Interview question: Your favorite quote?

[businessguy]

Have you ever been asked this question? What was your respone/quote? And how did you go about explaining why it is your favorite quote.

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[Shredder]

and this too shall pass.

cynical, optimistic...it can go either way. in the big picture, little matters. rejected? it will pass. got dumped? it will pass. raining on the parade of an enemy who had something good happen? it will pass. dunno if its my favorite...there are a lot of good ones out there. i like it though.

 

[Zoom-Zoom]

"The way your dad looked at it, this watch was your birthright. He'd be damned if any of the slopes were gonna get their greasy yellow hands on his boy's birthright. So he hid it in the one place he knew he could hide something: his ass. Five long years, he wore this watch up his ass. Then when he died of dysentery, he gave me the watch. I hid this uncomfortable piece of metal up my ass for two years. Then, after seven years, I was sent home to my family. And now, little man, I give the watch to you."

 

[NapeSpikes]

"The way your dad looked at it, this watch was your birthright. He'd be damned if any of the slopes were gonna get their greasy yellow hands on his boy's birthright. So he hid it in the one place he knew he could hide something: his ass. Five long years, he wore this watch up his ass. Then when he died of dysentery, he gave me the watch. I hid this uncomfortable piece of metal up my ass for two years. Then, after seven years, I was sent home to my family. And now, little man, I give the watch to you."

What's that from?

 

[Ugly Boy]

Christopher Walken talking to little Bruce Willis in Pulp Fiction.

 

[DropkickMurphy]

Quotes from my favorite movie based on a comic book series:
"Sic vis pacem, para bellum. If you want peace, prepare for war."


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"What's the torch for?"
"2000 degrees, Mick. Enough to turn steel into butter. It won't hurt at first. It's too hot, you see? The flame sears the nerve endings shut, killing them. You'll go into shock... and all you'll feel is... cold. Isn't science fun, Mickey?"

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"It's been five months since my family was killed. I don't see ONE man in jail."
"Obviously you're upset..."
"Upset? Is that the word? I used to get upset. When I got a flat tire, when a plane was delayed. I used to get *upset* when the Yankees won the series. So if that's what upset means, what am I feeling now? If you know the word, tell me because I don't."
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THE BEST ONE OF THEM ALL:
"In certain extreme situations, the law is inadequate. In order to shame its inadequacy, it is necessary to act outside the law. To pursue... natural justice. This is not vengeance. Revenge is not a valid motive, it's an emotional response. No. Not vengeance. Punishment."



A more palatable favorite of mine:
"Nothing in this world is quite so dangerous as sincere ignorance or conscientious stupidity."- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

[basfan2000]

That was awesome, zoom-zoom. How about another Walken classic:

"I gotta have more cowbell, baby!"

 

[QuikClot]

"That which is hateful to you, do not do to others, the rest is commentary; go now, and study"


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"Where there is much desire to learn, there will of necessity be much writing, much arguing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making."


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"If we must die, let it not be like hogs
Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot,
While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs,
Making their mock at our accurséd lot.
If we must die, O let us nobly die,
So that our precious blood may not be shed
In vain; then even the monsters we defy
Shall be constrained to honor us though dead!
O, kinsmen! we must meet the common foe!
Though far outnumbered let us show us brave,
And for their thousand blows deal one death-blow!
What though before us lies the open grave?
Like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack,
Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!"

 

[futuremd22283]

my signature...it's always inspired me...good old Einstein

 

[inflamesdjk02]

"i need a bobblehead donnie doll with up to thirty hilarious donnie sayings."
- my friend jack

 

[DrBowtie]

Quotes from my favorite movie based on a comic book series:
"Sic vis pacem, para bellum. If you want peace, prepare for war."

It is originally from Roman General Tiberius (I can't remember the number).

 

[CCEMTP2DOC]

If you think you can, or think you can't, your right.

 

[SanDiegoSOD]

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."
- Mark Twain

 

[BooMed]

"You must be the change you want to see in the world."

And

"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?"

Mahatma Gandhi

 

[politik]

"We get too soon old and too late smart"

 

[Doctormo24]

"Becoming a M.D. is a matter of effort."

 

[The Madden Bus]

Quotes from my favorite movie based on a comic book series:
"Sic vis pacem, para bellum. If you want peace, prepare for war."


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"What's the torch for?"
"2000 degrees, Mick. Enough to turn steel into butter. It won't hurt at first. It's too hot, you see? The flame sears the nerve endings shut, killing them. You'll go into shock... and all you'll feel is... cold. Isn't science fun, Mickey?"

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"It's been five months since my family was killed. I don't see ONE man in jail."
"Obviously you're upset..."
"Upset? Is that the word? I used to get upset. When I got a flat tire, when a plane was delayed. I used to get *upset* when the Yankees won the series. So if that's what upset means, what am I feeling now? If you know the word, tell me because I don't."
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THE BEST ONE OF THEM ALL:
"In certain extreme situations, the law is inadequate. In order to shame its inadequacy, it is necessary to act outside the law. To pursue... natural justice. This is not vengeance. Revenge is not a valid motive, it's an emotional response. No. Not vengeance. Punishment."



A more palatable favorite of mine:
"Nothing in this world is quite so dangerous as sincere ignorance or conscientious stupidity."- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

the Punisher is hands down the best Marvel comic made into a movie. I loved that movie, had a huge argument among my roomates as to which was better, the Punisher or Sin City. I said the Punisher, quite frankly I hated sin city.

And you missed one good quote from that movie.
"do you know who's money this is?"
"Howard Saints."
"He's gonna **** your life up!"
"He already ****ed my life up!"
(I think this could apply to medical school)

 

[etf]

"old enough to know better but young enough to not give a f*ck"

 

[TX515]

Preach the gospel at all times. If necessary use words.

 

[SlippingSloth]

A little long, but a recent fave.


"It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see..."

"You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?"

"No," said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, "nothing so simple. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people."

"Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy."

"I did," said ford. "It is."

"So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't the people get rid of the lizards?"

"It honestly doesn't occur to them," said Ford. "They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want."

"You mean they actually vote for the lizards?"

"Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course."

"But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?"

"Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in.

 

[uvce]

Quotes from my favorite movie based on a comic book series:
"Sic vis pacem, para bellum. If you want peace, prepare for war."

Somewhat along the same lines:

Peace must be preserved, with blows if necessary.

From the Don Camillo books by Giovanni Guareschi about a communist mayor and a Roman Catholic priest in a little Italian town.

 

[medicalbound]

Prepare the child for the path, not the path for the child.

 

[Renoir]

If you think you can, or think you can't, your right.

I Like this one...I have also heard it

"The man who says 'I can' and the man who says 'I can't' are both right"

That would proabably be my answer if asked in an interview setting. But another favorite would have to be:

"Of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most" ~Ozzy Osbourne

 

[PurpleHaze]

"A lack of planning on your part, does not constitute an emergency on my part." ~Unknown

"When you can't have what you want, it's time to start wanting what you have."
-Kathleen A. Sutton

"Never lie, steal, cheat, or drink. But if you must lie, lie in the arms of the one you love. If you must steal, steal away from bad company. If you must cheat, cheat death. And if you must drink, drink in the moments that take your breath away." -Hitch

 

[georgiapeachmd]

I love this one:
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

-John Donne, Meditation XVII

 

[temmie]

Preach the gospel at all times. If necessary use words.

gotta second that quote. i think it's great

 

[gmreed2]

"The only place where success comes before work is the dictionary."

 

[gmreed2]

"Heroes get remembered, but legends never die."

 

[TooMuchResearch]

"Don't grave dig."

 

[sm640739]

Everything happens for a reason.

 

[Geekchick921]

Be the change you wish to see in the world.- Ghandi
Well-behaved women seldom make history. - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
I say embrace the inner geek in yourself and just enjoy it. Life is too short to be cool. - Shirley Manson

I think they sum up the majority of my outlook on life.

 

[TooMuchResearch]

Everything happens for a reason.

So all threads die for a reason. Let us observe that rule and post elsewhere.

 

[RogueUnicorn]

"Don't grave dig."

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