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They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Category: Great

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

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1 Age

  • 1. I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning which I don't think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time.
  • 2. As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well as it turned out I never wrote a great novel sadly and I never converted to Catholicism happily but I did do one thing he did. That is in middle age I moved to a seaside town and got into a right barney with the local powers-that-be.
  • 3. In every country and every age the priest had been hostile to Liberty.

2 Amazing

  • 1. It's amazing that something only an atom thick can be an impenetrable barrier. You can have gas on one side and vacuum or liquid on the other and with a wall only one atom thick nothing would go through it.
  • 2. As a young black boy it made me proud to see black leaders that did something amazing and made the world change.
  • 3. I definitely look up to Meryl Streep because she's been in so many amazing movies and I just think that she's one of the greatest actresses out there. I also look up to Jennifer Lawrence especially knowing her and knowing that she is so awesome and so nice.

3 Anger

  • 1. Yeah to me acting is very therapeutic. I get out a lot of anger and frustration.
  • 2. Hurt leads to bitterness bitterness to anger travel too far that road and the way is lost.
  • 3. Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom because you're on the front lines.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years.
  • 2. I didn't make my first solo record until 1981 so I don't have any 60's or 70's recordings but I am working on a large boxed set called DUST to be released next year the 20th anniversary of my first solo record.
  • 3. 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.

5 Architecture

  • 1. I don't know why I've always been so captivated by architecture.
  • 2. In Los Angeles by the time you're 35 you're older than most of the buildings.
  • 3. There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.
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