*BOKEEM WOODBINE
*DIANE LANE (in UNFAITHFUL)
*DON CHEADLE
*ELIZA ROBERTS
*ELLE FANNING
*JACK NICHOLSON
*JATNNA TORIBIO
*JEFF BRIDGES
*JOAN CUSACK
*JOHN CUSACK
*MERYL STREEP
*MICHAEL CAINE
*STOCKARD CHANNING
*ABIGAIL BRESLIN
*ADRIANA BARRAZA
*MICHAEL PENA
*PATRICK WARBURTON
*PAUL RUDD
*RODNEY EASTMAN
*TERRENCE HOWARD
* ZACHARY LEVI
*JEREMY PIVEN
*JOHN HEDER
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*PARENTING
Violence clones itself. Don't hit your kids.
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It’s not your children’s job to provide a vent for
your anger and frustration. If they are given
this job, they will make a career of it.
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Why do people think they can yell their teenagers into desirable behaviors?
That’s like yelling at a tornado to stop spinning.
All we can do is decide what to do to keep ourselves safe, and to learn as
much as we can about this force of nature.
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Whatever we impose on our children prepares them only for that thing itself....To create that same thing themselves.
It does not prep them to cope with it any better. If we impose pressure on them, it prepares them only to
impose pressure on themselves, not to cope with pressure.
If we allow them a very un-pressured childhood, that provides them a way to be at peace.
They become un-pressured people, whether they’re under pressure or not.
Drugging children prepares them for drugs. It doesn’t prepare them to cope with whatever we’re
drugging them for.
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*PHILOSOPHY
& PSYCHOLOGY:
Unrealized talent does not make a comfortable chair, unless you’ve
sat
on it your whole life, then it makes it a dangerously comfortable
chair.
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We are all in love with a dying person.
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There's a difference between being loyal and being compulsive.
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I believe there are these genius monsters. People who light up
your world from afar, but burn it down if you step
too close. Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemmingway, JD Salinger,
Peter Sellers, Andrew Weil, Woody Allen…
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You can't expect someone you're dating to make you Scarlett Johansson-proof,
but you can still be madly in love...
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*QUOTES
Take
your sandwich out for lunch.
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The freeways aren’t free if you pay with your life. Buckle up.
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I don’t hate to toot my own horn…I’d just prefer
someone else toot it.
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*RELATIONSHIPS
I’ve
always wanted to read a blurb about a breakup, and instead of hearing “there were no second parties involved”, I’d like to hear an honest answer, like “There were second, third, fourth and fifth parties involved.”
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No marriage can survive communication.
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Don't get married during the honeymoon.
Some people aren't looking for someone to marry. They're
just looking for someone to direct their anger towards.
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Just because I’m girl crazy doesn’t mean I like
women.
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It's tricky to both support a family and care for one.
The two types of caring are often in conflict with each other.
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*PREMEDITATED
LOVE
We imbue people with all kinds of wonderful qualities when we are
overwhelmed with attraction for them, and we imbue our marriage
with all kinds of problematic qualities when sexual familiarity
sets in.
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Have you found yourself being accused of being brutal by a brutal
person?
What’s behind that, is this:
The reason especially brutal people feel quietly brutalized by people like you is that they target you as someone they believe will take all their crap. So when you don’t take the crap, they feel brutalized.
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*THE
PRESENT WORLD
The Tsunami of 2004 was not preventable.
Iraq was. War
is.
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We need a president who helps us face the challenges
of peace, not war.
War is the wrong response to the challenges of peace.
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When it’s a married couple trying to talk out their differences,
and one of them pulls a gun,it’s considered a crime.
Why is it not the same with government and nations?
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I hope our TV screens continue to show us only forces armed with
love and supplies, instead of those armed with weapons.
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The message of the Tsunami is:
Make safe these orphans.
Stop creating new ones.
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George
W. Bush believes, if we can’t bring slaves here, we’ll go to them.
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If all who had the right to vote were required to see a child die in war, wars
would be waged solely by deranged compulsive sadists,
like our present administration.
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Back to Bush for a sec:
he believes that every fetus should be born only to go kill and die less than two decades into
the life he so magnanimously insures them...Or to die of curable diseases because he doesn't believe in the cure. What a sadist.
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I feel bad about the pain experienced by Hillary & Chelsea,
but I’d rather have a president who has
an affair “cause he can”
than a president who bombs and kills thousands of Iraqi children
and American teenagers “cause he can”.
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Great leaders are the true minority.
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Iraq
isn't a war. It's a war crime.
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"We are acting today in the memory of so many
girls and boys
who've lost their lives in innocence in acts of cruelty.
No child should ever have to experience the terror of abduction or worse.
No family should ever have to endure the nightmare of losing a child."
Guess Who?
George W. Bush
Upon signing The Protect Act of 2003
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*DOCUMENTARY
"Be All That You Can Be" The "Pro Life" Version:
Designed to look just like the army commercial, BE ALL THAT YOU
CAN BE, JOIN THE ARMY...
And is the same, except that we replace the shots the commercial
has of the front lines
with interview excerpts from a Vietnam soldier's interview about
how his troops were rewarded
for "double kills", which consisted of "getting" any pregnant
Viet Cong women.
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