Hello!
In this first “survey”, I would like to present you with several thought-provoking questions that I hope will help to make our virtual acquaintance.
1. How would you describe yourself in three words?
2. What is your favorite sentence?
3. Do you have a favorite book, and if so, what is it?
4. Your favorite song?
5. Your favorite movie?
6. Is there a contemporary personality you particularly admire?
7. What is your favorite city?
8. Do you believe in love?
9. Do you believe in miracles?
10. Do you believe in intuition?
11. Have you ever made a prediction that has come true?
12. What would you never forgive?
13. What is your strongest motivation to press onward?
14. What temptation would you never be able to resist?
15. Is there something that would make you say, “This is stronger than I”?
16. What don’t you like about the country in which you live?
17. Would you want, even briefly, to be a member of the opposite sex?
18. Where is mankind headed?
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16 comments so far ↓
mariana // Sep 17, 2008 //
1. How would you describe yourself in three words?
>Impatient. Airy. Bold.
2. What is your favorite sentence?
>”Do not leave your donkey in the mud.”
3. Do you have a favorite book, and if so, what is it?
>”One Hundred Years of Solitude” by Gabriel García Márquez
6. Is there a contemporary personality you particularly admire?
>Hilary Clinton
7. What is your favorite city?
>Chapel Hill, North Carolina
12. What would you never forgive?
13. What is your strongest motivation to press onward?
>Having fun and learning
17. Would you want, even briefly, to be a member of the opposite sex?
>Not anymore. I have wondered in the past if men have it better.
18. Where is mankind headed?
>To a better place, I hope
Martin // Sep 17, 2008 //
1. How would you describe yourself in three words?
> Voyage, sunrise, scar
2. What is your favorite sentence?
>”Then, just on the edge of daybreak, I heard a steamer’s siren.” (Albert Camus, The Stranger)
3. Do you have a favorite book, and if so, what is it?
> Several. Among them: “Joseph and His Brothers” (Thomas Mann), “The Master and Margarita” (Mikhail Bulgakov), “The Stranger” (Albert Camus)
4. Your favorite song?
> There much too many…
5. Your favorite movie?
> So many as well. Though, I’d mention: “Le notti di Cabiria” (Felini, engl: “Nights of Cabiria”), “Simón del desierto” (Luis Buñuel, “Simon of the Desert”), “Hombre” (Martin Ritt, with Paul Newman)
6. Is there a contemporary personality you particularly admire?
> “Admire” — no.
7. What is your favorite city?
> Sofia
8. Do you believe in love?
> Yes, unconditionally.
9. Do you believe in miracles?
> “In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles” (Ben Gurion). Without being a realist, I believe…
10. Do you believe in intuition?
> Intuitively – yes. But it is “a piece of cake” compared to a prophecy.
11. Have you ever made a prediction that has come true?
> Maybe…
12. What would you never forgive?
> I hope, I won’t get to know…
13. What is your strongest motivation to press onward?
> The restlessness
14. What temptation would you never be able to resist?
> An apple, I suppose…
15. Is there something that would make you say, “This is stronger than I”?
> There is such thing … in myself …
16. What don’t you like about the country in which you live?
> I’m not “at home”…
17. Would you want, even briefly, to be a member of the opposite sex?
> No, I am fine to look at them from the side.
18. Where is mankind headed?
> The mankind — to the better; the man — no one knows…
Mariya // Sep 22, 2008 //
1. How would you describe yourself in three words?
Optimistic. Romantic. Open-minded.
2. What is your favorite sentence?
You are as big as your dreams are.
3. Do you have a favorite book, and if so, what is it?
Zorba the Greek, by Nikos Kazantzakis
4. Your favorite song?
Don`t have just one.
5. Your favorite movie?
Love actually, Before the sunrise, Freedom writers and many others.
6. Is there a contemporary personality you particularly admire?
Everyone who has devoted to a cause bigger than himself.
7. What is your favorite city?
(as Bourgas or Stockholm)
Should be close to sea/ ocean/ river
8. Do you believe in love?
Sometimes.
9. Do you believe in miracles?
Always.
10. Do you believe in intuition?
Definitely.
11. Have you ever made a prediction that has come true?
Some of my dreams came true.
12. What would you never forgive?
To hurt/kill someone with no reason for.
13. What is your strongest motivation to press onward?
To live as there would be a difference with or without me…
14. What temptation would you never be able to resist? Home made biscuit cake
)
15. Is there something that would make you say, “This is stronger than I”? Hopefully no.
16. What don’t you like about the country in which you live?
The pessimism…
17. Would you want, even briefly, to be a member of the opposite sex? Not really.
18. Where is mankind headed? No one knows.
Roger Conner Jr // Nov 11, 2008 //
O.K., here goes, but some of these answers are honest to the point of being embarrassing!
1. How would you describe yourself in three words? Reflective, romantic, cautious
2. What is your favorite sentence? (This one is hard, I have so many I like!) “Made of something light as nothing, made of joy that matters too, how the little dreams we dream are all we can really do.” (I think that’s only one sentence? Either way I love it. It’s from a Patti Griffin song “Kite Song”)
3. Do you have a favorite book, and if so, what is it? “Herzog” by Saul Bellow (It is about an aging professor who can’t get life and relationships right. “More Die of Heartache” also by Saul Bellow, and on similiar themes would be a runner up. I love that title! Maybe I secretly identify with the awkward bookish types!)
4. Your favorite song? “Useless Desires” by Patti Griffin (she converts pain and lonliness into beauty like no songwriter in the business!)
5. Your favorite movie?
A little known French movie “A Heart In Winter” with English subtitles. Heartbreaking but so honest about human emotions, and humans who can’t experience love/intimacy. So beautiful are the restuarant scenes where all the feeling comes out into the open)
6. Is there a contemporary personality you particularly admire?
(This is a funny one) Warren Buffet, the billionaire investor. He talks like a blue collar guy although he is super rich, and seldom seems to get a call wrong on money and when he does he fixes it and makes even more on the deal! Still goes to work just like he had to!
7. What is your favorite city?
Louisville KY, between 4th and 6th street, beautiful! Favorite neighborhood to live in would be the Clifton neighborhood, beautiful old homes and the Clifton Center, as sophisticated a neighborhood as any I have ever seen! <3
8. Do you believe in love?
Absolutely. It is the heart of any great culture, and any truly humane individual.
9. Do you believe in miracles?
Yes, great ones and small ones.
10. Do you believe in intuition? Yes, I just wish I had listened to mine more often!
11. Have you ever made a prediction that has come true?
Yes, I have predicted at least half of the scandels where I work before they
happened!
12. What would you never forgive? I hate willful mean spiritedness, and being mean to or purposefully hurting the feelings of someone with a disability or a child is disgusting to me
13. What is your strongest motivation to press onward?
It’s mostly male ego I guess, I just want to be “relevent” and do something that matters.
14. What temptation would you never be able to resist?
I would never say never, but I have trouble resisting an intelligent woman if she likes me, and if one showed real interest I would probably give her all I had if she wanted to stay around (I know, that’s embarrassing, but it’s probably true!)
15. Is there something that would make you say, “This is stronger than I”?
(This may sound odd) I have always had a fear of Fascism. The one time I could understand the idea of suicide is the person who could see Fascism destroying their nation with it’s hatred, and decided to end their life rather than live in such a situation. Living under that type of system for long would be almost unbearable. Some thinkers in the WWII period killed themselves rather than live in such conditions. I can understand that.
16. What don’t you like about the country in which you live?
It’s bloodthirsty competitiveness. If you don’t win all the time, your a nobody. It is also very self centered and sees everything through an American lense.
17. Would you want, even briefly, to be a member of the opposite sex?
Yes! I would love to know how the female gender thinks and what they really feel and want! Women are blindingly confusing and mysterious to me, and I am totally unable to attract their interest! I have so many female friends I adore, but so few, uh, well you know what I mean! Embarrassing again, but true…but I love to “hear” women, their songs, their words, their writing, I am something of a female junkie! (I had three sisters, no brothers, and almost all female cousins, so maybe I am used to their “sound”. I wouldn’t trade it for anything…:-)
18. Where is mankind headed?
That’s a tough one. I am an optimist, but I worry about technology, with chips that always tell someone where you are and what you are doing, and testing of personality, blood, brain waves, etc, that will remove the humanity of humans, the differences between us that make us special. Will anyone be allowed to live an unpredictable artistic and unique life, with it’s wonder, as well as it’s shortcomings? Can anyone afford to miss one step in the new world, without fearing being cutoff from culture and companions? I think we can overcome the technology, but I worry. I do think more people will have a chance to be included in a humane life, I just don’t want us to have to give up too much of ourselves to get there.
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Rankin // Jan 18, 2009 //
1. How would you describe yourself in three words?
Potential, Procrastination, Failure
2. What is your favorite sentence?
“Isn’t it pretty to think so.”
3. Do you have a favorite book, and if so, what is it?
Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry
4. Your favorite song?
Reeling in the Years, by Steely Dan
5. Your favorite movie?
Sweet Home Alabama
6. Is there a contemporary personality you particularly admire?
No. Children need heroes.
7. What is your favorite city?
Sydney, Australia
8. Do you believe in love?
Yes, just not for me.
9. Do you believe in miracles?
No.
10. Do you believe in intuition?
As a conscious conclusion deduced from sub-concious clues? Yes.
11. Have you ever made a prediction that has come true?
Who keeps track after they have predicted?
12. What would you never forgive?
Eight years of W.
13. What is your strongest motivation to press onward?
The hope that I will one day become the man I have the potential to be.
14. What temptation would you never be able to resist?
Jennifer Aniston.
15. Is there something that would make you say, “This is stronger than I”?
If one does not recognize the possibility that there is something stronger than themselves, something they have no control over and to which they can offer no meaningful resistance, they are delusional or a fool.
16. What don’t you like about the country in which you live?
The last President and everyone who served him.
17. Would you want, even briefly, to be a member of the opposite sex?
Absolutely. How do women not play with their breasts all day?
18. Where is mankind headed?
Doom, eventually. But that’s no reason to get depressed. All things end. Even us.
Yana Radilova // Jul 27, 2009 //
1. Optimistic, ambitious, impredictible.
2. “Yesterday is History, Tomorrow is a Mystery, Today is a Gift, That`s why it’s called the Present”.
3. “The Count of Monte Cristo” – Alxandre Dumas; “The Alchemist” – Paulo Coelho.
4. It depends on the mood, but may be my favourite songs are: “A whole new world” – Nick Pittera; “El beso del final” – Christina Aguilera; “I don`t wanna miss a thing” – Aerosmith.
5. “The Secret”, “Pearl Harbour”, “A walk to remember”, “Slumdog Millionaire”.
6. Neil Armstrong – you have to be really strong-willed to go to the Moon.
7. My favourite Bulgarian city is Veliko Turnovo, but I wish I could visit Venice or Rio de Janeiro.
8. Definitely! I really like the words of James M. Barrie: “If you have love you don’t need to have anything else. If you don’t have it it doesn’t matter much what else you do have.”
9. Miracles surround us every day – we just have to believe in them.
10. Sometimes intuition is a better adviser than mind.
11. Yes, I`ve predicted successfully my own future – especially when it comes to good things.
12. I would never forgive the destiny for taking away the most valuable people to me.
13. Belief in dreams!!!
14. The temptation of changing my life.
15. I suppose that love is stronger than my mind – I`m not strong enought to fight with its power!
16. The negative opinion of the positive changes; the lack of belief in a better future.
17. Yes, sometimes I wish I could take it easier, like most of the men do.
18. To freedom of mind!
lidiq // Oct 13, 2009 //
1.questioning, tolerant, not from here
2.”Wise man is this man, who can see in every thing, something else.” Platon
3.”Quo vadis” from Henrih Senkevich
4.”Le Tango de Roxanne”
5.”The Barber of Siberia” from Nikita Mikhailov
6.May be Michael Jackson
7.Sofia
8.Yes
9.Yes
10.I trust my intuition a lot
11. When i was little, the things that i say, happened later
12.There isn’t something that i can’t forget, just i have to understand why it is happened
13. My self-respect, i want to be proud from myself, in the end of my life, i want to know that i make everythning that i need to do, that i use every possibility
14.May be because i am Scorpio, my black thinkings
15.Yes, Destiny
16.That people don’t see at others’ eyes
17.Yes, the fact that you are born from one sex, religios or race dont mean that you can’t change it.I want to try, but i want also to have posibility to return in Lidia again, because i feel that in this body i have to live my life
18.I think that many of the poeople are atheistic and that’s why there isn’t what to unite them and every person live alone in his small glass world and wait to become dust
Zlatina // Oct 27, 2009 //
1. How would you describe yourself in three words?
Free, believing, seeking
2. What is your favorite sentence?
Carpe diem! (Seize the day)
3. Do you have a favorite book, and if so, what is it?
A different book each week…
4. Your favorite song?
Alanis Morissette – Ironic; Morphine – The Saddest Song
5. Your favorite movie?
Mulholland Drive; Modigliani
6. Is there a contemporary personality you particularly admire?
David Lynch
7. What is your favorite city?
In Bulgaria – Stara Zagora; in Great Britain – London
8. Do you believe in love?
Yes
9. Do you believe in miracles?
Yes
10. Do you believe in intuition?
Yes
11. Have you ever made a prediction that has come true?
I’ve tried several times…
12. What would you never forgive?
If someone doesn’t use his full potential.
13. What is your strongest motivation to press onward?
Hope, optimism
14. What temptation would you never be able to resist?
Coffee, meeting new people, a good book
15. Is there something that would make you say, “This is stronger than I”?
Hope, temptation
16. What don’t you like about the country in which you live?
Sad faces, lack of hope, overbuilding
17. Would you want, even briefly, to be a member of the opposite sex?
Of course! For not more than 24 hours.
18. Where is mankind headed?
Mankind is going upwards as far as technology is concerned and downwards when it comes to spirit.
Maya // Nov 2, 2009 //
1. How would you describe yourself in three words?
Honest(ly) optimistic
2. What is your favorite sentence?
I love quotations… but here I’ll quote myself: “It’s time for the night to drawn in the dazzling dawn!”
3. Do you have a favorite book, and if so, what is it?
Definitely more than one. Just to mention – “The green mile”, Robert Doherty “Area 51” and many others…
4. Your favorite song?
Complicated to say!!! There are just too many that I really like, depends on the mood…
5. Your favorite movie?
“The green mile”, “V for vendetta”, Disney’s classical animations
6. Is there a contemporary personality you particularly admire?
I haven’t found a contemporary to admire yet…
7. What is your favorite city?
Varna
8. Do you believe in love?
Absolutely
9. Do you believe in miracles?
Absolutely
10. Do you believe in intuition?
Absolutely
11. Have you ever made a prediction that has come true?
I suppose so…
12. What would you never forgive?
Intentionally to cause harm/misery to other people, especially when they are close…
13. What is your strongest motivation to press onward?
Optimism
14. What temptation would you never be able to resist?
“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.” Oscar Wilde
15. Is there something that would make you say, “This is stronger than I”?
Maybe, but I would not say it before I have had my head smashed up pretty badly in the effort of breaking the wall…
16. What don’t you like about the country in which you live?
The psychology of the people and their lack of consideration regarding their siblings and their surrounding…
17. Would you want, even briefly, to be a member of the opposite sex?
Ooh, yes!!!
18. Where is mankind headed?
It’s hard to say, it knows where it’s headed, I only hope its way will lead to something good…
masha // Dec 25, 2009 //
1. Tender, ambitious, confident
2. “I love you”
3. I have many – From “Cigarette Butts” (Vania Sheterva) to Evgeni Onegin (A. Pushkin)
4. The Beatles – A day in the life
5. Shakespeare in love, Devil’s advocate, Rage, Factory Girl
6. Anna Wintour, Sienna Miller
7. Sevilla (Spain), Odessa (Ukraine)
8. I do believe in love
9. Yes, I do
10. Again – yes
11. Yes, once when I was 14 years old
12. Betrayal
13. Life
14. Clothes, bags, shoes
15. Clothes, bags, shoes
16. The “Chalga” music
17. Yes, sometimes
18. To destruction
Ivaylo Yovchev // Jan 3, 2010 //
1. Intelligent, impulsive, good-natured …
2. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their own peril.
3. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
4. Evanescence – My immortal
5. There are too many to point just one – What dreams may come, LOTR, Avatar, Heat, A scent of a woman, The notebook … Gladiator, Alexander,
6. Al Gore
7. Rome, LA, Miami …
8. Yes … definitely
9. Yes
10. Yes
11. Many times …
12. Deceit.
13. My dreams.
14. Sex
15. Yes, Nature.
16. In Bulgaria – the roadways, in Germany – cold people …
17. Yes.
18. To a self-destruction.
printzessa // Feb 21, 2010 //
1. How would you describe yourself in three words?
- emotional, princess-y, crazy
2. What is your favorite sentence?
- “things turn out the way they’re supposed to”
3. Do you have a favorite book, and if so, what is it?
- “L’amour dure trois ans”, “Crime & Punishment”
4. Your favorite song?
- “heartbeat” (nneka), “wish you were here” (incubus), “karma police” (radiohead)
5. Your favorite movie?
- “Snatch”, “Secret Window”
6. Is there a contemporary personality you particularly admire?
- No. I admire my parents.
7. What is your favorite city?
- Cape Town
8. Do you believe in love?
- yes yes yes
9. Do you believe in miracles?
- yes, you just have to be open to them, they’re everywhere!
10. Do you believe in intuition?
- my whole life is based on it
11. Have you ever made a prediction that has come true?
- all the time, mainly good ones
12. What would you never forgive?
- disrespect
13. What is your strongest motivation to press onward?
- positive thinking
14. What temptation would you never be able to resist?
- shopping!
15. Is there something that would make you say, “This is stronger than I”?
- fate
16. What don’t you like about the country in which you live?
- most people don’t have any manners whatsoever.
17. Would you want, even briefly, to be a member of the opposite sex?
- no, that would ruin the fun of trying to figure out what men think/mean/want!
18. Where is mankind headed?
- forward!
deny koleva // Mar 29, 2010 //
1. How would you describe yourself in three words?
- kind, determined, optimistic
2. What is your favorite sentence?
- “Time doesn`t fix thing. It only sets them on their proper places.
3. Do you have a favorite book, and if so, what is it?
- “Master and Margarita”
4. Your favorite song?
- “Don`t Speak” – No Doubt, “I`m No Angel” – Dido
5. Your favorite movie?
- “Amelie Pulen”
6. Is there a contemporary personality you particularly admire?
- No.
7. What is your favorite city?
- Sozopol
8. Do you believe in love?
- Yes! I`m too young not to.
9. Do you believe in miracles?
- Yes and I have seen a few.
10. Do you believe in intuition?
- I do. I trust it with my life.
11. Have you ever made a prediction that has come true?
- Yes. Unfortunately, I`m a bad prophеt.
12. What would you never forgive?
- disrespect and to be used
13. What is your strongest motivation to press onward?
- Because I know nothing is impossible. Some things just take more time.
14. What temptation would you never be able to resist?
- A chocolate.
15. Is there something that would make you say, “This is stronger than I”?
- Hundreds of things.
16. What don’t you like about the country in which you live?
- People here are fast when judging.
17. Would you want, even briefly, to be a member of the opposite sex?
- Not really.
18. Where is mankind headed?
- To depersonslization.
Nikolay Ivanov // Apr 4, 2010 //
1. Creative. Compassionate. Positive.
2. I’d rather be free man in my grave than living as a puppet or a slave.
3. All Kurt Vonnegut’s books.
4. Bad Religion’s “Punk Rock Song” and The Jam’s “Going Underground”
5. “Trainspotting”
6. Dalai Lama.
7. Frankfurt am Mein.
8. Yes.
9. Yes.
10. Yes.
11. Yes.
12. I can forgive everything. But only if the other person deserves it.
13. Curiosity.
14. Love.
15. No.
16. Lack of humanity.
17. Yes.
18. Heaven
Gill Ml // Apr 12, 2010 //
1. How would you describe yourself in three words?
Galka the Great.
2. What is your favorite sentence?
Life sucks. Whatever.
3. Do you have a favorite book, and if so, what is it?
“Good omens”.
4. Your favorite song?
Lifehouse – “Broken”.
5. Your favorite movie?
-
6. Is there a contemporary personality you particularly admire?
Hum… no.
7. What is your favorite city?
What matters is the people living in the city, not the city itself.
8. Do you believe in love?
No.
9. Do you believe in miracles?
Yes.
10. Do you believe in intuition?
Maybe.
11. Have you ever made a prediction that has come true?
No.
12. What would you never forgive?
Every mistake can be forgiven.
13. What is your strongest motivation to press onward?
The things that hold me back.
14. What temptation would you never be able to resist?
A waffle “Spoko” with coconut cream.
15. Is there something that would make you say, “This is stronger than I”?
Millions of things.
16. What don’t you like about the country in which you live?
All the pinkness.
17. Would you want, even briefly, to be a member of the opposite sex?
No.
18. Where is mankind headed?
To the moment when the Earth will explode and everything will be forgotten.
pavel_911 // Aug 27, 2010 //
1. How would you describe yourself in three words?
Ambitious, honest, positive.
2. What is your favorite sentence?
“Even on the right track if you stand in one place they overran! ”
3. Do you have a favorite book, and if so, what is it?
I like books by Donald Trump. How to succeed, how to implement, etc.
4. Your favorite song?
Halo – Beyonce and Celebration – Madonna.
5. Your favorite movie?
Barber of Siberia, Admiral, The Devil Wears Prada …
6. Is there a contemporary personality you particularly admire?
Madonna maybe…
7. What is your favorite city?
Varna
8. Do you believe in love?
Yes.
9. Do you believe in miracles?
Yes
10. Do you believe in intuition?
Yes.
11. Have you ever made a prediction that has come true?
No.
12. What would you never forgive?
Lying and betrayal.
13. What is your strongest motivation to press onward?
Competition.
14. What temptation would you never be able to resist?
Chocolate.
15. Is there something that would make you say, “This is stronger than I”?
God.
16. What don’t you like about the country in which you live?
Envy.
17. Would you want, even briefly, to be a member of the opposite sex?
No.
18. Where is mankind headed?
To what it wants …
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