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Billy Madison

Billy Madison is a 1995 film about a hotel heir who goes back to school, first through twelfth grade, two weeks per grade, to inherit his father's company.
 * Directed by Tamra Davis. Written by Tim Herlihy and Adam Sandler.

Billy's Going Back To School

Billy Madison

 * I'm sorry. I can't hear you. I've been physically abused in the ear!
 * I see your lips movin', but I can't make out the words! I'm deaf! Oh, Veronica Vaughn ... Soooo hot ... want to touch the hiney ... (howls)
 * It's nudie magazine day!
 * It's too damn hot for a penguin to be walking around here.
 * All the people at the zoo are real nice, Mr. Penguin. They'll treat you real respectable like.
 * He said "poop"!
 * Tits!
 * Well, I could think of three things I'd like to do. One would involve some ice cubes and a nine iron. Two would include a buffalo, live or stuffed, preferably stuffed for safety's sake, and three, we bring back some of those ice cubes and switch it over to a pitching wedge.
 * Whoa, whoa, whoa, Ms. Lippy! The part in the story I don't like is that the little boy gave up looking for Happy after an hour. He didn't put posters up or anything, he just sat on the porch like a goon and waited. That little boy's gotta think: 'You got a pet. You got a responsibility.' If your dog is lost, you don't look for an hour then call it quits; you get your ass out there and you find that fucking dog!
 * I drew the duck blue because I've never seen a blue duck before, and to be honest with you, I wanted to see a blue duck.
 * That's quacktastic! Quack, quack, quack!
 * Actually, I stole this shirt from Frank.
 * Is that it, Dad? Did the penguin tell you to do this?
 * JUST DO IT!!
 * You know I like Snack Pack, why can't you just GIVE ME A SNACK PACK?!?!
 * (singing) Oh, back to school. Back to school, to prove to Dad that I'm not a fool. I got my lunch packed up, my boots tied tight, I hope I don't get in a fight! Ohhhhhhhhh, back to school! Back to school. Back to ... school. (bus approaches) Well, here goes nothin'.
 * (waves the shampoo bottle as if it is talking) Shampoo is better; I go on first and clean the hair! (waves the conditioner bottle to the same effect) Conditioner is better; I leave the hair silky and smooth! (waves the shampoo bottle) Oh, really, fool?! (waves the conditioner bottle) Really! (he then makes the shampoo and conditioner bottle "fight" each other before dropping both into the bathtub, then notices a golden swan-shaped faucet.) Stop lookin' at me, swan!
 * (after he hallucinates and sees the penguin at Veronica's house) (drunkenly) Oh. I see what's going' on in here. (penguin waves at him) So sorry to interrupt! (turns to Veronica) Proceed!
 * You ain't cool, unless, you pee your pants! Everybody my age pee their pants; it's the coolest!
 * (after Ernie hangs up the phone) YOU BLEW IT!!
 * Chlorophyll?! More like BORE-O-PHYLL! Right?
 * I choose Business Ethics.
 * (menacingly) O'Doyle, I got a feeling your whole family is going' down;... but right now, I gotta study!
 * Uh, Dad, do we have to discuss this with Captain Dipshit here?
 * (at dodgeball period) Now you're all in big, big trouble!
 * (to high-school classmate) No, I will not make out with you!
 * An accident? What's that mean? (notices Ernie wet his pants) GYOO!!!!
 * You, me, Jack and Frank are gonna go around Putting shit on people's doorsteps and we gonna sets it on fire!
 * Man, I'm glad I called that guy!
 * Alright you got it 1st grade through 12th grade all over again. I'll do each grade in 2 weeks, take the test, re-graduate, prove to you i'm not a idiot, and i get to take over Madison Hotels.

Principal Anderson

 * What do I care about some stupid, phony wrestling guy?
 * The statement I made about Billy Madison was and is completely untrue. I know now, that I shall never escape my fate as the Revolting Blob. It's something I must learn to live with.

Dialogue

 * Old Man Clements: It's one of those flaming bags again!
 * Old Man Clements's wife: Don't put it out with your boots, Ted!
 * Old Man Clements: Don't tell me my business, devil woman! Call the fire department; this one's out of control![stamps out flaming bag] Yuck! It's POOP again! I'll get you damn kids for this! You're all gonna die!!

 * Veronica Vaughn: Who would steal 30 bagged lunches?
 * [The scene cuts to show the bus driver, Jack and Frank eating the kids' lunches]
 * Old Lady: I'll tell you who took those lunches. That damn Sasquatch!

 * [Billy is faking sick so he can skip school. He lays in bed with a mouth thermometer he heated with his desk-lamp]
 * Billy: I swear to God I'm sick. I can't go to school.
 * Juanita: If you're gonna stay home today, you can help me shave my armpits! (laughs)
 * Billy: [disgusted] Oh, my God! I'll go to school!

 * Bus Driver: Get on the bus here. Move it. Get up there. Kyle. 1, 2, 5, 7. Move it or lose it. Get on the bu-s Hi, Ms. Vaughn. Nice to see ya. [stops Billy] That Veronica Vaughn is one piece of ass. I know from experience, dude, if you know what I mean.
 * Billy: No, you don't.
 * Bus Driver: Well, not me personally, but a guy I know ... him and her got it on! Whoooooo-eeeeee!
 * Billy: No, they didn't.
 * Bus Driver: No, no, no they didn't. But you could imagine what it'd be like if they did, right? Huh? Huh? [Billy gets on the bus] Everybody on? Good. Great! Grand! Wonderful! [closes the door, yelling]: NO YELLING ON THE BUS!

 * Dan: [stuttering while reading] Wa-wa-wa-once th-th-th-there wa-wa-wa-was a-a-a-a g-g-girl ... who wa-a-an-
 * Billy: Pffft! Kid can't even read.
 * Ernie: Cut it out dude, you're gonna get us in trouble.
 * Dan: An air-air-air-p-p-p-p-plane f-f-flying t-t-t ...
 * Billy: T-t-t-today, Junior! Ha-ha-ha!
 * [Veronica Vaughn sends Billy out of the classroom, the kids laugh]
 * Billy: [overreacting dramatically] OW!! YOU'RE TEARING MY EAR OFF!!
 * Veronica: Making fun of a little kid trying to read! Are you psycho? Do you not have a soul?
 * Billy: I'm sorry I can't hear you, I've been physically abused in the ear.
 * Veronica: You keep your mouth shut for the next two weeks or I'm gonna fail you. End of story. [leaves]
 * Billy: I see your lips moving, but I can't make out the words. I'm deaf! Ohh, Veronica Vaughn. Soooo hot! Want to touch the hiney! [howls]

 * 3rd Grader: Hey, look everybody! Billy peed his pants!
 * Billy: Of course I peed my pants! Everybody my age pees their pants; it's the coolest!
 * 3rd Grader: Really?
 * Billy: YES! You ain't cool, unless you pee your pants.
 * 3rd Grader: Hey, look! Ernie peed his pants, too. All right!
 * Old Lady: If peeing your pants is cool, consider me Miles Davis.
 * Billy: Oh! That was the grossest thing I've ever heard in my life! LET'S GO!!!

 * Scotty: Mortal Kombat on the Sega Genesis is the best video game ever.
 * Billy: I disagree. It's a very good game, but I think Donkey Kong is the best video game ever.
 * Scotty: Donkey Kong sucks!
 * Billy: You know somethin'? YOU SUCK!

 * Lunch Lady: Have some more Sloppy Joes. I made 'em EXTRA sloppy for yous! Ha, ha, ha! I know how yous kids like 'em sloppy! [laughs evilly]
 * Billy: Lady, you're scarin' us!
 * [Everyone including Billy burst out laughing]

 * Billy: H-hey! Look at all this milk! You want some of this milk?
 * Veronica: That milk belongs to that classroom.
 * Billy: Oh, they don't gots to know about it. It could be our milk.
 * Veronica: No milk will ever be our milk.
 * Billy: Ooh, that wasn't very nice. How 'bout you, Sideburns? You want some of this milk?
 * Janitor: I'd rather have a beer.

 * [first lines]
 * Billy: [singing while relaxing in his pool] Suntan lotion is good for me; you protect me, tee-hee-hee! Oh, the sun tries to burn me, but YOU WON'T LET IT! WILL YA?!?! Ultraviolet rays: bad! Lotion: good! [makes a smiley face with his sunblock] Smiley!

 * Veronica: You know some people have no will power, no ambition. They just drift through life like lumps of crap.
 * Jack: What is she talkin' about?!

 * Frank: Well, this is great! When I graduated 1st grade all my dad did was tell me to get a job! Hey, you wanna feed that donkey some beer? Get it all messed up?
 * Billy: Maybe later.
 * Frank: I'll go put some beer in a bucket.
 * Billy: Okay.

 * Brian: Oh Billy, Billy boy, when are you going to find whatever it is you're lookin' for?
 * Billy: Here's a nice piece of shit! Old man Clements hates shit! He's gonna freak, when he realizes it's shit!

 * Frank: Hey Billy, who would you rather bone? Meg Ryan or Jack Nicholson?
 * Billy: Jack Nicholson now or 1974?
 * Frank: '74.
 * Billy: Meg Ryan. [Frank looks confused]

 * Brian: Billy, it wasn't just high school. Do you remember that spelling bee you won in the 1st grade?
 * Billy: Oh, no you didn't.
 * Brian: Rock ... R-O-K.
 * Billy: Yeah, so what's your point?
 * Brian: R-O-C-K!
 * Billy: The 'C' is silent, ha-ha!

 * Billy: Man, why did I have so many drinks? I can't remember! What's today?
 * Frank: October?
 * Billy: It's Nudie Magazine Day!!

 * Principal Anderson: [on TV] The statement I made about Billy Madison was, and is, completely untrue.
 * Eric: No.
 * Principal Anderson: I know now that I shall never escape my fate as the Revolting Blob.
 * Eric: No, no, no, no, no, no, NO! [angrily throws a stapler, and it hits his secretary, accidentally knocking her out]
 * Principal Anderson: It's something I must learn to live with.
 * Eric: Joyce?
 * Brian: What a mess. First, this psycho goes on TV, lies, then retracts it, and now Eric's secretary is in a coma. Carl, has anyone been able to find out anything about this Max guy?
 * Carl: No, sir. He's vanished. Nobody has any idea where he is.
 * Eric: [to Brian] I believed in Billy all along.
 * Billy: [to Eric] Oh, cut the horseshit! I know you blackmailed Max.
 * Brian: Take it easy, Billy. Things were going along great, until this wrestling freak messed things up. Billy should get another shot at high school.
 * Eric: Hey, rules are rules. Billy was supposed to finish each grade within the 2 weeks, or I get the company. He didn't finish 9th grade.
 * Carl: Eric, certainly there are extenuating circumstances.
 * Eric: Extenuating, exshmenuating! We had a deal. A signed, written deal. Each grade, 2 weeks, or I get the company.
 * Brian: Well, technically, you're right, but--
 * Eric: Oh, shut up, Brian! I've had to listen to your jawing for too long. [mimicking Brian] "Well, technically, mmeh-mmeh-mmeh--" [normal voice; loudly] Just SHUT UP! [gets up] Are you ready to hand the company over to me now?
 * Brian: No!
 * Eric: Then I'll see your ass in court.
 * Brian: Good.
 * Eric: Nice talkin' to ya, shitheads! Hhhheh-heh-heh-heh-heh!

 * 12th grade O'Doyle: [after stuffing Billy's locker with manure] O'Doyle rules!
 * Billy: O'Doyle, I got a feeling your whole family's going down. But for now, I gotta study.

 * Dan: Hey, I dare you to throw your sandwich at the bus driver. Do it. Come on.
 * [Kyle throws his sandwich at the bus driver]
 * Bus Driver: HEY!
 * Veronica: Hey, who threw that?
 * Bus Driver: I'll turn this damn bus around. That'll end your precious little field trip pretty damn quick, huh? You little...

 * Knibb High Principal: Mr. Madison, what you've just said was one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
 * Billy: Okay, a simple "wrong" would've done just fine. [sits back in his seat]
 * Knibb High Principal: [to Billy] You remain one point ahead. [to Eric] Mr. Gordon, it is your turn. [to Billy] Mr. Madison, choose the topic.
 * [Billy examines the topic chart]
 * Billy: I choose "Business Ethics".
 * Knibb High Principal: [draws a question card] Mr. Gordon, the American business environment has fundamentally changed, following the insider trading and savings and loan scandals. Explain business ethics and how they're applied today.
 * Student in the audience: Booo!
 * [Eric gets out of his seat and approaches the microphone]
 * Eric: The, uh... ethics of, uh... business can be summarized in...
 * Student in the audience: Booo!
 * Eric: See, ethics are, uh... Y'know, the... the thing about ethi-- [completely loses it] GAAAAAAAAAH!!!!
 * [Eric whips out a revolver in a fit of rage and kicks down the microphone. Everyone panics and flees]
 * Eric: [angrily] That question was not fair! That was not in the reading! I demand a new question.
 * Billy: [smugly] Take it easy, psycho. You blew it, you lose.
 * Eric: [turns to Billy] I oughtta blow you away, you miserable...
 * Billy: Well, go ahead and do it! [Eric cocks his gun. Billy gets scared] YIKES!!
 * Principal Anderson: [comes charging out from backstage in his wrestling gear] AAAAAAH!!!!!! [body-slams Eric]
 * Veronica: No! [runs onto the stage]
 * Eric: Get off me! [recovers and points his gun at Veronica] Eh-heh-heh-heh-heh-HEH-HEH-HEH-HEH-HEH-HEH-HEH!!!
 * Billy: No!
 * [Eric is shot in the butt-cheek by Danny. Danny waves to Billy]
 * Billy: Man, I'm glad I called that guy!

Taglines
Taglines appear on theatrical release poster and in movie trailers.
 * Billy Madison's Going Back To School ... Way Back!
 * To Inherit His Family's Fortune, Billy Is Going Back To School ... Way Back!
 * There's A New Name For Dumb.
 * A Comedy About An Overwhelming Underachiever.

Cast

 * Adam Sandler as Billy Madison
 * Darren McGavin as Brian Madison
 * Bridgette Wilson as Veronica Vaughn
 * Bradley Whitford as Eric Gordon
 * Josh Mostel as Principal Max Anderson
 * Norm Macdonald as Frank
 * Mark Beltzman as Jack
 * Larry Hankin as Carl Alphonse
 * Theresa Merritt as Juanita
 * Dina Platias as Miss Lippy
 * Hrant Alianak as Pete
 * Vincent Marino as Cook
 * Jack Mather as Ted "Old Man" Clemens
 * Christopher Kelk as Rollo the Janitor
 * Marc Donato as Nodding 1st Grader
 * Keith Cole as Penguin
 * Chris Mei as Penguin
 * Conor Devitt as O'Doyle (Grade 1)
 * Jared Durand as Scotty Logan (Grade 1)
 * Jessica Nakamura as Tricia Labonte (Grade 1)
 * Helen Hughes as 2nd Grade Teacher
 * Jacelyn Holmes as 2nd Grade
 * Claire Celluci as Attractive Lady
 * Shane Farberman as Clown
 * Al Maini as Chauffeur
 * Jared Cook as Ernie (Grade 3)
 * Christian Matheson as O'Doyle (Grade 3)
 * Kyle Bailey as Kyle
 * Vernon Chapman as Butler
 * Mandy Watts as Maid
 * Austin Pool as Dan (Grade 3)
 * Gladys O'Connor as Tour Guide
 * Marcia Bennett as 4th Grade Teacher
 * Diane Douglass as Nurse
 * Tim Herlihy as Architect
 * Frank Nakashima as Architect
 * Joyce Gordon as Lunch Lady
 * Jordan Lerner-Ellis as Pothead
 * Daniel Lerner-Ellis as Pothead
 * Robert Smigel as Mr. Oblaski
 * Melissa Korzenko as Nancy Connors
 * Colin Smith as O'Doyle (Grade 9)
 * Jeff Moser as Paul
 * Amos Crawley as Rod
 * Tex Konig as Crazy Persons
 * Eduardo Gómez as Crazy Persons
 * Tanya Grout as Joyce (Eric's Secretary)
 * Benjamin Barrett as Tenth Grader
 * Matthew Ferguson as Tenth Grader
 * Sean Lett as O'Doyle (Grade 12)
 * Stacey Wheal as Jennifer (Grade 3)
 * Chris Farley as Bus Driver (uncredited)
 * Steve Buscemi as Danny McGrath (uncredited)
 * Jordan-Patrick Marcantonio as 10th Grader (uncredited)

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Flashback: The Quest for Identity

Flashback: The Quest for Identity, released in 1992 as just Flashback in some countries, is an action-adventure platform game developed by Delphine Software of France, a now defunct company, and published by U.S. Gold in America and Europe, and Sunsoft in Japan.

 * That's my story, just the way I lived it... The galaxy I am in today doesn't appear on any of our navigation charts; It's impossible for me to calculate my return trajectory. I'll probably drift in space for a very long time...
 * Conrad

 * They made me work on a terrible experiment... I'd rather not talk about the consequences, I was so frightened by the prospects revealed to me.
 * 437th day - Phillip Howard Clark

 * I've decided to move tonight. I'll have to borrow a vessel from the hangar before everything blows up. This is my final message. May Heaven help me...
 * 1200th day - Phillip Howard Clark

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User talk:216.79.194.96

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Long Way Round

Long Way Round is a television series and book documenting the 19,000 mile journey of Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman from London to New York on motorcycles.

From the series

 * Ewan McGregor: Claudio, there is no problem between Charley and me, Charley tell him.
 * Charley Boorman:: There's a terrible problem with us - we hate each other.

 * Ewan McGregor: These aren't the bikes you're looking for.

 * Ewan McGregor: There's no "I" in "team", but as Russ pointed out the other day there is a "me".

 * Ewan McGregor: I said, "Eve, I want you to look after my wedding ring while I'm away," and she started to cry and I said, "Eve. Eve, I can't wear my ring or I won't get laid on the trip!"

 * Ewan McGregor: Scots: inventors of the modern world. You're welcome.

 * Ewan McGregor: Get me out of fucking London!

 * Ewan McGregor: Most people bring a coffee [to the end of a dinner party], but he brought a f***ing machine gun! (On Igor, their host, and his dramatic entrance in the Ukraine).

 * Charley Boorman (in a Hollywood voiceover accent): Long Way Round - Bad hair never looked so good!

 * Charley Boorman: Oh, I'm sure it'll be fine.

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User talk:128.227.50.155

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Arthur Chapman (poet)

Arthur Chapman (June 25, 1873 – December 4, 1935) was an early twentieth century American poet and newspaper columnist.

Out Where the West Begins and Other Western Verses (1917)

 * Out where the handclasp’s a little stronger, Out where the smile dwells a little longer, That’s where the West begins.
 * Out Where the West Begins, st. 1.

 * We used to run a cow-ranch, In all that old term meant, But all our ancient glories In recent years have went; We’re takin’ summer boarders, And, puttin’ it quite rude, It’s now the cowboy’s province To herd the festive dude.
 * The Dude Ranch, st. 1.

 * The sheep are down at the water, a-drinkin' their bloomin' fill, An' me and the dog are dozin', as herders and collies will; The world may be movin' somewheres, but here it is standin' still.
 * The Herder's Reverie, st. 1.

 * It's hard to think that in cities there's men who are goin' to mad, Each strivin' to beat his fellows and get what the others had; And from this here peaceful viewpoint, such doin's look bad, plum bad.
 * The Herder's Reverie'', st. 3.

 * It was jest another instance of a flaw in work of man; A lefty never figgered in the gunman’s battle plan; There ain’t no scheme man thinks of that Dame Nature cannot beat — So his pupils are unlearnin’ that cute trick they got from Pete.
 * Pete's Error, st. 4.

 * He is the last of that old guard defending Cattle Land, Those knights who jousted for the cause — blood brothers of the brand; But now they’ve fenced the water-hole, they’re harrowing the plain, They’re changing all the sagebrush flats to fields of waving grain; The cowmen will be gone, they say, and there are no recruits — Good-bye, brave cattle-puncher in the high-heeled boots!
 * The High-Heeled Boots, st. 3.

 * Out among the big things — The mountains and the plains — An hour ain’t important, Nor are the hour’s gains; The feller in the city Is hurried night and day, But out among the big things He learns the calmer way.
 * Out Among the Big Things, st. 1.

 * Out among the big things — The heights that gleam afar — A feller gets to wonder What means each distant star; He may not get an answer, But somehow, every night He feels, among the big things, That everything’s all right.
 * Out Among the Big Things, st. 3.

Cactus Center (1921)

 * We welcome folks in Cactus Center if they've got an honest lay; If their game ain't too durn crooked, we never stop the play; But a get-rich-quicker blew in, with a game we did n't like, So we did n't waste the minutes in invitin' him to hike.
 * Discipline in Cactus Center, st. 1.

 * There ain't no leaves to turn to gold— There ain't a tree in sight— In other ways the herder's told October's come, all right.
 * October on the Sheep Range, st. 1.

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Andrei Codrescu

Andrei Codrescu (born December 20, 1946, in Sibiu, Romania) is a Jewish Romanian-American poet, novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and commentator for National Public Radio.

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 * The Modernist’s command was Pound’s “Make it New.” The postmodern imperative is “Get it Used.” The more used the better.
 * “The Shipwreck of Dada and Surrealism,” The Disappearance of the Outside: A Manifesto for Escape (1990).

 * Unchecked, the tourist will climb over the fence and come right into your house to take pictures of you in your habitat. Cities mindful of tourists have built elaborate “tourist traps” which, luckily, work. Tourists are kept confined to these, and few escape. There is, of course, the type known as the “intrepid tourist.” This one has to be watched carefully or he can become most annoying. Little wonder these are so often the target of terrorists. If there is an aspect of benign terror about the tourist, there is also a great deal of tourist in the terrorist. Terrorists travel with only one thing in mind, just like the tourist, and the specifics of places escape them both. Terrorists travel for the purpose of shooting unsuspecting foreigners, just as tourists travel for the purpose of shooting them with a camera.
 * “The Tourist,” Raised by Puppets (1990).

 * The language of the game is interesting. You can think of the pauses as caesuras, breaks between the lines. As a poem the game is composed of a number of short lines representing the pitches. The number of lines per batter form a stanza. Then there is a space. Sometimes the stanzas become breathless, rushing full paragraphs that build rapidly on each other until the poem-inning explodes. The poem lives for this sudden blossoming out of prosodic regularity. Should someone make a computer analysis of baseball prosody, I believe that they would come up with something close to the prosody of some great American lyrical epic, Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, let’s say, or Doc Williams’s Patterson.... The game is definitely an epic … formed of many lyrical moments dependent on silences for their effectiveness. An unfolding story punctuated by brief emotional swellings.
 * “A Kind of Love,” The Muse Is Always Half-Dressed (1993).

 * There is undoubtedly something religious about it: everyone believes that they are special, that they are chosen, that they have a special relation with fate. Here is the test: you turn over card after card to see in which way that is true. If you can defy the odds, you may be saved. And when you are cleaned out, the last penny gone, you are enlightened at last, free perhaps, exhilarated like an ascetic by the falling away of the material world.
 * “Dice,” Zombification: Stories from National Public Radio (1994).

 * Only the poor can create art.
 * From a public forum held at the Los Angeles Public Library, 28 April 2010.

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Richard Hofstadter

Richard Hofstadter (August 6, 1916 – August 24, 1970) was an American historian, Professor of American History at Columbia University and public intellectual of the mid-20th century. He became the "iconic historian of postwar liberal consensus", largely due to his emphasis on ideas and political culture rather than the day-to-day actions of politicians.

The Age of Reform: from Bryan to F.D.R. (1955)

 * ISBN 0-394-70095-3

 * It is possible that the distinction between moral relativism and moral absolutism has sometimes been blurred because an excessively consistent practice of either leads to the same practical result — ruthlessness in political life.
 * Introduction, p. 16

 * While early American society was an agrarian society, it was fast becoming more commercial, and commercial goals made their way among its agricultural classes almost as rapidly as elsewhere. The more commercial society became, however, the more reason it found to cling in imagination to the noncommercial agrarian values. The more farming as a self-sufficient way of life was abandoned for farming as a business, the more merit men found in what was being left behind. And the more rapidly the farmers' sons moved into the towns, the more nostalgic the whole culture became about its rural past. The American mind was raised upon a sentimental attachment to rural living and upon a series of notions about rural people and rural life that I have chosen to designate as the agrarian myth. The agrarian myth represents a kind of homage that Americans have paid to the fancied innocence of their origins. Like any complex of ideas, the agrarian myth cannot be defined in a phrase, but its component themes form a clear pattern. Its hero was the yeoman farmer, its central conception the notion that he is the ideal man and the ideal citizen.
 * Chapter I, part I, p. 23

 * Out of the beliefs nourished by the agrarian myth there had arisen the notion that the city was a parasitical growth on the country. Bryan spoke for a people raised for generations on the idea that the farmer was a very special creature, blessed by God, and that in a country consisting largely of farmers the voice of the farmer was the voice of democracy and of virtue itself. The agrarian myth encouraged farmers to believe that they were not themselves an organic part of the whole order of business enterprise and speculation that flourished in the city, partaking of its character and sharing in its risks, but rather the innocent pastoral victims of a conspiracy hatched in the distance. The notion of an innocent and victimized populace colors the whole history of agrarian controversy, and indeed the whole history of the populistic mind.
 * Chapter I, part I, p. 35

 * The American farmer, whose holdings were not so extensive as those of the grandee nor so tiny as those of the peasant, whose psychology was Protestant and bourgeois, and whose politics were petty-capitalist rather than traditionalist, had no reason to share the social outlook of the rural classes of Europe. In Europe land was limited and dear, while labor was abundant and relatively cheap; in America the ratio between land and labor was inverted.
 * Chapter I, part II, p. 44

 * The utopia of the Populists was in the past, not in the future. According to the agrarian myth, the health of the state was proportionate to the degree to which it was dominated by the agricultural class, and this assumption pointed to the superiority of an earlier age.
 * Chapter II, part I, p. 62

 * Major parties have lived more for patronage than for principles; their goal has been to bind together a sufficiently large coalition of diverse interests to get into power; and once in power, to arrange sufficiently satisfactory compromises of interests to remain there. Minor parties have been attached to some special idea or interest, and they have generally expressed their positions through firm and identifiable programs and principles. Their function has not been to win or govern, but to agitate, educate, generate new ideas, and supply the dynamic element in our political life. When a third party's demands become popular enough, they are appropriated by one or both of the major parties and the third party disappears. Third parties are like bees: once they have stung, they die.
 * Chapter III, part I, p. 97

 * Clearly, the need for political and economic reform was now felt more widely in the country at large. Another, more obscure process, traceable to the flexibility and opportunism of the American political system, was also at work: successful resistance to reform demands required a partial incorporation of the reform program.
 * Chapter IV, part I, p. 132

 * The long-range trend toward federal regulation, which found its beginnings in the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 and the Sherman Act of 1890, which was quickened by a large number of measures in the Progressive era, and which has found its consummation in our time, was thus at first the response of a predominantly individualistic public to the uncontrolled and starkly original collectivism of big business. In America the growth of the national state and its regulative power has never been accepted with complacency by any large part of the middle-class public, which has not relaxed its suspicion of authority, and which even now gives repeated evidence of its intense dislike of statism. In our time this growth has been possible only under the stress of great national emergencies, domestic or military, and even then only in the face of continuous resistance from a substantial part of the public. In the Progressive era it was possible only because of widespread and urgent fear of business consolidation and private business authority. Since it has become common in recent years for ideologists of the extreme right to portray the growth of statism as the result of a sinister conspiracy of collectivists inspired by foreign ideologies, it is perhaps worth emphasizing that the first important steps toward the modern organization of society were taken by arch-individualists — the tycoons of the Gilded Age — and that the primitive beginning of modern statism was largely the work of men who were trying to save what they could of the eminently native Yankee values of individualism and enterprise.
 * Chapter VI, part II, p. 233

 * One of the primary tests of the mood of a society at any given time is whether its comfortable people tend to identify, psychologically, with the power and achievements of the very successful or with the needs and sufferings of the underprivileged.
 * Chapter VI, part II, p. 245

 * But Prohibition was more than a symbol—it was a means by which the reforming energies of the country were transmuted into mere peevishness.
 * Chapter VII, part II, p. 290

 * It did not pay the often mercenary organizers of the Klan to do the traveling and hard work that is necessary to organize the widely scattered dirt farmers; but in the small towns, where gullible nativists were gathered in sufficient numbers to be worth organizing, the spirit of country Protestantism was still strong, and there it was that the fiery crosses were to be found burning.
 * Chapter VII, part II, p. 291

 * The whole reformist tradition, then, displayed a mentality founded on the existence of an essentially healthy society; it was chiefly concerned not with managing an economy to meet the problems of collapse but simply with democratizing an economy in sound working order. Managing an economy in such a way as to restore prosperity is above all a problem of organization, while democratizing a well-organized economy had been, as we have seen, in some important respects an attempt to find ways of attacking or limiting organization.
 * Chapter VII, part III, p. 304

 * Along with this came another New Deal phenomenon, a kind of pervasive tenderness for the underdog, for the Okies, the sharecroppers, the characters of John Steinbeck’s novels, the subjects who posed for the FSA photographers, for what were called, until a revulsion set in, “the little people.”
 * Chapter VII, part IV, p. 324

The Paranoid Style in American Politics (1964)

 * First published in Harper's Magazine (November 1964)

 * The idea of the paranoid style as a force in politics would have little contemporary relevance or historical value if it were applied only to men with profoundly disturbed minds. It is the use of paranoid modes of expression by more or less normal people that makes the phenomenon significant.

 * Anti-Catholicism has always been the pornography of the Puritan.

 * In the end, the real mystery, for one who reads the primary works of paranoid scholarship, is not how the United States has been brought to its present dangerous position but how it has managed to survive at all.

 * The paranoid spokesman sees the fate of conspiracy in apocalyptic terms — he traffics in the birth and death of whole worlds, whole political orders, whole systems of human values. He is always manning the barricades of civilization. He constantly lives at a turning point. Like religious millennialists he expresses the anxiety of those who are living through the last days and he is sometimes disposed to set a date for the apocalypse.

 * One of the impressive things about paranoid literature is the contrast between its fantasied conclusions and the almost touching concern with factuality it invariably shows. It produces heroic strivings for evidence to prove that the unbelievable is the only thing that can be believed.

 * The higher paranoid scholarship is nothing if not coherent — in fact the paranoid mind is far more coherent than the real world.

Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (1963)

 * Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., in a mordant protest written soon after the [1952] election, found the intellectual “in a situation he has not known for a generation.” After twenty years of Democratic rule, during which the intellectual had been in the main understood and respected, business had come back into power, bringing with it “the vulgarization which has been the almost invariable consequence of business supremacy.”
 * p. 4

 * Anti-intellectualism … has been present in some form and degree in most societies; in one it takes the form of the administering of hemlock, in another of town-and-gown riots, in another of censorship and regimentation, in still another of Congressional investigations.
 * p. 20

 * Anti-intellectualism … first got its strong grip on our ways of thinking because it was fostered by an evangelical religion that also purveyed many humane and democratic sentiments. It made its way into our politics because it became associated with our passion for equality. It has become formidable in our education partly because our educational beliefs are evangelically egalitarian. Hence, as far as possible, our anti-intellectualism must be excised from the benevolent impulses upon which it lives by constant and delicate acts of intellectual surgery which spare these impulses themselves.
 * pp. 22-23

 * The professional man lives off ideas, not for them. … He has acquired a stock of mental skills that are for sale. The skills are highly developed, but we do not think of him as being an intellectual if certain qualities are missing from his work—disinterested intelligence, generalizing power, free speculation, fresh observation, creative novelty, radical criticism. At home he may happen to be an intellectual, but at his job he is a hired mental technician who uses his mind for the pursuit of externally determined ends. It is this element—the fact that ends are set from some interest or vantage point outside the intellectual process itself—which characterizes both the zealot, who lives obsessively for a single idea, and the mental technician, whose mind is used not for free speculation but for a salable end. The goal here is external and not self-determined, whereas the intellectual life has a certain spontaneous character and inner determination. It has also a peculiar poise of its own, which I believe is established by a balance between two basic qualities in the intellectual’s attitude toward ideas—qualities that may be designated as playfulness and piety.
 * p. 27

 * An intellectual … lives for ideas—which means that he has a sense of dedication to the life of the mind which is very much like a religious commitment. This is not surprising, for in a very important way the role of the intellectual is inherited from the office of the cleric: it implies a special sense of the ultimate value in existence of the act of comprehension. Socrates, when he said that the unexamined life is not worth living, struck the essence of it. We can hear the voices of various intellectuals in history repeating their awareness of this feeling, in accents suitable to time, place and culture. “The proper function of the human race, taken in the aggregate,” wrote Dante in De Monarchia, “is to actualize continually the entire capacity possible to the intellect, primarily in speculation, then through its extension and for its sake, secondarily in action.” The noblest thing, and the closest possible to divinity, is thus the act of knowing.
 * pp. 27-28

 * Intellectualism, though by no means confined to doubters, is often the sole piety of the skeptic.
 * p. 28

 * It is the historic glory of the intellectual class of the West in modern times that, of all the classes which could be called in any sense privileged, it has shown the largest and most consistent concern for the well-being of the classes which lie below it in the social scale.
 * p. 29

 * The intellectual … may live for ideas, as I have said, but something must prevent him from living for one idea, from becoming obsessive or grotesque. Although there have been zealots whom we may still regard as intellectuals, zealotry is a defect of the breed and not of the essence.
 * p. 29

 * If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea. The effect is as observable in politics as in theology: the intellectual function can be overwhelmed by an excess of piety expended within too contracted a frame of reference.
 * p. 29

 * Piety, then, needs a counterpoise, something to prevent it from being exercised in an excessively rigid way; and this it has, in most intellectual temperaments, in the quality I would call playfulness. We speak of the play of the mind; and certainly the intellectual relishes the play of the mind for its own sake, and finds in it one of the major values in life. What one thinks of here is the element of sheer delight in intellectual activity. Seen in this guise, intellect may be taken as the healthy animal spirits of the mind, which come into exercise when the surplus of mental energies is released from the tasks required for utility and mere survival. “Man is perfectly human,” said Schiller, “only when he plays.” And it is this awareness of an available surplus beyond the requirements of mere existence that his maxim conveys to us. Veblen spoke often of the intellectual faculty as “idle curiosity”—but this is a misnomer in so far as the curiosity of the playful mind is inordinately restless and active. This very restlessness and activity gives a distinctive cast to its view of truth and its discontent with dogmas.
 * p. 30

 * As with the pursuit of happiness, the pursuit of truth is itself gratifying whereas the consummation often turns out to be elusive.
 * p. 30

 * Whatever the intellectual is too certain of, if he is healthily playful, he begins to find unsatisfactory. The meaning of his intellectual life lies not in the possession of truth but in the quest for new uncertainties.
 * p. 30

 * In using the terms play and playfulness, I do not intend to suggest any lack of seriousness; quite the contrary. Anyone who has watched children, or adults, at play will recognize that there is no contradiction between play and seriousness, and that some forms of play induce a measure of grave concentration not so readily called forth by work.
 * p. 30

 * Intellect is neither practical nor impractical; it is extra-practical.
 * p. 30

 * To the zealot overcome by his piety and to the journeyman of ideas concerned only with his marketable mental skills, the beginning and end of ideas lies in their efficacy with respect to some goal external to intellectual processes.
 * p. 31

 * Historically, it may be useful to fancy playfulness and piety as being the respective residues of the aristocratic and priestly backgrounds of the intellectual function. The element of play seems to be rooted in the ethos of the leisure class, which has always been central in the history of creative imagination and humanistic learning. The element of piety is reminiscent of the priestly inheritance of the intellectuals: the quest for and the possession of truth was a holy office. As their legatee, the modern intellectual inherits the vulnerability of the aristocrat to the animus of Puritanism and egalitarianism and the vulnerability of the priest to anticlericalism and popular assaults upon hierarchy. We need not be surprised, then, if the intellectual’s position has rarely been comfortable in a country which is, above all others, the home of the democrat and the antinomian.
 * pp. 32-33

 * The intellectual’s … playfulness, in its various manifestations, is likely to seem to most men a perverse luxury; in the United States the play of the mind is perhaps the only form of play that is not looked upon with the most tender indulgence. His piety is likely to seem nettlesome, if not actually dangerous. And neither quality is considered to contribute very much to the practical business of life.
 * p. 33

 * There has always been in our national experience a type of mind which elevates hatred to a kind of creed; for this mind, group hatreds take a place in politics similar to the class struggle in some other modern societies.
 * p. 37

 * Intellect needs to be understood not as some kind of claim against the other human excellences for which a fatally high price has to be paid, but rather as a complement to them without which they cannot be fully consummated.
 * p. 46

Quotes about Hofstadter

 * Over time, Hofstadter came to identify himself primarily as Jewish.
 * Daniel Geary, "Richard Hofstadter Reconsidered", Reviews in American History, Volume 35, Number 3 (September 2007)

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Talk:Joseph Stalin

Unsourced
Wikiquote no longer allows unsourced quotations, and they are in process of being removed from our pages (see Wikiquote:Limits on quotations); but if you can provide a reliable, precise and verifiable source for any quote on this list please move it to Joseph Stalin. --Antiquary 18:11, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

 * Damn you all to hell. And it's not treachery, it's running a persuasive campaign.
 * Joseph Stalin, rumored to be said after the Great Purge of 1938

 * "It's a shame Hitler had to go and attack us. Together, we could really have done some things!"
 * Stalin made to his daughter after Germany had invaded the Soviet Union.

 * "I'm so paranoid that I worry that I am plotting against myself."
 * Stalin to Lavrenti Beria, the last leader of the secret police during Stalin's lifetime

 * The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything. (Знаете, товарищи, - говорит Сталин, - что я думаю по этому поводу: я считаю, что совершенно неважно, кто и как будет в партии голосовать; но вот что чрезвычайно важно, это - кто и как будет считать голоса)
 * Both quotes are from Boris Bazhanov's 'The Memoirs of former Stalin's secretary' Saint Petersburg, 1992 (in Russian). Bazhanov defected to the West in 1928. Probably it was the same text that was published in France back to 1930 - Boris Bajanov, Avec Staline dans le Kremlin (Paris: Les Éditions de France, 1930) --Nekto 11:57, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
 * As of Bazhanov (Бажанов) sourced-quotes. Bazhanov was a well-known anti-Stalinist and in his books he provided extremly preconceived point of view. I personaly would at least mark those quotes as "attributed to". Those attributed quotations, compared to those sourced by reliable sources, differ greatly even in style. Not to mentiotion overall low reliability of Bazhanov's works.

It is claimed that Averrell Harriman, American ambassador in Moscow, said to American professor Urban (sp?) in 1979 that Stalin used this phrase in conversation with him. Further research is needed. --Nekto 12:33, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
 * In the Soviet Army, it takes more courage to retreat than advance.

 * When I am gone, the capitalists will drown you like blind kittens.
 * Many variants; from a speech apparently made to the Politburo in 1950.

 * What shall we do? We shall envy!
 * Что делать будем? Завидовать будем!
 * Rumored to be said after receiving a report about Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky's inappropriately large number of female lovers.

 * Beat, beat and beat again!
 * When asked how to treat political prisoners and get information out of them, Nikita Khrushchev alleged that had been said.

 * You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.
 * Variant: You cannot make a revolution with white gloves.

 * Then Devil is with us, and together we will win.
 * In response to Churchill's "God is with us", during WW2.

 * "All young people are the same, so why write about the young Stalin?"
 * Not stated, should be quoted from Russian archives.

Quantity is quality

 * Quantity is quality
 * Variant: Quantity has a quality all its own
 * This quote is reminiscent of the Marxist theoretical principle that steady quantitative changes can lead to a sudden qualitative leap. It is therefore likely that Stalin may have said something like this. However, in the variant "Quantity is quality", there is an undialectical equation of the two. Stalin is therefore unlikely to have used this variant; the variant "Quantity has a quality all its own" is therefore more likely.
 * This quote is sometimes tied to a commentary on Russian tank and troop production
 * I've seen this attributed to him on dozens of web pages. It probably should go in unsourced until someone can trace a primary source down.
 * It should probably go in the garbage can. 205.237.144.123 19:00, 20 February 2013 (UTC) Activist (talk) 19:06, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

 * This is a misattribution; it's a 1970s US defense formulation of an old Marxist/Hegelian/Ancient Greek idea. I've elaborated in this edit.
 * —Nils von Barth (nbarth) (talk) 20:41, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

Did Georgy Zhukov say this? He certainly was found of giving quotes, although they were generally not overly memorable.

I believe the quote of "Quantity is quality" is usually attributed to Napoleon talking about military tactics/strategy, but then it is probably way older then that, going back to the dawn of military hystory simply because it is pretty obvious.

Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.
I bet it comes from the western folklore. Those quotations were completely unknown in the USSR before perestroyka. I cannot find any sources for them in Russian. --83.237.62.153 18:44, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.

 * Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.(Через полтора года, когда Сталин отстранил Зиновьева и  Каменева от  власти,  Зиновьев,  напоминая  это  заседание  Пленума и как ему и Каменеву удалось спасти Сталина от падения в политическое  небытие,  с горечью  сказал:  "Знает ли товарищ Сталин,  что такое благодарность?" Товарищ Сталин вынул трубку изо рта и  ответил:  "Ну,  как  же,  знаю, очень хорошо знаю, это такая собачья болезнь")

Soldier not worth a General

 * A Lieutenant is not worth a General!
 * Stalin's refusal for a prisoner exchange, after Kurt Daluege offered Stalin back his captured son if General Paulus was returned to the Germans.

 * I do not trade a soldier for a marshal.
 * In response to the German offer to trade a POW Field Marshal Paulus for Stalin's captured son Yakov.

 * I do not change the soldier for the marshal.
 * In response to the German offer to change a Marshal for Stalin's captured son Yakov.

Conviction vs Fear
"I prefer to rule my people through fear rather than conviction. Convictions can change, but fear remains. " Isn't this a quote from Stalin? I didn't see it in the list, though I may have missed it. --84.193.113.243 19:05, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

 * Sounds like a condensed version of Machiavelli's Chapter XVII of the Principe ("... much safer to be feared than loved ..."). The rationale given there is exactly the same -- only wordier -- as in the alleged Stalin quote: that humans are "ungrateful, fickle, false, cowardly, covetous, and as long as you succeed [...] they will offer you their blood, property, life and children [...] when the need is far distant; but when it approaches they turn against you ...".
 * It is not impossible that Stalin paraphrased Machiavelli. Whether it is likely IONO; I'd guess not considering a) Stalin himself favored brute-force approaches to Machiavellian scheming, and what seems like schemin was simply clinically paranoia. b) Machiavelli was perhaps the foremost philosopher of power in the late Aristocrat/early Capitalist era, and that era was precisely what Stalin wanted to overcome (he didn't co-opt later Capitalist philosophers either as it seems).
 * Needs reliable source (date, setting, context) but I'd tend to believe it's bogus. 87.78.80.57

 * From "Hitler and Stalin Parallel Lives" by Alan Bullock, printed with revisions in 1998 by Fontana Press, page 1055, 1st new paragraph, "His answer to the question whether he would prefer his people to be loyal out of fear or out of conviction has already been quoted: 'Fear. Convictions can change but fear remains.'"  (Also, see page 391.)  However, if there a reference to an external source for this quote on a different page, then I missed it.

To choose ones victims quote
I've heard this quote attributed to Stalin "To choose ones victims, to prepare ones plans minutely, to stake an implacable vengeance upon the world there is nothing sweeter in the world." Can some one investigate?

 * Talking enthusiastically about one's victims doesn't sound like a thing ANY politician of even mild success would actually say in public. Instead, political rhetoric tends to be about protecting citizens, the mother/fatherland, family values, etc. Noah Edelson (talk) 15:02, 4 December 2022 (UTC)

Terror to control the population
There is a quote being attributed on the web to Stalin that I was unable to find a source for:

"The easiest way to gain control of a population is to carry out acts of terror. The public will clamor for such laws if their personal security is threatened"

If anybody can confirm or refute Stalin as the origin of that source, it would be great to add it to the article. --217.237.39.193 10:53, 11 September 2012 (UTC)

Appears to be a fake quote, oldest reference is found in the book Vile Acts of Evil [], which was published in 2009. The author claimed the quote was from Stalin, but the citations included do not include the quote. The book is filled with similar fake quotes, misquotes, and misattributions. (Downix (talk) 19:58, 29 November 2015 (UTC))

Stalin's pipe joke
Any other sources for this one?

 * "it wasn’t just opponents of the regime who told them. Stalin himself cracked them, including this one about a visit from a Georgian delegation: They come, they talk to Stalin, and then they go, heading off down the Kremlin’s corridors. Stalin starts looking for his pipe. He can’t find it. He calls in Beria, the dreaded head of his secret police. “Go after the delegation, and find out which one took my pipe,” he says. Beria scuttles off down the corridor. Five minutes later Stalin finds his pipe under a pile of papers. He calls Beria—”Look, I’ve found my pipe.” “It’s too late,” Beria says, “half the delegation admitted they took your pipe, and the other half died during questioning.”"

Source
Hi, may I ask you to see the source of the declaration of Deng Xiaoping? Thank you. --Mhorg (talk) 10:38, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
 * @Mhorg: Interviews with History and Conversations with Power --Y-S.Ko (talk) 12:02, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

Был бы человек, а статья найдётся
I posted info on the quote «Был бы человек, а статья найдётся», roughly "For every man, there's a law to convict him under", often attributed to Stalin, at Talk:Lavrentiy Beria. AjaxSmack (talk) 16:37, 1 November 2022 (UTC)

Source and context of this quote?
"To choose one's victims, to prepare one's plan minutely, to slake an implacabile vengeance, and then to go to bed... There is nothing sweeter in the world." An anonymous user added this quote. Is it true? If so, can we know the context in which it was uttered? Mhorg (talk) 22:01, 20 February 2023 (UTC)

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Inside Man

Inside Man is a 2006 heist thriller film about a police detective, a bank robber, and a high-power broker who enter high-stakes negotiations after the criminal's brilliant heist spirals into a hostage situation.
 * Directed by Spike Lee. Written by Russell Gewirtz.

'''It looked like the perfect bank robbery. But you can't judge a crime by its cover.'''

Dalton Russell

 * My name is Dalton Russell. Pay strict attention to what I say because I choose my words carefully and I never repeat myself. I told you my name, that's the who. The where could most readily be described as a prison cell. But there's a vast difference between being stuck in a tiny cell and being in prison. The what is easy. Recently, I planned and set in motion events to execute the perfect bank robbery. That's also the when. As for the why, beyond the obvious financial motivation, it's exceedingly simple: Because I can. Which leaves us only with the how. And therein, as the Bard would tell us, lies the rub.
 * When I said that I planned the perfect bank robbery, I meant precisely that.
 * You have four seconds. Anyone still standing gets shot.
 * My friends and I are making a very large withdrawal from this bank. Anybody gets in our way, gets a bullet in the brain.
 * Peter, think very carefully about how you answer the next question, because if you get it wrong, your headstone will read: "Here lies Peter Hammond, hero who valiantly attempted to prevent a brilliant bank robbery by trying to hide his cellular phone, but wound up getting shot in the fucking head."
 * Anyone else here smarter than me?
 * Respect is the ultimate currency.
 * Or am I just whistling "Dixie" out of my ass?
 * When I'm good and ready, I'm gonna walk right through the front door.
 * Fact is, all lies, all evil deeds, they stink. You can cover them up for a while, but they don't go away.

Det. Keith Frazier

 * We got to sit back and look at this thing from a distance. Things are not all they appear to be.
 * Until I talk to them, they get nothing, not even a cup of coffee.
 * You planned every inch of this thing right from the start and you've got everybody marching to your beat, including me, and I'm through buying it.
 * This ain't no bank robbery.
 * Don't bullshit the bullshitter!
 * Look out, bad guys! Here I come.
 * Detective first grade Keith Fraz-ahhh.
 * Sorry to interrupt you, Mister Mayor, but there's an old American saying: When there's blood on the streets, somebody's gotta go to jail.
 * Thank you, bank robber!

Arthur Case

 * I need to be assured that certain interests are protected.

Madeleine White

 * I can change your entire program, so the sooner that you stop being my problem, and start being my solution, the better off you'll be.
 * When there's blood in the streets it's time to buy. (attributed to Baron Rothschild)

Other Characters

 * Young Boy: Like my man Fiddy says, get rich or die trying.
 * Veronica Keepsake: You're saying I violated section 34/Double-D?
 * Vikram Walia: Protect and serve my ass, where's my fucking turban?
 * Captain Darius: Get these guys some vests.

Dialogue

 * Dalton Russell: Don't I sound calm to you?
 * Det. Keith Frazier: Yes, you do.

 * Det. Keith Frazier: I wouldn't get too comfortable here.
 * Dalton Russell: I have the cable guy coming on Wednesday.

 * Det. Bill Mitchell: Hey Keith, let me see your shoe.
 * Det. Keith Frazier: What?
 * Det. Bill Mitchell: Lemme see your shoe.
 * Det. Keith Frazier: Why?
 * Det. Bill Mitchell: 'Cause I have never seen anyone put their foot that far up a guy's ass.
 * Det. Keith Frazier: [Busts out laughing] Yeah, I guess I did, didn't I?

 * Dalton Russell: Soon I'm gonna be sucking down Piña Coladas in a hot tub with six girls named Amber and Tiffany.
 * Det. Keith Frazier: No, it's more like in the shower with two guys named Jamal and Jesus...and here's the bad news; that thing you're sucking on? [in a sing-songy voice] It's not a Piña Colada!

 * Madeleine White: Look, detective, there are matters at stake here that are a little bit above your pay grade.
 * Det. Keith Frazier: Why don't you just tell the mayor to raise my pay grade to the right level? Problem solved.

 * Det. Keith Frazier: You ever had a gun stuck in your face before?
 * Sergeant Collins: Yeah, once.
 * Det. Keith Frazier: Really?
 * Sergeant Collins: Yeah, by a twelve-year-old.
 * Det. Keith Frazier: What was that like?
 * Sergeant Collins: Not one of my better days.

 * Dalton Russell: Lady? Believe me. This is the only situation where I'd ask you to do this. But take off your fucking clothes.
 * Miriam: No. You should be ashamed of yourself. [Dalton points gun at her head] What's with you mishegoyim? Go ahead, make my day.
 * Dalton Russell: Take your fucking clothes off, lady.
 * Miriam: No!

 * Vikram Walia: Fuckin' tired of this shit. What happened to my fuckin' civil rights? Why can't I go anywhere without being harassed? Get thrown out a bank, I'm a hostage, I get harassed. I go to the airport, I can't go through security without a random selection. Fuckin' random, my ass.
 * Det. Keith Frazier: I bet you can get a cab though.
 * Vikram Walia: I guess that's one of the perks.

 * Herman Gluck: He said stay away! Stay away or he'll toss out two dead bodies!
 * Cop: Who said this? Who?
 * Herman Gluck: Who? Who? I don't know who! The one with the big fucking gun, that's who!

 * [Case has just told Madeline that he did business with the Nazis]
 * Madeliene White: Well, I'd love to tell you what a monster you are, but, uh, I have to help Bin Laden's nephew buy a co-op on Park Ave.
 * Arthur Case: [laughing] If that were true, you wouldn't tell me.
 * Madeliene White: [turning to leave] We're listing you as a reference.

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I am a Sex Addict

I Am A Sex Addict is a 2005 film.

Quotes

 * Actually, I wasn't able to raise enough money to go to Paris.

 * I had this prostitute fetish.

 * After a while, just talking to them was no longer enough.

 * I hoped that being completely honest would bring us together but I seriously miscalculated.

 * - I love you. - I know, just please go take a shower.

 * I promise, if you don't tell me, it's much better.

 * How is this constructive?

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Talk:David Attenborough

Relationship between increasing of the earth’s gravity and Evolution of animates. (The theory of the increasing of the earth’s gravity) http://www.geocities.com/ramin1102000/bookpage.html Despite the progress of science in different scientific fields, there are so many unanswered questions about paleontology, geology and zoology. So many theories have been posed to answer this question, but they could not be accepted by scientists, as they should be. These kinds of question include: the causes of the extinction of dinosaurs, the causes of extinction of different species of animals in past era, the causes of the extinction of primitive giant plants belonged to carbonifer period, the causes of having small bodies for some animals and large bodies for the others, the reason why animals can not grow more than their present size and which factor prevents them to grow more, the reason, why some sea mammals come to coast and die there, the causes of physiologic changes when the gravity is zero, the causes of eruption and outflow of molten materials from the ocean beds, the causes of insufficient growth of some animals and their early sexual maturity and other questions like these. These are the questions, which are not answered by scientists of different sciences. Although they have tried to solve them with detailed and long experiments, but they could not find clear and simple answers. The theory of the increase of gravity tries to find satisfactory answers to these questions by using the phenomenon of increase of gravity and by citing evidences. Obviously, a theory is not able to solve all the problems clearly and without mistakes, at first, and they need more discussion and criticism to be solved. However, this theory tries to find logical answer to these questions as far as possible. So far there have been no discussions that whether the gravity has changed by the passage of time or it has remained unchanged. And so far no one claimed that the gravity has been unchanged and fixed during the past periods up to now. May be it is better to have a careful look at this theory and consider the evidences and proofs carefully, perhaps this theory can be able to pave the way for us and help us and help us to reach our main goal which is the improvement of our knowledge.

I'll be glad knowing your open ions in this respect. Ramin Amir Mardfar http://www.geocities.com/ramin1102000/mypage.html

Unsourced

 * When I was a boy in the 1930s, the CO2 level was still below 300 parts per million. In 2006, it reached 362 …
 * Quote chosen for Global Warming eco money
 * The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?

How to provide attribution for a webm file? HELP please
I have inserted a webm file that I found at Commons:Category:David Attenborough in 2021. How does one provide attribution? Thanks in advance, Ottawahitech (talk) 22:08, 28 March 2022 (UTC)

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Wikilinkage of access date for the URL parameter
This is a debated feature in Wikipedia. At present, the access date is not wikilinked in the Wikiquote version. Ceyockey 23:33, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

 * I've restored the wiki linkage. We've now established the 366 articles that permit use to have useful date formatting, so are moving toward preference-based date formatting, not away from it. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 17:45, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
 * The one thing I still don't like about moving toward pref-based date formatting here is that we don't have pages for years, and so they all appear as red links. It's really another topic for another place, since it affects all manner of things, not just this template. —LrdChaos 18:34, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Well, we are starting to get year pages now, but my preference is for the access date to remain unlinked, for one simple reason: it clutters the "what links here" listings for year pages with completely irrelevant articles. God forbid someone should want to search for Wikiquote articles which are actually related to a particular year.  121a0012 15:53, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Linking accessdate
Okay, it looks like we have a content dispute on this template, which has a significant impact on many articles whichever way it goes. I would rather have it display a redlink for the year in the accessdate parameter than unlink it and show the reader-unfriendly YYYY-MM-DD. LrdChaos and Ceyockey prefer the other way around.

My position is this: Wikiquote should follow Wikipedia practice in presenting dates in the format most comfortable to each reader, which requires accessdate to be linked. I recently spent a full month creating a meaningful collection of "Month date" articles as the first and most important step in making this possible, and I fully intend to complete the job by establishing year articles, as soon as we can figure out what their content should be. Meanwhile, not linking accessdate subtly undermines the effort to get this important source parameter included, as it can confuse WP editors who are used to it being linked. For those who do add the date, they may put it in any number of forms, with or without links, because the lack of the one-method link markup borrowed from WP will discourage folks from fixing any malformatting.

The only downside I see is that it displays a redlink for now, but there vastly more redlinks for inappropriate articles (like obscure names; links to phrases too specific for WQ articles because the text was copied from Wikipedia, links and all; etc.) than there are for the relatively paltry number of sources with access dates that we have. I'm betting that I'll get the year articles done long before we put even a noticeable dent in that cleanup effort. Furthermore, as I tend to get things done most quickly when a problem arises, if people start creating year articles by following these redlinks before I get to it, I'll probably move that up in the schedule. (And you can stop that train of thought, folks — this is not a suggestion. ☺)

How does everyone else feel about this? Are we that worried about these redlinks? Do we have anyone else who wants to participate in fleshing out the year articles? Do we have editors who have concerns about date formatting? I invite discussion. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 18:48, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Well, as far as YYYY-MM-DD being reader-unfriendly, it's actually how I prefer to look at the date (having conditioned myself to use that for a lot of things), though a recent change to Mediawiki that replaced the seperation between date and time in that format with "T" is almost enough to get me to change my display prefs back.

 * I personally dislike the redlinks, as is obvious from me having unlinked the accessdate again. Particularly next to the blue links of month and day, the red link of the year is visually very jarring (less so when surrounded by "normal" black text). And, quite frankly, I'm not sure that we'll ever have reason to create meaningful articles for years, just because there are so many of them, and so many quotes are undated, so there would be large gaps. Maybe we could just create dummy pages for years instead of actually taking on the huge task of trying to fill and maintain them; with a bot or semi-bot process, and then following up by protecting the pages (or perhaps not, for cases when a film or show has a solely-numeric name) we could have this done in a rather short time. —LrdChaos 19:26, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

 * I'm not crazy about dummy articles, but I haven't seen any compelling solutions yet, so I guess it's worth considering. I suppose we could create redirect pages to Wikipedia's year articles, which will not redirect automatically (at least in any foreseen version of MediaWiki), but would give a link for readers to follow to something meaningful. It seems a bit ugly, though. It would also artificially inflate our article count, which I'm not too crazy about, either.

Since the above debate, we have established year articles for most if not all of the years for which we might expect to cite news articles, with a commitment from various editors to fill in gaps as we come across them with standard-format placeholder articles. I believe this eliminates the reason for removing the links for the accessdate parameter. On this basis, I have been bold and restored the link. If there remain plausible objections that haven't been raised here, I invite everyone to raise theme here. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 16:34, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Template needs an update
The Wikipedia template: Template:Cite news has a lot of more parameters. Could someone please update this template here? thanks! --Matt57 01:38, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

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Arthur Hugh Clough

Arthur Hugh Clough (January 1, 1819 – November 13, 1861) was an English poet, and the brother of Anne Clough.

Quotes

 * ’Twas on a sunny summer day I trod a mighty city’s street, And when I started on my way My heart was full of fancies sweet; But soon, as nothing could be seen, But countenances sharp and keen, Nought heard or seen around but told Of something bought or something sold, And none that seemed to think or care That any save himself was there.
 * An Incident, st. 1 (1836).

 * Truth is a golden thread, seen here and there In small bright specks upon the visible side Of our strange being’s party-coloured web.
 * The Thread of Truth (1839).

 * Come back again, old heart! Ah me! Methinks in those thy coward fears There might, perchance, a courage be, That fails in these the manlier years; Courage to let the courage sink, Itself a coward base to think, Rather than not for heavenly light Wait on to show the truly right.
 * The Higher Courage, st. 7 (1840).

 * Thought may well be ever ranging, And opinion ever changing, Task-work be, though ill begun, Dealt with by experience better; By the law and by the letter Duty done is duty done Do it, Time is on the wing!
 * Love, Not Duty, st. 1 (1841).

 * Loving—if the answering breast Seem not to be thus possessed, Still in hoping have a care; If it do, beware, beware! But if in yourself you find it, Above all things—mind it, mind it!
 * Love, Not Duty, st. 5.

 * When panting sighs the bosom fill, And hands by chance united thrill At once with one delicious pain The pulses and the nerves of twain; When eyes that erst could meet with ease, Do seek, yet, seeking, shyly shun Ecstatic conscious unison,— The sure beginnings, say, be these Prelusive to the strain of love Which angels sing in heaven above?
 * Love and Reason, st. 1 (1844).

 * Thy duty do? rejoined the voice, Ah, do it, do it, and rejoice; But shalt thou then, when all is done, Enjoy a love, embrace a beauty Like these, that may be seen and won In life, whose course will then be run; Or wilt thou be where there is none? I know not, I will do my duty.
 * The Questioning Spirit, st. 2 (1847).

 * Grace is given of God, but knowledge is bought in the market; Knowledge needful for all, yet cannot be had for the asking.
 * The Bothie of Tober-na-vuolich, Pt. IV (1848).

 * A world where nothing is had for nothing.
 * The Bothie of Tober-na-vuolich, Pt. VIII.

 * There is a great Field-Marshal, my friend, who arrays our battalions; Let us to Providence trust, and abide and work in our stations.
 * The Bothie of Tober-na-vuolich.

 * So in the sinful streets, abstracted and alone, I with my secret self held communing of mine own.
 * Easter Day II, l. 1-2 (1849).

 * Hope conquers cowardice, joy grief; Or at least, faith unbelief.
 * Easter Day II, l. 34-35.

 * Alas! the great world goes its way, And takes its truth from each new day; They do not quit, nor can retain, Far less consider it again.
 * Ah! Yet Consider It Again!, st. 4 (1851).

 * Where lies the land to which the ship would go? Far, far ahead, is all her seamen know. And where the land she travels from? Away, Far, far behind, is all that they can say.
 * Where Lies the Land to Which the Ship Would Go?, st. 1 (1852).

 * Go; say not in thy heart, And what then were it accomplished, Were the wild impulse allayed, what were the use or the good! Go, when the instinct is stilled, and when the deed is accomplished, What thou bast done and shalt do, shall be declared to thee then. Go with the sun and the stars, and yet evermore in thy spirit Say to thyself: It is good: yet is there better than it. This that I see is not all, and this that I do is but little; Nevertheless it is good, though there is better than it.
 * Hope Evermore and Believe!, st. 2 (written 1853, published 1862).

 * And almost every one when age, Disease, or sorrows strike him, Inclines to think there is a God, Or something very like Him.
 * Dipsychus, Pt. I, sc. v (1862).

 * Trust me, I’ve read your German sage To far more purpose e’er than you did; You find it in his wisest page, Whom God deludes is well deluded.
 * Dipsychus, Pt. II, sc. ii.

 * I sit at my table en grand seigneur, And when I have done, throw a crust to the poor; Not only the pleasure, one’s self, of good living, But also the pleasure of now and then giving. So pleasant it is to have money, heigh ho! So pleasant it is to have money.
 * Dipsychus, Pt. II, sc. ii.

 * “There is no God,” the wicked saith, “And truly it’s a blessing, For what He might have done with us It’s better only guessing.”
 * There is No God, the Wicked Sayeth, st. 1 (1862).

 * Say not the struggle nought availeth, The labour and the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not, nor faileth, And as things have been, things remain.
 * Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth, st. 1 (1862).

 * For while the tired waves vainly breaking Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main.
 * Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth, st. 3.

 * In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly, But westward, look, the land is bright.
 * Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth, st. 4.

 * No graven images may be Worshipped, except the currency.
 * The Latest Decalogue, l. 3-4 (1862).

 * Honour thy parents; that is, all From whom advancement may befall: Thou shalt not kill; but need’st not strive Officiously to keep alive.
 * The Latest Decalogue, l. 9-12.

 * Thou shalt not covet, but tradition Approves all forms of competition.
 * The Latest Decalogue, l. 19-20.

 * I watched them from the window, thy children at their play, And I thought of all my own dear friends, who were far, oh, far away, And childish loves, and childish cares, and a child’s own buoyant gladness Came gushing back again to me with a soft and solemn sadness; And feelings frozen up full long, and thoughts of long ago, Seemed to be thawing at my heart with a warm and sudden flow.
 * Thoughts of Home, st. 1.

 * Put forth thy leaf, thou lofty plane, East wind and frost are safely gone; With zephyr mild and balmy rain The summer comes serenely on; Earth, air, and sun and skies combine To promise all that’s kind and fair:— But thou, O human heart of mine, Be still, contain thyself, and bear.
 * In a London Square, st. 1.

 * Our ills are worse than at their ease These blameless happy souls suspect, They only study the disease, Alas, who live not to detect.
 * In the Depths, st. 3.

 * Each for himself is still the rule We learn it when we go to school— The devil take the hindmost, O!
 * In the Great Metropolis, st. 1.

 * O tell me, friends, while yet we part, And heart can yet be heard of heart, O tell me then, for what is it Our early plan of life we quit; From all our old intentions range, And why does all so wholly change? O tell me, friends, while yet we part!
 * Parting, st. 1.

 * My wind is turned to bitter north, That was so soft a south before; My sky, that shone so sunny bright, With foggy gloom is clouded o’er My gay green leaves are yellow-black, Upon the dank autumnal floor; For love, departed once, comes back No more again, no more.
 * A Song of Autumn.

 * ’Tis possible, young sir, that some excess Mars youthful judgment and old men’s no less; Yet we must take our counsel as we may For (flying years this lesson still convey), ’Tis worst unwisdom to be overwise, And not to use, but still correct one’s eyes.
 * Thesis and Antithesis, st. 4.

 * Dance on, dance on, we see, we see Youth goes, alack, and with it glee, A boy the old man ne’er can be; Maternal thirty scarce can find The sweet sixteen long left behind.
 * Youth and Age, st. 1.

 * As ships becalmed at eve, that lay With canvas drooping, side by side, Two towers of sail, at dawn of day Are scarce, long leagues apart, descried.
 * Qua Cursum Ventus. Compare: "Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing", Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863-1874), Pt. III, The Theologian's Tale: Elizabeth, sec. IV.

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