“So it’s not gonna be easy. It’s gonna be really hard. We’re gonna have to work at this every day, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, for ever, you and me, every day. Will you do something for me, please? Just picture your life for [...]
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#126 “Did my heart love ’til now? Forswear its sight. For I never saw true beauty ’til this night.” Romeo - Romeo + Juliet 1996
“O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo”?….oh come on.. you’ve all heard it, some of you might have even said it. Prince Charming, Romeo, The King of the World, The Frog; we enlist at such an early stage in life that love has to be found, not planned in fairytale fantasies. We provoke thought that love is [...]
#80 “You like to watch…don’t you” Carly Norris - Sliver 1993
Hmmm.. the fascination of visual appeal. Isn’t life a complete visual? We glimpse into life’s attributes as a spectator sport. We stare, we glance, we gaze and admire; yet, if the world is a picture playground is it ok to take a sneak peak? Pictures last longer than a split second. Some pictures are formalized, [...]
#77 “Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes…How do you measure, measure a year? In daylights, in sunsets, in midnights, in cups of coffee. In inches, in miles, in laughter, in strife. In five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes - how do you measure a year in the life?” RENT 2005
So.. this movie is kinda an inside joke with my bro. Its too funny how a weekend away can generate a lifetime of memories. We watched this movie one weekend visiting him in San Diego. Because I insisted we watch this movie, we have spent the past 4 years never forgeting this song…
“Five hundred twenty-five [...]
#76 “You see George, you’ve really had a wonderful life. Don’t you see what a mistake it would be to just throw it away?” Clarence - It’s a Wonderful Life 1946
Each of us are important to someone. Each of us are important in the lives we lead. As we recognize the greater in others and the struggles in some; we as people come together to welcome and invite solace during this special day. We realize that love is stronger than words, and that gifts are [...]
#65 “Yes, but my martini is still dry. My name is James.” James Bond - Never Say Never Again 1983
Whats in a name? Are we name fanatics? You know where people obsess about their meanings behind names and their interpretations. A name is somehow our identity, its the staple of who we are; yet most likely it is picked out before you can even say or spell it. If a name is as random [...]
#62 “For most people, Friday’s just the day before the weekend. But after this Friday, the neighborhood’ll never be the same.” Craig Jones - Friday 1995
Awe yes…. the day before the weekend. The day we all look forward to starting on Monday. I know a few people that find excitement in Mondays; those are the people who claim there job is not work, its just a part of their dream. What does a Friday mean to you? Is it your [...]
#26 “We have the tools, and we have the talent.” Winston - Ghostbusters 1984
We are all given a certain make up of characteristics. The tools we have can literally be used or be put away. Our talent can be expressed or go un-delivered. Either way, someone can claim we actually have talent or we don’t. I used to tie the word talent to someone who can sing, or someone who can draw, [...]
#16 “I don’t care how liberated this world becomes - a man will always be judged by the amount of alcohol he can consume - and a woman will be impressed, whether she likes it or not.” Doug -Cocktail 1988
Is a man’s greatest competition against himself or the world in which acts upon him? Can we as a society say men are more competitive than women? What is it that a man competes for, and against? I presume that men are competitors against their stamina for life. The exertion of success both physically and [...]
#15 “If we go out and half-ass it ’cause we’re scared, then we’ll always wonder if we were really good enough. But if we go out there and give it all we’ve got… that’s heroic. You guys wanna be heroes?” Jonathon “Mox’ Moxon -Varsity Blues 1999
No one wants to half-ass anything. No one. Yet, if we don’t at least attempt to try are we half-ass-ing it? Its incredible that a winner can be linked to the title “hero”. But what makes a hero a “hero”? Do you get the title by winning, or by succeeding? Is the title given [...]
#11 “Cause the house always wins. Play long enough, you never change the stakes. The house takes you. Unless, when that perfect hand comes along, you bet and you bet big, then you take the house.” Danny - Ocean’s Eleven 2001
Does the “house” always win? Whose the “house”? Is it really your home? What about your employer or your spouse? Is the “house”possibly your opponent? Maybe its our own inner competition. I can’t imagine always winning, unless there is some caliber of loss we can compare it to. Do we constantly put ourselves back out there and [...]
