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When we disclaim praise it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Category: Time

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 kids are old enough now – I just want to let them be kids. I don't want to comment on them too much. They're at an age where I just want to let them be kids.
  • 2. Whatever you may look like marry a man your own age – as your beauty fades so will his eyesight.
  • 3. To be happy we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I really liked the helicopter pilot in 'Dawn of the Dead' when he gets bitten and comes out of the elevator. That guy was amazing. He did this incredible walk that we didn't even know about until we started shooting.
  • 2. We start 'The Butler' in June and that's incredibly exciting for me because I get to work with the amazing Forest Whitaker again. It's a phenomenal script and a great great role – I play his son. Oprah Winfrey is his wife and my mother. My character is a radical civil rights activist.
  • 3. L.A. Woman is amazing but when I was growing up I was into the Who.

3 Anger

  • 1. That feeds anger and I mean when we went and at last thank heavens got towards peace in Northern Ireland we went for justice within Northern Ireland as well as using security well as well as a political settlement but surely that is the lesson.
  • 2. In the heat of our campaigns we have all become accustomed to a little anger and exaggeration. Yet on the whole our political process has served us well.
  • 3. Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative and by being creative you can get beyond your pain or negativity.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. See the 'On the Road' that came out in 1957 was censored. A lot of the honesty of it the bitter honesty is in the original scroll version that came out in 2007 on the 50-year anniversary. Back then there was so much post-Second World War fear that was imposed on everybody – 'You must live life this way' – and these guys were bored.
  • 2. Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse hopefully enduring and intimate to the degree of being sacred.
  • 3. We can't forget what happened on May 4th 1970 when four students gave up their lives because they had the American constitutional right of peaceful protest. They gave up their lives. And to sing that song in that spot on that anniversary was very emotional for us.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Opera next to Gothic architecture is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.
  • 2. Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.
  • 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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