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“I remember sitting around with John and Elaine Bond, and they said they'd be willing to put the Cobra on the Road & Track cover. That was the happiest day of my life. But it took six martinis because John and Elaine really could down those martinis at lunch.”
“I feel pretty good. I never thought I'd live this long. They told me in 1960 that I had less than five years to live.”
“I remember sitting around with John and Elaine Bond, and they said they'd be willing to put the Cobra on the Road & Track cover. That was the happiest day of my life. But it took six martinis because John and Elaine really could down those martinis at lunch.”
“I feel pretty good. I never thought I'd live this long. They told me in 1960 that I had less than five years to live.”
- Carroll Shelby
RIP, good sir.
Thank you for how badass you were.
...
I am deeply saddened. My favorite car of all time is the 1965 Shelby Daytona Coupe.
A true bad-ass to the bone.
Allen Fieldhouse, home of the 2008 NCAA men's Basketball Champions! Go Jayhawks!
Hail, Hail!!!
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I have to say reading of his death, and the glorious life he lived - made for himself - the unadulterated joy he brought to so many through his designs and charity...made me teary. Seemed like a good man.
"Unfortunately there can be no doubt that man is, on the whole, less good than he imagines himself or wants to be. Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. If an inferiority is conscious, one always has a chance to correct it. Furthermore, it is constantly in contact with other interests, so that it is continually subjected to modifications. But if it is repressed and isolated from consciousness, it never gets corrected." -Carl Jung
Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want. ~Margaret Young
"Love has reasons which reason cannot understand."
Blaise Pascal
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"So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is forever.".......anonymous
Peace
*We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.” ― Plato
...
I like that. It goes a long way.
We should be kind... not because we feel we have to... but, because it is right. Not to just the ones we love... but, to everyone. I know, sometimes it is hard... and sometimes it's impossible.
I always like the little bumper sticker saying from the Breast Cancer Walks... 'Humankind. Be Both.'
Allen Fieldhouse, home of the 2008 NCAA men's Basketball Champions! Go Jayhawks!
Hail, Hail!!!
"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
Michael Jordan
hedonist
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Here is my final point...About drugs, about alcohol, about pornography...What business is it of yours what I do, read, buy, see, or take into my body as long as I do not harm another human being on this planet? And for those who are having a little moral dilemma in your head about how to answer that question, I'll answer it for you. NONE of your fucking business. Take that to the bank, cash it, and go fucking on a vacation out of my life.
The worst kind of non-smokers are the ones that come up to you and cough. That's pretty fucking cruel isn't it? Do you go up to cripples and dance too?
I know this is not a very popular idea. You don't hear it too often any more … but it's the truth. I have taken drugs before and … I had a real good time. Sorry. Didn't murder anybody, didn't rape anybody, didn't rob anybody, didn't beat anybody, didn't lose – hmm – one fucking job, laughed my ass off, and went about my day. Sorry. Now, where's my commercial?
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life....
Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important....
Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart....
“Happy Ending?
There are no happy endings,
Endings are the saddest part,
So just give me a happy middle
And a very happy start.” -Shel Silverstein
"I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing, and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time." -Bansky
"My pain is self-chosen
At least, so The Prophet says
I could either burn
Or cut off my pride and buy some time
A head full of lies is the weight, tied to my waist"
Tell love you are going to the Junior's Deli on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn to pick up a cheesecake, and if love stays, it can have half. It will stay.
Tell love you want a momento of it and obtain a lock of its hair. Burn the hair in a dime-store incense burner with yin/yang symbols on three sides. Face southwest. Talk fast over the burning hair in a convincingly exotic language. Remove the ashes of the burnt hair and use them to paint a mustache on your face. Find love. Tell it you are someone new. It will stay.
Wake love up in the middle of the night. Tell it the world is on fire. Dash to the bedroom window and pee out of it. Casually return to bed and assure love that everything is going to be all right. Fall asleep. Love will be there in the morning.”
--Tom Robbins
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"My pain is self-chosen
At least, so The Prophet says
I could either burn
Or cut off my pride and buy some time
A head full of lies is the weight, tied to my waist"
Always loved this song, both in full-bloom and in petals, like above.
Weapons not food, not homes, not shoes
Not need, just feed the war cannibal animal
I walk the corner to the rubble that used to be a library
Line up to the mind cemetary, now
What we don't know keeps the contracts alive an movin'
They don't gotta burn tha books they just remove 'em
While arms warehouses fill as quick as the cells
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe that they are free.
Abrn Hlls '98 - Clarkston 2 '03 - Grd Rpds '06 - Abrn Hlls '06 - Clvd '10 - PJ20 - Berlin 1+2 '12 - Wrigley '13 - Pitt '13- buff '13- Philly 1+2 '13 - Seattle '13
"My Brother was killed in Vietnam when I was 16,so I took his SS # and joined the Army and withen several months I was in the jungles of Vietnan and found out just what I was capable of" -M.Canfield
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“I feel pretty good. I never thought I'd live this long. They told me in 1960 that I had less than five years to live.”
- Carroll Shelby
RIP, good sir.
Thank you for how badass you were.
I am deeply saddened. My favorite car of all time is the 1965 Shelby Daytona Coupe.
A true bad-ass to the bone.
Hail, Hail!!!
I have to say reading of his death, and the glorious life he lived - made for himself - the unadulterated joy he brought to so many through his designs and charity...made me teary. Seemed like a good man.
Brings this to mind-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdDNFJpil50
- Mitch Hedberg
than the risk it takes to blossom."
Anais Nin
Blaise Pascal
Peace
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
That smothers dreams outside of reason”
Mike Corbett
I like that. It goes a long way.
We should be kind... not because we feel we have to... but, because it is right. Not to just the ones we love... but, to everyone. I know, sometimes it is hard... and sometimes it's impossible.
I always like the little bumper sticker saying from the Breast Cancer Walks... 'Humankind. Be Both.'
Hail, Hail!!!
― Henry Adams
Michael Jordan
The worst kind of non-smokers are the ones that come up to you and cough. That's pretty fucking cruel isn't it? Do you go up to cripples and dance too?
I know this is not a very popular idea. You don't hear it too often any more … but it's the truth. I have taken drugs before and … I had a real good time. Sorry. Didn't murder anybody, didn't rape anybody, didn't rob anybody, didn't beat anybody, didn't lose – hmm – one fucking job, laughed my ass off, and went about my day. Sorry. Now, where's my commercial?
- the late great Bill Hicks
Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important....
Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart....
Steve Jobs
There are no happy endings,
Endings are the saddest part,
So just give me a happy middle
And a very happy start.” -Shel Silverstein
"I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing, and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time." -Bansky
MLK
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
Charles Richards
- A. Bunker
Dalai Lama
At least, so The Prophet says
I could either burn
Or cut off my pride and buy some time
A head full of lies is the weight, tied to my waist"
Tell love you are going to the Junior's Deli on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn to pick up a cheesecake, and if love stays, it can have half. It will stay.
Tell love you want a momento of it and obtain a lock of its hair. Burn the hair in a dime-store incense burner with yin/yang symbols on three sides. Face southwest. Talk fast over the burning hair in a convincingly exotic language. Remove the ashes of the burnt hair and use them to paint a mustache on your face. Find love. Tell it you are someone new. It will stay.
Wake love up in the middle of the night. Tell it the world is on fire. Dash to the bedroom window and pee out of it. Casually return to bed and assure love that everything is going to be all right. Fall asleep. Love will be there in the morning.”
--Tom Robbins
Man, I miss Layne.
Not need, just feed the war cannibal animal
I walk the corner to the rubble that used to be a library
Line up to the mind cemetary, now
What we don't know keeps the contracts alive an movin'
They don't gotta burn tha books they just remove 'em
While arms warehouses fill as quick as the cells
Abrn Hlls '98 - Clarkston 2 '03 - Grd Rpds '06 - Abrn Hlls '06 - Clvd '10 - PJ20 - Berlin 1+2 '12 - Wrigley '13 - Pitt '13- buff '13- Philly 1+2 '13 - Seattle '13
then do what's possible;
and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Godfather.
George Santayana