Re: Happy 2000's

Gene Woo (pariah1980@yahoo.com)
Fri, 31 Dec 1999 17:32:36 -0800 (PST)

> 'There was an atmosphere poised nicely between a
> seance and
> a chess game and the purest flirtation, of the sort
> you have with
> a beloved character in a book, with no question of
> the vulgar
> imposition of the physical.'

nice Kubrick quote, here's another one by Kubrick
along with a few other quotes I like that've been on
my mind lately in these last 8 hours of the 20th
century in California.

"A film is or should be more like music than like
fiction. It should be a progression of moods and
feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotions, the
meaning, all that comes later."
-Stanley Kubrick

"I've made many mistakes in my life. That was a long
time ago, and I'm not the same man I was then. A lot
of time has passed. when a chance comes around to make
a uh wrong or right, it's a special thing that I hope
to make one thing right."
-Harvey Keitel ("Three Seasons")

"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want
to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't
think you can go wrong." 
-Ella Fitzgerald

"I made some mistakes in drama. I thought the drama
was when the actors cried. But drama is when the
audience cries."
-Frank Capra

"The secret of man's being is not only to live but to
have something to live for."
-Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster.
And if you gaze long into the Abyss, the Abyss gazes
into you."
-Frederick Nietzsche

"...and these children that you spit on,
as they try to change their worlds are
immune to your consultations.  They're
quite aware of what they're going through..."
-David Bowie" (opening of "Breakfast Club")

"I don't like it when people on the street say 'smile'
or 'cheer up.' It's a real cheap line. I'm feeling
good. I'm feeling really grateful for everything. It's
a solid time in my life. When people say I look sad,
they're wrong."
-Nicholas Cage

"Cocaine is God's way of saying you're making too much
money"
-Robin Wiliams

"A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's
going on."
-William S. Burroughs

"I wept not, so to stone within I grew."
-Dante Aligheri

"The books that the world calls immoral are the books
that show the world its own shame."
-Oscar Wilde

"We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive.
He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of
the power to love. There is some good in the worst of
us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover
this, we are less prone to hate our enemies." 
-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

"Feeling screwed up at a screwed up time in a screwed
up place does not necessarily make you screwed up."
-"Pump Up the Volume"

"Don't go, I've got my whole life to drink."
-Marlon Brando "On the Waterfront"

". . . savor words and language. No matter what
anybody tells you. . . words and ideas can change the
world."
-Robin Williams Dead poet's Society

"We're all angels. . . and devils. It's just what you
choose to see."
-Elizabeth Pena "Jacob's ladder"

"A broken body is nothing to a broken heart."
-Brenda Fricker "My Left Foot"

"I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell
you see, I have friends in both places. "
-Mark Twain 

"Richard had noticed that events were cowards: they
didn't occur singly, but instead they would run in
packs and leap out at him all at once. "
-Neil Gaimen

"People on 'ludes should not drive. "
-Jeff Spicoli "Fast Times at Ridgemont High"

"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look
around once in a while, you could miss it."
-"Ferris Bueler's Day Off" 

"There isn't a town in the world I haven't run amok
in."
-Joe Strummer

"One thinks of it all as a dream." -Syd Barrett

"My entire life has been a struggle to resist the dark
force."
-William S. Burroughs

"A writer is a controlled schizophrenic." -Edward
Albee

"I'm a spokesman for myself. It just so happens that
there are a bunch of people that are concerned with
what I say. I find that frightening at times because
I'm as confused as most people. I don't have the
answers for anything. I don't want to be a fucking
spokesperson." 
-Kurt Cobain

"One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet
no one ever come to sit by it. Passersby see only a
wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on the
way." -Vincent Van Gogh

"I'll play it first and tell you what it is later."
-Miles Davis

"The main thing a musician would like to do is to give
a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things
he knows of and senses in the universe." 
-John Coltrane

"If I had to say something, it would be 'Lighten up.
Be cool.' There's just so many buffoons out there."
-Adam Horovitz

"Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large
intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men
must, I think, have great sadness on Earth."
-Fyodor Dostoyevsky 

"I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me
to die, so let me live my life the way I want to."
-Jimi Hendrix

"Curiouser and curiouser! "
-Lewis Carroll 

"In the end, everything is a gag. "
-Charlie Chaplin 

"What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the
night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the
wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across
the grass and
loses itself in the sunset." 
-Crowfoot (Blackfoot warior and orator) 

"Only those who attempt the absurd...will achieve the
impossible. I think...I think it's in my
basement...Let me go upstairs and check. "
-M.C. Escher 

"I wouldn't mind dying -- it's the business of having
to stay dead that scares the shit out of me." 
-R. Geis 

The Dalai Lama address the U.S. Congress:
"Here I enjoy freedom of speech
freedom of thought
freedom of movement.
you, this nation, are very much involved or very
much... cherish these principles. however, when i was
about fifteen i lost that freedom."
-14th Dalai Lama

At a sit down interview:
"QUESTION:Your Holiness, do you hate the Chinese?
DALIA LAMA: No. Almost none. Sometimes I guess I lose
some temper but, almost not any hatred feeelings.
Instead I get more concern, more compassion toward
them and in my daily prayer there are certain
practices called exchange or take and give. My
positive mental thought, I give them through
imagination. and I take their ignorance, their
suffering, their anger , their hatred, and i take it
into myself. That kind of practice I seriously do." 
-14th Dalai Lama

"I would like to explain the meaning of compassion,
which is often misunderstood. Genuine compassion is
based not on our own projections and expectations, but
rather on the rights of the other: irrespective of
whether another person is a close friend or an enemy,
as long as that person wishes for peace and happiness
and wishes to overcome suffering, then on that basis
we develop genuine concern for his or her problem.
This is genuine compassion. Usually when we are
concerned about a close friend, we call this
compassion. This is not compassion; it is attachment.
Even in marriage, those marriages that last only a
short time do so because of attachment - although it
is generally present - but because there is also
compassion. Marriages that last only a short time do
so because of a lack of compassion; there is only
emotional attachment based on projection and
expectation. When the only bond between close friends
is attachment, then even a minor issue may cause one's
projections to change. As soon as our projections
change, the attachment disappears -   because that
attachment was based solely on projection and
expectation. It is possible to have compassion without
attachment - and similarly, to have anger without
hatred. Therefore we need to clarify the distinctions
between compassion and attachment, and between anger
and hatred. Such clarity is useful in our daily life
and in our efforts toward world peace. I consider
these to be basic spiritual values for the happiness
of all human beings, regardless of whether one is a
believer or a nonbeliever." 
-14th Dalai Lama

Happy Millinium everyone and let's keep our fingers
crossed that the rest of the night will be like this
morning; no computer glitches, terrorist bombs or
hostage situation, just a lot of inebriated dehydrated
people. lol ;)    



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