I was born too late to have any temptation with communism, or at least Soviet-type communism. Travelling in Eastern Europe and the ex-Soviet Union, you clearly don't want to defend a system that would have empty shops and a totalitarian regime and internal passports.
Thomas Piketty
CommunismYouTemptationLateBorn
I don't stay out that late. I never really stay out that late. I used to, and after a while you begin to realize that a little sleep works wonders, you know?
Isiah Whitlock, Jr.
SleepYouLateKnowNeverBegin
I get nervous watching teammates. I get nervous for them. Late in the game, pressure situation, I'm nervous for them.
Derek Jeter
GamePressureLateSituationNervous
Average people get to school late; they're average. They barely do their school work.
Eric D. Thomas
WorkSchoolPeopleLateAverageGet
I spent my late twenties and all of my thirties figuring out what I was supposed to be doing and where my home was.
Faith Salie
HomeDoingLateOutWhereThirties
In the late '80s and early '90s, there was a slightly retro drum sound that was popular in hip-hop music called the 808 bass drum sound. It was the bass drum sound on the 808 drum machine, and it's very deep and very resonant, and was used as the backbone as a lot of classic hip-hop tracks.
Steve Albini
MusicDeepEarlyLateHip-HopSound
In two and a half years' trekking across central Asia, I'd become attuned to the late autumn conditions when the hazards of winter can blow in under the cover of darkness.
Tim Cope
WinterDarknessLateBecomeTwo
You reach a time... when fact and fiction blend seamlessly. If you do it too soon, it's journalism. If you do it too late, you forget, and it's fantasy. There's an optimum time.
Frank D. Gilroy
TimeReachYouJournalismLate
No matter how late it is, when I get home, I take the time to clean and moisturize my face.
Demi Moore
HomeTimeFaceLateMatterClean
I'd been to Memphis before, but we stayed out of Memphis early on in the late 70s for obvious reasons. People were very sensitive about Elvis Presley, and my stage name obviously would be provocative to some people in that area at that time.
Elvis Costello
TimePeopleNameEarlyLateStage
We're bigger now than we were in the late 70s when we were peaking.
Ace Frehley
LateNowBiggerThanWere
I might be in an airport, late or angry with a ticket person, and I'm going to sort of check myself, because part of me is seen as Eric Camden. We all need as much help as we can get. It's a role model to me as much as to anybody else.
Stephen Collins
MyselfAngryMeHelpLatePerson
I'd never tried as hard with anything as I did with 'The Office,' and it was one of the things I'm proud of. I wasn't trying to be famous or a comedian, but this opportunity came along when I was 38 or 39. It came late, and I couldn't have been prouder of it.
Ricky Gervais
OpportunityProudFamousTryingLate
I met Iman and Jerry Hall and all those girls in the late Seventies right when I started working at the fashion shows in Paris as an assistant.
Francois Nars
FashionLateParisRightSeventies
The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.
Douglas Adams
TreesConversationLateDifficulty
'Constructed Worlds' comes from a novel draft that I wrote in my early twenties and reread/revised only in my late thirties.
Elif Batuman
EarlyLateThirtiesDraftOnly
One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late.
Aaron McGruder
PushLateSayWayDeadlinesCloser
Unlike the LeBrons and A-Rods of the world, anointed as special from pre-K, Matt Leinart exudes an approachability rarely seen in superstars. It's why kids on the autograph line chat him up like a buddy with whom they could stay up late playing Xbox.
Stephen Rodrick
WorldLateSpecialWhyHimLine
There's a part of me that wishes I'd never said one single solitary word on any subject publicly. Then I could have been the tortured poet, and there's so much mileage in that. But it's too late to stop now.
Richard Thompson
MeLateStopWishesSaidNever
With a lot of those 'S.N.L.' shorts, we would do them just as we wanted to do them and then beep out the bad words. Since it was late night T.V., they let us get away with a lot.
Akiva Schaffer
WordsNightBadLateOutUs
So many times, my mom would say, 'It's not too late to go law school.'
David Zabel
SchoolMomLawLateGoSay
I didn't go abroad until quite late. A friend drove us to Amalfi, Italy, for his sister's wedding when I was a teenager. It was exciting driving through Europe.
David Harewood
FriendSisterDrivingWeddingLate
In the late 1950s, self-esteem hadn't yet been invented. High schools saw their sole mission as preparing students thoroughly for academic work.
Edith Pearlman
WorkMissionLateSelf-EsteemHigh
It is not yet too late for the Indian people to decide on rapid, ordered progress. I can assure them that the British people are as determined upon self-government for India as they are themselves.
Stafford Cripps
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