Aron Flam quotes

It's only happened to me once [crying in the end of the film] - the end of Forrest Gump. I think it's sad because the moral of the film is that you can have no brain whatsoever and still make it in this world. That made me terribly depressed.
-- Aron Flam

#Thinking #Brain #World

My first real girlfriend broke up with me because she was married already.
-- Aron Flam

#Girlfriend #Real #Firsts

Branne's [Pavlovic] parents wanted him to become a taxi driver, but he became a stand-up comedian instead. So they died of shame.
-- Aron Flam

#Parent #Comedian #Shame

I regret that I stayed in my first relationship for too long. I didn't get that it wasn't working out.
-- Aron Flam

#Regret #Long #Work Out

My mum still wonders when I'll get a real job. These are the questions we discuss at our family dinners.
-- Aron Flam

#Jobs #Real #Dinner

Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.

Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'

Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.

Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't.

Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

When you inquire 'Who am I?' if you are honest, you'll notice that it takes you right back to silence instantly. The brain doesn't have an answer, so all of a sudden there is silence.

All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.

And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.

It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.