"The details of my life are quite inconsequential. My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low-grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a 15 year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink, he would make outrageous claims, like he invented the question mark. Sometimes, he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy - the sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical: summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring, we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent, I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds. Pretty standard, really."
--- from the movie Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
I'd like to meet:
this girl:
Some Quotes I like:
Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) : "Balance the book inside of you, and see if you are repaying in full the amount you owe to unknown men and to fate itself...He who has experienced good in his life must feel the obligation to dedicate some of his own life in order to alleviate suffering."
David Ball: "...he was swept before her gaze, as powerless as a leaf before a gale..."
Jack Handy's DEEP THOUGHTS: "When I found the skull in the woods, the first thing I did was call the police. But then I got curious about it. I picked it up, and started wondering who this person was, and why he had deer horns."
Edmund Burke: "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
Leo Buscaglia: "Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around."
Martin Luther King, Jr.: "You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive."
Sinclair Lewis: "..her eyes determined her appearance, revealed her faith in the goodness and purpose of everything...they expressed amusement, pity, enthusiasm."
Dr. Seuss: "I'm afraid that some times you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you."
from the movie HEAT: "For me, the sun rises and sets with her, man."
Bible, Matthew 16:26: "For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?"
Henry James: "Keep making the movements of life..."
Dave Edison: "I'm desperately trying to figure out why kamikaze pilots wore helmets."
Edmund Burke: "Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who does nothing because he could only do a little."
Music:
variety-- a lot of "alternative", a lot of hip hop, some classic rock, and a little techno
Movies:
Godfather Trilogy Office Space Last of the Mohicans
Wedding Crashers, Heat, Goodfellas, Casino, Fearless, A Time to Kill, Sleepers, True Romance, Breakfast Club, A Beautiful Mind, Get Shorty, My Blue Heaven, Gorillas in the Mist, A Bronx Tale, Things to do in Denver when You're Dead, Before Sunrise, Bobby, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Austin Powers, The Goonies, The Beach, National Lampoon's Vacations, 2 Days in the Valley, Dazed and Confused, Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels
Television:
Rescue Me Law & Order, Cold Case, Scrubs, Seinfeld, Boomtown, The West Wing, The Wonder Years Mad TV, History Channel, House, The Office, The Chapelle Show, Comedy Central Presents
Books:
Reverence for Life, The Teaching of Reverence for Life
(Albert Schweitzer) For Whom the Bell Tolls, A Farewell to Arms, All the King's Men, I Claudius, Homage to Catalonia, Texas, Victory, All in the Family, The Fall, Cannery Row, The Ambassadors, 1984, Lost Horizon, Beneath the Wheel, The American, The Idiot, The Radetsky March, The Magnificent Ambersons
