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Flash Gordon (film)

Flash Gordon is a 1980 film about a football player and his friends who travel to the planet Mongo and fight an evil alien tyrant, Ming the Merciless, in order to save the Earth.
 * Directed by Mike Hodges. Written by Michael Allin, based on the comic strip by Alex Raymond.

Pathetic earthlings... Who can save you now? Taglines

Dale Arden

 * Flash, I love you! But we only have fourteen hours to save the Earth!
 * Keeping our word is one of the things that make us better than you.

The Emperor Ming

 * I'd much rather see you on my side, than scattered into... atoms.
 * Pathetic earthlings. Hurling your bodies out into the void, without the slightest inkling of who or what is out here. If you had known anything about the true nature of the universe, anything at all, you would've hidden from it in terror.
 * Are your men on the right pills? Maybe you should execute their trainer! [to Klytus, as Flash successfully battles palace guards]
 * [from the trailer] Pathetic earthlings... who can save you now?

Kala

 * Open fire! All weapons, now! Charge the lightning field! I take personal responsibility in the Emperor's name!
 * We're going to empty your memory as we might empty your pockets... Doctor.
 * Confess!... and we won't hurt you. We don't like doing this at all!
 * We do not lead traitors to the Imperial presence.

Prince Barin

 * [to Flash] Welcome back from the grave. [Princess Aura] I knew you were up to something, though I'll confess I never thought of necrophilla.
 * [to Flash] Where you go, I follow. [then to all]  Listen to me! Listen! There is something finer in this galaxy than Ming's law!
 * Tell me more about this man Houdini. [to Zarkov, while blindfolded and manacled to a dungeon wall]
 * [brandishing a laser rifle at some technicians] FREEZE you bloody bastards! Deactivate the lightning field!
 * We owe everything to Flash!

Prince Vultan

 * You know Ming's law, Barin. Outside his own kingdom, the hunter becomes the hunted.
 * Gordon's alive?! [on learning that Flash survived the Imperial assault]
 * Flying blind on a rocket cycle?
 * That must be one hell of a planet you men come from!
 * Squadron 40! DIVE!
 * Impetuous boy! Ah, well... who wants to live forever? DIVE! (youtube.com)

Banner being flown before Ming's marriage to Dale

 * "All creatures will make merry" ~ First banner
 * "Under pain of Death" ~ Second banner

Dialogue

 * Dr. Hans Zarkov: We are only interested in friendship. Why do you attack us?
 * The Emperor Ming: Why not?

 * The Emperor Ming: Every thousand years, I test each life system in the Universe. I visit it with mysteries, earthquakes, unpredicted eclipses, strange craters in the wilderness... If these are taken as natural, I judge that system ignorant and harmless - I spare it. But if the Hand of Ming is recognized in these events, I judge that system dangerous to us. I call upon the great god Dyzan, and for his greater glory... [leans forward, smiling] and for our mutual pleasure... [leans back again] I destroy it utterly.
 * Dr. Hans Zarkov: You're saying... it's my fault the Earth is being destroyed?
 * The Emperor Ming: [grinning] Precisely... Doctor!

 * The Emperor Ming: Klytus, I'm bored. What plaything can you offer me today?
 * Klytus: An obscure body in the S-K system, Your Majesty. The inhabitants refer to it as the planet... Earth.
 * The Emperor Ming: How peaceful it looks.
 * [He activates a console, and watches as earthquakes, floods, etc., start to occur. They both get a good laugh out of it.]
 * Klytus: Most effective, Your Majesty. Will you destroy this, uh, Earth?
 * The Emperor Ming: Later. I like to play with things a while... before annihilation. [laughs evilly]

 * The Emperor Ming: You want to destroy me.
 * Flash Gordon: lt's the only way to save Earth.
 * The Emperor Ming: What if l granted you a kingdom?
 * Flash Gordon: lf you what?
 * The Emperor Ming: Ming the Merciless, ruler of the universe, offers Flash Gordon of Earth a kingdom of Mongo, to rule over as his own.
 * Flash Gordon:You're crazy. Why would you do that?
 * The Emperor Ming: Because l've never before met your like. You're a hero, don't you see that? Who better to rule a kingdom? Your moon is very close now. Earth's end might come within hours.
 * Flash Gordon: You'd call off the attack?
 * The Emperor Ming: l could.
 * Flash Gordon: Everyone would be saved?
 * The Emperor Ming: Yes... and no. After the earthquakes and tidal waves, they won't be quite the human beings you remember. They'll be more flexible. Easier for you to rule, in the name of Ming.
 * Flash Gordon: You mean slaves.
 * The Emperor Ming: Let's say they'll be satisfied with less.

 * [Flash is in chains and with a helmet over his head]
 * Flash Gordon: I demand to see the governor! I can hardly breathe in this thing!
 * Klytus: Yes... you don't look well. And I'm told you refused your final meal. The chef will be upset...
 * Flash Gordon: Tell 'em to go to hell!
 * Klytus: Maybe just as well. Gas works more quickly on an empty stomach. Any final requests?
 * Flash Gordon: Yes, let me see Dale. Right away.
 * Klytus: Oh, dear. How pathetic. Yes, I anticipated that.

 * Klytus: [To General Kala] Bring me... the bore worms!
 * Aura: No! Not the bore worms!

 * Flash Gordon: This isn't happening, Dale. We're not here. It's just a bad dream.
 * Dale Arden: Oh, I agree completely. Why we'll wake up any minute in Dark Harbor and have a laugh about all this.
 * Flash Gordon: Only next time I won't just ask the maitre d' your name. I'll walk over and talk to you.
 * Dale Arden: You promise?
 * Flash Gordon: I promise. Cross my heart and hope to...I really will talk to you.

 * Colonel of Battle Control Room: General Kala! Flash Gordon approaching!
 * Kala: What do you mean, "Flash Gordon approaching?"
 * Colonel of Battle Control Room: On a Hawkman rocket-cycle. Shall I inform His Majesty?
 * Kala: Imbecile! The Emperor would shoot you for interrupting his wedding with this news! Fire when Gordon's in range!
 * [Flash escapes]
 * Kala: He's escaping, idiot! Dispatch war rocket Ajax to bring back his body!

 * Zogi, the High Priest: Do you, Ming the Merciless, Ruler of the Universe, take this Earthling Dale Arden, to be your Empress of the Hour?
 * The Emperor Ming: Of the hour, yes.
 * Zogi, the High Priest: Do you promise to use her as you will?
 * The Emperor Ming: Certainly!
 * Zogi, the High Priest: Not to blast her into space?
 * [Ming glares at Zogi]
 * Zogi, the High Priest: Uh, until such time as you grow weary of her.
 * The Emperor Ming: I do.
 * Dale Arden: I do NOT!

 * Flash Gordon: The game's lost, Ming! Stop your attack on Earth and I'll spare your life!
 * The Emperor Ming: You pitiful fool! My life is not for any earthling to give or take!
 * [Ming attempts to hold back Flash with the power of his ring. Flash approaches unaffected and menaces Ming with a sword. Ming cowers.]
 * Flash Gordon: Your power is fading, Ming.

Taglines

 * He'll save every one of us!
 * Pathetic earthlings... Who can save you now?
 * For years, he's been the last word in professional football. Now, he's Earth's only chance for a future.

Cast

 * Sam J. Jones – Flash Gordon
 * Melody Anderson – Dale Arden
 * Max von Sydow – The Emperor Ming
 * Topol – Dr. Hans Zarkov
 * Ornella Muti – Princess Aura
 * Timothy Dalton – Prince Barin
 * Brian Blessed – Prince Vultan
 * Peter Wyngarde – Klytus
 * Mariangela Melato – Kala

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Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children

Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children is the computer-animated feature film-length sequel to the popular RPG, Final Fantasy VII. Most of the original main cast, including unlockable characters Yuffie Kisaragi and Vincent Valentine, return to make appearances. Some of the supporting characters, such as Reeve and Marlene, also make appearances.

Cloud Strife

 * (to Zack) I said I'd live out both our lives, easy to make that promise....
 * (to Tifa) I'm not fit to help anyone. Not my family. Not my friends. Nobody.
 * (to Aerith) I think... I wanna be forgiven...More than anything.
 * (to Rufus) Too bad; I'm a delivery boy now.
 * Not interested.
 * (to Aerith) But... I let you die...
 * (to Vincent) Are sins ever forgiven...?
 * (to Tifa) I feel lighter. Maybe I lost some weight. From all that dilly-dallying.
 * (to Zack) That's right...I am your living legacy. (Complete version)
 * (to Sephiroth) I pity you. You just don't get it at all. There's not a thing I don't cherish!
 * (to Sephiroth) Stay where you belong: in my memories...
 * (to Aerith) I know; I'm not alone. Not anymore...

Barret Wallace

 * Wuddup, fool, it's Barret! I am the man! Oil, Cloud! I just found the biggest damned oil field you ever seen! Surveyin's done, so I should be able to get out there and see Marlene soon. You let her know, alright, Spiky?!
 * Marlene better be safe, huh?
 * Yo Cid, park this turkey!
 * The hell you been?!

Tifa Lockhart

 * Dilly dally, shilly shally. (English)
 * to Cloud
 * Zuru zuru zuru zuru. (Japanese onomatopoeia for dragging)
 * to Cloud
 * He just wants to fight alone. (Japanese)
 * To Marlene when she asks Tifa about Cloud at the church
 * No, I don't think that he will. (English)
 * To Marlene when she asks Tifa about Cloud at the church
 * It's okay to die. That's what you're thinking, right? (Japanese)
 * To Cloud
 * You're going to give up and die, is that it?...So it is. (English)
 * to Cloud
 * Don't run away! I understand. Even if you find the children, you may not be able to do anything. Maybe something will happen that can never be undone. That's what you're afraid of, right? But you need to accept what's going on right now! Is it hard? Well, of course it's going to be hard. Unless you're planning to live the rest of your life like this, you'll just have to deal with it. You don't like being alone, do you? You don't answer the phone, but you won't throw it away either, do you? (Japanese)
 * To Cloud
 * Stop running! I know... Even if you find the kids, you might not be able to help them. Maybe something could happen that can never unhappen. That scares you, doesn't it? But you need to think about now. Really take it in! Look at you: you think you've got it so damn hard. Well, you hate being alone, so let people in! Sure, you may not answer the phone, but I don't see you throwing it away, either! (English)
 * To Cloud
 * Tell me, have we lost to a memory? (Japanese)
 * To Cloud
 * Which is it? A memory, or us? (English)
 * To Cloud
 * Yeah, but... That hasn't stopped Denzel, has it? Don't run! Let's fight it together! We can help each other, I know we can! (English)
 * To Cloud after she finds out he has given up
 * Those strong feelings we had two years ago during the final battle... It seems as if they have dulled somewhat two years down the road. But now it seems as if they've been resurrected in Cloud.
 * To the others in the Shera airship
 * Two years ago... think of the strength we all had when we fought that last battle. It's been only a couple years, but already that feeling is gone. But Cloud... I think he's found it again. (English)
 * To the others in the Shera airship
 * You were there for him all along, weren't you? Thank you.
 * to Aerith, after Sephiroth's defeat
 * Somehow, I knew you were there. Thank you.
 * English version of above
 * No giving up!
 * When giving Cloud a boost so he can fight Bahamut SIN
 * Cloud is Cloud.
 * Aboard the Shera to Yuffie

Aerith Gainsborough

 * I never blamed you, not once. You came for me. That's all that matters.
 * to Cloud
 * You came... Even though you're about to break. That's a good sign. So... Why did you come?
 * to Cloud (English)
 * Again? Why does everyone keep calling me their mother lately?
 * You're all right now, aren't you?
 * to Cloud
 * See? Everything's alright. (English)
 * to Cloud

Kadaj

 * Please sir... Is that your excuse for going after mother, you don't seem all that sorry. --talking to Rufus (Advent Children Complete)
 * So what if I'm a puppet? Once upon a time... you were too! (English)
 * My reunion... Bet you're dying to watch...
 * to Cloud, after he absorbs Jenova's cells
 * I wonder which one Mother will choose... Sephiroth or me?
 * Mother has given me a very special gift. The power to fight... against a planet that torments humanity. She gave this gift to all her children. That's right. You and I are brethren. Brothers and sisters chosen when we inherited Mother's memetic legacy through the Lifestream! But.. the planet doesn't approve of that at all! It's doing everything it can to hold us back. That's why it's racking our bodies with pain and filling our hearts with doubt! Now, I shall heal you. And we will go to Mother together. We will join as a family, and strike back at the planet! ...Do as I do.
 * To children
 * See this man? He's our big brother. But alas, in our happy flock, he's what you'd call a black sheep.
 * To children, about Cloud
 * I don't want to talk to you anymore, put the President on.
 * It's unbearable, to think that Mother might want Sephiroth more than...
 * To Rufus Shinra
 * It doesn't matter who she picks, you'll all meet the same end! Mother came to this planet after a long journey... To rid the cosmos of fools like you.
 * Look at what brother was hiding; powers forged in the Lifestream. With this materia, those powers will be ours.
 * To Loz
 * No, it's that Shinra guy! Keeping her hidden is something they've always been very good at..
 * To Loz (Advent Children Complete)
 * But first, we need a word with Brother. He likes to pretend he's not part of the family. How he breaks...my heart. Yeah!
 * To Loz (Advent Children Complete)

Sephiroth

 * Good to see you, Cloud. (English version)
 * It's been a while, Cloud.
 * (Japanese version, same as above)
 * I've thought of a wonderful present for you... Shall I give you despair?
 * Kneel down and show me the sight of you begging for mercy. (Japanese version)
 * I will...never be a memory...
 * Is this the pain you felt before...Cloud? Let me remind you. This time, you won't forget.
 * to Cloud, after stabbing him with the Masamune (Advent Children Complete)
 * Tell me what you cherish most. Give me the pleasure of taking it away.
 * The last thoughts of the Geostigma's dead. Those remnants will join the Lifestream and girdle the planet. Choking it... corroding it. What I want, Cloud, is to sail the darkness of the cosmos with this planet as my vessel, just as my mother did long ago. Then one day we'll find a new planet. And on its soil, we'll create a shining future.
 * Your Geostigma is gone. That's too bad.
 * Well, that's up to you, Cloud.
 * Ohh...where did you find this strength?
 * On your knees; I want you to beg for forgiveness!
 * Don't pretend you're sad, why tremble with anger that's not even there? (Advent Children Complete)
 * I will... never... be a memory.
 * Face it Cloud, all you are is an empty puppet. (Advent Children Complete)

Others

 * Rufus Shinra: Poor little remnant.
 * Rufus Shinra: A good son would have known.
 * Rufus Shinra: The nightmare returns... the Lifestream courses through our planet back and forth across the borders of life and death. If that cycle is the very truth of life, then history, too, will inevitably repeat itself. So go on; bring your Jenova's and your Sephiroth's. It won't matter. We'll do as life dictates and stop you every single time.
 * Rufus Shinra: The Nightmare returns... The Lifestream courses through our world; everflowing between the edge of life and death. If that cycle is the very truth of life, then history, too, will inevitably repeat itself. Go on; bring your Jenovas and your Sephiroths, cause trouble till your hearts content, we will do as life mandates. We promise, we won't let you win, we'll stop you. (Advent Children Complete)
 * Yazoo: Don't cry, Loz.
 * Yazoo: All we want is to be with Mother.
 * Yazoo: We'll go... together...
 * Yazoo: Hey, Kadaj, is that where Big Brother lives?
 * Yazoo: I will not have you refer to Mother that way!
 * Loz: Wanna play?
 * Loz: No... she's not here... I'm not crying!
 * Loz: Don't cry, Yazoo
 * Loz: Together...we'll play...
 * Loz: You meanie!
 * Reno: Yeah, Rude, lookin' sharp!
 * Reno: Mother, shmother. It's Jenova's friggin' head!
 * Reno: Your ma's cool - what the hell am I saying!?
 * Reno: The time of my life!!
 * After Yazoo asks him if he is having any fun.
 * Reno: Forget your little Reunion and get a grip!
 * When fighting Yazoo
 * Marlene: Forget it, Cloud! Why don't you ever pay any attention to us?!
 * to Cloud
 * Marlene: (narrating) The Lifestream. That's what we call the river of life that circles our Planet, giving life to the world and everything in it. The Shinra Electric power company discovered a way to use the Lifestream as an energy source. Because of Shinra's energy, we were able to live very comfortable lives. But wasn't that because we were taking away from the Planet's life? A lot of people thought so. Shinra used their power to try and stop anybody who got in their way. Shinra had a special group of warriors called SOLDIER. All of the SOLDIERs had Jenova cells put inside them. Jenova was a calamity that fell from the sky a long, long time ago and tried to destroy the planet. Anyway, there was one SOLDIER named Sephiroth, who was better than the rest. But when he found out about the terrible experiments that made him, he began to hate Shinra. And then, over time, he began to hate everything, Shinra and the people against them. Sephiroth, who hated the planet so much, he wanted to make it go away, and the people who tried to stop him. There were a lot of battles. And for every battle, there was more sadness. Someone I love went back to the Lifestream too. And then, it came; the chosen day. In the end, the Planet itself had to make the battles stop for good. The Planet used the Lifestream as a weapon, and when it burst out of the earth, all the fighting, all the greed and sadness, everything, was washed away. "Sadness was the price to see it end". It's been two years since they told me that. But it looks like the Planet is a lot madder than we thought. They call it geostigma. Please. Please don't take Denzel away...
 * Denzel: Son of a bitch!
 * [While charging Bahamut]
 * Opening narration: To those who loved this world...and knew friendly company therin... This Reunion is for you.
 * Vincent Valentine: Where can I buy a phone?
 * [Just prior to the battle with Bahamut SIN]
 * Vincent Valentine: If they wanted to, they could recreate Sephiroth.
 * Vincent Valentine: Cloud, you sure this is about fighting?
 * Vincent Valentine: Heaven's Dark Harbinger. The Calamity. Jenova...
 * [When talking about Jenova with Cloud]
 * Vincent Valentine: Fly!
 * [When giving Cloud a boost so he can fight Bahamut SIN]
 * Zack: We're friends, right?
 * Zack: Cloud, run!
 * Zack: Pops, park us over by the rocks! Cloud, ride's over! (Advent Children Complete)
 * Zack: So what if it looks hopeless? If it were me, I still wouldn't give up. Embrace your dreams. And, whatever happens, protect your honor as SOLDIER! Well, okay, you never made SOLDIER, but it's what's in here that counts. (Pounds chest) Well, you need a hand with him? You already beat him once, didn't you? This should be a cinch! Cloud. You know what I told you?
 * Zack: Tough luck, friend, looks like you don't have a place here.
 * Moogle Girl: It's like she said. "Wait here and Cloud will come back".

Dialogue

 * Yazoo: Hey, Kadaj, is this where Big Brother lives?
 * Kadaj: Yeah...
 * Yazoo: You think he'll be happy to see us?
 * Kadaj: Not a chance.
 * Loz: Don't cry, Yazoo.
 * Yazoo: But Mother's with him.
 * Kadaj: Maybe not...
 * Loz: (starts to cry)
 * Yazoo: Don't cry, Loz.
 * Kadaj: Hold on. He's coming....

 * Rufus: Cloud, you're an ex-SOLDIER, aren't you?
 * Cloud: Hmph...In my head...[opens door; pauses] What's this stuff about "Mother"?
 * Rufus: Why? Did Kadaj mention something? I'm not surprised.
 * Cloud: Rufus, if you're hiding something...
 * Rufus: I'd never keep a secret, not from a comrade. You must want to learn all you can about the stigma. Naturally for the sake of those orphans you live with. Surely you long to see the smiles return to their faces. All we want in the end, is to rebuild our world, Cloud...
 * Cloud: ... But I....
 * Reno: C'mon, Cloud! Think about it, together we could rebuild Shin-Ra!
 * Cloud: Not interested...
 * [Door begins to close, locking out Reno again]
 * Rude, Rufus: Reno!

 * Aerith: You came...even though you're about to break... That's a good sign. So...why did you come?
 * Cloud: I think...I wanna be forgiven...More than anything...
 * Aerith: By who...?

 * Cloud Strife: Are sins ever forgiven?
 * Vincent Valentine: I don't know...I've never tried.
 * Cloud Strife: You mean ... never tried.
 * Cloud Strife: [to Marlene] Marlene, let's go.
 * Cloud Strife: [to Vincent] Well I'm going to try.
 * [he begins to walk away...after a slight pause]
 * Cloud Strife: I'll phone in the verdict.

 * Cloud: But...I let you die.
 * Aerith: [sighs] Dilly dally, shilly shally! Isn't it time you did the forgiving?

 * [The Turks confront Bahamut Sin]
 * Reno: Hello...
 * Rude: ...Hell-no.
 * [They both flee]

 [After grabbing the kids and running from Bahamut]
 * Reno: Is it after us?!
 * Rude: I'm not lookin'!

 * Yuffie: Alright, who's been touching my materia?
 * Tifa: The bad guys, naturally.
 * Yuffie: Ohhhhhhhh! [Attacks Bahamut SIN]

 * Reno: Mother, shmother. It's Jenova's friggin' head!
 * Loz: Hey!
 * Yazoo: I will not have you refer to Mother that way!
 * Loz: You meanie!
 * Rude: Our apologies.
 * Reno: Your ma's cool.... what the hell am I saying?!
 * [Reno and Rude get in good clean hits on both Yazoo and Loz]

 * Kadaj: This is too fun, sir! Any requests for the next act?
 * [Rufus pulls away his blanket to reveal the case with Jenova's remains]
 * Kadaj: Mother!
 * Rufus: A good son would have known.

 * Reno: Hey, partner, this thing got any bite to it?
 * [points at bomb in hand]
 * Rude: Shin-Ra technology at its finest.
 * Reno: Oh, so you made this?
 * Rude: If nothing else it's ... flashy.
 * Reno: [smiles] Oh good...
 * Rude: You love it, I know.
 * Reno: Looks like today we're clocking out early.

 * Kadaj: Brother! I'm with her at last.
 * Cloud Strife: So what's gonna happen now?
 * Kadaj: [giggles] Mother's going to tell me.
 * Cloud Strife: I guess a Remnant wouldn't really know.
 * [Kadaj glares at Cloud menacingly]
 * Kadaj: So what if I'm a puppet?
 * [Kadaj powers up the materia in his arm]
 * Kadaj: Once upon a time...you were too!
 * [attacks Cloud]

 * Yuffie: Cloud! I brought you materia! [airship rocks] Whoa! Hey, watch it!
 * Barret: Yo, Cid, park this turkey!
 * Cid: Shaddup! You want off, then jump! Get off my back!
 * Vincent: He can handle this alone.
 * Yuffie: Huh?!
 * Vincent: Kadaj is a Remnant of Sephiroth. Think of him as a sort of larval form.
 * Yuffie: LARVA?! You mean he's an insect?!
 * Cait Sith: Lassie, shut your gob!
 * Cid: So the punk's gonna become Sephiroth?
 * Tifa: Vincent, does Cloud know about Kadaj?
 * Vincent: One would think.
 * Tifa: Then you're right, it's his fight now.
 * Yuffie: Why?! I don't get it! Why can't we help out?!
 * Cid: This is man talk.
 * Yuffie: Sexist! SEXIST!!
 * Cait Sith: Crikey, lass! Shut yer mooth!
 * Barret: The men don't get it either.
 * Tifa: Two years ago ... think of the strength we all had when we fought that last battle. It's only been a couple years, but already that feeling is gone. But Cloud, I think he's found it again.
 * Barret: Pssh. He's got ten minutes.
 * Yuffie: That Cloud is a royal pain in the ass, like always.
 * Tifa: [Smiles] Cloud is Cloud.

 * Sephiroth: Good to see you, Cloud. [throws Cloud to the top of a building and follows him] Your geostigma is gone? That's too bad.
 * Cloud Strife: Sephiroth, what do you want?
 * Sephiroth: The last thoughts of Geostigma's dead. Those Remnants will join the Lifestream and girdle the planet -- choking it; corroding it. What I want, Cloud, is to sail the darkness of the cosmos with this Planet as my vessel -- just as my mother did long ago. [summons dark magic to turn the sky darker] Then one day we'll find a new planet, and on its soil we'll create a shining future.
 * Cloud Strife: What about this planet?
 * Sephiroth: Well, that's up to you, Cloud.

[fight begins]

 * Sephiroth: [amused] Oh. Where did you find this strength?
 * Cloud Strife: I'm not about to tell you!

 [Sephiroth stabs his sword into Cloud's right shoulder]
 * Sephiroth: Is this the pain you felt before, Cloud? Let me remind you. And this time, you won't forget.
 * Sephiroth: Tell me what you cherish most.

[Cloud grips Sephiroth's sword]
 * Sephiroth: Give me the pleasure of taking it away?

[Cloud, remembering his loved ones, pulls Sephiroth's sword out of his arm]
 * Cloud: I pity you. You just don't get it at all. There's not a thing I don't cherish! [attacks Sephiroth to finish the battle]

 * Cloud: Stay where you belong... in my memories.
 * Sephiroth: I will... never be a memory. [changes back into Kadaj]

 * Cloud Strife: [drifting in and out of consciousness; Aerith's hand caresses his forehead] Mother...?
 * Aerith Gainsborough: Again? Why is everyone calling me their mother lately?
 * Zack Fair: I guess they must be fond of you.
 * Aerith Gainsborough: This one's a little too big to adopt.
 * Zack Fair: [to Cloud] Tough luck, friend. Looks like you don't have a place here.

Complete BD Edition

 * Zack: So what if it looks hopeless? If it were me, I still wouldn't give up. Embrace you dreams. And, whatever happens, protect your honor as SOLDIER! ...Well, okay, you never made SOLDIER. But it's what's in here that counts.
 * Cloud: Zack?
 * Zack: Well? You need a hand with him?
 * (Cloud shakes his head and forces himself back up on his feet, sword in hand)
 * Zack: You already beat him once, didn't you? This should be a cinch!
 * Cloud: Yeah...
 * Zack: Cloud. You know what I told you.
 * Cloud: That's right.. I am your living legacy.

[Outside Midgar, flowers are growing on the ground, where Zack died]
 * Denzel: Is this somebody's grave?
 * Cloud: No. This is where a hero began his journey.

About Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children

 * We learned from The Spirits Within and made sure not to repeat history, so we went with the opposite direction of Square Pictures. What they didn't do we decided to do for Advent Children. If we were to try to sell Advent Children now it might not work because it is a different time with everything within the company. I think that's part of the reason why Advent Children was successful.
 * Kazuyuki Ikumori "Final Fantasy's Cinematic Mastermind On Making Advent Children And FFXV's Cutscene Balance" by Spencer, Silicon Era, April 3, 2015.

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I moved all the recently added quotes into an "Attributed" section, per our standard practice of splitting most quote pages into "Sourced" and "Attributed". Even though most of the quotes are "sourced" as being from one of two shows, TV-show citations really need airdates or episode numbers to make it reasonable for editors to verify quotes. If someone can place these (and other) quotes, they should move them (with citations) into a "Sourced" section. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 19:20, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

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 * On recommendations for others from the August 2006 Wired Magazine: "Get your own entry in an encyclopedia. - In the media age, everybody was famous for 15 minutes. In the Wikipedia age, everybody can be an expert in five minutes. Special bonus: You can edit your own entry to make yourself seem even smarter"

 * "I'd have to say that it was harder at Hampden-Sydney than it was at Northwestern."

From the 2006 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner

 * “But guys like us, we don't pay attention to the polls. We know that polls are just a collection of statistics that reflect what people are thinking in 'reality.' And reality has a well-known liberal bias.”

 * "Sir, pay no attention to the people who say the glass is half empty, because 32% means it's 2/3 empty. There's still some liquid in that glass is my point, but I wouldn't drink it. The last third is usually backwash."

 * “Though I am a committed Christian, I believe that everyone has the right to their own religion, be you Hindu, Jew or Muslim. I believe there are infinite paths to accepting Jesus Christ as your personal savior.”

 * (Expressing his awe in standing next to President Bush, and referring to the Dick Cheney hunting incident) "To be this close to the man [Bush], I feel like I'm dreaming.  Somebody pinch me.  You know what, I'm a pretty sound sleeper, that may not be enough.  Somebody shoot me in the face.  Is he really not here tonight?  Dammit.  The one guy who could have helped."

 * (Referring to Reverend Jesse Jackson) "Very interesting and challenging interview. You can ask him anything, but he's going to say what he wants, at the pace that he wants. It's like boxing a glacier. Enjoy that metaphor, by the way, because your grandchildren will have no idea what a glacier is."

 * "Every night on my show, The Colbert Report, I speak straight from the gut, okay? I give people the truth unfiltered by rational argument; I call it the "No Fact Zone."  Fox News, I hold a copyright on that term."

 * "I believe that the government that governs best is the government that governs least, and by these standards, we have set up a fabulous government in Iraq."

 * "Nothing satisfies you [reporters]... everybody asks for personnel changes, so the White House has personnel changes. And then you write, 'oh, they're just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.' First of all, that is a terrible metaphor. This administration is not sinking, this administration is soaring! If anything, they are rearranging the deck chairs on the Hindenburg!"

 * "I believe democracy is our greatest export -- at least until China figures out a way to stamp it out of plastic for three cents a unit."

TDS/TCR quotes
When I was cleaning up Jon Stewart's page, it was suggested to me that TDS quotes (from the scripted segments, at least) - which, seeing as the show has a full writing staff, were not necessarily written by Jon himself - should be moved to The Daily Show page and a "See also" section added linking to it. I've done the same here with Stephen's TDS and TCR quotes. Shoemoney2night 06:26, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

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 * Perhaps we're just, paranoid.
 * Appearance on Whose Line Is It Anyway?

 * Atheism: the religion devoted to the worship of one's own smug sense of superiority.

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Henry Wotton

Sir Henry Wotton (March 30, 1568 – December 1639) was an English author and diplomat.

Quotes

 * How happy is he born and taught, That serveth not another's will; Whose armor is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill!
 * The Character of a Happy Life (1614), stanza 1.

 * Who God doth late and early pray, More of his grace than gifts to send, And entertains the harmless day With a well-chosen book or friend.
 * The Character of a Happy Life (1614), stanza 5.

 * Lord of himself, though not of lands; And having nothing, yet hath all.
 * The Character of a Happy Life (1614), stanza 6. Compare: "As having nothing, and yet possessing all things", 2 Corinthians vi. 10.

 * You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light; You common people of the skies, What are you when the sun shall rise?
 * On His Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia, stanza 1 (1624). In some versions "moon" replaces "sun". This was printed with music as early as 1624, in Est's "Sixth Set of Books", for example.

 * I am but a gatherer and disposer of other men's stuff.
 * Preface to the Elements of Architecture (1624).

 * Love lodged in a woman's breast Is but a guest.
 * A Woman's Heart (1651).

 * He first deceased; she for a little tried To live without him, liked it not, and died.
 * Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife (1651).

 * Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.
 * The Disparity Between Buckingham and Essex (1651).

 * An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth.
 * Reliquiae Wottonainae (1651). In a letter to Velserus, 1612, Wotton says, "This merry definition of an ambassador I had chanced to set down at my friend's, Mr. Christopher Fleckamore, in his Album".

 * The itch of disputing will prove the scab of churches.
 * A Panegyric to King Charles (1651).

 * Hic jacet hujus sententiæ primus author: DISPUTANDI PRURITUS ECCLESIARUM SCABIES. Nomen alias quære.
 * Translation: Here lies the author of this phrase: "The itch for disputing is the sore of churches." Seek his name elsewhere.
 * Inscription on Wotton's gravestone, so placed at his direction.

 * Advised a young diplomat "to tell the truth, and so puzzle and confound his enemies."
 * Attributed. E.g., Vol 24, Encyclopedia Britannica of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, page 721 (9th Ed. 1894).
 * Compare Mark Twain who, in Following the Equator, said "When in doubt, tell the truth" (which is often mis-quoted as containing an additional clause providing "it will confound your enemies and astound your friends").

Quotes about

 * It became normal to have at each of the major courts a resident “ambassador”—a word defined by the English poet and diplomat Sir Henry Wotton in a punning epigram as “a man sent to lie abroad for his country’s good.” Given the time required for travel, and the hazards en route—especially in an age of dynastic and religious warfare—permanent ambassadors offered a convenient substitute for personal summitry. And their detailed reports required the attention of specialist secretaries who oversaw foreign affairs, such as Francis Walsingham in Elizabethan London or Antonio Perez at the court of Philip III. Day-to-day diplomacy tended to slip out of the hands of rulers.
 * David Reynolds, Summits: Six Meetings that Changed the Twentieth Century (2007), p. 17

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Richard Wagner

Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22 May 1813 – 13 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas"). Unlike most opera composers, Wagner wrote both the libretto and the music for each of his stage works. Initially establishing his reputation as a composer of works in the romantic vein of Carl Maria von Weber and Giacomo Meyerbeer, Wagner revolutionised opera through his concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk ("total work of art"), by which he sought to synthesise the poetic, visual, musical and dramatic arts, with music subsidiary to drama.

Quotes

 * "I believe in God; and Mozart, and Beethoven as his only sons."
 * Last words of the hero in "The Life's End of a German Musician in Paris" (1840), a short story written for the Gazette Musicale, as quoted in Autobiographical Sketch (1843)

 * It is necessary for us to explain the involuntary repugnance we possess for the nature and personality of the Jews … The Jews have never produced a true poet. Heinrich Heine reached the point where he duped himself into a poet, and was rewarded by his versified lies being set to music by our own composers. He was the conscience of Judaism, just as Judaism is the evil conscience of our modern civilization.
 * Judaism in Music (1850)

 * The error in the art-genre of Opera consists herein: a Means of expression (Music) has been made the end, while the End of expression (the Drama) has been made a means.
 * Opera and Drama (1851)

 * The oldest, truest, most beautiful organ of music, the origin to which alone our music owes its being, is the human voice.
 * Opera and Drama (1851)

 * Recently, while I was in the street, my eye was caught by a poulterer's shop; I stared unthinkingly at his piled-up wares, neatly and appetizingly laid out, when I became aware of a man at the side busily plucking a hen, while another man was just putting his hand in a cage, where he seized a live hen and tore its head off. The hideous scream of the animal, and the pitiful, weaker sounds of complaint that it made while being overpowered transfixed my soul with horror. Ever since then I have been unable to rid myself of this impression, although I had experienced it often before. It is dreadful to see how our lives—which, on the whole, remain addicted to pleasure—rest upon such a bottomless pit of the cruellest misery! This has been so self-evident to me from the very beginning, and has become even more central to my thinking as my sensibility has increased … I have observed the way in which I am drawn in the [direction of empathy for misery] with a force that inspires me with sympathy, and that everything touches me deeply only insofar as it arouses fellow-feeling in me, i.e. fellow-suffering. I see in this fellow-suffering the most salient feature of my moral being, and presumably it is this that is the well-spring of my art.
 * Selected Letters of Richard Wagner, translated by Stewart Spencer and Barry Millington (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1987), pp. 422-424

Autobiographical Sketch (1843)

 * As translated by William Ashton Ellis

 * I had translated the first twelve books of the Odyssey. For a while I learnt English also, merely so as to gain an accurate knowledge of Shakespeare; and I made a metrical translation of Romeo's monologue. Though I soon left English on one side, yet Shakespeare remained my exemplar, and I projected a great tragedy which was almost nothing but a medley of Hamlet and King Lear. The plan was gigantic in the extreme; two- and-forty human beings died in the course of this piece, and I saw myself compelled, in its working-out, to call the greater number back as ghosts, since otherwise I should have been short of characters for my last Acts. This play occupied my leisure for two whole years.

 * The July Revolution took place; with one bound I became a revolutionist, and acquired the conviction that every decently active being ought to occupy himself with politics exclusively. I was only happy in the company of political writers, and I commenced an Overture upon a political theme. Thus was I minded, when I left school and went to the university: not, indeed, to devote myself to studying for any profession — for my musical career was now resolved on — but to attend lectures on philosophy and aesthetics. By this opportunity of improving my mind I profited as good as nothing, but gave myself up to all the excesses of student life; and that with such reckless levity, that they very soon revolted me.

 * Germany appeared in my eyes a very tiny portion of the earth. I had emerged from abstract Mysticism, and I learnt a love for Matter. Beauty of material and brilliancy of wit were lordly things to me: as regards my beloved music, I found them both among the Frenchmen and Italians. I forswore my model, Beethoven; his last Symphony I deemed the keystone of a whole great epoch of art, beyond whose limits no man could hope to press, and within which no man could attain to independence.

 * The utter childishness of our provincial public's verdict upon any art-manifestation that may chance to make its first appearance in their own theatre — for they are only accustomed to witness performances of works already judged and accredited by the greater world outside — brought me to the decision, at no price to produce for the first time a largish work at a minor theatre. When, therefore, I felt again the instinctive need of undertaking a major work, I renounced all idea of obtaining a speedy representation of it in my immediate neighbourhood: I fixed my mind upon some theatre of first rank, that would some day produce it, and troubled myself but little as to where and when that theatre would be found.

Religion and Art (1880)

 * As translated by William Ashton Ellis

 * Though physiologists are still divided as to whether Man was meant by Nature to feed exclusively on fruits, or also upon flesh-meat, from its first faint glimmerings History shews Man's constant progress as a beast of prey. As such he conquers every land, subdues the fruit-fed races, founds mighty realms by subjugating other subjugators, forms states and sets up civilisations, to enjoy his prey at rest.
 * Part II

 * Attack and defence, want and war, victory and defeat, lordship and thraldom, all sealed with the seal of blood: this from henceforth is the History of Man.
 * Part II

 * From of old, amid the rage of robbery and blood-lust, it came to wise men's consciousness that the human race was suffering from a malady which necessarily kept it in progressive deterioration. Many a hint from observation of the natural man, as also dim half-legendary memories, had made them guess the primal nature of this man, and that his present state is therefore a degeneration. A mystery enwrapped Pythagoras, the preacher of vegetarianism; no philosopher since him has pondered on the essence of the world, without recurring to his teaching. Silent fellowships were founded, remote from turmoil of the world, to carry out this doctrine as a sanctification from sin and misery. Among the poorest and most distant from the world appeared the Saviour, no more to teach redemption's path by precept, but example; his own flesh and blood he gave as last and highest expiation for all the sin of outpoured blood and slaughtered flesh, and offered his disciples wine and bread for each day's meal:—"Taste such alone, in memory of me." … Perhaps the one impossibility, of getting all professors to continually observe this ordinance of the Redeemer's, and abstain entirely from animal food, may be taken for the essential cause of the early decay of the Christian religion as Christian Church. But to admit that impossibility, is as much as to confess the uncontrollable downfall of the human race itself.
 * Part II

 * That it must have been hunger alone, which first drove man to slay the animals and feed upon their flesh and blood; and that this compulsion was no mere consequence of his removal into colder climes … is proved by the patent fact that great nations with ample supplies of grain suffer nothing in strength or endurance even in colder regions through an almost exclusively vegetable diet, as is shewn by the eminent length of life of Russian peasants; while the Japanese, who know no other food than vegetables, are further renowned for their warlike valour and keenness of intellect. We may therefore call it quite an abnormality when hunger bred the thirst for blood … that thirst which history teaches us can never more be slaked, and fills its victims with a raging madness, not with courage. One can only account for it all by the human beast of prey having made itself monarch of the peaceful world, just as the ravening wild beast usurped dominion of the woods … And little as the savage animals have prospered, we see the sovereign human beast of prey decaying too. Owing to a nutriment against his nature, he falls sick with maladies that claim but him, attains no more his natural span of life or gentle death, but, plagued by pains and cares of body and soul unknown to any other species, he shuffles through an empty life to its ever fearful cutting short.
 * Part III

 * As we began with a general outline of the effects produced by the human beast of prey upon world-History, it now may be of service to return to the attempts to counteract them and find again the "long-lost Paradise"; attempts we meet in seemingly progressive impotence as History goes on, till finally their operation passes almost wholly out of ken. Among these last attempts we find in our own day the societies of so-called Vegetarians: nevertheless from out these very unions, which seem to have aimed directly at the centre of the question of mankind's Regeneration, we hear certain prominent members complaining that their comrades for the most part practise abstinence from meat on purely personal dietetic grounds, but in nowise link their practice with the great regenerative thought which alone could make the unions powerful. Next to them we find a union with an already more practical and somewhat more extended scope, that of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: here again its members try to win the public's sympathy by mere utilitarian pleas, though a truly beneficial end could only be awaited from their pursuing their pity for animals to the point of an intelligent adoption of the deeper trend of Vegetarianism; founded on such a mutual understanding, an amalgamation of these two societies might gain a power by no means to be despised.
 * Part III

Know Thyself (1881)

 * "Know Thyself" : A Continuation of "Religion and Art." (1881)

 * "Property" has acquired an almost greater sacredness in our social conscience than religion: for offence against the latter there is lenience, for damage to the former no forgiveness. Since Property is deemed the base of all stability, the more's the pity that not all are owners, that in fact the greater proportion of Society comes disinherited into the world. Society is manifestly thus reduced by its own principle to such a perilous inquietude, that it is compelled to reckon all its laws for an impossible adjustment of this conflict; and protection of property — for which in its widest international sense the weaponed host is specially maintained — can truly mean no else than a defence of the possessors against the non-possessors. Many as are the earnest and sagacious brains that have applied themselves to this problem, its solution, such as that at last suggested of an equal division of all possessions, has not as yet been found amenable; and it seems as if the State's disposal of the apparently so simple idea of Property had driven a beam into the body of mankind that dooms it to a lingering death of agony.

 * Clever though be the many thoughts expressed by mouth or pen about the invention of money and its enormous value as a civiliser, against such praises should be set the curse to which it has always been doomed in song and legend. If gold here figures as the demon strangling manhood's innocence, our greatest poet shews at last the goblin's game of paper money. The Nibelung's fateful ring become a pocket-book, might well complete the eerie picture of the spectral world-controller. By the advocates of our Progressive Civilisation this rulership is indeed regarded as a spiritual, nay, a moral power; for vanished Faith is now replaced by "Credit," that fiction of our mutual honesty kept upright by the most elaborate safeguards against loss and trickery. What comes to pass beneath the benedictions of this Credit we now are witnessing, and seem inclined to lay all blame upon the Jews. They certainly are virtuosi in an art which we but bungle: only, the coinage of money out of nil was invented by our Civilisation itself; or if the Jews are blamable for that, it is because our entire civilisation is a barbaro-judaic medley, in nowise a Christian creation.

 * This possibility, of always drawing from the pristine fount of our own nature, that makes us feel ourselves no more a race, no mere variety of man, but one of Manhood's primal branches, — 'tis this that ever has bestowed on us great men and spiritual heroes, as to whom we have no need to trouble whether fashioners of foreign fatherless civilisations are able to understand and prize them; whilst we again, inspired by the deeds and gifts of our forefathers, and gazing with unclouded eye, are able to rightly estimate those foreigners, and value them according to the spirit of pure Humanity indwelling in their work.

 * What "Conservatives," "Liberals" and "Conservative-liberals," and finally "Democrats," "Socialists," or even "Social-democrats" etc., have lately uttered on the Jewish Question, must seem to us a trifle foolish; for none of these parties would think of testing that "Know thyself" upon themselves, not even the most indefinite and therefore the only one that styles itself in German, the "Progress"-party. There we see nothing but a clash of interests, whose object is common to all the disputants, common and ignoble: plainly the side most strongly organised, i.e. the most unscrupulous, will bear away the prize. With all our comprehensive State- and National-Economy, it would seem that we are victims to a dream now flattering, now terrifying, and finally asphyxiating: all are panting to awake therefrom; but it is the dream's peculiarity that, so long as it enmeshes us, we take it for real life, and fight against our wakening as though we fought with death. At last one crowning horror gives the tortured wretch the needful strength: he wakes, and what he held most real was but a figment of the dæmon of distraught mankind. We who belong to none of all those parties, but seek our welfare solely in man's wakening to his simple hallowed dignity; we who are excluded from these parties as useless persons, and yet are sympathetically troubled for them, — we can only stand and watch the spasms of the dreamer, since no cry of ours can pierce to him. So let us save and tend and brace our best of forces, to bear a noble cordial to the sleeper when he wakes, as of himself he must at last.

Cosima Wagner's Diaries (1978)

 * Quotes of Wagner from Cosima Wagner's Diaries : An Abridgment (1994) edited by Geoffrey Skelton

 * This is Alberich's dream come true — Nibelheim, world dominion, activity, work, everywhere the oppressive feeling of steam and fog.
 * 25 May 1877, quoting Richard's impressions of London

 * I am writing Parsifal only for my wife — if I had to depend on the German spirit, I should have nothing more to say.
 * 2 December 1877

 * Certain things in Mozart will and can never be excelled.
 * 26 February 1878

 * Oh, I hate the thought of all those costumes and grease paint! When I think that characters like Kundry will now have to be dressed up, those dreadful artists' balls immediately spring into my mind. Having created the invisible orchestra, I now feel like inventing the invisible theatre!
 * 23 September 1878

 * It should not be presumed that these people (the Jews), who are so separated from us by their religion, have any right to make our laws. But why blame the Jews? It is we who lack all feeling for our own identity, all sense of honour.
 * 14 November 1878

 * Music has taken a bad turn; these young people have no idea how to write a melody, they just give us shavings, which they dress up to look like a lion's mane and shake at us... It's as if they avoid melodies, for fear of having perhaps stolen them from someone else.
 * 21 June 1880

Der fliegende Holländer

 * "Fürchtest du ein Lied, ein Bild?"
 * "Are you afraid of a song, of a picture?"
 * Senta, to Erik

sei drum gestrost, unsel'ger Mann! Lass über die das Schicksal richten, die seinem Spruche trotzen kann! In meines Herzens höchster Reine kenn ich der Treue Hochgebot. Wem ich sie weih, schenk ich die eine; die Treue bis zum Tod." Be comforted, unhappy man! Let Fate judge me; I defy its sentence! In my heart's highest purity I know faith's high demand To him who sees it I give Love until death!"
 * "Wohl kenn ich Weibes heil'ge Pflichten;
 * "I know well Woman's holy duty;
 * Senta, to the Dutchman

Das Rheingold
mit gold'ner Faust euch Göttliche fang' ich mir alle! Wie ich der Liebe abgesagt, Alles was lebt soll ihr entsagen! Mit Golde gekirrt, nach Gold, nur sollt ihr noch gieren! Auf wonnigen Höh'n, in seligem Weben wiegt ihr euch; den Schwarzalben verachtet ihr ewigen Schwelger! Habt Acht! Habt Acht! Denn dient ihr Männer erst meiner Macht, eure schmucken Frau'n, die mein Frei'n verschmäht, sie zwingt zur Lust sich der Zwerg, lacht Liebe ihm nicht! Ha ha ha ha! Habt ihr's gehört? Habt Acht! Habt Acht! vor dem nächtlichen Heer, entsteigt des Niblungen Hort aus stummer Tiefe zu Tag!" With my golden fist I'll grip all you godly ones! Just as I gave up love, everyone who lives will give it up too! Distracted by gold, you will yearn only for gold! On your beautiful mountain tops, clad in pleasure, you sway, and you despise [me,] the dark goblin, you eternal luxuriants! Watch out! Watch out! Because when you fall into my power, your overdressed women, who despized my wooing, will be forced to my pleasure, without love. Ha ha ha ha! Do you hear? Watch out, Watch out for the army of the night, when the hoarde of goblins rises from the silent depths into the daylight!"
 * "Die in linder Lüfte weh'n da oben ihr lebt, lacht und liebt:
 * "You, who enjoy the breezes and love, laugh, and live in them:
 * Alberich the goblin ("Nibelung"), Scene 3

Die Walküre

 * "Der durch Verträge ich Herr, den Verträgen bin ich nun Knecht."
 * "I, who rule by means of contracts, am now slave to my contracts."
 * Wotan (ruler of the gods), Act 2, Scene 2

 * "Zum Ekel find' ich ewig nur mich in Allem was ich erwirke; das And're, das ich ersehne, das And're erseh' ich nie: denn selbst muß der Freie sich schaffen; Knechte erknet' ich mir nur."
 * "To my horror I always find only myself in all that I create; the Other, whom I need, I never find: a free man himself must create himself; I can only create slaves!"
 * Wotan, Act 2, Scene 2

Siegfried
vermöcht’ es der Knabe, hätt’ er ihm immer gehorcht Jetzt mach’ dich fort, misch’ dich nicht drein: sonst fällst du mir mit in’s Feuer!"
 * "Was der Meister nicht kann,
 * "If a student always follows the teacher's instructions, how can he accomplish something which the teacher cannot accomplish? Now go away and don't interfere, or I'll put you into the fire!"
 * Siegfried, forging his sword, Act 1, Scene 3

 * "Hier hilft kein Kluger, das seh’ ich klar: hier hilft dem Dummen die Dummheit allein!"
 * "No clever person can help here; I see that clearly. Here, only stupidity can help the stupid one!"
 * Mime, the dwarf (and master metal-smith), Act 1, Scene 3

Götterdämmerung
nicht mag ich ihr doch danken, daß deiner List sie erlag: frühalt, fahl und bleich, hass' ich die Frohen, freue mich nie!"
 * "Gab mir die Mutter Muth,
 * "Although my mother gave me courage [and power], I do not thank her for yielding to your trickery; prematurely aged, colorless and pale, I hate happy people, and nothing gives me pleasure!"
 * Hagen, Act 2, Scene 1

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
sie fand ich neu, doch nicht verwirrt; verliess er unsre Gleise, schritt er doch fest und unbeirrt. Wollt ihr nach Regeln messen, was nicht nach eurer Regeln Lauf, der eignen Spur vergessen, sucht davon erst die Regeln auf!" I found new, but not confused; He left our path, but strode strongly and confidently. When you want to evaluate, according to rules, something which doesn't follow your rules, You have to forget your own ways, And seek out its rules!"
 * "Des Ritters Lied und Weise,
 * "The knight's song and direction
 * Hans Sachs, Act 1, Scene 3

und Meister wird der in keinem Land; denn wer als Meister geboren, der hat unter Meistern den schlimmsten Stand."
 * "Mein Kind, für den ist alles verloren,
 * "My child, all is lost for him, and he will never achieve the rank of 'Master' in any land, because someone who is born a master, always has the lowest standing among 'Masters'."
 * Hans Sachs, Act 2, Scene 4

wähnt er zu jagen; hört nicht sein eigen Schmerzgekreisch, wenn er sich wühlt ins eig'ne Fleisch, wähnt Lust sich zu erzeigen!"
 * "... in Flucht geschlagen,
 * "... forced to flee, he imagines that he is hunting. He does not hear his own cry of pain when he claws into his own flesh; he thinks he is expressing pleasure!"
 * Hans Sachs, Act 3, Scene 1

wird ihm im Traume aufgetan: all' Dichtkunst und Poeterei ist nichts als Wahrtraumdeuterei."
 * "Glaubt mir, des Menschen wahrster Wahn
 * "Believe me, mankind's truest madness is revealed to him in dreams. All word-craft and poetry is nothing but true dream-interpretation."
 * Hans Sachs, Act 3, Scene 2

Ihr habt's mit Ehrenmännern zu tun; die irren sich, und sind bequem, dass man auf ihre Weise sie nähm'. Wer Preise erkennt und Preise stellt, der will am End' auch, dass man ihm gefällt. Eu'r Lied, das hat ihnen bang' gemacht; und das mit Recht..."
 * "Drum bitt' ich, lasst den Groll jetzt ruh'n!
 * "Please, leave your anger outside! You are dealing with honorable men. [Of course,] they make mistakes, and they enjoy having everyone follow their rules; [but] anyone who gets to judge and award prizes expects that people will try to please him! Your song made them uncomfortable, and rightly so...."
 * Hans Sachs, Act 3, Scene 2

wenn uns von mächt'gen Trieben zum sel'gen ersten Lieben die Brust sich schwellet hoch und weit, ein schönes Lied zu singen, mocht' vielen da gelingen; der Lenz, der sang für sie. Kam Sommer, Herbst und Winterszeit, viel Not und Sorg' im Leben, manch' ehlich Glück daneben, Kindtauf', Geschäfte, Zwist und Streit: denen's dann noch will gelingen, ein schönes Lied zu singen, seht; Meister nennt man die!"
 * "Mein Freund, in holder Jugendzeit,
 * "My friend, in your youth, when you are in love for the first time, your breast swells high and wide, and it's easy to sing a beautiful song: the spring sings it for you. But when summer, then autumn, and winter come, and you have worries and responsibilities, family, children, and family quarrels, whoever can still succeed in singing a beautiful song then, you see: that person is called 'Master'!"
 * Hans Sachs, Act 3 Scene 2

da wird er dumm und lässt mit sich reden."
 * "Die schwache Stunde kommt für jeden,
 * "A moment of weakness comes, for everyone, but then he feels stupid, and listens to his good sense."
 * Hans Sachs, Act 3 Scene 3

Quotes about Wagner

 * What a wonderful work Wagner has done for humanity in translating the toil of life into the readable script of music! For those who seek the tale of other worlds his magic is silent; but earth-travail under his wand becomes instinct with rhythmic song to an accompaniment of the elements, and the blare and crash of the bottomless pit itself.
 * Margaret Barber, The Roadmender (1902)

"who wrote those?"
 * he asked,

"you did," he was told.

"ah," he responded, "its as I have always suspected: death then does have some virtue."
 * Charles Bukowski, "happy birthday," The Last Night of the Earth Poems (1998)

 * Richard Wagner said something I found extraordinary. He said that the "reason for being of music is poetry." I wholeheartedly subscribe to that notion. At times, somewhere in my mind I hear the music of a poem long before the words come together.
 * Lucha Corpi interview in ‘’Chicana Ways’’ (2001)

 * Wagner’s sensualism is not only more elemental than mere ostentation, but also more genuine and spontaneous than the whole ‘blood, death and lust’ mysticism of his time. It was not without reason that for many of the most sensitive minds of the century his work signified the very essence of art—the paradigm which first revealed the meaning and underlying principle of music to them. It was certainly the last and perhaps the greatest revelation of romanticism, the only form of it that is still alive today. No other allows us to apprehend so intimately with what intoxication of the senses it impressed itself on the contemporary public, and how much it was felt to be a revolt against all dead conventions and the discovery of a young, blissful and forbidden world. It is comprehensible, although at first surprising, that Baudelaire, who was himself not musical at all, but the only one of Wagner’s contemporaries whose accents create in us the same feeling of happiness as the Tristan music, was the first to recognize the significance of Wagner’s art.
 * Arnold Hauser, The Social History of Art, Vol. IV, Naturalism, Impressionism, the Film Age (1962)

 * Heartless sterility, obliteration of all melody, all tonal charm, all music. This revelling in the destruction of all tonal essence, raging satanic fury in the orchestra, this demoniacal, lewd caterwauling, scandal-mongering, gun-toting music, with an orchestral accompaniment slapping you in the face. Hence, the secret fascination that makes it the darling of feeble-minded royalty, of the court monkeys covered with reptilian slime, and of the blasé hysterical female court parasites who need this galvanic stimulation by massive instrumental treatment to throw their pleasure-weary frog-legs into violent convulsion. The diabolical din of this pig-headed man, stuffed with brass and sawdust, inflated, in an insanely destructive self-aggrandizement, by Mephistopheles' mephitic and most venomous hellish miasma, into Beelzebub's Court Composer and General Director of Hell's Music — Wagner!
 * J.L. Klein, Geschichte des Dramas (1871), p. 237

 * Wagner, the master of language, the mythologist and myth-maker, the philosopher, historian, aesthetician and critic, poet of previous societies, who has made simple dramas new again, and clarified the place of the arts in human culture, and understood the values of the past, and who has for the first time encircled the entire structure in one ring, and engraved the runes of his spirit on it - what an abundance of knowledge he had to accumulate and compile, in order to accomplish all this! And yet the magnitude of the task never daunted him, nor did the details and the beauty distract him.
 * Friedrich Nietzsche, Unzeitgemäße Betrachtungen, Viertes Stück: Richard Wagner in Bayreuth ("Untimely Essays, Part 4: Richard Wagner in Bayreuth") (1876, before the opera Parsifal turned him against Wagner)

 * Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease?  He contaminates everything he touches — he has made music sick.
 * Friedrich Nietzsche, Der Fall Wagner (1888, after the opera Parsifal turned him against Wagner)

 * I have been told that Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
 * Edgar Wilson Nye, as quoted in Twain's Autobiography (published in 1924).

 * Monsieur Wagner a de beaux moments, mais de mauvais quart d'heures.
 * Monsieur Wagner has good moments, but awful quarters of an hour!
 * Gioachino Rossini, Letter to Emile Naumann, April 1867, quoted in E Naumann Italienische Tondichter (1883) vol. 4, p. 5. Translation from The Riverside Dictionary of Biography (2005), p. 689.

 * After the last notes of Götterdämmerung I felt as though I had been let out of prison.
 * Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, quoted in Hans Gal, The Musician's World (1965)

 * I like Wagner’s music better than any other music. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time, without people hearing what one says.
 * Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

 * As he [John Dough, the Gingerbread Man] walked along he heard the sound of a piano, and paused at an open door to peer within the room, for he imagined someone was pounding upon the keys of the piano with a sledge-hammer. But immediately a fluffy-haired man looked up and saw him, and the next instant pounced upon the gingerbread man in much the same way that a cat would pounce upon a rat, and seized him fast, drew him into the room, and closed and locked the door. John was astonished, but the fluffy-haired musician began pacing up and down the room, swinging his arms and shouting: "I have it! I have it at last! I am great! I am magnificent! I am better than Vogner himself!" He paused to glare upon John. "Why don't you shout, you baked idiot? Why don't you weep with joy?" he cried. "It is great, I tell you! It is great!" "What is great?" asked John.  "The symphonie! The divine symphonie, you heartless molasses-cake, or devil's food, or whatever you are! And I composed it—I—Tietjamus Toips! I am greater than Vogner!"  "I didn't hear it," said the gingerbread man.  The musician threw himself upon the piano, and produced a succession of such remarkable sounds that John was surprised. "Did you understand it?" demanded the fluffy-haired one, jumping up again.  "No," said John.  "No! Of course not! No one can understand it. It is genius! It will be played at all the great concerts. The critics will write columns in praise of it. Some folks can understand Vogner a little. No one can understand me at all! I am wonderful! I am superb!"
 * L. Frank Baum, John Dough and the Cherub (1906)

 * Die Meistersinger can have an unpredictable effect on audiences. It's a mystifying work -- odd among Wagner's operas, odd among operas generally. It's billed as a comedy, and by comparison with Wagner's normal mode of cosmic tragedy, it can fairly be called lighthearted. But it doesn't have much in the way of laughs; the funny scenes are so enormous and diffuse they're like slapstick performed by cumulus clouds.
 * Lee Sandlin, "Losing the War"

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The best quotes you can find about Wagner? I think I've seen most of them scribbled in toilet stalls.

^^ I was going to write the same thing. Wikiquote creator for Wagner: Congrats for the blog feel. It's important that Wikipedia not be taken seriously, and this kind of page helps.

I created this article. My Wikipedia name is Zaorish, but for some reason it doesn't work on Wikiquote. I will try and source the first quote tonight.

--I asked a friend, who said he'd heard that quote attributed to Wagner by Placido Domingo on a TV program.

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"I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts — the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products." It is not located in "Art and Revolution" - the only source for this quote comes from a 1903 out of print biography by Elbert Hubbard. I've removed it for this reason. He does not give a source, and there is little evidence that Wagner actually said or wrote it. 184.8.136.38 05:27, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

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^ Not from the composer. The proper attribution is to French pastor and author Charles Wagner (1852-1916) as translated into English by Mary Louise Hendee. The quote comes from the book 'The Simple Life' (1901), Section VII 'Simple Pleasures', paragraph 3, last sentence: 'Joy is not in things, it is in us, and I hold to the belief that the causes of our present unrest, of this contagious discontent spreading everywhere, are in us at least as much as in exterior conditions.' http://www.gutenberg.org/files/23092/23092-h/23092-h.htm
 * From wisdom, understanding. From understanding, compassion. From compassion, love.
 * I believe that through art all men are saved.
 * I know absolutely nothing about music.
 * I write music with an exclamation mark!
 * After Rossini dies, who will there be to defend his music?
 * Joy is not in things; it is in us.

 * A political man is disgusting, but a political wife, horrible.
 * to Franz Liszt (30 January 1852)

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 * Wagner has great moments but dull quarter hours - Rossini
 * Every time I listen to Wagner, I get the urge to invade Poland - Woody Allen, Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993)
 * I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window, trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws. - Charles Baudelaire
 * One simply can not judge Wagner's 'Lohengrin' after a first hearing. Pity I don't intend hearing it a second time. - Gioacchino Antonio Rossini
 * The prelude to Wagner's 'Tristan und Isolde' reminds one of the old Italian painting of a martyr whose intestines are slowly unwound from his body on a reel. - Eduard Hanslick
 * I grant you that the 'Nibelungen Ring' is funny, although mythical, but it is not a patch on the story of the coming into being of the Sydney Opera House. - Anna Russel
 * The leitmotiv system of the 'Ring' strikes me as a sort of vast musical city directory. - Claude Debussy
 * The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending. - Igor Stravinsky
 * Wagner's aunt was so musical that when she came to a five-barred gate, she stopped and sang the spots on her veil. - Beachcomber
 * "The peculiar characteristic of classical music is that it is really so much better than it sounds,” Bill Nye (1850-1896) in September 1887, often cited as "Wagner's music is better than it sounds" and attribuated to Mark Twain.

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Kino's Journey

Kino's Journey: the Beautiful World (or Kino no Tabi) is a light novel serialized in the Dengeki hp magazine, with 12 tankōbon volumes and continuing. It is available in Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and is in the process of being translated into English. Additionally, it is a 13-episode animated series that originally aired between April and July 2003.

Kino: If I was asked, 'Why do you go on journeys?' I would answer, 'I go on journeys because I'm a traveler'.

Kino: One of the things I have learned through my travels is to retain my thoughts until I have solid facts.

Hermes: Don't you believe that sometimes anxiety creates nations? Kino: Anxiety? Hermes: Yes, anxiety. If people are afraid of the river, they will build a dike. It's the same thing.

Kino: Why do the people of this nation build this tower? Man: Why? I don't know. I only stock the bricks.

Kino: Have you ever felt jealous of birds?

Hermes: The world is constantly changing. And you can't expect it to stay the same, even for a second. If that's true, there's no need for you to go on a journey, Kino. Even if you stay in one place, you'll be able to keep experiencing the world!

Kino: I would think that a motorrad's purpose in life is to go places, isn't it? A traveler's purpose in life is to travel.

"Whenever people see birds flying through the sky, it's said that they get the urge to go on a journey." "Who said that?" "I forgot..."

Kino: It's probably a lie. The reason why I only stay for three days in any country. I'm afraid I'll settle down, if I stay too long. Because if I settled down, I would cease to be a traveler.

Man: The reason we hurt others is because we don't understand their pain.

Hermes: Kino, you know how you were gazing at each other at the end? Kino: Mmm? Oh, that. Hermes: Were you all lovey-dovey? Kino: Huh? What's that about? Hermes: "I was worried there. Watching you two, I thought you were going to marry him or something. Kino: When he gave me that look, I felt like he was thinking, 'Don't die, okay? Hermes: And? Kino: So I answered with, 'Thank you'.

The world is not beautiful: And that, in a way, lends it a sort of beauty.

Kino: You mean 'Charity is not for the sake of others' ?

'''These things will always happen. Because we're only human. Because we're... ...only human.'''

Kino: A whale's sigh... The dreaming shooting star... It felt like that's what they were singing. While everything out there is changing, the sound of these insects chirping echos up to the sky. That's what I'm listening to right now. That's the only thing that's for certain. Hermes: What's wrong, Kino? Kino: Sometimes, travelers turn into poets, Hermes.

Kino: It's pretty interesting, isn't it? Hermes: What is? Kino: The way that when someone expresses something, someone else always shows up to interpret it. Maybe the world is just a series of such events.

Though I did not know the place, I set out for the land of my dreams Having arrived at the land of my dreams, I found I did not know the place

The real Kino: Hello there, my name is Kino. I'm on a journey, traveling to various places.

Classification of fantasy and reality is itself a fantasy that humans created...Life begins when you make a distinction between yourself and others. From that moment on, the world becomes a stage for the story in which you are the main character. All humans live in a fantasy in which they are the main character. But the world doesn't recognize you as the main character at all. What nonsense. Everyone lives their entire life tormented by this confusion. There's only one way out of this hell. To place yourself in a position that is neither the main character nor a supporting role. In other words, the Author." Some guy

Kino: I think if you don't test your limits, they get harder to reach.

Hermes: Kino, what do you think is beautiful? Kino: The crimson skies, the endless expanse of the Earth, flocks of birds...animals playing by the waterfront. Hardworking machines. And...humans. Hermes: Humans too? Really? Kino: Yes. I think they're beautiful. Probably as beautiful as the world.

Kino: When you're on a journey, the most important thing is to not lose your life.

Kino I do not know whether everyone is crazy or it is just you.

Hermes: He [the Author in the Land of Books] seems crazy. Kino: Normal people don't become authors to begin with, Hermes.

Kino: You know, Hermes, sometimes a traveler also explores their mind.

Librarian from Anime Episode 12: A common war makes a quick alliance.

Kino: Someone told me a long time ago to beware of strange, brooding men with cute, fluffy dogs.

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G. Edward Griffin

G. Edward Griffin (born 7 November 1931) is an American film producer, author and conspiracy theorist.

Quotes

 * We must choose between two paths. Either we conclude that Americans have lost control over their government or we reject this information as a mere distortion of history. In the first case we become advocates of the conspiratorial view of history in the later we endorse the accidental view. It is a difficult choice. The reason it is difficult is that we have been conditioned to laugh at conspiracy theories, and few people will risk public ridicule by advocating them. On the other hand, to endorse the accidental view is absurd. Almost all of history is an unbroken trail of one conspiracy after another. Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception.
 * The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve (1995)

 * The so-called charity of collectivism is a perversion of the Biblical story of the Good Samaritan who stopped along the highway to help a stranger who had been robbed and beaten. He even takes the victim to an inn and pays for his stay there until he recovers. Everyone approves of such acts of compassion and charity, but what would we think if the Samaritan had pointed his sword at the next traveler and threatened to kill him if he didn't also help? If that had happened, I doubt if the story would have made it into the Bible; because, at that point, the Samaritan would be no different than the original robber – who also might have had a virtuous motive. For all we know, he could have claimed that he was merely providing for his family and feeding his children. Most crimes are rationalized in this fashion, but they are crimes nevertheless. When coercion enters, charity leaves. Individualists refuse to play this game. We expect everyone to be charitable, but we also believe that a person should be free not to be charitable if he doesn't want to. If he prefers to give to a different charity than the one we urge on him, if he prefers to give a smaller amount that what we think he should, or if he prefers not to give at all, we believe that we have no right to force him to our will. We may try to persuade him to do so; we may appeal to his conscience; and especially we may show the way by our own good example; but we reject any attempt to gang up on him, either by physically restraining him while we remove the money from his pockets or by using the ballot box to pass laws that will take his money through taxation. In either case, the principle is the same. It's called stealing.
 * The Chasm: The Future Is Calling (Part One) (2003–2009)

 * Collectivists would have you believe that individualism is merely another word for selfishness, because individualists oppose welfare and other forms of coercive redistribution of wealth, but just the opposite is true. Individualists advocate true charity, which is the voluntary giving of their own money, while collectivists advocate the coercive giving of other people's money; which, of course, is why it is so popular.
 * The Chasm: The Future Is Calling (Part One) (2003–2009)

 * The very wise and wealthy financiers of the world--going way back, even before Rothschild's time--have observed that the world was a pretty rocky place to live in, and that nations were always fighting over something or other, there was always somebody who was trying to conquer somebody else, and wars were universal. Too bad about that, but that's the way it is. So we--the bankers--found out that if we loan money to them that we'll get paid back - they don't question what the interest rate is because they're fighting a war! And if they can win the war they can just plunder the victim and pay us whatever we want out of the plunder - it doesn't cost them anything really. Then the issue comes up of what happens if one of these nations decides not to pay us? Ah! The answer is very simple: if they refuse to pay us back we'll finance an opposing nation, a revolutionary group somewhere else to become an enemy of that nation and attack it, and destroy it, invade it. We'll create another war, in other words, in order to get our money back, we'll finance this side to attack that side. And so, by financing all sides in a war, and keeping the world divided up into warring fractions so that no one unit is particularly stronger than the other, the banks can continue to finance all sides of wars forever, and always collect their interest, because they have the ability of putting one nation against another nation against another nation to collect their debts.
 * From the documentary Corporate Fascism: The Destruction of America's Middle Class (2011)

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This is actually Yogi Berra's quote!! see http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Yogi_Berra

No - I don't believe it is a Yogism!

Is there any proof either way? Tbird20d (talk) 23:27, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

 * I added a citation to the earliest known appearance. Attributions to van de Snepscheut and Yogi Berra appear to be apocryphal. ~ Ningauble (talk) 13:58, 9 October 2014 (UTC)

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As far as I remember this was already known as a dialog like joke in Hungary in the 1970s.
 *  — Mi a különbség az elmélet és a gyakorlat közt?
 *  — Elméletileg semmi. Na de gyakorlatilag...!
 * ("What's the difference between theory and practice?"
 * "In theory nothing. But in practice ...")

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Sharon Stone

Sharon Stone (born March 10, 1958) is an American actress, model and producer.

Quotes

 * My father has always been supportive of my individuality.
 * Interviewed by Barbara Walters (September 1993).

 * An individual who isn't worth the ink it would take to write about him.
 * About Steven Seagal, cited in "Sharon Stone tells all and then some" Salon

 * It's traumatizing for me to come to Washington during a Republican administration because I don't have any Republican clothes.
 * The Washington Post (June 20, 2001)

Now, here is the issue, it didn't matter anymore. It was me and my parts up there. I had decisions to make. I went to the projection booth, slapped Paul across the face, left, went to my car, and called my lawyer, Marty Singer [who said she could gain an injunction against the release of the film with the shot] ... I choose to allow this scene in the film. Why? Because it was correct for the film and for the character; and because, after all, I did it.
 * After we shot Basic Instinct, I got called in to see it. Not on my own with the director, as one would anticipate, given the situation that has given us all pause, so to speak, but with a room full of agents and lawyers, most of whom had nothing to do with the project. That was how I saw my vagina-shot for the first time, long after I'd been told "We can't see anything—I just need you to remove your panties, as the white is reflecting the light, so we know you have panties on." Yes, there have been many points of view on this topic, but since I'm the one with the vagina in question, let me say: the other points of view are bullshit.
 * The Beauty of Living Twice London: Allen & Unwin, 2021, p. 83–85
 * "Sharon is lying", director Paul Verhoven told ICON magazine in 2017 (previous quotes from Stone on the incident are cited). "Any actress knows what she’s going to see if you ask her to take off her underwear and point there with the camera."

About Sharon Stone
There are many contenders for the role. Reading, however, about Sharon Stone, you just think: woah — never has someone been so sucked in, chewed up and spat out by a bunch of grasping, evil men. She recently explained how she lost custody of her son because of that famous scene in Basic Instinct. The judge asked Roan, then very young: "Do you know your mother makes sex movies?" She was admitted to hospital with a prolapsed heart valve after he was taken from her: "It literally broke my heart," she said. ... I don’t pretend that Stone is perfect — any woman over the age of 16 knows where the instruction "Take your knickers off" can lead. But how Hollywood treats women is repulsive — it will take anything that is beautiful, funny and talented and turn it into a broken, tarnished mess. It will beg you to play up and play sexy and take your clothes off, and then punish you just for following orders. Did the judge enjoy his viewing of Basic Instinct? I bet he did.
 * Who is the most unfortunate actress in Hollywood?
 * Camilla Long "If Stanley Johnson ‘deserves’ to be a knight, maybe it’s time to scrap the whole system" The Sunday Times (12 March 2023)

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Alan Cranston

Alan MacGregor Cranston (June 19, 1914 – December 31, 2000) was an American politician and journalist who served as a United States Senator from California from 1969 to 1993, and as a President of the World Federalist Association from 1949 to 1952. He served as the Senate Democratic Whip from 1977 to 1991. In 1984, Cranston sought the Democratic presidential nomination, advocating a nuclear freeze during the later stages of the Cold War. He dropped out after the first set of primaries.

About Alan Cranston

 * [Alan Cranston] understood power not as a reflection of status but as a tool with a purpose.' – Sen. Joseph Biden December 31, 2000 on Meet the Press

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