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  • Who are your favourite personalities?
     OP - December 10, 2011, 04:08 PM
    Both fiction and non-fictional.

    Im going to start mine:

    1. Don Vito Corleone- i admire his leadership skills,his business acumen,his humbleness and ability to make a wise decision, for me he is an exemplary figure of a true leader despite being the boss of the bosses of american sicilian mafia.

    2. Jack Nicholson- i love everything about this man,i can even watch a crappy movie if he is in it.

    3.Muhammad Ali-his confidence,i have never seen an icon who is so confident and boastful like this man and remains a winner,his smartass remark and a good sense of humour.

    4.Gregory House- how he sees every medical case as a puzzle,just like a true scientist he is more interested in a case that no one cant solve and that thrills him, though he is someone that you may hate in real life but you may respect for him for his ability to make a rapid and accurate diagnosis and can decipher people's motives and histories from aspect of their personalities and appearance.also i love how he bashes and ridicule religion

    5. Angelina Jolie-Im enamored with her wild child persona and how she openly discuss her personal life including bisexuality,her interest in BDSM,drugs expression and her depression yet still a strong woman, she is full of warmth and can be hard and agressive in the roles she play. One of the few actors that can take far beyond their capability and very committed to their work,one of the best female actress i have seen. I also admire her humanitarian works.


    Its all i can think of for now, i may bring up some later on.. I know some of you have many so whats yours?.
    "I'm standing here like an asshole holding my Charles Dickens"

    "No theory,No ready made system,no book that has ever been written to save the world. i cleave to no system.."-Bakunin
  • Re: Who is your favourite personality?
     Reply #1 - December 10, 2011, 04:37 PM
    Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin - Even though I am not a commie, I admire his legacy and visionary genius. And pretty much he saved humanity from nuclear destruction.

    Carl Edward Sagan - For his amazing and mind blowing work in brining cosmology to the laymen and having an extraordinary abilities to explain complex ideas in very simple terms. A great teacher.

    Alexander the Great - pretty much self explanatory, he was pure badass.

    Nicolas Cage - a great method actor. Leaving Las Vagas is one of his best acted movies in my opinion sublime.

    I have more, though.   
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  • Who are your favourite personalities?
     Reply #2 - December 10, 2011, 04:38 PM
    ..
    "I'm standing here like an asshole holding my Charles Dickens"

    "No theory,No ready made system,no book that has ever been written to save the world. i cleave to no system.."-Bakunin
  • Re: Who is your favourite personality?
     Reply #3 - December 10, 2011, 04:41 PM
    Damn, didnt know i post this one., is there a way to merge this thread mods, plus i wrote more on the other thread and edited.
    "I'm standing here like an asshole holding my Charles Dickens"

    "No theory,No ready made system,no book that has ever been written to save the world. i cleave to no system.."-Bakunin
  • Re: Who is your favourite personality?
     Reply #4 - December 10, 2011, 04:45 PM
    Quote from: King Tut on December 10, 2011, 04:37 PM
    Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin - Even though I am not a commie, I admire his legacy and visionary genius. And pretty much he saved humanity from nuclear destruction.

    Carl Edward Sagan - For his amazing and mind blowing work in brining cosmology to the laymen and having an extraordinary abilities to explain complex ideas in very simple terms. A great teacher.

    Alexander the Great - pretty much self explanatory, he was pure badass.

    Nicolas Cage - a great method actor. Leaving Las Vagas is one of his best acted movies in my opinion sublime.

    I have more, though.   


    Keep on posting them then. I always wanted to know about Carl Sagan, i have a heard a lot about him.
    "I'm standing here like an asshole holding my Charles Dickens"

    "No theory,No ready made system,no book that has ever been written to save the world. i cleave to no system.."-Bakunin
  • Re: Who is your favourite personality?
     Reply #5 - December 10, 2011, 04:52 PM
    Non fictional: Carl Sagan, Sam Harris, Al Razi, Edgar Wright, Fry&Laurie, PZ Myers...
    Fictional: Sherlock Holmes, House, Tim & Brian (spaced), Enid (ghost world), Allah.

    .. to begin with.


    Youtube
  • Re: Who are your favourite personalities?
     Reply #6 - December 10, 2011, 05:01 PM
    Please can you provide details on why Allah is one of your favourites, would like to know more? Grin
    "I'm standing here like an asshole holding my Charles Dickens"

    "No theory,No ready made system,no book that has ever been written to save the world. i cleave to no system.."-Bakunin
  • Re: Who are your favourite personalities?
     Reply #7 - December 10, 2011, 05:03 PM
    The prophet Muhammed, peace be upon him, indeed, he is the best example of all man kind. Subhanallaaaaaaaah!
  • Re: Who are your favourite personalities?
     Reply #8 - December 10, 2011, 05:30 PM
    Meursault

    Billy Pilgrim

    Sid Jenkins
  • Re: Who are your favourite personalities?
     Reply #9 - December 10, 2011, 05:48 PM
    Rumi, for being the perfection of man, the philosopher-poet with the conduct of a saint and God between his legs.
    At evening, casual flocks of pigeons make
    Ambiguous undulations as they sink,
    Downward to darkness, on extended wings. - Stevens
  • Re: Who are your favourite personalities?
     Reply #10 - December 10, 2011, 05:58 PM
    Non-fictional:

    Josip Broz Tito

    John Brown

    Fictional:

    Omar Little

    Quote from: Naija Infidel on December 10, 2011, 04:08 PM
    4.Gregory House- how he sees every medical case as a puzzle,just like a true scientist he is more interested in a case that no one cant solve and that thrills him, though he is someone that you may hate in real life but you may respect for him for his ability to make a rapid and accurate diagnosis and can decipher people's motives and histories from aspect of their personalities and appearance.also i love how he bashes and ridicule religion


    One of my favorites too.

    Quote from: King Tut on December 10, 2011, 04:37 PM
    Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin - Even though I am not a commie, I admire his legacy and visionary genius. And pretty much he saved humanity from nuclear destruction.


    He was a drunken buffoon who ruined his country and shattered any hope of post-Soviet reforms leading to a democratic and open society. He dismantled the social/economic protections of the old USSR while keeping the authoritarian state, even shelling his parliamentary opponents, and simultaneously opened Russia up to rampant corruption and kleptocracy. His legacy was to ruin Russia.
    fuck you
  • Re: Who are your favourite personalities?
     Reply #11 - December 10, 2011, 06:00 PM
    why am i not surprised someone like king tut likes boris yeltsin.
  • Re: Who are your favourite personalities?
     Reply #12 - December 10, 2011, 06:45 PM
    IRL:

    Stephen Fry
    Charlie Brooker

    Fictional:

    Tyrion Lannister
    Stringer Bell
    19:46   <zizo>: hugs could pimp u into sex

    Quote from: yeezevee
    well I am neither ex-Muslim nor absolute 100% Non-Muslim.. I am fucking Zebra

  • Re: Who are your favourite personalities?
     Reply #13 - December 10, 2011, 07:04 PM
    Quote from: Abood on December 10, 2011, 05:30 PM
    Meursault

    Billy Pilgrim

    Sid Jenkins


    I love Chris Miles, especially his trademark phrase "Fuck It".
    "I'm standing here like an asshole holding my Charles Dickens"

    "No theory,No ready made system,no book that has ever been written to save the world. i cleave to no system.."-Bakunin
  • Re: Who are your favourite personalities?
     Reply #14 - December 10, 2011, 07:13 PM
    how could i forget chris. yeh chris is fuckin awesome.

    at first i related to sid the most but when the writers developed chris' personality he really grew on me.
  • Re: Who are your favourite personalities?
     Reply #15 - December 10, 2011, 07:31 PM
    Yeah, he is the liveliest among all, one thing i like about him is that even though he has a shitty liife , he is carefree. I like how sid turned out at the second season when he bagan to stand up for himself.
    "I'm standing here like an asshole holding my Charles Dickens"

    "No theory,No ready made system,no book that has ever been written to save the world. i cleave to no system.."-Bakunin
  • Re: Who are your favourite personalities?
     Reply #16 - December 10, 2011, 07:55 PM
    I'll start with the gentlemen first..















    Against the ruin of the world, there
    is only one defense: the creative act.

    -- Kenneth Rexroth
  • Re: Who are your favourite personalities?
     Reply #17 - December 10, 2011, 08:39 PM
    I like how Jay Z protrayed a drug lord persona who once rises up then fall American Gangster's album. A similar role that Denzel Washington played in "American Gangstar" movie as Frank Lucas.

    "I'm standing here like an asshole holding my Charles Dickens"

    "No theory,No ready made system,no book that has ever been written to save the world. i cleave to no system.."-Bakunin
  • Re: Who are your favourite personalities?
     Reply #18 - December 10, 2011, 09:41 PM
    Doctor who - because he's smart, eccentric, adventurous, funny....and I want to be just like him!

    Indiana Jones - Want be like him too - smart, explorer, adventurous, he's charming too.  Afro

    Sherlock Holmes too! - Smart

    ^I wanted to be like them when I was younger. Will have to think about who I wanna be like these days - will update later.
    "Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom." - Viktor E. Frankl

    'Life is just the extreme expression of complex chemistry' - Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Re: Who are your favourite personalities?
     Reply #19 - December 10, 2011, 09:42 PM
    I used to admire Richard Feynman too, but I'm not sure any more, think he was a bit arrogant honestly.
    "Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom." - Viktor E. Frankl

    'Life is just the extreme expression of complex chemistry' - Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Re: Who are your favourite personalities?
     Reply #20 - December 10, 2011, 09:47 PM
    Quote from: stardust on December 10, 2011, 09:42 PM
    I used to admire Richard Feynman too, but I'm not sure any more, think he was a bit arrogant honestly.


    give me something to prove that stardust.. True HE HATED AUTHORITY specially  governments interfering in Science..

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKTSaezB4p8

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhD0MxacnIE


    Do not let silence become your legacy.. Question everything   
    I renounced my faith to become a kafir, 
    the beloved betrayed me and turned in to  a Muslim     
  • Re: Who are your favourite personalities?
     Reply #21 - December 10, 2011, 09:54 PM
    Quote from: Colonel Q-Daffi on December 10, 2011, 05:58 PM

    He was a drunken buffoon who ruined his country and shattered any hope of post-Soviet reforms leading to a democratic and open society. He dismantled the social/economic protections of the old USSR while keeping the authoritarian state, even shelling his parliamentary opponents, and simultaneously opened Russia up to rampant corruption and kleptocracy. His legacy was to ruin Russia.


    Actually it was his constitutional reforms, and privatization, which years later beard fruit which Putin came into power. There is alot of negativity directed towards him that kind of happens with any leader who is ready to upset the status quo.

    In 1995 Boris Yeltsin, came within three minutes of initiating a full nuclear strike on the United States because of a Norwegian scientific rocket Russians could not identify. All of his advises and top military leaders were telling him the Americans had done a nuclear strike on the USA, and we have to strike back immediately, thank full he didn't take (even knowing) that Russia would be destroyed and he only had 3 minutes to lunch all of the nuclear aresnel of Russia. He did not listen to anyone, even though his Generals were furious with him screening and shouting at him to give the order. Even counting the time down to him. Imagine that, that takes some serious balls.    
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  • Re: Who are your favourite personalities?
     Reply #22 - December 10, 2011, 10:08 PM
    Quote from: King Tut on December 10, 2011, 09:54 PM
    Actually it was his constitutional reforms,


    Which centralized power in the hands of the Presidency and ensured that Russia would remain an authoritarian state in the post-Soviet era for decades to come. At least in the post-Stalin era most dissidents just got locked up, now they get murdered.

    Quote
    and privatization,


    Which made a few Russians (mostly those with government, intelligence service, and mafiya connections) really rich and fucked everyone else. Rampant homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, and violent crime, along with a dramatic increase in the incarceration rate. Will someone please tell me how a country becomes "freer" when it locks up more of its citizens?

    Quote
    In 1995 Boris Yeltsin, came within three minutes of initiating a full nuclear strike on the United States because of a Norwegian scientific rocket Russians could not identify. All of his advises and top military leaders were telling him the Americans had done a nuclear strike on the USA, and we have to strike back immediately, thank full he didn't take (even knowing) that Russia would be destroyed and he only had 3 minutes to lunch all of the nuclear aresnel of Russia. He did not listen to anyone, even though his Generals were furious with him screening and shouting at him to give the order. Even counting the time down to him. Imagine that, that takes some serious balls.    


    By that logic, Lt. Col. Stanislav Petrov is the greatest Russian to have ever lived.

    Why would the US launch a nuclear attack on Russia in 19 ninety fucking 5? Yeah we won the Cold War and were supportive of Yeltsin's regime, but let's just lob some nukes at Russia for fun? So basically Yeltsin is a great leader cause he wasn't a total idiot and didn't blow up the fuckin world? Setting the bar pretty low there, Tut.
    fuck you
  • Re: Who are your favourite personalities?
     Reply #23 - December 10, 2011, 10:13 PM
    It was not only that, not only because of the nuke thing. I like his policies, yes some would say they only benefited the rich, but then again it wasn't like the poor were rich anyway. Plus he would get mad drunk and was almost a capitalist.
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  • Re: Who are your favourite personalities?
     Reply #24 - December 10, 2011, 10:20 PM
    Quote from: King Tut on December 10, 2011, 10:13 PM
    I like his policies, yes some would say they only benefited the rich, but then again it wasn't like the poor were rich anyway.


    Yeah, but they had jobs, and free housing, and weren't dying from drug addiction, or locked up in jail, or worried about being mugged by junkies or killed by skinheads.

    Quote
    Plus he would get mad drunk


    Well you got me there.

    fuck you
  • Re: Who are your favourite personalities?
     Reply #25 - December 10, 2011, 10:20 PM
    It's just my choice man, I just like strange people. I also like, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, even though he is hated by alot of folks.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu4MTv5wgys&feature=related

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  • Re: Who are your favourite personalities?
     Reply #26 - December 10, 2011, 10:24 PM
    Quote from: yeezevee on December 10, 2011, 09:47 PM
    give me something to prove that stardust.. True HE HATED AUTHORITY specially  governments interfering in Science..

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKTSaezB4p8

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhD0MxacnIE





    I still like him, it's just I've put him down from the pedestal I had him up on. It's fine that he hated authority, but he did work for the government in developing the atom bomb didn't he? the 'manhatten project' I think it was called...

    Also from other videos of him (don't ask me to find them i can't remember which exactly) the impression I got was a bit narcissistic and arrogant.

    "Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom." - Viktor E. Frankl

    'Life is just the extreme expression of complex chemistry' - Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Re: Who are your favourite personalities?
     Reply #27 - December 10, 2011, 10:25 PM
    This was also a ballzy speech:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msj9LvZzOg4&feature=related
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  • Re: Who are your favourite personalities?
     Reply #28 - December 10, 2011, 10:38 PM
    ^Speaking of ones that are being hated. George W. Bush is my favourite, his speech is the only thing i like that's all.
    "I'm standing here like an asshole holding my Charles Dickens"

    "No theory,No ready made system,no book that has ever been written to save the world. i cleave to no system.."-Bakunin
  • Re: Who are your favourite personalities?
     Reply #29 - December 10, 2011, 10:56 PM
    Why is W so fuckin popular in Africa anyways?
    fuck you
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