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11 Inspirational Quotes by Baby Boomer Bill Gates

Boomer54 Mark — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:01:59 +0000

“As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.”

“Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.”

“I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you’re trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you’re giving it away.”

“I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.”

“I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.”

“We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.”

“If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn’t have tenure.”

“It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.”

“Life is not fair; get used to it.”

“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.”

“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”

~Bill Gates

William Henry “Bill” Gates III (born October 28, 1955 in Seattle, Washington)Always ranked as one of the wealthiest people in the world. Well….maybe 1 of 2 wealthiest people in the world he was displaced as the wealthiest in 2010 by Carlos Slim. But remains the wealthiest tech entreprenuer and baby boomer. Read the entire story just click on this link boomer Bill Gates.

Trivia: Bill Gates was arrested and booked in Albuquerque in 1977, he even has a mug shot.

Bill Gates on energy: Innovating to zero! at the Ted Conference.

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Top 6 Quotes by Actor, Political Activist Baby Boomer Alec Baldwin

Boomer54 — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:57:28 +0000

“There’s less critical thinking going on in this country on a Main Street level – forget about the media – than ever before. We’ve never needed people to think more critically than now, and they’ve taken a big nap.”

“To be in this business and have tremendous integrity and only make distinguished choices is very tough.”

“I feel I’m two people: I have my interest in acting and I have a lot of other political interests I’d like to pursue.”

“Acting in the theatre is fun, acting in film is work.”

“[1997] I`m starting to feel I have to cure my addiction to Hollywood money, because while it`s delightful, it`s also insidious.”

“Let`s face facts, this is visual medium, there`s a very high premium put on people who are good-looking. But the minute you rely on that you get yourself in trouble. You certainly don`t make a career out of that anymore as an actor.”

~Alec Baldwin

A Few Quotes from the 2010 Academy Awards between Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin.

“Oh, look, there’s that damn Helen Mirren.”—Martin. “That’s DAME Helen Mirren.”—Baldwin.

“Who doesn’t love Sandra Bullock” —Martin “Well, tonight we may find out” —Baldwin

Alexander Rae “Alec” Baldwin III (born April 3, 1958 in Massapequa, New York,) is an American film and television actor. He has played both lead and supporting roles in films such as Beetlejuice, The Hunt for Red October and Martin Scorsese’s The Aviator and The Departed. Baldwin was nominated for the Academy Award, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild Award for his performance in the 2003 film The Cooler. He currently stars as Jack Donaghy on the NBC sitcom 30 Rock, a role for which he has won two Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and four Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Trivia: Baldwin has hosted Saturday Night Live 14 times.

Steve Martin/Alec Baldwin: Hilarious Opening: Oscars 2010

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Quote Reason to Believe by Baby Boomer Bruce Springsteen

Boomer54 — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:06:08 +0000

“Still at the end of every hard earned day people find some reason to believe.”

~Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949, Long Branch, New Jersey), nicknamed “The Boss”, is an American singer-songwriter. He records and tours with the E Street Band. Springsteen is widely known for his brand of heartland rock infused with pop hooks, poetic lyrics, and Americana sentiments centered on his native New Jersey.[2]

Springsteen’s recordings have tended to alternate between commercially accessible rock albums and somber folk-oriented works. Much of his status stems from the concerts and marathon shows in which he and the E Street Band perform intense ballads, rousing anthems, and party rock and roll songs, amongst which he intersperses whimsical or deeply emotional stories.

Trivia: Springsteen had been inspired to take up music at the age of seven after seeing Elvis Presley on The Ed Sullivan Show. At 13, he bought his first guitar for $18; later, his mother took out a loan to buy the 16-year-old Springsteen a $60 Kent guitar, as he later memorialized in his song “The Wish.”

Bruce Springsteen – Dancing In The Dark

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Top 7 Quotes Director and Baby Boomer John Hughes

Boomer54 — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:52:11 +0000

“At the time I came along, Hollywood’s idea of teen movies meant there had to be a lot of nudity, usually involving boys in pursuit of sex, and pretty gross overall. Either that or a horror movie. And the last thing Hollywood wanted in their teen movies was teenagers!”

“I don’t consider myself qualified to do a movie about international intrigue – I seldom leave the country.”

“I like young actors because they’re so unspoiled, not like some of those actors who are about half an hour into their fifteen minutes of fame by the time they get to me.”

“My generation (baby boomer) had to be taken seriously because we were stopping things and burning things. We were able to initiate change, because we had such vast numbers. We were part of the baby boom, and when we moved, everything moved with us.”

“My heroes were Dylan, John Lennon and Picasso, because they each moved their particular medium forward, and when they got to the point where they were comfortable, they always moved on.”

“I was obsessed with romance. When I was in high school, I saw Doctor Zhivago every day from the day it opened until the day it left the theater.”

“Life moves pretty fast. You don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” (My favorite Hughes quote from the movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.)

~John Hughes

More John Hughes Quotes @ BrainyQuote.com

John Wilden Hughes, Jr. (February 18, 1950 – August 6, 2009 Born in Lansing, Michigan) was an American film director, producer and writer. He scripted some of the most successful films of the 1980s and early 1990s, including National Lampoon’s Vacation; Ferris Bueller’s Day Off; Weird Science; The Breakfast Club; Some Kind of Wonderful; Sixteen Candles; Pretty in Pink; Planes, Trains and Automobiles; Uncle Buck; Career Opportunities ; Home Alone and its sequel Home Alone 2: Lost in New York.

Trivia: After dropping out of the University of Arizona, he began selling jokes to well-established performers such as Rodney Dangerfield and Joan Rivers.

John Hughes 80s Montage *RIP* – Teenage Wasteland (Baba O’Riley)

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Best 6 Quotes By The Hurt Locker Director and Baby Boomer Kathryn Bigelow

Boomer54 — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 23:13:07 +0000

“Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers of people.”

“You never think the universe will reward your first choice – it just doesn’t work like that.”

“There should be more women directing; I think there’s just not the awareness that it’s really possible.”

“Something becomes personal when it deviates from the norm.”

“If there’s specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can’t change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.”

“I respond to movies that get in your face, that have the ability to be provocative or challenge you, that take some risks.”

~Kathryn Bigelow

More Kathryn Bigelow quotes @ icelebz.com

Bigelow is nominated for Best Director for the movie “The Hurt Locker”.

Kathryn Ann Bigelow (born November 27, 1951 in San Carlos, CA) is an American film director. Her best-known films are the horror film Near Dark (1987), Point Break (1991), and the critically-acclaimed The Hurt Locker (2009). She was the first woman to win the Directors Guild of America award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures, which she was awarded for “The Hurt Locker”. For that film she also won the Best Film and Best Director at the 2010 British Academy Film Awards and was nominated for a Golden Globe and an Oscar. She is the first female ever to win a BAFTA Award for Best Direction and fourth ever to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director.

Trivia: She was married to James Cameron, Avatar, from 1989 to 1991.

Kathryn Bigelow Interview about “The Hurt Locker”

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Top 7 Quotes by Director and Baby Boomer Quentin Tarantino

Boomer54 — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 14:17:12 +0000

“I guess I’ll have to marry Elvis Presley to get even.” (When asked about Guy Ritchie marrying Madonna)

“Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.”

“I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.”

“A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.”

“I couldn’t spell anything. I couldn’t remember anything, but I could go to a movie and I knew who starred in it, who directed it, everything.”

“I steal from every movie ever made.”

“A story is something that constantly unfolds.”

~Quentin Tarantino

More Tarantino Quotes @ BrainyQuote.com

Tarantino is nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director for the movie “Inglourious Basterds.”

Quentin Jerome Tarantino born March 27, 1963 in Knoxville, Tennesseeis an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and actor. In the early 1990s he was an independent filmmaker whose films used nonlinear storylines and aestheticization of violence. His films include Reservoir Dogs (1992), Pulp Fiction (1994), Jackie Brown (1997), Kill Bill (2003–2004), Death Proof (2007) and Inglourious Basterds (2009). His films have earned him an Academy Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA and Palme d’Or Awards and he has been nominated for Emmy and Grammy Awards. In 2007, Total Film named him the 12th-greatest director of all time.

Trivia: When he is writing a script, one of the first things he does, is find the music that is going to play for the opening sequence.

the films of quentin tarantino

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Top 14 Inspirational Quotes by Baby Boomer James Cameron

Boomer54 — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:03:00 +0000

“I certainly didn’t think of myself as gifted. The standards for being gifted in my environment were if you were good in Little League or if you were good in football.”

“I mean, you have to be able – you have to have made the commitment within yourself to do whatever it takes to get the job done and to try to inspire other people to do it, because obviously the first rule is you can’t do it by yourself.”

“I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy, but it was not fantasy in the sense of pure escapism.”

“I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at all.”

“If you wait until the right time to have a child you’ll die childless, and I think film making is very much the same thing. You just have to take the plunge and just start shooting something even if it’s bad.”

“It’ll be all of our efforts together. It won’t won’t ever be exactly the way I imagined it. And that is, I think, an important lesson as well, is that in any group enterprise it’s going to be the sum total of the group.”

“The film industry is about saying ‘no’ to people, and inherently you cannot take ‘no’ for an answer.”

“The magic doesn’t come from within the director’s mind, it comes from within the hearts of the actors.”

“There are many talented people who haven’t fulfilled their dreams because they over thought it, or they were too cautious, and were unwilling to make the leap of faith.”

“You have to not listen to the nay sayers because there will be many and often they’ll be much more qualified than you and cause you to sort of doubt yourself.”

“You know, in the film making business no one ever gives you anything.”

“Well, I see our potential destruction and the potential salvation as human beings coming from technology and how we use it, how we master it and how we prevent it from mastering us. Titanic was as much about that theme as the Terminator films, and in Aliens, it`s the reliance on technology that defeats the marines, but it`s technology being used properly that allows Sigourney`s character to prevail at the end. And Titanic is all about technology, metaphorically as well as on a literal level, because the world was being transformed by the technology at that time. And people were rescued from the Titanic because of wireless technology, and because of the advances that had been made only in the year or so before the ship sank that allowed them to call for help when they were lost at sea in the middle of the North Atlantic. So I think it`s an interesting theme, one that`s always been fascinating for me…”

“People call me a perfectionist, but I`m not. I`m a rightist. I do something until it`s right, and then I move on to the next thing.”

“A director`s job is to make something happen and it doesn`t happen by itself. So you wheedle, you cajole, you flatter people, you tell them what needs to be done. And if you don`t bring a passion and an intensity to it, you shouldn`t be doing it.”

~James Cameron

More Cameron Quotes @ BrainyQuote.com and QuoteLucy.com

Cameron’s film “Avatar” is nominated for 9 Academy Awards including Best Movie and Best Director.

James Francis Cameron August 16, 1954 Kapuskasing, Ontario, Canadais a Canadian film director, producer, screenwriter, editor, and inventor. His writing and directing work includes The Terminator (1984), Aliens (1986), The Abyss (1989), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), True Lies (1994), Titanic (1997), and Avatar (2009).

Trivia: He worked several jobs such as truck driving before starting in films.

James Cameron at 2009 Ted Conference

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Top 10 Quotes From Oscar Nominated Baby Boomer George Clooney

Boomer54 — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 04:46:04 +0000

“But I’m kind of comfortable with getting older because it’s better than the other option, which is being dead. ”

“When someone says ‘‘Trust me’’, in this industry, it’s probably wise to get it in writing!”

“I’m certainly the last person to give advice on, well, anything.”

“Run for office? No. I’ve slept with too many women, I’ve done too many drugs, and I’ve been to too many parties.”

“The only failure is not to try.”

“You have only a short period of time in your life to make your mark, and I’m there now.”

“The best advice I got from my aunt, the great singer Rosemary Clooney, and from my dad, who was a game show host and news anchor, was: don’t wake up at seventy years old sighing over what you should have tried. Just do it, be willing to fail, and at least you gave it a shot. That’s echoed for me all through the last few years.”

“I’m only two years older than Brad Pitt, but I look a lot older, which used to greatly frustrate me. It doesn’t anymore. I don’t have to fit into that category and get trounced by Tom Cruise and Brad.”

“I don’t believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately you die at a very young age or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It’s a mean thing.. life.”

“People thought I was Tom and Nicole’s bodyguard. They’d come up and go, “Is it okay if I go up and ask for an autograph?” It was good. I’d charge ‘em three bucks a person. Yeah, you gotta make some money off of that.”

~George Clooney More George Clooney quotes GCClooney.com

Clooney is nominated for Best Actor for 2009’s movie Up in the Air.

George Timothy Clooney (born May 6, 1961) in Lexington, Kentucky is an actor, film director, producer, and screenwriter. For his work as an actor, he has received two Golden Globe Awards and an Academy Award. Clooney is noted for parlaying his celebrity into social activism and has served as one of the United Nations Messengers of Peace since January 31, 2008.

Academy Award winner George Clooney, quit his job as a broadcast journalist at the age of 21 and slept in a friend’s closet in his first year in Hollywood before he broke into television, and later into films.

Trivia: He is notorious for having a witty, wry sense of humor, which comes out at every turn in this interview. Clooney’s playfulness is obvious on screen and off as he shares one of his tricks he pulled on a friend, Matt Damon.

Once Damon, while vacationing in Clooney’s villa at Lake Como in Italy, and desperately wanting to lose 30 pounds after a movie role, was exercising twice a day and only ate salad. To get a good laugh, Clooney hired a woman who took in an inch or so almost daily from Damon’s pants without him knowing.

He kept on wondering how it was possible in God’s name that he seemed to be gaining weight as his pants were getting tighter and tighter while he was eating next to nothing and exercising vigorously. Having no children Clooney certainly seems to have found a way to entertain himself with his friends just the same.

George Clooney with baseball greats Johnny Bench and Joe Morgan on the Ellen Show

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8 Great Quotes by Oscar Nominated Baby Boomer Jeff Bridges

Boomer54 — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:12:30 +0000

“I had a great ’70s. I survived it, and that’s always good news.”

“I had years of partying, and I was kind of surprised and happy I survived it all. Now, being a parent, I look back on it thinking, Oh God, the things you did!”

“I’ve had really great experiences working with first-time directors. They come at filmmaking with fresh ideas. I’ve been very lucky that way.”

“Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they’ve been hurt, they’re sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that’s protecting this tiny, dear part in them that’s still alive.”

“Movies are like magic tricks.”

“The problem with the designated driver programme, it’s not a desirable job. But if you ever get sucked into doing it, have fun with it. At then end of the night drop them off at the wrong house.”

“I don’t think I ever went down that movie star path. I always enjoy taking a 90-degree turn from the last thing I did.”

“A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can. What I learned most from my father wasn’t anything he said; it was just the way he behaved. He loved his work so much that, whenever he came on set, he brought that with him, and other people rose to it.”

~Jeff Bridges

More Jeff Bridges quotes @ Fixster.com BrainyQuote.com.

Nominated for Best Actor Award 2010 the movie Crazy Heart.

Jeffrey Leon “Jeff” “The Dude” Bridges (born December 4, 1949, in Los Angeles, CA) is an American actor and musician. The son of actress and writer Dorothy Bridges (née Simpson) and actor Lloyd Bridges and the brother of fellow actor Beau Bridges. His most notable films include The Last Picture Show, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, Tron, Starman, The Fabulous Baker Boys, The Fisher King, Fearless, The Big Lebowski, The Contender, Iron Man, and Crazy Heart.

Trivia: Bridges began taking pictures on set during Starman, at the suggestion of co-star Karen Allen. He has published many of these photographs online and in the 2003 Pictures: Photographs by Jeff Bridges.

Michelle Pfeiffer & Jeff Bridges – Makin’ Whoope (The Fabulous Baker Boys)

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The Cowboy and St. Peter Submitted by Baby Boomer Jim Fitzgerald

Boomer54 — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:30:40 +0000

A cowboy appeared before St. Peter at the Pearly Gates.

St. Peter asked, ‘Have you ever done anything of particular merit?’

‘Well, I can think of one thing,’ the cowboy offered.

‘On a trip around Pike’s peak in Colorado , I came upon a gang of bikers
who were threatening a young woman. I directed them to leave
her alone, but they wouldn’t listen.

So, I approached the largest and most tattooed biker and smacked him in the face, kicked his
bike over, ripped out his nose ring, and threw it on the ground.

I yelled, ‘Now, back off or I’ll kick the crap out of all of you!’

St. Peter was impressed, ‘When did this happen?’

‘Couple of minutes ago.’

Thanks Jim Fitzgerald! Your humor is always appreciated.

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12 Inspiring Quotes By Academy Award Winner Baby Boomer Meryl Streep

Boomer54 — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 01:53:44 +0000

“America doesn’t reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.”

“Acting is not about being someone different. It’s finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.”

“Every single decision I make about what material I do, what I’m putting out in the world, is because of my children.”

“Expensive clothes are a waste of money.”

“I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work.”

“I think your self emerges more clearly over time.”

“I want to feel my life while I’m in it.”

“Instant gratification is not soon enough.”

“Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too.”

“It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead.”

“The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.”

“You just have to keep on doing what you do. It’s the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.”

~Meryl Streep

Additional Meryl Streep Quotes @ BrainyQuote.com

Mary Louise Streep (Born June 22, 1949 in Summit, New Jersey). Considered by many movie reviewers to be the greatest living film actress, Meryl Streep has been nominated for the Academy Award an astonishing 15 times, and has won it twice. Streep has received 16 Academy Award nominations, winning two, and 25 Golden Globe nominations, winning seven, more nominations than any other actor in the history of either award.

Trivia: Learned to play the violin, by practicing 6 hours a day for 8 weeks, for her role in Music of the Heart (1999). Has a fear of helicopters.

Meryl Streep – Funny Moments

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Top 11 Baby Boomer Michael Jackson Quotes

Boomer54 — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 03:40:49 +0000

“But I will never stop helping and loving people the way Jesus said to.”

“Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts and only asks to be lived.”

“I just wish I could understand my father.”

“I was a veteran, before I was a teenager.

“I’m happy to be alive, I’m happy to be who I am.”

“I’m never pleased with anything, I’m a perfectionist, it’s part of who I am.”

“If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.”

“Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.”

“The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.”

“Our parents taught us to always be respectful and, no matter what you do, to give it everything you have. Be the best, not the second best.”

“Before you judge me, try hard to love me,
Look within your heart then ask,
Have you seen my childhood?”

~Michael Jackson

Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009), born in Gary, Indianna, was a singer, dancer, entertainer and recording artist. Referred to as the King of Pop, he is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time, and one of the most influential. His contributions to music, dance and fashion, and a much-publicized personal life, made him a global figure in popular culture for over four decades.

Alongside his brothers, Jackson made his debut in 1964 as lead singer and youngest member of The Jackson 5. His solo career began in 1971. His 1982 album Thriller sold more than 110 million copies, and remains the best-selling album ever; while several of his other albums rank among the worlds best-sellers. Jackson is credited with having elevated the music video from mere promotional tool into an art form. His videos for Billie Jean, Beat It and Thriller made him the first African American artist to amass a strong crossover following on MTV. He popularized a number of complicated dance techniques, such as the robot and the moonwalk. His distinctive musical style, vocal style, and choreography continue to transcended generational, racial and cultural boundaries.

Other achievements include several Guinness World Records (including the Most Successful Entertainer of All Time); 15 Grammy Awards (including the Living Legend Award and the Lifetime Achievement Award); 26 American Music Awards (more than any other artist, and including recognition as Artist of the Century); 17 number-one singles in the US (including four as a member of The Jackson 5); and estimated world sales of over 780 million records, making him one of the best-selling recording artists ever.

Trivia:Jackson is one of the few artists to have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice.

Michael Jackson Performing “Billie Jean” at Motown’s 25th Anniversay

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A Woman Professor Most Embarrassing Moment Described by Baby Boomer Jonathan Carroll

Boomer54 — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 02:52:45 +0000

If you are not a subscriber to Jonathan Carroll’s Blog you should be…His humorous, insightful, entertaning posts are worth the 5 minutes daily to read and ponder.

Carroll’s recent post for February 28, 2010 about the French novelist Marcel Proust believing people must know and understand themselves before they can know or understand others really gives you reason to pause and think. Proust developed a list of subjective questions that he felt would help reveal to people their true selves and the inner personalities of those around them. You may read and the questions here February 28, 2010 post.
Everyone has their “that was the most embarrassing moment of my life” story. Here’s a great one I heard recently:
A woman was teaching a literature course at an American university. It was a tough assignment because the majority of her students were planning on careers in math and science. The only reason why the majority of them had signed up for her course was to fulfill an academic requirement. She said they were very smart kids who simply weren’t interested in reading or talking about fiction and poetry. She likened teaching them to pushing donkeys up hills. Although there was no animosity between her and the students, there was no love lost either.

One night she felt a terrible pain in her abdomen that grew worse and worse. Her husband rushed her to the university hospital where thorough tests were immediately ordered. One of them was of course a gynecological exam. Take off your clothes, put on this sheet, get on the table, put your legs up in the stirrups, wait for the doctor. In pain, but embarrassed as hell too because she was about to be examined by someone she didn’t know, she had no choice but to do as she’d been told. In that humiliating, vulnerable position she waited for the doctor to come in. A few long minutes later he entered the room– followed by his class of medical students. Today he was instructing them in the proper method of gynecological examination. Guess who made up most of the class?

Jonathan Samuel Carroll (born January 26, 1949) in New York City, is an American author primarily known for novels, which can be characterized as magic realist, slipstream or modern fantasy. He also writes short stories.

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Best 19 Inspirational Quotes By Baby Boomer Magic Johnson

Boomer54 — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 23:00:41 +0000

Thank you BrainyQuote.com and Basketball Plays and Tips.

“Young people want you to be real with them.”

“The real story is that I had unprotected sex. That’s that. That’s easy.”

“Research your idea. See if there’s a demand. A lot of people have great ideas, but they don’t know if there’s a need for it. You also have to research your competition.”

“If you’re a competitive person, that stays with you. You don’t stop. You always look over your shoulder.”

“If somebody says no to you, or if you get cut, Michael Jordan was cut his first year, but he came back and he was the best ever. That is what you have to have. The attitude that I’m going to show everybody, I’m going to work hard to get better and better.”

“I wanted to do two things when I was growing up. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I wanted to be a businessman after my basketball career was over, and that is what I am doing now.”

“I am a businessman. This is what I do each and every day. I love it. I love coming to work. I never have a bad day.”

“Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.”

“All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.”

“I tell you, it’s funny because the only time I think about HIV is when I have to take my medicine twice a day.”

“You’re the only one who can make the difference. Whatever your dream is, go for it.”

“When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.”

“Everybody on a championship team doesn’t get publicity, but everyone can say he’s a champion.”

“Standing on that platform, I said a silent prayer. I thanked God for giving me the strength and the opportunity to come back, to play basketball again, and to be part of that whole magnificent Olympic experience. It’s a memory I will always cherish.”

“They said playing basketball would kill me. Well, not playing basketball was killing me.”

“You don’t have to be Magic to be special. You’re already special, you’re you.”

“I never think that there’s something I can’t do, whether it’s beating my opponent one on one or practicing another hour because something about my game is just not right.”

“My father is my idol, so I always did everything like him. He used to work two jobs and still come home happy every night. He didn’t do drugs or drink, and he wouldn’t let anyone smoke in his house. Those are rules I adopted, too.”

“Magic is who I am on the basketball court. Earvin is who I am.”

Earvin “Magic” Johnson Jr. (born August 14, 1959 in Lansing, Michigan) is a retired American professional basketball player who played point guard for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). After winning championships in high school and college, Johnson was selected first overall in the 1979 NBA Draft by the Lakers. He won a championship and an NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award in his rookie season, and won four more championships with the Lakers during the 1980s. Johnson retired abruptly in 1991 after announcing that he had HIV, but returned to play in the 1992 All-Star Game, winning the All-Star MVP Award.

Johnson’s career achievements include three NBA MVP Awards, nine NBA Finals appearances, twelve All-Star games, and ten All-NBA First and Second Team nominations. He led the league in regular-season assists four times, and is the NBA’s all-time leader in assists per game, with an average of 11.2. Johnson was a member of the “Dream Team”, the U.S. basketball team that won the Olympic gold medal in 1992.

Trivia: Johnson was first dubbed “Magic” as a 15-year-old sophomore playing for Lansing’s Everett High School, when he recorded a triple-double of 36 points, 18 rebounds and 16 assists. After the game, Fred Stabley Jr., a sports writer for the Lansing State Journal, gave him the moniker despite the belief of Johnson’s mother, a Christian, that the name was sacrilegious.

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Baby Boomer Conan O’Brien Resurfaces on Twitter Quote I Had A Show…

Boomer54 — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 20:49:15 +0000

Former “Tonight Show” host Conan O’Brien has resurfaced on Twitter.

His Twitter bio reads, quote, “I had a show.

Then I had a different show.

Now I have a Twitter account.”

Just 17 hours after sending his first tweet on Wednesday, the former NBC late night host has already picked up over 261-thousand followers.

His very first tweet reads, quote, “Today I interviewed a squirrel in my backyard and then threw to commercial.

Somebody help me.”

O’Brien’s final “Tonight Show” appearance aired on January 22nd.

He ended the show by playing guitar on Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Freebird” with buddy Will Ferrell.

O’Brien’s controversial exit from the late night talk show came just seven months after he took over from Jay Leno who will return to host “The Tonight Show” next Monday, March 1st.

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Conan Christopher O’Brien (born April 18, 1963 in Brookline, Massachusetts)

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