"i have d cups grandma, the waitress thinks you have dementia"
Hanlon's razor is basically my religion at this point.
For my whole life is a tall order. Probably "what goes around comes around".
If you can't love yourself, how the hell you gonna love somebody else.
A bit long, but charlie Chaplins speech in the dicktater. I mean dictator...
https://www.charliechaplin.com/en/articles/29-the-final-speech-from-the-great-dictator-
"Better say sorry than ask for permission"
"You never get a second chance to make a first impression"
So much of the dialog is Deadwood is absolutely brilliant, but one scene really stuck with me.
Ian McShane deserved an Emmy for his work as Al Swearengen. That slow stare at the end of the scene alway kills me. I know it's supposed to be a drama, but they really go for some laughs.
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This one is from my previous boss: “you gotta do what’s good for you, and nobody else”
Taught me to prioritize things that are important to me and not to live for the sake of others
Another was “you can’t help people who don’t want to help themselves”
Taught me that some efforts are futile because unwillingness from others will result in deterioration to the status quo unless they’re willing to participate to move things forward
„Old habits die hard“
&
"Anything that can go wrong will (eventually) go wrong."
- Added the eventually for Murphy’s law because in its original version it kinda implies that everything that can will go wrong right away
"you can stick your well-laid plan up your well-laid ass"
Been almost 30 years, what a dumb quote to come to mind so often. I never say it, haven't seen Die Hard 3 since the '90s, no idea why it's stuck so hard
"Love is the only rational act." -Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays with Morrie.
This thing we tell of can never be found by seeking, yet only seekers find it.
“There isn't any shame in being weak, the shame is in staying weak” - black clover
No one is ever on their deathbed wishing they had worked more.
(And quotes of that ilk). It’s genuinely something that informs the structure of every day for me.
"Given enough time, Hydrogen starts to wonder where it came from, and where its going."
"HAPPINESS, FREE, FOR EVERYONE, AND LET NO ONE BE FORGOTTEN!!" - Red, The Roadside Picnic
An impossible wish, yet one that burned itself into my heart the moment I read it, and a quote that has kept me walking.
"Friendly fire isn't!"
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