Kevin O. Woghiren

Favorite Quotes

“It is not a dream. It is a simple feat of scientific electrical engineering, only expensive… blind, faint-hearted, doubting world.” -Tesla

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself”-Unknown

“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if i have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense” -Buddha

“A sickness known as hate; not a virus, not a microbe, not a germ, but a sickness nonetheless. Highly contagious, deadly in its effects. Don’t look for it in the Twilight Zone. Look for it in a mirror. Look for it, before the light goes out altogether” -The Twilight Zone I am the Night-Color Me Black

“You’re a lost civilization!” crowed the anthropologist to the Indian chief. “We don’t mind being lost,” answered the chief. “It’s being found that scares us.”  -The Wealth and Poverty of Nations

“MAN LOOKS IN THE ABYSS, THERE’S NOTHING STARING BACK AT HIM. AT THAT MOMENT MAN FINDS HIS CHARACTER, AND THAT IS WHAT KEEPS HIM OUT OF THE ABYSS.”
-”Wall Street”

GIVE ME FREE! GIVE ME FREE! -Cinque (slave)”Amistad”

The Gods envy us. They envy us because we’re mortal, because any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again. -Achilles, “Troy”

The stuff that dreams are made of. -Sam Spade “The Maltese Falcon”

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, or walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much… -Rudyard Kipling

My father gave it to me…I think he wanted me to kill you. -Sonny “I, Robot”

A little learning is a dangerous thing. -Ben Franklin

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. -Leo Buscaglia

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. -Winston Churchill

“Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing…after they have exhausted all other possibilities.”.
-Winston Churchill

Anticipation of death is worse than death itself. -”Hard to Kill”

When you judge others, you do not define them, you define yourself. -Earl Nightingale

To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch…to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Hello Security?…Merry Christmas!!”
-(Trading Places) Eddie Murphy tries to call security to his office and then a gun is pulled on him.

“The World is Yours!”
-Scarface

“If someone shows you who they are, believe them.”
-Maya Angelou

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power”
-Honest Abe Lincoln

“The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed — for lack of a better word — is good.
Greed is right.
Greed works.
Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit.
Greed, in all of its forms — greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge — has marked the upward surge of mankind.
And greed — you mark my words — will not only save Teldar Paper, but that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA.”
-Gordon Gekko “Wall Street”

“All our young lives we search for someone to love. We choose partners, change partners…all the while wondering if there’s someone, somewhere, searching for us.” -The Wonder Years

“I slept under a roof my father owned, in a bed my father bought. Nothing was mine except my heart, and my fears, and my growing knowledge that not every road was going to lead home anymore.” -The Wonder Years

“So you think that money is the root of all evil? Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can’t exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value. Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears or of the looters, who take it from you by force. Money is made possible only by the men who produce. Is this what you consider evil?”
-Ayn Rand

“Money is a stupid measure of achievement, but unfortunately it is the only universal measure we have.”
-Charles Steinmetz

“We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.”
-Native American proverb

“I do not fear death, in view of the fact that I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it”-various sources

“La-di-da, la-di-da, la la” -Annie Hall

Favorite Musicians
U2, Rossini, Wasis Diop, Marvin Gaye, NAS, Sade, Tupac, Jay-Z, Ray Charles, Dave Matthews Band, Seal, Frank Sinatra, Bob Marley, Gnarls Barkley, Coldplay, Natalie Cole, Elton John, Michael Jackson, Amy Winehouse, The Police, MGMT, Louis Armstrong, Nina Simone, The Andrews Sisters, Naughty by Nature, Bruce Springsteen and the list goes on.

Favorite Performance Arts
Mnemonic (play), Pirates of Penzance (operetta), Savage in Limbo (play), Intimate Apparel (play), Death of a Salesman (play), King Lear (play)

Favorite Movies
The Raid: Redemption, SOLARIS, THE KING’S SPEECH, STAR TREK: First Contact, ANNIE HALL, WALL STREET, COOLEY HIGH, APOCALYPSE NOW, Schindler’s List, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Ocean’s 11 (with original 60′s Rat Pack), A Thomas Crown Affair, Munnabhai MBBS, April Love, Thirteen Days, Amistad, Its a Wonderful Life, The Aviator, Can-Can,  Colors, Clockers, US Marshals, Goodfellas, The Fugitive, Coming to America, Pulp-Fiction, The Shawshank Redemption, An Unexpected Famly, Hard to Kill, The Air Up There, The Silence of the Lambs, To Kill a Mockingbird,  Jungle Fever, Do the Right Thing, Hangin’ with the Homeboys, Platoon, Scarface, The Terminator, Predator, Dumb and Dumber, Glory, Independence Day, I Robot, The gods must be crazy, Mrs. Doubtfire, Jurassic Park I and II, Enemy Mine, Blue Streak, Ratatouille, Love and Basketball, Star Trek: The Wrathof Khan, White Men Can’t Jump, Belly, Rush Hour, Saw, Braveheart, Rocky, Patton, SNATCH, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Black Hawk Down, Trading Places, The Boondock Saints, Happy Feet, The Inside Man, Syriana, Die Hard Trilogy, V for Vendetta,  A Bronx Tale, Seven, The Impossible Years, The Day the Earth Stood Still (original), The Breakfast Club, The Kingdom, GURU, Sarkar, One-Eyed Jacks, Winchester ’71, Dead Poet’s Society, Michael Clayton, The Story of Qiu Ju, The Red Detachment, Raise the Red Lantern, New Year Sacrifice, American Psycho, Together, Not One Less, ATL, Body of Lies, Miracle at St. Anna, Good Night and Good Luck, Star Trek (2009), The Constant Gardener, Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country, Gang Related, Gigot, Mulan (Chinese version), Inception, The Lion King, Tenacious D

Favorite Books
PROGRAMMING THE UNIVERSE, Outlaws of the Marsh I-IV, THE ART OF WAR, The World is Flat, The Republic, Invisible Man, Illiad (in Latin), Things Fall Apart,  To Kill a Mockingbird, The Odyssey (in Ancient Greek), Catcher in the Rye, The Prince, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Shock, Roses are Red, Pop Goes the Weasel, Violets Are Blue, Four Blind Mice, The Social Contract, Discourse on Political Economy, Runaway Jury, As Summers Die, Kiss The Girls, The Law (Loi), No. 1 Ladies Detective series, Larry King: My Remarkable Journey, The Street of Crocodiles and Other Stories

Favorite TV Shows/Web series/Media sources
STAR TREK: Deep Space Nine, STAR TREK: The Next Generation, Real Time With Bill Maher, Seinfield, Chappelle Show, The Wonder Years, ER (original), Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Law & Order (original), Doug, Rugrats, Jamie Foxx Show, The Cosby Show, Dexter’s Laboratory, 24, JEOPARDY!, Science Weekly with Alok Jha, Guardian (liberal source), Fox News (conservative source)