"Growing old is mandatory. Growing wise is optional."
General interests include - culture, theology, films and how they relate to each other. Read below for more . . . .
You Should Get a PhD in Liberal Arts (like political science, literature, or philosophy)
You're a great thinker and a true philosopher.
You'd make a talented professor or writer.
What Advanced Degree Should You Get?
"There is no agony like an untold story inside you." -Zora Neale Hurston
"It is as though movies answered an ancient quest for the common unconscious. They fulfill a spiritual need that people have to share a common memory†-Martin Scorsese
"If we do not radiate the light of Christ around us, the sense of the darkness that prevails in the world will increase." --Mother Teresa
"Through the laughter and tears - old friends - what a priceless treasure. Old friends, like a rare piece of gold. Old friends, make it great to grow old." -Bill Gaither
"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to gain mighty triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither gain much nor suffer much because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat." -Theodore Roosevelt
"You gotta hear this one song, it'll change your life I promise you." -Garden State
"Maybe that's all a family really is; a group of people who miss the same imaginary place." -Garden State
"Faith is a complex reality." -Craig Dykstra
"Anyone can become angry, that is easy . . . but to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way . . . . this is not easy." -Aristotle
"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all." -Noam Chomsky
"Only a God who suffers can save us." -Bonhoeffer
"I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians... ...they are so unlike your Christ."
-Ghandi
Jazz, Blues, Gospel, Rock...I'll listen to just about anything.
There are so many, but here are a few . . .
The Mexican, Monsters, Inc., Match Point, The Lion King, Edward Scissorhands, Office Space, Munich, Serenity, Chicken Little, V for Vendetta, Thank you for Smoking, Lord of the Rings, Tommy Boy, The Boondock Saints, Legends of the Fall, Beauty and the Beast, Star Wars, The Goonies, Underworld, James Bond films, Harry Potter films, Spiderman films, Christmas Vacation, X-Men films, Batman Begins, Garden State, Aladdin, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Good night and good luck, Indiana Jones films, Mulan . . . .
Grey's Anatomy, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Smallville, Veronica Mars, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Boston Legal
Entertainment Weekly, Albert Camus, Zora Neale Hurston, Albert Outler, Paul Tillich, Doug Ottati, John Welsey, Henri Nouwen, Cliff Edwards, James Patterson, Anita Blake novels, Ernest Hemingway, Ian Fleming, Alan Paton, Kurt Vonnegut, Graham Greene, Toni Morrison, Ernest Gaines, Stephen King, Maya Angelou, Elsa Tamez, House of M graphic novels, Fray (Joss Whedon), J. K. Rowling . . . .
Michael Caine