The Quotes Quoted By Dr Tom From CBCs Being Erica Season 1 Edition

March 10, 2011 Dan Levy Leave a comment Go to comments

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Dr Tom from Being Erica played by Micheal Riley picture taken from Being Erica Wiki Some people know that I watch the CBC series Being Erica but some people havent even heard of the show. If you havent: the show is about a woman in her early 30s who has been in a number of dead end jobs and relationships and one day meets the mysterious Dr. Tom. Dr. Tom promises to treat Erica and help her live a better life. He does this by having her list her life regrets on a piece of paper and then he sends Erica back in time to relive these regrets and possibly rectify them but always to learn from them. The show is, I believe, mainly targeted at women but Im a sucker for pretty much anything that has to do with time travel so I enjoy the show. One of the things Dr Tom consistently does throughout the show in treating Erica is to quote wisdom of people (famous and not-so-famous). The quotes are always relevant to Ericas current predicament/regret. Often the quotes are very obscure but they are always, in my humble opinion, quite inspirational. Every now and again I would look for a comprehensive list of Dr Toms Quotes and have never been able to find one. As such, I put this list together by searching around the interiorwebs and reading some really, really random sites. Again, I am surprised there isnt a better, more comprehensive list out there so if youd like to help me build this list I would really appreciate it! (Or if there is one that I havent found Id appreciate the link!) There were a number of doubles which came from different websites arguing about where the quotes came from/were said so I deleted some of them more or less guessing which episode they came from. I havent proofread all of the names either so there might be some which are misspelled. Lastly, for everyone who wants to tell me that Prime Minister Winston Churchill didnt say the quote about history and it was George Santayana I am well aware of this but this is what the contributor wrote it as so I assume that is to whom Dr. Tom attributed the quote. I am going to go through Season 1 and fix up this list however, so not to worry! As well, I have completed rewatching Season 3 of Being Erica so the Season 3 list is available here The Quotes Quoted By Dr Tom From CBCs Being Erica Season 3 Edition. Episode 1 Dr. Tom

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. Albert Einstein Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make. Abraham Cowle Pressure makes diamonds. General George S. Patton The life which is unexamined is not worth living. Plato We learn to do something by doing it. There is no other way. John Halt Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand. Baruch Spinoza If lifes journey be endless where is its goal? The answer is, it is everywhere. Rabindranath Tagore

Episode 2 What I Am Is What I Am

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality and, instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. Samuel Johnson We are the sum of our decisions, and as long as youre happy, thats all that matters. Antigone Morris, Ericas classmate Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt. Thomas Moore

Episode 3 Plenty of Fish

Sarcasm: the last refuge of the modest people when the privacy of the soul is intrusively invaded. Fyodor Dostoyevsky Let your net always be cast, and in the pool which you least expect, there will be a fish. Ovid There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path. Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne in The Matrix) Chasing the past, she stumbled into the future. T.A. Sachs

Episode 4 The Secret of Now

You dont miss your water until your well runs dry. William Bell While we are postponing, life speeds by. Lucius Annaeus Seneca, 5 BC Defeatism is the wretchedest of policies. George Bernard Shaw Oops I did it again. Britney Spears Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and goit is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow. Alice M. Swain

Episode 5 Adultescence

Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Prime Minister Winston Churchill No party is any fun unless seasoned with folly. Desiderius Erasmus It takes a lot of courage to grow up and be who you really are. e.e. cummings

Episode 6 Til Death

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. Anne Morrow Lindbergh Theres a crack in everything. Thats how the light gets in. Leonard Cohen

Episode 7 Such a Perfect Day

You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. Zig Ziglar Although the world is full of suffering it is also full of the overcoming of it. Helen Keller We cannot, we will not, choose the path of surrender. President Woodrow T. Wilson

Episode 8 This Be the Verse

There is no try, only do. Yoda To err is human, but to forgive is divine. Alexander Pope (paraphrased) They screw you up, your mom and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. Philip Larkin (paraphrased) Your parents will mess you up. They dont mean to, but they do it anyway. Philip Larkin (I am unsure if this is the way Dr Tom quotes it or if he paraphrases as above. When I rewatch this episode this portion will be edited.)

Episode 9 Everything She Wants

Labels are for cans, not people. Anthony Rapp

Episode 10 Mi Casa, Su Casa Loma

Being entirely honest with oneself is a worthwhile exercise. Sigmund Freud (paraphrased) A man has two reasons for doing anything a good reason and the real reason. J.P. Morgan (I also found out that the original person who said this was Thomas Carlyle and his version is A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.)

Episode 11 Shes Lost Control

He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future.. George Orwell (paraphrased) We create our fate every day we live. Henry Miller There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain. Aeschylus Men in the game are blind to what men looking on see clearly. Chinese Proverb

Episode 12 Erica the Vampire Slayer

Learn to be what you are, and learn to resign with good grace all that you are not. Henri-Frdric Amiel (paraphrased) Thinking is easy, acting is difficult and to put ones thoughts into action, the most difficult thing in the world. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Episode 13 Leo ~ No Dr Tom Quotes ~ Coming soon posts of Dr Toms quotes from Season 2 and Season 3 (and when it comes out, Season 4). I am going to have to either get a lot of help for those, do a lot more research, or rewatch the seasons in their entirety because what I have found thus far is SPARSE! UPDATE: September 6, 2011 - The Season 3 quotes are available here. Turned out I had to rewatch the entire Season 3 in its entirety and it is looking like I am going to be doing the same for Season 2 too: The Quotes Quoted By Dr Tom From CBCs Being Erica Season 3 Edition

The Quotes Quoted By Dr Tom From CBCs Being Erica Season 2 Edition
September 10, 2011 Dan Levy Leave a comment Go to comments

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Yesterdays post on blogging and PR companies was pretty heady stuff. Today, I thought we would go a little bit lighter and therefore I am writing todays post of Being Erica quotes. Finally, the time has come for me to complete this series of Being Erica postswell complete until the new season (Season 4) starts 9PM in Canada on September 26, 2011 and is available to watch online (in Canada) at http://www.cbc.ca/beingerica/episodes.html (latest episodes) and at http://www.cbc.ca/video/#/Shows/Being_Erica/ (all episodes). However, the beauty is that this time when I watch Being Ericas new season I will do my utmost to compile the list of Dr Toms quotes as they are aired and will be able to post a list of the quotes almost as soon as the season is done. To review:

You can find my Season One edition of this post here: The Quotes Quoted By Dr Tom From CBCs Being Erica Season 1 Edition. You can find my Season Three edition of this post here: The Quotes Quoted By Dr Tom From CBCs Being Erica Season 3 Edition.

As I watched this season and looked back upon the previous posts I realized that although this and the other posts are called The Quotes Quoted By Dr Tom From CBCs Being Erica but I included a number of quotes that were not actually said by Dr Tom. Maybe I should have named the posts The Quotes Quoted In Being Erica but I didnt and the bulk of the quotes are by Dr Tom. I also mentioned in my Season 3 post that I noticed a significant drop in the amount of quotes by Dr Tom and I wondered if I would notice a drop between Season 1 and Season 2 and I totally did. I think it has to do with the introduction of a whole bunch of other characters with major parts and the advancement of the plot including the season long arc with Kai Booker, the first fellow patient in therapy who Erica meets.

Episode 1 Being Dr. Tom

(Said by Dr Naadiah to Dr Tom) Fear is the mind-killer. Frank Herbert I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but I always end up where I need to be. Douglas Adams (Said by Erica to a young Dr Tom before he became Dr Tom) In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity Albert Einstein When the student is ready the teacher will appear. Buddhist Proverb For everything there is a season and a time. Ecclesiastes 3:1

Episode 2 Battle Royale

The course of true love never did run smooth William Shakespeare Returning violence with violence only multiplies violence Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Episode 3 Mama Mia

Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it. Marshall McLuhan Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, What? You too? I thought I was the only one. C.S. Lewis

Episode 4 Cultural Revolution

It doesnt work to leap a twenty-foot chasm in two ten-foot jumps. American Proverb

Episode 5 Yes We Can

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. Albert Camus To succeed in life you need two things: ignorance and confidence. Mark Twain Everything has a consequence. Every action has a reaction. Isaac Newton (paraphrased)

Episode 6 Shhh Dont Tell

There is no shame in not knowing. The shame lies in not finding out. Russian Proverb

Being Erica - Erica Strange & Dr Tom in Dr Tom's office. Season 2 Episode 10 Episode 7 The Unkindest Cut ~ No Dr Tom Quotes ~ Episode 8 Under My Thumb

(Said by Dr Fred to Dr Tom) Familiarity breeds contempt. Aesop

Episode 9 A River Runs Through ItIt Being Egypt

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered. The point is, to discover them. Galileo Galilei Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it aint going away. Elvis Presley The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill

Episode 10 Papa Can You Hear Me?

Act the way you want to be and soon youll be the way you act. Bob Dylan

Episode 11 What Goes Up Must Come Down Success is often achieved by those who dont know that failure is inevitable. Coco Chanel

(Julianne Giacomelli to Erica) When the Lord closes a door he opens a window. Mother Superior in The Sound of Music

Episode 12 The Importance of Being Erica

Every wall is a door. Ralph Waldo Emerson One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire Cat. Which road do I take?, she asked. Where do you want to go?, was his response. I dont know, answered Alice. Then, said the cat, it doesnt matter. Alices Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (Erica to Kai Booker) This above all, to thine own self be true. William Shakespeare We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves. Galileo Galilei

So ends this blog post and wraps up my lists of inspirational quotes quoted by the characters of CBCs Being Erica mainly quotes from the Dr Tom character. I look forward to Season 4 the last season of the show. Again, it begins

at 9PM in Canada on September 26, 2011 and is available to watch online (in Canada) at http://www.cbc.ca/beingerica/episodes.html (latest episodes) and at http://www.cbc.ca/video/#/Shows/Being_Erica/ (all episodes). IMAGE CREDIT/LINK: The Being Erica Season 3 cast wallpaper is taken from CBCs website for the show at http://www.cbc.ca/beingerica/extras.html The direct link for the wallpaper is available at http://www.cbc.ca/beingerica/images/wallpaper2_1024x768.jpg

The Quotes Quoted By Dr Tom From CBCs Being Erica Season 3 Edition
September 5, 2011 Dan Levy Leave a comment Go to comments

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You might recall my Season One edition of this post. If you dont, dont worry! I have it linked for you right here: The Quotes Quoted By Dr Tom From CBCs Being Erica Season 1 Edition. Well, today it is time for a new edition of this blog post. The Season 3 edition. You may be wondering why they heck I am skipping Season 2 and jumping to Season 3 my reason is actually somewhat silly and somewhat lazy. The reason for the skip is that I already had a few of the episodes from Season 3 saved on my computer and I decided to start watching Season 3 and skip Season 2 for now. One big difference from the Season 1 edition is that this version of the Seasons quotes by Dr Tom has been verified personally by me. In the Season 1 version of this I scoured the internet and other websites looking for the quotes and not researching them by watching the episodes myself. When you figure each episode is approximately 44 minutes long and there were 13 episodes in Season 3 that means I have watched 9 1/2 hours of Being Erica for this blog post alone.

One thing I also noticed is that all through Season 3 the number of quotes dropped drastically from the number of quotes in Season 1. I dont know why this is, maybe the folks who make this CBC show decided it was a lot of hard work to find all those awesome quotes like they did in Season 1 (and maybe Season 2? I really gotta re-watch Season 2!) and decided to use a lot less quotes. Episode 1 The Rabbit Hole

Pressure makes diamonds. General George S. Patton (Second time it has been said in the series)

Episode 2 Moving On Up

Learning is finding out what you already know. Richard Bach

Episode 3 Two Wrongs

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. Gandhi Darkness is only driven out with light, not more darkness. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Episode 4 Wash, Rinse, Repeat

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. The Buddha aka Siddhartha Gautama

Episode 5 Being Adam

It is our imagination that transforms itself into reality. Helen Araromi

Episode 6 Bear Breasts

Running away will never make you free. Kenny Logins The id lives in our subconscious, it is the force that drives our most primitive impulses. Sigmund Freud The Ego and the Id. (Out of a book and I assume thats what it was called. Not an off the cuff quote as Dr. Tom usually does.)

Episode 7 Jenny from the Block

And I saw Sisyphus, seeking to raise a monstrous stone with both his hands. Verily, he would thrust the stone toward the crest of a hill but the weight would turn it back. And then down again to plain would come rolling, the ruthless stone. Homer, Odyssey Book 11 Line 593. However, this is a misquote by Dr Tom based on the quotes I found of the book online.

Episode 8 Physician, Heal Thyself

Whatever your past has been, you have a spotless future. Melanie Gustafson

Episode 9 Gettin Wiggy Wit It

What is hateful to thyself do not do to another. Hillel (By Dr. Arthur, I am not sure why I even included it.) The Universe has a way of righting itself. Tom Dr. Tom Wexler paraphrased

Episode 10 The Tribe Has Spoken

But the eyes are blind, one must look with the heart. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Episode 11 Adams Family ~ No Dr Tom Quotes ~ Episode 12 Erica, Interrupted

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. A Tom Dr. Tom Wexler quote quoted by Erica to Leo. Originally said by Albert Einstein and quoted by Dr Tom to Erica in Season 1 Episode 1.

~ No Dr Tom Quotes ~ Episode 13 Fa La Erica

Christmas is a time when you get homesick, even when youre home. Carol Nelson The Family is the Country of the heart. Giuseppe Mazzini

In a way it is a good thing that I rewatched this entire season when I did. I now remember the ending of the season the overarching story which really ended at Episode 12. What do I mean by that? Episode 13 was more of a holiday

special and aired BEFORE Episode 12. Episode 12, on the other hand, ended with Erica seeing someone off camera and smiling at them but it is not identified who it is and we will have to wait for Season 4 to find out. Luckily, Season 4 of Being Erica begins airing in Canada on September 26, 2011 only 3 weeks away!

The Quotes Quoted By Dr Tom From CBCs Being Erica Season 4 Edition
December 13, 2011 Dan Levy Leave a comment Go to comments

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Well, last night Being Erica had its series finale with the end of the Season 4 and I am here to bring you the quotes quoted by Dr Tom all this season. As well, I have provided links to previous incarnations of this post from the previous seasons:

Season 1 Edition. Season 2 Edition. Season 3 Edition.

If you are not up to date on the final season of Being Erica dont worry there are no out and out spoilers in here. I have also decided to add a new aspect to this post in that I am going to include Ericas patient in each of the episodes. (I started writing this post after Episode 2 when she has already had a different patient in each of the two episodes as she goes through Doctor Training.) Episode 1 Doctor Who? Patient: Josh McIntosh

Failure is natures plan to prepare you for greater responsibilities. Napoleon Hill Life is too short to blend in. Paris Hilton

Episode 2 Osso Barko Patient: Julianne Giacomelli

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Sigmund Freud With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere. C.S. Lewis

Episode 3 Baby Mama Patient: Barbara Barb Strange

Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation. Charlotte Bront

Episode 4 Born This Way Patient: Brent Kennedy

When the lord closes a door, somewhere he opens a window. Mother Superior (by Julianne)

Episode 5 Sins Of The Father Patient: Dr Tom being treated by Dr Naadiah

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work. Ralph Waldo Emerson (by Dr Toms father to Dr Tom) Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. Aristotle

Episode 6 If I Could Turn Back Time Patient: None.

What we obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly. Thomas Payne

With great power comes great responsibility. Spiderman (Ben Uncle Ben Parker, but they dont reference him specifically.) We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. George Bernard Shaw We learn by doing, there is no other way. John Holt. This is a quote Dr Tom has used before but he didnt bother to say who it was by this time.

Episode 7 Being Ethan Patient: Ethan

Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. Oscar Wilde

Episode 8 Please, Please Tell Me Now Patient: Erica by Dr Tom & Dr Tom by Dr Naadiah ~ No Dr Tom Quotes ~ Episode 9 Ericas Adventures in Wonderland Patient: Erica

Fall in love for all the right reasons. eHarmony We come to love not by finding the perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. Sam Keen Live long and prosper. Quoted by Dr Tom dressed as Mr Spock even though he doesnt actually attribute it he is dressed as Mr Spock complete with prosthetic ears.

Episode 10 Purim Patient: Ericas Grandfather ~ No Dr Tom Quotes ~ Episode 11 Dr. Erica Patient: Erica & later her first full patient. Spoiler Alert in these brackets is the name of the first patient. Because some of you might not have seen the episode yet, you have to highlight the name by selecting it with your mouse. (Sarah Wexler)

There is no constant but change. Heraclitus (Erica says it to Dr Naadiah but doesnt attribute it.) Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well. The Buddha In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. Albert Einstein (Erica to her first patient.)

Well, Being Erica is officially over. Episode 11 of Season 4 was the series finale. It was a really enjoyable show to watch and I love all the quotes they used. I wonder if they will ever put them all together into a book? If you want more Being Erica there are two remakes in the works! In the UK they will be relocating the show to Glasgow and it is tentatively going to be called You Again and will be a six part series. In the USA they will be remaking it as well, although details are a lot more sketchy on that one. Im looking forward to seeing their interpretations of this show are you?