Navaho Gunleg » Quote Of The Week http://navahogunleg.net/blog ...where the most significant bytes... Fri, 13 Aug 2010 06:35:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Quote Of The Week #55 http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2007/10/10/quote-of-the-week-55/ http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2007/10/10/quote-of-the-week-55/#comments Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:13:59 +0000 Navaho Gunleg http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2007/10/10/quote-of-the-week-55/ In the song Generation Wrekkked, on The Autobiography Of Mistachuck, the following lines are mentioned:
If I can’t change the people around me,
I change the people around me.

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]]> http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2007/10/10/quote-of-the-week-55/feed/ 0 Quote Of The Week #54 http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2007/09/27/quote-of-the-week-54/ http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2007/09/27/quote-of-the-week-54/#comments Thu, 27 Sep 2007 11:31:29 +0000 Navaho Gunleg http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2007/09/27/quote-of-the-week-54/ I was reading some Michel de Montaigne, who quotes Ovid at some point:
Scilicet ultima semper exspectanda dies homini est;
dicique beatus ante obitum nemo supremaque funera debet.


(We should all look forward to our last day;
no one can be called happy till he is dead and buried.)

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]]> http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2007/09/27/quote-of-the-week-54/feed/ 0 Quote Of The Week #53 http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2007/08/29/quote-of-the-week-53/ http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2007/08/29/quote-of-the-week-53/#comments Wed, 29 Aug 2007 06:06:42 +0000 Navaho Gunleg http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2007/08/29/quote-of-the-week-53/ From the song “Eve of Destruction”, originally written by P.F. Sloan, and performed by various artists such as Barry Macquire and, more recently, Public Enemy:
Yeah, my blood’s so mad, feels like coagulatin’,
I’m sittin’ here, just contemplatin’,
I can’t twist the truth, it knows no regulation,
handful of Senators don’t pass legislation,
and marches alone can’t bring integration,
when human respect is disintegratin’,
this whole crazy world is just too frustratin’,
and you tell me over and over and over again my friend,
ah, you don’t believe we’re on the eve of destruction.

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]]> http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2007/08/29/quote-of-the-week-53/feed/ 0 Quote Of The Week #52 http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2007/06/28/quote-of-the-week-52/ http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2007/06/28/quote-of-the-week-52/#comments Thu, 28 Jun 2007 08:26:36 +0000 Navaho Gunleg http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2007/06/28/quote-of-the-week-52/ ReMo, in his song “We know”, notes the following:
CIA, FBI,
Got the world terrorised.
Your lies don’t justify
Globalised homicide.

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]]> http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2007/06/28/quote-of-the-week-52/feed/ 0 Quote Of The Week #51 http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2007/06/20/quote-of-the-week-51/ http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2007/06/20/quote-of-the-week-51/#comments Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:11:37 +0000 Navaho Gunleg http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2007/06/20/quote-of-the-week-51/ Boots Riley — you know, from the hip-hop duo The Coup — has once commented, that:
I am a communist. I have been a communist/socialist since I was 14 years old. I think that people should have democratic control over the profits that they produce. It is not real democracy until you have that. And the plain and simple definition of communism is the people having democratic control over the profits that they create.

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]]> http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2007/06/20/quote-of-the-week-51/feed/ 0 Quote Of The Week #50 http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2007/06/14/quote-of-the-week-50/ http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2007/06/14/quote-of-the-week-50/#comments Thu, 14 Jun 2007 08:30:19 +0000 Navaho Gunleg http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2007/06/14/quote-of-the-week-50/ From the song “Fight Until The End” by Sabac and featuring Immortal Technique — I quote the following lines:
Sometimes you gotta grab steel, blast, peal
Before they sentence you and serve your last meal.
I know fightin’ back is easier said then actin’,
Let’s start movin’ forward and stop steppin’ backwards.

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]]> http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2007/06/14/quote-of-the-week-50/feed/ 0 Quote Of The Week #49 http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2007/06/06/quote-of-the-week-49/ http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2007/06/06/quote-of-the-week-49/#comments Wed, 06 Jun 2007 10:13:24 +0000 Navaho Gunleg http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2007/06/06/quote-of-the-week-49/ Again, it has been an awful long while since the last post and maybe I ought to rename this to ”Quote of the Month” (but then, in a couple of months I’d might have to rename it back)…

So anyway, until I do return to the usual programming, today I wanted to share this one, an excerpt from lyrics by Everlast which I just discovered:

take seven politicians
put them in a line
take seven Hollow Points
put them in my Nine
I’ll give them seven more minutes
for some prayin’ time
then I’ll pull back my trigger
and I’ll blow your mind…

(From http://not-in-our.name/takesevenpoliticians/.)

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]]> http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2007/06/06/quote-of-the-week-49/feed/ 1 Quote Of The Week #48 http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2007/04/13/quote-of-the-week-48/ http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2007/04/13/quote-of-the-week-48/#comments Fri, 13 Apr 2007 06:13:58 +0000 Navaho Gunleg http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2007/04/13/quote-of-the-week-48/ Marcus Brigstocke once said (and this is a pretty well-known quote I believe),
“If Pacman had affected us as kids we’d be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music.”

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]]> http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2007/04/13/quote-of-the-week-48/feed/ 0 Quote Of The Week #47 http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2007/03/22/quote-of-the-week-47/ http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2007/03/22/quote-of-the-week-47/#comments Thu, 22 Mar 2007 09:25:17 +0000 Navaho Gunleg http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2007/03/22/quote-of-the-week-46-2/ This week, I’m passing the mic to The Coup and dead prez, in the excellent tune “Get Up”, from The Coup’s album “Party Music” (which I wouldn’t have discovered if it wasn’t for Sean at connecting*the*dots):

You got to get up right now,
Turn the system upside down.
You’re supposed to be fed up by now,
Turn the system upside down;
Get up!

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We’re all in it together.

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]]> http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2007/02/28/quote-of-the-week-46/feed/ 0 Quote Of The Week #45 http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2007/02/07/quote-of-the-week-45/ http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2007/02/07/quote-of-the-week-45/#comments Wed, 07 Feb 2007 06:33:25 +0000 Navaho Gunleg http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2007/02/07/quote-of-the-week-45/ The character Benoit, the fictional serial killer followed by a camera-team, in the French film C’est arrive pres de chez vouz, recites the following poem:

Pigeon, winged cloak of grey,
In the city’s hellish maw,
One glance and you fly away,
Your grace holds me in awe.

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]]> http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2007/02/07/quote-of-the-week-45/feed/ 0 Quote Of The Week #44 http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2007/01/24/quote-of-the-week-44/ http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2007/01/24/quote-of-the-week-44/#comments Wed, 24 Jan 2007 06:23:28 +0000 Navaho Gunleg http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2007/01/24/quote-of-the-week-44/ Dr. David Bruce Banner, incredibly played by the late Bill Bixby in the Incredible Hulk-series, says the following in the episode Married (this story, I believe, is actually an old Buddhist wisdom):
I once heard a story about a man being chased by a tiger. He came to a cliff. He fell, but he grabbed a branch, and he just hung there, just out of reach of the tiger. And he looked down. You know what he saw? Another tiger, waiting for him to drop.
Then he felt that the branch he was clinging to was coming out of the cliff by the roots. Now while all this was happening, he noticed something: he noticed, growing in a cleft besides him, a single wild strawberry. And with his free hand he reached out and picked it and he ate it.
And he thought to himself: what a wonderful strawberry.

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]]> http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2007/01/24/quote-of-the-week-44/feed/ 0 Quote Of The Week #43 http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2007/01/17/quote-of-the-week-43/ http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2007/01/17/quote-of-the-week-43/#comments Wed, 17 Jan 2007 11:18:19 +0000 Navaho Gunleg http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2007/01/17/quote-of-the-week-43/ Chuck D, as quoted in the song Can’t Hold Us Back, referring to todays music industry:
Clear the madness, and put the message in.

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]]> http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2007/01/17/quote-of-the-week-43/feed/ 0 Quote Of The Week #42 http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2007/01/10/quote-of-the-week-42/ http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2007/01/10/quote-of-the-week-42/#comments Wed, 10 Jan 2007 06:05:15 +0000 Navaho Gunleg http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2007/01/10/quote-of-the-week-42/ William of Occam, the English philosopher known for stating that, if you have multiple theories explaining a phenomenon the simplest solution with the least assumptions has to be the best one. It was only in 1852 that a Sir William Rowan Hamilton first used the term Occam’s Razor to refer to this principle.

The original line in Occam’s work refering to this principle is:

Numquam ponenda est pluralitas sine necessitate.

Plurality ought never be posed without necessity.

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]]> http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2007/01/10/quote-of-the-week-42/feed/ 0 Quote Of The Week #41 http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2007/01/03/quote-of-the-week-41/ http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2007/01/03/quote-of-the-week-41/#comments Wed, 03 Jan 2007 07:54:41 +0000 Navaho Gunleg http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2007/01/03/quote-of-the-week-41/ This time, I’m quoting Paul Simon’s the Boy in the Bubble. I was listening to it the other day and realised I never understood the song better than I did then.

These are the days of miracle and wonder — this is the long distance call
The way the camera follows us in slow-mo, the way we look to us all
The way we look to a distant constellation,
That’s dying in a corner of the sky.
These are the days of miracle and wonder
And don’t cry baby, don’t cry…
Don’t cry.

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]]> http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2007/01/03/quote-of-the-week-41/feed/ 0 Quote Of The Week #40 http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2006/12/27/quote-of-the-week-40/ http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2006/12/27/quote-of-the-week-40/#comments Wed, 27 Dec 2006 09:38:54 +0000 Navaho Gunleg http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2006/12/27/quote-of-the-week-40/ Mestrius Plutarchus, the Greek historian and writer, wrote in his essay On Superstition, that…
All men whilst they are awake are in one common world; but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.

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]]> http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2006/12/27/quote-of-the-week-40/feed/ 0 Quote Of The Week #39 http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2006/12/20/quote-of-the-week-39/ http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2006/12/20/quote-of-the-week-39/#comments Wed, 20 Dec 2006 08:15:03 +0000 Navaho Gunleg http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2006/12/20/quote-of-the-week-39/ Mahatma Gandhi, the guy who ‘invented’ resistance through civil disobedience, has once noted:
The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

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]]> http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2006/12/20/quote-of-the-week-39/feed/ 0 Quote Of The Week #38 http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2006/12/13/quote-of-the-week-38/ http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2006/12/13/quote-of-the-week-38/#comments Wed, 13 Dec 2006 09:46:04 +0000 Navaho Gunleg http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2006/12/13/quote-of-the-week-38/ Marcus Tullius Cicero, the Roman philosopher and orator, wrote in his De Legibus, part III:
Ollis salus populi suprema lex esto.

That the people’s good is the highest law.

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]]> http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2006/12/13/quote-of-the-week-38/feed/ 0 Quote Of The Week #38 #37 http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2006/12/06/quote-of-the-week-37/ http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2006/12/06/quote-of-the-week-37/#comments Wed, 06 Dec 2006 07:09:35 +0000 Navaho Gunleg http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2006/12/06/quote-of-the-week-38/ Just caught this logging in, by Plato:
Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

Update: Woops, seems I wasn’t fully awake this morning — this is supposed to be quote #37.

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]]> http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2006/12/06/quote-of-the-week-37/feed/ 1 Quote Of The Week #36 http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2006/11/29/quote-of-the-week-36/ http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2006/11/29/quote-of-the-week-36/#comments Wed, 29 Nov 2006 09:35:37 +0000 Navaho Gunleg http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2006/11/29/quote-of-the-week-36/ I was listening to this Everlast tune called Today (Watch Me Shine) noticing the following lines:
You can’t always get the things you want, love.
Get what you deserve or maybe what you need.

Incidentally, I think the “Whitey Ford Sings The Blues” album is one of his better albums, in that particular style…

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]]> http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2006/11/29/quote-of-the-week-36/feed/ 0 Quote Of the Week #35 http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2006/11/22/quote-of-the-week-35/ http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2006/11/22/quote-of-the-week-35/#comments Wed, 22 Nov 2006 08:39:48 +0000 Navaho Gunleg http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2006/11/22/quote-of-the-week-35/ So it is Tuesday as I type this — I was just reading this post and comments on connecting*the*dots noticing a part of Steve Martin‘s Non-Conformist Oath (not even being sure if the guy that posted it was actually aware of that fact).

Anyway, reading that line really brought some memories back from the early eighties…. I guess I was about 6 or 7 then, and my parents came back from a trip to the US and brought, among other souvenirs, this cassette with them. A tape with a recording of Steve Martin’s show “A Wild And Crazy Guy”.

I kinda ‘grew up’ with that tape — man I thought he was funny, even though I didn’t really understand 100% of what he was saying, I did memorise a lot of his stuff.

That’s why, this week’s Quote Of The Week is dedicated to Mr. Steve Martin (it doesn’t always have to be serious, you know):

Well, excuuuuuuuuuuse meeee!!

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]]> http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2006/11/22/quote-of-the-week-35/feed/ 0 Quote Of The Week #34 http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2006/11/15/quote-of-the-week-34/ http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2006/11/15/quote-of-the-week-34/#comments Wed, 15 Nov 2006 07:54:09 +0000 Navaho Gunleg http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2006/11/15/quote-of-the-week-34/ I was listening some old-school music the other day (because I love to reminisce) and couldn’t resist using it as this weeks QOTW…It was Ice-T’s Power album, the song Radio Suckers I was listening to, hearing the following line again (which doesn’t even apply to rap-music only):

We shouldn’t sell out,we should just yell out
And get them wack motherfuckers the hell out

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]]> http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2006/11/15/quote-of-the-week-34/feed/ 0 Quote Of The Week #33 http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2006/11/01/quote-of-the-week-33/ http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2006/11/01/quote-of-the-week-33/#comments Wed, 01 Nov 2006 05:15:28 +0000 Navaho Gunleg http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2006/11/01/quote-of-the-week-33/ This week, Gustav Landauer gets a mention. In his life, he translated Shakespeare’s works into German — but he’s better know for his own anarchist writings. In one of these, Die Revolution, he wrote:
The State is a condition, a certain relationship among human beings, a mode of behavior, we destroy it by contracting other relationships, by behaving differently toward one and other.

We are the State and continue to be the State until we have created the institutions that form a real community.

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]]> http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2006/11/01/quote-of-the-week-33/feed/ 0 Quote Of The Week #32 http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2006/10/25/quote-of-the-week-32/ http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2006/10/25/quote-of-the-week-32/#comments Wed, 25 Oct 2006 08:34:24 +0000 Navaho Gunleg http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2006/10/25/quote-of-the-week-32/ I don’t know where I picked it up and who said it first, nor did a quick Google give any suggestion as to who might have…. Anyway, here goes:
Well, anarchy is better than no system at all.

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]]> http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2006/10/25/quote-of-the-week-32/feed/ 0 Quote Of The Week #31 http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2006/10/18/quote-of-the-week-31/ http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2006/10/18/quote-of-the-week-31/#comments Wed, 18 Oct 2006 08:15:17 +0000 Navaho Gunleg http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2006/10/18/quote-of-the-week-31/ So I was watching the Richard Pryor 1979 Long Beach, California show that aired on the BBC earlier this month last night and I was laughing my ass off — he had me in some serious stitches, man. I once again realised it’s damn sad he passed away. But hey, death is just a part of life. We all have to go — and some of us might even get noted here as a Quote Of The Week. :-)

But you gotta stay in shape and shit, because you never can tell when in real life you will have to…
RUN!

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