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Being brave doesn't mean you go looking for trouble. - Mufasa
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The Lion King
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We’re not a pack,” Leon said, waving a hand dismissively. “We’re a pride. But instead of a King with a bunch of lionesses we have a Queen with a bunch of Lions.” “I’m not a fucking Lion,” Ryder disagreed. “You are. You’re Scar, Dante’s Mufasa and I’m Simba and Gabe is…Zazu.
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Caroline Peckham (Vicious Fae (Ruthless Boys of the Zodiac, #3))
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Maybe if Mufasa was nice to Scar and told Scar he could be king on weekends then Scar wouldn’t have killed him.
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Quil Carter (Severing Sanguine (A Companion Book to The Fallocaust Series, #2))
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Father", that sounds too dominant, too stern or Mufasa-like – he’s a coward, a low-budget, hand-fucking coward.
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Danielle Esplin (Give It Back)
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I needed to kill someone. Most likely that piece of shit Mufasa. Then Inferno. Then the peacock.
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Caroline Peckham (Vicious Fae (Ruthless Boys of the Zodiac, #3))
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It’s how he shows he cares,” he said with a smirk. “One of these days I know he’ll gift me a vision of him tossing me from a cliff Mufasa and Scar style and then I know we’ll be bros for life.
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Caroline Peckham (Broken Fae (Ruthless Boys of the Zodiac, #4))
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Every fifteen minutes, Ro! Now you know why Mufasa is the motherfucking king of the jungle.” “You’re
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Leylah Attar (Mists of The Serengeti)
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It’s like getting chewed out by Mufasa himself, but with less mane and more disappointment.
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John Stamos (If You Would Have Told Me)
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Mufasa didn’t hang off that cliff by his ass.” Ryder shrugged and started to walk away. “You wanna watch The Lion King with me sometime? It’s clearly your favourite!” I called after him,
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Caroline Peckham (Savage Fae (Ruthless Boys of the Zodiac, #2))
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Settling” is a coarse way of saying “adjusting my expectations,” and I think that gets a bad rap. Dude, I would rather settle than be “chronically unfulfilled due to my outsize desires.” I don’t mean that you should marry someone you hate just because they won’t go away, but I do think it’s worth examining what you actually want while being honest about what is important to you. Then it won’t feel like such a compromise, you know? On top of that, it’s totally unfair to make a flesh-and-bone person compete against an imaginary ideal that was imprinted on you when you were too young to understand what was happening. Shit, growing up I wanted to marry the Beast from Beauty and the Beast. A strong, virile creature who read tons of books and could fuck up a wolf ? Yes please! Sign me up! I could’ve lain awake every night waiting for Mufasa to save me from a wildebeest stampede in a gorge, but do I climb into bed next to a fucking lion? No, bitch, because I am realistic. Instead, I married this person who makes her own kombucha and charges her crystals under the new moon. Girl, adapt!
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Samantha Irby (Wow, No Thank You.)
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Did you know that in the Lion King, the hyenas – the bad guys – all speak in either black or Latino slang? And that the little cubs are told not to go where the hyenas live?"
"Do you realise that scar, the villain, is darker than Mufasa?
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Jodi Picoult (Small Great Things)
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Did you know that in The Lion King, the hyenas—the bad guys—all speak in either black or Latino slang? And that the little cubs are told not to go where the hyenas live?” He looks at me, amused. “Do you realize that Scar, the villain, is darker than Mufasa?
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Jodi Picoult (Small Great Things)
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It’s about humbling yourself enough to learn, even when you’re at the top of your game. It’s about knowing that the moment you get comfortable being an executive is the moment you begin to fail. It’s about realizing that, if you want to continue being Mufasa, at the same time you have to keep being Simba.
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Alex Banayan (The Third Door: The Wild Quest to Uncover How the World's Most Successful People Launched Their Careers)
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Which means becoming the Nala to my Simba.” “Nala ends up married to Simba. I don’t know what kind of fantasies you’ve been having about me, but I can assure you that outcome is not in your future,” Ryder said. “I knew you loved this movie,” Leon called triumphantly. “Do you need a tissue for when Mufasa dies or do you just let the tears flow free?
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Caroline Peckham (Vicious Fae (Ruthless Boys of the Zodiac, #3))
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Sin embargo, cuando Mufasa muere prematuramente, asesinado por su malvado hermano Scar, el joven Simba se siente responsable de la catástrofe y, atormentado por la culpa, abandona el reino del león, rehúye su destino real y se pierde en la tierra salvaje. Allí encuentra a otros dos parias, una suricata y un facóquero, y juntos pasan unos años despreocupados fuera del camino trillado. Su filosofía antisocial implica que a cada problema responden cantando «hakuna matata»: no te preocupes.
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Yuval Noah Harari (21 lecciones para el siglo XXI)
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The idea that this man could age and even die like a normal human being briefly flattened me. He was our sage old mentor, our Dumbledore, our Obi-Wan Kenobi, our Qui-Gon Jinn, our Mufasa, our Wade Garrett from Road House, our Mickey from Rocky III. People like that can’t die.
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Jason Pargin (If This Book Exists, You're in the Wrong Universe (John Dies at the End #4))
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Pure artists who refuse to sully their hands with business will get trampled like Mufasa under the stampeding gazelles.
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Sean Platt (The Indie Author Power Pack: How To Write, Publish & Market Your Book)
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And if you care about our girl as much as you should then you should want to make her happy. Which means becoming the Nala to my Simba.” “Nala ends up married to Simba. I don’t know what kind of fantasies you’ve been having about me, but I can assure you that outcome is not in your future,” Ryder said. “I knew you loved this movie,” Leon called triumphantly. “Do you need a tissue for when Mufasa dies or do you just let the tears flow free?” Ryder growled low in the back of his throat and took a step away from the couch again.
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Caroline Peckham (Vicious Fae (Ruthless Boys of the Zodiac, #3))
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By the stars, you're so in love with me, Rydikins," he taunted and I bared my teeth. "I can still put you back up there, Mufasa," I warned. "Alright,” he chuckled then gave me a serious look.
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Caroline Peckham (Broken Fae (Ruthless Boys of the Zodiac, #4))
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orders for the hunt? Chase away evil intruders?” Rather than answer, Mufasa began to walk ahead. But instead of going down the rocks toward the ground below, he began to walk
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Elizabeth Rudnick (Lion King Live Action Novelization, The)
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هاكونا ماتاتا - Hakuna Matata”، كلمة سيمبا اتعلمها من تيمون و بومبا أول يوم قابلهم في الغابة بعد ما هرب من أهله. معناها بالأنجليزي “No Worries”، أما في مصر عندنا ليها مرادفات كتير زي “نَفّض”، “كبّر”، “طَنّش”، “إحلَق”، “أفْكِس”.. حسب الجيل والمستوى الإجتماعي اللي بننشأ فيه..
وفي الأغنية الشهيرة اللي في نص الكارتوون شرح تيمون لسيمبا lifestyle هاكونا ماتاتا كالتالي:
It means no worries for the rest of your days, it's our problem-free philosophy.
بمعنى أنه ابتكر فلسفة حياة مبنية على اللامبالاة وعدم الاكتراث بأي حاجة حصلت في الماضي او بتحصل دلوقتي او هتحصل في المستقبل وبالتالي عايش هو وبومبا بدون مشاكل..
أُعجب سيمبا جداً بالفسلفة دي لأسباب كتير، أولها الأسلوب المُسلّي اللي تيمون وبومبا قدموها بيه، وأهمها أنه لقى فيها حل فوري لحالة الإكتئاب اللي عنده من ساعة ما تسبب في موت باباه، وبدل ما يواجه الواقع تبنى فلسفة التنفيض؛ “هاكونا ماتاتا”، وأول حاجة قرر “ينفضلها” هي أهله، بما فيهم مامته..
ومن خلال إخراج الأغنية اللي مليان رموز ومعاني بنشوف إزاي تيمون وبومبا بيغيروا فكر سيمبا بشكل مؤسف جداً في حين أن ظاهر المشهد مُبهج ومُفرح في تناقد شديد ميفهموش غير المشاهد المتأمل خلاصته أن الentertainment - بمعنى اللهو - هو مفتاح لتحويل نظرة أي شخص تجاه حاجة مذمومة إلى محمودة.
فنلاقي مثلاً أن تيمون طلّع مَبرد وبَرد لسيمبا مخالبه كرمزية لإنتكاس الفطرة وتبدُّل السنّة. كمان بعد ما Mufasa بابا سيمبا ما كان بيربيه على معاني الصبر والتركيز والتأني في درس الصيد في أول الفيلم دلوقتي تيمون بيعلمه يستسهل وياكل دود وخنافس وصراصير وحاجات مقرفة جداً كرمزية للإستغناء عن العلم والعمل. الملفت للنظر أن “تيمون” اللي كان طول الوقت متزعِم سيمبا وبومبا هو في الحقيقة أصغر وأضعف واحد فيهم، لكنه قدر يتزعمهم بسهولة لأنهم نسيوا هويتهم.
وبعد flash forward سنين لقدام بنشوف سيمبا كبر وبقى شاب لكن للأسف بشخصية ضعيفة وهايفة واضحة في مظهره وتصرفاته وتطلعاته، فبعد ما كان بيعتز جداً بكلام باباه وشايفه قدوة ليه بقى بيتكسف وبيسخر منه بينه وبين صحابه، وبعد ما كان حلمه أنه يُحكم الغابة بالعدل ويحرر “مقبرة الفيلة” من إحتلال الضباع بقى هدفه الوحيد في الحياة أنه “يقضّيها” مع صحابه الفاشلين الهايفين، وبعد ما كان أكتر شخص مميز في الغابة وفي نظر كل الغابة ليه مستقبل مشرق، بقى ملوش لازمة ولا أهمية.. وفضل عايش سنين على الحال دا، لحد ما في يوم قابل Nala.
“نالا” في الكارتوون هيا رمز حطه المؤلف العبقري لحاجة جميلة بتفكر سيمبا بأصله وفطرته وأحلامه، ممكن بالنسبالنا تكون شخصية او مكان او كتاب او ثورة او اي حاجة بنحس فيها بمعاني التغيير، المهم أنها بتواجهه بحقيقته اللي كان ناسيها.. أنه أسد والمفروض يكون ملك الغابة، وأن كل الغابة بتناديه، وحلمه بيدور عليه، ارجع تاني الدنيا محتجالك، ارجع تاني ونور الحياة - فبيتصدم سيمبا في نفسه والحال اللي وصله ويقرر أنه يتغيّر، ويبدأ يدور على الصراط المستقيم.
“But the sun rolling high - through the sapphire sky
Keeps great and small on the endless round
It's the Circle of Life, and it moves us all
Through despair and hope, through faith and love
Till we find our place on the path unwinding
In the Circle of Life”
— The Lion King
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Amr Ali Ibrahim (مارينا.. كان يا مكان)
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Most of the weddings I have attended since
have a three-hour time limit on the free alcohol. The bat signal goes out to the
guests that the open bar is about to close, and people savagely race to the bar, like those shitty-ass buffalos who trampled all over Mufasa in The Lion King, to get their last glass of complimentary booze to hold them over for the rest of the evening.
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Ali Wong (Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets and Advice for Living Your Best Life)
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By the stars, you're so in love with me, Rydikins," he taunted and I bared my teeth. "I can still put you back up there, Mufasa," I warned.
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Caroline Peckham (Broken Fae (Ruthless Boys of the Zodiac, #4))
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At some point in the night, Leon had apparently shifted into his Lion form and was now spread out over all of us. “Fucking, Mufasa,” Ryder growled
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Caroline Peckham (Warrior Fae (Ruthless Boys of the Zodiac, #5))
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Inferno, Mufasa and Big Bird carved through the edge of the group before King even realised what was happening.
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Caroline Peckham (Vicious Fae (Ruthless Boys of the Zodiac, #3))