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Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.

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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

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. Anybody under the age of forty knows hip-hop gospel and R&ampB pretty well and it's all a part of what we consider to be 'black music.' There is a natural synergy between the three.
  • 2. I don't want to fight aging I want to take good care of myself but plastic surgery and all that? I'm not interested.
  • 3. I happen to be interested in watching a face age. I like faces of women aging so it makes me personally quite sad. That's a beautiful gift from God. If people don't want to see that anymore then I won't be in anymore movies.

2 Amazing

  • 1. Nothing is more generally known than our duties which belong to Christianity and yet how amazing is it nothing is less practiced?
  • 2. People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours.
  • 3. There is such amazing talent at Disney. My job is 100% creative and I am very excited to creatively lead them.

3 Anger

  • 1. I guess because I had such a horrible life growing up going from place to place not knowing what I was gonna do and ending up being homeless there was a lot of pain and a lot of anger that was coming out through my guitar playing.
  • 2. Expressing anger is a form of public littering.
  • 3. After my second-to-last record 'The Greatest' I had gone on tour for a while and I didn't play an instrument for about five years. And I got kind of – it's not self-esteem or whatever or anger toward myself – but disappointed in myself that I hadn't been challenging myself to learn musically.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. I think you have to be willing to take a bullet for somebody if you're going to stand up there take your vows and be married to them for the rest of your life.
  • 2. Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom wait until they have been married longer.
  • 3. Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!

5 Architecture

  • 1. The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.
  • 2. Architecture tends to consume everything else it has become one's entire life.
  • 3. The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
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