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I was a weedy kid not like one of those working-class men who can accommodate not being academically clever by physical strength and prowess.

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Kenneth Robert Livingstone
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Category: Strength

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. As human beings our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.
  • 2. Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
  • 3. Being gay and being a woman has one big thing in common which is that we both become invisible after the age of 42. Who wants a gay 50-year-old? No one let me tell you.

2 Amazing

  • 1. There was once a caustic comment from someone suggesting I was breeding a new race. Fans from different countries have married amazing things like that. I've been to some of the weddings. I went to one here the other day a pagan ceremony.
  • 2. And I thought when I have kids that's the sort of well told silly and fun fairy tale that I would want to take them to. But it was an amazing experience. And I think Shrek is a real classic a fairy tale classic.
  • 3. Emmanuel Lewis was amazing to work with. I'll love that guy to the end of time.

3 Anger

  • 1. Anger is a momentary madness so control your passion or it will control you.
  • 2. I'm really busted up over this and I'm very very sorry to those people in the audience the blacks the Hispanics whites – everyone that was there that took the brunt of that anger and hate and rage and how it came through.
  • 3. Fair peace becomes men ferocious anger belongs to beasts.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.
  • 2. Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years.
  • 3. The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds – they mature slowly.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Prose is architecture not interior decoration and the Baroque is over.
  • 2. I don't know why I've always been so captivated by architecture.
  • 3. I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture art and architecture and learned of the existence of the game of GO which I still play.
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