thoughts of a stubborn cinephile: Chocolate y Fresa.

Sunday, November 19, 2006

Chocolate y Fresa.

This is the fourth movie from the series of Spanish Cinema for Conversation. The scene is from the Cuban movie Strawberry and Chocolate, which deals with homosexuality, friendship and totalitarism.

Someone said so

"On this day we gather because we have chosen hope over fear." Barack Obama

"I am not young enough to know everything." Oscar Wilde

"Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address." Lane Olinghouse

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." Napoleon Bonaparte

"To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation." Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

"In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better." Ellen DeGeneres

"Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some smaller countries are neutral." Robert Orben

"Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric." Bertrand Russell

"Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?" François de La Rochefoucauld

"A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic." Joseph Stalin

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book." Groucho Marx

"Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment." Barry LePatner

"I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph." Shirley Temple

"It's kind of fun to do the impossible." Walt Disney

"The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money." David Richerby

"I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there." Herb Caen

"In case you're worried about what's going to become of the younger generation, it's going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation." Roger Allen

"To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal." Peter Ustinov

"A lie told often enough becomes the truth." Lenin

"We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them." Charles Caleb Colton

"The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities." Sophocles

"Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want." Clive Barnes

"History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind." Edward Gibbon

"If God had really intended men to fly, he'd make it easier to get to the airport." George Winters

"We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine." H.L. Mencken

"The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget." Thomas Szasz

"People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one." Leo J. Burke

"Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?" James Thurber

"I wanna hang a map of the world in my house. Then I'm gonna put pins into all the locations that I've traveled to. But first, I'm gonna have to travel to the top two corners of the map so it won't fall down." Mitch Hedberg

"Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone." Anthony Burgess

"The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be." Paul Valery

"Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life." Herbert Henry Asquith.

"Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less." Rabbi Julius Gordon

"It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously." Peter Ustinov

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." Eleanor Roosevelt

"Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd." Edith Sitwell

"I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation." George Bernard Shaw

"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten." B.F.Skinner

"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities." Dr. Seuss

"Why don't you stop talking about the past and teach us some history?" Galinda (Wicked)

"Every one deserves the chance to fly. And if I'm flying solo, at least I'm flying free." Elphaba (Wicked)

"We're just freaks. We widely accept it and that makes us better."John Pomeroy "Roy"

Someone said so... in a movie

"If I touch a burning candle I can feel no pain. If you cut me with a knife it's still the same." Corpse Bride (TIM BURTON'S CORPSE BRIDE)

"I feel pretty and I pitty all the girls that don't feel like me." María (WEST SIDE STORY)

"You've got quite a strong grip...for a boy." Esther Smith (MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS)

"Why didn't you tell me I was in love with you?" Don Hewes (EASTER PARADE)

"I love you... most ardently" Mr Darcy (PRIDE AND PREJUDICE)

"When I'm with you I feel so safe ... Maybe that's what family is all about: a group of people that miss the same imaginary place." Andrew Largeman (GARDEN STATE)

thoughts of a stubborn cinephile

Sunday, November 19, 2006

Chocolate y Fresa.

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