Kevin Woghiren

Favorite Quotes

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

“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

“Money never sleeps pal!”
-Gordon Gekko, “Wall Street”

“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

“Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidise it” -Ronald Reagan

“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

“O, Make(s) me wanna holler the way they do my life” -Marvin Gaye

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

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
-Eleanor Roosevelt

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

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
-Gandhi

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

“Liberals want the government to be your Mommy. Conservatives want government to be your Daddy. Libertarians want it to treat you like an adult.” -Andre Marrou

“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

“Maybe part of loving is learning to let go.”
-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

“Life is not about how much you make, its more so how much you save.”
-My Dad

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

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and famous?’ Actually, who are you not to be? -Marianne Williamson

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

“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you wanna go far, go with company”

“Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.” -Ronald Reagan

“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

Favorite Musicians
U2, Rossini (almost all classical music), Wasis Diop, Earth Wind and Fire, AZ, Johnny Cash, Marvin Gaye, Temptations, Chi-Lites, Joe Cocker, NAS, Sade, Lyfe Jennings, Jill Scott, Willie Nelson, Tupac, Common, Jay-Z, Ray Charles, The Firm, Dave Matthews Band, DMX, Seal, Frank Sinatra, Bob Marley, Gnarls Barkley, Busta Rhymes, Red Hot Chili Peppers, B.I.G, Coldplay, Jadakiss, Lennie Williams, A Tribe Called Quest, Bill Withers, Canibus, Al Green, Natalie Cole, Elton John, Bob Marley, Michael Jackson, Mos Def, Talib Qweli, Amy Winehouse, The Police, Horse in the Sea, Louis Armstrong, Damian Marley, Nina Simone, The Andrews Sisters, Naughty by Nature, Bruce Springsteen, House of Pain, Weird Al, Pete Rock and CL Smooth, Len Barry, 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
SOLARIS, STAR TREK: First Contact, THE LION KING, WALL STREET, Ocean’s 11 (with original 60’s Rat Pack), A Thomas Crown Affair, Munnabhai MBBS, April Love, Thirteen Days, 3 Days of the Condor, Amistad, Its a Wonderful Life, The Aviator, Can-Can, Crash, South Central, Colors, Menace II Society, Clockers, US Marshals, Goodfellas, The Fugitive, Coming to America, Airplane!, Ben-Hur, Pulp-Fiction, The Shawshank Redemption, An Unexpected Famly, Hard to Kill, The Air Up There, The Silence of the Lambs, To Kill a Mockingbird, Shaft, Jungle Fever, Do the Right Thing, Hangin’ with the Homeboys, Platoon, King Kong, Scarface, The Terminator, Predator 1 and 2, Out of Africa, Mississippi Burning, Dumb and Dumber, Glory, Independence Day, I Robot, The gods must be crazy, Saving Private Ryan, Mrs. Doubtfire, Jurassic Park I andII, Enemy Mine, Blue Streak, Ratatouille, Love and Basketball, Troy, Star Trek: The Wrathof Khan, White Men Can’t Jump, Belly, Rush Hour Trilogy, Saw, Braveheart, Rocky, Hotel Rwanda, Patton, SNATCH, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Black Hawk Down, Trading Places, The Boondock Saints, The Pursuit of Happyness, Happy Feet, The Inside Man, Syriana, Die Hard Trilogy, V for Vendetta, BLACK SNAKE MOAN, FRACTURE, The Departed, A Bronx Tale, Seven, Baby Boy, The Impossible Years, The Day the Earth Stood Still (original), Friday Night Lights, The Color Purple, Babel, Smokin Aces, The King and I, The Breakfast Club, The Kingdom, Girl 6, GURU, Sarkar, District B13, Maria Full of Grace, One-Eyed Jacks, Winchester ‘71, Dead Poet’s Society, Michael Clayton, The Story of Qiu Ju, The Red Detachment, Raise the Red Lantern, Zhang Yimou movies, New Year Sacrifice, American Psycho, Together, Not One Less, ATL, Kiss The Girls, Body of Lies, Miracle at St. Anna, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Good Night and Good Luck, Star Trek (2009), The Constant Gardener, Runaway Jury, Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country, Gang Related, Gigot, Mulan (Chinese version)

Favorite Books
Outlaws of the Marsh I-IV, THE ART OF WAR, The World is Flat, The Republic, Globaloney, The Travels of a T-shirt in a Global Economy, The Invisible Man, Illiad (in Latin), Pride and Prejudice, Things Fall Apart, Set Forth at Dawn, Animal Farm, Lolita, Black Boy, The Great Gatsby, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Odyssey (in Ancient Greek), The Aeneid (in Latin), Mountains Beyond Mountains, Catcher in the Rye, The Wealth of Nations, 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, Any James Patterson book, 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 and Channels
STAR TREK: Deep Space Nine, STAR TREK: The Next Generation, Real Time With Bill Maher, Thea, 106 & Park, Entourage, Mad Money, 30 ROCK, Seinfield, Chappelle Show, The Wonder Years, ER, Good Times, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, NYPD Blue, Law & Order (original), Monk, Pinky and the Brain, The Animaniacs, Doug, Rugrats, Without a Trace, Jamie Foxx, The Cosby Show, Dexter’s Laboratory, ESPN, 24, Steve Harvey, Everybody Hates Chris, Boston Legal, George Lopez, Band of Brothers, A Different World, Beast Wars, I Love Lucy, Bobby G Adventure Capitalist, Wall Street Warriors, Bloomberg, CNN, HBO, The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency