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Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.

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C. Northcote Parkinson
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Category: Politics

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. There are few things that we so unwillingly give up even in advanced age as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.
  • 2. Old age calm expanded broad with the haughty breadth of the universe old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
  • 3. How young can you die of old age?

2 Amazing

  • 1. Elizabeth Taylor. In her heyday she was amazing.
  • 2. I've worked on films where the budgets are almost limitless and you're in trailers that are bigger than a hotel room. You're taken care of and the food is amazing the quality of the job is amazing and then you work on smaller things but it never dictates my happiness or my willingness to go to work.
  • 3. It is amazing that something I did 23 years ago still has an audience that people respond to and I am touched and surprised that people are still very positive about.

3 Anger

  • 1. When angry count to four when very angry swear.
  • 2. Fairest and dearest your wrath and anger are more heavy than I can bear but learn that I cannot tell what you wish me to say without sinning against my honour too grievously.
  • 3. I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out she'll kill me.
  • 2. On July 18 we will mark the 12th anniversary of the senseless loss of 85 lives in the bombing of the Jewish Cultural Center in Buenos Aires Argentina.
  • 3. June 2005 is the five year anniversary of the debut of Battle Pope.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Prose is architecture not interior decoration and the Baroque is over.
  • 2. Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.
  • 3. I see music as fluid architecture.
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