#2801: | Every decision in life is an act of triage: doing the best you can with inadequate resources. |
#2802: | Everyone remembers the actor who uttered the famous line. No one remembers the screenwriter who wrote it. |
#2803: | The fundamental challenge of life is overcoming your past to master your own future. |
#2804: | @YouGoChavez "I respectfully disagree... atheism is not religion, it is the antithesis to religion." So how do you prove there is no God? |
#2805: | Personality, like addiction, is impervious to reason. It construes the world in such a way that no other personality is possible. |
#2806: | There are people you can speak your mind to and others you have to tiptoe around. Those tiptoe ones are dangerous and should be avoided. |
#2807: | Every attempt to do good also has the potential of causing harm, for which you are now responsible. |
#2808: | If you are a creative artist with a wide portfolio, one of your best career moves is to die. It has been the key to success for thousands! |
#2809: | When buying candy or snack foods, your worse value is always the bigger package. (Because you'll eat it all!) |
#2810: | Reporting from Wal-Mart: Now my whole cashews are made with sea salt and are "Health Baked with Fiber". Why must life be so complicated? |
#2811: | Reporting from Wal-Mart: What is a "Kardashian" and why should I care? |
#2812: | More knowledge isn't always good. It has to be _relevant_ knowledge, more important to seek than any other. |
#2813: | Reading the tweets of @LesterHoltNBC as he sits across the table from me. Flipped the screen around to prove it to him! |
#2814: | New photo album: Escondido Renaissance Faire (Nov. 2006) http://bit.ly/bEA0IP - Lords and ladies! |
#2815: | Every attempt to do good also has the potential of causing harm, for which you are then responsible. |
#2816: | There has never been a time when merchants haven't said "There's never been a better time!" to buy whatever they're selling. |
#2817: | On national TV news magazines, the "correspondent" is little more than an actor, reading lines given to him by an off-screen producer. |
#2818: | My album of Best Animal Photos: http://bit.ly/a5Qgkz |
#2819: | New photo album: Kauai, Hawaii, with a disposable camera: http://bit.ly/c5JZmd |
#2820: | "Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it." — George Bernard Shaw |
#2821: | The fundamental dilemma of public healthcare is there's no limit to how much can be spent on it. When do you say, "No more treatment"? |
#2822: | Excellent! I have Bond in custody. I plan to kill him, but before I do I think I'll reveal to him my evil plan. What can possibly go wrong? |
#2823: | Irony of insurance and public health care: less incentive for a healthy lifestyle. The system will protect you from obesity, smoking, etc. |
#2824: | Those who soak up heath care resources are not so much innocent children but smokers and obese adults who had a choice about their health. |
#2825: | Good health, to a large extent, is a personal choice. There will always be diseases and accidents you have no control over but most you do. |
#2826: | The bottom line of life is that no one can protect you from your own decisions. |
#2827: | Health care emotions: No one should suffer from a treatable disease. The reality: There will never be enough resources to treat everyone. |
#2828: | Photo album: Oahu, Hawaii (2007) http://bit.ly/bgBwr5 |
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#2830: | Anyone can appreciate beauty. Only the arrogant think they can own it. |
#2831: | [Duplicate tweet deleted.] |
#2832: | Beauty becomes ordinary as soon as you own it. After that it's just words. |
#2833: | [Duplicate tweet deleted.] |
#2834: | There will always be people who subjugate their lives to real estate. That doesn't mean it's right for you. |
#2835: | Living on next to nothing is easy. The problem is living with all the obligations you accumulated when you thought you had more. |
#2836: | Happiness should not be confused with euphoria. Drugs can give you euphoria, but true happiness lasts longer. |
#2837: | New photo album: Waikiki Beach, Hawaii. http://bit.ly/d8dWYe |
#2838: | New photo album: Oahu Shore. http://bit.ly/awGVX5 |
#2839: | New photo album: Oahu. http://bit.ly/bgBwr5 (2007) |
#2840: | Best writing guide ever! (for film, fiction) http://bit.ly/cGAAUM "Rules of thumb from Mamet; funny and, mostly, undeniable." @MJMcKean |
#2841: | The pain of life is largely the product of naïve investments. |
#2842: | June may be charming, but as soon as you marry her you'll have the whole rest of the year to contend with. |
#2843: | The pain of life is largely the product of naïve investments that don't turn out as expected. |
#2844: | Too many times I have watched children do something creative, inspired and funny only to be scolded by their parents for that behavior. |
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#2847: | Taking pictures is only half the art of photography. The other half is the editing afterwards, especially selection and cropping. |
#2848: | What we see at first as love often becomes a prison. |
#2849: | Popularity is not a measure of quality, only a measure of marketing. |
#2850: | Quality is a lonely business. |
#2851: | Whenever quality becomes associated with a certain signal, some interloper will learn to reproduce the signal without the quality. |
#2852: | What's really inside the secret Vatican archives? Bullshit! Century after century of utter bullshit. |
#2853: | If warning shots across the bow don't work, you have to aim for the ship. |
#2854: | New photo album from today's travels: Chattanooga Choo-Choo http://bit.ly/drvgmu |
#2855: | Narcissism is the delusion that the world exists "for me". Few will escape from it and see the world for what it really is. |
#2856: | People mostly believe what they are told to believe — by others and by their own ego. Few have the strength to form their own opinions. |
#2857: | Your "theory of love" guides your romantic life. At first, it is naïve and narcissistic, but disaster will refine it — if you survive. |
#2858: | Human Etiquette 101: When someone says, "How are you?" you are supposed to say, "Fine, thanks!" No one expects you to truthfully answer. |
#2859: | Take any food you crave. First helping: fantastic! 2nd: good. 3rd: okay. 4th: tedious. 5th: gross! Same applies to every attraction. |
#2860: | The appeal of something is usually greatest upon first discovery. After repeated exposure, interest rapidly diminishes to ordinaryness. |
#2861: | Government is a process that starts with passion but ends in lifeless bureaucracy. |
#2862: | The most dangerous people, regardless of their beliefs, are those with absolute moral certainty about what should be done. |
#2863: | The sadness of life is how much there is to do and how little of it we can actually do. |
#2864: | You worry about money when you don't have enough of it, but once that need is solved, time becomes your worry. You can't buy more of it! |
#2865: | Ever seen a $500 slot machine? Here it is: http://bit.ly/bthruf |
#2866: | On my bucket list: Have every twist and turn of my love life chronicled on the covers of supermarket tabloids. |
#2867: | I've been a lot of places, but I still have a "bucket list" of things to do before I die. http://bit.ly/9fZDfm - My dreams are modest. |
#2868: | God is a crutch for people who have nothing else to go on. |
#2869: | Life is a struggle with desperation, hoping to achieve something before you leave. |
#2870: | If you aren't flirting with depression, you should question whether you're really alive. |
#2871: | Hollywood is the refuge of bad writers. |
#2872: | A relationship isn't necessarily a cure for loneliness. Sometimes it's just another kind — a form of loneliness with much less control. |
#2873: | It is a great and difficult skill to be able to see the world for what it is rather than what you want it to be. |
#2874: | It is the nature of our society to worship actors — people who only pretend to do things — while people who actually do them are ignored. |
#2875: | The most insidious prison is one of comfort, robbing us of the incentive to change. |
#2876: | New photo album from today's travels: Ottawa, Canada. http://bit.ly/baYpeS |
#2877: | New photo album from today's travels: The Thousand Islands. http://bit.ly/9Ms79M |
#2878: | To those who already have a conscience, law is more an obstruction of morality than an expression of it. |
#2879: | "Progress means replacing something wrong with something more subtly wrong." via @scott_local |
#2880: | Sadly, the things that society appreciates you for (and is willing to pay you for) aren't usually the most important things to be doing. |
#2881: | VIDEO GAME OUTRAGE! We'd have no idea there was a rape video game in Japan if the US news media hadn't promoted it so heavily. Way to go! |
#2882: | "Very little is included. All the stuff we really want is extra." @TheBosha - But the extras we want rarely improve our lives. |
#2883: | Ex-Python John Cleese is still in form in this informative podcast on the brain: http://bit.ly/9V7yKb (2008) - More at: http://bit.ly/cB6mjI |
#2884: | The skill of photography helps the photographer see the world more truthfully even as it lies to the viewer. |
#2885: | Bearing children is the ultimate Frankenstein experiment. Let's mix up our genes, throw the dice and see what happens. |
#2886: | It is the nature of youth to think you have all the time in the world and spend it that way. |
#2887: | Age doesn't make you old. What makes you old is getting trapped in your own investments. |
#2888: | "No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." ~ Nietzsche via @philo_quotes |
#2889: | There is no greater gastronomic and coronary hazard than "All You Can Eat". |
#2890: | New Photo Album: Women's March and Rally, Downtown Seattle http://bit.ly/d0l57I |
#2891: | Kilroy Cafe #69: "Truth and the Art of Photography" http://bit.ly/dytVN6 - The world is full of lousy photos. |
#2892: | New photo albums from Canada: Ottawa http://bit.ly/baYpeS & Thousand Islands http://bit.ly/9Ms79M |
#2893: | Fruit is a plant's seed distribution strategy. Animals eat the fruit and shit the seeds. So how, then, do we explain the avocado? |
#2894: | Photos don't lie? Wrong! They usually contain distortions of space and time, conveying different feelings than were present when taken. |
#2895: | That "Til Death Do You Part" shit is really scary! Shouldn't it be illegal on the grounds that no one can see that far ahead? |
#2896: | Let us honor the Ancient Ones, our elders who came upon this land and built great monuments to the gods of Fast Food and Retail Sales. |
#2897: | Soylent Green is... animals! Abused and tortured animals, although we don't have to see their suffering because we buy them in packages. |
#2898: | Speaking "Popular Culture" requires knowing the news stories and entertainment of the day, but not in any great detail. No need to watch! |
#2899: | Money is the greatest enabler of dysfunction. Too much of it tends to fund your addictions and isolate you from the effects of your actions. |
#2900: | Experts say listening to what experts say can totally screw up your life. Use your own brain and figure it out yourself! |