Quotes: "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke
This is a loaded question. (Not Ken, he is a bastard.)
The Velvet Teen, The Arcade Fire, Rolling Stones, Broken Social Scene, Tom Waits, Common, and many, many more...Ken is a bastard.
"Dogville" f-ing amazing, "Hero" is a must see, "In America" was inspiring, and "Eternal Sunshine" was engrossing and, not to jump on the band-wagon, but "Taladega Nights" is hi-larious. Movies, movies, movies - there are way too many to love, I mean list.
Grey's Anatomy (hush... I love it!), Weeds, Arrested Development, The Wire, ANTM (I even laugh at myself for this one!), Dexter
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi, Invitation to a Beheading (anything Nabokov), Skinny Legs and All (I love Tom Robbins), Jude the Obscure, Tess of the D'Urbervilles (basically anything and everything Thomas Hardy), Memoirs of a Geisha, anything Amy Tan, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (plus the 3 subsequent books), Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer...and the band plays on & on & on....
Noam Chomsky - Linguistics guru, Loving and involved parents