“From the first moment I laid eyes on you, I have always, always loved...your money.”
-House on Haunted Hill
"They're starving to death. They're dying of disease to death."
-The West Wing
“I keep
thinking about our great dueling Jesus pictures, The Last Temptation of Christ
and The Passion of The Christ. Both look to the suffering of Jesus for meaning,
but the two films approach that suffering from totally different ways. For
Scorsese the suffering of Christ wasn't being nailed to the cross (although
that did suck for him), it was being shown the life he could have if he just
gave up the mantle of Messiah. The suffering of Willem DaFoe's Christ is an
emotional one, and it's a suffering that makes Christ all the more human, as we
can truly relate to the idea of giving up our dreams for something bigger or
more important. We've all known what it's like to put duty before happiness. In
The Passion of the Christ Jim Caviezel's Christly suffering is almost purely
physical; while I can get that on a gut level (just as I can recoil at all
slasher and splatter pictures) I can't truly relate to being relentlessly
flogged. Emotional torture I get. Physical torture is distant.”
-Devin
Faraci
“Off to the
movies we will go
Where we
learn everything that we know
Because the
movies teach us
What our
parents don’t have time to say!”
-South
Park
“Two hundred
years ago, we had great-great-greats who lived in the dark, without much in the
way of healthcare, commerce or opportunity.
“Today, we
complain that the MRI was chilly, or that the wifi on the transatlantic plane
wasn't fast enough or that there's nothing new going on at the mall.
“It's human
nature to recalibrate. But maybe it's worth fighting that off, for an hour or
even a day.
“The world
around us is uneven, unfair and yes, absolutely, over-the-top amazing.
“Boring is
an attitude, not the truth.”
-Seth Godin
“Double dumbass on you!”
-Star Trek IV
“He had an
almost freakish ability to identify shadowy motives. If you had just donated
$20 million to your alma mater, say, and were feeling the glow of selfless
devotion to a cause greater than yourself, Lippman would be the first to ask,
‘So you gave twenty mission because that’s the minimum to get your name on a
building, right?’”
“In Bakersfield, California, a Mexican strawberry picker with an income of $14,000 and no English was lent every penny he needed to buy a house for $724,000.”
“Charlie and
Jamie had always sort of assumed that there was some grown-up in charge of the
financial system whom they had never met; now, they saw there was not.”
“The CDO
was, in effect, a credit laundering service for the residents of Lower Middle
Class America. For Wall Street it was a machine that turned lead into gold.”
“That was
the problem with money: What people did with it had consequences, but they were
so remote from the original action that the mind never connected the one with
the other.”
Michael
Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
“I was once
in New York, and I listened to a talk about the building of private prisons – a
huge growth industry in America. The prison industry needs to plan its future
growth – how many cells are they going to need? How many prisoners are there
going to be, 15 years from now? And they found they could predict it very
easily, using a pretty simple algorithm, based on asking what percentage of 10
and 11-year-olds couldn’t read.”
-Neil Gaiman
”You always
have to bring that up, don’t you?”
“You put
dynamite in the oven, Wayne.”
“Gotta hide
a gift where nobody’ll look for it.”
Brandon
Sanderson, Shadows of Self
"It's almost
impossible to persuade someone that he's wrong. Almost impossible to make your
argument louder and sharper and have the other person say, 'I was wrong
and I will change my mind.' Far more
effective: Help someone make a new decision, based on new alternatives and a
new story."
-Seth Godin
“Dreams are
a dime a dozen...it’s their execution that counts.”
-Theodore
Roosevelt
“Success is
99 percent failure.”
-Soichiro
Honda
“If you lend
money, you make a secret enemy; if you refuse, an open one.”
-Voltaire
“[I would
say] ‘Hang, on. Explain to me, what is a dysfunctional family?’ And people
would explain, and after a while, I realized that what Americans called a
‘dysfunctional family’ is what we in England call ‘a family,’ having never
encountered any of these functional ones.”
-Neil Gaiman
“Nothing
changes on New Year’s Day.”
-U2
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