“Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.” - Michael Jordan
Of Relationship, People and Changes
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Maria Palko: Marriages don’t fail because couples get bored. They fail because, while they’re dating, people pretend to be the person they think their partner wants and then – well, there’s only so long you can keep that up.
Dr. Allison Cameron: Maybe they are that person when they’re dating, but then they change.
Maria Palko: People thinking their partner will change? That’s another reason marriages fail. People don’t change. At least not in any way that really matters.
Of Cynics & Romantics
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PETER: That look says more than just, ‘I wish I hadn’t have let him drive.’
OLIVIA: I was just thinking about Nicholas Boone and what he did for his wife. What he is doing. Jeez, that kind of love. Greg asked Rachel for a divorce, and now he’s fighting her for custody.
PETER: You know, I never liked that guy.
OLIVIA: You’ve never met Greg.
PETER: Yeah, but I met your sister. So I know she deserves better.
OLIVIA: And I thought you were a card-carrying cynic.
PETER: I am, world class. But there’s an argument to be made that beneath every cynic, there is a frustrated romantic.
[Fringe Episode 118, Midnight]
Of Opinions of Others
Jack, is it the opinion of others that you worry about or are you learning something new about yourself and you find it a little scary?
- James Carville, 30 Rock: Secrets & Lies
CSI 901: For Warrick
(Sara and Grissom are watching the DVD of Warrick’s custody hearing)
Woman: So what makes you think that you’d be a good father? You were raised by your grandmother. You never even knew your biological father.
Warrick: Which is exactly why Eli needs to know his. Look, the most important thing you need to know about how to raise a child is how give a child love, and I’ve been loved. He says I’ve always tried to be a good man, and I’ve screwed up. And when I have there’s always been one man in my life to set me straight. I’ve learned a lot from him, how to be fair, how to forgive, … how to be inspired, how to inspire others.
Woman: Sounds like a special person.
Warrick: He is. If I could’ve picked my own father, I’d picked him. (Grissom is clearly touched and saddened at the same time)
CSI 704 – Fannysmackin’
Catherine: Pig and the piglets are in the pigpen.
Warrick: About time. Finally some good news.
Catherine: Did you know Pig, a.k.a Cole Tritt, was the only adult? The rest were all under 18. One was 14.
Warrick: You’re kidding. Who raises these kids?
Catherine: I mean, they weren’t all deliquents. Demetrius James was a college student.
Nick: Hangin’ out with the wrong crowd in the wrong town. I’m tellin’ ya, havin’ a fake I.D in Las Vegas is like havin’ a–a free ticket on the hell train. Sex, drugs, gambling, no adult supervision, 24/7, by the time they’re 21 they’ve done and seen it all.
Catherine: Make me slit my wrists why don’t ya? I’m raising a teenager here.
Warrick: Ah, you’re doin’ a great job, Linds is gonna turn out to be a beautiful young woman. Besides, I grew up in Vegas, I didn’t turn out so bad, did I?
Nick: Yeah. That was pre-Mirage. Back when you were goin’ to the casino, playin’ the arcade games. Nah, Vegas is a different animal now.
Warrick: Yeah, these kids need to beat people up in the street to be entertained. They need some good discipline, they need their grandmother whuppin’ their ass like I had.
Nick: Yeah, a good slap.
Sara: You know, it kinda sounds like you guys are blaming everyone but these kids. I mean, you don’t get a bye just because you grew up here or your parents are on drugs or— those kids were perfectly capable of telling the difference between a wild night out and beating somebody to death.
Grissom: The truth is, a moral compass can only point you in the right direction, it can’t make you go there. (beat) Our culture preaches that you shouldn’t be ashamed of anything you do anymore. And unfortunately this city is built on the principle that there’s no such thing as guilt. “Do whatever you want, we won’t tell.” So without a conscience, there’s nothing to stop you from killing someone. And evidently you don’t even have to feel bad about it.
I had a weird sense of deja vu when I watched the episode. I probably caught it on TV before. And I was so sure I blogged about this conversation between the CSI crew at the end of the episode but evidently I didn’t, so here it is.
I’ve talked sometimes about how bad our kids are becoming these days but while the kids in the episode were on a whole different level, I think we should always stop the problem before it gets out of hand.
Scared, not Angry
Arthur: You’re not mad at him
Carrie: Uh, trust me, I am.
Arthur: Oh no, honey. You see, you and Doug look to Deacon and Kelly as an example of a perfect couple. Now that their supposedly solid marriage is in trouble, you start to wonder. Who’s to say yours isn’t next? You’re not angry, cookie, you’re scared.
Carrie: Wow, dad, that was a remarkable lucid thing to say.
Hellboy muse
Just watched the telecast of “Hellboy” on chl 5. It ended off with:
“What makes a man a man? A friend of mine once wondered. Is it his origins? The way he comes to life? I don’t think so. It’s the choices he makes. Not how he starts things, but how he decides to end them. ”
Behind all the fighting, heroism and special effects, I feel that this movie brings across an important message about the judgement of character. It is a fact that we judge the people we encounter; to say otherwise would be a lie. Be it a derogatory whisper in the back of our minds about a person’s skin colour or whether the sides of our eyes wrinkle when we laugh at a joke by someone, we unvoluntarily form words to describe that person. The sad fact is that most people judge a person by his physical appearance, something that is inherited and difficult to change.
What makes us shun people who are very different from us is “fear” and “lack of knowledge”. The monsters portrayed in the movie are equipped with the capabilities to kill people and thus, injected fear into the general population but that doesn’t mean they do not have the faculty to make wise choices. It is therefore very important not to judge and dismiss a person too quickly.
Speaking of which, this reminds me about a recent conversation I heard about a guy that have high physical expectations where is comes to choosing a partner in life. I’ve heard many times the first few things men say when asked about the type of girls they go for. It will go something like long hair, big eyes…blah blah blah before intelligence for example. Sometimes even the last bit of inner beauty is not even included in their list. What then are they offering in return? If only they judged themselves first.
why we should do what we love
Straight from Bryan’s blog:
Passion (creates) Goals (and drives) Motivation (that brings) Achievement (which reinforces) Passion
What makes us Human…
Following is the closing lines from Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trials and Tribulations aka Phoenix Wright 3.
Phoenix:
(It’s only natural for living creatures to fight to protect their own lives.)
Phoenix:
(But what makes us human is that we fight for others.)
Phoenix:
(But who do you fight for? How hard must you fight…?)
Phoenix:
(That’s the true measure of what human life is worth.)
Phoenix:
(We defense attorneys are warriors who are constantly challenged by that question.)
Phoenix:
(Even when the battle is over, and the bonds that connect us are severed…)
Phoenix:
(We always return… Time and time again.)
Phoenix:
(Mia, Maya, Pearls, Mr. Armando…)
Phoenix:
(…and Maya’s mother, too…)
Phoenix:
(I learned that… from all of them.)
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