bubbleslayer:

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Charles Ramsey is a hero. He doesn’t wear a suit of high-tech armor. He doesn’t wear a cape. He’s just an ordinary guy,living an ordinary life.

Then, he saw a woman asking for help.

And he helped her.

He didn’t walk away.

He didn’t think of himself.

He just helped her.

It took less than a day for someone to make this heroic man into a joke.

As proud as Charles Ramsey makes me to be a human, those people make me ashamed.

No, he doesn’t speak perfectly.

No, he didn’t take the time to fix his hair before he went on camera.

He’s an African American man from an economically depressed neighborhood, city, and state.

And for that, he’s mocked and ridiculed.

It breaks my heart.

Now, in yet another heroic moment Mr. Ramsey’s response to Anderson Cooper’s inquiry about a possible reward Charles has proven he’s truly worthy of the hero mantle.

No, no, no. Bro, I’m a Christian, an American, and just like you. We bleed same blood, put our pants on the same way. It’s just that you got to put that – being a coward, and I don’t want to get in nobody’s business. You got to put that away for a minute…I tell you what you do, give [the reward] to them. Because if folks been following this case since last night, you been following me since last night, you know I got a job anyway. Just went picked it up, paycheck. What that address say? […] 2203 Seymour. Where are them girls living? Right next door to this paycheck. So yes, take that reward and give it to—that little girl[.]

Thank you Charles Ramsey.

Thank you.

The full interview w/ Anderson Cooper can be found here.

http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/?iref=allsearch

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Over his 32-year career as a Deputy U.S. Marshal, Bass Reeves arrested 3,000 felons, killed 14 men, and was never shot himself. His reputation for persistence, his total fearlessness, his skills with a gun, and his ability to outsmart outlaws struck terror into lawbreakers in what we now call Oklahoma. Although other colorful characters made their way into our pop culture, Bass was the real badass of the Old West.

The story of Bass Reeves is sometimes cited as the inspiration for The Lone Ranger. It also may have been an inspiration for the film Django Unchained. The 2010 straight-to-video movie Bass Reeves is a fictionalized account of the lawman’s life. In 2011, the bridge that connects Muskogee and Fort Gibson in Oklahoma was named the Bass Reeves Memorial Bridge.

Once asked why he spent so much effort enforcing the “white man’s laws,” Bass reportedly replied, “Maybe the law ain’t perfect, but it’s the only one we got, and without it we got nuthin’.”

Read the full text here: http://mentalfloss.com/article/33537/life-and-times-deputy-us-marshal-bass-reeves#ixzz2IYf06lOT 
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The Dalai Lama & MCA. RIP!

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Léon & Mathilda!

Mathilda: I don’t wanna lose you, Leon. 

Léon: You’re not going to lose me. You’ve given me a taste for life.

I wanna be happy. Sleep in a bed, have roots.

And you’ll never be alone again, Mathilda.

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hectorripley:

just call me Bruce

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“I feel really lucky, although I hate that word — ‘lucky.’  It cheapens a lot of hard work.  Living in Brooklyn in an apartment without any heat and paying for dinner at the bodega with dimes — I don’t think I felt myself lucky back then. Doing plays for 50 bucks and trying to be true to myself as an” — here he put on a faux snooty voice — “artist and turning down commercials where they wanted a leprechaun. Saying I was lucky negates the hard work I put in and spits on that guy who’s freezing his ass off back in Brooklyn.”

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jedigrrrl:

aaaaaand this is why I love Simon Pegg SO much <3

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nezesariakatarsis:

Little fact: he sings opera too.

Chuck Norris has been avoiding this gentleman all his life.

Also this guy hunted Nazis during WW2.

Legend

Also has a symphonic metal album.

Summersisle alone makes him better than Jesus.

…I mean, he SAYS THAT IN THE MOVIE.

He was part of a secret agent unit called The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. When told by Peter Jackson to imagine how a man being stabbed in the back sounds like, he told him he didn’t have to imagine it. He was knighted on October 31, 2009 (that’s right, HALLOWEEN.) and has the same birthday as Vincent Price. He’s fluent in English, Italian, French, German, and Spanish; “moderately proficient” in Swedish, Russian, and Greek, and “conversational” in Madarin Chinese. He’s a direct descendant of Charlemagne. 

Ladies and gentlemen, BOW DOWN TO SIR. CHRISTOPHER. LEE. 

ALL HAIL THE LEE.

i love him so much

God< Lee

Fuck yeah.

I love Christopher Lee.

YES! Love this guy!

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alexskarsgardsnipple:

Hugh Laurie’s hilarious Golden Globe Best Actor acceptance speech

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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

James D. Miles/Johann Wofgang von Goethe

missfolly:

Clint Eastwood: 35 years Films 35 Years (2010)

One of my favorite American actors. I have often thought Mr Eastwood would have been perfect in Patrice Leconte’s 1989 movie ‘Monsieur Hire’ - except Mr Eastwood doesn’t speak French. Too bad : ) Miss Folly

The only person I see when I read about ’His Grace, His Excellency, The Duke of Ankh;Commander Sir Samuel Vimes’.

My hat, sir Rowan, I take it off…

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