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May 31, 2005
Words to Live By
Anyway People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered. If you do good, people may accuse you of selfish motives. If you are successful, you may win false friends and true enemies. Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. People who really want help may attack you if you help them. Give the world the best you have and you may get hurt. Posted by Amanda at 10:15 AM
May 29, 2005
Who draws the line between acceptable and excess?
Who draws the line between acceptable and excess? Who gets to define that boundary? I’m seriously considering the Peace Corps, AmeriCorps, or Ashoka. Teach people how to read, help people get jobs, build houses, serve food, fight for basic healthcare. Something. I just can’t stomach seeing 30-somethings in the clubs gargling $500 bottles of Kristal and wearing $700 Gucci shoes to match their $1500 Prada handbag when you know they’ve had to step over three homeless people to get in the door. I cringe at their superficiality. Then I think – that sounds so hypocritical of me as I sit here munching down a hot sandwich checking my voicemail. But there has to be a line somewhere, doesn’t there? That place that delineates reasonable from excessive? And who determines where it is, since it’s so highly subjective? What’s the difference between a $100 pair of shoes and a $700 pair of shoes in terms of excess? Is there one?
I feel like I’ve been taking and taking without giving back. I want to make someone’s life better – help people. The question is how? By doing what? Posted by Amanda at 01:13 AM
Deep Thoughts, Kinda.
The fact that we can, obligates us to do so. There is only a present. There may be no future, and the past is already gone. There is no now. There is only a future or a past. You are what you do, not what you’re capable of doing. Moral of the story: Never underestimate the power of 2 nerds and a garage. Rote memorization is left over from the time in which once you left school, you may not have access to information. It is a practice borne of the fear that books and knowledge could be taken away. Do everything with flair. It’s not hard to get going the wrong direction in life – get mixed up and lose your way. Is it better to get married just for the sake of getting married? Divorce is so much more accepted than having never been married. And if you marry a friend that’s gay and never have kids, then no one gets hurt. You move away, stay married a few years, put in appearances on holidays and you’re home free, no longer the pathetic middle-aged schmuck that’s the center of gossip. Who choose the décor for hotels? It’s terrible. Nothing ever matches. Is ugly just more cost effective? Posted by Amanda at 01:00 AM
May 28, 2005
Catching up on quotes
"I once sold 10 paintings to Andy Warhol for $100." - Jean Michel Basquiat "That finished yet? They’re never finished." - from Basquiat “Oh my God, take a Zantac and get over it.” - me to some girl whining in class “What are your platitudes costing me?” - me to Michael M re: Duggan "Companies are faceless, heartless automotons." - someone at school "Show me mine, I’ll show you yours." - from some movie "The door to that old medieval school is still ajar." - Toni Morrison on ignorance “This has to be the dumbest thing yet, although we’re reaching new heights.” - J. Sachs on gov't action “Don’t talk about values and leave millions of people dying.” - J. Sachs on foreign aid "Rotate the bums every few years, you keep the average level of corruption down." - J. Sachs on politicians “There is corruption everywhere, not just the United States.” - J. Sachs (followed by an eruption of laughter and applause from the audience) "Poverty is not an insurmountable trap. It’s a financial problem." - J. Sachs on solutions "If a child calls with a fever, we don’t hang up and say, well you are corrupt." - J. Sachs on absurd rationalizations “Journalism is literature in a hurry.” – Richard Gere in Runaway Bride “Beauty is a societal construction.” – Grissom on CSI “the balm of storytelling” - Desmond Tutu “if it could save the future from the past” - D. Tutu “Justice must wait until peace has been achieved.” - D. Tutu "brazen instances of impunity" - D. Tutu “There is Fate. But it only takes you so far. Then you have to take it from there.” - some tv show “Life, writ large, is qualitative, not quantitative.” - E. Johnson “stuck in the tar pits of data” - E. Johnson “money is the oxygen of capital markets” - Houston, Innovest "Straws were invented for drinking beer." - Pete, Pete's Wicked Ale "If you can become visible trash, you'll know you've made it." - Pete on finding Pete's Wicked Ale bottlecaps in a parking lot "Worrying impedes thinking" - Duggan "It's hard to sketch out your life on an 8.5 x 11" sheet of paper" - Duggan "As of last year, there were more outhouses in the US than TIVOs." - E. Johnson “cobbler’s children have no shoes” - Preston “low hanging fruit” - the most overused quote next to "at the end of the day" “keyboard cowboy” - Preston on the tech people that paralyze companies by cobbling together information systems “islands of information” - E. Johnson “the 7 years of peas story” - E. Johnson “In NYC, you have to find people that have a sharp edge” – Lisa, FOJP 4 Zen Rules of Life - According to Duggan “Bang the Drum” – Michael M. "Yeah, no. I was just going to say. . . " - Gravette “There were nights so long I thought the sun burned out.” – Tim McGraw “Artists don’t retire.” - Big Fish “They are just whitewashing Christianity so bad right now.” – guy on the plane “Those are very wise words from someone with such a great ass.” - some cheesy movie “Things done in the dark will always come to light” – off some tv commercial “People trade their souls for cash” - from the movie Tangled “Why open the box if you know what’s inside?” - from the movie Tangled “Come on baby, the world is filled with fallen angels.” - from the movie Tangled You can tell a lot from smeared mascara. - me “Grace, it comes and goes.” - you “This is my year to figure things out.” - you “My friends’ girlfriends never trust me.” - you **. . .sweetheart. . .** - you Let the past drift away with the water. - Japanese Proverb “It’s you and me ‘til the wheels fall off.” - some movie “Lost love is still love.” - some movie “We need more heart. . . We’re all expecting great things.” - can't remember “I’m gonna make her my wife.” - some tv show or movie Despite the chaos of the world around you, Posted by Amanda at 10:05 PM
May 11, 2005
What!?!
Is Kenny Chesney out of his frickin' mind?! Kenny, baby. What were you thinking? Posted by Amanda at 07:54 PM
May 08, 2005
@)#$*%)(@#&^@)(#$^%&)@ !!!!!
@)($&%(#@&@#%$*&@^*%*@)($#!***! yep, that about covers it. Posted by Amanda at 11:20 PM
Burned Out
Six more papers and I'm done. I may lose my mind first. . . Did you know that the companies that make up the Fortune 76 all had sales of over $25 billion last year? Furthermore, only 8 of those companies did not produce a Corporate Social Responsibility report. And, 25% of the Fortune 76 are on the Dow Sustainability Index. For these and many more fascinating facts about the responsibility initiatives of America's largest companies. . .you'll have to wait for my incredibly stimulating research to be finished. Posted by Amanda at 01:32 AM
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