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September 03, 2009

Mad as Hell Part 2

Through the magic of you tube,
Peter Finch won best actor for this in 1976 but died before the oscars.

Network - 1976

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August 23, 2009

Mad as Hell

I ran across this quote today while surfing and it seemed as relevant today at it did in 1976

I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's worth, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be! We know things are bad - worse than bad, They're crazy! It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, 'Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone!' Well, I'm not gonna leave you alone! I want you to get MAD! I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot - I don't want you to write to your congressman because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you've got to get mad! You've got to say, "I'm a HUMAN BEING, GODDAMNIT! My LIFE has VALUE!!" So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now, and go to the window, open it, and stick your head out and yell: "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!!" I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell - 'I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Things have got to change. But first, you've gotta get mad!... You've got to say, 'I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Then we'll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it: I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!!!

Howard Beale - Network - 1976

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October 03, 2006

Carpe Diem

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John Keating: 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..

Dead Poet's Society - 1989

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July 28, 2006

Play a game

The quote of the day is one of those features that has been forgotten during my long hiatus from blogging. I decided to use it today when I read this story about the changing status of Cheyenne Mountain. The mountain you may know is or was the headquarters of NORAD and one of the star locations in the 1983 movie Wargames.

In short an early hacker breaks into the NORAD computer network and causes an AI computer to play a game that almost starts a nuclear war.

I was on the base outside the mountain years ago and it is very immpressive.


David Lightman: Hey, I don't believe that any system is totally secure.

Wargames - 1983

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May 22, 2005

George W. Bush

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Will you be a spectator or a citizen? To make a difference in this world, you must be involved.

GWB - Commencement speech at Calvin College - May 21,2005

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March 21, 2005

The General

March 21, 2005

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I am running a little behind since I saw this only a few moments ago but it was on a St. Patty's Day post.
Live the good life. Drink, smoke, gamble, feast, joke, fornicate and be tolerant of those who do. Take risks and thrive for the good challenge. Work hard and play hard without going over the edge. Live in the moment. Believe in moderation in all things, including moderation. Live it up!
The General

From a post on Ravenwood's

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February 22, 2005

George Washington

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In case you have forgotten, today is the birthday of a great american.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

George Washington, letter to his niece Harriet Washington, October 30, 1791

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February 04, 2005

Animal House

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Dean Vernon Wormer: The time has come for someone to put his foot down. And that foot is me.

Animal House -1978

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February 03, 2005

La Bamba

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Buddy Holly: The sky belongs to the stars.

La Bamba - 1987

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February 02, 2005

Groundhog Day

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Did you ever notice that this time every year I post a quote from the same movie? Well at least it is not the same quote.

Rita: Have you ever had déjà-vu?
Phil: Didn't you just ask me that?

January 19, 2005

Abraham Lincoln

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With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan..."

Abraham Lincoln - Second Inaugural March 4, 1865

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December 24, 2004

Miracle on 34th St.

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I just watched this movie with my daughter. I have seen it so many times I have lost count but I still shed a tear or two at the end. Just a great flick.

Kris Kringle: Oh, Christmas isn't just a day, it's a frame of mind... and that's what's been changing. That's why I'm glad I'm here, maybe I can do something about it.

Miracle on 34th Street - 1947

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December 12, 2004

Christopher Hitchens

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I was just watching Linda Vester interview Christopher Hitchens
about his new book, from earlier this week and I was struck once again how brilliant he is with words, always using the appropriate word and getting right to the heart of whatever matter he is discussing.


Linda: You have been pretty hard on Michael Moore in this book, why is that?

Chris: Because he is a scumbag.


I love this guy.
Love, Poverty, and War : Journeys and Essays
by Christopher Hitchens

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October 16, 2004

Winston Churchill

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Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried.

Winston Churchill
Hat tip to Roger L. Simon

October 04, 2004

Attack of the Clones

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Yoda : Truly wonderful, the mind of a child is.

Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones - 2002

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September 19, 2004

Sam Houston

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Govern wisely, and as little as possible.

Sam Houston

September 03, 2004

George W. Bush

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The world saw that spirit three miles from here, when the people of this city faced peril together, and lifted a flag over the ruins, and defied the enemy with their courage. My fellow Americans, for as long as our country stands, people will look to the resurrection of New York City and they will say: Here buildings fell, and here a nation rose.

George W. Bush - Sept. 2,2004

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August 26, 2004

The Last Samurai

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The wife was off this week so we got a chance to sit down and watch this movie on Pay per View. Not a bad flick at all. We don't watch as many movies as we once did so it was a treat.

Emperor Meiji : Tell me how he died.
Algren : I will tell you how he lived.

The Last Samurai - 2003

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September 02, 2003

The Dirty Dozen

Another Charles Bronson quote.


Joseph T. Wladislaw: Killin' generals could get to be a habit with me.

The Dirty Dozen - 1967

September 01, 2003

Mr. Majestyk


Vince Majestyk: You make sounds like you're a mean little ass-kicker... only I ain't convinced. You keep talking and I'm gonna take your head off.

Mr. Majestyk - 1974

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August 19, 2003

Quote of the day


Ilsa Lund: I wasn't sure you were the same. Let's see, the last time we met....
Rick Blaine: Was La Belle Aurora.
Ilsa Lund: How nice, you remembered. But of course, that was the day the Germans marched into Paris.
Rick Blaine: Not an easy day to forget?

Casablanca - 1942

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August 17, 2003

All About Eve


Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night

All About Eve - 1950

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August 16, 2003

Fiddler on the Roof


Constable: You're an honest, decent person. Even though you are a Jew.
Tevye: Oh...! THANK you, your honor! How often does a man get a compliment like that?

Fiddler on the Roof - 1971

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August 10, 2003

Quote of the Day

Ray Hughes: How come the bad guys always have the good cars?

Running Scared -1986

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August 05, 2003

The Alamo

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Davy Crockett: Republic. I like the sound of the word. It means people can live free, talk free, go or come, buy or sell, be drunk or sober, however they choose. Some words give you a feeling. Republic is one of those words that makes me tight in the throat - the same tightness a man gets when his baby takes his first step or his first baby shaves and makes his first sound as a man. Some words can give you a feeling that makes your heart warm. Republic is one of those words.

The Alamo - 1960

August 03, 2003

Field of Dreams

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John Kinsella: Is this heaven?
Ray Kinsella: It's Iowa.
John Kinsella: Iowa? I could have sworn this was heaven.
[John starts to walk away]
Ray Kinsella: Is there a heaven?
John Kinsella: Oh yeah. It's the place where dreams come true.
[Ray looks around, seeing his wife playing with their daughter on the porch.]
Ray Kinsella: Maybe this is heaven.

Field of Dreams - 1989

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July 31, 2003

Quote of the Day Pippo

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Pippo Popolino: Don't be frightened, Francesca. I'm scared enough for all of us.

Casanova' Big Night - 1954

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July 30, 2003

The Paleface

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In case you hadn't noticed I am doing Bob Hope quotes this week. You have to imagine Hope delivering this line to know how it is really meant.

Potter: Brave men run in my family.

The Paleface - 1948

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July 29, 2003

Road To Utopia

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Chester: Am I dead?
Duke: I can't tell, you always look that way.

Road To Utopia - 1946

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July 28, 2003

Quote of the Day Turkey

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Turkey Jackson: I hope she didn't hear that. The dead have a way of coming back you know.
Jeff: Get out, when they're dead they're dead.
Turkey Jackson: Not Aunt Lucy, she was a republican.

Road to Morocco - 1942

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July 26, 2003

Mark Twain

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Today's quote comes from Meryl who is trying to fulfill a the desire of a sponsor who offered her, Michele, and Laurence a donation for each French insult they posted during Blogathon. If you have any good ones pass them on.

In certain public indecencies the difference between a dog and a Frenchman is not perceptible.

Mark Twain

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July 24, 2003

Lord of the Flies

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Piggy: We did everything just the way grownups would've. Why didn't it work?

Lord of the Flies - 1990

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July 23, 2003

Quote of the Day Dr.

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Dr. Emil Reingold: Mickey and Mallory know the difference between right and wrong; they just don't give a damn.

Natural Born Killers - 1994

July 20, 2003

Winston Churchill

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A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Winston Churchill

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July 19, 2003

Tony Blair

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The spread of freedom is the best security for the free. It is our last line of defense and our first line of attack. And just as the terrorist seeks to divide humanity in hate, so we have to unify it around an idea. And that idea is liberty.

Tony Blair - July 17,2003

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July 16, 2003

Gone with the Wind

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Scarlett: I can't think about that right now. If I do, I'll go crazy. I'll think about that tommorrow.
After all ... tomorrow is another day.

Gone with the Wind - 1939

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July 15, 2003

Quote of the Day Jareth:

Quote of the Day



Jareth: You remind me of the babe.
Goblin: What babe?
Jareth: The babe with the power.
Different Goblin: What power?
Jareth: The power of voodoo.
Goblin: Who do?
Jareth: You do.
Goblin: Do what?
Jareth: Remind me of the babe.

Labyrinth - 1986

July 11, 2003

Charles Schultz

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Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.

Charles Schultz

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July 10, 2003

Quote of the Day President

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President Whitmore:We will not go quietly into the night! We will not vanish without a fight!" We're going to live on! We're going to survive!

Independence Day - 1996

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July 09, 2003

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

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Bill Cole: The next time you're going to do anything or say anything or buy anything, think it over very carefully. When you're sure you're right, forget the whole thing.

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House - 1948

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July 05, 2003

Quote of the Day Reiter:

Quote of the Day



Reiter: I'm a graduate of Civil Engineering from the University of Bonn.
Amon Goeth: Ah, an educated Jew... like Karl Marx himself. Unterscharfuehrer!
Hujar: Jawohl?
Amon Goeth: Shoot her.
Reiter: Herr Kommandant! I'm only trying to do my job!
Amon Goeth: Ja, I'm doing mine.

Schindler's List - 1993

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July 04, 2003

State of The Union

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Mary Matthews: Oh, that's silly. No woman could ever run for President. She'd have to admit she's over 35.

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July 03, 2003

The Philadelphia Story

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Tracy Lord: You're too good for me, George. You're a hundred times too good. And I'd make you most unhappy, most. That is, I'd do my best to.

The Philadelphia Story - 1940

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July 02, 2003

Eleanor of Aquitaine

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Eleanor of Aquitaine: In a world where carpenters get resurrected, everything is possible.

The Lion in Winter - 1968

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July 01, 2003

Quote of the Day All

Quote of the Day


All this week's quotes will be from Kate Hepburn, in case you have not noticed already.

Rose Sayer: Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we are put in this world to rise above.

The African Queen - 1951

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June 30, 2003

Quote of the Day Amanda

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Amanda Bonner: What I said was true, there's no difference between the sexes. Men, women, the same.
Adam Bonner: They are?
Amanda Bonner: Well, maybe there is a difference, but it's a little difference.
Adam Bonner: Well, you know as the French say...
Amanda Bonner: What do they say?
Adam Bonner: Vive la difference!
Amanda Bonner: Which means?
Adam Bonner: Which means hurrah for that little difference.

Adam's Rib - 1949

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June 26, 2003

Quote of the Day This

Quote of the Day


This was supposed to be yesterday's quote of the day but Blogger seems to have eaten it somehow.

Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good.

Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1927-2003)

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June 25, 2003

Quote of the Day Sy

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Sy Parrish: Nobody takes a picture of something they want to forget.

One Hour Photo - 2002

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June 22, 2003

Quote of the Day Gordon

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Gordon Gekko: It's not a question of enough, pal. It's a zero sum game, somebody wins, somebody loses. Money itself isn't lost or made, it's simply transferred from one perception to another.

Wall Street - 1987

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June 20, 2003

Quote of the Day Ann:

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Ann: If it were raining hundred dollar bills out, you'd be looking for a dime you lost somewhere!

Meet John Doe - 1941

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June 15, 2003

Quote of the Day

Quote of the Day



Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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Quote of the Day

Quote of the Day



Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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June 14, 2003

To Kill a Mockingbird

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Atticus Finch: If you just learn a single trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. 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.

To Kill a Mockingbird - 1962

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To Kill a Mockingbird

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Atticus Finch: If you just learn a single trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. 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.

To Kill a Mockingbird - 1962

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