Johnny Depp -> Kevin Bacon
Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter (Sweeny Todd) ->
Helena Bonham Carter, Kenneth Branagh (Theory of Flight) ->
Kenneth Branagh, Denzel Washington (Much Ado About Nothing) ->
Denzel Washington, Angelina Jolie (The Bone Collector) ->
Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt (Mr. & Mrs. Smith) ->
Brad Pitt, Kevin Bacon (Sleepers)
now was that ever a waste of 15 or so minutes on imdb.com or what?
the “we” of the bitter and broken,
the “we” that know the universe to be a cold and empty place.
the “we” that know that the only hope and love and compassion and joy that will ever exist is that which we make and share.
the way “we” must think in order to survive is a baby step in the direction that all of humanity must learn to think in order to progress.
“that’s what the sexual union should be. but that’s what I slowly grokked it rarely was. instead it was indifference and acts mechanically performed and rape and seduction as a game no better than roulette but less honest and prostitution and celibacy by choice and fear and guilt and hatred and violence and children brought up to think that sex was ‘bad’ and ’shameful’ and ‘animal’ and something to be hidden and always distrusted. this lovely perfect thing, male-femaleness, turned upside down and inside out and made horrible.”
~”Stranger in a Strange Land”, Robert A. Heinlein
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
A human being is part of the whole, called by us “universe”, a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest.
A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.
Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty…
We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
~Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Yvaine: You know when I said I knew little about love? That wasn’t true. I know a lot about love. I’ve seen it, centuries and centuries of it, and it was the only thing that made watching your world bearable. All those wars. Pain, lies, hate… It made me want to turn away and never look down again. But when I see the way that mankind loves… You could search to the furthest reaches of the universe and never find anything more beautiful. So yes, I know that love is unconditional. But I also know that it can be unpredictable, unexpected, uncontrollable, unbearable and strangely easy to mistake for loathing, and… What I’m trying to say, Tristan is… I think I love you. Is this love, Tristan? I never imagined I’d know it for myself. My heart… It feels like my chest can barely contain it. Like it’s trying to escape because it doesn’t belong to me any more. It belongs to you. And if you wanted it, I’d wish for nothing in exchange - no fits. No goods. No demonstrations of devotion. Nothing but knowing you loved me too. Just your heart, in exchange for mine.
Yvaine: Hmm… Mudered by pirates, heart ripped out and eaten, or meet Victoria… Don’t know which sounds more fun…
“It’s not called dying, it’s called going ‘Oh Shit’, it’s called that because more often than not, that’s the last transmission ever recieved.”
“I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear…
And when it is gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear is gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.”
“Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.”
“The undeserving maintain power by promoting hysteria”
“There’s no secret to balance. You just have to feel the waves”
“Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.”
“We accept too damned many things on the explanations of people who could have good reasons for lying”
“Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.”
“Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.”
“To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.”
“How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.”
“Question: Who governs the governors? Answer: Entropy”
“Anything less than abject submission has to have some attack in it”
“He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.”
“Understanding requires words. Some things cannot be reduced to words. There are things that can only be experienced wordlessly… The act of saying that things exist that cannot be described in words shakes a universe where words are supreme.”
“One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.”
“Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it’s a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.”
“Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.”
“To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.”
“Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?”
“Writing is easy. You only need to stare at a piece of blank paper until your forehead bleeds”
“It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely products of a deranged imagination.”
“See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.”
“If a man hasn’t discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.”
“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.”
“One who condones evil is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.”
“We must learn to live together as brothers and sisters, or we will die together like fools.”
“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”
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