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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

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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. I think you can't really escape any kind of spiritual education as a child whether it's New Age or Judaism or Buddhism or whatever it is. You can't escape it even if you completely disagree with it you still have it as a foundation that you base things off of.
  • 2. Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
  • 3. The age in which we live this non-stop distraction is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline… because you need to be alone to find out anything.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I'm not a kid anymore. And I'm excited for all the amazing things to come.
  • 2. Training in taekwondo for eight years and then being able to do it in a film was pretty amazing.
  • 3. I was speaking to Ridley Scott the other day and he makes a film every 18 months. He's amazing really.

3 Anger

  • 1. The ignorant mind with its infinite afflictions passions and evils is rooted in the three poisons. Greed anger and delusion.
  • 2. Anybody can become angry – that is easy but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose and in the right way – that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
  • 3. Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. My mother and stepfather were married 43 years so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And you know it's just a number.
  • 2. I did that Dior Couture 60th anniversary show in July. It took so long to get ready I think I would have rather been watching.
  • 3. I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out she'll kill me.

5 Architecture

  • 1. I studied architecture in New York. So really I was very moved like everyone else to try to contribute something that has that resonance and profundity of it means to all of us.
  • 2. I have no requirements for a style of architecture.
  • 3. Yet for my part deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church.
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