Nick Carraway: [First lines] [narrating] Nick Carraway: In my younger and more vulnerable years, my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. "Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages you've had." While reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope, I've come to admit that my tolerance of human behavior has its limits. Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this story, represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn. And yet there was something gorgeous about him. Some hightened sensitivity to the promises of life, a romantic readiness such as I've never found in any other person and which it is not likely I'll ever find again.
Cultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long lives. They persist, generation after generation, virtually intact, even as the economic and social and demographic conditions that spawned them have vanished, and they play such a role in directing attitudes and behavior that we cannot make sense of our world without them.
Sometimes people will hear you and be able to change their behavior, but often their behavior has more to do with their own need for approval than with your need for support. No matter what their response, you need to be firm and hold your ground. At the end of the day, your health is your responsibility.
Marlin: [Marlin is cutting Ritalin on the counter. Marlin and Chloe snort it] Thank God for little brothers with ADD. Chloe: Yeah, how's that working out for him? Has his behavior improved?
Mary: Then... [stammers] Mary: you're telling me your rude behavior and total lack of respect for me is just your natural personality and not in any way related to undue stress?
Hancock: [reading prepared text] I apologize to the people of Los Angeles. My behavior has been improper and I accept the consequences. I ask my fellow Angelinos for their patience and understanding. Life here can be difficult for me. After all, I am the only one of my kind. During my incarceration, I will be participating in alcohol and anger management treatment. You deserve better from me. I can be better. I will be better.
Nash: In competitive behavior someone always loses. Charles: Well, my niece knows that, John, and she's about this high. Nash: See if I derive an equilibrium where prevalence is a non-singular event where nobody loses, can you imagine the effect that would have on conflict scenarios, arm negotiations... Charles: When did you last eat? Nash: ...currency exchange? Charles: When did you last eat? You know, food. Nash: You have no respect for cognitive reverie, you know that? Charles: Yes. But pizza - now, pizza I have enormous respect for. And of course beer. [leaves] Nash: [throws stuff down and follows] I have respect for beer. I have respect for beer!
[a Borg scratches Data's flesh arm] Lieutenant Commander Data: Ah! Borg Queen: Is it becoming clear to you yet? Look at yourself, standing there, cradling the new flesh I've given you. If it means nothing to you, why protect it? Lieutenant Commander Data: I... I am simply imitating the behavior of humans. Borg Queen: You're becoming more human all the time, Data; now you're learning how to lie. Lieutenant Commander Data: My programming was not designed to process these sensations. Borg Queen: Then tear the skin from your limb as you would a defective circuit. [Data hesitates] Borg Queen: Go ahead, Data! We won't stop you! [Data forces himself to try to tear off the skin] Borg Queen: Do it! Don't be tempted by flesh! [Data relents and leaves the skin alone] Borg Queen: Are you familiar with physical forms of pleasure? Lieutenant Commander Data: If you are referring to sexuality, I am... fully functional, programmed in... multiple techniques. Borg Queen: How long since you've used them? Lieutenant Commander Data: Eight years, seven months, sixteen days, four minutes, twenty-two... Borg Queen: Far too long. [they kiss passionately]
General Hein: Report any aberrant behavior in Dr. Ross to the Major immediately. Grey: "Aberrant behavior," sir? General Hein: The woman carries an alien infection. It may be clouding her judgment. They may be manipulating her for their very own purposes. Grey: Is the General suggesting Dr. Ross is a spy? General Hein: The General is wondering why he's explaining himself to a Captain.
Ethan Thomas: So, the judge thinks we should offer your client a new plea agreement. Apparently she thinks the community would be better served without this trial. Erin Bruner: How do you feel about it, personally? Ethan Thomas: My job is to represent the interest of the people, make an effort to be objective. Erin Bruner: Hm. I ask because I know you're a Churchgoer. Now you're sent to prosecute a man of God. Ethan Thomas: Your priest broke the law and a young girl is dead. If he's a man of God then personally I think he's even more subject to the laws of moral behavior and punishment. If it were up to me he'd get no deal at all. Erin Bruner: What about forgiveness and compassion? Isn't that part of your Creed or does that just get in the way of your work? Ethan Thomas: If you have compassion for your client, counselor, you'll persuade him to accept this: Charges reduced to reckless endangerment, 12 months in a county jail, reducible to 6 plus probation if he can stay out of trouble. Somehow I expect he can manage that, but please understand me... if he refuses I will seek the maximum.
Dr. Cocteau: John Spartan, this display of barbaric behavior was unacceptable even in your time! John Spartan: Yeah. But it worked. [Shoots out the monitors with Cocteau's face on them] John Spartan: When a man like Pheonix has a gun to your head, ten seconds is nine and a half seconds longer than you live.
Bob Pigeon: Scott. When you inherit your fortune, on your twenty-first birthday, let's see... how far away is this? Scott Favor: One week away, Bob, just one more week. Bob Pigeon: Let's not call ourselves robbers, but Diana's foresters. Gentlemen of the shade. Minions of the Moon. Men of good government. Scott Favor: [under his breath] When I turn twenty-one, I don't want any more of this life. My mother and father will be surprised at the incredible change. It will impress them more when such a fuck-up like me turns good than if I had been a good son all along. All the past years I will think of as one big vacation. At least it wasn't as boring as schoolwork. All my bad behavior I'm going to throw away to pay my debt. I will change when everybody expects it the least.
Vivian Jaffe: Why do you think that you tell the mayo story so much? Brad Stand: I don't know. Why? Bernard Jaffe: It's propaganda. Brad Stand: [scoffing] For mayonnaise? Bernard Jaffe: For you. Vivian Jaffe: Specifically, you're so impressive because you know Shania. And you're so strong because you pulled one on her. Bernard Jaffe: You're a funny guy, a good guy. Vivian Jaffe: Keeping everyone laughing, so that maybe, quote, you don't get depressed. Brad Stand: [shouting] Well, what's so great about depression? Bernard Jaffe: Nothing. Unless it holds the key to something you compulsively avoid, so it will never be examined or felt. Hence your behavior becomes repetitive like the story. Vivian Jaffe: Like the story. Bernard Jaffe: Like the story. Bernard Jaffe: Shut up. Alright, I don't have to tell stories. Vivian Jaffe: What do you think would happen if you didn't tell the stories? Are you being yourself? Brad Stand: How am I not myself? Bernard Jaffe: How am I not myself? Vivian Jaffe: How am I not myself? Bernard Jaffe: How... am I not... myself?
Colonel Ludlow: Indians! Indians were the issue in those days. I can assure you, gentlemen, there is nothing quite so grotesque as the meeting of a child with the a bullet; or an entire village slaughtered while sleeping. That was the Government's resolution of that particular issue and I have seen nothing in its behavior since then that would persuade me that it has gained either in wisdom, common sense, or humanity.
Emma Woodhouse: I will not know how to behave when I see him. Mrs. Weston: Let his behavior be your guide Emma Woodhouse: Oh, but if he seems happy, I will know that he's decided to marry Harriet, and I will not, I know I will not be able to let him tell me. But if he seems sad, I'll know that John has advised him against it. I love John! Or he may seem sad because he fears telling me he will marry my friend. How can John let him do that? I hate John!
Reality denied comes back to haunt.
Big Bob: [bangs the gavel] You're out of order! David: Why am I out of order? [approaches Big Bob] Big Bob: Because I'm not gonna let you turn this courtroom into a circus! David: Well, I don't think it's a circus, and I don't think they do, either. [David turns to look at the crowd, where many of the black-and-white people are changing into color. There are gasps and murmurs. Jennifer grins] Big Bob: [bangs the gavel] This behavior must stop at once. David: But see? That's just the point! It can't stop at once, because it's in you, and you can't stop something that's inside you. Big Bob: It is not inside *me*! David: [amused] Oh, sure it is. Big Bob: No, it is not! David: [Leans forward and speaks confidentially with a mischievous grin] What do you want to do to me right now? Come on. Everyone is turning colors. Kids are making out in the street. No one is getting their dinner. [Raises his voice for all to hear] David: Hell, you could have a flood any minute! Pretty soon, the women could be going off to work, while the men stayed at home and cooked! Big Bob: That is not going to happen! David: [with defiant delight] But it *could* happen! Big Bob: [enraged] *No, it could not!* [Big Bob suddenly turns pink, and David grins victoriously]
Lois: Hal, this isn't funny. That behavior isn't acceptable. Hal: You're right. Boys, the next time you drive a golf cart over a catered lunch and into a swimming pool there will be consequences.
Patrick Bateman: I know my behavior can be... *erratic* sometimes.
[last lines] Flan: What kind of behavior is this? Ouisa: Tell me Flan, how much of your life can you account for? Flan: Are you drunk? What's the matter with you? Don't you realize how important she is? What are you unhappy about? The Cezanne sale went through, the Matisse went through, we're rich! Rich enough. Next month there's a Bonnard. Ouisa: These are the times I could take a knife and dig out your heart! Answer me! How much of your life... Flan: -my life can I account for? All of it! [pause] Flan: I am a gambler. Ouisa: We're a terrible match.
Of course genes can
Someone asked me why I'm politically correct, even when people hit out so openly at me. But the truth is, I've never been brought up to behave any other way. I can't say anything hurtful about anyone. I just don't believe in saying mean things. I won't feel good doing that. It's strange why being well behaved is perceived as being too 'propah' and staid. This is the way I am. I'm amazed how many people feel good hitting out at me. They're welcome to do it. Earlier, they had more leeway to deny their indiscretions in print. But now on television they look pretty ridiculous denying what they say.
Yes, it's vital to make lifestyle choices to mitigate damage caused by being a member of industrialized civilization, but to assign primary responsibility to oneself, and to focus primarily on making oneself better, is an immense copout, an abrogation of responsibility.
If I could do anything about the way people behave towards each other, I would, but since I can't I'll stick to animals.
Handsome is as handsome does
Ramona: Are you using my behavior with you against me?
The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.
We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.
It is a sin to believe evil of others but it is seldom a mistake.
We considered behaving, but it's against our nature.
This civilization is the impact of the world's consumption behavior.
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