I love the first snowfall of the year; with the arrival of winter I feel close to home. We have our Christmas rituals and family dinners. And as I reflect, I smile at the nostalgia of my life.

I have lived in three different cities since leaving home long ago, but in truth – home will always be where my mother lives. I remember her looking out the window of our old house and asking me if I thought it was going to be a white Christmas. And I can’t help but somehow feel that when the snow finally fell – those words made it magical.

That old house my father rebuilt was a castle.  I remember how much cool stuff my parents had stashed everywhere. The basement was a maze filled with antiques and treasure boxes of new things.  So many important memories live on that street. When my mother finally sold it, I walk around for one last time and cried my eyes out.  I realized that until I had my own family, nothing would ever feel that safe again.

Heart warming Winter quotes and photos is my 5th photo Blog collection.  Each photo links directly to the original source.

Of winter’s lifeless world each tree
Now seems a perfect part;
Yet each one holds summer’s secret
Deep down within its heart.
~Charles G. Stater

One kind word can warm three winter months. ~Japanese Proverb

“Lovers, forget your love And list to the love of these She a window flower And he a winter breeze …” Robert Frost

Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories. ~From the movie  An Affair to Remember

Every winter,
When the great sun has turned his face away,
The earth goes down into a vale of grief,
And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables,
Leaving her wedding-garlands to decay -
Then leaps in spring to his returning kisses.
~Charles Kingsley

Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts. ~Janice Maeditere

Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall. ~Larry Wilde, The Merry Book of Christmas

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. ~Norman Vincent Peale

The message of Christmas is that the visible material world is bound to the invisible spiritual world. ~Author Unknown

At Christmas play and make good cheer,
For Christmas comes but once a year
~Thomas Tusser

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.”  Victor Hugo

“People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.” Anton Chekhov

“In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.”  William Blake

“Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life’s relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.” Soren Kierkegaard

On a lone winter evening, when the frost Has wrought a silence.
John Keats

He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree. ~Roy L. Smith

In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago.
Christina G. Rossetti

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveler, thousands of miles away, back to his own fire-side and his quiet home! ~ Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers, 1836

Wouldn’t life be worth the living
Wouldn’t dreams be coming true
If we kept the Christmas spirit
All the whole year through?
~Author Unknown

Remember
This December,
That love weighs more than gold!
~Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon

“Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.”
- A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens

“Men’s courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead,” said Scrooge. “But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change. Say it is thus with what you show me!”
- A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens.

Previous Photo Blog spotlights include: a Definition of Originality, photography captured in a Kiss, Enchanting Autumn incantations, and Yaletown 2010 Olympic Canvas.

FNL is a hidden gem. Yet again, its devoted followers have helped win another season on the air. You don’t need to love football to enjoy this brilliant show.  FNL is about struggling to find yourself; those defining moments of victory and defeat that lay down the foundation of our character.  And now it’s back for a 4^th season.

Tyra Collette reading her essay for college, FNL 3.12 

“Two years ago, I was afraid wanting anything. I figured wanting would lead to trying, and trying would lead to failure. But now I find I can’t stop wanting…  I want to fly somewhere in first class. I want to travel to Europe on a business trip. I want to get invited to the White House. I want to learn about the world. I want to surprise myself. I want to be important. I want to be the best person I can be. I want to define myself, instead having of others define me. I want to win; and have people be happy for me. I want to lose and get over it. I want to not be afraid of the unknown. I want to grow up to be generous and big hearted. The way that people have been with me. I want an interesting and surprising life.

It’s not that I think I am going to get all these things. I just want the possibility of getting them. College represents possibility. The possibility that things are going to change. I can’t wait…”  Tyra Collette, Friday Night lights TV series.

The last few minutes of the Pilot Episode of Friday Night Lights on NBC.  One of many scenes that sums up the show, and Kyle Chandler as Coach Eric Taylor, perfectly.  Friday Night Lights won a Primetime Emmy, including another 3 wins & 22 nominations

My favourite TV series drama Friday Night Lights is back for a 4^th season. I can’t wait…

 

“To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.” George Santayana

“Seasons change, friends move away, and life goes on from day to day. Flowers fade and streams go dry and many times we wonder why. Yet we can always be assured because God tells us in His Word, that unlike changes in the weather, love goes on and las”  Unknown

“You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.” Jim Rohn

Autumn days are here again!

In autumn when the trees are brown
The little leaves come tumbling down
They do not make the slightest sound
But lie so quietly on the ground
Until the wind comes puffing by
And blows them off towards the sky.

“And you would accept the seasons of your heart just as you have always accepted that seasons pass over your fields and you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief.” Kahlil Gibran

“Love is the only flower that grows and blossoms Without the aid of the seasons.” Kahlil Gibran

“For him in vain the envious seasons roll, Who bears eternal summer in his soul.” Oliver Wendell Holmes  “No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace
as I have seen in one autumnal face”

by John Donne Elegy IX: The Autumnal

“Don’t doubt the fact there’s life within you. Yesterday’s ending will tomorrow life give you.All that dies, dies for a reason, To put it’s strength into the seasons.” Unknown

“The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post.”
- Thomas Holcroft

“To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.”
- Emily Dickinson

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The beauty of photography captured in a kiss

“I am a part of all that I have met…” Ulysses by Lord Alfred Tennyson

What defines originality? Setting out to explore this topic, I quickly realized the simple complicated truth: Everything and nothing is original. Each new idea is spun from a web of past experiences and knowledge.

For instance, can anything claim to be more original then the light bulb. And yet, even Edison’s idea is not original. It’s a thought born from the sun, passed onto the candle, until it became the light bulb.
I realize now, my personal quote “I love all things original“, is fundamentally flawed and probably the result of having heard something from a forgotten source. What I should say is, “I love all things”, for everything is connected, everything is a part of something else. Therefore, originality is beyond any definition I can provide for you.

So I decided to transform this question into my monthly E.Y.D Photo Blog hoping it will spark some illuminating thoughts. To compliment these Social media photos, I have added a few appetizers to meditate upon… Each photo was tagged under Originality, and links directly to the Artists kind enough to share their work on Flickr

Can you define Originality?  Drop me a comment with your thoughts on what originality is to you, or just add one idea you think is original.

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E.Y.D Photo Blog Part III : Enchanting Autumn incantations of sublime seasonal change

E.Y.D Photo Blog Part II:  orig·i·nal·i·ty

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.” Shakespeare

Pronunciation: \?-?ri-j?-?na-l?-t?\ Function: noun Date: 1742
1 : the quality or state of being original 2 : freshness of aspect, design, or style 3 : the power of independent thought or constructive imagination

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Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applause which he cannot keep.  ~ Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, 1750

“A quality given to ideas expressed as unique, novel or different from any other previously recognized ideas of a similar nature.”

There is just one life for each of us: our own. ~ Euripides

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”  Herman Melville

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.  ~ Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind. ~ Dr. Seuss

“Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.”   Thomas W. Higginson

Wherever you go, go with all your heart. ~ Confucius

“Utter originality is, of course, out of the question”  Ezra Pound

“Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it”

.  Laurence J. Peter

Most people are other people.  Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.  ~ Oscar Wilde, De Profundis, 1905

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius & it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring…” ~unknown

If you are ashamed to stand by your colors, you had better seek another flag. ~ Author Unknown

“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring two pence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. ” C. S. Lewis

“Be yourself” is about the worst advice you can give some people.  ~Tom Masson

Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.  Voltaire

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.  ~David Carradine

“You’ve gotta be original, because if you’re like someone else, what do they need you for?”  Bernadette Peters

“Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality”  Kahlil Gibran

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The beauty of photography captured in a kiss.  Thy Addiction to Stumbleupon has brought forth a new love in my life. The love of photography. The extraordinary amount of breathtaking pictures I have viewed on social media sites has been a wonderful experience. So I have decided to highlight each month, one Photo blog and an assortment of pictures I discover on the net. This month, I am highlighting both Design Swan and Kiss Me Daily.  Design Swan is a wonderfully unassuming blog with mind boggling photos that elevate the imagination. Check out this amazing set of photos: Droste Effect: magic happens when math meet image…

Kiss Me Daily is so simple it’s sweet; its greed  “A kiss is all we need….”. I have decided to use this theme for my first post in this new continuing series on Photography and Photo Blogs.

“There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.” ~ Ernst Haas

Part 1.  ”A kiss is all we need…”  Inspired by Kiss Me Daily

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A photo definition of Originality

Drop me a comment below with your favourite pick from this fourth selection.

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Feast of love

There is a story about the Greek Gods; they were bored so they invented human beings, but they were still bored so they invented love, then they weren’t bored any longer. So they decided to try love for themselves. And finally, they invented laughter, so they could stand it.

Stand by Me

The Writer: Vern didn’t just mean being off limits inside the junkyard, or fudging on our folks, or going on a hike up the railroad to Harlow. He meant those things, but it seems to me now it was more and that we all knew it. Everything was there and around us. We knew exactly who we were and exactly where we were going. It was grand.

The Basketball Diaries

Jim Carroll: “You’re growing up. And rain sort of remains on the branches of a tree that will someday rule the Earth. And it’s good that there is rain. It clears the month of your sorry rainbow expressions, and it clears the streets of the silent armies… so we can dance.”

Trainspotting

Mark “Rent-boy“ Renton: [narrating] Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourselves. Choose your future. Choose life…

Wall:E

EVE: Name?
WALL.E: WALL-E.
EVE: WALL-E?
[giggles]
EVE: EVE.
WALL.E: [attempting to pronounce it] Eeee…
EVE: EVE.
WALL.E: Eeeee… aah.
EVE: “EVE”! “EVE”!
WALL.E: Eeeee… va?
[EVE giggles] WALL.E: Eeeee… va? EVE : WALL-E!

Juno

Juno MacGuff: As far as boyfriends go, Paulie Bleeker is totally boss. He is the cheese to my macaroni. And, I know that people are supposed to fall in love before they reproduce, but… I guess normalcy isn’t really our style.

Pulp Fiction

J ules: There’s a passage I got memorized. Ezekiel 25:17. The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness. For he is truly his brother’s keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know I am the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you.

I been sayin’ that shit for years. And if you ever heard it, it meant your ass. I never really questioned what it meant. I thought it was just a cold-blooded thing to say to a motherfucker before you popped a cap in his ass. But I saw some shit this mornin’ made me think twice. Now I’m thinkin’: it could mean you’re the evil man. And I’m the righteous man. And Mr. 9mm here, he’s the shepherd protecting my righteous ass in the valley of darkness. Or it could be you’re the righteous man and I’m the shepherd and it’s the world that’s evil and selfish. I’d like that. But that shit ain’t the truth. The truth is you’re the weak. And I’m the tyranny of evil men. But I’m tryin’, Ringo. I’m tryin’ real hard to be a shepherd.

Into the Wild

Christopher McCandless: “It should not be denied that being footloose has always exhilarated us. It is associated in our minds with escape from history and oppression and law and irksome obligations. Absolute freedom. And the road has always led west.”
“Two years he walks the earth. No phone, no pool, no pets, no cigarettes. Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road. Escaped from Atlanta. Thou shalt not return, ’cause “the West is the best.” And now after two rambling years comes the final and greatest adventure. The climactic battle to kill the false being within and victoriously conclude the spiritual pilgrimage. Ten days and nights of freight trains and hitchhiking bring him to the Great White North. No longer to be poisoned by civilization he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become lost in the wild.” – Alexander Supertramp May 1992

The Shawshank Redemption

Red: [narrating] I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about. Truth is, I don’t want to know. Some things are best left unsaid. I’d like to think they were singing about something so beautiful, it can’t be expressed in words, and makes your heart ache because of it. I tell you, those voices soared higher and farther than anybody in a gray place dares to dream. It was like some beautiful bird flapped into our drab little cage and made those walls dissolve away, and for the briefest of moments, every last man in Shawshank felt free.

Andy Dufresne: That’s the beauty of music. They can’t get that from you… Haven’t you ever felt that way about music?

Red: I played a mean harmonica as a younger man. Lost interest in it though. Didn’t make much sense in here.
Andy Dufresne: Here’s where it makes the most sense. You need it so you don’t forget.
Red: Forget?
Andy Dufresne: Forget that… there are places in this world that aren’t made out of stone. That there’s something inside… that they can’t get to, that they can’t touch. That’s yours.
Red: What’re you talking about?
Andy Dufresne: Hope. Andy Dufresne: [in letter to Red] Remember Red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.

Forrest Gump

Jenny Curran: Were you scared in Vietnam?
Forrest Gump: Yes. Well, I-I don’t know. Sometimes it would stop raining long enough for the stars to come out… and then it was nice. It was like just before the sun goes to bed down on the bayou. There was always a million sparkles on the water… like that mountain lake. It was so clear, Jenny, it looked like there were two skies one on top of the other. And then in the desert, when the sun comes up, I couldn’t tell where heaven stopped and the earth began. It’s so beautiful.
Jenny Curran: I wish I could’ve been there with you.
Forrest Gump: You were.

Apocalypse Now

Kurtz: I remember when I was with Special Forces. Seems a thousand centuries ago. We went into a camp to inoculate the children. We left the camp after we had inoculated the children for Polio, and this old man came running after us and he was crying. He couldn’t see. We went back there and they had come and hacked off every inoculated arm. There they were in a pile. A pile of little arms. And I remember… I… I… I cried. I wept like some grandmother. I wanted to tear my teeth out. I didn’t know what I wanted to do. And I want to remember it. I never want to forget it. I never want to forget. And then I realized… like I was shot… like I was shot with a diamond… a diamond bullet right through my forehead. And I thought: My God… the genius of that. The genius. The will to do that. Perfect, genuine, complete, crystalline, pure. And then I realized they were stronger than we.

The Dude:

Let me explain something to you. Um, I am not “Mr. Lebowski”. You’re Mr. Lebowski. I’m the Dude. So that’s what you call me. You know, that or, uh, His Dudeness, or uh, Duder, or El Duderino if you’re not into the whole brevity thing

Swingers Trent :

I don’t want you to be the guy in the PG-13 movie everyone’s *really* hoping makes it happen. I want you to be like the guy in the rated R movie, you know, the guy you’re not sure whether or not you like yet. You’re not sure where he’s coming from. Okay? You’re a bad man. You’re a bad man, Mikey. You’re a bad man, bad man. Trent : You know what you are? You’re like a big bear with claws and with fangs…
Sue : …big fucking teeth, man.
Trent : Yeah… big fuckin’ teeth on ya’. And she’s just like this little bunny, who’s just kinda cowering in the corner.
Sue : Shivering.
Trent : Yeah, man just kinda… you know, you got these claws and you’re staring at these claws and your thinking to yourself, and with these claws you’re thinking, “How am I supposed to kill this bunny, how am I supposed to kill this bunny?”
Sue : And you’re poking at it, you’re poking at it…
Trent : Yeah, you’re not hurting it. You’re just kinda gently batting the bunny around, you know what I mean? And the bunny’s scared Mike, the bunny’s scared of you, shivering.
Sue : And you got these fucking claws and these fangs…
Trent: And you got these fucking claws and these fangs, man! And you’re looking at your claws and you’re looking at your fangs. And you’re thinking to yourself, you don’t know what to do, man. “I don’t know how to kill the bunny.” With *this* you don’t know how to kill the bunny, do you know what I mean?
Sue: You’re like a big bear, man.
Mike: So you’re not just like fucking with me?
Trent: No I’m not fucking with you.
Sue : Honestly, man.

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One of my old friends sent me a Facebook message with a great link to a funny and inspiring travel video called: Where the Hell is Matt?  If you love to travel and see the beauty of the world, then you will love his short films featuring his happy feet traveling around the world.  Below is Dancing Matt’s best video.

Following Dancing Matt, is a very funny video that I recently watched about his girlfriend: and what she was doing while Dancing Matt was away.  For the Optimal video experience, start watching the first video, and start the second video halfway through the first video, and continue to watch both at once.  Hope you enjoy the show!

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I hope you will enjoy this diverse selection motivating movie moments on Youtube and Memorable movie quotes. Feel free to drop a comment below with your favorite or add something to the mix.

Garden State “This is your one opportunity to do something that no one has ever done before & no one will copy through human existence. And if nothing else you’ll be remembered as the one guy who ever did this.. this one thing.”

I know it hurts. But its life, and it’s real. And sometimes it fucking hurts, but its life, and it’s pretty much all we got.

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off “Life moves pretty fast…if you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you might miss it.”

“I do have a test today, that wasn’t bullshit. It’s on European Socialism. I mean, really, what’s the point? I’m not European. I don’t plan on being European. So, who gives a crap if they’re Socialists? They could be fascist anarchists; it still wouldn’t change the fact that I don’t own a car”

Human Traffic “Present is gone. Fantasy is a part of reality. We take the breaks off. We’re thinking clearly yet not thinking at all. This feels right. We stop trying to control things. Warm rush of chemicals through us. We fluctuate. Is this brain damage? We forget all the pain and hurt in life. We want to go somewhere else. We’re not threatened by people anyone. All our insecurities have evaporated.

We want to go somewhere else. We’re not threatened by people anymore. All our insecurities have evaporated. We’re in the clouds now. We’re wide open. We’re spacemen orbiting the earth. The world looks beautiful from here, We’re nympholeptics, desiring for the unobtainable. We risk sanity for moments of temporary enlightenment. So many ideas. So little memory. The last thought killed by anticipation of the next. We embrace an overwhelming feeling of love. We flow in unison. We’re together. I wish this was real. We want a universal level of togetherness, where we’re comfortable with everyone. We’re in rhythm. Part of a movement. A movement to escape. We wave goodbye. Ultimately, we just want to be happy. Heh, yeah a hang on, what the fuck was I just talking about?”

ALL THAT EXISTS IS NOW IS PUBS, CLUBS, DRUGS AND PARTIES. I HAVE GOT 48 HOURS FROM THE WORLD MAN IM GOING TO BLOW STEAM OUT OF MY HEAD LIKE A SCREAMING KETTLE, I’M GOING TO TALK COLDSHIT TO STRANGERS ALL NIGHT… I’M GONNA LOSE THE PLOT ON THE DANCE FLOOR, THE FREE RADICALS INSIDE ME ARE FREAKING MAN. TO NIGHT I’M JIP TRAVOLTA, I’M PETER POPPER… I’M GOING TO NEVER NEVERLAND WITH MY CHOSEN FAMILY MAN, WE’RE GONNA GET MORE SPACED OUT THAN NEIL ARMSTRONG EVER DID. ANYTHING COULD HAPPEN TONIGHT, THIS COULD BE THE BEST NIGHT OF MY LIFE U KNOW! I’VE GOT 73 QUID IN MY BACK BURNER I’M GONNA WAX THE LOT MAN. THE MILKY BARS ARE ON ME YAA!

Cocktail “Beer is for breakfast around here, drink or be gone.”

“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.”

Brian Flanagan- I see America drinking the fabulous cocktails I make. Americans getting stinky on something I stir or shake. The sex on the beach, the schnapps made from peach, the velvet hammer, the Alabama slammer. I make things with juice and froth–the pink squirrel, the three-toed sloth. I make drinks so sweet and snazzy–the iced tea, the kamikaze. The org@sm..The death spasm, the Singapore sling, the ding-aling; America, you’re just devoted to every flavor I’ve got, but if you want to get loaded, why don’t you just order a shot..Bar’s open.

Dead Poets Society “I went into the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life… to put to rout all that was not life; and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” Henry David Thoreau

They’re not that different from you, are they? Same haircuts. Full of hormones, just like you. Invincible, just like you feel. The world is their oyster. They believe they’re destined for great things, just like many of you, their eyes are full of hope, just like you. Did they wait until it was too late to make from their lives even one iota of what they were capable? Because, you see, gentlemen, these boys are now fertilizing daffodils. But if you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? —Carpe— hear it? —Carpe, carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.

Glengarry Glen Ross

A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Closing. Always be closing, always be closing.

“A-I-D-A. Attention, Interest, Decision, Action. Attention – Do I have you attention? Interest – Are you interested? I know you are, because it’s fuck or walk. You close or you hit the bricks. Decision – Have you made your decision for Christ? And Action.”

1/ Let me have your attention for a moment…. cause you’re talking about what?…. you’re talking about ….. bitchin’ about that sale you shot…. some son of a bitch don’t wanna buy land…. somebody don’t want what you’re selling…..some broad he’s trying to screw and so forth…. let’s talk about some thing important…… are they all here? 2/ all but one 1/ I’m going anyway…… lets talk about something important…… PUT THAT COFFEE DOWN!! coffee’s for closers only….you think I am fucking with you???… I am NOT fucking with you…..I’m here from downtown…. I’m here from Mitch & Murray…. and I’m here on a mission of mercy….you’re name’s Levine??? 3/ Yeah 1/ You call yourself a salesman, you son of a bitch?? 4/ I don’t gotta listen to this shit….. 1/ You certainly don’t, pal cause the good news is… you’re fired!!! the bad news is you got, all you got just ONE WEEK to regain your jobs starting with tonight….starting with tonight’s sit!!!….. oh, do I got your attention now???….good!!, cause we’re adding a little something to this month’s sales contest…. as you know , the first prize is a Cadillac El Dorado…. anybody wanna see second prize??? second prize is a set of steak knives….. third prize is you’re fired!…. you get the picture?…. you laughing now??? You got leads…. Mitch & Murray paid good money… Get their names to sell them!!, you can’t close the leads you’re given…you can’t close shit …. you are shit …. hit the bricks, pal and beat it cause you are going out!!! 2/ The leads are weak 1/ The leads are weak?? The fucking leads are weak?? You’re weak!!! I’ve been in this business 15 years… 4/ What’s your name??? – FUCK YOU!!! that’s my name!!! You know why, Mister?…. cause you drove a Hyundai to get here tonight…. I drove an $80,000 BMW … that’s my name!!!…and you’re name is *you’re wanting* and you can’t play in the man’s game, you can’t close them… go home and tell

#1 Who are you? What’s your name? #2 Fuck you, that’s my name. You know why? Cause you drove a Hyundai to get here tonight and I drove an eighty thousand dollar BMW. THAT’S my name. You see this watch. This watch cost more than your car. I made $970,000 dollars last year how much did you make? You see pal, that’s who I am and you’re nothing. Nice guy? I don’t give a shit. Good father? Fuck you. Go home and play with your kids. You wanna work here–close.

Fight Club “It’s only after you’ve lost everything that you’re free to do anything.
The things you own end up owning you.
We are defined by the choices we make.
If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?
I say, never be complete. I say, stop being perfect. I say, let’s evolve and let the chips fall where they may…
This is your pain.”

“God damn it, and entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables… slaves with white collars. Advertising has its taste in cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need. We’re the middle children of history, no purpose or place. We have no great war, no great depression. Our great war is a spiritual war, our great depression is our lives. We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d be millionaires, movie gods, and rock stars. But we won’t. We’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off.”

Animal House “HEY! What’s all this lying’-around shit?!…NOTHING is over until WE decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell, no! And it ain’t over now! ‘Cause when the going gets tough…(long pause)…the tough get going!…What the fuck happened to the Delta I used to know? Where’s the spirit? Where’s the guts, huh? This could be the greatest night of our lives – but you’re gonna let it be the WORST. (mocking) Oh, we’re afraid to go with you, Bluto. We might get in trouble. WELL, JUST KISS MY ASS FROM NOW ON! NOT ME! I’M NOT GONNA TAKE THIS! WORMER, HE’S A DEAD MAN! MARMALARD, DEAD! NIEDERMEYER…dead!…LET’S DO IT”

Any Given Sunday “You find out life’s this game of inches, so is football. Because in either game — life or football — the margin for error is so small. I mean, one half a step too late or too early and you don’t quite make it. One half second too slow, too fast and you don’t quite catch it. The inches we need are everywhere around us. They’re in every break of the game, every minute, every second. On this team we fight for that inch. On this team we tear ourselves and everyone else around us to pieces for that inch. We claw with our fingernails for that inch. Because we know when add up all those inches, that’s gonna make the fucking difference between winning and losing! Between living and dying!”

The Breakfast Club “Dear Mr. Vernon…We accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was that we did wrong. What we did WAS wrong. But we think you’re crazy to make us write this essay telling you who we think we are, what do you care? You see us as you want to see us…in the simplest terms and the most convenient definitions. You see us as a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess and a criminal. Correct? That’s the way we saw each other at seven o’clock this morning. We were brainwashed. Does that answer your question? Sincerely Yours, The Breakfast Club”

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