Movie Quotes

I look like you want to look. I fuck like you want to fuck. I am smart, capable and, most importantly, I am free in all the ways that you are not.- Tyler Durdan, Fight Club

I felt like putting a bullet between the eyes of every Panda that wouldn't screw to save its species. - Fight Club

I felt like destroying something beautiful. - Narrator, Fight Club

People think it's all about misery and desperation and death and all that shite, which is not to be ignored. But what they forget is the pleasure of it. Otherwise we wouldn't do it. After all, we're not fucking stupid. At least, we're not that fucking stupid. Take the best orgasm you ever had, multiply it by a thousand and you're still nowhere near it. When you're on junk you have only one worry: scoring. When you're off it you are suddenly obliged to worry about all sorts of other shite. Got no money: can't get pissed. Got money: drinking too much. Can't get a bird: no chance of a ride. Got a bird: too much hassle. You have to worry about bills, about food, about some football team that never fucking wins, about human relationships and all the things that really don't matter when you've got a sincere and truthful junk habit. - Trainspotting

So I guess this is where I tell you what I learned - my conclusion, right? Well, my conclusion is: Hate is baggage. Life's too short to be pissed off all the time. It's just not worth it. Derek says it's always good to end a paper with a quote. He says someone else has already said it best. So if you can't top it, steal from them and go out strong. So I picked a guy I thought you'd like. 'We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.' - American History X

Kat: I hate the way you talk to me. And the way you cut your hair.
I hate the way you drive my car. I hate it when you stare
I hate your big dumb combat boots. And the way you read my mind.
I hate you so much it makes me sick-- it even makes me rhyme.
I hate the way you're always right. I hate it when you lie.
I hate it when you make me laugh -- even worse when you make me cry.
I hate it that you're not around. And the fact that you didnt call.
But mostly I hate the way I don't hate you - - not even close, not even a little bit, not even at all. - 10 Things I Hate About You

Favorite Quotes

"All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they are, and that which they think they are." - Alphonse Karr

"Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary." - Sir Cecil Beaton

"Stress is when you wake up screaming and you realize you haven't fallen asleep yet."

"The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been." - Alan Ashley-Pitt

"What lies behind us, and what lies before us, are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts." - Einstein

"Don't criticize what you don't understand."

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." - Pablo Picasso

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life -Winston Churchill

Every generation laughs at the old fashions,but religiously follows the new. - Henry David Thoreau

The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time. - Richard Cech

"A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to." - Laurence J. Peter

Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals. - Colman McCarthy

No, I know all the war rhetoric, but it's all aimed at achieving peace. - G. W. Bush

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Amsterdam

Amsterdam is a wonderful city filled with art, shopping, great food and - needless to say - an unbeatable night life. I was recently there for a week. The first two days we were there it rained. Since Amsterdam is such a great walking city it is far less enjoyable wet. I would suggest going during a dry time of year, be it winter or summer. Afterwords however, the weather was wonderful and we walked all over town from the red light district over to the museums. 

My favorite museum in Amsterdam is the Van Gogh Museum. The entrance fee is 15 euros for adults and 2.50 for children (you can get there using the 2 tram). During our vistit we saw an exhibition they have going on at the moment called Nightlife. The exhibition focuses on expressionist paintings taking place at night or at twilight. You get a free guided tour and can learn a lot about Van Gogh's history and influences.

Another fun museum is the Hash Museum. It is a 7 euro entrance fee and is by the water, just pst the red light district. Upon entering the museum you are overwhealmed with the smell of cannabis and can look at certain types of plants they have growing as well as learing about the history of cannabis and its various uses. It is well worth the money (but don't forget to bring you camera!).

Along the same lines as the cannabis museum are two other museums, the Torture Museum and the Heineken Museum. The torture museum definately achieves the desired ambiance, with many sickening torture devices on display and a dark atmosphere, not for the weak of heart but really a terrifyingly captivating museum that should not be missed.

I am not really a big drinker so the Hieneken museum was not much of a draw for me, but if you are a fan of beer I have heard nothing but raving reviews of this mueum that guides you throught the history and making of the beer. You even get a tasting at the end. 

Now for the coffeeshops. We had read a lot online about all of the coffeeshops you just have to go to, but we just stuck around our neighborhood and had a great time. My favorite coffeeshops are the ones near the train station to the right of the red light district (coming from the train station). We spent a lot of time in one in particular called Lost in Amsterdam. It is a hookah-based coffeeshop that has 3 levels. The hookahs are pure and very strong, taking one for 2 or 3  people is a good idea, they only cost 8 euros per hookah and are worth the money. Then again, you could just roll your own joint. ^^

Hope is has been helpful. Enjoy you trip to Amsterdam!

Protest in Strasbourg France March 19th 2009

Today Alsace hit the streets with a total of 33 thousands protesters in the region. 22 thousand of whom marched along the streets of Strasbourg. The protest was against the current economical situation in France, demanding change from the new regime. This, however was not the sole focus of our unification. While the Unions and various social groups were screaming for a better economy the high school and college students went all out against the new educational reforms Darkos, the new prime minister of education in France, is trying to get passed. These reforms will change the baccalaureat in France so that not all bacs will be of the same quality, richer schools will have better, richer bacs where as the poorer establishments will have rather limited options. He also wants to fire many of the high school teachers, which would give us classes of over 3O students per class. This means that individual help wil become even rarer and the attention span of the class is easily lost with so many students. France is uniting against a new, limiting and short-sighted regime.

April 4th there will be another protest in Strasbourg, this one even bigger with people flying in fro mover the world to protest the war-centered thinking of NATO. The protest will take place during the Conference so come and show your support if you can. It is our world and our job to protect it.

Bedecked - Victoria Redel

Tell me it's wrong
the scarlet nails my son sports
or the toy store rings he clusters 
four jewels to each finger. 

He's bedecked.
I see the other mothers looking at the star choker,
the rhinestone strand he fastens over a sock,
Sometime I help him find sparkel clip-ons 
while he says sticker earrrings look too fake.

Tell me I should teach him it's wrong to love the glitter,
that a boy's only a boy who'd love a truck with a remote that revs,
battery slamming into the corners
or Hot Wheels loop-de-looping off tracks into the tub. 

Then tell me it's fine-really-maybe even a good thing
-a boy who's got some girl to him, 
and I'm right for the days he wears a pink shirt on the seesaw in the park.

Tell me what you need to tell me but keep far away from my son who still loves a beautiful thing not for what it means-
this way or that- but for the way facets set off prisms
and prisms spin up everywhere 
and from his own jeweled body
he's cast rainbows made every shinging true color. 

Now try to tell me-man or woman-your heart was ever once that brave

Love Quotes

"The love that lasts the longest is the love that is never returned." ~ William Sommerest Maugham

"For it was not into my ear you whispered, but my heart. It was not my lips you kissed but my soul." ~ Judy Garland

"You can shed years that she is gone,

or you can smile because she hs lived.

You can close your eyes and pray that she'll come back,

or you wan open your eyes and see all she's left.

Your heart can be empty because you can't see her,

or you can be full of the love you shared.

You can turn your back on tomorrow and live yesterday,

or you can be happy for tomorrow because of yesterday.

You can remember her only that she is gone,

or you can cherish her memory and let it live on.

You can cry and close your mind,

be empty and turn you back

Or you can do what she'd want,

smile, open your eyes, love and go on." ~ David Harkins

"If you love somebody, let them go. If they return they were always yours, if they don't they never were." ~ Unknown

"One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter." ~ James Earl Jones

"Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it a meaning." ~ Unknown

"Every man is afraid of something. That's how you know he's in love with you; when he's afraid of losing you." ~ Unknown

"You can close you eyes to the things you do not want to see, but you cannot close your heart to the things you do not want to feel." ~ Unknown

"It is better to lose your pride with one person than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride." ~ Unknown

"To the world you may just be one person but to one person you may be the world." ~ Brandi Snyder

"We cannot do great things on this earth, only small things with great love." ~ Mother Theresa

Life Quotes

"Life lives, life dies. Life laughs, life cries. Life gives up and life tries. But life looks different through everyone's eyes." ~ Unknown

"Intellectual growth should start at birth and cease only at death." ~ Albert Einstein

"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." ~ James Dean

"Laugh as much as ou breathe and love as long as you live." ~ Unknown

"Nobady can go back and start a new beginning, but anybody can start today and make a new ending." ~ Maria Robinson

"Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain and feel the wind. Live your life to its fullest potential, and fight for your dreams." ~ Ashley Smith

"Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." ~ Howard Thurman

"Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes." ~ Oscar Wilde

"The doors we open and close each day decide the life we live." ~ Flora Whittlemore

"One day your life will flash before you eyes. Make sure it's worth watching." ~ Unknown

Death Quotes

"Death is one moment, and life is so many of them." ~ Tennessee Williams

"Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to." ~ Sophocles

"Death is not the greatest loss in life, the greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live." ~ Norman Cousins

"Have the courage to live. Anyone can die." ~ Robert Cody

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." ~ Mahatma Ghandi

"There are more dead people than living. And their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer." ~ Eugene Ionesco, Rhinoceros

"Cowards die many times before death

The valient never taste of death but once" ~ William Shakespeare, Julius Ceasar

"Death, in itself, is nothing; but we fear

To be we know not what, we know not where." ~ John Dryden, Aureng-Zebe

"Death will be a great relief. No more interviews." ~ Katherine Hepburn

"As soon as one is born, one starts dying." ~ Luigi Pirandello, Henry IV

"When do the dead die? When they are forgotten." ~ Laura Esquivel

"Look on the grave where thou must sleep

Thy last, and strongest foe;

It is endurance not to weep, 

if that response seems woe." ~ Emily Bronte, Self-Interrogation

"On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero." ~ Fight Club

"That's the happiest moment. When it's all done. When we stop. When we can stop." ~ Edward Albee, Three Tall Women

"Death lies dormant in all of us and will bloom in time." ~ Dean Koontz, Old Thomas

"The living is a passing traveller,

The dead a man come home." ~ Li Bai, The Old Dust

Tenessee Williams Quotes

"A prayer for the wild at heart, kept in cages."

"There is a time for departure, even when there's no certain place to go."

"I have found it easier to identify with characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened with life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really."

Online Jobs

I've got this friend Elias. He's a partier, smokes, drinks and skips school most of the time. As he says, he never goes to school high - he never goes to school. Well, he's 20, still in High School, and probably going to fail this year, if he does its over for him. He sees this, is aware of the position he is in, and doesn't know how to get out, it's a scary place to be with your life ahead of you.

Here's my advice for people in this situation. 

Not all jobs need a diploma. Infact, many jobs don't. Do you have a special skill? Most careers in the arts do not necessitate a diploma (aprat from a critic, cutator, historian, etc), and there are tons of careers you can create online. You can sell things you make, murchandise you buy in bulk, old thing you don't need anymore or buy cheap (in a thrift store for example). You could also make a blog or website.

Elias has started making a website. He is doing a beautiful job, it is a gret website with a very specific target audience he can realte to and understand. Also, Elias is very good at publicity. He seems interested in turning it into a career - or at least happy to have an option.

SAT 2 : French

I just took the SAT 2 in French (without listening) and decided to write a blog on it before I forgot... So here we go...

The test is composed of different types of questions, the first series tests primarily your vocabulary level, I'd say it was around 20-25 questions long. All varieties of vocab were tested from what emotion would correspond with the rest of the sentence (they are fill-in the blank, multiple-choice questions) to how to say customs police in French (les douanes).

Next on the test you read a paragraph in which there are blanks you have to fill in. This is just a bit trickier than the previous excersize because some of the questions have several responses that would make sense, but only one that works in the given situation. I would suggest reading the entire text before attacking these questions as well as thinking out your responses to make sure your not falling into a trick question's trap, also be careful on verb conjugation and tense in this and the previous section. I had three different texts in this section.

Afterwards, you are presented a few ads or brochures which you need to read, then respond to questions on these ads. For example, I had an ad for a getaway in the mountainside with a family and one of the question pertained to what was covered in the stay. Another example was a brochure for an african getaway, in the ad was written where you landed, what you could do, etc and the questions assure comprehension of the text. If you read the ad/brochure carefully and have a fairly extensive vocabulary this section should not be too troublesome.

Last but not least is the text anamysis section. I was given two texts of about 3 paragraphs in length to read and then answer questions on. The goal is to comprehend the text so to study this section I would suggest reading french books, articles, etc and when you come across words you don't know make them into flashcards (that is what I did when I arrived in France and had to learn the language and now, after two years speaking the language I am fluent, it really works great).

Apart from that all I can do is to wish you good luck and suggest that you start studying now and continue until the night before the test (generally it raises you score by 100 points). Then you get the reward of the break afterwards. ^^