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In the final analysis the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions no longer asking why something happened but asking how we will respond what we intend to do now that it happened.

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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Category: Good

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A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.
  • 2. Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again.
  • 3. Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.

2 Amazing

  • 1. Directing is a really kind of amazing thing because you're helping others and in the middle of that you have to worry about yourself.
  • 2. When I'm doing a film I love getting together after work with my costars. But we get back to L.A. and I'm like 'I don't want to go to a club with you dude. I mean I think you're rad and if you want to come play Scrabble with me that's amazing.'
  • 3. I love a beautiful gown on stage and luckily I've been fortunate to wear some amazing dresses.

3 Anger

  • 1. Anger is never without a reason but seldom with a good one.
  • 2. Hatred is inveterate anger.
  • 3. That feeds anger and I mean when we went and at last thank heavens got towards peace in Northern Ireland we went for justice within Northern Ireland as well as using security well as well as a political settlement but surely that is the lesson.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. I feel there should have been some recognition of the Spice Girls at this year's 25th anniversary. We flew the flag for Britain around the globe in the 1990s and we achieved a hell of a lot.
  • 2. 1 month ago the American people stopped to remember the third anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war. We thought first and foremost of the selflessness patriotism and heroism by our troops our National Guard and Reserves.
  • 3. I was always very grateful to 'em and am grateful to 'em now. I went back a couple of years ago and did their 20th anniversary show. But the longer I stayed on Hee Haw the worse things got for me musically.

5 Architecture

  • 1. The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.
  • 2. It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources so why not eliminate what you don't need as long as you're able to achieve the same result?
  • 3. One of my favorite vacation places is Miami because of the people the water and the beach – of course – and the architecture on Miami Beach is so wonderful.
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