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First Dance Honeymoon Friends from Vanderbilt
From left to right: Sang Soo Park, Jisong Wu, Tommaso Tempesti, Ali Sina Önder, Linda Carter, me, Mostafa Beshkar

Quotes

  1. "To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it." G. K. Chesterton
  2. "Humanity i love you because
    when you're hard up you pawn your
    intelligence to buy a drink." e. e. cummings
  3. "I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs." Frederick Douglass
  4. "If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?" Albert Einstein
  5. "I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn't poor, I was needy. Then they told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy, I was deprived. Then they told me deprived was a bad image, I was underprivileged. Then they told me underprivileged was overused, I was disadvantaged. I still don't have a dime. But I sure have a great vocabulary." Jules Feiffer
  6. "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter — tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And then one fine morning —
    So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." F. Scott Fitzgerald
  7. "I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use — silence, exile, and cunning." James Joyce
  8. "What Francis recalled of this unmanageable situation was the compulsion to flight, the most familiar notion, after the desire not to aspire, that he had ever entertained." William Kennedy
  9. "We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now." Dr. Martin Luther King
  10. "Animals are less alone with roaring than we are with all these words." Margaret Laurence
  11. "Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others." Groucho Marx
  12. "What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?" Toni Morrison
  13. "I mean, it's real hard to be free when you're bought and sold in the marketplace." Jack Nicholson
  14. "This union may never be perfect, but generation after generation has shown that it can always be perfected." Barack Obama
  15. "If it has more than three chords, it's jazz." Lou Reed
  16. "The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided." Casey Stengel
  17. "Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?" James Thurber
  18. "Never let your schooling interfere with your education." Mark Twain
  19. "Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt." Kurt Vonnegut
  20. "Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them?" Oscar Wilde

Lyrics

  1. "Eisenhower sent him to war
    He kept her picture in his pocket that was closest to his heart
    And when he hit shore
    Must have been a target for the gunman." Ryan Adams
  2. "What's so amazing about really deep thoughts?" Tori Amos
  3. "There are things that drift away like our endless, numbered days." Sam Beam
  4. "Won't you tell your dad, 'Get off my back'
    Tell him what we said 'bout 'Paint It Black'
    Rock 'n Roll is here to stay." Chris Bell/Alex Chilton
  5. "I used to be carried in the arms of cheerleaders." Matt Berninger
  6. "Life handed us a paycheck, we said 'We worked harder than this!'" Isaac Brock
  7. "Using ideas as my maps." Bob Dylan
  8. "If we fix it so you can't make no money on war
    Well we'll all forget what we was killing folks for." Woody Guthrie
  9. "Give me hope, help me cope with this heavy load
    Trying to touch and reach you with heart and soul." George Harrison
  10. "Look at these my child-bearing hips." Polly Jean Harvey
  11. "When I hold you in my arms
    And I feel my finger on your trigger
    I know no one can do me no harm
    Because happiness is a warm gun." John Lennon
  12. "People get ready
    There's a train a-coming
    You don't need no baggage
    Just get on board
    All you need is faith to hear the diesels humming
    Don't need no ticket you just thank the Lord." Curtis Mayfield
  13. "And in the middle of negotiations
    You break down." Paul McCartney
  14. "Oh, you're in my blood like holy wine
    You taste so bitter and so sweet
    Oh I could drink a case of you darling
    And I would still be on my feet." Joni Mitchell
  15. "The Mayor's out killing kids to keep taxes down." John Samson
  16. "They took your life apart and called your failures art." Elliott Smith
  17. "The screen door slams, Mary's dress waves
    Like a vision she dances across the porch as the radio plays." Bruce Springsteen
  18. "But there is no sunken treasure
    Rumored to be
    Wrapped inside my ribs
    In a sea black with ink." Jeff Tweedy
  19. "And the things you can't remember tell the things you can't forget that history puts a saint in every dream." Tom Waits
  20. "I don't want to be crippled and cracked." Thom Yorke

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