Matthew McConaughey reveals the difference between a nice guy and a good man
"A nice guy gets along. They don't necessarily have discernment or judgment, not sure what they stand for or stand against. It's like yes, yes, yes, sure"
"A good man has ideals that they stand for and they stand against. And when they're tested, a good man is not a nice guy"
"Being a good man is a lot harder for good reason. Not going to be the most popular. Not going to be always the most affable"
"It also doesn't mean you got to be a dick. It just means sometimes you got to go, I believe in this, this is for me, and that is not for me"
"A good man's not looking for trouble. But if it comes, and if something he cares about was trespassed on, a good man does what he can to stop that"
In Spain, the 13-year-old daughter of a mother was kidnapped and raped by a neighbor. The attacker was sentenced to nine years in prison.
Approximately six years after serving his sentence, the attacker was released on parole and returned to the city. He encountered the mother at a bar near a bus stop.
The attacker mockingly asked her: "How is your daughter?" Enraged, she bought gasoline, returned to the bar, doused the man with it, and set him on fire.
The man suffered severe burns and died a few days later.
Although gripped by panic, she did not flee, but instead confessed what had happened to those around her and waited for the police to arrive.
She was sentenced to five years and six months in prison, but thanks to a pardon campaign and for health reasons, she was released after serving part of her sentence.
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Those fake movie shoes became real ones that tie themselves, and they've raised over $16 million for Parkinson's research. The designer who set up the 1989 trick spent almost 30 years making the laces actually work. The first working pair went to Michael J. Fox.
The shoes in the film did nothing on their own. A stagehand hid under the floor and pulled the laces tight through small holes, while a hidden light clicked on so the logo glowed. The sound was added later.
The man behind that shoe was a Nike designer named Tinker Hatfield. For years after the movie, fans kept begging Nike to actually make them, so he tried. His first version landed in 2011. It looked exactly like the movie pair and lit up, but it still couldn't tie itself. Nike sold 1,500 of them on eBay for the Michael J. Fox Foundation, which pays for Parkinson's research. The sale brought in $4.7 million. Then Google co-founder Sergey Brin pitched in to match every dollar, which pushed the total close to $9.4 million.
The working shoe showed up five years later. The 2016 pair could feel a foot slide in, and tiny motors pulled the laces tight by themselves. A button loosened them again. Nike made only 89 pairs, a nod to 1989, the year the movie came out, and let people pay $10 for a shot at buying one. That raised another $6.75 million for the same cause.
Michael J. Fox played Marty McFly, the kid who wears the fake shoes. He learned he had Parkinson's in 1991, two years after the film. Nike gave him the first working pair on October 21, 2015, the exact day Marty lands in the future in the story.
The shoe didn't stay a rare toy for collectors. Nike put the same tech into pairs anyone could buy, first a $720 pair in 2016, then a $350 basketball shoe in 2019 that you tighten from your phone.
Those original 89 pairs are worth a small fortune today. They sell for tens of thousands of dollars, and one pair has gone for more than $100,000 at auction, more than a new car costs. In the film, they were just everyday shoes from the year 2015.
nothing would be better for football’s soul than Brazilian clubs all getting an extra 100m a year so they have the capacity to keep their most talented players until they’re 22/23.
Brazilians actually playing like Brazilians? MAGIC.
Drake has expressed this sentiment in several of his songs, yet he's constantly characterised as this degenerate who rejects wholesome romance.
I think most humans want love and commitment. Especially in a lonely industry where everyone is out to get you.
However, people underestimate how difficult it is to find a sincere and stable relationship when you're no longer viewed as a person.
Drake represents a lot of things to a lot of people, good or bad, and when he naturally steps out of the frame they've placed him in, they're shocked that he isn't a character in a movie. He's a complicated, messy human being, just like everyone else.
How do you establish a real relationship when the basic prerequisite of being viewed as a person isn't being met?
It becomes harder to trust people, but you can't swear off intimacy, so you engage in the cheap, short-term versions of it, which leads to all sorts of rumours and scandals, which only fuels people's preconceived notions of you, which makes it even harder to find love. It's an extremely messy feedback loop.
I'm not saying it's impossible for him to settle down, and I'm not saying he bears no responsibility for the women he chooses to associate with, but I wonder how most of us would fare in his position.
E o McDonald's que contratou Ronaldinho Gaúcho e o jogador mais caro do atualidade Lamine Yamal para fazer gol na logo da lanchonete. Advinha quem acertou o chute?