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They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Category: Great

Authors

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

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1 Age

  • 1. I believe that parents need to make nutrition education a priority in their home environment. It's crucial for good health and longevity to instill in your children sound eating habits from an early age.
  • 2. I was always obsessed with being famous. I had Marilyn Monroe paper dolls as a child and I was always obsessed with her. I've just been really driven in that direction and none of my friends were. So I don't know what put that bug in me at a young age.
  • 3. America doesn't reward people of my age either in day-to-day life or for their performances.

2 Amazing

  • 1. My time at Honda was amazing. Some of my best times in Formula One actually. I might not have won races just one race but I had a lot of fun.
  • 2. You know 'The Golden Girls' was a very unusual show to start on. I was young and it was a show about old people and it was a very traditional show but it was also an amazing training ground for a joke-writer. It forced me to learn those skills.
  • 3. I got to work with Jennifer Tilly she was amazing. Such such a smart actress.

3 Anger

  • 1. Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
  • 2. Get mad then get over it.
  • 3. If a small thing has the power to make you angry does that not indicate something about your size?

4 Anniversary

  • 1. The 150th anniversary of Penn State will highlight what is important and good about this distinguished institution and the fine people and research that it produces.
  • 2. Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
  • 3. The chances of a reunion now are less likely. I was thinking of having a 40th anniversary of the band but now they are really another band so it's all a bit weird.

5 Architecture

  • 1. My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture.
  • 2. A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
  • 3. Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.
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