Final Words

On the recent film, The Book of Eli, Denzel Washington speaks the final words of the film by saying, "Dear Lord, thank you for giving me the strength to complete the task you have entrusted to me.  Thank you for guiding me straight and true through the many obstacles in my path, and for keeping me resolute when all else seemed lost.  Thank you for your protection and your many signs along the way.  Thank you for any good that I may have done, I am sorry about the bad.  Thank you for ... knowing that I have done right in my time on this Earth.  I fought the good fight.  I finished the race.  I kept the faith."

Ryan Bingham

"Anyone who ever built an Empire or a fortune sat where you are sitting now, and it is because they sat there that they were able to do so."  Ryan Bingham, upon firing people in film Up in the Air.

Athletes

"Why do kids love athletes?"  "Kids love athletes because they follow their dreams."    George Clooney, as Ryan Bingham, on film Up in the Air.

On "Any Given Sunday"

"You know, when you get old in life, things get taken from you.  I mean, that's part of life, but you only learn that, when you start losing stuff. You find out life's this game o' inches - so is football.  Because in either game, life or football, the margin for error is so small ...  the inches we need are everywhere around us...  On this team, we fight for that inch, on this team, we tear ourselves and everyone else around us to pieces for that inch, we claw with our fingernails for that inch.  Because we know, when we add up all those inches, that's gonna make the f... difference between winning and losing, between living and dying ...   That's football guys.  That's all it is."        -- Al Pacino in Oliver Stone's film Any Given Sunday.

We Fought the Good Fight

After running the campaign for the candidate for Governor for the State of La Paz, Mr. Einar Calderón, who did not win on the April 4, 2010 elections, I said to him, "We fought the good fight, we finished the race, we kept the faith.  We'll do better next time."   Using some of the final words by Denzel Washington on the film The Book of Eli.

I kept the faith

"I FOUGHT THE GOOD FIGHT.  I FINISHED THE RACE.  I KEPT THE FAITH."  From film, The Book of Eli, with Denzel Washington.

Absent For More Than a Month

The writer of this blog - The Polymath Men - has been absent since February 27 until today April 2 because he was running a political campaign that had a budget of less than $us 2,000 for a candidate for Governor and a candidate for Mayor.  The Department (State) of La Paz has more than 2 million people of which about 1,400,000 will vote this Sunday, April, 4, 2010 for its new Governor.  Its main city, La Paz, has approximately 1 million people, and the candidate for Mayor is a lady who has little chance of winning, but we'll see how they do this Sunday with the very small budget that was available for both of these candidates during this rough and tough campaign.