The three persons famous persons you admire the most
I was trying to compose a screensaver/desktop serie of people I admire and when I came to the polical persons I just to wonder: Who would the members of point at and why.
My pick would be Khatami, Gorbatjev and de Klerk. Sorry no women, gays or minorities. Only fat men that worked their way through the bureaucracy and still managed to maintain their ideals well enough to start change while they could just as easily have glued their ass to their chair and sat their time out and enjoyed their lovely life.
My pick would be Khatami, Gorbatjev and de Klerk. Sorry no women, gays or minorities. Only fat men that worked their way through the bureaucracy and still managed to maintain their ideals well enough to start change while they could just as easily have glued their ass to their chair and sat their time out and enjoyed their lovely life.
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The three people I really admire (and, in some way or another, have had a really cool impact on my life, silly as it may be):
- Keith Richards (haha...it's true! He just keeps on being cool...)
- Norm Abram (New Yankee Workshop guy...inspired me to build things when I didn't think I could)
- Steve Jobs (I know...pat answer, especially for here. But it's true...my life revolves around music, creativity/design, gadgets, Macs, iThis and iThat, etc. When Jobs came back to Apple and the "iEra" began, it all started to fall into place and suddenly, about 2-3 years ago, my Mac became more to me than simply just something to doodle on or whatever. My entire life is pretty much ON my Mac, at this point. Jobs, love him or hate him, seemed to be the spark for all this: iMac, the iApps, the whole "hub" thing, making previously complex things easy for goofballs like me, etc. I admire him very much. Probably wouldn't like him worth a shit, but I admire him
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its true
add in don mattingly, david cone, tom hanks and eddie vedder and its complete
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2. myself
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The three men I admire the most,
Father, Son and the Holy Ghost.
I think I'd pick outsiders who changed a system: MLK jr., Gandhi, and Lech Walesa.
Next I'd have to say Theodore Roosevelt, one of our greatest Presidents and in my opinion the last decent Republican one. In some ways I think he was the first modern President as well.
Lastly I'll go with Al Smith. First Catholic to run for President of the US on a major ticket and an amazing man. Went from never having read a book to being the best bill writer NYS ever had. Might have won the Presidency too if it wasn't for bigotry.
Nelson Mandela. Three decades in jail, came out and said 'let's all love each other'. I probably would have said "war, fire, revenge and retribution."
George Clinton. For spreading The Funk tirelessly across five decades. Genius. Political, spiritual, intergalactic loverman, still the funkiest human being on the planet.
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I think I'd pick outsiders who changed a system: MLK jr., Gandhi, and Lech Walesa.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Now there's a better pick than the dictators, despots, terrorist and murders that Anders chose. Someone needs a history lesson.
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Now there's a better pick than the dictators, despots, terrorist and murders that Anders chose. Someone needs a history lesson.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Well why don´t you give me that lesson then
I think BRussel has the key to understanding my choices. I just don´t think it went further that they wanted. Perhaps Gorbatjev wanted the development not to have gone that fast and had hoped for a union of the former USSR states but thats all it was, a personal hope he wouldn´t enforce.
Visionaries:
Galileo - from Eureka to Europa, via Excommunication, etc
Edison - 90% perspiration, 20% inspiration rarely wrong (DC), gadget guy
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Da Vinci - renaissance superstar for rent... invents, creates, paints, does odd jobs
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more categories and nominations to be announced
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2. Robert Williams. An artist who knows no boundries.
3. Iggy Pop. Met him. He is rock and roll personified and a cool dude. And Debbie Harry is his female counterpart.
<strong>You met Iggy? Tell me more!</strong><hr></blockquote>
He had been threatened by someone in the audience during the show and he was worried that this psycho might attack him after the show (the dressing room was only accessable by going up the aisle and to stairs lesding up to the second floor). His security was pretty pitiful back then and he asked the staff at the theatre if they would help escorting him upstairs. Well, to make a long story short...I knew one of the staff and he asked if I could help. I did. Iggy's only 5' 1". So we literally carried him off to the second floor dressing room.
After all that he invited us to hang around and have a few beers and shoot the shit. He was really interesting dude. Intelligent, engaging and in no way a stuck-up rock star. Man, did he have stories to tell...ever since then whenever I see him come to town...I make an effort to get eye contact...and most times when we do...he points and grins. Don't think he remembers...but hell, he's a legend.
I'm only missing Zombie Birdhouse and the Iguana's from the discography... Have you heard either?
I saw him perform only once, in budapest (blew my mind), but I did get to see "Destroy All Monsters", the band formed by the ex-guitarist/bassist, Ron Ashton!
I'd love an iggy show right now!
2. Alex Lifeson
3. Geddy Lee
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Jim Henson
David Bowie
Walt Disney
Steve Jobs
Martin Luthor
Menachem Begin
Noam Chomsky
Mahatma Gandhi
Dag Hammarskjöld
Golda Meir
Ralph Nader
Yitzhak Rabin
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Anwar Sadat
Lech Walsea
Paul Wellstone
Woodrow Wilson
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