| "There are two things you gotta learn how to say in life, thank you, and fuck you!" -John Rzeznik "You've got to surround yourself with people that are better than you...That way, you grow." -John Rzeznik "I'm driven. I am. I'm driven, for some reason. But I don't know where I'm going." -Courtney Love "Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not. A sense of humor to console him for what he is." -Unknown "No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities." -Christian Nestell Bovee "If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never." -Soren Kierkegaard "Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble." -Arabic Parable "How glorious it is -- and also how painful -- to be an exception." -Alfred de Musset "Once when I was a child, I looked out into the halls and such a feeling of fear and dispair came over me for no untoward reason, that I burst into tears. I was looking into the future and what I saw had not yet been realized. I can only wait for it to happen" -William S. Burroughs "Dream long enough and dream hard enough and you will come to know, dreaming can make it so" -William S. Burroughs "The truly fashionable are beyond fashion." -Cecil Beaton "It is wrong to mix techno with drugs. Techno is a drug in itself and taking one drug on top of another can be dangerous" -Ralf Kuepper "Life means progress, and progress means suffering." - Hendrik Willem Van Loon "Mediocrity is self-inflicted. Genius is self-bestowed." -Walter Russell "Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have." - Rabbi Hyman Judah Schachtel "There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead. It is hard to adapt to chaos, but it can be done. I am living proof of that: It can be done." - Kurt Vonnegut "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." - M.C. Escher "Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac." - George Carlin "The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself." - Rita Mae Brown "If it feels right, do it. If it feels wrong, do it twice" -Jack Kerouac "Everybody sees what you appear to be, few feel what you are." - Machiavelli "I'm tough, ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay." -Madonna "We cannot take anything for granted, beyond the first mathematical formula. Question everything else." -Maria Mitchell "I love being me, but I can't recommend it." -David M. Kilgore "I'm Canadian--it's like American, but without the gun." -Kids in the Hall "Unfortunately, some people don't hear you until you scream." -Stefanie Powers "There are places where the mind dies so that a truth which is its very denial may be born." -Camus "There exists an obvious fact that seems utterly moral; namely, that a man is always a prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them"- Camus "Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal"- Camus "You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it" -Camus "Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day" -Camus "The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. " - Oscar Wilde "God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." - Voltaire "Envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide." -Emerson "With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now." -Ralph Waldo Emerson "We're all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." -Oscar Wilde "Without music, life would be a mistake". -Nietzsche "Should I bolt every time I get that feeling in my gut when I meet someone new? Well, I've been listening to my gut since I was 14 years old, and frankly speaking, I've come to the conclusion that my guts have shit for brains." -Rob, High Fidelity "What came first, the music or the misery? People worry about kids playing with guns, or watching violent videos, that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands, literally thousands of songs about heartbreak, rejection, pain, misery and loss. Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to pop music?" -Rob, High Fidelity "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." -Ferris Bullers Day Off "In this life, there are nothing but possibilities." -Lucas, Empire Records "I do not regret the things I have done, only those I did not do" -Lucas, Empire Records "There's no point to any of this. It's all just a... a random lottery of meaningless tragedy and a series of near escapes. So I take pleasure in the details. You know... a quarter-pounder with cheese, those are good, the sky about ten minutes before it starts to rain, the moment your laughter become a cackle..." -Troy, Reality Bites "and then I remember to relax...and stop trying to hold onto it...and then it flows through me like rain...and I can't feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life" -Lester, American Beauty "The opposite of war isn't peace- it's creation"- Rent "I'd rather suffer the consequences of truth than of silence" -Ani Difranco "There's no secrets I have anymore. I've been totally raped of everything." -Rufus Wainwright "We are all sluts, cheap products in someone else's notebooks"- The [International] Noise Conspiracy |
| every now and then you hear something, and it sticks with you- For some reason, it inspires, intrigues, enlightens, or fascinates you. I present to you here the words of wisdom that have stuck with me thus far. |
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