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Few things are impracticable in themselves and it is for want of application rather than of means that men fail to succeed.

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Courage,

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Category: Courage

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. I'm not afraid of aging.
  • 2. Light and funny has a more compelling quality when you're younger. But I haven't abandoned the genre: I love falling down I love Lucille Ball. It's just that a lot of those stories revolve around problems that I can't convincingly portray at this age.
  • 3. Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I really love the internet. They say chat-rooms are the trailer park of the internet but I find it amazing.
  • 2. I am constantly amazed by Tina Fey. And I am Tina Fey.
  • 3. Warren Spector is amazing and his team is as good as any in the business. Shame to see all the revenues from their game entangled with all the madness of the Dallas office.

3 Anger

  • 1. I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt.
  • 2. Be modest humble simple. Control your anger.
  • 3. I don't think I could play a character that I couldn't relate to somehow. I'm not unfamiliar with frustration anger shame helplessness and a load of other emotions that make up our psycho-soup. I try to focus on that frustration that sense of unfairness and multiply it.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
  • 2. Both the Obama and Romney campaigns said they pulled all their political ads today in observance of the September 11th anniversary. But politics wasn't very far offstage. The Obama campaign sees foreign policy as an advantage this year.
  • 3. Marriage is the most natural state of man and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.
  • 2. My passion and great enjoyment for architecture and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it is because I believe we – architects – can effect the quality of life of the people.
  • 3. To me a building – if it's beautiful – is the love of one man he's made it out of his love for space materials things like that.
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