Thursday, March 2, 2023

50 things I learned from the movies


 50 things I learned from the movies

1) “The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you’re uncool.”

2) “Do or do not. There is no try.”

3) “Love doesn't make things nice, it ruins everything. It breaks your heart. It makes things a mess. We aren't here to make things perfect. The snowflakes are perfect. The stars are perfect. Not us. Not us! We are here to ruin ourselves and to break our hearts and love the wrong people and die. “

4) “Nothing happens to anyone that he is not fitted by nature to bear.”

5) “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.”

6) “Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.”

7) “There is no tomorrow”

8) “Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming.”

9) "Every man dies, but not every man really lives."

10) "Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."

11) "Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re gonna get."

 12) “Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies."

13) “Remember, no man is a failure who has friends.”

14) "All men are sure it never happened to them and all women at one time or other have done it so you do the math."

15) “Great moments are born from great opportunity.”

16) "See, this is our time to dance. It is our way of celebrating life."

17) “Always Do The Right Thing.”

 

18)  “If you hit it right, it's one hell of a life.”

 

19) “The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear.”

20) “The Man ruined the ozone, he's burning down the Amazon, and he kidnapped Shamu and put her in a chlorine tank! And there used to be a way to stick it to the Man. It was called rock 'n roll, but guess what, oh no, the Man ruined that, too, with a little thing called MTV!”

 21) “Plastics.”

 

22) “A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.”

 

23) “The sweet is never as sweet without the sour”

 

24) "You can't handle the truth!" 

25) "You're gonna need a bigger boat."

26) "Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth."

27) "A boy's best friend is his mother."

28) "These go to eleven."

29) "The Dude abides."

30) “The Things You Own End Up Owning You.”

31) “You see us as you want to see us - in the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions. But what we found out is that each one of us is a brain, and an athlete, and a basket case, a princess, and a criminal.”

32) “It’s not the years it’s the mileage.”

33) “What came first, the music or the misery? People worry about kids playing with guns, or watching violent videos, that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands, literally thousands of songs about heartbreak, rejection, pain, misery and loss. Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to pop music? “

34) “People call those imperfections, but no, that's the good stuff.”

35) "There's More To Life Than A Little Money, You Know.”

36) “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view...Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”

37) “After all, the wool from the black sheep is just as warm.

38) “The needs of the many out way the needs of the few or the one.”

39) “I Guess You Guys Aren’t Ready For That Yet. But Your Kids Are Gonna Love It.”

40)  “You listen, and you take a lesson from the dead. If we don’t come together right now on this hallowed ground, we too will be destroyed, just like they were.”

41) “Never rat on your friends, and always keep your mouth shut.”

42) “Everything in the world that happens does not happen to you personally.”

43) “Either They Don't Know...Don't Show...Or Don't Care About What's Going On In The Hood.”

44) “Pinot is thin-skinned, temperamental. It's not a survivor like Cabernet that can grow anywhere and thrive even when neglected. Pinot needs constant care and attention, you know?”

45) “The dead know only one thing: it is better to be alive.”

46) “Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.”

47) “Don't admire people too much. They'll disappoint you sometimes.”

48) “The way to handle a woman

Is to love her...simply love her...”

49) "Love, Actually, Is All Around."

50) “The force be with you!”

 

 

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