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I like quotes a lot, and since I am not great with words, I often use quotes from movies and other media to illustrate my point. So this is just a collection of quotes that I find, or use from time to time, that I like for whatever reason.

3/18/2008
Almost only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.

2/28/2008
One of the biggest misnomers in sports is that you just get a basketball person and let him run it. There’s no other business in America that would get a salesperson to run it just because he was the best salesperson. - Mark Cuban, on hiring former basketball players as GM just because.

2/26/2008
Inspiration: Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration, which is why engineers sometimes smell really bad. - Inspiration demotivational poster

2/19/2008
Do you realize that even as we sit here, we are hurtling through space at a tremendous rate of speed? Think about it. Our world is just a hanging curveball. - Bill “Spaceman” Lee

2/15/2008
If Barack Obama is reading this, I hope he adds the following idea to his increasingly spectacular presidential campaign: ‘Every Super Bowl city is required to extend last call to at least 4 a.m. YES, WE CAN!’ - Bill Simmons on the 2 a.m. last call at bars in Arizona during Super Bowl XLII

2/13/2008
Every day I come by your house and I pick you up. And we go out. We have a few drinks, and a few laughs, and it’s great. But you know what the best part of my day is? For about ten seconds, from when I pull up to the curb and when I get to your door, cause I think, maybe I’ll get up there and I’ll knock on the door and you won’t be there. No goodbye. No see you later. No nothing. You just left. I don’t know much, but I know that. - from Good Will Hunting, spoken by Ben Affleck’s character.

2/12/2008
You haven’t won the race, if in winning the race you have lost the respect of your competitors. - Paul Elvström

2/7/2008
Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but sail we must, and not drift or lie at anchor. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

2/1/2008
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity - Seneca

1/31/2008
Robitussin may be the best way to alleviate congestion - MTA Exec Director Alan LeBovidge on Boston traffic

1/30/2008
Yes I inhaled - that was the point. -Sen. Barack Obama answering a question about “his past marijuana use”. Video here.

1/29/2008
Nigel Tufnel: The numbers all go to eleven. Look, right across the board, eleven, eleven, eleven and…
Marty DiBergi: Oh, I see. And most amps go up to ten?
Nigel Tufnel: Exactly.
Marty DiBergi: Does that mean it’s louder? Is it any louder?
Nigel Tufnel: Well, it’s one louder, isn’t it? It’s not ten. You see, most blokes, you know, will be playing at ten. You’re on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you’re on ten on your guitar. Where can you go from there? Where?
Marty DiBergi: I don’t know.
Nigel Tufnel: Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do?
Marty DiBergi: Put it up to eleven.
Nigel Tufnel: Eleven. Exactly. One louder.
Marty DiBergi: Why don’t you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder?
Nigel Tufnel: [pause] These go to eleven.
(from This is Spinal Tap)