Quotes with late-comers

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  • Bob Weinstein Harvey and I grew up in Queens, N.Y. My brother and I shared a room for 18 years until we went away to college. When we were kids, after our father said, 'Lights out,' he also exclaimed, 'No more talking. Time for sleep.' But we'd stay up late, arguing over statistics, who the best center fielder was - Willie Mays or Mickey Mantle.
    Bob Weinstein
    American film producer (1954 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin He that rises late must trot all day.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Oscar Wilde He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Ace Frehley I don't see this planet being... they're talking about how they're turning around the environmental problems here, but I think it's already too late.
    Ace Frehley
    American musician and songwriter (1951 - )
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  • Anthony Holden I first got to know Charles in the late seventies when I wrote an article and then a book about him and I think at the time he came across as quite appealing, it was probably the height of his popularity.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Euripides I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Anne Stevenson I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless.
    Anne Stevenson
    American-British poet and writer (1933 - 2020)
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • E. V. Lucas I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.
    E. V. Lucas
     
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  • Jonathan Swift I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Mary Corelli I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.
    Mary Corelli
    British writer (1855 - 1924)
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  • Buzz Osborne I started playing guitar when I was in my late teens, and within two years I was starting to play shows.
    Buzz Osborne
    American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter (1964 - )
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  • James A. Michener I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.
    James A. Michener
    American writer (1907 - 1997)
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  • Angela Carter I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany that they weren't paying me for my acting, for God's sake, but to own me. And from then on, it became clear and an awful lot easier to deal with.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Tallulah Bankhead I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late, start without me.
    Source: Tallulah, Darling: A Biography of Tallulah Bankhead (1980)
    Tallulah Bankhead
    American actress (1902 - 1968)
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch I've been quite a late developer on the clothes front, but I've suddenly realised it is one of life's joys.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Bernie Leadon I've been writing songs all along, and since moving to Nashville in the late-'80s, I'd begun writing something like 15-20 songs a year, instead of the typical three or four in previous years.
    Bernie Leadon
     
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  • Bob Schaffer In the late afternoons and early evenings, the crowd is easily over 1 million. That many people simply can't fit in Independence Square. The demonstration spills in to the streets for several blocks.
    Bob Schaffer
    American politician (1962 - )
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  • Brad Feld In the mid-to-late 1990s, I was an entrepreneur-in-residence at the Kauffman Foundation working with Jana Matthews on 'learning programs for high growth entrepreneurs.'
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Bill Gates In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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