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Post by jervistetch on Jan 19, 2024 17:25:41 GMT
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Post by Pippen on Jan 19, 2024 17:33:49 GMT
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Post by Doghouse6 on Jan 19, 2024 18:26:31 GMT
Scent of a Woman That's one I'd put into the "actually smart/true" category. You can't go back and undo the past. You can try to rectify anything that needs it but, either way, there's no direction to go but forward, unless you want to become mired in regret.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Jan 19, 2024 18:29:16 GMT
I thought I recognized Michael Caine and Christian Bale but didn't know the film, so I had to look it up. I never saw it, but I did see Swingtime, in which Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields put a similar sentiment into song for Fred and Ginger.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Jan 19, 2024 18:33:58 GMT
From Lawrence of Arabia - "You can do what you want, but you can't want what you want." (Which I understand as "you can't choose what you want.") Yeah, that's how I'd interpret it. Wanting to want something you really don't is futile...which is probably why I've never been ambitious.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Jan 19, 2024 18:37:26 GMT
James Dean’s personal motto was “Live fast, die young, and leave a good looking corpse.” But what movie (admired by Dean) did the quote originate in? {Spoiler} Knock On Any Door (1949) I like a girl in a bikini. No concealed weapons - Christopher Lee as The Man With The Golden Gun Ralphie Parker: I want an official Red Ryder, carbine action, 200 shot range, model air rifle! Dept. Store Santa: You'll shoot your eye out, kid. - A Christmas Story "Lie? But why, when the truth is so much more fun?" -- Dustin Hoffman as Hook I'm definitely on the same page with Hook on that last one. But I'm ashamed to say I failed the mini-quiz despite having seen the film.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Jan 19, 2024 18:42:19 GMT
"WHAT'S A MATTA !!!! I'M WALKIN' HERE !!!!!" That's some assertive truth: demonstrable fact (if only temporarily) and impossible to ignore. And full of wisdom too: don't let any NYC cabbie mow you down.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Jan 19, 2024 18:43:13 GMT
That's one I face every day.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Jan 19, 2024 18:44:41 GMT
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Post by geddy on Jan 19, 2024 18:55:23 GMT
"Never Get Out of the Boat Unless You're Going to Go All the Way" Apocalypse Now.
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Post by mikef6 on Jan 19, 2024 19:00:39 GMT
Used in the film “Patton” (1970)
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Post by Doghouse6 on Jan 19, 2024 19:04:23 GMT
Two from HARVEY Elwood P. Dowd: Years ago my mother used to say to me, she'd say, "In this world, Elwood, you must be" - she always called me Elwood - "In this world, Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant." Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. You may quote me. The Taxi Driver: He's going to come out of there a perfectly normal human being, and you know what stinkers they are. I've tried to live by that one.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Jan 19, 2024 19:08:09 GMT
Three more before bed. "The years don't bring wisdom; they just bring old age." - Henry Fonda in My Name Is Nobody "Its not the years, it's the mileage."-- Indiana Jones, Raiders Of The Lost Ark "That's one of the tragedies of this life, that the men who are most in need of a beating are always enormous." Rudy Vallee, on Claudette Colbert's husband in "The Palm Beach Story" (1942). When I first wrote the post, I actually had the Palm Beach Story one before replacing it with the Godfather one.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Jan 19, 2024 19:32:20 GMT
"Never Get Out of the Boat Unless You're Going to Go All the Way" Apocalypse Now. I must be too prosaic to relate to that one. When I get out of a boat, I'm interested only in stepping onto land. It doesn't really have to do with anything except it reminded me: there's a film called The Legend of 1900, a stylishly enigmatic fable about a man (Tim Roth) who, from infancy, has spent his entire life aboard an ocean liner, never once setting foot on dry land. It's not a film for everyone, but those of us who love it find it quite magical.
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Post by Captain Spencer on Jan 19, 2024 20:28:01 GMT
Daniel-san, must talk. Walk on road, hm? Walk right side, safe. Walk left side, safe. Walk middle, sooner or later your get squished just like grape. Here, karate, same thing. Either you karate do "yes" or karate do "no." You karate do "guess so," you squished just like grape. Understand?
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