Philosophers

"Look at the bad stuff and see if it can be survived."
- Stoicism: the endurance of pain or hardship without the display of feelings and without complaint.

street art

The doc shows the random rise of a "filmmaker" who accidentally fell in with the right crowd. He then copies them to their dismay, but cranks out $30k pieces. They imply he's a fraud copying Warhol who many say was a fraud himself. Madonna had him do her latest album cover. A distillation of how it is for many "success" stories.

serenity

"The only time I feel relaxed is when I'm racing."
- Paul Newman [1925-2008]

Durga

e plu·ri·bus u·num

History rhyming here.

on alcoholism

“I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.”
- Frida Kahlo [1907-1954]

fair-weather friends

“When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.”
― W.Somerset Maugham [1874-1965]

how to make McDonald's fries

blast

Bill Munny

It's a hell of a thing, killing a man. You take away everything he's got and everything he's ever gonna have.

what Van Gogh ate

What Monet ate

leave it for kids to solve

Bolshevik

“There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen.”
– Vladimir Lenin [1870-1924]

Perspective

"We are atoms contemplating atoms."
- Attributed to Richard Feynman by Brian Cox

The Plague

“But, you know, I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me, I imagine. What interests me is being a man.”
― Albert Camus [1913-1960]

the only thing that doesn't change is that there will be change

"All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement."
- Ovid [43 BCE – 17/18 AD]

bawdy

quarantine

“Enduring tedium over real time in a confined space is what real courage is."
– David Foster Wallace [1962-2008]

cynical realist

"The world is for the few, and the very few."
- Attributed to Benjamin Disraeli by Winston Churchill in his address to the joint session of congress

enlightened billionaire axiom

"If you can have everything you want, you stop wanting anything."

left school at 16

rearing

"When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer; he didn't think I would amount to anything. My mother also."

- Frank Gehry

bitter new zealand hound

Correction: the dog's accent is apparently Cockney.

relationship

“You might as well get one thing straight. I'm not an abstractionist... I'm not interested in the relationships of color or form or anything else. I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions—tragedy, ecstasy, doom and so on. And the fact that a lot of people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures show that I communicate those basic human emotions... The people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when I painted them. And if you, as you say, are moved only by their color relationships then you miss the point.”
― Mark Rothko [1903-1970]

cough

"A hospital is no place in which to be sick."
- Norman Cousins

life expectancy

Some say that the first person to live to 150 has already been born.

Ojigi

“Many people dream of success. To me, success can only be achieved through repeated failure and introspection.”
– Soichiro Honda [1906-1991]

father of the renaissance

"I propose to build for eternity."

- Filippo Brunelleschi [1377-1446]

minion

Toronto's most notorious bike thief