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"Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity."
George Carlin
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| OKJones | RE: Quotes |
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In football there’s a tendency, certainly in the media anyway, for a kind of live-in-the-moment short-termism. The only thing that counts is what’s happening now.
For example, a very average player can have a few good games and all of a sudden hype dictates that he is the great white hope, the new somebody where somebody = an established and well thought of player of proven quality. This is known as the David Bentley effect. Conversely, a good player who goes through a bad spell in his career is written off, not what they used to be, and possibly finished. This could well be described as the Wayne Rooney factor.
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| Grizlas | RE: Quotes |
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"And now I thought we might have a moment, however brief, for some sincerity, if that’s ok; I know there are boundaries for a comedian, pundit, talker guy, and I’m sure I’ll find out tomorrow how I have violated them.
I’m really happy you guys are here, even if none of us are really quite sure why we are here. Some of you may have seen today as a clarion call for action, or some of the hipper, more ironic cats as a clarion call for ‘action.’ Clearly, some of you just wanted to see the Air and Space Museum and got royally screwed. And I’m sure a lot of you are here to have a nice time, and I hope you did. I know that many of you made a great effort to be here today, and I want you to know that everyone involved with this project worked incredibly hard to make sure that we honor the effort that you put in and gave you the best show we could possibly do. We know your time is valuable, and we didn’t want to waste it. And we are all extremely honored to have had a chance to perform for you on this beautiful space, on The Mall in Washington, D.C.
So, uh, what exactly was this? I can’t control what people think this was, I can only tell you my intentions. This was not a rally to ridicule people of faith, or people of activism, or to look down our noses at the heartland, or passionate argument, or to suggest that times are not difficult and that we have nothing to fear. They are and we do. But we live now in hard times, not end times. And we can have animus and not be enemies. But, unfortunately, one of our main tools in delineating the two broke. The country’s 24-hour, politico, pundit, perpetual, panic conflictanator did not cause our problems, but its existence makes solving them that much harder. The press can hold its magnifying glass up to our problems, bringing them into focus, illuminating issues heretofore unseen. Or they can use that magnifying glass to light ants on fire, and then perhaps host a week of shows on the sudden, unexpected, dangerous flaming ant epidemic. If we amplify everything, we hear nothing.
There are terrorists and racists and Stalinists and theocrats, but those titles that must earned; you must have the resume. Not being able to be able to distinguish between real racists and Tea Partiers, or real bigots and Juan Williams or Rick Sanchez is an insult, not only to those people, but to the racists themselves, who have put in the exhausting effort it takes to hate. Just as the inability to distinguish terrorists from Muslims makes us less safe, not more. The press is our immune system. If it overreacts to everything, we actually get sicker, and perhaps eczema. And yet, with that being said, I feel good: strangely, calmly good. Because the image of Americans that is reflected back to us by our political and media process is false. It is us through a fun-house mirror, and not the good kind that makes you look slim in the waist and maybe taller, but the kind where you have a giant forehead and an ass shaped like a month-old pumpkin with one eyeball.
So why would we work together? Why would you reach across the aisle to a pumpkin-assed, forehead, eyeball monster? If the picture of us were true, of course our inabilities to solve problems would actually be quite sane and reasonable. Why would you work with Marxists actively subverting our Constitution, or racists and homophobes who see no one’s humanity but their own? We hear every damn day about how fragile our country is, on the brink of catastrophe torn by polarizing hate. And how it’s a shame that we can’t work together to get things done. But the truth is, we do. We work together to get things done every damn day. The only place we don’t is here or on cable TV. But Americans don’t live here or on cable TV. Where we live, our values and principles form the foundation that sustains us while we get things done, not the barriers that prevent us from getting things done.
Most Americans don’t live their lives solely as Democrats, Republicans, Liberals, or Conservatives. Americans live their lives more as people that are just a little bit late for something they have to do. Often, something they do not want to do, but they do it. Impossible things every day, that are only made possible through the little reasonable compromises we all make.
Look. Look on the screen. This is where we are; this is who we are: these cars. That’s a schoolteacher who probably thinks his taxes are too high. He’s going to work. There’s another car. A woman with two small kids, can’t really think about anything else right now. There’s another car, swaying, I don’t even know if you can see it. The lady’s in the NRA and loves Oprah. There’s another car. An investment banker: gay, also likes Oprah. Another car’s a Latino carpenter. Another car a fundamentalist vacuum salesman. Atheist obstetrician. Mormon Jay-Z fan. But this is us. Every one of the cars you see is filled with individuals of strong beliefs and principles they hold dear. Often, principles and beliefs in direct opposition to their fellow travelers. And yet these millions of cars must somehow find a way to squeeze one by one into a mile-long, thirty-foot wide tunnel carved underneath a mighty river. Carved by people who by the way I’m sure had their differences. And they do it. Concession by concession. You go, then I’ll go. You go, then I’ll go. You go, then I’ll go. Oh my God, is that an NRA sticker on your car? Is that an Obama sticker on your car? Ah, well that’s okay, you go, then I’ll go. And sure, at some point there will be a selfish jerk who zips up the shoulder and cuts in at the last minute. But that individual is rare, and he is scorned not hired as an analyst.
Because we know instinctively as a people that if we are to get through the darkness and back into the light, we have to work together. And the truth is, there will always be darkness. And sometimes, the light at the end of the tunnel isn’t the promised land. Sometimes, it’s just New Jersey. But we do it anyway, together. If you want to know why I’m here and what I want from you, I can only assure you this: you have already given it to me. Your presence was what I wanted. Sanity will always be and has always been in the eye of the beholder. And to see you here today and the kind of people that you are has restored mine. Thank you.”
* Jon Stewart at The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear, October 30, 2010
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| Laluu | RE: Quotes |
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"The secret of success is sincerity".
"Once you can fake that, you've got it made."
- Jean Giradoux, French novelist
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"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown."
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| Norlander | RE: Quotes |
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The problem with the designated driver program, it's not a desirable job, but if you ever get sucked into doing it, have fun with it. At the end of the night, drop them off at the wrong house.
- Jeff Foxworthy
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| Vuzman | RE: Quotes |
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The reason people us a crucifix against vampires is that vampires are allergic to bullshit.
~ Richard Pryor
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When I kill her, I'll have her
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| Norlander | RE: Quotes |
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If you truly want revenge you have to be hard. You have to be dishonest and devious and cold. You can't let people see what's really in your heart.
~ Patrick Jane
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| Norlander | RE: Quotes |
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Many a man who falls in love with a dimple make the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
- Evan Esar
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| Vuzman | RE: Quotes |
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Life is like a box of chocolates, a cheap, thoughtless, perfunctory gift no one ever asks for. Unreturnable because all you get back is another box of chocolates. So you're stuck with this mostly undefinable whipped mint crap, mindlessly wolfed down when there's nothing else to eat during the game. Sure, once in a while you get a peanut butter cup or an English toffee, but it's gone too soon and the taste is fleeting. In the end you're left with nothing but broken bits of hardened jelly and teeth-shattering nuts, which if you are desperate enough to eat, leaves nothing but useless brown paper wrappers.
~ Cigarette-Smoking Man, X-Files
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When I kill her, I'll have her
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| Vuzman | RE: Quotes |
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I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm president of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli!
~ Former President George H.W. Bush
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When I kill her, I'll have her
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| Norlander | RE: Quotes |
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The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money.
- David Richerby
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| Grizlas | RE: Quotes |
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"To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them, but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know?"
- Socrates
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| Grizlas | RE: Quotes |
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"Politicians should wear jumpsuits like NASCAR drivers so we can see their corporate sponsors."
- Chris Rock(?)
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| OKJones | RE: Quotes |
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The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.
Muhammad Ali
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| OKJones | RE: Quotes |
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A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
Robert Frost
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| Laluu | RE: Quotes |
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YouTube discussion on bands covering Iron Maiden's "Hallowed be thy Name" - in particular Machine Head and Cradle of Filth
@ViolentIndulgence But CoF made it sound so....disgusting. I like Death Metal, and that cover was a pile of crap compared to Iron Maiden's. Hell, compared to Friday by Rebecca Black it sucked!
DeathMetalSavior 2 weeks ago
I love the fact that Rebecca Black's "Friday" has become a type of benchmark.
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| Norlander | RE: Quotes |
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My English isn't the yellow from the egg
Heard during gameplay...
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| OKJones | RE: Quotes |
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Never argue with idiots. They'll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.
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| Norlander | RE: Quotes |
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On an IMDB board I was reading, a poster was commenting on how the city didn't look like the real city in question and other errors in geography, just below it was this reply which made me burst out laughing
plus they said a girl was murdered...when in real life, the actress is still alive.
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| Norlander | RE: Quotes |
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Hattar Interneti hevur broytt okkurt.
- Vestergaard
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