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Impossible to pick "a" favorite. One I think about frequently is from Being Human, a not-very-good movie that I still enjoy a lot. Robin Williams plays several characters throughout time, all of them men who gain or lose families. At the end, we return to the framing story in the present day, a father trying to reconnect with his kids. They've got a campfire out by the beach, and he and his daughter are watching her younger brother play in the gathering darkness. The father is worried that he's not handling the situation well. The daughter has some simple advice.
"Everything's going to be OK."
"What do you mean, 'going to be'?"
"This is it."
"What?"
"I told ya, Dad. This is as good as it gets. This might be the best moment of your life. How much better do you want it?"
I think about this a lot: some day I'll look back and think about "the best moment of my life." You can't know that at the time. You realize it only later. Best to savor every moment. I've only found this type of good advice in the movies.
A favorite put-down from the original "Flight of the Phoenix": "Mr. Towns, you behave as if stupidity were a virtue. Why is that?"
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