An article I wish I’d written…

Believe in your­self
Says Fer­ris: “Not that I con­done fas­cism. Or any ‘isms’. ‘Isms’, in my opin­ion are not good. A per­son should not believe in an ‘ism’. He should believe in himself.”

Slow clap for the sec­ond most pro­found line of the movie.

Taken from Fer­ris Bueller’s Day Off and the secret to life, found via By The Way….

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Mark works as a [REDACTED] for [REDACTED], currently residing in Iowa. CoffeeBear.net is a place for him to blather on about whatever strikes his fancy. He currently spends his "free" time working on a photography project, playing with his cat and attempting to keep his wife happy (not necessarily in that order).

3 Comments

  1. ken says:
    July 17th, 2007 at 12:24 pm

    Do we have to ask?

    My vote for most pro­found is for some­thing Fer­ris’ girl­friend said, “Sooner or later, every­one goes to the zoo.”

  2. ken says:
    July 17th, 2007 at 12:35 pm

    Nev­er­mind. I RTFA. I dis­agree with his choice, but the arti­cle could be dis­tilled pretty well into one of those “Every­thing I Needed to Know in Life, I Learned in [blank]” posters.

  3. Mark says:
    July 17th, 2007 at 12:41 pm

    I rather thought that was the point of the arti­cle, to effec­tively turn the movie into one of those posters.

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