- Friday Night
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- 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These quotes look at lateness from several angles—the reassurance that starting fresh is possible at any age, an older historical reference to a delayed arrival, and wry lines about timing that shows up too early or too late to matter.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
- Secret
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late - and strike oil.'
- Gain
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worked hard. I worked late. I went in early. I did everything I could to gain an advantage.
- Nov 07, 2020
The Moguls is a story about guys that have all grown up together and are now in their late 40s, early 50s.
- Honor
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid growing up in Cleveland, I believed - completely, wholeheartedly, without reservation or pause - that the Cleveland Indians were named to honor a Native American ballplayer named Louis Sockalexis, who played for Cleveland in the late 19th Century.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cities are a melting pot for different ideas, and diversity brings a high-energy rhythm that I don't think we'd know was gone until it was too late.
- Hot
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- Nov 07, 2020
Improv seemed to replace stand-up, which was very big before that. Stand-up comedy was real hot in the late '80s and through the '90s.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In some European theaters, it's still not uncommon to have a late start and three LONG intermissions, because people actually eat and drink and converse during the intermissions.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the late 1980s, there was the beginning of awareness about a significant global landmine problem, and small steps were being taken to try to deal with the problem.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am on sabbatical as of right now, been too busy to think of about my OWN needs as of late.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
Modern political science started in the late nineteenth century as a branch of history.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the late 1990s, I was a guest on a private plane. By the time my partners and I got off the flight, we knew we had to figure out how to fly privately more often.
- Early
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started collecting in the late 1990s. My first purchase was from an auction, a scroll by Dong Qichang, from the early 16th century, the late Ming Dynasty.
- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tend to like the last sentence I just wrote, which is: 'It was late in the fall and the trees lining our driveway had turned red like a row of burning matches.'
- Exhibit
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- Nov 07, 2020
Galleries began growing in both number and size in the late seventies, when artists who worked in lofts wanted to exhibit their work in spaces similar to the ones the art was made in.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
So much of what happened to India late last year and early into 2011 is the same story we've seen with other big emerging markets, and that is that investors started to realize that the growth trajectory in India would have to get moderated by tightening policy.
- Poet
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- Nov 07, 2020