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Most people think life sucks, and then you die.
Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then, one day, you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then, one day, you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Denis Leary 1957-????

"When I wrote my 1997 letter I thought I had little to look forward to in 1999, but it turns out that I was stupidly optimistic."

- David Mackenzie "On the Dole in Darlington"

Thank you Teflon, thank you, thank you, thank you. Much more of the saccharine waffle seen above and I was .........

A/ going to vomit and....

B/ be forced to search through my collection of early Frank Zappa albums to find something profoundly obscene !

Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.

If you wind up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest or some guy on TV telling you how to do your [censored], then YOU DESERVE IT.

It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice — there are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.

I like to watch the news, because I don't like people very much and when you watch the news ... if you ever had an idea that people were really terrible, you could watch the news and know that you're right.

Frank Zappa 21st Dec.1940 – 4th Dec.1993

I have a plan to live forever - So far so good.........

I Believe

I believe -- that we don't have to change friends if we understand that friends change.

I believe -- that no matter how good a friend is, they're going to hurt you every once in a while and you must forgive them for that.

I believe -- that true friendship continues to grow, even over the longest distance.
Same goes for true love.

I believe -- that you can do something in an instant that will give you heartache for life.

I believe -- that it's taking me a long time to become the person I want to be.

I believe -- that you should always leave loved ones with loving words.
It may be the last time you see them.

I believe -- that you can keep going long after you can't.

I believe -- that we are responsible for what we do, no matter how we feel.

I believe -- that either you control your attitude or it controls you.

I believe -- that regardless of how hot and steamy a relationship is at first, the passion fades
and there had better be something else to take its place.

I believe -- that heroes are the people who do what has to be done when it needs to be done,
regardless of the consequences.

I believe -- that money is a lousy way of keeping score.

I believe -- that my best friend and I can do anything or nothing and have the best time.

I believe -- that sometimes the people you expect to kick you when you're down,
will be the ones to help you get back up.

I believe -- that sometimes when I'm angry I have the right to be angry,
but that doesn't give me the right to be cruel.

I believe -- that just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.

I believe -- that maturity has more to do with what types of experiences you've had and what you've learned from them and less to do with how many birthdays you've celebrated.

I believe -- that it isn't always enough to be forgiven by others.
Sometimes you have to learn to forgive yourself.

I believe -- that no matter how bad your heart is broken the world doesn't stop for your grief.

I believe -- that our background and circumstances may have influenced who we are,
but we are responsible for who we become.

I believe -- that just because two people argue, it doesn't mean they don't love each other.
And just because they don't argue, it doesn't mean they do.

I believe -- that you shouldn't be so eager to find out a secret.
It could change your life forever.

I believe -- that two people can look at the exact same thing and see something totally different.

I believe -- that your life can be changed in a matter of hours by people who don't even know you.

I believe -- that even when you think you have no more to give,
when a friend cries out to you you will find the strength to help.

I believe -- that credentials on the wall do not make you a decent human being.

I believe -- that the people you care about most in life are taken from you too soon.

I believe -- The fish doesn't understand the water.

I believe that -- Nothing matters very much, and very little matters at all.

I believe that -- The secret of success is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake those, you can fake anything.

I believe that -- It is better to be functionally drunk than dysfunctionally sober.

I believe that -- Sometimes you have to wait until the evening to see how glorious the day has been.

I believe that -- Churning water, for however long a time, does not produce butter.

I believe that -- In the long run, we are all dead.

I believe that -- Any idiot can face a crisis, it is day to day living that wears you out.

I believe that -- Anything can happen in this life, especially nothing.

I believe that -- The way to be a bore is to say everything.

I believe that -- I would rather be an opportunist and float than go to the bottom with my principles round my neck.

I believe that -- Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

I believe that -- Anyone who claims to be truly original has no memory.

I believe that -- The man who makes no mistakes seldom makes anything.

I believe that -- Its not the people who vote that count. Its the people who count the votes.

I believe that -- Wealth unused may as well not exist.

I believe that -- Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

I believe that -- The really frightening thing about middle-age is that you know you'll grow out of it.

I believe that -- At 20, we worry about what others think of us; at 40, we don't care what they think of us; at 60, we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all.

I believe that -- When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers.

I believe that -- The young are always ready to give those who are older than themselves the full benefit of their inexperience.

I believe that -- A fool and his money are lucky to have met in the first place.

I believe that -- War does not determine who is right, only who is left.

I believe that -- You can fool some of the people all of the time, and those are the ones you need to concentrate on.

I believe that -- Too much of a good thing is wonderful.

I believe that -- Egotism is usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.

I believe that -- Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from aquiring the deadening effect of habit.

I believe that -- Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.

I believe that -- Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

I believe that -- Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

I believe that -- The strongest minds are those of whom the noisy world hears least.

I believe that -- The problem is God gave man a penis and a brain, but only enough blood to run them one at a time.

I believe that -- God must really hate us or he wouldn't have given us religion.

I believe that -- Reality is the leading cause of stress for those in touch with it.

I believe that -- A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

I believe that -- A problem shared is a problem halved, so your problem may be just half of somone else's.

I believe that -- We are never more angry with others than when we feel ourselves to be at fault.

I believe that -- Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

I believe that -- A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.

I believe that -- Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets.
Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

I believe that -- Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognises genius

I believe that -- Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

I believe that -- Patriotism is the conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

I believe that -- A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

I believe that -- If you are in a cell and you can see the bars, you know you're in a cell and there's something you can do to get out of it. If you can't see the bars you will sit there forever thinking you are free.

I believe that -- No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

I believe that -- The days of the digital watch are numbered.

I believe that -- Patriots always talk of dying for their country, never of killing for their country.

I believe that -- The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.

I believe that -- The world rewards the appearance of merit more often than merit itself

I believe that -- That folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

I believe that -- Under Capitalism, man exploits man. Under Communism its just the opposite.

I believe that -- Knowledge consists of knowing that a tomato is a fruit, wisdom consists of not putting it in a fruit salad.

I believe that -- If all you have is a hammer, everything begins to look like a nail.

I believe that -- Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as wind blows out candles but fans fires.

I believe that -- Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

I believe that -- When authorities warn you of the sinfulness of sex, there is an important lesson to be learned; do not have sex with the authorities.

I believe that -- The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more.

I believe that -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is.

I believe that -- Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome

I believe that -- It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish

I believe that -- The noblest of all dogs is the hot dog; it feeds the hand that bites it.

I believe that -- Common sense is the collection of prejudices aquired by the age of eighteen.

I believe that -- The reason the mainstream is referred to as a stream is because of its shallowness.

I believe that -- If you laid all the economists end to end, they still wouldn't reach a conclusion.

I believe that -- We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

I believe that -- Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

I believe that -- Hope is the confusion of a desire for something with its probability.

I believe that -- No man was ever wise by chance.

I believe that -- I'll stop now.....

nice one Teflon !

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely with an attractive and well preserved body. But rather to skid in sideways,chocolate in one hand,wine in the other,body thoroughly used up,totally worn out, and screaming...... WOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO WHAT A RIDE!!!!!!!!!!!

Perhaps. But your timing needs to be good!