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To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship which illuminate only the track it has passed.

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Category: Experience

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. Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.
  • 2. Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.
  • 3. No lie ever reaches old age.

2 Amazing

  • 1. Everybody just asks me 'Are you going to make Hollywood movies now?' First I don't know. Second I never dreamed about that I just dreamed about making movies with Tarantino. So if I can make movies with a lot of amazing directors – yes.
  • 2. Money is such an amazing teacher: What you choose to do with your money shows whether you are truly powerful or powerless.
  • 3. And it is very sexy as well: somebody says I'm taking you on a surprise date you don't know where you are going and you can't see and then you put your hand out and there is a tiger. Amazing.

3 Anger

  • 1. The nice thing about anger is that as an emotion it's strong enough to unplug me from the comedian's mind for a minute and just be a frustrated member of the citizenry.
  • 2. Men are fair and they have learned not to personalize anger – they can disagree with you and argue to the bone but afterward they still consider you a nice person with whom the underlying human relationship need not be altered.
  • 3. In high school I dated a white woman. She would come to visit me on the rez. And her dad who was very racist didn't like that at all. And he told her one time 'You shouldn't go on the rez if you're white because Indians have a lot of anger in their heart.'

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Love grows more tremendously full swift poignant as the years multiply.
  • 2. Last week the House of Representatives passed a resolution honoring the victims and heroes of September 11th. As we commemorate the anniversary of 9-11 we must also remember that the threat is still very real today.
  • 3. That there's no more important decision in life than who you marry.

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. Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.
  • 3. Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique poetic products of the heart.
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