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Talk:Tupac Shakur

''"We can have peace someday, G. ... Life's a mess, don't stress.  Test, I'm giving, but be thankful that you're livin', Bless." ''

Holla if Ya Hear Me - 2pacalypse Now

it's because of (death) that we (LEARN) to live again........

Merge info
Tupac Amaru means "Shining serpent" - Afeni Shakur

I have merged quotes listed in Shakur, Tupac with this article. Here is the other article's edit history, to provide appropriate editing credits: — Jeff Q (talk) 05:21, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
 * (cur) (last) 05:15, 27 July 2005 (UTC) Jeffq (Merged with Tupac Shakur.)
 * (cur) (last) 05:51, 15 June 2005 (UTC) Jni (merge notice, rm. duplicate material)
 * (cur) (last) 21:42, 14 June 2005 (UTC) 172.203.227.74
 * (cur) (last) 18:08, 9 May 2005 (UTC) 130.76.64.14
 * (cur) (last) 21:45, 5 February 2005 (UTC) 68.192.220.129
 * (cur) (last) 21:45, 5 February 2005 (UTC) 68.192.220.129
 * (cur) (last) 03:49, 26 January 2005 (UTC) RoboAction (page already exists...delete)
 * (cur) (last) 04:51, 17 November 2004 (UTC) 135.214.66.241

VFD cleanup
If anyone wishes to restore some of the deleted material, please note that is acceptable practice to include excerpts of poems and lyrics, but it is a copyright violation to include entire works. Thank you for your cooperation.

I've also done some format tweaking, but there is still a lot of variation in the article, like inconsistent punctuation use. Since I don't know anything of Tupac's works, I can't tell if any of it is for artistic effect, or just errors on the part of transcribers. I invite folks more familiar with his works to comb out any remaining problems. Thank you. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 14:45, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

 * This article was preserved after a vote for its deletion. See its archived VfD entry for details. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 19:37, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

I've done alittle bit of cleaning on the article. I removed these qoutes who are directly from songs:

 * cops give a damn about a negro… pull the trigga kill a nigga he's a hero
 * Changes
 * … because too many things for you to deal with… dyin inside but outside you lookin fearless
 * for we were born without a silver spoon… a broken down tv… show cartoons in the livin room
 * … if you got it better flaunt it, let the liquor help you get up on it…
 * … something we all adore, something worth dying for, nuthing but pain, stuck in the game, searchin for fortune and fame…
 * They got money for wars but they can't feed the poor.
 * Tell me, whats a black life worth? A bottle of juice is no excuse, the truth hurts!
 * Through every dark night, there is a bright day afterwards!

Here are some thoughts from the REALEST:

 * "Pump, PUMP! If you're pissed! To the sell-outs livin' it up, one way or another you be givin' it up!" --Hola if Ya Hear Me

 * "My memories of a corpse, mind full of sick thoughts, and I ain't going back to court, so fuck what you thought.. ..so much pain." --Pain

 * "Dont wanna die, tell me why, cause the stress getting major. ...Everyday is just a struggle,steady thuggin' on these streets." --Pain

 * "Lord knows, ain't no love for us ghetto children, so we cold." --It Ain't Easy

scar'd up,but still flowing. Energized and still going.. ...Deathrow baby, don't be alarmed" -In the Heartz of Men
 * "I died and came back, I hustle with these lyrics as if it's a game of crack, Thugin' is in my spirit, I'm lost and not knowing

Tupac is a founding father of the idea of Thug Life. The basic principal is that street justice is less corrupt, more effective, and necessary for those above the law (i.e. those who aren't afraid of police or jail time). While widely misunderstood, he is an inspiration to those who are down and out--especially those oppressed by the law.

"Keep you head up, and try to keep the faith." -- Better Days

"The only crime I been convicted of is fighting, hitting somebody's face with my fist" - Until the end of time

"West side is not a part of the map. I'm not some dumb motherfucker and I don't bang for the colour and I don't bang for the land. I bang for the principles and I bang for the pride" - United ghetto interview

These however, I were more unsure of wether I should remove them or not, so I leaved em for the time being:

Sounds like 2pac, but I've never seen it before neither. Fixed some grammar mistakes in it, don't now if it should be wrong or not but considering it's 2pac I suspect it was just sloppy written by the one who added it.
 * I'm not saying I'm gonna rule the world but if I keep talking about how dirty it is, someone will have to clean it up.

From a piece of poetry, also a lyrics in a song. Delete if if it shouldn't be there, I'm not familiar with the rules of qouting poetry.
 * What is fame? Everybody knows your name: never again are you alone.

I've never read,seen nor heard this qoute... But I left it for someone more sure of it to delete or leave alone.
 * If it don't make dollars it don't make cents.
 * You must remember that tomorrow comes after the dark......(unconditional love)
 * Expect me like you expecting God to come back expect me nigga I'm coming.
 * I was a thug ever since my mamma gave me birth.(Hannesy)

Tupac Songs and Poetry
Tupac Shakur IS KNOWN for his rap music. He uses the media to speak toward the greater audience. Removing his poem and song lyrics is like removing his chance to speak and make a difference in the world. That is what we have to acknowledge and keep. Therefore, the addition of his lyrics is what he is trying to meaningfully say in a clever rhythmic way. One may hear his songs as good music, but inside, the music has a direct message of everyday struggles and lifestyles toward the audience. He may be not with us today, but he is still alive through his voice -- what he has spoken, what he has meant though literature from music. It only seems that the quotes are a lot; he has a lot of important messages to say!

You have to go listen to Tupac's greatest tracks!
How can you edit Tupac without first listening to him? How can you edit the influencial things he had said without actually learning the roots of where he has come from? These are my questions. They are the basis of editing a person's quotes. You have to be on the same level of Tupac to understand what he had said and how he felt when he said it.00

Spell check please
The spelling on this page is terrible. Not talking about the slang, though some spelling uniformity there would be appreciated too.

More quotes than necessary
A lot of the quotes listed are redundant, don't really say anything or are simply uninteresting (in a general sense), and there are so many of them! Pare this too-long list down by 50%. Get rid of the flab.50.54.234.50

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—Interview (1994) i love tupac bruhh' ! - KTW WAS HERE !
 * When I speak, I want my words to mean something. I want my words to make people shiver.

—'two weeks before his death (1996)
 * Can't nobody touch me right now. Maybe next month all of this will be over, but this month I'm takin' every moving target out.

—'two weeks before his death (1996)
 * See? I'm all for positivity. I'm all for change. But I'm not for niggas masquerading.

—'two weeks before his death (1996)
 * I didn't call Versace, Versace called me.

—'on The Notorious B.I.G. stealing his rap style (1996)
 * I'm the one who used to buy him champagne. All that shit he talkin', that was me buying him that! He talk about my lifestyle on his records because when he was doing his album, he was broke, nigga! I was making money, that shit he talkin' about was my life! Thug life!

-'on The Notorious B.I.G. (1996)
 * I possess his soul, him and Puffy. They know that I was the truest nigga involved with Biggie's success. I was the biggest help, I was the truest nigga, I wrote his rhymes so he know how much he borrowed from me. He knows how I used to stop my shows and let him touch the show. Let him blow up and do his whole show in the middle of my show. How I used to buy him shit and never ask for it back. How I used to share, I used to share my experiences, and the lessons and the roles and the knowledge in the game with him. You know what I mean? He owe me more. He owed me more than to turn his head and act like he didn't know some niggaz was about to blow my fuckin' head off. He knew.

—Interview (1996)
 * It's not about East Coast or West Coast. What it's really about is just two rappers.

—'in prison, 1995, on who shot him up
 * Everybody that was involved knows what happened [...] and everything is there. [...] Just read everything over, and read my reply, read their reply, read what people say, watch people, cuz you can fake for a long time but one day you gonna show yourself to be a phony [...] think back, think of all the people that you've seen me put on stage, think of all the people I've put on, that I got into this game, that I show how to do this, and think about what they're saying now. That's not keeping it real.

 * I believe that everything that you do bad comes back to you. So everything that I do that's bad, I'm going to suffer from it. But in my mind, I believe what I'm doing is right. So I feel like I'm going to heaven.

 * I feel like our future is our confidence and self-esteem..

 * I swear, if they hadn't tried to ruin me, I never would have ended up being a rapper. I probably would have been a preacher or something.

(Tupac Ressurrection)
 * I think the old should go through school again. I think that rich people should live like poor people, and poor people should live like rich people, and change every week.

(Tupac Ressurection)
 * I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.

 * I'm one-hundred percent original, and that's what got me here. My rap music is more understandable, slower. It tells a story. You can write a book on each of my thoughts.

 * If I could patent "being real", I think I could own that.

 * If it don't make dollars it don't make sense.

 * In my death, people will understand what I was talking about.

(Cradle to the Grave, Thug Life Album)
 * June 16, 1971, mama gave birth to a Hell raising heavenly son.

(Cradle to the Grave, Thug Life Album)
 * My first words was thug for life and papa pass the mack.

(Some 2 Die 4, Stricly 4 my N.I.G.G.A.Z)
 * My Mama used to tell me if you can't find something to live for, you best find something to die for.

 * Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

 * The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.

 * The reason why I could get into acting was because it takes nothing to get out of who I am and go into somebody else.

(Tupac Ressurection)
 * We look at death from the selfish side, like: "That guy died. Oh, it's so sad." Why is it sad? He's away from all of this bad stuff that's here on Earth. I mean, at the worst, he's just somewhere quiet, no nothing. At best, he's an angel… or he's a spirit somewhere. What is so bad about that?

 * We talk a lot about Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., but it's time to be like them, as strong as them. They were mortal men like us and everyone of us can be like them. I don't want to be a role model. I just want to be someone who says, this is who I am, this is what I do. I say what's on my mind.

(The Rose that grew from the Concrete book)
 * What is fame? Everybody knows your name: never again are you alone.

 * Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal.

 * The only crime I been convicted of is fighting; getting into a fight with my fears.

 * Dont get it twisted this is not my real life, this is not how my real life is suppose to be.

 * Look, I am selling records. This is what I do for a living. I am selling records. I never thought it was going to be a matter of life and death.

 * I'm not saying I'm gonna rule the world but if I keep talking about how dirty it is, someone will have to clean it up.

 * I live the life of a thug, Live it and Die for it!

 * But my nigga from the other side of the globe knows all my theories, i dedicate all this drama to you (Oumar Camara a.k.a Paparesta)

 * T.H.U.G.L.I.F.E stands for The Hate U Give Lil Infants Fucks Everybody

(Words of Wisdom, 2pacalypse Now!)
 * N.I.G.G.A stands for Never Ignorant about Getting Goals Accomplished or No Ignorance Got Goals Accomplished

 * During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams.

 * Everybody against me. Why? Why me? I have not brought violence to you. I have not brought Thug Life to America. I didn't create Thug Life. I diagnosed it.

 * I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.

 * I don’t see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. People look to me to do things for them, to have answers.

 * I know what good morals are, but you're supposed to disregard good morals when you're living in a crazy, bad world. If you're in hell, how can you live like an angel? You're surrounded by devils,trying to be an angel? That's like suicide.

 * It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down.

 * No matter what these people say about me, my music doesn't glorify any image. My music is spiritual when you listen to it. It's all about emotion, I tell my innermost, darkest secrets.

 * All I’m trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.

 * Out of anger comes controversy, out of controversy comes conversation, out of conversation comes action.

 * Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender.

 * You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could've, would've happened... or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the fuck on.

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Young Frankenstein

Young Frankenstein is a 1974 film about Dr. Frankenstein's grandson who, after years of living down the family reputation, inherits granddad's castle and repeats the experiments.
 * Directed by Mel Brooks. Written by Gene Wilder and Mel Brooks.

The scariest comedy of all time!

Dr. Frederick Frankenstein

 * [dreaming] I am not a Frankenstein. I'm a Fronkensteen. Don't give me that. I don't believe in fate. And I won't say it. [pauses] All right, you win. You win. I give. I'll say it. I'll say it. I'll say it. DESTINY! DESTINY! NO ESCAPING THAT FOR ME! DESTINY! DESTINY! NO ESCAPING THAT FOR ME!
 * Put... the candle... back!
 * From that fateful day when stinking bits of slime first crawled from the sea and shouted to the cold stars, "I am man!," our greatest dread has always been the knowledge of our mortality. But tonight, we shall hurl the gauntlet of science into the frightful face of death itself. Tonight, we shall ascend into the heavens. We shall mock the earthquake. We shall command the thunders, and penetrate into the very womb of impervious nature herself.

Inga

 * Hallo. Vould you like to have a roll in ze hay? [Dr. Frankenstein stutters] It's fun. [She begins to roll in the hay] Roll, roll, roll in ze hay.

Inspector Kemp

 * A riot is an ungly thingk... undt, I tink, that it is chust about time ve had vun.

Elizabeth

 * [after sex with The Monster] Oh. Where you going?... Oh, you men are all alike. Seven or eight quick ones and then you're out with the boys to boast and brag. YOU BETTER KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT. Oh... I think I love him.

Frankenstein's Monster

 * UU-EE ONA UIIIITTTZZZZ!! (Putting On The Ritz)
 * For as long as I can remember, people have hated me. They looked at my face and my body and they ran away in horror. In my loneliness I decided that if I could not inspire love, which was my deepest hope, I would instead cause fear! [looks down at the unconscious Dr. Frankenstein] I live because this poor, half-crazed genius has given me life. He alone held an image of me as something beautiful. And then, when it would have been easy enough to stay out of danger, he used his own body as a guinea pig to give me a calmer brain and a somewhat more sophisticated way of expressing myself.

Dialogue

 * Student: Dr. Frank... [Dr. Frankenstein gives him a stern look] Fronkensteen.
 * Dr. Frankenstein: Yes?
 * Student: Isn't it true that Darwin preserved a piece of vermicelli in a glass case until, by some extraordinary means, it actually began to move with a voluntary motion?
 * Dr. Frankenstein: Are you speaking of the worm or the spaghetti?
 * Student: Why the worm, sir.
 * Dr. Frankenstein: Yes, it does seem I read something about that incident when I was a student. But, you got to remember that a worm, with very few exceptions, is not a human being.
 * Student: But wasn't that the basis of your grandfather's work? The reanimation of dead tissue?
 * Dr. Frankenstein: [Getting annoyed] My grandfather was a very sick man.
 * Student: But as a [air quotes] Fronkensteen, aren't you the least curious about it? Doesn't bringing back to life what was once dead hold any intrigue for you?
 * Dr. Frankenstein: [Getting more annoyed] You are talking about the nonsensical ravings of a lunatic mind. Dead is dead!
 * Student: But look at what has been done with hearts and kidneys!
 * Dr. Frankenstein: [Raising voice] Hearts and kidneys are tinker toys! I'm talking about the central nervous system!
 * Student: But sir...
 * Dr. Frankenstein: [Shouting] I am a scientist, not a philosopher! You have more chance of reanimating this scalpel than you have of mending a broken nervous system!
 * Medical Student: But what about your grandfather's work, sir?
 * Dr. Frankenstein: My grandfather's work was doodoo! I am not interested in death! The only thing that concerns me is the preservation of life! [jams the scalpel into his leg, lets go of the scalpel and it sticks upright out of his leg, grasps it again, then slowly crosses his legs to block the scalpel from view] Class... is... dismissed.

 * Igor: Dr. Frankenstein?
 * Dr. Frankenstein: "Fronkensteen."
 * Igor: You're putting me on.
 * Dr. Frankenstein: No, it's pronounced "Fronkensteen."
 * Igor: Do you also say "Froaderick"?
 * Dr. Frankenstein: No... "Frederick."
 * Igor: Well, why isn't it "Froaderick Fronkensteen"?
 * Dr. Frankenstein: It isn't; it's "Frederick Fronkensteen."
 * Igor: I see.
 * Dr. Frankenstein: You must be Igor.
 * Igor: No, it's pronounced "eye-gor."
 * Dr. Frankenstein: But they told me it was "ee-gor."
 * Igor: Well, they were wrong then, weren't they?

 * Inga: Werewolf!
 * Dr. Frankenstein: Werewolf?
 * Igor: There.
 * Dr. Frankenstein: What?
 * Igor: There, wolf. There, castle.
 * Dr. Frankenstein: Why are you talking that way?
 * Igor: I thought you wanted to.
 * Dr. Frankenstein: No, I don't want to.
 * Igor: [shrugs] Suit yourself. I'm easy.

 * Dr. Frankenstein: You know, I don't mean to embarrass you, but I'm a rather brilliant surgeon. Perhaps I can help you with that hump.
 * Igor: What hump?

 * [Frankenstein, Igor and Inga in front of HUGE castle doors]
 * Dr. Frankenstein: What knockers.
 * Inga: Oh, thank you doctor.

 * Frau Blücher: Would the doctor care for a... brandy before retiring?
 * Dr. Frankenstein: No. Thank you.
 * Frau Blücher: Some varm milk... perhaps?
 * Dr. Frankenstein: No... thank you very much. No thanks.
 * Frau Blücher: Ovaltine?
 * Dr. Frankenstein: NOTHING! Thank you! I'm a little - tired!
 * Frau Blücher: Then I vill say... goodnight, Herr Doctor.
 * Dr. Frankenstein: Goodnight, Frau Blücher.
 * [horses whinny]

 * [While examining a shelf of dead, disembodied heads, they come across Igor]
 * Igor: [singing] I! I ain't got nobody, and nobody cares for me. [scatting]
 * Dr. Frankenstein: Igor!
 * Igor: Frodrick!
 * Dr. Frankenstein: How did you get here?
 * Igor: Through the dumbwaiter. I heard the strangest music from the upstairs kitchen and I just... followed it down. Call it... a hunch. Ba-dum SHI!

 * [Dr. Frankenstein and Igor have just exhumed a corpse]
 * Dr. Frankenstein: What a filthy job!
 * Igor: Could be worse.
 * Dr. Frankenstein: How?
 * Igor: Could be raining.
 * [Crack of thunder, torrential rain starts]

 * Dr. Frankenstein: [reading his grandfather's work] "The minuteness of the parts formed a great hindrance to my speed. I resolved therefore to make the Creature of gigantic stature." Of course, that would simplify everything.
 * Inga: In other words…his veins, his feet, his hands, his organs vould all have to be increased in size.
 * Dr. Frankenstein: Precisely.
 * Inga: [her eyes get wide] He vould have an enormous schwanzschtücker.
 * Dr. Frankenstein: [ponders this a moment] That goes without saying.
 * Inga: Woof.
 * Igor: He's going to be very popular.

 * Dr. Frankenstein: [To Igor] Igor, may I speak to you for a moment?
 * Igor: Of course.
 * Dr. Frankenstein: Sit down, won't you?
 * Igor: Thank you. [sits on the floor]
 * Dr. Frankenstein: No no, up here.
 * Igor: Thank you. [sits on a chair]
 * Dr. Frankenstein: Now... that brain that you gave me... was it Hans Delbruck's?
 * Igor: [Crosses arms] No.
 * Dr. Frankenstein: [Holds up hand] Ah. Good. Uh... would you mind telling me... whose brain... I did put in?
 * Igor: And you won't be angry?
 * Dr. Frankenstein: I will not be angry.
 * Igor: [Shrugs] Abby...someone.
 * Dr. Frankenstein: Abby someone? Abby who?
 * Igor: Abby Normal.
 * Dr. Frankenstein: [takes a deep breath] Abby Normal?
 * Igor: I'm almost sure that was the name. [He and Dr. Frankenstein laugh]
 * Dr. Frankenstein: Are you saying... [Stands] that I put an abnormal brain... [Puts hand on Igor's hump; increasingly angry] into a 7 and a half foot long... 54- inch wide... [Grabs Igor by throat] GORILLA?!?!?! [Strangling Igor] IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE TELLING ME!?!

 * Dr. Frankenstein: [after failing to bring the creature to life] Nothing.
 * Inga: Oh, Doctor, I'm sorry.
 * Dr. Frankenstein: No. No. Be of good cheer. If science teaches us anything, it teaches us to accept our failures, as well as our successes, with quiet dignity and grace. [begins walking away but then runs back and starts beating up the creature; furious] SON OF A BITCH BASTARD! I'LL GET YOU FOR THIS! WHAT DID YOU DO TO ME!? WHAT DID YOU DO TO ME!?
 * Inga: Stop it! Stop that! Stop it! You'll kill him!
 * Dr. Frankenstein: [pounds on the creatures chest in rage before being restrained] I DON'T WANT TO LIVE! I DO NOT WANT TO LIVE! [whimpers]
 * Igor: [To the audience] Quiet dignity and grace. [rolls eyes]
 * Dr. Frankenstein: Oh... mama...

 * Igor: You know, I'll never forget my old dad. When these things would happen to him. The things he'd say to me.
 * Dr. Frankenstein: What did he say?
 * Igor: "What the hell are you doing in the bathroom day and night? Why don't you get out of there and give someone else a chance?"

 * Dr. Frankenstein: Love is the only thing that can save this poor creature, and I am going to convince him that he is loved even at the cost of my own life. No matter what you hear in there, no matter how cruelly I beg you, no matter how terribly I may scream, do not open this door or you will undo everything I have worked for. Do you understand? Do not open this door!
 * Inga: Yes, Doctor.
 * Igor: [sarcastically] Nice workin' with ya.
 * [Dr. Frankenstein enters the Monster's cell, accidentally bumping into a table. The Monster awakens, roaring with rage. Panicking, Dr. Frankenstein turns back to the door.]
 * Dr. Frankenstein: Let me out. Let me out of here. Get me the hell out of here. [Turns to the Monster, then back to the door] What's the matter with you people? I WAS JOKING! Don't you know a joke when you hear one? [Sarcastically] HA HA HA! [Begins pounding on the door; outside, Frau Blūcher stops Inga and Igor from trying to open the cell.] Jesus Christ, let me out of here! Open this goddamn door or I'll kick your rotten heads in! MOMMY!!!
 * Frau Blucher: [blocking the door as Inga and Igor again try to open the cell] Nein!
 * [The Monster roars, shrugging off its chains. Dr. Frankenstein turns back to the Monster, deciding a different approach...]
 * Dr. Frankenstein: Hello, handsome! [The Monster looks momentarily wrong-footed] You're a good looking fellow, do you know that? People laugh at you, people hate you, but why do they hate you? Because... they are JEALOUS! Look at that boyish face. Look at that sweet smile. Do you wanna talk about physical strength? Do you want to talk about sheer muscle? Do you want to talk about the Olympian ideal? You are a GOD! And listen to me, you are not evil. You... are... GOOD! [The Monster starts to cry, and Dr. Frankenstein hugs him] This is a nice boy. This is a good boy. This is a mother's angel. And I want the world to know once and for all, and without any shame, that we love him! I'm going to teach you. I'm going to show you how to walk, how to speak, how to move, how to think. Together, you and I are going to make the greatest single contribution to science since the creation of fire!
 * Inga: [from outside] Dr. Fronkensteen! Are you all right?
 * Dr. Frankenstein: MY NAME IS FRANKENSTEIN!!!

 * Inga: You know, there's something I've been meaning to ask you. In the transference, the monster got part of your wonderful brain. But what did you ever get from him?
 * [Dr. Frankenstein moans suggestively and approaches her in bed]
 * Inga: [gasping] Oh my goodness, I don't believe... [emits several somewhat painful-sounding moans and grunts] [singing] Oh, sweet mystery of life, at last I've found you! At last, I know the secret of it all!

Cast

 * Gene Wilder - Dr. Frederick Frankenstein
 * Marty Feldman - Igor
 * Peter Boyle - the Monster
 * Teri Garr - Inga
 * Cloris Leachman - Frau Blücher
 * Madeline Kahn - Elizabeth
 * Kenneth Mars - Inspector Kemp
 * Richard Haydn - Herr Falkstein
 * Liam Dunn - Mr. Hilltop
 * Danny Goldman - Medical student
 * Gene Hackman - Harold, The Blind Man
 * Mel Brooks - Werewolf / Cat Hit by Dart / Victor Frankenstein (voice) (uncredited)

license: Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Hi. I reverted your edits to English proverbs, since you added non-notable quotations. Wikiquote exists for notable quotation. Please feel free to create an account and put your quotes, or those of your friends, on your userpage. MosheZadka 20:53, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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As for your change from "quotes" to "quotations", I think you would like to discuss it with other editors and persuade them. quote is indeed a verb but it is a noun too, even if colloquail. And you would not be pleased if another editor write still "quotes". Your proposal for sections on Wikiquote talk:Guide to layout will be appreciated. --Aphaia 23:28, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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--Aphaia 23:28, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Hi, MidnightWolf. Have you noticed a botton "Show preview" already? It helps us editors and let us know how our edit will be displayed. I suppose you would edit smoothly using this botton, just right to the "Save page". And it helps other editors also, because you could summarize your edits into one, and save space on Recentchanges. Thank you. --Aphaia 01:20, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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User:Martinman11

Hello, my name is Andrew.

Some of My Personal Quotes

 * Life is Peanuts.
 * I'm sorry but you've been pwn'ed. n00b.
 * Where IS Waldo?
 * Cows are vegatables.
 * NOTHING IS WRONG WITH ME!!!! Wait. Who are you? WERE AM I??!!!! AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
 * Uhhhhhhhhhh...........
 * Have you hugged your gerbil today?
 * (in response to sniffing powdered sugar) Oh man! It burns, dude! It burns!
 * (in response to drinking a bottle of Nestea with a full salt shaker of salt in it) *belch* *belch* Oh man. I'm gonna die.

Favorite Quotes

 * Ever wonder why the color purple tastes like crowbar? -Ctrl-Alt-Del
 * Avoid killer robots that go "boop." the other kind (the ones that go "boo-oop") are fine. -Steve Burns

For more about me please see: Wikipedia:User:Martinman11

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Lillian Hellman

Lillian Florence Hellman (20 June 1905 – 30 June 1984) was an American playwright.

 * See also:
 * The Children's Hour (1961 film adaptation of the 1934 play)

Quotes

 * There are people who eat earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. Then there are people who stand around and watch them eat it. (Softly) Sometimes I think it ain't right to stand and watch them do it.
 * The Little Foxes (1939)

 * Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
 * The Little Foxes (1939)

 * For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
 * Watch on the Rhine (1941)

 * Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
 * The Autumn Garden (1951)

 * I am ready and willing to testify before the representatives of our Government as to my own opinions and my own actions, regardless of any risks or consequences to myself. But I am advised by counsel that if I answer the committee’s questions about myself, I must also answer questions about other people and that if I refuse to do so, I can be cited for contempt. My counsel tells me that if I answer questions about myself, I will have waived my rights under the fifth amendment and could be forced legally to answer questions about others. This is very difficult for a layman to understand. But there is one principle that I do understand: I am not willing, now or in the future, to bring bad trouble to people who, in my past association with them, were completely innocent of any talk or any action that was disloyal or subversive. I do not like subversion or disloyalty in any form and if I had ever seen any I would have considered it my duty to have reported it to the proper authorities. But to hurt innocent people whom I knew many years ago in order to save myself is, to me, inhuman and indecent and dishonorable. I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year’s fashions, even though I long ago came to the conclusion that I was not a political person and could have no comfortable place in any political group.
 * Letter to the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) of the US House of Representatives (May 19, 1952)

 * I am prepared to waive the privilege against self-incrimination and to tell you everything you wish to know about my views or actions if your committee will agree to refrain from asking me to name other people. If the committee is unwilling to give me this assurance, I will be forced to plead the privilege of the fifth amendment at the hearing.
 * Letter to HUAC (May 19, 1952)

 * A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.
 * Candide (1956) a comic operetta based upon the satire by Voltaire.

 * We will not think noble because we are not noble. We will not live in beautiful harmony because there is no such thing in this world, nor should there be. We promise only to do our best and to live out our lives. Dear God, that's all we can promise in truth.
 * Candide (1956)

 * Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.
 * An Unfinished Woman (1969)

 * Old paint on a canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent. When that happens it is possible, in some pictures, to see the original lines: a tree will show through a woman's dress, a child makes way for a dog, a large boat is no longer on an open sea. That is called pentimento because the painter "repented," changed his mind. Perhaps it would be as well to say that the old conception, replaced by a later choice, is a way of seeing and then seeing again. That is all I mean about the people in this book. The paint has aged and I wanted to see what was there for me once, what is there for me now.
 * Pentimento: A Book of Portraits (1973), Introduction

 * Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a Judge's chamber can believe in an unprejudiced point of view but, simply in self-interest, the biographer must try for one, or make us believe he has, or tell us that he hasn't.
 * "Love Letters, Some Not So Loving" (a review of H.G. Wells and Rebecca West by Gordon N. Ray), in The New York Times (13 October 1974); this has often been paraphrased as "Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a Judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view."

 * I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.
 * As quoted in Untamed Tongues : Wild Words from Wild Women (1993) by Autumn Stephens, p. 132

Scoundrel Time (1976)

But radicalism or anti-radicalism should have had nothing to do with the sly, miserable methods of McCarthy, Nixon and colleagues, as they flailed at Communists, near-Communists, and nowhere-near Communists. '''Lives were being ruined and few hands were raised in help. Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?'''
 * To many intellectuals the radicals had become the chief, perhaps the only, enemy. … Not alone because the radical's reasons were suspect but because his convictions would lead to a world that deprived the rest of us of what we had. Very few people were capable of admitting anything so simple. But the antiradical camp contained the same divisions: often they were honest and thoughtful men, often they were men who turned down a dark road for dark reasons.
 * p. 82

 * Sad is a fake word for me to be using, I am still angry that their reason for disagreeing with McCarthy was too often his crude methods. . . . Many of the anti-Communists were, of course, honest men. But none of them . . . has stepped forward to admit a mistake. It is not necessary in this country; they too know that we are a people who do not remember much. I have written here that I have recovered. I mean it only in a worldly sense because I do not believe in recovery. The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.
 * p. 150

Quotes about Hellman

 * Sorted alphabetically by author or source.

 * I think she is one of our ablest playwrights. As a playwright I have tremendous respect for her. As a person she is not my cup of tea.
 * Tallulah Bankhead, in Tallulah : My Autobiography (1952), Ch. 11 : Regina and Sabina

"And me?" I replied, in a prepubescent squeak. The other phone rang, and the familiar whiskey-and-cigarettes baritone rasped, "Why the hell didn’t you defend me?" "I guess I never thought of you as defenseless, Lillian," I managed. "That’s bullshit. I’m suing the whole damn bunch of you." In that, at least, she proved a woman of her word. I had been to dinner at Lillian’s, and she, too, had been on my show. She was a sharp and entertaining guest—an eager appearer, arriving early, looking as if she’d just stepped out of Elizabeth Arden. No one was neutral about Lillian. She had a famous friendship with Dorothy Parker, yet to Jean Stafford she was "Old Scaly Bird." A professional critic talking about a public figure is rarely the stuff of lawsuits. Incredibly, Hellman denied being a public figure, forgetting, perhaps, that she had recently appeared in a national advertising campaign for Blackglama furs, which used only women who were so identifiable that their names were omitted; the copy read "What becomes a legend most?"
 * During breakfast the next morning, my assistant called. "Have you seen the papers?" she said. "Hellman is suing Mary McCarthy, PBS, and you for two and a quarter million."
 * Dick Cavett "Lillian, Mary, and Me" The New Yorker (December 16, 2002 issue)
 * Written shortly before the premiere of Nora Ephron’s play Imaginary Friends, on the difficult relationship between Hellman and Mary McCarthy.

 * You are reminded that this subject has a national reputation through her writings in which she has opposed Nazism and fascism. Under no circumstances should it be known that this bureau is conducting an investigation of her. It should be handled in a most discreet manner and under no circumstances should it be assigned to the local police or some other agency.
 * J. Edgar Hoover, in an FBI memo (October 20, 1943)

 * Today, when every form of perversion except masturbation and bestiality have been shown on the screen, Hellman, Wyler and the Mirisch Co. apparently thought a re-do of The Children's Hour would sell tickets if lesbianism were not only restored as the charge the evil child falsely brings, but also condoned … There is an explicit line of dialogue which asserts that those who choose to practice lesbianism are not destroyed by it — a claim disapproved by the number of lesbians who become insane and/or commit suicide.
 * Films in Review (April 1962)

 * Every word she writes is a lie, including "and" and "the".
 * Mary McCarthy, in a statement about Hellman's memoirs in a 1979 interview on The Dick Cavett Show; this prompted a defamation suit against McCarthy which was dropped after Hellman's death.

 * If someone had told me, don't say anything about Lillian Hellman because she'll sue you, it wouldn't have stopped me. It might have spurred me on.
 * Mary McCarthy, in response to the defamation suit, as quoted in Frances Kiernan Seeing Mary Plain : A Life of Mary McCarthy (2002)

 * Nadine Gordimer writes about black people with such astounding sensibilities and sensitivity-not patronizing, not romantic, just real. And Eudora Welty does the same thing. Lillian Hellman has done it. Now, we might categorize these women as geniuses of a certain sort, but if they can write about it, it means that it is possible. They didn't say, "Oh, my God, I can't write about black people"; it didn't stop them. There are white people who do respond that way though, assuming there's some huge barrier. But if you can relate to Beowolf and Jesus Christ when you read about them, it shouldn't be so difficult to relate to black literature.
 * Interview (1980) in Conversations with Toni Morrison edited by Danille K. Taylor-Guthrie (1994)

 * The energy of American Jewish writers was so charged, so buoyant, that for a time they appeared to dominate American fiction. But there was so little Jewish energy in this art that one could invent parlor games over the ethnic or religious identity of its authors: Edna Ferber? Waldo Frank? Lillian Hellman? Nathanael West? Norman Mailer? E. L. Doctorow?
 * Ruth Wisse The Modern Jewish Canon (2000)

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The Children's Hour

The Children's Hour is a 1961 film about a troublemaking student at a girls' school who accuses two teachers of being lesbians.
 * Directed by William Wyler. Written by John Michael Hayes, based on the 1934 play by Lillian Hellman.

Dialogue

 * Martha: There's always been something wrong. Always, just as long as I can remember. But I never knew what it was until all this happened.
 * Karen: Stop it Martha! Stop this crazy talk!
 * Martha: You're afraid of hearing it, but I'm more afraid that you.
 * Karen: I won't listen to you!
 * Martha: No! You've got to know. I've got to tell you. I can't keep it to myself any longer. I'm guilty!
 * Karen: You're guilty of nothing!
 * Martha: I've been telling myself that since the night I heard the child say it. I lie in bed night after night praying that it isn't true. But I know about it now. It's there. I don't know how, I don't know why. But I did love you! I do love you! I resented your plans to marry. Maybe because I wanted you. Maybe I've wanted you all these years. I couldn't call it by name before, but maybe it's been there since I first knew you.
 * Karen: But it's not the truth, not a word of it is true! We've never thought of each other that way.
 * Martha: No, of course you didn't. But who's to say I didn't. I'd never felt that way about anybody before you. I've never loved a man. I never knew why before, maybe it's that.
 * Karen: You're tired and worn out.
 * Martha: It's funny. It's all mixed up. There's something in you, and you don't know anything about it because you don't know it's there. And then suddenly, one night a little girl gets bored and tells a lie, and there, for the first time, you see it. Then you say to yourself, did she see it? Did she sense it?
 * Karen: But you know it could have been any lie. She was looking for anything to...
 * Martha: But why this lie? She found the lie with the ounce of truth. Don't you see? I can't stand to have you touch me! I can't stand to have you look at me! Oh, it's all my fault. I have ruined your life and I have ruined my own. I swear I didn't know it! I didn't mean it! Oh, I feel so damn sick and dirty I can't stand it anymore!
 * Karen: All this isn't true. You've never said it; we'll forget it by tomorrow.
 * Martha: Tomorrow? That's a funny word. Karen, we would have had to invent a new language, as children do, without words like tomorrow.

 * Mrs. Lily Mortar : God will punish you.
 * Martha: He's doing all right.

Cast

 * Shirley MacLaine - Martha Dobie
 * Audrey Hepburn - Karen Wright
 * James Garner - Dr. Joe Cardin
 * Miriam Hopkins - Lily Mortar
 * Fay Bainter - Amelia Tilford
 * Karen Balkin - Mary Tilford
 * Veronica Cartwright - Rosalie Wells
 * Mimi Gibson - Evelyn
 * William Mims - Mr. Burton
 * Sally Brophy - Rosalie's mother
 * Hope Summers - Agatha

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User:TWaye~enwikiquote

 * Picked his bones in whispers. As he rose and fell
 * He passed the stages of his age and youth
 * Entering the whirlpool.

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Articles I have started

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 * John Littlewood
 * James Lovelock
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 * Brideshead Revisited
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Hi. I have reverted your changes to Quote of the day/Quote proposals, since the page you linked to does not exist on wikiquote, and obviously does contain these quotes. I urge you to readd these quotes after creating the person article, adding the quotes with any and all source information you have so that they may be verified. Thanks, ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 12:06, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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User talk:Datrio

Hiho, Hi,, welcome back to Wikiquote ;-) Here are some useful links:
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 * Reference desk To ask some questions related to quotes.
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Silvio Berlusconi

Silvio Berlusconi (29 September 1936 – 12 June 2023) was an Italian media tycoon and politician who served as the prime minister of Italy in four governments from 1994 to 1995, 2001 to 2006 and 2008 to 2011.

Quotes

 * Think of how many women there are out there who would like to go to bed with me, but don't know it. Life is a problem of communication
 * Quoted in Alexander Stille, "The Sack of Rome" (2006), page 59.

2000s

 * I have little hair because my brain is so big it pushes the hair out.
 * As quoted in "Did I say This? in The Observer (20 April 2008)

 * We must be aware of the superiority of our civilization, a system that has guaranteed well-being, respect for human rights and — in contrast with Islamic countries — respect for religious and political rights, a system that has as its value understanding of diversity and tolerance … The West will continue to conquer peoples, even if it means a confrontation with another civilization, Islam, firmly entrenched where it was 1,400 years ago.
 * In response to the September 11 attacks of al-Queda, in Berlusconi: "Attacco mirato senza vittime fra i civili", in la Repubblica (26 September 2001)

 * They have tried to hang me on an isolated word, taken out of context from my whole speech … I did not say anything against the Islamic civilization... It's the work of some people in the Italian leftist press who wanted to tarnish my image and destroy my long-standing relations with Arabs and Muslims.
 * His response to widespread condemnation of the above comments, in "In quotes: Berlusconi in his own words" at BBC News (2 May 2006)

 * I am absolutely sure to be the most democratic man to ever become Prime Minister in Italy.
 * ASCA (25 January 2002)

 * I always win, I'm cursed to win.
 * ANSA (24 May 2003)

 * I know in Italy there is a producer, producing a film on Nazi concentration camps. I will suggest you for the role of kapo. You would be perfect for that role.
 * Statement to German MEP Martin Schulz, European Parliament (2 July 2003), as quoted in "In quotes: Berlusconi in his own words" at BBC News (2 May 2006), "Did I say This? in The Observer (20 April 2008), and in Italian at "Silvio Berlusconi vs MEP Martin Schulz; relive the moment" at YouTube (16 April 2008)

 * I'm a man of honour, a truthful person, a gentleman of absolute morality.
 * As quoted in "La Repubblica" (13 July 2003)

 * To do that kind of job you must be mentally disturbed.
 * On magistrates, as quoted in "Did I say This? in The Observer (20 April 2008)

 * If they do that kind of job is because they are anthropologically different from the other human beings.
 * ANSA (5 September 2003)

 * Mussolini never killed anyone, he just sent dissenters abroad for vacation.
 * As quoted in La voce di Rimini (11 September 2003)
 * Variant translation: He never killed anyone, he sent people on holiday to confine them.
 * "Did I say This? in The Observer (20 April 2008)

 * There is a natural right that says that when the state asks you for a third of what you earned through back-breaking work, this seems to you a reasonable demand and you give in. If the state asks you for more, or much more, then it is a clear abuse against you and then you try to find evasive ways to make you feel coherent to your intimate sense of morality and it doesn't make you feel ethically guilty.
 * Addressing the commander of the special italian police corp, Guardia di Finanza, whose job is to fight financial fraud and tax evasion in November of 2003, quoted in la Repubblica (17 febbraio 2004)

 * Let's talk about football and women. … Gerhard, why don't you start?
 * At the Brussels summit, turning to the four-times-married German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, at the end of Italy's EU presidency, in December 2003, as quoted in "In quotes: Berlusconi in his own words" at BBC News (2 May 2006)

 * Foreign press is usually leftist and describes us differently from what we really are.
 * Speech to the association Azzurri nel mondo, Lugano (24 October 2004)

 * If the left wing was to rule, the result would be misery, terror and death, like it happens in every place where communism rules.
 * Quoted in Corriere della Sera (17 January 2005)

 * The left has always been on the wrong side. They were against Hitler, but not against Stalin.
 * Quoted in la Repubblica (3 February 2005)

 * I used all my playboy skills and courted the Finnish President.
 * At the opening of the European Food Authority in Parma (21 June 2005), when asked to explain how Italy managed to get the support of its biggest competitor over the EU Food Authority dispute), as reported in "Foreign Ministry summons Italian Ambassador over Berlusconi comments" in  Helsingin Sanomat (22 June 2005)

 * We must fight against tax evasion but also defend the rights of tax evaders, or companies that make mistakes
 * As quoted in "Did I say This? in The Observer (20 April 2008)

 * I am the Jesus Christ of politics. I am a patient victim, I sacrifice myself for everyone.
 * At the launch of his 2006 campaign, as quoted in "In quotes: Berlusconi in his own words" at BBC News (2 May 2006), and "Did I say This? in The Observer (20 April 2008)

 * By definition, as a Prime Minister I cannot be a liar.
 * Italian Radio National Broadcast (18 January 2006)

 * Thank you dear Father Massimiliano, I'll try not to let you down and I promise you two and a half months of complete sexual abstinence until April 9 [election].
 * Speaking at his party's convention in Sardinia (28 January 2006), as reported in Il Giornale (29 January 2006)
 * Variant translation: I'll try not to let you down and I promise you two and a half months of complete sexual abstinence until election day.
 * As reported in "Did I say This? in The Observer (20 April 2008)

 * Only Napoleon did more than I have done. But I am definitely taller.
 * As quoted in Reuters (9 February 2006), "Berlusconi's boundless modesty: first it's Napoleon, now he's Jesus" by John Hooper, in The Guardian (13 February 2006), and "Did I say This? in The Observer (20 April 2008)

 * Churchill liberated us from the Nazis, Silvio Berlusconi is liberating us from communists.
 * Speech in Ancona (11 February 2006), as quoted in "Did I say This? in The Observer (20 April 2008)

 * Do it my way and earn more money.
 * Advice to Italians trying to escape poverty, in an interview with Italian Telelombardia (6 March 2006)

 * Go and read the black book on communism and you'll find that under Mao's China they didn't eat babies but they boiled them to fertilise the fields.
 * At a rally in Naples (28 March 2006) as quoted in "In quotes: Berlusconi in his own words" at BBC News (2 May 2006)

 * I have Italian citizens in too good consideration to think that there are so many voting assholes (literally: "coglioni", rude word for testicles) around which could vote against their own interests. I apologize for the rude but effective language.
 * Confcommercio meeting in Rome (4 April 2006) as quoted in "In quotes: Berlusconi in his own words" at BBC News (2 May 2006)

 * The April 9th/10th vote is like that one of 1948, when democratic forces rejected the communist offensive and firmly moved the Country to the West, towards democracy and its values.
 * Quoted in "Affari Italiani" magazine (7 April 2006)

 * The journalist Enzo Biagi left the RAI out of free will … he did it for the money.
 * As reported in "Veteran Italian journalist Enzo Biagi, 87, dies in Milan" in Herald Tribune (6 November 2007); Enzo Biagi was one of the journalists that had to leave the RAI after the Editto Bulgaro of in 2002, in which he was accused by Berlusconi of making criminal use of television.

 * The public prosecutor … should be subject to regular examinations to attest to sanity.
 * Calling for psychiatric examinations in regard to the life sentence of the Mafia-member Vittorio Mangano, whom Senator Marcello Dell'Utri, called a hero, as reported in 'Berlusconi: "Perizie per i pm" Dell'Utri: "Mangano un eroe" 'in la Repubblica (8 April 2008)

 * Marcello Dell'Utri is right: Mangano was a hero, because he never invented anything about me.
 * Statement during a television show on La7 (9 April 2008)

 * Ghe pensi mi.
 * I'll handle it.
 * As quoted in "The Day After" by de Gondi at The European Tribune (19 November 2007)

 * They're not gaffes. I've made no gaffes.
 * On previous comments, as quoted in "Did I say This? in The Observer (20 April 2008)

 * The women of the Right are certainly the most beautiful … the Left has no taste, not even when it comes to women
 * As quoted in "Did I say This? in The Observer (20 April 2008)

 * People will vote for Daniela Santanchè because she is a beautiful babe.
 * As quoted in "Did I say This? in The Observer (20 April 2008)

 * Ladies, I have a mission for you on election day: cook! Sweet and exquisite things, please. Bring them to the polling station to be examined. The boldest can try making a tart, the most skilful, profiteroles
 * As quoted in "Did I say This? in The Observer (20 April 2008)

 * It's the fate of the lion in winter: all his billions, all his television channels cannot rescue him from the mockery that rains down on the aged lecher, his powers visibly waning.
 * On aging, as quoted in "Did I say This? in The Observer (20 April 2008)

 * They keep calling me a dwarf, but I'm taller than Sarkozy and Putin.
 * As quoted in "Did I say This? in The Observer (20 April 2008)

 * Barack Obama being young, handsome and sun-tanned is going to get along with you swimmingly.
 * On the US president-elect to Dmitry Medvedev, as quoted in 'Italy's Berlusconi hails "suntanned" Obama' in Reuters (6 November 2008), "Berlusconi faces race row as he calls America's first black president 'suntanned'" in Mail on Sunday (6 November 2008)

 * We could not field a big enough force to avoid this risk [of rape]. We would need so many soldiers because our women are so beautiful.
 * As quoted in "Silvio Berlusconi criticised for 'pretty girl' rape comment" in The Telegraph (26 January 2009)

 * In absolute terms, I am the most legally persecuted man of all times, in the whole history of mankind, worldwide.
 * On prosecutions against him, as quoted in "Silvio Berlusconi: I am inferior to no one in history" in The Guardian (10 October 2009)

 * The real Italian anomaly is not Silvio Berlusconi but communist prosecutors and communist judges in Milan who have attacked him again and again since he entered politics.
 * As quoted in "Silvio Berlusconi booed by audience after angry TV rant" in The Telegraph (29 October 2009)

 * I wish luck to you and your nation that loves you as the election results we can see testify.
 * On Alexander Lukashenko, as quoted in Results of the official visit of Silvio Berlusconi to Belarus at belarus.by (1 December 2009) the official website of the Republic of Belarus

2010s
I would be happy for Gattuso to stay but we are not against people saying they want to leave, We can't exclude [the sale of Huntelaar] even if we are convinced of his qualities as a main striker.
 * We don't want to see just one forward up front. To win you have to score. To have chances you've got to have forwards close to the goal, I appreciated Leonardo a lot but I disagreed with him in how he fielded the team. Ronaldinho must play on the shoulder of the strikers even if he has a tendency to drift left. Ronaldinho has been linked in the media with a move away but Berlusconi was adamant the playmaker was staying. He is the No1 attraction at Milan," he said, "Ronaldinho does not want to leave. I'm sure he is happy to stay.
 * "'New Milan manager must play two strikers,' says Silvio Berlusconi", The Guardian (20 July 2010).

 * They called me, inviting me to watch L'Infedele. I'm watching a disgusting program, run in a despicable, vile and repulsive way. I've heard false and distorted views, far away from the truth. I've seen a representation of reality which is to the contrary of truth.
 * On the TV program L'infedele, called in during the show, reported in "Berlusconi insults Lerner live: you run a brothel program", Repubblica (25 January 2011)]

 * I hope that in Egypt there can be a transition toward a more democratic system without a break from President Mubarak, who in the West, above all in the United States, is considered the wisest of men and a precise reference point.
 * On Hosni Mubarak, in the relation to the 2011 Egyptian protests, as quoted in Berlusconi: Hosni Mubarak Is 'The Wisest Of Men', in The Huffington Post (4 February 2011), and Berlusconi: Mubarak is a wise man at al Jazeera (February 2011)

 * We are worried about everything happening there, in all the area. I haven't yet heard from Gaddafi. The situation is evolving and so I don't feel I should disturb anyone.
 * On the 2011 Libyan protests, as quoted in EU Observer (21 February 2011)

 * Freedom means having the right to freely educate your children, and freely means no obligation to send them in a public school, where teachers want to inculcate principles different from the principles that their parents want to inculcate them in a familiar context.
 * On public school, in Adoptions, gay couples and public school in la Repubblica (1 March 2011)

 * I'm getting out to mind my own fucking business, from somewhere else, and so I'm leaving this shitty country, of which I'm sickened.
 * On Italy, quoted in Berlusconi under fire for controversial comments about Italy at CNN (3 September 2011)

 * The life in Italy is the life of a wealthy country, consumptions haven't diminished, it's hard to find seats on planes, our restaurants are full of people.
 * Denying the heaviness of the Italian crisis, during the news conference after the end of the G20 summit held in Cannes (3-4 November 2011), as reported in "Napolitano ammonisce: attuare impegni. Premier: la crisi non c'è, ristoranti pieni" in Il Messaggero (4 November 2011), and "Silvio Berlusconi shrugs off IMF's financial checks on Italy. Prime minister insists Italy is in good health, with debts under control, and points to full restaurants as proof of strength", The Guardian (4 November 2011)

 * Only the prosecutors' witnesses were admitted, those of the defence were chucked out … Can there be worse justice than this? I am treated like a criminal.
 * As quoted in "Silvio Berlusconi says judges out to 'destroy' him", The Telegraph (16 February 2012)

 * [To the] edge of the abyss.
 * On Italy, as reported in "Italy on 'edge of abyss', says Silvio Berlusconi, offering a hand", The Guardian (9 December 2012)

 * Obviously the government of [Mussolini's] time, out of fear that German power might lead to complete victory, preferred to ally itself with Hitler's Germany rather than opposing it … The racial laws were the worst fault of Mussolini as a leader, who in so many other ways did well.
 * In a speech in Milan, while heading a coallition which includes parties with fascist roots, as quoted in "Berlusconi praises Mussolini on Holocaust Memorial Day", BBC News (27 January 2013)

2020s

 * [On the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine] Putin was pushed by the Russian population, by his party and by his ministers to invent this special operation.
 * The troops were supposed to enter, reach Kyiv in a week, replace the Zelensky government with decent people and a week later come back.
 * The aggression against Ukraine is unjustifiable and unacceptable, [Forza Italia's] position is clear. We will always be with the EU and Nato.
 * Massacres of civilians in Bucha and other localities are real war crimes.
 * "Silvio Berlusconi: Ex-PM defends Russian war on eve of Italian election", BBC News (23 September 2022).

 * I added extra stimulation ... if you win against one of these great teams, I’ll send a bus full of whores to the locker room.
 * Jokingly said to his soccer team Monza A.C., quoted in "Silvio Berlusconi Promises ‘Busload of Whores’ if His Soccer Team Wins", Daily Beast, 14 December 2022

 * (Italian language) [...] io, a parlare con Zelensky, se fossi stato il Presidente del Consiglio non ci sarei mai andato. Perché, come sapete, stiamo assistendo alla devastazione del suo paese e alla strage di suoi soldati e di suoi civili. Bastava che lui cessasse di attaccare le due repubbliche autonome del Donbass e questo non sarebbe avvenuto; quindi io giudico molto molto, molto negativamente il comportamento di questo signore.
 * [...] I, talking to Zelensky, if I had been the Prime Minister I would never have gone. Because, as you know, we are witnessing the devastation of his country and the massacre of his soldiers and civilians. It was enough for him to stop attacking the two autonomous republics of Donbass and this would not have happened; so I judge very very, very negatively the behavior of this gentleman.
 * lavocedinewyork.com/en/news/2023/02/13/berlusconi-supports-putin-zelensky-attacked-republics-of-the-donbass/, La Voce di New York, 13 february 2023
 * original italian language audio source: www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/politica/2023/02/12/berlusconi-da-premier-non-sarei-mai-andato-da-zelensky_c3f4cd65-ccb9-4f0d-b813-9cc8a4b26379.html (video from 00:02 to 00:30)

Quotes about Berlusconi

 * Alphabetized by author

 * One of the wildest elections in Italian history is finally over. And as expected, it came down to one guy, the guy who inspired a group of topless female protesters to storm his polling station. That looks so inappropriate. Shouting, "Enough, Berlusconi, enough!" That's right. Bunga, bunga is back. Yesterday and today, all of the headlines had been about Silvio Berlusconi's amazing return to power. There's just one problem. He lost. When all the votes were counted, Silvio finished with 31 percent, a strong showing but only good enough for second place behind a guy called Pier Luigi Bersani.   But still every headline is about sweet Silvio, because sometimes you don't have to be first to be famous. Even people who hate him, and there are a lot of them, want to read and hear about him. … Silvio, Danica and Tiger, what a threesome. They're not famous for nothing. They are hugely successful at a level that most of us can only dream of. But what really matters is that they have that something, that ineffable and intangible something simply known as star power. People care about them. That's even when they lose, they're the ones we want to hear about. And maybe that's a great gift or maybe it leads to an intense stressful life since every loss and every failures in the headlines you can't have any secrets. Only perfection is enough.
 * Erin Burnett, on Erin Burnett Outfront (26 February 2013)

 * To me Silvio Berlusconi incarnates all the qualities a stateman should have. When I studied politics, I was taught that the ideal politician is a man who having had success in his own profession and not having economic worries for himself and his family, decides to devote part of his life to the service of his people at the local or national level, which is tantamount to saying that the ideal politician ought to be:
 * • A self made man, who, as such, has already proven his work capabilities,
 * • Rich enough to be insensitive to bribery.
 * No matter what his adversaries say, this is the picture of Silvio Berlusconi, who on top of all that, is a very charismatic figure with a great sense of humor, which makes him a political leader ahead of his time, at least for Italy.
 * Giglio Reduzzi, in Berlusconi: The Truth About Italy's Much Maligned Premier (2010), p. 25

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 * Sorry, but I deleted your photo ;-X because it was replaced with an obscene image, and I failed to check other revision. You could upload it again, if prefer. Sorry for your inconvinient. And we will appreciate your join to image policy discussion on WQ:VP. Cheers, --Aphaia 08:13, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

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