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Talk:Pulp Fiction

"Bring out the gimp"
Wasn't it Zed who said "Bring out the gimp."? It's listed under Maynard. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Zenislev (talk • contribs) 22:18, 17 February 2005 (UTC)

Ezekiel 25:17
different versions of the bible quote: I feel the more known version is the one in the appartment, but the monologue following it was held only in the diner. Yolgie (talk) 20:37, 17 January 2014 (UTC)
 * in Brad and Marvins Appartment: ...And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee.
 * in the diner: ...And you will know I am the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you.

Memorable lines
I feel that this, and many other film/tv pages(Simpsons, Star Wars, I'm looking your way...) are more collections of memorable lines(or whole scenes) rather than quotes which stand up out of context. Is there a policy or guideline page relating to this? Boffy b 18:30, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Listen, this is Pulp Fiction, the ne plus ultra of quotable movies. If anything, the entire script belongs on this page. -69.249.85.13 18:42, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

 * Listen yourselves, this is Wikiquote. ☺ It is a collection of selected quotes from notable people and creative works, not a copyright-violating transcription of entire scenes, much less complete works.

 * Optimists should appreciate that our goal is to cite pithy (i.e., short and memorable) quotes rather than transcribe scenes. This latter activity almost always includes descriptions of information too visual or aural for text readers to appreciate, and detracts from the value of the quotes cited. If a scene isn't sufficiently interesting without such information, it's usually a bad candidate for inclusion here.

 * Pessimists would note that anything that might be interpreted as going beyond the notoriously vague guideline of fair use of copyrighted works could get Wikiquote into legal trouble. (Indeed, French Wikiquote was shutdown, possibly permanently, over just this issue.) This is additional motivation for keeping quotes short and sweet. (Okay, maybe more "pungent" than "sweet" for this film, but you get the idea. &#9786) ~ Jeff Q (talk) 21:27, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

Cell phone
I just made a small change. The page showed Lance asking "Are you calling me on a cell phone?" After watching the movie again the other day, I changed it to the correct quote: "Are you calling me on a cellular phone?" I don't think the abbreviated phrase "cell phone" existed in 1994. 71.255.200.54 05:08, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Minor correction to my previous message: The term "cell phone" did exist by 1994. I checked through Google's newsgroup archive, which goes back to 1981. Still, the term used in the movie was "cellular phone." —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.255.207.241 (talk • contribs) 10:32, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

 * I would advise not using personal recollection or expectations as a reason to change wording in a quote. Human beings are notoriously fallible in their ability to recall verbiage exactly, which is why so many quotes wind up with huge numbers of variations. One of Wikiquote's primary purposes is to find the original quotes and cite sources for them to resist these inaccuracies. To this end, Usenet newsgroups are no better as sources, as they typically include raw opinions rather than well-sourced information. Usually, the most effective way to verify quotes from a film is to watch the film carefully and base your corrections on this. There are many challenges to this approach, of course, but they pale in comparison to using the Internet rumor mill. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 21:18, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

 * I know this is a long time in answering (I'm a Wikipedian, but I haven't gone to this site in a long, long time). My statement about whether the term "cell phone" existed in 1994 was an offhanded comment that didn't really relate to how I got the information (I got it from watching the film directly). But I should note: when I said I used the newsgroup archive, I was not using people's opinions as a source. Rather, the archive serves as an objective record of people's writings at various points in time. The fact that messages dated to long before 1994 used the phrase "cell phone" is fairly concrete proof that the term existed back then. 71.246.93.227 23:03, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

 * I'm not sure how I misunderstood your point earlier, 71.246.93.227, but I apologize for that. You are right on two counts — Usenet is, like any other "frozen" publication, an accurate source for language usage, even if not for claimed facts; and watching the film is verifying through a primary source, not the personal recollection I objected to. I can't vouch offhand for "cellluar" vs. "cell", but I trust your primary-source check more than my personal recollection. ☺ ~ Jeff Q (talk) 16:04, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

Royal(e) with Cheese
The original spelling of the "Hamburger Royal" in France is without an "e" at the end. I don't know though, if this spelling would confuse a native English speaker or if "Royale" was used in the original script. If neither is the case I would suggest to change the spelling.

Funny detail: In France the name of this burger isn't even "Royal with cheese" but "Royal Cheese". -- 213.103.198.125 20:26, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

 * I've added a footnote about the correct spelling and the justification for the misspelling. I included a link to the unfortunately Flash-y McDonald's France website that confirms the correct spelling. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 01:41, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Check copyright tag
I've trimmed a lot of quotes, including some duplicates that were already in the dialogue section. Some additional trimming may be needed, but I wanted to start the process. ~ UDScott 19:41, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Ketchup?
Obviously, the point of Mia's joke is that 'catch up' and 'ketchup' sound alike. A screenplay I found on the internet lists the dialogue as 'catch up', but I feel it'd look better written as 'ketchup'. Any thoughts? 128.240.229.67 23:35, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

 * I think it should be "catch up", since that's what one would actually say. Kingdok 17:45, 13 March, 2007
 * I think Uma Thurman pronounced it "ketchup" on both times in the movie. Just listen to the audio.    I think Tarantino  wanted this.  The joke fits better with the atmosphere of the movie if the papa tomato actually said "ketchup" to his son after squishing him. 67.171.225.140 07:56, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I think the joke references both the casual bloodiness of the movie, and the artifice of it all: Uma Thurman's character is reciting a line of dialog her character told in the failed pilot (daughter of an old vaudevillian turned action hero or something like that), a world within a world within a world, thus artifice ... chronologically, this scene follows Travolta accidentally shooting the kid in the face and having to clean the repugnant blood-like special effects off the car, (while the films director makes an extended cameo and says his own characters look like a couple of dorks), as well as more obviously Uma's own OD and andrenaline shot, thus, bloodiness ... this joke is in fact the punchline to the first third of the film, and the last time chronologically we see Travolta before his own death (while reading the first hardcover edition of Modesty Blaise, itself some fine pulp fiction)

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Talk:Osama bin Laden

11 Sept. 2001 attacks
Who said he done 9/11? 01:05, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

 * Osama bin Laden did. video clip.--Inesculent 10:15, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Organizational Issue Re: Quotes about Osama bin Laden
I came to this page expecting to find quotations from the words of Osama bin Laden. I question whether comments made by other people about him should be listed here. I think they should be listed as quotes from whoever said them. Carmaskid 23:38, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
 * ALL pages have the option of having quotes ABOUT the author or subject, as well as quotes by them. No exception need be made for this person. ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 00:33, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Learn something new every day! Thanks for letting me know that - it was the first time I had seen a page with quotes about someone like that. Carmaskid 03:51, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

Unsourced

 * Published sources should be provided before moving these back into the article

 * America, and those within it, will not find security, until those who live in Palestine do, and until they withdraw their disbelieving armies from the land of Muhammad (peace be upon him).

Quotes about bin Laden (unsourced)

 * Usama was a Mujahid for the sake of Allah before, he had fronts against the Soviets in Afghanistan, may Allah make him successful and grant him victory.
 * Abdullah ibn Abdulrahman ibn Jibreen, member of the Permanent Committee for Islamic Research and Fataawa in Saudi Arabia

Pictures
Putting pictures of 9/11 with Osama quotes, why? He speak about defense of Islam maybe let's put some images of American Soldiers raping some girls in Vietnam, Tagikistan, Bosnia, Iraq, or some massacre of muslims in Afghanistan or of civialns in Sudan. I'm just saying: can you be more neutral?Thanks!

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Photography

Photography is the art, science, and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film, or electronically by means of an image sensor

A - F, G - L , M - R , S - Z See also, External links
 * CONTENTS

Quotes

 * Quotes are arranged alphabetically by author

A - F

 * There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
 * Ansel Adams as cited in: Elizabeth T. Schoch (2002) The everything digital photography book. p. 105

 * A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense, and is, thereby, a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.
 * Ansel Adams "A Personal Credo" (1943), published in American Annual of Photography (1944), reprinted in Nathan Lyons, editor, Photographers on Photography (1966), reprinted in Vicki Goldberg, editor, Photography in Print: Writings from 1816 to the Present (1988)

 * I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term — meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching — there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.
 * Ansel Adams "A Personal Credo" (1943), published in American Annual of Photography (1944), reprinted in Nathan Lyons, editor, Photographers on Photography (1966), reprinted in Vicki Goldberg, editor, Photography in Print: Writings from 1816 to the Present (1988)

 * It shows an image that could only have been produced photographically.
 * Nicholas Allen, as quoted in Is The Shroud of Turin a Medieval Photograph? A Critical Examination of the Theory by Barrie M. Schwortz

 * Photographs deceive time, freezing it on a piece of cardboard where the soul is silent.
 * Isabel Allende Of Love and Shadows (1984)

 * Pictures produced by camera can resemble paintings or drawings in presenting recognizable images of physical objects. But they have also characteristics of their own, of which the following two are relevant here: first the photograph acquires some of its unique visual properties through the technique of mechanical recording; and second, it supplies the viewer with a specific kind of experience, which depends on his being aware of the picture's mechanical origin. To put it more simply: (1) the picture is coproduced by nature and man and in some ways looks strikingly like nature, and (2) the picture is viewed as something being by nature.
 * (1974). "On the nature of Photography", Critical Inquiry, Vol.1, n.1, p. 156; As cited in: A. Bianchin (2007), "Theoretical Cartography Issues in the face of New Representation"

 * In photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the ordinary.
 * in interview in The Face December 1984

 * Photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a precise organisation of forms which give that event its proper expression.
 * Henri Cartier-Bresson as cited in: Bruce Elder (1989) Image and identity: reflections on Canadian film and culture. p. 114

 * Two studies investigated gender stereotyping in American magazine photos. Study 1 compares cover photos of men and women on face-ism, an index of the degree to which a photo focuses on the face versus the body. Photos of women are found to focus more on their bodies and photos of men on their faces, a finding consistent with previous research. This finding is strongly mediated by other variables, however, particularly the social role of the cover person. Study 2 compares the facial expressions, specifically the mouth positions, of men and women in advertisements from several popular magazines. Women are significantly more likely than men to be photographed with their mouths open, presumably portraying less serious expressions.
 * Dodd, D. K., Harcar, V., Foerch, B. J., Anderson, H. T. (1989). "Face-ism and facial expressions of women in magazine photos", The Psychological Record, 39, p. 325.

 * Black and white are the colors of photography. To me, they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected. Most of my photographs are of people; they are seen simply, as through the eyes of the man in the street. There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism.
 * Robert Frank, in: Nathan Lyons, Photographers on photography: a critical anthology, (1966), p. 66

 * Life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference and it is important to see what is invisible to others.
 * Robert Frank, cited in: Robet Hirsch, Photographic Possibilities, 2009, p. ix

G - L

 * You put your camera around your neck in the morning, along with putting on your shoes, and there it is, an appendage of the body that shares your life with you. The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
 * Dorothea Lange, as quoted in Dorothea Lange : A Photographer's Life (1978), p. vii

 * One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.
 * Dorothea Lange, as quoted in Dorothea Lange: A Visual Life (1994) by Elizabeth Partridge

M - R

 * It was October 1966 and the new development of the new satellite system, Hexagon, was underway. The project was a follow-on to very successful Corona satellite program and a complement to the higher-resolution Gambit satellite. All these programs required 315,000 feet of film to be dropped in re-entry vehicles from orbit and retrieved in mid-air by U.S. forces. Gambit and Hexagon were declassified late this year, and its engineers were profiled this week by the Associated Press.
 * Alexis C. Madrigal, "TOP SECRET: Your Briefing on the CIA's Cold-War Spy Satellite, 'Big Bird'", (Dec 29, 2011).

 * From 1971 to 1986 a total of 20 satellites were launched, each containing 60 miles (100 kilometers) of film and sophisticated cameras that orbited the earth snapping vast, panoramic photographs of the Soviet Union, China and other potential foes. The film was shot back through the earth's atmosphere in buckets that parachuted over the Pacific Ocean, where C-130 Air Force planes snagged them with grappling hooks.
 * Alexis C. Madrigal, "TOP SECRET: Your Briefing on the CIA's Cold-War Spy Satellite, 'Big Bird'", (Dec 29, 2011).

 * The photograph extends and multiplies the human image to the proportions of mass-produced merchandise. The movie stars and matinee idols are put in the public domain by photography. They become dreams that money can buy.
 * Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (1964), p. 257

 * The step from the age of Typographic Man to the age of Graphic Man was taken with the invention of photography.
 * Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (1964), p. 259

 * The photograph has reversed the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar. ... The world itself becomes a sort of museum of objects that have been encountered before in some other medium.
 * Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (1964), pp. 267-268

The image (shadow): The light reaches the person shining like an arrow. The lowest [light] that reaches the person is the highest [in the image] and the highest [light] that reaches the person is the lowest [in the image]. The feet conceal the lowest light and therefore become the image (shadow) at the top. The head conceals the highest light and therefore becomes the image (shadow) at the bottom.
 * The image (shadow) being inverted depends on there being an aperture at the cross-over and the image (shadow) being distant. The explanation lies in the aperture.
 * Mozi Book 10: Exposition of Canon II; this is the earliest known description of the inverted image produced by a camera obscura,; as translated in by Ian Jonston in The Mozi (2010), p. 489

 * Photography is a strong tool, a propaganda device, and a weapon for the defense of the environment... Photographs are believed more than words; thus they can be used persuasively to show people who have never taken the trouble to look what is there. They can point out beauties and relationships not previously believed or suspect to exist.
 * as cited in: Rebecca Solnit (2007) Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics. p. 235

"Fetal Images: The Power of Visual Culture in the Politics of Reproduction" (1987)
Petchesky, Rosalind Pollack (1987). "Fetal Images: The Power of Visual Culture in the Politics of Reproduction". Feminist Studies. 13 (2): 263–292. doi:10.2307/3177802. JSTOR 3177802. S2CID 41193716.
 * In the mid-1980s, with the United States Congress still deadlocked over the abortion issue and the Supreme Court having twice reaffirmed “a woman’s right to choose,” the political attack on abortion rights moved further into the terrain of mass culture and imagery. Not that the “pro life movement” has abandoned conventional political arenas; rather, it defeat there have hardened its commitment to a more long-term ideological struggle over the symbolic meanings of fetuses, dead or alive. Antiabortionists in both the United States and Britain have long applied the principle that a picture of a dead fetus is worth a thousand words. Chaste silhouettes of the fetal form, of voyeuristic necrophilic photographs of its remains, litter the background of any abortion talk. These still images float like spirits through the courtrooms, where lawyers argue that fetuses can claim tort liability; through the hospitals and clinics, where physicians welcome them as "patients"; and in front of all the abortion centers, legislative committees, bus terminals, and other places that" right-to-lifers" haunt. The strategy of antiabortionists to make fetal personhood a self-fulfilling prophecy by making the fetus a public presence addresses a visually oriented culture. Meanwhile, finding "positive" images and symbols of abortion hard to imagine, feminists and other prochoice advocates have all too readily ceded the visual terrain.
 * pp.263-264

 * The most disturbing thing about how people receive The Silent Scream, and indeed all the dominant fetal imagery, is their apparent acceptance of the image itself as an accurate representation of a real fetus. The curled-up profile, with its enlarged head and fin like arms, suspended in its balloon of amniotic fluid, is by now so familiar that not even most feminists question its authenticity (as opposed to its relevance).I went back to trace the earliest appearance of these photos in popular literature and found it in the June 1962 issue of Look (along with Life, the major mass-circulating "picture magazine" of the period). It was a story publicizing a new book, The First Nine Months of Life, and it featured the now-standard sequel of pictures at one day, one week, seven weeks, and so forth. In every picture the fetus is solitary, dangling in the air (or its sac) with nothing to connect it to any life-support system but "a clearly defined umbilical cord. "In every caption it is called "the baby"(even at forty-four days) and is referred to as "he"-until the birth, that is, when "he" turns out to be a girl. Nowhere is there any reference to the pregnant woman, except in a single photograph at the end showing the newborn baby lying next to the mother, both of them gazing off the page, allegedly at "the father."From their beginning, such photographs have represented the fetus as primary and autonomous, the woman as absent or peripheral.
 * p.268

 * Fetal imagery epitomizes the distortion inherent in all photographic images: their tendency to slice up reality into tiny bits wrenched out of real space and time. The origins of photography can be traced to late-nineteenth-century Europe's cult of science, itself a by-product of industrial capitalism. Its rise is inextricably linked with positivism, that flawed epistemology that sees "reality" as discrete bits of empirical data divorced from historical process or social relationships. Similarly, fetal imagery replicates the essential paradox of photographs whether moving or still, their "constitutive deception" as noted by postmodernist critics: the appearance of objectivity, of capturing" literal reality." As Roland Barthes puts it, the "photographic message" appears to be "a message without a code." According to Barthes, the appearance of the photographic image as "a mechanical analogue of reality, "without art or artifice, obscures the fact that that image is heavily constructed, or "coded"; it is grounded in a context of historical and cultural meanings. Yet the power of the visual apparatus's claim to be "an unreasoning machine" that produces" an unerring record"(the French word for "lens" is l'object if) remains deeply embedded in Western culture. This power derives from the peculiar capacity of photographic images to assume two distinct meanings, often simultaneously: an empirical (informational) and a mythical (or magical) meaning. Historically, photographic imagery has served not only the uses of scientific rationality-as in medical diagnostics and record keeping-and the tools of bureaucratic rationality-in the political record keeping and police surveillance of the state. Photographic imagery has also, especially with the "democratization" of the hand-held camera and the advent of the family album, become a magical source of fetishes that can resurrect the dead or preserve lost love. And it has constructed the escape fantasy of the movies. This older, symbolic, and ritualistic (also religious?) function lies concealed within the more obvious rationalistic one.
 * pp.268-269

 * The double text of The Silent Scream, noted earlier, recapitulates this historical paradox of photographic images: their simultaneous power as purveyors of fantasy and illusion yet also of "objectivist 'truth."' "'When Nathanson claims to be presenting an abortion from the "vantage point of the [fetus],"the image's appearance of seamless movement through real time-and the technologic allure of the video box, connoting at once "advanced medicine" and "the news"-render his claim "true to life." Yet he also purveys a myth, for the fetus-if it had any vantage point-could not possibly experience itself as if dangling in space, without a woman's uterus and body and bloodstream to support it. In fact, every image of a fetus we are shown, including The Silent Scream, is viewed from the standpoint neither of the fetus nor of the pregnant woman but of the camera. The fetus as we know it is a fetish. Barbara Katz Rothman observes that "the fetus in utero has become a metaphor for 'man' in space, floating free, attached only by the umbilical cord to the spaceship. But where is the mother in that metaphor? She has become empty space."' Inside the futurizing spacesuit, however, lies a much older image. For the autonomous, free-floating fetus merely extends to gestation the Hobbesian view of born human beings as disconnected, solitary individuals. It is this abstract individualism, effacing the pregnant woman and the fetus's dependence on her, that gives the fetal image its symbolic transparency, so that we can read in it ourselves, our lost babies, our mythic secure past.
 * pp.269-270

 * Evidentiary uses of photographic images are usually enlisted in the service of some kind of action-to monitor, control, and possibly intervene.
 * p.274

 * How different women see fetal images depends on the context of the looking and the relationship of the viewer to the image and what it signifies. Recent semiotic theory emphasizes "the centrality of the moment of reception in the construction of meanings." The meanings of a visual image or text are created through an "interaction" process between the viewer and the text, taking their focus from the situation of the viewer. John Berger identifies a major contextual frame defining the relationship between viewer and image in distinguishing between what he calls "photographs which belong to private experience" and thus connect to our lives in some intimate way, and "public photographs," which excise bits of information "from all lived experience." Now, this is a simplistic distinction because "private" photographic images become imbued with "public" resonances all the time; we "see" lovers' photos and family albums through the scrim of television ads. Still, I want to borrow Berger's distinction because it helps indicate important differences between the meanings of fetal images when they are viewed as "the fetus" and when they are viewed as "my baby.”
 * pp.280-281

 * When legions of right-wing women in the antiabortion movement brandish pictures of gory dead or dreamlike space-floating fetuses outside clinics or in demonstrations, they are participating in a visual pageant that directly degrades women- and thus themselves. Wafting these fetus-pictures as icons, literal fetishes, they both propagate and celebrate the image of the fetus as autonomous space-hero and the pregnant woman as "empty space." Their visual statements are straight forward representations of the antifeminist ideas they (and their male cohorts) support. Such right-wing women promote the public, political character of the fetal image as a symbol that condenses a complicated set of conservative values-about sex, motherhood, teenage girls, fatherhood, the family. In this instance, perhaps it makes sense to say they participate "vicariously" in a "phallic" way of looking and thus become the "complacent facilitators for the working out of man's fantasies."
 * p.281

 * Women's responses to fetal picture taking may have another side as well, rooted in their traditional role in the production of family photographs. If photographs accommodate "aesthetic consumerism," becoming instruments of appropriation and possession, this is nowhere truer than within family life-particularly middle-class family life. Family albums originated to chronicle the continuity of Victorian bourgeois kin networks. The advent of home movies in the 1940s and 1950s paralleled the move to the suburbs and backyard barbecues. Similarly, the presentation of a sonogram photo to the dying grandfather, even before his grandchild's birth, is a 1980s' way of affirming patriarchal lineage. In other words, far from the intrusion of an alien, and alienating, technology, it may be that ultrasonography is becoming enmeshed in a familiar language of "private" images. Significantly, in each of these cases it is the woman, the mother, who acts as custodian of the image- keeping up the album, taking the movies, presenting the sonogram. The specific relationship of women to photographic images, especially those of children, may help to explain the attraction of pregnant women to ultrasound images of their own fetus (as opposed to "public" ones). Rather than being surprised that some women experience bonding with their fetus after viewing its image on a screen (or in a sonographic "photo"), perhaps we should understand this as a culturally embedded component of desire. If it is a form of objectifying the fetus (and the pregnant woman herself as detached from the fetus), perhaps such objectification and detachment are necessary for her to feel erotic pleasure in it. If with the ultrasound image she first recognizes the fetus as "real," as "out there," this means that she first experiences it as an object she can possess.
 * p.283

S - Z
...Talbot, the discoverer of another photographic process, was an amateur artist who used the and  from the early 1820s as aids to his landscape drawings. Among other... near-discoverers of photography were artists who sought through the camera obscura... the last word in art. ...Joseph-Nicéphore Niépce succeeded in fixing what he called a heliograph on glass. Niépce and his son... a painter and sculptor, had been practicing the new art of ... Because the litho stones of good quality were difficult to obtain, they... substituted plates. ...[T]he elder Niépce ...conceived of the idea of recording, photographically, [using as negatives, existing paper engravings made transparent by oiling or waxing] an image on the plate and etching it for printing. ...After unsuccessful experiments with chloride of silver, he used another light-sensitive substance called ; the unexposed parts could be dissolved, baring the metal to be etched ...By 1837, with common salt as a fixative, Daguerre made his first relatively permanent photograph...
 * [U]tilizing the discoveries of scientists, photography was invented by artists for the use of artists. ...Daguerre had acquired a considerable reputation as a painter and inventor of illusionist effects in panoramas and... as a designer of stage settings... Almost at the same time as he invented the ... Daguerre began to experiment with the photographic process. ...[H]e would have to be considered... the first artist to utilize photographs for his paintings—before photography was in effect discovered.
 * , Art and Photography (1968) pp. 5-6.

 * When [ Talbot] learned of Daguerre's achievement he promptly published... 'Photogenic Drawing' . During ...1839, after Dagurerre's and Talbot's discoveries had been advertised, other inventors ...appeared ...One claim indicated that certain artists ...thirty years previously, had developed a negative process using diluted as a fixative, ...It had not, it seems, occurred to them, as later it did to Talbot, to make the negative translucent and re-photograph it.  ...Whereas the  was a direct positive process, each photograph a unique image on a ...polished metal plate, photogenic drawing was ...to develop into a negative-positive one allowing for multiple copies ...Talbot's ...s, were printed from oiled or waxed paper negatives. They thus reproduced the fibrous texture [image distortion] of the paper ...Talbot believed that the photograph would become an important aid to artists... the multitude of minute details ...'no artist would take the trouble to copy faithfully from nature'. Talbot wrote this in 1844 in his ..., the first publication using actual photographic prints in conjuction with text.
 * , Art and Photography (1968) p. 9. Note: Talbot presented his paper, "Some Account of the art of Photogenic Drawing, or the process by which natural objects may be made to delineate themselves without the aid of the artist's pencil" (Jan. 31, 1839) to the Royal Society, as noted in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London.

 * Inevitably, the untenable relation between naturalistic art and photography became clear. However much other factors may have contributed to the character of Impressionist painting, to photography must be accorded some special consideration. The awareness of the need for personal expression in art increased in proportion to the growth of photography and a photographic style in art. The evolution of Impressionist painting towards colours one ought to see, and the increased emphasis on matière [material], can well be attributed to the encroachment of photography on naturalistic art. Impressionist paintings may be seen as mirrors of nature, but above all they convey the idea that they are paintings of nature.
 * , Art and Photography (1968) p. 138.

 * A photograph is a biography of a moment.
 * as cited in interview: Dean Reynalds (2014 February 13) Photographs tell story of decades-long romance. CBS News.

 * Photography is more than a means of recording the obvious. It is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever, whether it be a face or a flower, a place or a thing, a day or a moment. The camera is a perfect companion. It makes no demands, imposes no obligations. It becomes your notebook and your reference library, your microscope and your telescope. It sees what you are too lazy or too careless to notice, and it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.
 * Aaron Siskind, cited in: The Amateur Photographer's Handbook, (1973), p. vi

 * Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. [It is] a major force in explaining man to man.
 * Edward Steichen, quoted in Time Magazine, "To Catch the Instant", 7 April 1961

 * Today, I am no longer concerned with photography as an art form. I believe it is potentially the best medium for explaining man to himself and his fellow man.
 * Edward Steichen (1967), cited in: National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution), Carolyn Kinder Carr, National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain) (2003). Americans: paintings and photographs from the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC, Deel 3. p. 207

 * Photography as a fad is well-nigh on its last legs, thanks principally to the bicycle craze.
 * Alfred Stieglitz (1887) in the American Annual of Photography 1897.

 * There is a reality — so subtle that it becomes more real than reality. That's what I'm trying to get down in photography.
 * Alfred Stieglitz as cited in: M. Orvell (1989) The Real Thing: Imitation and Authenticity in American Culture, 1880-1940. p. 220

 * Photography, if practiced with high seriousness, is a contest between a photographer and the presumptions of approximate and habitual seeing. The contest can be held anywhere...
 * John Szarkowski (1973) Looking at photographs: 100 pictures from the collection of the Museum of Modern Art. Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.). p. 192

 * My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, or the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.
 * as cited in: Harold Evans, Edwin Taylor (1978) Pictures on a page: photojournalism and picture editing. p. 75 ; On photojournalism

 * The weakness of the attack lies in its lack of discrimination. It is possible that psychic surgery is a hoax, that plants cannot really read our minds, that Kirlian photography (photographing the "life-aura" of living creatures) may depend on some simple electrical phenomenon. But to lump all of these together as if they were all on the same level of improbability shows a certain lack of discernment. The same applies to the list of "hoaxes." Rhine's careful research into extrasensory perception at Duke University is generally conceded to be serious and sincere, even by people who think his test conditions were too loose. The famous fairy photographs are quite probably a hoax, but no one has ever produced an atom of proof either way, and until someone does, no one can be quite as confident as the editors of Time seem to be. And Ted Serios has never at any time been exposed as a fraud — although obviously he might be. We see here a phenomena that we shall encounter again in relation to Geller: that when a scientist or a "rationalist" sets himself up as the defender of reason, he often treats logic with a disrespect that makes one wonder what side he is on.
 * Colin Wilson in The Geller Phenomenon, pp. 34-35 (1976)

 * A photograph does not stimulate the imaginative mood as good music, poetry, or painting does. In short, photography is too literal. And yet I would call it one of the greatest inventions of the nineteenth century-because of its usefulness to science and its documentary utility in all the arts. As a pictorial feature of magazines it has been vastly overdone and is tiresome...A photograph is the surface of something. Of course an artist is concerned with surface appearances, but only as a means of penetrating to the spirit of the thing. Through his own temperament he reveals the way he is impressed as a beholder of the scene. The artist's emotional reactions subject before him, and his obligation to stress its essentials, are the main factors in a work of art.
 * Art Young: His Life and Times (1939)

 * …Korolev needed to go full speed ahead with the satellites development, so he stressed the potential military importance of the satellite. "With the help of the satellite… [it] will be possible to receive important data necessary for future development of science and military technology… it will be possible to conduct photo reconnaissance of the (Earth's) surface…" he wrote in the Aug. 5, 1955, letter to the new Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev.
 * Anatoly Zak, “The Rocket That Launched Sputnik and Started the Space Race“, Popular Mechanics, (Oct 4, 2017).

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I am currently creating new additions to the movies listed at wikiquote. If you want to contribute to the TV Shows and Films check out our TV/Film Discussion on the possible formats, we would like to get input, so do contribute in making all the wikis great. --

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 * Quick reference (for me):
 * Titanic -- Jurassic Park -- Shrek -- Finding Nemo  --  Independence Day -- Lion King  --  Forrest Gump  --  The Sixth Sense  --  The Shawshank Redemption  --  Pulp Fiction  --
 * The Godfather --  Raiders of the Lost Ark  --  Rear Window  --
 * Trainspotting -- (79qm DDR --  Good Bye Lenin!)  --  (La Vita è bella  --  Life Is Beautiful)  --  Waiting for Guffman  --  (Ladri di biciclette  --  The Bicycle Thief)  --  (8 1/2  --  Eight and a Half  --  8½)  --  (À bout de souffle  --  Breathless)  --  (Lola rennt  --  Run Lola Run)  --  (Jules et Jim  --  Jules and Jim)  --  Ran  --  (Léon   --  The Professional  --  Leon)
 * Casablanca --  Taxi Driver  -- Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb  --  Network  --
 * Alfred Hitchcock --  Film  --  Jean-Luc Godard  --  Television  --  Federico Fellini  --  Christopher Nolan  --  Stanley Kubrick
 * Seinfeld --  The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air  --  The Price Is Right  --  Saturday Night Live  --  Da Ali G Show  --  The Daily Show  --  The Simpsons
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Talk:Canada

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Ce fut un Vaisseau d'or, dont les flancs diaphanes Révélaient des trésors que les marins profanes, Dégoût, Haine, et Névrose, entre eux ont disputés. --Émile Nelligan, "Le Vaisseau d'or"

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 * --The Sunborn

 * I am proud to be the first member of the Canadian Royal Family to be greeted in Canada's newest Territory.
 * Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of Canada speaking in Iqaluit, Nunavut, from the Throne of the Territorial Legislature, 2002.

 * I dedicate myself anew to the people and the nation I am proud to serve.
 * The Monarchy of Canada Canadian Sovereign in 1977, Speech from the Throne, Ottawa.

 * As we enter our centennial year we are still a young nation, very much in the formative stages. Our national condition is still flexible enough that we can make almost anything we wish of our nation. No other country is in a better position than Canada to go ahead with the evolution of a national purpose devoted to all that is good and noble and exellent in the human spirit.
 * Lester B. Pearson

 * Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain.
 * Pierre E. Trudeau

 * We'll explain the appeal of curling to you if you explain the appeal of the National Rifle Association to us.
 * Andy Barrie

 * Canada is like an old cow. The West feeds it. Ontario and Quebec milk it. And you can well imagine what it's doing in the Maritimes.
 * Former Saskatchewan premier Tommy Douglas

 * Canadians are the people who learned to live without the bold accents of the natural ego-trippers of other lands.
 * Marshall McLuhan

 * I am so excited about Canadians ruling the world.
 * Prime Minister John Diefenbaker

 * "If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia."
 * Margaret Atwood

 * We French & English never lost our civil war/ endure it still/ a bloody civil bore.
 * Earle Birney, "Can. Lit".

 * I was doing a gig in L.A. and this woman comes up to me and says, 'Are you really from Canada? Oh my God, I could never live there, it's so ... cold!'  I'm like, 'Excuse me, is that your house I just saw slide down the cliff?  I'll wear an extra sweater!'
 * Maggie Cassella

 * We are an ironic people; irony and some sourness is mixed in our nature. It is a matter of climate.  We are a northern people.
 * Robertson Davies, on Canadians, in Conversations.

 * A Canadian is someone who keeps asking the question, 'What is a Canadian?'
 * Irving Layton

 * Canada is the only country in the world where you can buy a book on federal-provincial relations at an airport.
 * Michael Valpy

 * As Canadian as possible under the circumstances.
 * Heather Scott, winner of a 1972 contest run by Peter Gzowski.

 * "Canadians have an abiding interest in surprising those Americans who have historically made little effort to learn about their neighbour to the North."
 * Peter Jennings ~ of ABC News fame

 * Canada is a country built against any common, geographic, historic or cultural sense.
 * Pierre Trudeau, former Prime Minister of Canada.

 * Canadian nationalism is a subtle, easily misunderstood but powerful reality, expressed in a way that is not to state directed - something like a beer commercial or the death of a significant Canadian figure.
 * Paul Kopas.

 * Our hopes are high. Our faith in the people is great. Our courage is strong. And our dreams for this beautiful country will never die.
 * Pierre Trudeau

 * Canada and Mexico, as the saying goes, have one common problem between them.
 * J.C.M. Ogelsby

 * The die is cast in Canada: there are two ethnic and linguistic groups; each is too strong and too deeply rooted in the past, too firmly bound to a mother culture, to be able to swamp the other. But if the two will collaborate inside of a truly pluralist state, Canada could become a privileged place where the federalist form of government, which is the government of tomorrow's world, will be perfected.
 * Pierre Trudeau

 * The huge advantage of Canada is its backwardness.
 * Marshall McLuhan

 * We shall be Canadians first, foremost, and always, and our policies will be decided in Canada and not dictated by any other country.
 * John Diefenbaker

 * Whether we live together in confidence and cohesion; with more faith and pride in ourselves and less self-doubt and hesitation; strong in the conviction that the destiny of Canada is to unite, not divide; sharing in cooperation, not in separation or in conflict; respecting our past and welcoming our future.
 * Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson

 * But if we [Americans] are the rugged individualists, why do we spend so much of our time trying to get everyone to march in lockstep? And if Canadians are so reserved and moderate, why are they so progressive about letting people do what they want to?
 * Samantha Bennett.

 * I don't even know what street Canada is on.
 * Al Capone.

 * In a world darkened by ethnic conflicts that tear nations apart, Canada stands as a model of how people of different cultures can live and work together in peace, prosperity, and mutual respect.
 * Bill Clinton ~ President of the United States 1993-2001.

 * It'll be nice when it's done.
 * Oscar Wilde.

 * I want to thank all the Canadians who came out today to wave to me - with all five fingers!
 * George W. Bush (during his first visit to Ottawa Nov. 30, 2004).

 * Canada is the linchpin of the English-speaking world.
 * Sir Winston Churchill.

 * Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party. "Keep it down, eh?"
 * Robin Williams.

 * God bless America. But God, please help Canada.
 * Christopher Titus.

 * I've been to Canada, and I've always gotten the impression that I could take the country over in about two days.
 * Jon Stewart.

 * I love this country (Canada). We could not have a better friend and ally"
 * Barack Obama.

 * Quelques arpents de neige.
 * French: A few acres of snow.

 * Voltaire.

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Alex Haley

Alexander Palmer Haley (11 August 1921 – 10 February 1992) was an American writer best known for his work Roots: The Saga of an American Family.

Quotes

 * The family is our refuge and our springboard; nourished on it, we can advance to new horizons. In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.
 * As quoted in Traits of a Healthy Family (1985) by Dolores Curran, p. 199.

 * Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.
 * Statement in Reader's Digest (1987), as quoted in Incredibly American : Releasing the Heart of Quality (1992) by Marilyn R. Zuckerman and Lewis J. Hatala, p. 13.

 * Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.
 * As quoted in My Soul Looks Back, 'Less I Forget : A Collection of Quotations (1993) by Dorothy Winbush Riley.

 * In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.
 * As quoted in A Kwanzaa Celebration (1995) by Angela Shelf Medearis, p. 154.
 * Variant: Find the good — and praise it.
 * This motto appears on the emblem of the Medium Endurance Cutter USCGC Alex Haley, named after the writer, as "FIND THE GOOD AND PRAISE IT". It is declared to have been his personal motto.

 * Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always encourage such people, but I also explain that there’s a big difference between “being a writer” and writing. In most cases these individuals are dreaming of wealth and fame, not the long hours alone at the typewriter. “You’ve got to want to write,” I say to them, “not want to be a writer.”  The reality is that writing is a lonely, private and poor-paying affair. For every writer kissed by fortune, there are thousands more whose longing is never requited. Even those who succeed often know long periods of neglect and poverty. I did.
 * "The Shadowland of Dreams"', published in Chicken Soup for the Soul at Work (1996) by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Maida Rogerson, Martin Rutte and Tim Clauss; also in Alex Haley : The Man Who Traced America's Roots (2007), a collection of stories and essays by Haley published in Reader's Digest between 1954 to 1991.

 * I knew I wanted to write. I had dreamed about it for years. I wasn’t going to be one of those people who die wondering, “What if?” I would keep putting my dream to the test — even though it meant living with uncertainty and fear of failure. This is the Shadowland of hope, and anyone with a dream must learn to live there. If you can't live here, get back to YOUR roots and LEARN to live here!
 * "The Shadowland of Dreams".

 * Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.
 * As quoted in A Touch of Class (2003) by Carol Vanderheyden, p. 60.

 * You don't spend twenty years of your life in the service and not have a warm, nostalgic feeling left in you … It's a small service, and there's a lot of esprit de corps.
 * On his career in the US Coast Guard, as quoted at the official site for the Medium Endurance Cutter USCGC Alex Haley

Roots : The Saga of an American Family (1976)

 * Early in the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffure, four days upriver from the coast of The Gambia, West Africa, a manchild was born to Omoro and Binta Kinte.
 * Ch. 1, first lines.

 * Out under the moon and the stars, alone with his son that eighth night, Omoro completed the naming ritual. Carrying little Kunta in his strong arms, he walked to the edge of the village, lifted his baby up with his face to the heavens, and said softly, “Fend kiling dorong leh warrata ka iteh tee. ”(Behold — the only thing greater than yourself).
 * Ch. 1

 * When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand, nor can your hand pick up anything.
 * Ch. 51.

 * In my mind’s eye, rather as if it were mistily being projected on a screen, I began envisioning descriptions I had read of how collectively millions of our ancestors had been enslaved. Many thousands were individually kidnaped, as my own forebear Kunta had been, but into the millions had come awake screaming in the night, dashing out into the bedlam of raided villages, which were often in flames. The captured able survivors were linked neck-by-neck with thongs into processions called “coffles,” which were sometimes as much as a mile in length. I envisioned the many dying, or left to die when they were too weak to continue the torturous march toward the coast, and those who made it to the beach were greased, shaved, probed in every orifice, often branded with sizzling irons; I envisioned them being lashed and dragged toward the longboats, their spasms of screaming and clawing with their hands into the beach, biting up great choking mouthfuls of the sand in their desperation efforts for one last hold on the Africa that had been their home; I envisioned them shoved, beaten, jerked down  into slave ships’  stinking holds and chained onto shelves, often packed so tightly that they had to lie on their sides like spoons in a drawer...
 * Ch. 120.

Time interview (1977)

 * "Race: Haley's Rx: Talk, Write, Reunite" in Time magazine (14 February 1977)

 * If I had been taking hashish, I could not have dreamed of this.
 * On the popularity of the television series Roots (1977).

 * In this country … we are young, brash and technologically oriented. We are all trying to build machines so that we can push a button and get things done a millisecond faster. But as a consequence, we are drawing away from one of the most priceless things we have — where we came from and how we got to be where we are. The young are drawing away from older people.

 * Just look at the scores of thousands of housing tracts in this country, where only parents and children live. Think of the impact on these children who will grow up without close proximity to grandparents. There are certain things that a grandmammy or a granddaddy can do for a child that no one else can. It's sort of like Stardust — the relationship between grandparents and children. The lack of this for many children has to have a negative impact on society. The edges of these children are a little sharper for the lack of it. … I tell young people to go to the oldest members of their family and get as much oral history as possible. Many grandparents carry three or four generations of history in their heads but don't talk about it because they have been ignored. And when the young person starts doing this, the old are warmed to the cockles of their souls and will tell a grandchild everything they can muster.

 * Have family reunions. There is something magic about the common sense of a blood bond. It's not less magic for black, white, brown or polka dot. The reunion gives a sense that the family cares about itself and is proud of itself. And there is the assumption that you, the family member, are obligated to reflect this pride and, if possible, add to it.

 * When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth. We all have it; it's a great equalizer. White people come up to me and tell me that Roots has started them thinking about their own families and where they came from. I think the book has touched a strong, subliminal pulse.

Disputed

 * Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.
 * A plausible statement, but no published source as yet located for it prior to 2007, and though most cite Haley as the author the earliest of these cites it with an obscure attribution to "Benhur R".

Quotes about Alex Haley

 * I still miss James Baldwin and Alex Haley and the loud talking, shouting, laughing, crying weekends that we shared.
 * Maya Angelou Letter to My Daughter (2009) p 107

 * Alex Haley's taking us back through time to the village of his ancestors is an act of faith and courage, but this book is also an act of love, and it is this which makes it haunting…"Roots" is a study of continuities, of consequences, of how a people perpetuate themselves, how each generation helps to doom, or helps to liberate, the coming one-the action of love, or the effect of the absence of love, in time. It suggests, with great power, how each of us, however unconsciously, can't but be the vehicle of the history which has produced us. Well, we can perish in this vehicle, children, or we can move on up the road.
 * James Baldwin, review of Roots (1976)

 * when Alex Haley wrote Roots-and I think Roots came out the same year as The Woman Warrior-when I got that book and read it, I felt, yes, those are my roots; they're not just his roots, they're not just Black people's roots, those are my roots. Those are my roots all the way to Africa. And Alex Haley gives them to me as a gift and I receive them by knowing about those roots and by reading that book and by letting all of that awareness into my consciousness and into my heart.
 * 1993 interview in Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston (1998)

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Mivchar Hapeninim

The Mivchar Hepeninim is an ethical work, dated 1484, Written by Rabbi Shlomo ben Yehudah in Spain.

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A good name is the proudest of pedigrees.

The eye of the needle is not too narrow for two friends and the vastness of the world not enough for two enemies.

Eyesight is of no avail if the heart be blind.

Humiliate yourself so that God may raise you up!

There is no wealth like health.

Two things will never mix: a good heart and stinginess.

Moral preachings will avail nothing to the unintelligent.

Pity the honorable man despised, the rich man beggared and the wise man fallen among fools!

What is the worst sickness? A bad neighbour.

Wisdom is the finest pedigree.

Whose heart is narrow has a broad tongue.

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Talk:Mike Tyson

Mike Tyson is hysterically funny. His quotes are up there with Sam Goldwyn's. Even though he raped people, he's a true American hero. -RK

Well, I don't know what this discussion business is all about, but those Mike Tyson quotes are crazy! He is really looney tunes, he's gonna kill someone some day!

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Why censor out some of the swear words? I see that "dick" is not censored, but "fuck" is? A quote should be displayed unaltered. -Jorge

This guy is seriously one crazy shit. Are we positive that all of these are accurate quotes? Some of them seem too insane to be real. --Nate 06:51, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

 * No, we're not. None of the quotes, unfortunately, have sources, so all should be considered "attributed" and unverified. ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 10:07, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Do a YouTube search of Tyson. You'll find a video or two of Tyson saying many of the more memorable quotes on the list. So, yes, a few of them do have sources -- not all, though.The Invisible Man 21:32, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

I put in a new Tyson classic- "This is the first time boxing since my last fight". Yes, he actually said those words.

This is my first time editing since my last edit. [TLAGT]

The "I'll fuck you til you love me faggot!" comment was to some reporter not Holyfield.

Shall we put in the quote Assulamu-Alaikum, which he said after the Savarese fight before the "i want to eat (lennox lewis') children"?

Most of the quotes have sources. I'm trying to clean them up and cite them. A lot of quotes repeat since the article is so long. There are also a few that are pretty mundane and probably should be removed. - Todd

I'm giving up! Somebody needs to edit these into a book. - Todd

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 * "I'm on the Zoloft to keep me from killing y'all!"

On Lennox Lewis

 * "I'm from Brownsville Brooklyn and I'm not afraid of nobody. In the ring or out the ring, if they gotta gun or a knife, and I'll show him (Lennox Lewis) that too.....Im just ready to get it on and CRUSH this guy's SKULL. Show him who the real world champion is...the best fighter in the era."

 * I was gonna rip his heart out,

On Evander Holyfield

 * [To a male reporter] "Biting Mr. Holyfield's ear off and all that stuff?" Reporter: "You don't care about all that?" Tyson: "No, fuck Holyfield!"
 * "Listen, Holyfield's not the tough warrior everyone says he is! He got little nicks on his ears and he quit! I got an..I got one eye! I got one eye! He's not impaired! He got ears! I got one eye! Big deal! He takes one I got another one! I'm ready to fight him right now!" *after biting Holyfield's ear

On James "Buster" Douglas

 * Reporter: "Do you think there's a chance that you'll lose to Buster Douglas?" Tyson: "Perhaps if I chop off my arms."

On Razor Ruddock

 * "Everyone knows you're a transvestite and you're in love with me."
 * "I can't wait til the 28th....I'm gonna make you my girlfriend."
 * "You're sweet. I'm gonna make sure you kiss me good with those big lips."

 * "March 16th, Mike Tyson [vs.] Razor Ruddock, Razor Ruddock dies. If he doesn't die, it doesn't count. If he's not dead, it doesn't count."

On Tyrell Biggs

 * Tyson on Tyrell Biggs' complaining to him about low blows "Low blows? Low blows? Huh! Motherfucker you're fittin' to die!"
 * "I was hittin' him with body punches and I hurt him. Actually he was cryin' in there, makin' woman gestures like," (imitates distraught female) "I can't..define it, but I knew he was breakin' down soon"

On Francois Botha

 * "I think I'll take a bath in his blood."

On His Childhood

 * "What used to bother me was when I was a kid, people used to take things from me. I used to wear glasses and, I don't believe the guy did this..He took the milk, you always had milk when you was a kid. He took the milk and he took my glasses..and I wanted to get my glasses, but I was scared to fight the guy for some reason..because he talked tough. But something that he did was so cruel. I was devastated, but he took my glasses, fold them up. There was a big truck there; I think it was a lunch truck. He took the gas tank, opened [it] up, and put my glasses in the gas! Dropped it where you put the gas, turned it back, and there was no way I could ever get my glasses. And at that time I couldn't believe someone could be that cruel to do that."
 * "One morning I woke up and found my favorite pigeon, Julius, had died. I was devastated and was gonna use his crate as my stickball bat to honor him. I left the crate on my stoop and went in to get something and I returned to see the sanitation man put the crate into the crusher. I rushed him and caught him flush on the temple with a titanic right hand - he was out cold, convulsing on the floor like an infantile retard."

 * "But I don't feel the urge to steal anymore. I don't need to, I'm established. God, I hate that word, established. People who call themselves established -- put them on these streets for five minutes, let's see how established they are. There's Lincoln Terrace Park. We'd see dead whores there in the morning. What memories. Good memories. Beautiful memories. I was happier then. I had pure fun here. Every day I was living on the edge. I was wild and free. I love coming back. Do you understand? When I'm here, I feel like a warrior."

On Boxing

 * "Other than boxing, everything is so boring."

 * "When I fight someone, I want to break his will. I want to take his manhood. I want to rip out his heart and show it to him."

 * "I wanted to hit him in the nose one more time so that the bone could went up into his brain, I wanted it to go up into his brain. Because I always thought about that punch, I always listened to the doctors on television and ask my friends, and they say when the nose go into the brain, the consequence of him gettin' up right away is...out of the question."

 * "Without discipline, no matter how good you are, you are nothing!"
 * "I just want them to keep bringing guys on and I'm going to strip them of their health. I bring pain, a lot of pain."

 * "My power is discombobulatingly devastating; I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm."

On His Family

 * Mike, on his mother who died in 1982: "I never saw my mother happy with me and proud of me for doing something: She only knew me as being a wild kid running the streets, coming home with new clothes that she knew I didn't pay for. I never got a chance to talk to her or know about her. Professionally, it has no effect, but it's crushing emotionally and personally."

On the Media

 * "I'm not sayin' I been in jail, I'm a hardcore. Naw, 'cus there's a bunch of homosexuals, a bunch of fags, a bunch of weak people in jail. And the reason why people go to jail is because they don't have their shit in check, and they can't manage their lives. So that don't mean you're a bad guy 'cus you're in jail. It means you're pretty much a dysfunctional, weak individual, and you can't manage your life outside in the world."
 * Reporter: "Some of your tactics have come into question in your recent fights. Do you feel any need to showcase your boxing talent in this fight(Tyson vs.Golota)" Tyson: " Listen, right..I've never did anything he hasn't done in the ring. So ask him that question. Well, ask him, white boy."
 * "I just seem to keep buying more and more Bentleys."
 * "If I take this camera and put it in your face for 20 years, I don't know what you might be. You might be a homosexual if I put that camera on you since you were 13 years old. I've been on that camera since I was 13 years old."
 * "Put your mother in a straight-jacket you punk ass white boy. Come here and tell me that, I'll fuck you in your ass you punk white boy. You faggot. You can't touch me, you're not man enough. I'll eat your asshole alive, you bitch. C'mon anybody in here can't fuck with this. This is the ultimate, man. Fuck you, you ho. Come and say it to my face.... I'll fuck you in the ass in front of everybody. You bitch.... come on, you bitch. You're scared coward, you're not man enough to fuck with me. You can't last two minutes in my world, bitch. Look at you scared now, you ho.... scared like a little white pussy. Scared of the real man. I'll fuck you 'til you love me, faggot!" [After being told by a spectator that he should be put in a straight-jacket] Rumor has it that person was none other than boxing reporter Scoop Malinowski.

On Religion

 * "All praise is to Allah, I'll fight any man, any animal, if Jesus were here I'd fight him too."
 * "Money is my God. If you think God will help you then quit your job and see how much he cares."

On Himself

 * "the baddest man on the planet"

 * "You know I'm many things. Yeah I'm a convicted rapist, I'm a hell raiser, I'm a father, a loving father, I'm a semi-good husband. You know what I mean?"
 * I want to fight, fight, fight and destruct the world."
 * "I may like fornicating more than other people. It's just who I am. I sacrifice so much of my life, can I at least get laid? Know what I mean? I been robbed of most of my money, can I at least get a blow job?"
 * "When I got in trouble in that New York hotel (in a 2003 scuffle), I just prayed, 'Let me get locked up with the Aryan brothers in the Midwest or the gang-bangers in the West.' I don't want to get locked up in New York."
 * "There's nobody that I fear in my life but God."

 * "The people that you hear say derogatory things about me, do they say it in front of me, one on one? Without a camera? Without police? Without bodyguards? ... It's just because they don't have the guts. They don't have the intestinal fortitude, the constitution..."

 * "The one thing I know, everyone respects the true person and everyone's not true with themselves. All of these people who are heroes, these guys who have been lily white and clean all their lives, if they went through what I went through, they would commit suicide. They don't have the heart that I have. I've lived places they can't defecate in."

 * "I'm not Mother Teresa. But I'm also not Charles Manson!"
 * "Fear is your best friend or your worst enemy. It's like fire. If you can control it, it can cook for you; it can heat your house. If you can't control it, it will burn everything around you and destroy you. If you can control your fear, it makes you more alert, like a deer coming across the lawn."
 * Reporter: "You're no longer living in a mansion. What's that like for you? Tyson: " I don't know...That doesn't define a man. What defines a man is someone who has failed time after time again and has the same enthusiasm as a winner."
 * "I love to hit people. I love to. Most celebrities are afraid someone's going to attack them. I want someone to attack me. No weapons. Just me and him. I like to beat men and beat them bad."
 * "I need some discipline over myself; I need some emotional intelligence."
 * "When I fight someone, I want to break his will. I want to take his manhood. I want to rip out his heart and show it to him."
 * "A lot of young women don't know what they're getting themselves into. A lot of them think it's fun, a game. . . . But they truly don't know what they're into when they lock themselves into a room and engage in sex with a man who knows how to handle a woman."
 * *In a private letter to ESPN journalist Jim Gray during Tyson's incarceration* "Mr. Gray, I will never admit to raping this woman, even if it lessens my time because I just didn't do it and I'm not gonna say I did. However, there have been five to seven other things throughout the course of my life that I have done which are far worse than that of which I've been accused so I feel I'm in the right place."
 * "I'm a man who has made too many mistakes to be known for his wisdom." - improvised by Tyson in the movie Black and White
 * "I paid a worker at New York's zoo to re-open it just for me and Robin. When we got to the gorilla cage there was one big silverback gorilla there just bullying all the other gorillas. They were so powerful but their eyes were like an innocent infant. I offered the attendant $10,000 to open the cage and let me smash that silverback's snotbox. He declined."

On His Mental Health

 * "I don't know if I'm mentally sick, but I have episodes sometimes. I'm a depressant kind of dude. I have episodes, and I'm human. But no one cares about my health as a human because sometimes I'm in my episodes when I'm at work."
 * "Well, [contemplating suicide] goes through everyone's mind, I'm sure. And if it doesn't I really must be crazy."
 * Reporter: "They determined that you were suffering from depression, low self-esteem, and that you had problems with anger management. How have you tried to address those problems?" Tyson: "That's all they said was wrong with me?"
 * "I don't react to a tragic happening any more. I took so many bad things as a kid and some people think I don't care about anything. It's just too hard for me to get emotional. I can't cry no more."

Misc.

 * "I can sell out Madison Square Garden masturbating bananas."
 * "It's just tough being a nigger and it's tough being a bad nigger."
 * After being released from his jail cell for posession of cocaine on December 29 2006, "Good morning, Arizona."
 * (after losing to Lennox Lewis a reporter asks a battered Tyson) "Where do you go from here Mike?" Tyson: "I (d)on't know, man, I might just fade into Bolivian, you know what I mean?"
 * "I have some pain I'm gonna have for the rest of my life. So every now and then I kick your fucking ass."
 * "I'd give you my last dollar. Don King and all those guys didn't have to steal my money. I guess I wasn't giving it to them fast enough."
 * (Etienne post-fight interview with Showtime Championship Boxing's Jim Gray)Jim Gray: 'Mike were you really sick this week? What was the problem?' Tyson: "I broke my back."'What do you mean by that?' Tyson: "My back is broken." 'What part, a vertebrae or a portion?' Tyson: "No. Spinal." 'You did that in sparring?' "No i did it by a motorcycle accident the doctors discovered..I was doin my situps, 2500 a day with my 20 pound weight and one day i couldn't move anymore and i just axed the doctor what's wrong and he said um believe it or not your back is broken slightly"
 * "I’m a big fan of children’s hospitals."

 * "Every time there's a revolution it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution."

 * "I guess I'm gonna fade into Bolivian"

 * if you dont like what i say, then why dont you turn off your station
 * If you are not the best I don't know you.

On his street fight with Mitch Green
"I got this driver slash bodyguard that is with me at the time but is never with me when the fight is going down." LOL...He also says something else, but I can not find the proper quote or wording anywhere. I think I am correct that what he says at the end of the fight is "See Mitch? I told you, this would be fucking detrimental to your health. Now you talking with a sign on your eye that says "closed for fucking season" !! LOL I'm a fan. He's a funny guy now days.

title: Talk:Mike Tyson


text:
Napoleon Dynamite

Napoleon Dynamite is a 2004 film about a listless and alienated teenager who decides to help his new friend win the class presidency in their small Idaho high school, while he must deal with his bizarre family life back home. Napoleon Dynamite has become a cult-classic and the quotes are now often said in American high schools.
 * Directed by Jared Hess. Written by Jared Hess and Jerusha Hess.

He's out to prove he's got nothing to prove. Taglines

Napoleon Dynamite

 * You know like numchuck (sic) skills...bowhunting skills...computer hacking skills...Girls only want boyfriends who have great skills!
 * [looks at a wig] That one looks like a medieval warrior.
 * I caught you a delicious bass.
 * Do the chickens have large talons?
 * Pedro offers you his protection.
 * Yeah, hold on...I forgot to put in the crystals.
 * Yeah, there's like a boat-load of gangs at this school. This one gang kept wanting me to join 'cause I'm pretty good with a bo staff.
 * [to Deb] I see you're drinking 1%. Is that 'cause you think you're fat? Because you're not. You could be drinking whole if you wanted to. Well, I have all your equipment in my locker. You should probably come get it cause I can't fit my nunchucks in there anymore.
 * [while hitting a tetherball repeatedly] [hit] Yes! [hit] Yes! [hit] Yes!
 * [to Trisha over the phone] Really? It took me, like, 3 hours to finish the shading on your upper lip. It's probably the best drawing I've ever done.
 * Are you guys having a killer time?
 * Gosh!
 * [to Deb] I like your sleeves...they're real big.
 * [to Pedro] Just listen to your heart. That's what I do.
 * What the heck are you even talking about?
 * You got like three feet of air that time. Can I try it really quick?
 * Tina, you fat lard! Come get some dinner! Tina, eat. Eat the food. EAT THE FOOD!
 * Tina, come get some ham!
 * Six dollars? That's like a dollar an hour!
 * Sorry I'm late. I just got done taming a wild honeymoon stallion for you guys.
 * [to Kip and LaFawnduh at wedding] I hope you guys' experiences are unforgettable.
 * [last lines; to Kip and LaFawnduh who ride on the horse] Lucky!

Kip

 * [whispering while typing] I love the way your sandy hair floats in the air...To me it's like a lullaby...I'm just flying by...Oh so high...like a kite...tied to a stake.
 * I'm just getting kinda TO'd. I mean, she hasn't even sent me a full body shot yet.
 * How 'bout some gold bracelets?
 * I've been out making some sweet moolah with Uncle Rico.
 * Lafawnduh is the best thing that has ever happened to me. I'm 100% positive she's my soul mate. Don't worry Napoleon, I'm sure there's a babe out there for you too. Peace out.
 * [singing to Lafawnduh after they are pronounced husband and wife] Why do you love me? Why do you need me? Always and forever...We met in a chat room, now our love can fully bloom...Sure the world wide web is great, but you, you make me "salvivate"...Yes, I love technology, but not as much as you, you see...But I still love technology...Always and forever. Our love is like a flock of doves, flying up to Heaven above...always and forever, always and forever...Why do you love me? Why do you need me? Always and forever...
 * Napoleon, let go of me! I think you're bruising my neck meat!
 * Geez, I think you ripped my mole off.
 * You're just jealous 'cause I've been chatting online with babes all day.

Rex

 * I'm Rex, founder of the Rex Kwon Do self-defense system! After one week with me in my dojo, you'll be prepared to defend yourself with the strength of a grizzly, the reflexes of a puma, and the wisdom of a man. So come down today for your free-trial lesson!
 * My name is Rex. If you study with my eight-week program, you will learn the system of self-defense that I developed over two seasons fighting in the Octagon. It's called Rex Kwon Do. I need a volunteer...
 * Bow to your sensei. BOW TO YOUR SENSEI!
 * Grab my arm. The other arm. MY other arm!
 * Just break the wrist, and walk away. Break the wrist; walk away.
 * Now, in addition to what you just saw, if you study with my eight-week program, you're gonna learn these things. First off, at Rex Kwon Do, we use the buddy system. No more flyin' solo. You need somebody watchin' your back at all times. Second off, you're gonna learn to discipline your image. You think I got where I am today because I dressed like Peter Pan here? [gestures at Napoleon] Take a look at what I'm wearin', people. [points to his American flag pants] You think anybody wants a roundhouse kick to the face while I'm wearing these bad boys? Forget about it. Last off, my students will learn about self respect. Do you think anybody thinks I'm a failure because I go home to Starla at night? [points to a photo of his blonde, tan, muscular body-builder wife] Forget about it! Now, for only $300 dollars, you can sign up right now for my eight-week program.
 * [to Rico, after he arrives home to find him trying to sell herbal breast enhancers to Starla] C'MERE, BOY!

Uncle Rico

 * How much you wanna make a bet I can throw a football over them mountains?...Yeah...Coach woulda put me in fourth quarter, we would've been state champions. No doubt. No doubt in my mind.
 * Napoleon, you know we can't afford the fun pack! What, do you think money grows on trees in this family? Take it back! And get some Pampers for you and your brother while you're at it.
 * Your grandma took a spill at the sand dunes today. Broke her coccyx.
 * Hey, you guys wanna see my video?
 * Kip, I reckon you know a lot about...cyberspace?
 * Billowy's good.
 * How does the dealio sound now?

Summer

 * [her class president campaign speech] Well, I never thought I would make it here today. I would make a great class president because I promise to put two new pop machines in the cafeteria, and I'm also gonna get a glitter Bonne Bell dispenser for all the girls' bathrooms. Oh, and we're gonna get new cheerleading uniforms. Anyway, I think I'd be a great class president. So, who wants to eat chimichangas next year? Not me. See, with me it will be summer all year long. Vote for Summer.

Pedro

 * [his class president campaign speech] I don't have much to say, but I think it would be good to have some Holy Santos brought to the high school, to guard the hallway and to bring us good luck. El Santo Niño de Atocha is a good one. My Aunt Concha has seen him. And we have a great FFA schedule lined up, and I'd like to see more of that. If you vote for me, all of your wildest dreams will come true. Thank you.

Lyle

 * [fumbles with shotgun as he prepares to slaughter cow] Nothin' on here works smooth.
 * [making small talk] Over there in that creek bed I found a couple of Shoshoni arrowheads.
 * [officiating a wedding] I would like to give you this advice that a fellow gave me some years ago. He said, "When an argument arises, if you go outside and take a nice walk, you'll calm down and you can come back, and it won't be an argument. And you'll find that it helps your health; all that fresh air and exercise will do you a lot of good."

Dialogue

 * [First lines]
 * Vern: What are you going to do today, Napoleon?
 * Napoleon: Whatever I feel like I wanna do. Gosh! [ties a string to his action figure and chucks it out the window]

 * Teacher: Your current event, Napoleon.
 * Napoleon: Last week, Japanese scientists explaced...placed explosive detonators at the bottom of Lake Loch Ness to blow Nessie out of the water. Sir Court Godfrey of the Nessie Alliance summoned the help of Scotland's local wizards to cast a protective spell over the lake and its residents, and all those who seek a peaceful existence with our underwater ally.

 * Don: Hey, Napoleon. What did you do last summer again?
 * Napoleon: I told you! I spent it with my uncle in Alaska hunting wolverines!
 * Don: Did you shoot any?
 * Napoleon: Yes, like 50 of 'em! They kept trying to attack my cousins, what the heck would you do in a situation like that?
 * Don: What kind of gun did you use?
 * Napoleon: A frickin' twelve-gauge, what do you think?

 * Napoleon: Hey, can I use your guys's phone for a sec?
 * Secretary: Is there anything wrong?
 * Napoleon: I don't feel very good.
 * [The secretary pushes telephone towards Napoleon and he dials number]
 * Kip: [on other line while making nachos] Hi.
 * Napoleon: Is Grandma there?
 * Kip: No, she's getting her hair done.
 * Napoleon: [prolonged sigh] Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...
 * Kip: What do you need?
 * Napoleon: Can you just go get her for me?
 * Kip: I'm really busy right now.
 * Napoleon: Just tell her to come get me.
 * Kip: Why?
 * Napoleon: 'Cause I don't feel good!
 * Kip: Well, have you talked to the school nurse?
 * Napoleon: No, she doesn't know anything...Will you just come get me?
 * Kip: No.
 * Napoleon: Well, will you do me a favor then? Can you bring me my ChapStick?
 * Kip: No, Napoleon.
 * Napoleon: But my lips hurt real bad!
 * Kip: Just borrow some from the school nurse. I know she has, like, five sticks in her drawer.
 * Napoleon: I'm not gonna use hers, you sicko!
 * Kip: See ya. [hangs up]
 * Napoleon: Ugh! Idiot!

 * Napoleon: Do you ride the bus to school?
 * Pedro: No, I ride my bike.
 * Napoleon: What kind of bike do you have?
 * [Cut to them with bike]
 * Pedro: It's a Sledgehammer.
 * Napoleon: Dang! You got shocks...pegs...Lucky! [also notices the Flag of Mexico on the back of the seat] You ever take it off any sweet jumps?

 * Grandma: How was school?
 * Napoleon: The worst day of my life, what do you think?

 * Napoleon: Well, what is there to eat?
 * Grandma: Knock it off, Napoleon! Make yourself a dang quesadilla! [pronounces it "case-a-dill-a"]
 * Napoleon: Fine!

 * Napoleon: Stay home and eat all the freakin' chips, Kip!
 * Kip: Napoleon, don't be jealous 'cause I've been chatting online with babes all day. Besides, we both know that I'm training to become a cage fighter.
 * Napoleon: Since when, Kip? You have the worst reflexes of all time.
 * Kip: Try and hit me, Napoleon.
 * Napoleon: What?
 * Kip: I said come down here and see what happens if you try and hit me.
 * Napoleon: [comes down the stairs] Such an idiot!
 * Kip: C'mon, let's see what your best move is...
 * [After Napoleon tries and fails to hit Kip a few times, the doorbell rings]
 * Napoleon: I'll go get it. [slaps Kip in the face while he's not looking]
 * Kip: Geeeez!

 * Deb: And here we have some boondoggle keychains. A must-have for this season's fashion.
 * Napoleon: I already made like affinity [sic] of those at scout camp.
 * Deb: Well, is anyone else here? I'm trying to earn money for college.
 * Kip: [in the background] Your mom goes to college!
 * [Napoleon looks back and Kip pretends to stay quiet. Deb, feeling upset, shoves the case into Napoleon's hands and runs away]

 * Napoleon: [referring to the dance] Who are you gonna ask?
 * Pedro: That girl over there.
 * Napoleon: Summer Wheatly? How the heck are you gonna do that?
 * Pedro: Build her a cake or something.

 * Napoleon: So me and you are pretty much friends by now, right?
 * Pedro: Yes.
 * Napoleon: [recalling the tenets of Rex Kwon Do] So you got my back and everything?
 * Pedro: What?
 * Napoleon: Never mind.

 * Napoleon: My old girlfriend from Oklahoma was gonna fly out for the dance but she couldn't 'cause she's doing some modeling right now.
 * Pedro: Is she hot?
 * Napoleon: See for yourself. [hands Pedro Deb's glamor shot sample]
 * Pedro: Wow.
 * Napoleon: Yeah, I took her to the mall to get some glamor shots for her birthday one year.
 * Pedro: I like her bangs.
 * Napoleon: Me too.

 * Napoleon: How long did it take you to grow that mustache?
 * Pedro: A couple of days.
 * Napoleon: I wish I could grow one.

 * [During class]
 * Randy: Napoleon, give me some of your tots.
 * Napoleon: No, go find your own.
 * Randy: Come on. Give me some of your tots.
 * Napoleon: No. I'm freakin' starved. I didn't get to eat anything today. [Randy stomps on his pants pocket, ruining the tater tots] Ugh. Gross. Freakin' idiot!

 * [Napoleon, Kip, and Uncle Rico watching Uncle Rico's video of himself throwing footballs]
 * Uncle Rico: So, what do you think?
 * Kip: It's pretty cool, I guess.
 * Uncle Rico: Ohhhh, man, I wish I could go back in time. I'd take state.
 * Napoleon: This is pretty much the worst video ever made.
 * Kip: Napoleon, like anyone can even know that.
 * Uncle Rico: You know what, Napoleon? You can leave.
 * Napoleon: You guys are retarded! [gets up and goes upstairs]

 * Uncle Rico: Back in '82, I used to be able to toss a pigskin a quarter mile.
 * Kip: Are you serious?
 * Uncle Rico: I'm dead serious.

 * Kip: So how long are we talking about working?
 * Uncle Rico: What, are you already losing your steam?
 * Kip: No, I just...I have a chat room meeting at four. I gotta be back here by then.
 * Uncle Rico: All right, you just start a little earlier, that's all. Or else work afterwards. How long is the chat room?
 * Kip: Geez, sometimes up to 3 or 4 hours maybe...maybe not...
 * Uncle Rico: You pay the bills for that? Does that cost money every time you're on, like for minutes on the phone?
 * Kip: Yeah, Grandma's still paying per minute. She gets kinda pissed at me sometimes 'cause I'm on there so long.
 * Uncle Rico: I bet she does. I'll tell you something, I'd be throwing you out the window.

 * Deb: What are you drawing?
 * Napoleon: A liger.
 * Deb: What's a liger?
 * Napoleon: It's pretty much my favorite animal. It's like a lion and a tiger mixed...bred for its skills in magic.

 * [Napoleon just hung up the phone]
 * Pedro: Who was that?
 * Napoleon: Trisha.
 * Pedro: Who's she?
 * Napoleon: My woman I'm taking to the dance.
 * Pedro: Did you draw her a picture?
 * Napoleon: Heck yes I did.

 * Napoleon: Are you guys are, like, Pedro's cousins with all the sweet hook-ups?
 * Cholo 1: Simón.

 * Sheldon: Who's that in my driveway?
 * [Pedro's cousins show off their low-rider's hydraulics]
 * Napoleon: That's my ride.

 * Pedro: Do you think people will vote for me?
 * Napoleon: Heck yes! I'd vote for you.
 * Pedro: Like what are my skills?
 * Napoleon: Well, you have a sweet bike, and you're really good at hooking up with chicks. Plus you're, like, the only guy at school who has a mustache.
 * Pedro: That's true.

 * [Talking about the school-president election]
 * Pedro: If I win, you can be my secretary or something.
 * Napoleon: Sweet!

 * Napoleon: Why do you got your hood on like that?
 * Pedro: [flashing back] Well, when I came home from school, my head started to get really hot. So I drank some cold water, but it didn't do nothing. So I laid in the bathtub for a while, but then I realized that it was my hair that was making my head so hot. So I went in the kitchen, and I shaved it all off. [done flash-backing] I don't want anyone to see.
 * Napoleon: I know what you mean.

 * Don: Vote for Summer.
 * Napoleon: Yeah, right, I'm not voting for her.
 * Don: Then who you gonna vote for?
 * Napoleon: I'm votin' for Pedro Sanchez, who do you think? [Don scoffs and starts to walk away] Hey, Don. Can I have one of those buttons?
 * [Don hands Napoleon a "Vote 4 Summer" button; Napoleon throws it at the wall, stares at Don, then runs away]

 * Uncle Rico: What about your girlfriend?
 * Kip: Well, things are getting pretty serious right now. I mean, we chat online for, like, two hours every day, so I guess you could say things are gettin' pretty serious.

 * Uncle Rico: I wish you wouldn't look at me like that, Napoleon.
 * Napoleon: I wish you'd get out of my life and shut up!
 * Uncle Rico: Let me tell you about something. While you're out there playing patty cake with your friend Pedro, your Uncle Rico is making 120 bucks.
 * Napoleon: I could make that much money in 5 seconds!
 * Kip: Geez, yeah right, Napoleon. I made, like, 75 bucks today.
 * Uncle Rico: Napoleon, it looks like you don't have a job. So why don't you go out there and feed Tina?
 * Napoleon: Why don't you go eat a decroded piece of crap?!

 * Napoleon: Who are you?
 * Lafawnduh: I'm Lafawnduh.
 * Napoleon: What are you doing here?
 * Lafawnduh: I'm waiting for Kip. Why are you so sweaty?
 * Napoleon: Been practicing.
 * Lafawnduh: Practicing what?
 * Napoleon: My dance moves. [dramatically turns his head and takes a swig of Gatorade]

 * Randy: Hey, lemme borrow your bike!
 * Bullied kid: No.
 * Randy: C'mon. I'll give you some chips.
 * Bullied kid: No!
 * [As they fight over the bike, Pedro's cousins pull up in their low-rider. They glare at Randy, and one shakes his head menacingly. Randy flees]

 * [Napoleon hurls a grapefruit at Uncle Rico's van, Uncle Rico stops his van, gets out his van, face to face with Napoleon, Napoleon throws an orange at Uncle Rico, Uncle Rico chases him, tackles Napoleon down, and puts Napoleon in a headlock]
 * Uncle Rico: Why the heck you throwin' crap at my van, Napoleon?!
 * Napoleon: Everybody at school thinks I'm a frickin' IDIOT because of you!
 * Uncle Rico: You're gonna clean my van...right now.
 * Napoleon: Get off of me, you bodaggit! [hits Uncle Rico with his elbow, runs off, and climbs a fence, jumps off, and continues running]

 * Napoleon: [drinks a glass of milk] The defect in that one is bleach.
 * FFA Judge No. 1: That's right.
 * Napoleon: Yessssss. [drinks second glass of milk] This tastes like the cow got into an onion patch.
 * FFA Judge No. 2: Correct.
 * Napoleon: Yessssss.

 * Napoleon: [lying] Grandma just called and said you're supposed to go home.
 * Uncle Rico: She didn't tell me anything.
 * Napoleon: Too bad. She said she doesn't want you here when she gets back, because you've been ruining everybody's lives and eating all our steak.
 * Uncle Rico: I'm not goin' anywhere, Napoleon.
 * Napoleon: Get off my property!
 * Uncle Rico: It's a free country. I can do whatever I want.
 * Napoleon: Get off my property or I'll call the cops on you.
 * Uncle Rico: Well then do it! Go on!
 * Napoleon: Maybe I will, GOSH!

 * Napoleon: Deb just called me. She pretty much hates me by now.
 * Pedro: Why?
 * Napoleon: Because my uncle Rico's an IDIOT.
 * Pedro: Do you have anything to give to her?
 * Napoleon: No. Not unless she likes fish.

Taglines

 * He's out to prove he's got nothing to prove.
 * It's Gonna Be a Dynamite Summer
 * Same planet...different flippin' world.

Cast

 * Jon Heder - Napoleon Dynamite
 * Efren Ramirez - Pedro Sanchez
 * Jon Gries - Uncle Rico
 * Aaron Ruell - Kip Dynamite
 * Diedrich Bader - Rex
 * Tina Majorino - Deb
 * Sandy Martin - Grandma
 * Haylie Duff - Summer Wheatly
 * Emily Kennard - Trisha Stevens
 * Trevor Snarr - Don
 * Shondrella Avery - LaFawnduh Lucas

title: Napoleon Dynamite