GENE

I'd like to meet:

'Death is always on the way, but the fact that you don't know when it will arrive seems to take away from the finiteness of life. It's that terrible precision that we hate so much. But because we don't know, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. Perhaps not even. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.'

I would like to meet creative, compassionate, caring individuals with a desire to change this world; other vegetarians / vegans; anyone that lives their life with their heart and not their minds.

QUESTION REALITY, QUESTION AUTHORITY!!

"One only understands the things that one tames. Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more. If you want a friend, tame me."

'No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.'

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; What is essential is invisible to the eye."

Music:

"Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have here below."
- Joseph Addison

Movies:

american history x
big fish
dead poets society
death to smoochy
donnie darko
edward scissorhands
the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy
i ♥ huckabees
moulin rouge
the nightmare before christmas
pay it forward

again, another list that could go on forever...

Television:

television is a vast wasteland, but if you must:

Books:

"I wonder what's in a book while its closed. Oh, I know it's full of letters printed on paper, but all the same, something must be happening, because as soon as I open it, there's a whole story with people I don't know yet and all kinds of adventures and deeds and battles. And sometimes there are storms at sea, or it takes you to strange cities and countries. All those things are somehow shut up in a book. Of course you have to read it to find out. But it's already there, that's the funny thing. I just wish I knew how it could be."
- Michael Ende
Die Unendliche Geschicte

Heroes:

"The hero was distinguished by his achievement; the celebrity by his image or trademark. The hero created himself; the celebrity is created by the media. The hero was a big man; the celebrity is a big name."
- Daniel Boorstin

there are so few true heros, therefore this is, more or less, a list of admirable individuals: