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What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Authors

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. Marriage is not about age it's about finding the right person.
  • 2. One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.
  • 3. Regardless of age regardless of position regardless of the business we happen to be in all of us need to understand the importance of branding. We are CEOs of our own companies: Me Inc. To be in business today our most important job is to be head marketer for the brand called You.

2 Amazing

  • 1. When I look into the crowd I see young and old black and white – it's amazing that I'm able to connect with so many different kinds of people.
  • 2. If you have only 95 minutes of material make an only 95-minute movie. Amazing how often that's forgotten.
  • 3. Recently I've been doing risottos. Some of them have been amazing. Some of them not all of them.

3 Anger

  • 1. Obama and his attack dogs have nothing but hate and anger in their hearts and spew it whenever possible.
  • 2. All improv turns into anger. All comedy improv basically turns into anger because that's all people know how to do when they're improvising. If you notice shows that are improvising are generally people yelling at each other.
  • 3. Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Marriage is the most natural state of man and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.
  • 2. We are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we changing continue to love a changed person.
  • 3. I didn't make my first solo record until 1981 so I don't have any 60's or 70's recordings but I am working on a large boxed set called DUST to be released next year the 20th anniversary of my first solo record.

5 Architecture

  • 1. The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture their amphitheaters for wild beasts to fight in.
  • 2. I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
  • 3. If I have a style I am not aware of it.
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