“Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.”
- Michael Levine

favourite vocal samples in songs
~ “the holy inquisition finds you guilty of heresy, and you and your descendants must be cleansed in blood” - in Burning Heretics by Apoptygma Berzerk, from “the Pit and the Pendulum”
~ “If you’re frightened of dying, and you’re holding on, you see devils tearing your life away. But, if you’ve made your peace, then the devils are really angels, freeing you from the earth” - in Forsaken by VNV Nation, from “Jacob’s Ladder”
~ “i believe I’ve spent enough time in the company of death.” - in Anthem by Assemblage 23, from “Jurassic Park: the Lost World”
~ “Any medical student could have seen that the eyes were torn from the body by nothing other than human fingers” - in Pedafly by Skinny Puppy, from “Zombi 2“?
~ “If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish Him.” - in Stray Bullet by KMFDM, from “God & the State” by Mikhail Bakunin, read by Sascha K?
~ “There is a time to be born… and a time to die… a time to embrace… and a time to refrain from embracing… a time to build up… and a time to tear down… a time to love… and a time to hate… a time to kill… burn… bludgeon… and mutilate! (screaming)” - in Blindhammer by Assemblage 23 from “Straight to Hell”

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from “End of Days”
Gabriel Byrne’s character (about God): “Something good happens, “It’s His will.” Something bad happens, “He moves in mysterious ways.”"

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from “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” tv show
Spike (to Angel and Buffy): “You’re not friends. You’ll never be friends. You’ll be in love till it kills you both. You’ll fight, and you’ll shag, and you’ll hate each other till it makes you quiver, but you’ll never be friends. Love isn’t brains, children, it’s blood … blood screaming inside you to work its will. I may be love’s bitch, but at least I’m man enough to admit it.”

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from “the Shawshank Redemption“
Ellis Boyd ‘Red’ Redding (voice-over): “Those of us who knew him best talk about him often. i swear, the stuff he pulled … sometimes it makes me sad though, him being gone. i have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged - their feathers are just too bright - and when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice, but still the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they’re gone …. I guess I just miss my friend.”

… For Crofty …

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from “the Prophecy“
Simon (voice-over): “I remember the first war … the way the sky burned, the faces of angels destroyed. I saw a third of Heaven’s legion banished, and the creation of Hell. I stood with my brothers and watched Lucifer fall. But now my brothers are not brothers and we have come here where we are mortal to steal a dark soul, not yet Lucifer’s, to serve our cause. I have always obeyed … but I never thought the war would happen again.”

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