April 2010
2 posts
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“Two ways to fold a towel, my way and the wrong way. Let’s do it right.”
– Coach Taylor, Friday Night Lights
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“My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch.”
– Jack Nicholson
March 2010
1 post
“And Shepherds we shall be.
For thee, my Lord, for thee.
Power hath descended...”
– Boondock Saints
February 2010
5 posts
1 tag
“Since I don’t smoke, I decided to grow a mustache - it is better for the...”
– Salvador Dali
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“Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.”
– Albert Camus (via fuckyeahexistentialism) (via insearchofthemoon) (via booklover) (via emilymaye)
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“I always liked to hear about the old-timers. Never missed a chance to do so. You...”
– Sheriff Ed Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones), No Country For Old Men (Film)
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“I like the idea. I like clearing my arm from the folds of the garment to look...”
– White Noise, Don DeLillo
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“Let me ask you something: if the rule you followed brought you to this, of what...”
– Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem), No Country For Old Men (Film)
January 2010
4 posts
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“I only take a drink on two occasions: when I’m thirsty and when I’m...”
– Brendan Behan, Irish dramatist, poet, and novelist
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“What’s that smell?”
– Tyler Durden
Vanity
Bill Bowerman: Know what your problem is, Pre? Vanity!
Steve Prefontaine: Vanity?
Bill Bowerman: Yes, vanity, Pre! Your belief that you have no talent is the ultimate vanity. If you have no talent then you have no limits, it's all an act of will. Your heart can probably pump more blood than anyone else's on earth, and that takes talent. The bones in your feet are so strong, it'd take a sledgehammer to break 'em. Be thankful for your limits, Pre, they're about as limitless as they get in this life.
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“I don’t want to win unless I know I’ve done my best, and the only...”
– Steve Prefontaine
October 2009
9 posts
“Get married, in any case. If you happen to get a good mate, you will be happy;...”
– Socrates, in Diogenes Laertius
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“I have a cheese shredder at home, that’s a positive name for a cheese...”
– Mitch Hedberg
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“The takeaway: what we do is often a function of how we do it. That’s what...”
– Umair Haque, Elinor Ostrom and the Future of Economics
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“Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.”
– Benjamin Franklin
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“Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of...”
– Mao Zedong
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“If you are not hungry enough to eat an apple, then you are not hungry.”
– Emma Fogt
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“Humbled”
– Barack Obama, Twitter post upon receiving the Nobel Peace Prize
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“Here’s to me and here’s to you,
And here’s to love and laughter.
I’ll be true...”
– Traditional Irish Toast
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“Mother Nature always bats last, and she always bats a thousand.”
– Rob Watson
September 2009
5 posts
“I don’t understand the purpose of the line, “I don’t need to drink to have fun.”...”
– Random thoughts from people our age : funny
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“I live for myself and I answer to nobody.”
– Steve McQueen
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“I think it’s just God disguised as Michael Jordan.”
– Larry Bird, after Jordan’s 63 point game in The Garden
“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be...”
– —Albert Einstein
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“On a day when others sought to sap our confidence, let us renew our common...”
– President Obama
August 2009
4 posts
1 tag
“The more our feelings diverge, the more deeply felt they are, the greater is our...”
– Ted Kennedy, Speech on “Truth and Tolerance in America,” Oct. 3, 1983, Lynchburg, Va.
“It is now my duty to completely drain you.”
– Kurt Cobain
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“Ideologies aren’t all that important. What’s important is...”
– James Carville
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“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
May 2009
1 post
“I think that for babies every day is first love in Paris. Every wobbly step is...”
– Alison Gopnik, psychologist, University of California, Berkeley (via acissej)
April 2009
19 posts
“…We would look out over the immense sea, full of white-flecked and green...”
– Ernesto Che Guevara, The Motorcycle Diaries. (via thebarstoolromantic)
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
3 tags
“Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open. Your stuff starts out...”
– Stephen King, On Writing
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“In lesser gods we trust.”
– Shephard Fairey
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“In the midst of winter I found, within me, an invincible summer.”
– Albert Camus
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“The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more...”
– Jack Kerouac
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“I don’t believe in art. I believe in artists.”
– Marcel Duchamp
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“Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay...”
– Simone de Beauvoir — This is very Aristotelian. Aristotle argued that happiness was achieved when a person acted in accordance with the “golden mean”, as an end in and of itself. This quote expresses that same idea.
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“I want to be what I’ve always wanted to be: dominant.”
– Tiger Woods
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“From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step.”
– Napoleon Bonaparte, Writing about the retreat from Moscow, in a letter to Abbé du Pradt, 1812
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“Patricia Franchini: What is your greatest ambition in life?
Parvulesco: To...”
– Breathless
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“Plato is my friend — Aristotle is my friend — but my greatest friend is truth.”
– Sir Isaac Newton
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“You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because...”
– Van Morrison
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“I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris.”
– JFK
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“He lived like a czar in an ice palace built of frozen sighs.”
– Herman Melville
“In general relativity, bodies always follow straight lines in four-dimensional...”
– Stephen Hawking (via jstn)
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“A man’s gotta have code.”
– Omar, from the greatest television show ever, The Wire.
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“Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work it until it’s done and...”
– Walt Disney
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“I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own...”
– Marcel Duchamp