit card and a phone. I answer emails; I answer questions on chat in the middle of the day. Then, late at night, I write against other people who do just that.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020