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My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean the level of hatred that they had and the level of physical abuse – my mother would beat up my father basically – and I think I was drawn to images on television that were bright and reflective.

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Category: Relationship

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. The face you have at age 25 is the face God gave you but the face you have after 50 is the face you earned.
  • 2. It was Julie Burchill who decreed that beyond a certain age a man should not be seen in a leather jacket.
  • 3. Anyone who writes an autobiographical work at the age of 34 is at best presumptuous. It occurred to me that it was time to set the record straight.

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. Nothing amazes me anymore.
  • 3. It is amazing how nice people are to you when they know you're going away.

3 Anger

  • 1. People have said I'm the candidate of anger. Well we have a right to be angry. We lost 3 million jobs. We lost our place as the moral leader of the world.
  • 2. Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers for each rage leaves him less than he had been before – it takes something from him.
  • 3. There's no anger ever in a spiritual. There's always the dream of a hope of a better day coming. That God understands the troubles that I'm experiencing.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. The heart of marriage is memories and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns then your marriage is a gift from the gods.
  • 2. The day before the anniversary of D-Day we lost a man who was equaled by few and surpassed by none as a leader in the cause of freedom: Ronald Reagan.
  • 3. Presently the Commission for Commemorating 350 Years of American Jewish History has been brought about to encourage and sponsor a variety of historical activities that advance our understanding of the American Jewish experience as it marks this milestone anniversary.

5 Architecture

  • 1. I like to play with architecture! It's my favorite game.
  • 2. The organizational architecture is really that a centipede walks on hundred legs and one or two don't count. So if I lose one or two legs the process will go on the organization will go on the growth will go on.
  • 3. I have no requirements for a style of architecture.
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