"What i've learned"

its 3.29am. i am tappin Mac's wireless. i am tired. i am not making sense. but this fast internet connection is hard to resist. i shall try to blog.

the following are some quotes taken from Esquire mag's recent "what i've learned" special issue, featuring some interviews from the "What I've Learned" series over the last few years. here's some funny and hopefully, insightful quotes.



"If you start out looking at somebody, wondering whether he's good or bad, i think you're starting out in the wrong direction. i think we're all good and we're all bad.

Cruelty is all out of ignorance. if you know what's in store for you, you wouldnt hurt anybody, because whatever you do comes back much more forceful than you send it out." - Willie Nelson, Dec 98.



"From the beginning, i knew intuitively that if nothing else, music was safe, and that nobody could tell me anything about it. music didnt need a middleman, whereas all the other things in school needed some kind of explanation" - Eric Clapton, Oct 9, 2007


"Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.

The dread of lonelines is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

In my next life, i want to come back as either a proctologist, so i can deal with all the assholes i meet, or as a matador, so i can deal with all the bullshit.

Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, and small minds discuss people." - Phil Spector, sept 99. (he is suspected for murder)


"Never tell your wife she's lousy in bed. she'll go out and get a second opinion." - Rodney Dangerfield, Oct 2000.


"A woman once asked me: "what is your greatest time on earth?" and i said: "from one to nine. after that, it's been all downhill." she wassurprised and asked me why. i said, because my mother loved me, my brother loved me, and everyday after school we would play ball in the streets. life was sweet potatoes, punchball, and ice cream. before nine, i didnt do a damn thing but smile. i didnt even know we were poor. then at nine, i found out about homework, and it never stopped. fromnine untilnow, at eighty, there are tasks. duties. things are expected. people are paying more than a hundred dollars to see a show. they expect a great show.i gotta deliver" - Mel Brookes, producer, oct 18, 2007.



"Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die." - Carrie Fisher, aka Princess Leia, Jan 02.


"most monster movies are not horror movies. they're about outsiders. i never saw Frankenstein or King Kong or the Creature from the Black Lagoon as bad guys. they were the good guys. it was always the humans that were the motherfuckers. it was the bad B-movie actor dressed in a rubber suit who made me cry when he got killed.

i sometimes meet people who say, I'm going to be this and i'm goin to be that. you feel kind of bad for them because they're limiting themseves. it's different from having an enthusiasm for something and seeing where life takes you.i feel lucky to never have planned to go into what i did. i always just said: "all i want to do is make things, whether it's drawing or writing." if i'd said, "i'm going to be a director," it probably wouldnt have happened." - Tim Burton, Director, Oct 25, 2007

"One time a guy told me that he bought his wife to see Pirates of the Carribbean. she had lost her motor skills. i forgot what you call it. it's not autism. Jesus, they made a movie about it. you know, where you recede and your functions start to go. anyway, they're watching the film, and when Captain Jack Sparrow came on the screen, she started to laugh. this guy said he hadnt heard that laugh in years. and so he took her back to see the film repeatedly. for some reason Captain Jack made her laugh everytime. that's right up there." - Johnny Depp, Actor, 44, Oct 25, 2007.




i think Johnny Depp was refering to Alzheimer's Disease, and the movie "Away From Her."