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"If you risk nothing, then you risk everything."-- Geena Davis
Um, anyway, what Java is really like is C++ that was neutered in an attempt to reduce its tendency to hump random objects, then took to huffing paint to escape its despair, and eventually did itself in but got raised from the dead.-- Jed Davis
"Intellectual brilliance is no guarentee against being dead wrong."-- David Fasold
I braved the contempt of my friends last week and ventured out to see "Bambi", the Disney rerelease that is proving to be a hit once again in the box office. I was looking forward to a gentle, soothing, late afternoon relief from the Washington Summer. Instead I was traumatized. As a psycho-sexual return to the horrors of early adolescence, it couldn't be more effective. For the first half-hour, you're lulled into an agreeable sense of security and comfort. Birds twitter; small rabbits turn out to be great conversationalists. Pop is what Senator Moynihan would describe as an absent father, but Mom's there to make you feel OK in the odd thunderstorm.
You make great friends, fool around on the ice, discover the meadow, generally mellow out. Then, without any particular warning, your mom gets shot, your voice breaks, huge growths start appearing on your head, and your peers start heading off into the clover with the apparent intention of having sex. Next thing you know, the forest burns down. If I were still eight, I think I'd prefer Rambo III."-- Townsend Davis
Even if complaints about man-bashing in this film were 99% true, it still wouldn't make up for the years of portraying women as bimbos in movies.-- Geena Davis (about "Themla & Louise")
Never send a monster to do the work of an evil genius.
People look ridiculous when they're in ecstasy.-- David Byrne
You can be a professional without being constipated about it.-- David Keyser
Education's purpose is to replace an open mind with a full one.-- David Nestor
"The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn."-- David Russell
"Singing is a trick to get people to listen to music for longer than they would ordinarily."-- David Byrne
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.-- David Tyson Gentry
"I don't think you can be a true man until you've humiliated yourself before a woman."-- David Duchovny
QoS means I don't have enough bandwidth, but if you pay me extra money I'll drop someone else's packets instead of yours.-- Dave Rand
"Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all."-- Henry David Thoreau
Recession: your friend loses his job. Depression: you lose your job. Recovery: Bush loses his job.-- Bill Davidsen
What do you mean, "If a woodchuck could chuck wood"? What's the point in calling it a "woodchuck" if it can't ?-- David Gunter
People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first.-- David H. Comins
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.-- Henry David Thoreau
"I always say it was great for God to send his only son, but I'm waiting for him to send his only daughter. Then things will be really great."-- Candace Pert
The disarmament of fear, in ourselves and those that oppose, propels us. Every step forward brings the possibility of backlash. But forward we go.-- David G. Welton
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.-- Henry David Thoreau
The direct use of physical force is so poor a solution to the problem of limited resources that it is commonly employed only by small children and great nations.-- David Friedman
"Mom and dad say I should make my life an example of the principles I believe in. But every time I do, they tell me to stop it." (Calvin & Hobbes)
"Our country was founded on a distrust of government. Our founding fathers gave power to the people to keep an eye on government. So when politicians say "Trust me" they're actually being very unamerican."-- David Duchovny (X Files)
Nana is now 99, in a nursing home, healthy, and still as sharp as a tack (not the best situation when you're surrounded by the demented, but she makes do).
-- Steve Dyer
Ah, then she'd have no problem relating to Usenet...-- David Preston
Sexuality does not "turn on" at puberty and "turn off" at menopause. It is not a thing external, no matter how hard our culture teaches us to push it away. It is every bit as integral and fundamental the day you're born as it is the day you die.-- David Casti