Albert Einstein... I know he's dead, but what can you do, I still wish I could have met him. Not sure who else I'd like to meet. Thats the thing about meeting people, you never really know who you'll enjoy meeting untill you actually meet them.I'm fairly adventurous so if you want to meet me, and you think we'd have anything in common then let's go get a drink.
2 Pac, Bob Dylan, Notorious BIG, Cat Stevens, Dr. Dre, James Blunt, Snoop, David Grey, 50 Cent, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Wu Tang Clan, Johnny Cash Method Mad, Nirvana, The RZA, White Stripes, CCR, Van Morrison...
I love movies, and at some point I'll get to this, but i feel like it will take me a long time to decide which movies I want people to know me by, and I haven't been able to sit down and concentrate on it yet.
Ok... so I have a confession, I am addicted to MTV. I know its not cool, and I'm pretty sure its already done irreparable damage to my brain, but we all need a vice or two. If anyone would like to sit around smoking the devil weed and watching a marathon of Real World, True Life, or Made just let me know.
The Alchamist, A Million Little Pieces (I know its fake but its still amazing - so fuck you Oprah), My War, Marley & Me, Anything by Hemingway, The Writer's Journey, Fast Food Nation, this is a little embaressing but I love the Harry Potter Series, The Wu Tang Manual (Don't knock it till you read it), Fever Pitch, High Fidelity, Guns Germs and Steel
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
-Bob Dylan
I believe that everything that you do bad comes back to you. So everything that I do that's bad, I'm going to suffer from it. But in my mind, I believe what I'm doing is right. So I feel like I'm going to heaven.
- Tupac Shakur
Those who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty nor security.
-Ben Franklin
Each time a man stands for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
- Robert Kennedy
The lesson of all this was, of course, that because we're a great nation, our challenges seem complex. It will always be this way. But as long as we remember our first principles and believe in ourselves, the future will always be ours. And something else we learned: Once you begin a great movement, there's no telling where it will end. We meant to change a nation, and instead, we changed a world.
-Ronald Reagan
Duty, Honor, Country. They build your basic character. They mold you for your future roles as the custodians of the nation's defense. They make you strong enough to know when you are weak, and brave enough to face yourself when you are afraid.
They teach you to be proud and unbending in honest failure, but humble and gentle in success; not to substitute words for action; not to seek the path of comfort, but to face the stress and spur of difficulty and challenge; to learn to stand up in the storm, but to have compassion on those who fall; to master yourself before you seek to master others; to have a heart that is clean, a goal that is high; to learn to laugh, yet never forget how to weep; to reach into the future, yet never neglect the past; to be serious, yet never take yourself too seriously; to be modest so that you will remember the simplicity of true greatness; the open mind of true wisdom, the meekness of true strength.
They give you a temperate will, a quality of imagination, a vigor of the emotions, a freshness of the deep springs of life, a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, an appetite for adventure over love of ease. They create in your heart the sense of wonder, the unfailing hope of what next, and the joy and inspiration of life. They teach you in this way to be an officer and a gentleman.
-General Douglas MacArthur
There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?
- Robert Kennedy
I look forward to a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.
- John F. Kennedy
I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.
-Ronald Reagan
Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
-Patrck Henry
I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
-Christopher Reeve
I've spoken of the shining city all my life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, wind-swept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace, a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity, and if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here. That's how I saw it and see it still.
And how stands the city on this winter night? More prosperous, more secure, and happier than it was eight years ago. But more than that; after 200 years, two centuries, she still stands strong and true on the granite ridge, and her glow has held steady no matter what storm. And she's still a beacon, still a magnet for all who must have freedom, for all the pilgrims from all the lost places who are hurtling through the darkness, toward home.
We've done our part. And as I walk off into the city streets, a final word to the men and women of the revolution, the men and women across America who for eight years did the work that brought America back. My friends: We did it. We weren't just marking time. We made a difference. We made the city stronger. We made the city freer, and we left her in good hands. All in all, not bad, not bad at all.
And so, good-bye, God bless you, and God bless the United States of America.