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re: What are some of your favorite quotes/speeches?
Posted on 4/20/15 at 3:31 pm to CrazyTigerFan
Posted on 4/20/15 at 3:31 pm to CrazyTigerFan
“Strong people are harder to kill than weak people and more useful in general.”
Mark Rippetoe
Mark Rippetoe
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Posted on 4/20/15 at 4:58 pm to Placebeaux
Damn
Posted on 4/20/15 at 5:12 pm to boom roasted
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Well, when Johnny was first starting out, he was signed to a personal services contract with this big-band leader. And as his career got better and better, he wanted to get out of it. But the band leader wouldn't let him. Now, Johnny is my father's godson. So my father went to see this bandleader and offered him $10,000 to let Johnny go, but the bandleader said no. So the next day, my father went back, only this time with Luca Brasi. Within an hour, he had a signed release for a certified check of $1000.
Phil Wenneck: The Best Little Chapel... do you know where that is?
Dr. Valsh: I do, it's at the corner of get a map and frick off. I'm a doctor, not a tour guide.
This post was edited on 4/20/15 at 5:23 pm
Posted on 4/20/15 at 6:17 pm to mikrit54
I'm a big fan of the "This is Water" speech by David Foster Wallace.
Here is a link to the full speech. Well worth listening for the entire 23:00.
Here is a link to the full speech. Well worth listening for the entire 23:00.
Posted on 4/20/15 at 6:27 pm to boom roasted
"The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics". - Dr. Thomas Sowell.
Posted on 4/20/15 at 6:30 pm to boom roasted
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. Theodore Roosevelt
Posted on 4/20/15 at 6:31 pm to boom roasted
"He's gonna be singing through his a-hole after I'm done with him" - Captain McCoy in "Cannibal Apocalypse"
Posted on 4/20/15 at 6:36 pm to GetCocky11
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But seriously, one of the speeches that deserves to be on this list is Barbara Jordan's speech during the Nixon impeachment hearings.
Never heard that one before. That is indeed a truly great speech. What the hell has happened to our politicians over the last 40 years? I doubt one of our current congressman could deliver a speech with such elegance and conviction even if someone else were to write it for them.
Posted on 4/20/15 at 7:10 pm to FlagLake
Loved the Jimmy V speech. I enjoy many others but this one makes me laugh, cry and think.
Posted on 4/20/15 at 8:02 pm to boom roasted
You look at how people wrote in the 19th century and compare it to the present and it is like difference between the NBA and women's college basketball.
Posted on 4/20/15 at 8:13 pm to boom roasted
[quote]Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Posted on 4/20/15 at 8:17 pm to boom roasted
''It's unfortunate that most times, experience is something you get after you don't need it anymore''
-me
-me
Posted on 4/20/15 at 8:22 pm to Mr. Hangover
"Those who can not remember the past are condemned to repeat it"
--George Santanyana
--George Santanyana
Posted on 4/20/15 at 8:23 pm to Marco Esquandolas
Or the modern version...
"Those who fail to study history are doomed to repeat it"
"Those who fail to study history are doomed to repeat it"
Posted on 4/20/15 at 8:35 pm to Marco Esquandolas
"This is the latest parle we will admit;
Therefore to our best mercy give yourselves;
Or like to men proud of destruction
Defy us to our worst: for, as I am a soldier,
A name that in my thoughts becomes me best,
If I begin the battery once again,
I will not leave the half-achieved Harfleur
Till in her ashes she lie buried.
The gates of mercy shall be all shut up,
And the flesh'd soldier, rough and hard of heart,
In liberty of bloody hand shall range
With conscience wide as hell, mowing like grass
Your fresh-fair virgins and your flowering infants."
Shakespeare
Act III, Scene III
Henry V
Therefore to our best mercy give yourselves;
Or like to men proud of destruction
Defy us to our worst: for, as I am a soldier,
A name that in my thoughts becomes me best,
If I begin the battery once again,
I will not leave the half-achieved Harfleur
Till in her ashes she lie buried.
The gates of mercy shall be all shut up,
And the flesh'd soldier, rough and hard of heart,
In liberty of bloody hand shall range
With conscience wide as hell, mowing like grass
Your fresh-fair virgins and your flowering infants."
Shakespeare
Act III, Scene III
Henry V
This post was edited on 4/20/15 at 8:39 pm
Posted on 4/20/15 at 9:49 pm to LongueCarabine
I don't pay women for sex, I pay them to leave after we have sex.
Charlie Sheen
Charlie Sheen
Posted on 4/20/15 at 9:51 pm to boom roasted
"You'll have a day just like your attitude."
Posted on 4/20/15 at 10:19 pm to pwejr88
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When you come to a fork in the road, take it.
It's like deja-vu, all over again.
I never said most of the things I said.
Yogi Berra
Posted on 4/20/15 at 10:22 pm to boom roasted
Posted on 4/20/15 at 10:31 pm to blueboy
Didn't realize this was still going. Here are some more.
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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. ~ Mark Twain
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Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. ~ Mark Twain
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“Out of war peace gains fresh stability, but to refuse to abandon repose for war is not so sure a method of avoiding danger.” ~ Archidamus, The History
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