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Harvey Milk

Harvey Bernard Milk (22 May 1930 – 27 November 1978) was an American politician and gay rights activist, and the first openly gay city supervisor of San Francisco, California. He was assassinated in 1978, and is commonly seen as a martyr to the LGBT community.

1977

 * This is Harvey Milk speaking from the camera store on the evening of Friday, November 18. This is to be played only in the event of my death by assassination. I fully realize that a person who stands for what I stand for, an activist, a gay activist, becomes a target or the potential target for somebody who is insecure, terrified, afraid, or very disturbed themselves. Knowing that I could be assassinated at any moment, any time, I feel it's important that some people know my thoughts. And so the following are my thoughts, my wishes, and my desires, whatever, and I'd like to pass them on and have them played for the appropriate people.
 * From a tape recording (November 18, 1977) to be played in the event of his assassination, quoted in Randy Shilts, The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk (1982, ISBN 0-31256-085-0 ), p. 275

 * I have never considered myself a candidate. I have always considered myself part of a movement, part of a candidacy. I considered the movement the candidate. I think that there's a distinction between those who use the movement and those who are part of the movement. I think I was always part of the movement. I wish I had time to explain everything I did. Almost everything was done with an eye on the gay movement.
 * From a tape recording (November 18, 1977) to be played in the event of his assassination, quoted in Randy Shilts, The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk (1982), p. 276

 * The other aspect of this assassination. I cannot prevent some people from feeling angry and frustrated and mad, but I hope they will take that frustration and that madness and instead of demonstrating or anything of that type, I would hope they would take the power and I would hope that five, ten, one hundred, a thousand would rise. I would like to see every gay doctor come out, every gay lawyer, every gay architect come out, stand up and let that world know. That would do more to end prejudice overnight than anybody would imagine. I urge them to do that, urge them to come out. Only that way will we start to achieve our rights.
 * From a tape recording (November 18, 1977) to be played in the event of his assassination, quoted in Randy Shilts, The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk (1982), pp. 276-277

 * I ask for the movement to continue, for the movement to grow, because last week I got a phone call from Altoona, Pennsylvania, and my election gave somebody else, one more person, hope. And after all, that's what this is all about. It's not about personal gain, not about ego, not about power — it's about giving those young people out there in the Altoona, Pennsylvanias, hope. You gotta give them hope.
 * From a tape recording (November 18, 1977) to be played in the event of his assassination, quoted in Randy Shilts, The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk (1982), p. 277

 * If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door in the country.
 * From a tape recording (November 18, 1977) to be played in the event of his assassination, quoted in Randy Shilts, The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk (1982), p. 372. Milk made three recordings for this purpose; these words come from the version given to Frank Robinson.

1978

 * Gay brothers and sisters,...You must come out. Come out... to your parents... I know that it is hard and will hurt them but think about how they will hurt you in the voting booth! Come out to your relatives... come out to your friends... if indeed they are your friends. Come out to your neighbors... to your fellow workers... to the people who work where you eat and shop... come out only to the people you know, and who know you. Not to anyone else. But once and for all, break down the myths, destroy the lies and distortions. For your sake. For their sake. For the sake of the youngsters who are becoming scared by the votes from Dade to Eugene.
 * "That's What America Is," speech given on Gay Freedom Day (June 25, 1978) in San Francisco

 * I don't think we have a right to take the people who raised us, who made us strong and healthy, and toss them away like a can of beer.
 * On supporting the elderly, who he called the most oppressed group in America. From Flashback: Meet San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk, NBC News, November 27, 2018, taken from a report in 1978, and Forty years after his death, Harvey Milk's legacy still lives on, NBC News, November 27, 2018.

Undated

 * And the young gay people in the Altoona, Pennsylvanias and the Richmond, Minnesotas who are coming out and hear Anita Bryant in television and her story. The only thing they have to look forward to is hope. And you have to give them hope. Hope for a better world, hope for a better tomorrow, hope for a better place to come to if the pressures at home are too great. Hope that all will be all right. Without hope, not only gays, but the blacks, the seniors, the handicapped, the us'es, the us'es will give up. And if you help elect to the central committee and other offices, more gay people, that gives a green light to all who feel disenfranchised, a green light to move forward. It means hope to a nation that has given up, because if a gay person makes it, the doors are open to everyone.
 * A version of his staple "Hope Speech," quoted in Randy Shilts, The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk (1982), p. 363

Quotes about Harvey Milk

 * Her [Carol Ruth Silver's] subsequent eleven-year career in San Francisco politics included serving on the city's Board of Supervisors, where she was an ally of the first openly gay supervisor, Harvey Milk. They worked together on the first antigay discrimination ordinance in the nation, sponsored the first gay marches in the city, participated in vigils for Soviet Jewry, fought for rent control and tougher environmental controls, and advocated for better services for senior citizens and people with disabilities. "He was just like me, iconoclastic. He had a wonderful sense of humor and he was always willing to do something considered outrageous by other people but which just seemed like the right thing to do."
 * Debra L. Schultz Going South: Jewish Women in the Civil Rights Movement (2002)

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'''For general information about me, please view my page on Wikipedia. Thank you.'''

Created

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 * I shall light a fire upon the fang that falls short, so that I needn't see that star... so that it shall not tear this throat of mine.
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 * It's not like you to say sorry. I was waiting on a different story. This time I'm mistaken for handing you a heart worth breaking. And I've been wrong, I've been down, been to the bottom of every bottle. These five words in my head scream "are we having fun yet?"
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Maurice Denis

Maurice Denis (25 November 1870 - 13 November  1943) was a French painter, decorative artist and writer, who was an important figure in the transitional period between Impressionism and modern art. Denis was associated with Les Nabis, then the  French Symbolist movement with a return to neo-classicism.

Quotes of Maurice Denis

 * chronologically arranged, after date of Maurice Denis' quotes

1890 - 1920

 * Remember that a picture, before being a battle horse, a female nude or some sort of anecdote, is essentially a flat surface covered with colors assembled in a certain order.
 * The profoundness of our emotions comes from the sufficiency of these lines and these colors to explain themselves.. ..everything is contained in the beauty of the work.
 * Quote 1890, from Denis' essay published in the review 'Art et Critique'; as cited on Wikipedia: Maurice Denis - reference [13]
 * In August 1890, Denis consolidated his new ideas and presented them in a famous essay published in the review 'Art et Critique'. In his essay, he termed the new movement 'neo-traditionaism', in opposition to the 'progressism' of the Neo-impressionists, led by Seurat

 * Art remains a sure refuge, the hope of a reason in life from now on, and the consoling thought that little beauty manifests itself in our lives, and that we are continuing the work of Creation.. .Therefore the work of art has merit, inscribed in the marvelous beauty of flowers, of light, in the proportion of trees and shape of waves, and the perfection of faces; to inscribe our poor and lamentable life of suffering, of hope and of thought.
 * Quote, 24 March 1895, from Denis' Journal; as cited on Wikipedia: Maurice Denis - reference [16]

 * Think of late paintings where Christ is the central figure.. .Remember the large mosaics of Rome. Reconcile the employment of large-scale decorative means and the direct emotions of nature.
 * Quote, March 1895, from Denis' Journal; as cited on Wikipedia: Maurice Denis - reference [23]

 * ..the classical aesthetic offers us at the same time a method of thinking and a method of wanting to be, a moral and at the same time a psychology.. .The classical tradition as a whole, by the logic of the effort and the greatness of results, is in some way parallel with the religious tradition of humanity.
 * Quote from Denis's essay 'Les Arts a Rome', 1898; as cited on Wikipedia: Maurice Denis - reference [22]
 * Denis made Jan. 1895 his first visit to Rome, where the works of Raphael and Michaelangelo in the Vatican made a strong impression upon him.

 * The common error of us all [in late Impressionism] was to search above all for the light. It would have been better first to search for the Kingdom of God and his justice, that is to say for the expression of our spirit in beauty, and the rest would have arrived naturally.
 * Art is the sanctification of the nature, of that nature found in everyone who is content to live.
 * 2 Quotes from Denis' 1906 essay 'The Sun'; as cited on Wikipedia: Maurice Denis - reference [29]

 * To synthesize is not necessarily to simplify in the sense of suppressing certain parts of the object: it is to simplify in the sense of rendering intelligible. It is, in short, to put in hierarchic order: to set each picture to a single rhythm, to a dominant; it is sacrifice, to subordinate — to generalize.
 * Quote, 1907 from Denis' text 'Synthetism'; as cited in Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book by Artists and Critics, Herschel Browning Chipp, Peter Selz - 1968, p. 105

 * Art is no longer a visual sensation that we gather, like a photograph, as it were, of nature. No, it is a creation of our spirit, for which nature is only the occasion.
 * Quote of Denis, 1909: from Bouillon 2006, pp. 17-18; as cited on Wikipedia: Maurice Denis - reference [9]

 * What amazement, followed by what a revelation! In place of windows opening on nature, like the impressionists, these were surfaces which were solidly decorative, powerfully colorful, bordered with brutal strokes, partitioned.
 * Quote of Denis, 1909: from Bouillon 2006, pp. 17-18; as cited on Wikipedia: Maurice Denis - reference [9]
 * In 1889, Denis was captivated by an exposition of works of Paul Gauguin and his friends at the Cafe Volponi, on the edge of the Paris Universal Exposition, that year

1921 and later

 * The sublime is to approach the subject or wall with an attitude that is grand, noble, and in no way petty..
 * Quote, 1922; from Bouillon 2006, p. 89; as cited on Wikipedia: Maurice Denis - reference [35]

 * Don't lose sight of the essential objectives of painting, which are expression, emotion, delectation; to understand the means, to paint decoratively, to exalt form and color.
 * Quote from Denis' Journal, 1930; as cited on Wikipedia: Maurice Denis - reference [43]

Nouvelles théories sur l'art moderne..., 1922

 * Quotes from: Nouvelles théories sur l'art moderne, sur l'art sacré, 1922 (New Theories of Modern and Sacred Art)

 * ..Every work of art is a transposition,a caricature,the passionate equivalent of a sensation received.

 * I believe that art should sanctify nature.

 * Painting is first of all the art of imitation, and not the servant of some imaginary 'purity'
 * as cited on Wikipedia: Maurice Denis - reference [42]

 * Art is no longer a purely visual experience.. ..it is a work of our intellect triggered by nature..  ..the imagination again become the queen of our strengths and we liberate our sensitivity.

 * Decorative and edifying. That is what I want art to be before anything else.
 * as cited on Wikipedia: Maurice Denis - reference [41]

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User:Kingdon

I'm also on wikipedia:User:Kingdon and wikipedia:eo:Vikipediisto:Kingdon

My big interest in wikiquote is sources, sources, sources. A large number (most?) of the quotes floating out there are either due to someone other than the one who is attributed, or cannot be verified. We should at least give the earliest published version of the quote, even if we can't track down exactly when and where something was said (or might have been said).

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Source?
Wowbagger appears in the book Life, The Universe, and Everything. For anyone who wants to look it up, it appears on the third page of the first chapter in my particular edition (The Ultimate Hitchiker's Guide). In addition to being full of typographical errors, it only partially matches what appears in my edition of the book, and to some degree appears to be descriptive rather than quoting.

Including a clip of the actual quote as it appears in my text...
 * Wowbagger The Infinitely Prolonged : Wowbagger The Infinitely Prolonged was - indeed, is - one of the MultiVerse’s very small number of immortal beings. Most of those who are born immortal instinctively know how to cope with it, but Wowbagger was not one of them. Indeed, he had come to hate them, the load of serene bastards. He had his immortality inadvertently thrust upon him by an unfortunate accident with an irrational particle accelerator, a liquid lunch, and a pair of rubber bands.

I'm aware that there are other versions of the series, both changes to phrasing in different countries, and things like the radio series and the movie. Can anyone confirm an actual source for this?--Almagesh 19:48, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

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Spring Awakening (musical)

Spring Awakening is a musical, based on the controversial play by Frank Wedekind, which opened on Broadway in December 2006. Music by Duncan Sheik.

Mama who Bore Me

 * (Wendla entire song) Mama, who bore me mama the angels, no sleep in Heaven or Bethlehem.
 * Some pray that one day, Christ will come a calling. They light a candle, and hope that it glows. And some just lie there cryin' for Him to come and find them, but when he comes they don't know how to go.

All That's Known

 * (Melchior entire song) All that's known, in History, Science. Overthrown, at school, at home by blind men. You doubt them, but soon they bark and hound you, till everything you say is just another bad about you. All they say is trust in what is written, wars are made, and somehow that is wisdom. Thought is suspect and money is their idol, and nothing is okay unless it's scripted in their bible. And I know there's so much more to find, just in looking through myself and not at them. I know to trust my own true mind! And to say there's a way through this. On I go, to wonder and to learning. Name the stars and know their dark returning. I'm calling to know the worlds true yearning. The hunger that a child feels for everything they're shown. You watch me! Just watch me! I'm calling it, that one day all will know. You watch me just watch me. I'm calling. I'm calling, and one day all will know!

Bitch of the Living

 * (Moritz) God, I dreamed there was an angel, who could hear me through the wall, as I cried out, like, in Latin "this is so not life at all!" Help me out, out of this nighmare when I heard her silver call. She said just give it time kid I come to one and all. She said give me that hand please and the itch you can't control. Let me teach you how to handle all the sadness in your soul. Oh we'll work that silver magic then we'll aim it at the wall. She said love may you blind kid but I wouldn't mind at all.
 * (All) It's the bitch of the living. Bitch just the bitch. With nothing but you hand just the bitch yeah. Just the bitch of the living
 * (Georg) See each night it's like fantastic, tossing turning without rest, Cause' my days at the piano and my teacher and her breasts. I mean music's like the one thing I can even get at all. And those breasts. I mean, God please just let those apples fall.
 * (All) It's the bitch of the living, bitch just the bitch, living in your head just the bitch yeah.
 * It's the bitch of the living, just getting out of bed"
 * This can't be iiiiiit. Oh God, what a bitch!
 * (Hanschen) Bobby Maler, he's the best. Looks so nasty in those khakis

My Junk

 * We've all got our junk, and my junk is you.
 * It's almost like lovin', sad as that is. May not be cool, but it's so where I live.
 * "You'll have to excuse me, I know it's so off, I love when you do stuff that's rude and so wrong"
 * Fraulein Grossenbustenhaulter: Very well, Georg, and this time bring out the left hand
 * (Georg) You'll have to excuse me, I know it's so off. I love when you do stuff that's rude and so wrong.
 * (Hanschen) I go up to my room turn my room turn my stereo on, shoot up some you, And the you is some song

Touch Me

 * (Melchior) Where I go when I go there, no more memory any more. Only men on distant ships, the women with them swimming with them to shore
 * (Moritz) Where I go, when I go there, no more whispering anymore. Only hymns upon your lip. The broken wishes washing with them to shore.
 * (Ernst) Touch me! Just like that, and that- oh yeah, know that' heaven. Now that I like, god that's so nice. Now lower down, where the figs lie.
 * (Otto) Where I go, when I go there, no more shadows anymore. Only men with golden fins, the rhythm with them rocking with them to shore.
 * (Georg) Where I go, when I go there no more weeping anymore. Only in and out your lips. The broken wishes washing with them to shore.
 * (All) Touch me, all silent. Tell me, please, all is forgiven. Consume my mind, consume my wine. I'll tell you how, how the winds sigh.
 * Moritz: Not that I'm saying I wouldn't want...would ever want to not-- would ever not want..
 * Melchior: Moritz?
 * Moritz: I have to go!
 * Melchior: Moritz- wait!

The Dark I know Well
Ilse: I don't scream, though I know it's wrong. I just play along. I lie there and breathe, ''lie there and breathe I wanna be strong, I want the word to find out, that you're dreaming on me. Me and my beauty''. Martha and Ilse: ''' Me and my beauty. Martha and Ilse: God it's good the loving ain't it good tonight? You ain't seen nothing, yet gonna treat you right. It's just you and me. Child you're a beauty.''
 * Herr Neumann: Ilse? Ilse! Story time...
 * you say all you want is just a kiss good night then you hold me and you whisper, "child the lord won't mind" it's just you and me, child you're a beauty

The Guilty Ones

 * Now our bodies are the guilty ones. Who touch, and color the hours.
 * Father Kaulbach: Ah but children, children, in what ways have we cloaked, and hidden even from ourselves, the secret bargains we have made with out own devils...?
 * Melchior, Wendla, Boys and Girls: And now our bodies are the guilty ones...

(Moritz strides in, waving everyone away)
 * Moritz: Enough, enough. Enough!

Don't Do Sadness/Blue Wind

 * (Moritz) Awful sweet to be a little butterfly! Just winging over things and nothing deep inside! Nothing going, going wild in you, you know. You're slowing by the river side. Or floating high and blue.
 * (Moritz) Or maybe cool to be a little summer wind. Like once through everything and then away again. With the taste of dust in your mouth all day but no need to know. Like sadness, you just sail away.
 * (Moritz) Cause you know! I don't do sadness, not even a little bit! Just don't need it in my life don't want any part of it! I don't do sadness! Hey I've done my time looking back on it all and it blows my mind. I don't do sadness so been there don't do sadness just don't care!
 * (Ilse) Spring and summer, every other day. Blue wind get's so pained blowing through the thick corn through the bales of hay. Through open books on the grass. Sure, when its autum. Wind always wants to creep up and haunt you. This winds got you.
 * (Ilse)Wind always wants to Creep up and haunt you Whistling, it's got you. With it's heartache, and it's sorrowWinter wind sings and it cries.
 * (Moritz) Or maybe I should be some kind of laundry line. Hang your thing on me. And I would swing them dry! You just wave in the sun through the afternoon and then unseen, they come to set you free, beneath rising moon! Cause you know! I don't do sadness, not even a little bit! Just don't need it in my life don't want any part of it! I don't do sadness! Hey I've done my time looking back on it all and it blows my mind. I don't do sadness so been there don't do sadness just don't care!

Totally Fucked

 * There's a moment you know...you're fucked.
 * Herr Knochenbruch: For our part, we have made a thorough examination of the handwriting of this obscene document, and compared it with every single pupil-
 * Melchior: Sir, if you could show me but one obscenity-!
 * Herr Knockenbruch: You must now answer only the precisely stated questions! With a swift "Yes" or "No!

(A beat).
 * Herr Knockenbruch: Melchior Gabor, did you write this?

 * But the thing that makes you really jump, is that the weirdest shit is still to come. You can ask yourself, "Hey what have I done" you're still a fly the little guys they kill for fun.
 * Yeah you're fucked all right and all for spite you can kiss your sorry ass goodbye. Totally fucked will they mess you up well they know they're gonna try
 * blah blah blah blah blah blah blah

The Word of your Body reprise

 * Come cream away the bliss, fondle the pearl of your distant dreams.
 * Oh, I'm gonna be wounded. Oh I'm gonna be your wound. Oh I'm gonna bruise you. Oh I'm gonna be your bruise.

Left Behind

 * (Melichior entire song) You fold his hands and smooth his tie, you gently life his chin. Were you really so blind? And unkind to him? Can't help the itch to touch to kiss to hold him once again. Now to close his eyes, never open them." A shadow past a shadow past yearning yearning for the fool. He called a home. All things he ever did are left behind. All the things his mama wished he bared in mind. And all his dad, had hope he know. The talks you never had the saturday's you never spent. All the grown up places, you never went. And all of the crying you wouldn't understand. You just let him cry, 'make a man out of him. A shadow past a shadow past yearning yearning for the fool. He called a home. All things he ever wished are left behind, all the things that ever flickered through his mind. All the sadness that he'd come to own. And it whistles through the ghosts still left behind.

Act One

 * Hanschen: Darling, don't think I take your murder lightly. The truth is, I can hardly bear to think of those long nights ahead...But it's sucking the marrow from my bones, seeing you lie there. Motionless. Staring at me, so innocently. One of us must go-- it's you, or me.

 * Melchior: With all respect, sir, are you therefore suggesting there is no further room for critical thought or interpretation?

 * Melchior: (Reading aloud as he writes) 27 November. The trouble is: the terrible prerogative of the....Parentocracy in Secondary Education . ..

(The lights shift, rising on Moritz in the schoolyard. Herr Knochenbruch and Fraulein Knuppeldick summon him.)
 * Fraulein Knuppeldick: Herr Stiefel, may we have a word with you?

(Moritz stiffens)
 * Melchior: (Continuing in his journal)....a word where teachers, like parents, view us as merely so much raw material for an obedient and productive society...

(Herr Knockenbruch and Fraulein Knuppeldick approach Moritz, and address him in private conference.) ...a unified military-like body, where all that is weak must be hammered away... (Herr Knochenbruch and Fraulein Knuppeldick continue on their way, leaving Moritz looking like a ghost) ...where the progress of the students reflects back only on the rank and order of the faculty, and therefore a single low mark can be seen as a threat to- (Moritz wanders off-- lost. Wendla approaches Melchior.)
 * Wendla: Melchior?
 * Melchior: (Jumps up, startled) You?!

 * Melchoir: Forgive me.
 * Wendla: It was me. All me.

(Melchoir kisses Wendla)
 * Wendla: No! It's just it's...
 * Melchoir: What? Sinful?
 * Wendla: No, I...I don't know!
 * Melchoir: Beacuse it's good? Beacuse it makes us feel something?

(Wendla kisses Melchoir, and they fall back together onto the hayloft)

Act Two

 * Ilse: What are you looking for?
 * Moritz: If only I knew.
 * Ilse: Then what's the use of looking?

 * Wendla:(to her mother): My God! Why didn't you tell me everything?!

(Frau Bergman slaps Wendla across the face)

(Melchior doubles over, bereft. Spare piano chords-- an otherworldly music begins. Moritz appears-- in song light-- as if rising from his grave)
 * Moritz: ''Those you've known, and lost still walk behind you...
 * Melchior: Moritz?
 * Moritz: All alone, they linger till they find you...
 * Melchior: I've been a fool.
 * Moritz: Without them, the world grows dark around you.

And nothing is the same until you know that they have found you.

(Melchior pulls out a straight razor)
 * Melchior: Well you had the right idea. They'll scatter a little earth, and thank their God!

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My name is David Bergan. I haven't done anything notable. Yet.

G. K. Chesterton has more quotes than Voltaire. Sweet. Long live GK.

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Citing sources
I've resplit this article into Sourced and Unsourced. Sourcing a quote means identifying a work published by a reliable source that contains the quote, so it may be verified by readers. Just giving speech dates and locations does not accomplish this; we need something from a respectable publisher that documents the quote. (The CNN.com citation for "throw themselves at the ground" quote is a good example of this.) I removed the following quotes' "sources" because they aren't adequate. (I took the liberty of reformatting them a bit so what they actually are can be seen without having to follow the links.)

 * Beam me up!
 * traficant.com: "Beam me up" WAV file
 * Common expression of disbelief; originally from Star Trek: The Original Series

 * Now NASA is on an unmanned space mission to the moon. I think NASA should redirect and have an unmanned space mission to Washington, DC, and try to find out if there is any intelligent life left in the Nation's Capital.
 * freetraficant.com: "Submitted Quotes"
 * Quotes submitted by users are equivalent to wikis, forums, and blogs, none having a publisher back their accuracy with their reputation. (Being operated by "PortalOfEvil.com" hardly inspires confidence in accuracy, either.)

 * I think Congress should take the IRS, handcuff them to a chain-link fence, and flog them with their own damn Tax Code.
 * I didn't bother to save this "source", as it was merely a Google cache of a non-functioning site, again not something to suggest accuracy or reliability.

The WAV file includes no documentation, like what page it came from within the website or what speech it came from. The only reason we can even assume it's Traficant is because it's from a website about James Traficant, but we don't even know who operates this site. (Its registration contact is private, and it implicitly claims to be operated by "Friends of Jim", but it doesn't even provide the most basic contact information to vet it properly. Clearly it's operated by amateurs.)

Traficant is a colorful character who "makes great copy", as the press would say. We should be able to come up with proper sources for his quotes. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 08:55, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

 * Many thanks to 1ne for sourcing Traficant's catchphrase "Beam me up!" in a reliable publication. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 23:05, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Unsourced

 * Mr. Speaker, we are here now in chapter 11. Members of Congress are official trustees presiding over the greatest reorganization of any Bankrupt entity in world history, the U.S. Government. We are setting forth hopefully, a blueprint for our future. There are some who say it is a coroner’s report that will lead to our demise. It is an established fact that the United States Federal Government has been dissolved by the Emergency Banking Act, March 9, 1933 …
 * Attributed in several conspiracy theory sources, as discussed in Peter Knight (2003), Conspiracy Theories in American History: An Encyclopedia. The attributed speech continues at great length regarding international bankers, the United Nations, fiat money, admiralty law, and other theories of the Christian Patriot Movement.

 * Now NASA is on an unmanned space mission to the moon. I think NASA should redirect and have an unmanned space mission to Washington, DC, and try to find out if there is any intelligent life left in the Nation's Capital.

 * I think Congress should take the IRS, handcuff them to a chain-link fence, and flog them with their own damn Tax Code.

2002 expulsion and court hearings

 * I want you to disregard all the opposing counsel has said. I think they're delusionary. I think they've had something funny for lunch in their meal, I think they should be handcuffed, chained to a fence and flogged, and all of their hearsay evidence should be thrown the hell out. And if they lie again, I'm going to go over there and kick them in the crotch. Thank you very much.
 * Acting as his own attorney in 2002

 * I will take with me a file, a chisel, a knife, I will try and get some major explosives, try to fight my way out.
 * On the possibility of his incarceration

 * Am I different? Yeah. Deep down, you know you want to wear wider bottoms; you're just not secure enough […] Do I do my hair with a Weed Whacker? I admit.
 * On his clothing and hair style, prior to expulsion vote

 * I wanted to have Playboy bunnies come on at night to meet with me. I wanted to be promiscuous with them.
 * To the Ethics Subcommittee on why he kept a boat docked in the Potomac.

 * I will break out of prison and I'll make a neck tie out of some these bureaucrats.

 * And Janet Reno, if I do not go to jail, I will be in Orlando August 15 and you are not going to be elected to any damn thing. Nobody should fear our Government.
 * Prior to expulsion vote

One-minute speeches

 * Madam Speaker, an investigation revealed that 16,000 IRS employees illegally used their computers. The report states IRS agents spent 50 percent of their time at work on personal business. If that is not enough to service your revenue, IRS agents illegally used their computers for shopping, stock trading, gambling and pornography. Unbelievable. Think about it. While 60 percent of taxpayer calls to the IRS go unanswered, the IRS agents were watching Marilyn Chambers do the Rotary International. Beam me up here. It is time to pass a flat 15 percent sales tax and abolish this gambling, porno-watching IRS completely. I yield back the internal rectal service of the United States of America.
 * 2001-05-25

 * Mr. Speaker, the State Department now admits that China and Cuba have signed a military agreement, and China is shipping weapons into Cuba. But the State Department said, and I quote, "we are not sure if those weapons are lethal". Unbelievable. Every American knows those are not 4th of July fireworks that China is shipping to Cuba, Mr. Speaker. Think about it. China is now selling weapons to Cuba. Castro hates America. Cuba is 90 miles away from America. Beam me up. What is next? A Chinese missile 90 miles away from the United States of America. I yield back the next bay of dragons in America's history.
 * 2001-06-13

 * Mr. Speaker, the endangered sucker fish is living up to its reputation, sucking the livelihood from 1,400 farmers in Oregon. That is right. This protected bottom feeder now has more rights than farmers out there. If that is not enough to fry your mackerel, this region has now been without irrigated water since April, turning 200,000 acres of farmland into near desert. Beam me up. Stop this sucker fish crusade. Free these farmers. I yield back the fact that this sucker fish sucks.
 * 2001-07-12

 * Mr. Speaker, baseball will eliminate two teams. Some surprise. Tickets average 50 bucks. A program is $10; popcorn, $5; parking, $20. A hot dog and a beer cost about $10 to $12 at most stadiums. Beam me up. The umpire said, "Play ball", not "monopoly". When a family of four needs a second mortgage to go see a baseball game in America, it does not take Dr. Ruth to explain to major league baseball what has gone wrong. I yield back what is left of America's great pastime after the greatest World Series perhaps in our history.
 * 2001-11-07

 * Mr. Speaker, the school prayer issue is out of control, literally. Students in Pennsylvania were prohibited from handing out Christmas cards. Reports say students in Minnesota were disciplined for having said merry Christmas. Now if that is not enough to find coal in your athletic supporter, check this out: A school board in Georgia removed the word "Christmas" from their school calendar because the ACLU threatened to sue. Beam me up. If this is religious freedom, I am a fashion model for GQ. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the fact that Christmas is not about a jolly old fat man. Christmas is about the birth of Christ.
 * 2001-12-12

 * Mr. Speaker, reports say that China is two-timing Uncle Sam big time. With one hand China slaps Uncle Sam on the back and wishes us well in Afghanistan. With the other hand China sells missiles and weapons to Iran and Iraq and continues to funnel support under the table to the Taliban. Bottom line, China continues to aid and abet our enemies. Beam me up. I yield back the fact that the Taliban are a fly on our face, but China is a dragon eating our assets. Think about that.
 * 2002-11-28

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User:Pope Benedict XVI

This account has been permanently blocked as having an inappropriate user name, according to Wikimedia policies against impersonations. No name change was requested. ~ Kalki 23:21, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

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User talk:Pope Benedict XVI

Inappropriate username
This name is inappropriate as a username on Wikiquote, unless you were actually Pope Benedict XVI, which is of course, very unlikely. Please choose a name which does not violate Wikimedia policies against impersonations, and I will change your username to that, as soon as I can. Otherwise this username will simply be blocked. ~ Kalki 14:27, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Also please refrain from adding spurious quotes to the articles. This is considered vandalism, and will get you blocked, even if you do create a legitimate username. ~ Kalki 14:36, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

As the only edits this account has made are to these user pages with a spurious ID, and the creation of one page which has been deleted because of spurious content, if no request for a name change is received within the next 24 hours it will simply be blocked. ~ Kalki 22:04, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

This account has been permanently blocked as having an inappropriate user name, according to Wikimedia policies against impersonations. No name change was requested. ~ Kalki 23:21, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

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Douglas Crockford

Douglas Crockford (born 1955) is an American computer programmer and entrepreneur who is best known for his ongoing involvement in the development of the JavaScript language, for having popularized the data format JSON (JavaScript Object Notation), and for developing various JavaScript related tools such as JSLint and JSMin. He is currently a senior JavaScript architect at PayPal, and is also a writer and speaker on JavaScript, JSON, and related web technologies.

Quotes

 * The good thing about reinventing the wheel is that you can get a round one.
 * In response to David Winer

 * Progress comes from finding better ways to do things. Don’t be afraid of innovation. Don’t be afraid of ideas that are not your own.
 * In response to David Winer
 * JavaScript is built on some very good ideas and a few very bad ones. The very good ideas include functions, loose typing, dynamic objects, and an expressive object literal notation. The bad ideas include a programming model based on global variables.
 * JavaScript: The Good Parts, 1.2. Analyzing JavaScript.

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User talk:PDH

I have checked up on your request for a username change, and will perform it as soon as it is confirmed as available on Wikipedia. I wouldn't want to change the name here, and then find out it couldn't be done there. I will probably be online only intermittently today and the next few days, but will get it done as soon after your request goes through on Wikipedia as I can. ~ Kalki 14:07, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
 * The name change has now been done. ~ Kalki 18:17, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

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Talk:Monkey Island

Is it just me, or does The Secret of Formaldehyde Island not exist! Can anyone justify its existance?

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Nope, google search just turns up this wikiquote page as a result. Methinks it's just a "fan" addition. Some of the language used seems to point to it being fake too, such as:

"(Guybrush begins crying, this is probably a reference to the thousands of gamers who complained and felt sorry over the poor little cheerleader Biana, villainess of Nappers Never Sleep)"

So I'm thinking just get rid of the whole section rly.

"Can I call you Bob?"

 * Referring to the undead pirate Bob from the first game whose skull kept falling off

I don't remember that pirate having a name. Isn't the line "Can I call you Bob?" more likely to be a pun on the fact that Murray is bobbing in the water?

 * Possibly, but the pirate in the first name was called Bob. -- Supermorff 18:34, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I tend to think that you're right about the bobbing in the water thing. I have a feeling that if his skull were sitting on the floor in front of a door, Guybrush would have asked to call him Matt, and if he were hanging on the wall he would have asked to call him Art. -- Fatty McGee 11:04, 8 February 2009 (EST)

i dont think this is the way of the joke - anonymous

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/Atisha

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The result was: delete. —LrdChaos (talk) 15:07, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Atisha
Unidentified subject; created by the same anon,, who gave us now-deleted articles on Dylan Richardson and Gavin Wiggins. No information added to the article since its creation. There is a notable Atisha, and the quotes seem plausible for this Buddhist teacher. Sources might provide us with a no-brainer keep. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 02:10, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

 * Vote closed. Result: delete (five votes to delete, one vote to keep, no work performed in the additional week). —LrdChaos (talk) 15:03, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete unless subject identified and at least some sourced quotes added. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 02:10, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

 * Comment: is a well-known and important figure in Buddhism. He is best known for A Lamp for the Path of Enlightenment, which would provide a number of nice quotations (but is not the source for the quotation on the page). A weak source for the quotation on the page can be found here and on several other websites. Unfortunately I am travelling and won't be able to clean this up or provide non-web sources until after the closure date. --Ubiquity 00:19, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I expect to extend any votes during the holidays that appear to have insufficient community participation, so don't worry too much about this. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 01:24, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep. - To be left as an unsourced stub based on all the Google search quote matches with the Buddhist teacher Atisha. - InvisibleSun 07:25, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
 * We don't typically consider Googled quote websites as adequate evidence that a quote is properly attributed. In fact, we routinely reject such arguments from vanity editors, so this is a loophole I'd rather leave closed. I checked for 2 exact phrases in the quote and got 638 without adding the term "Atisha" and 419 with it, suggesting that only 2/3 of them even have this attribution. I'm hoping we can get a real source to back up this strongly suggestive but not reliable evidence. My local library seems light on this subject, but I might get lucky with the usual-suspect quote collections. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 08:45, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment: In voting to keep this page as an unsourced stub, I don't see it as essentially different from many of the other stub articles which we have kept for notable names with no better attributions. It's typical in such cases that a page is created without intro, sourcing, links, etc. — nothing more, in many cases, than a notable name and an unsourced quote.  Another editor will then come along, reformat the article and supply the missing intro, dates, links, etc.; the quote will often remain unsourced.  For this reason I still don't see how this stub deserves deletion as opposed to all the others we have allowed.  It could even be argued that, according to our current practice, a "properly attributed" quote is a contradiction in terms.  If a quote is merely "attributed" or "unsourced," then a determination of whether it is proper, i.e., based on evidence, has not yet been made. If we wish to review our policy on these articles, so much the better; but as long the practice remains as it does, then this one seems no less qualified. - InvisibleSun 09:33, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm probably overreacting to the fact this was created by someone who also created 2 other articles of questionable notability, and that this article has no info whatsoever on the putative subject, with a name that could just as easily be a nom d'Internet for an unnotable as it could a real moniker. I concede that this particular subject probably is meant to be the notable Atisha, but once I got started, I felt it a good idea to track it down for sure. I suspect that even if Ubiquity, I, or someone else don't get a solid source for the quote, folks will agree with you and be willing to give it the benefit of the doubt. On the other hand, given that, out of 8700 articles, we currently have 1230 with cleanup tags and 449 with no-intro tags, with many more likely untagged (given only half a dozen people tagging them), it's not unreasonable to call attention to such an article if there's a good chance to fix the problem. I'm not suggesting VfD for everything, but let's face it: most of this work never gets done without some prodding. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 10:10, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Weak delete. I'd like to see us adopt a rule or guideline for sourced vs. unsourced quotes (in particular, instituting some sort of requirement that a page have at least one sourced quote, which I don't think is unreasonable), but at the present time, we don't have such a thing and we do have more than a fair number of articles consisting entirely of unsourced quotes. However, given the other contributions by this editor, and the lack of any real Google presence of the quote (my search on the first two sentences turned up 40 results, of which several are member profiles for sites and none which provide any further source beyond "Atisha"), I'd really like to see something sourced on this page to consider keeping it. I don't know that not having any sourced quotes, on its own, should be considered good cause for a VFD, but I'd vote the same way on any others that were. —LrdChaos (talk) 14:34, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Weak delete concur with LrdChaos. --Aphaia 14:29, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Weak delete, concur with LrdChaos as the page stands, but it does seem that there may be some work done on this page shortly that may warrant keeping it. Until then, I'd vote to delete. ~ UDScott 15:04, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete Per above comments. --Sir James Paul 17:08, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/Eternal Glory of Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj

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The result was: delete. —LrdChaos (talk) 15:08, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Eternal Glory of Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj
Article created without quotes, only boilerplate text, a rather uninformative intro line, and an external link to a guru's website, of which there are probably millions. (Alexa rank on this one is nearly 3 million.) I added Wikipedia links to the work title and the two principals mentioned, but not one of the three has an article already. I seriously doubt this person, let alone this work, meets basic notability requirements. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 07:43, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

 * Vote closed. Result: delete (five votes to delete, no dissent). —LrdChaos (talk) 15:04, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

 * Delete unless notability evidence provided and sourced quotes added. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 07:43, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. - InvisibleSun 07:03, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. —LrdChaos (talk) 14:58, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. ~ UDScott 15:02, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete Per nom. --Sir James Paul 17:09, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/Kurt Kawohl

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The result was: delete. —LrdChaos (talk) 15:08, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Kurt Kawohl
This appears to be an ancient vanity article (in Wikimedia terms) from User:Kkawohl (w:User:Kkawohl on Wikipedia), with whom Wikimedia seems to have a running battle over self-promotion. See the following pages (listed in chronological order of relevant edits): Some of these discussions are so old that they seem to predate much of the now-established policies on notability and vanity/conflict of interest. Needless to say, there is no Kurt Kawohl article. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 09:36, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * w:Wikipedia:Criteria for inclusion of biographies/cases (November 2003)
 * w:Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Spirituality in The 21st Century (June 2004)
 * w:Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Transcendentalist Theology (July 2004)
 * w:User talk:Kkawohl (June 2005)

 * Vote closed. Result: delete (seven votes to delete, no dissent). —LrdChaos (talk) 15:05, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

 * Delete unless evidence of notability provided and quotes reliably sourced. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 09:36, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

 * Delete. All google hits on this "author" appear to be self-promotion (i.e., not notable). --Ubiquity 15:16, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. —LrdChaos (talk) 14:59, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. ~ UDScott 15:04, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete Per nom and comments.--Sir James Paul 17:10, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. - InvisibleSun 20:43, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. 72.136.165.94 (Sorry that was me Monado 18:35, 6 January 2007 (UTC)) 18:34, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/Angela Beesley

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The result was: delete. —LrdChaos (talk) 15:09, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Angela Beesley
Okay, fellow Wikians. Calm down before you express outrage at this nomination and consider the problem I found here. Our esteemed Angela satisfies the criteria for notability in the real world, but we have a problem with sourced quotes here. There is currently only a single quote, and it is not sourced. (I removed the link to a post in her "wikiangela" blog, which is currently redirecting to Wikipedia's global main page.) Furthermore, Angela herself complained about this source and the motivation of the editor. I can't speak to any of this, but I can see this quote has no reliable source. I spent about 15 minutes trying to scare up one or more sourced quotes, but found that most of the material about Angela is either from Wikimedia or related projects or obscure corporate websites, neither of which are wiki-reliable. Even so, I couldn't find any memorable statements from her in the non-wiki sources, regardless of reliability. I fear the she may not have had any published to date. By our practices, that makes her a notable subject with no sourceable quotes, and therefore worthy of deletion until someone can come up with solid material. I tend to be more, not less, concerned about following established practices when potential conflicts of interest arise, so I found it advisable to nominate this article. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 10:00, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

 * Vote closed. Result: delete (nine votes to delete, no dissent). —LrdChaos (talk) 15:06, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

 * Delete unless sourced quotes added. I plan to remove the existing quote, regardless of how this vote goes, unless it too is sourced. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 10:00, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per Angela's own complaint. I think the same considerations apply here as on the many deletion debates on Angela's Wikipedia page and I don't think that she would have a page but for the use that people want to make of it in on-wiki politics. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 11:12, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. As I mentioned in another nomination, I think we would do well to set down some policy relating to requirements for sourced quotes, and that a page must have at least one. —LrdChaos (talk) 14:57, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete, per the above discussion. I would also second LrdChaos' idea about having at least one sourced quote for most pages as a minimum standard for keeping -- I think we should at least discuss it. ~ UDScott 15:08, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom, et al. Though I'm really surprised there aren't any sourceable quotes by her that we could add. Koweja 16:08, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom, et al. Once the quote page for Angela is deleted, this comment will appear to be my "second edit", so I will completely understand if this !vote is to be discounted on the grounds of my newness or what have you.  I am put off at the unnecessarily harsh way that Angela attacked the person who created this page for her, as I can personally attest to her making the comment "I don’t think anyone will know what a wiki is in 100 years" in her weblog (wikiangela.com) during the month of July 2006.  Weeks later she removed her remarks, rendering this quote, the one that began this page, to be difficult to verify.   RDH3513 09:41, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
 * As I said above, I can't attest to any of that, because I didn't witness it. But even if I had, and regardless of whether Angela was right or wrong in her assessment of the contributor(s), neither personal attestations nor the motivations on any side are relevant. Regardless of the subject, the goal is to include reliably sourced information, and blogs are not reliable sources. (If Angela did remove such information, it would only strengthen the case to avoid the use of blogs, as information from reliable sources is supposed to be retrievable indefinitely for verification.) After some high-profile controversies, Wikimedia has become much more sensitive to the creation of articles with the clear intent of embarrasing their living subjects, formulating w:Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons to prevent unsourced personal attacks. It doesn't mean that embarrassing information shouldn't be included, only that it must be scrupulously sourced. This policy was developed for subjects unrelated to Wikimedia, but it is just as relevant to the very few Wikimedians who qualify as notable in their own right. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 11:54, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete Per nom. --Sir James Paul 17:14, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. - InvisibleSun 20:44, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. unless sourced quotes are added from elsewhere. Monado 18:37, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

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The Awful Truth

The Awful Truth is a 1937 American film about a soon-to-be-divorced couple who go to great lengths to try to ruin each other's romantic escapades.
 * Directed by Leo McCarey. Written by Viña Delmar and Sidney Buchman (uncredited), based on the play by Arthur Richman.

Jerry Warriner

 * I've gotta get a deep Florida tan if it takes all afternoon…All aboard for Miami, Palm Beach and points south.
 * Well, I'm gonna be tanned and Lucy's not gonna be embarrassed. And what wives don't know won't hurt them.
 * I wish Lucy would go out and get some fun for herself now and again. It would do her good. That's the trouble with most marriages today. People are always imagining things. The road to Reno is paved with suspicions. And the first thing you know, they all end up in a divorce court.
 * Perhaps our marriage doesn't mean anything to you?…Perhaps you have no sentiment left for me.
 * So you two are gonna be married. I was glad to hear that. I said to myself, 'That Leeson's just the man for Lucy.'
 * [to Daniel] Take good care of her. Maybe you'll succeed where I failed. And I'm sure that the three of you will be very happy out where the West begins. If you ever think of me, send me a postcard. Just say, 'Having a wonderful time!' I'll understand.
 * Oh, I've heard everything. I'm going out to get some popcorn and pink lemonade. I've just seen a three-ring circus.
 * [to Lucy] I certainly acted like a prized lunatic and I'm sorry…Nothing except the most ridiculous and sickening exhibition mortal man ever made of himself. Oh, I don't know why I act like that….The main idea is, do you accept my apology? Aside from making a blue-ribbon sap of myself today, I must have embarrassed you beyond words. You took it fine, though.
 * [to Barbara] You can't have a happy married life if you're always suspicious. No. There can't be any doubts in marriage. Marriage is based on faith and if you've lost that, you've lost everything.

Lucy Warriner

 * Well, if we haven't had the most terrible time. Armand's car broke down last night a million miles from nowhere and we had to stay at the nastiest little inn you ever saw. No modern conveniences at all. It was dreadful. We were on our way home from the Junior Prom. A pupil of Armand's invited us. And, oh well, it's a long story.
 * (You) can't have a happy married life if you're always going to be suspicious of each other…No one's interested in my night's adventure except Jerry and he knows it's innocent, just as well as he knows that, well, that he just got back from Florida.
 * And then somehow, all of a sudden, the three of us were having lunch together. The man, and Mr. Smith [their dog], and I. And then things began to happen rather swiftly. And finally I said, well I think we'd better get married. And we did. And that way, we were able to give Mr. Smith a better home and live happily ever after. Until now.
 * Put a light in the window if it's yes, two if it's no, and if you can't make up your minds, just pull down the shade.
 * Jerry's always had the most fantastic way of getting into scrapes. Oh, we've had some grand laughs together. [about Daniel] I can't marry him because I'm still in love with that crazy lunatic and there's nothing I can do about it…I tried to forget Jerry.
 * [about Jerry] I'm convinced he must care about me or he wouldn't do the funny things he does.
 * [to Jerry, about Barbara] Tell her I'd love to meet her. Tell her to wear boxing gloves.
 * [to Barbara] I've seen your pictures in the paper and I've wondered what you look like.

Daniel Leeson

 * Just to prove that you're not mad, will ya give me a little kiss?…If you knew how crazy I am about ya, you wouldn't hesitate. I can't sleep nights…I must be in love, 'cause I started writin' poetry to ya. To you my little prairie flower, I'm thinkin' of you every hour. Though now you're just a friend to me, I wonder what the end will be. Oh, you would make my life divine, If you would change your name to mine.
 * [to Lucy] You make me the happiest man in the world! I'm so happy I could eat three steaks.
 * [to Mrs. Leeson] Well, I guess a man's best friend is his mother. I certainly learned about women from you.

Lola Warriner

 * [to Mrs. Vance, about Jerry] We call him Jerry the Nipper. He likes to sneak 'em when nobody's looking. So cute about it too. I've seen him go along a whole evening and apparently not have a thing to drink and all of a sudden fall flat on his puss.
 * What in the world was Dad ever doing with a football?…Of course I remember. Pop loved Princeton. He was there nearly twenty years. If ever a man loved a place, he did - he just adored it. And he certainly kept it looking beautiful. You've seen the grounds, of course?
 * I was working my head off at the Virginia Club but the minute he started doing better, you know what I mean, why he made me give up my job and, uhm, take a trip to London and Paris and uh, I think that was pretty swell, don't you?…it was a little act, kind of uh, well, it's a little hard to explain.
 * Sa-ayy wait a minute! Don't anybody leave this room! I've lost my purse. [the purse is found between the cushions] Oh, well, am I relieved.

Other

 * Armand Duvalle: [about Jerry] He's free of all mean suspicion. Yes, he has more the Continental mind.
 * Attorney: [on the phone] Now, now Lucy, don't do anything in haste that you might regret later. Marriage is a beautiful thing. [to his wife] Please be quiet, will you?…Please shut your mouth!…Will you shut your big mouth! I'll eat when I get good and ready and if you don't like it, you know what you can do, so shut up!
 * Judge: If the divorce is not further contested, it will become final 90 days from this date. The plaintiff and the defendant will then be at liberty to make other marriages if such be their desire.
 * Judge: The custody of the dog will depend upon his own desire.
 * Barbara: [to Jerry, after Lucy answers his phone] Have you made up your mind who the woman is?

Dialogue

 * Armand: Well, in all fairness, you should permit me to remain and explain ourselves.
 * Lucy: Well, American women aren't accustomed to gallantry, Armand. I appreciate your offer, but maybe you had better go.
 * Armand: Oh, pardon me, Mrs. Warriner, you misunderstand. I am a voice teacher, am I not? For one year, she has been my pupil. And from time to time, I pat her on the back. I mean, I congratulate her on her development. Do I express myself?
 * Jerry: Yes, you've been doing all right.
 * Armand: But now my position must be considered. I have never yet been in a scandal.
 * Jerry: Never been caught, huh?
 * Armand: No. I am a great teacher, not a great lover.
 * Lucy: That's right, Armand. No one could ever accuse you of being a great lover. That is, I mean to say, well, well who's to say whether you are or not. It's all so silly, but maybe you had better go.

 * Lucy: It's enough to destroy one's faith, isn't it?
 * Jerry: Oh, I haven't any faith left in anyone.
 * Lucy: I know just how you feel.
 * Jerry: What do you mean?
 * Lucy: You didn't happen to mention in any of your letters what a terrible rainy spell they were having in Florida. The papers were full of it.
 * Jerry: Well, I can explain that, Lucy.
 * Lucy: You can?
 * Jerry: And don't try to change the subject. You think a great offense is a great defense. Don't try to justify your behavior by insinuating things about me.
 * Lucy: But I haven't any behavior to justify. I've just been unlucky, that's all. You've come home and caught me in a truth and it seems there's nothing less logical than the truth.
 * Jerry: Hmm, a philosopher, huh?
 * Lucy: You don't believe me.
 * Jerry: Oh, how can I believe you? The car broke down. People stopped believing that one before cars stopped breaking down.
 * Lucy: Well, his car's very old.
 * Jerry: Well, so's his story.

 * Lucy: I've told you the truth about all this, Jerry. Don't you see that there can't be any doubt in marriage? The whole thing's built on faith. If you've lost that, well, you've lost everything.
 * Jerry: Then I guess we're washed up because we've lost faith in each other.
 * Lucy: Do you mean that?…All right then, that settles it. I wouldn't go on living with you if you were dipped in platinum. So go on, divorce me. Go on, divorce me! It'll be a pleasure. [he refuses] All right, then I'll divorce you. I believe it's customary anyhow for the wife to bring suit. It has something to do with a husband being a gentleman, if you know what I mean? I'll call up our lawyer right now.

 * Aunt Patsy: You know dozens of men who would turn handsprings at the chance to take you out. Here I've got you all dressed up, ready to go out and you weaken and refuse…I want to go where there's life, and I don't mean plant life. I want to go to the theatre, you know, and go places later and step around and do things…I don't need an escort to get a drink. I'm going down to the bar and see Joe. Bartender or no bartender, he's still a man. Maybe he knocks off early.
 * Lucy: Oh, Patty, you wouldn't!
 * Aunt Patsy: I wouldn't, eh? You're talking to a desperate woman. [Mr. Smith jumps up next to Lucy on the couch] Too bad he can't wear a top-hat.

 * Aunt Patsy: Imagine you living right across the hall from us all of this time. [to Lucy] He's a stranger in town. He'd take it as being real neighborly of us if we show him some of the bright spots.
 * Daniel: We're here on a visit. I'm in oil, you know.
 * Aunt Patsy: Marinated, so to speak.
 * Daniel: [laughing] Say, that's a good one. I gotta remember to tell that to my mother.
 * Aunt Patsy: Mr. Leeson. Won't you tell us something about Oklahoma?
 * Daniel: Well, Oklahoma's pretty swell. I got quite a ranch down there. I'd like to have you see it sometime, Mrs. Warriner…I got cattle and horses and chickens and alfalfa.

 * Jerry: This is my day to visit Mr. Smith.
 * Lucy: He's only my husband for - how much longer is it now? Sixty days?
 * Jerry: Fifty-nine.
 * Lucy: Oh, that's better. Only fifty-nine days. Don't worry about him, he has a Continental mind.
 * Daniel: [they shake hands] I'm glad to know ya.
 * Jerry: How can you be glad to know me? I know how I'd feel if I was sitting with a girl and her husband walked in.
 * Lucy: I'll bet you do.
 * Jerry: [to Lucy] You know, I don't think you ought to go around telling people you're not married. He looks like a nice sort of fella. How do you think he feels?
 * Lucy: Why don't you go and play with the dog?
 * Jerry: Don't mind me.
 * Lucy: [to Daniel] Tell me some more about Arizona.
 * Daniel: Oklahoma.

 * Jerry: [about Mr. Smith] Hey, is he getting enough to eat lately? He doesn't look very well.
 * Lucy: Well, you don't look so hot yourself.

 * Daniel: Are you sure you don't like that fella?
 * Lucy: Like him? You saw the way I treated him, didn't you?
 * Daniel: That's what I mean. Back on my ranch, I got a little red rooster and a little brown hen and they fight all the time too, but every once in a while they make up again and they're right friendly.

 * Daniel: I think I'm in love.
 * Mrs. Leeson: You keep your mind off women…She won't want to meet me. She knows that any other woman could see right through her.

 * Lucy: [about Daniel] He's sweet and thoughtful…sane and considerate. I was married to one who was insane and inconsiderate.
 * Aunt Patsy: I didn't expect you to get silly about him…It's fine except the rebound is rarely the real thing. As a matter of fact, it's the bunk.
 * Lucy: Well, I'm serious about Daniel and I like him. I like him very much. I'm all through with Jerry. He doesn't mean a thing to me. I don't love him, and what's more, I probably never did. I'm sure I never loved him and now I hate him. And that surprises you, doesn't it? I hate Jerry Warriner and I like Daniel Leeson very very much and I hope he's just crazy about me because I think he's the finest man I ever met.

 * Jerry: I'm in love with love. In the spring, a young man's fancy likely turns to, uh, what he's been thinking about all winter. How long have you been talking like Amos 'n' Andy, huh?
 * Dixie Belle: Oh, for quite some time. I got wise to the fact that it helps me in my work. So as long as I loved my work, you'll all have to pardon my Southern accent.

 * Jerry: Ah, so you're gonna live in Ok-la-ho-ma, eh Lucy? How I envy you. Ever since I was a small boy, that name has been filled with magic for me. Ok-la-ho-ma!
 * Daniel: We're gonna live right in Oklahoma City!
 * Jerry: Not Oklahoma City itself? Lucy, you lucky girl! No more running around to nightspots. No more prowling around in New York shops. I shall think of you every time a new show opens and say to myself, 'She's well out of it.'
 * Daniel: New York's all right for a visit but I wouldn't want to live here.
 * Lucy: I know I'll enjoy Oklahoma City.
 * Jerry: Well, of course. And if it should get dull, you can always go over to Tul-sa for the weekend. I think a big change like that does one good, don't you?

 * Jerry: [about Dixie Belle] I just met her.
 * Lucy: I guess it was easier to her to change her name than for her whole family to change theirs.
 * Daniel: That'd go great out West.
 * Lucy: It seemed to go pretty well with the cowboy here.
 * Jerry: Do you want to change the subject?

 * Jerry: Look, why don't you two get up and dance, or don't you dance?
 * Daniel: Uh, Lucy doesn't care very much about dancing. Didn't you know that?
 * Jerry: Did Lucy tell you that? She's holding out on ya. She's a beautiful dancer. Why, I used to call her 'Twinkle-toes.' [grinning] Hello Twinkle-toes.
 * Daniel: Have you been foolin' me, you little rascal?
 * Lucy: Well, to tell you the truth, Dan, I-I didn't think you cared much about it.
 * Daniel: Care about it? Why, I could dance till the cows come home! I won several cups at it myself.
 * Lucy: We never won any cups.
 * Jerry: Maybe you had the wrong partner.
 * Daniel: There's a lot in what you say.

 * Jerry: Our divorce was one of those tragedies that you read about in the papers - a trusting woman and a worthless man. I was never good enough for Lucy, and well, finally she found it out. Lucy is above suspicion and always has been. She's as pure as the driven snow, as faithful as she is fair. And I would that I had been worthy to kiss the hem of her garment. Never during our marital bliss did she cause me one moment's uneasiness. Never did I have to ask, 'Lucy, where have you been? What were you doing?' I always knew. I tell you, something wonderful went out of my life when I lost her.
 * Daniel: Oh, I know just how you feel.
 * Jerry: How do ya know? How can you know how it feels to have used up the best years of a woman's life? Well, of course, that's the way it goes.

 * Jerry: What do you see in this fellow?
 * Lucy: Oh, none of your business.
 * Jerry: Not that I care, but uh, what kind of mind could he have that would impress you, huh?
 * Lucy: You might be surprised. You could take a few lessons and profit nicely.
 * Jerry: You'd be surprised what I'd give to get an earful of that.

 * Jerry: I think Barbara and I will be very happy together.
 * Lucy: Let's drink to our future. Here's hoping you and Barbara will be very happy - which I doubt very much…as we go down life's highway, you going your way and I going my way. I think champagne is so fitting to round out our romance. I remember the first drink we ever had together. You in your very best manner said, 'It must be champagne.' And then you offered a toast, you remember?…Being a woman, I do… You said, 'Lend an ear I implore you. This comes from my heart. I'll always adore you. Til death do us part.' Remember?…Oh dear, well, it was pretty swell, I mean, while it lasted, but uh, all beautiful things must end, so, I guess we may as well call it a day.

 * [Lucy poses as Jerry's sister, Lola]
 * Lola: [while pulling on her handkerchief] Will you excuse me, Mrs. Vance? Thank you. [Mrs. Vance rises, but Lola is the one sitting on the handkerchief] Oh look, it's me, isn't it?! [they both resume their seats and Lola again pulls on the handkerchief] It's you this time, Mrs. Vance. [Mrs. Vance rises again] Look, I'll just put it over here and get it out of the way.
 * [Mrs. Vance sits down again and shoots upward, after sitting on Lola's hand]
 * Lola: I guess that could go on and on and on and on.
 * Mrs. Vance: I hope not!
 * Lola: Well, I don't want to be rude but may I have a drink?…I had three or four before I got here, but they're beginning to wear off, and you know how that is.

 *  Jerry: You just thought that if I'd stay up there, you'd show me exactly how innocent a night in the country could be, didn't you?
 * Lucy: Are you still harping on that same old string? Well, it's a matter of complete indifference to me whether you go or stay. I was just trying to make it easier for you, that's all.

 * Jerry: I told you we'd have trouble with this…In a half an hour, we'll no longer be 'Mr. and Mrs.' Funny, isn't it?
 * Lucy: Yes, it's funny that everything's the way it is on account of the way you feel.
 * Jerry: Huh?
 * Lucy: Well, I mean if you didn't feel the way you do, things wouldn't be the way they are, would they? Well, I mean things could be the same if things were different.
 * Jerry: But things are the way you made them.
 * Lucy: Oh no. No, things are the way you think I made them. I didn't make them that way at all. Things are just the same as they always were, only you're the same as you were, too, so I guess things will never be the same again. Good night.

 * Lucy: You're all confused, aren't you?
 * Jerry: Uh-huh. Aren't you?
 * Lucy: No.
 * Jerry: Well, you should be, because you're wrong about things being different because they're not the same. Things are different, except in a different way. You're still the same, only I've been a fool. Well, I'm not now. So, as long as I'm different, don't you think that, well, maybe things could be the same again? Only a little different, huh?
 * Lucy: Do you mean that, Jerry? Are you sure?
 * Jerry: Mmm, hmm.
 * Lucy: No more doubts?…No more being…?
 * Jerry: Except, uh…
 * Lucy: Except what?
 * Jerry: Well, there's only one thing that bothers me.
 * Lucy: What?
 * Jerry: [the door opens] This darn lock.
 * Lucy: Oh, is that all?

Cast

 * Irene Dunne — Lucy Warriner/Lola Warriner
 * Cary Grant — Jerry Warriner
 * Ralph Bellamy — Daniel 'Dan' Leeson
 * Alexander D'Arcy — Armand Duvalle
 * Cecil Cunningham — Aunt Patsy
 * Molly Lamont — Barbara Vance
 * Esther Dale — Mrs. Leeson
 * Joyce Compton — Dixie Belle Lee
 * Robert Allen — Frank Randall
 * Robert Warwick — Mr. Vance
 * Mary Forbes — Mrs. Vance

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Vittore Pisani

Vittore Pisani (1899–1990) was an Italian linguist.

Quotes

 * The Macedonian language is actually an artifact produced for primarily political reasons.
 * Il Macedonico, Paideia, Rivista Letteraria di informazione bibliografica, vol. 12, p. 250 (1957)

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Faisal I of Iraq

King Faisal I of Iraq (May 20, 1885 – September 8, 1933), also known as Faisal bin Hussein, was the King of Iraq from 1921-1933 and the son of Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca.

Quotes

 * We Arabs, especially the educated among us, look with the deepest sympathy on the Zionist movement.... We will wish the Jews a most hearty welcome home.
 * From correspondence with American Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter.
 * Tessler, Mark. A History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Indiana UP, Bloomington and Indianapolis. P. 152.

Memorandum about Independence of Iraq

 * Iraq is a kingdom ruled by a Sunni Arab government founded on the wreckage of Ottoman rule. This government rules over a Kurdish segment, the majority of which is ignorant, that includes persons with personal ambitions who lead it to abandon it [the government] under the pretext that it does not belong to their ethnicity. [The government also rules over] an ignorant Shiite majority that belongs to the same ethnicity of the government, but the persecutions that had befallen them as a result of Turkish rule, which did not enable them to take part in governance and exercise it, drove a deep wedge between the Arab people divided into these two sects. Unfortunately, all of this made this majority, or the persons who harbor special aspirations, the religious among them, the seekers of posts without qualification, and those who did not benefit materially from the new rule, to pretend that they are still being persecuted because they are Shiites.
 * The Making of State and Nation Since 1920, p. 71

Quote about

 * In 2002, as the American and British governments prepared their plans for the swift invasion and what they confidently assumed would be a short occupation of Iraq, they would have been wise to look at that earlier occupation. The British had assumed then that it would be easy, that the locals would welcome them or at least remain quiescent, and that they would find an obliging Arab ruler to act as their proxy. Moreover, Iraq would pay for itself by exporting wheat and, possibly, the oil that was yet to be exploited. Those illusions barely lasted a year. In the summer of 1920, British forces were stretched to the limit as they tried to contain widespread revolts across the country. Although the British thought they had found their ruler in Feisal, whom they made king the following year, he never proved to be the compliant ruler they wanted. Iraq remained an uneasy and troublesome part of the British sphere of influence right up to the 1950s.
 * Margaret MacMillan, The Uses and Abuses of History (2008), p. 173

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Angels in America

Angels in America is an award winning 2003 HBO miniseries adapted from the play of the same name by the American playwright Tony Kushner, Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes. Kushner adapted his original text for the screen, and Mike Nichols directed.

The Problem with Louis

 * Norman "Belize" Arriaga: You know what your problem is, Louis? Your problem is that you are so full of piping hot crap that the mention of your name draws flies.

I'm a Mormon.

 * Harper Pitt: I'm a Mormon.
 * Prior Walter: I'm a homosexual.
 * Harper: Oh. In my church we don't believe in homosexuals.
 * Prior: In my church we don't believe in Mormons.

I Can't Believe You're a Mormon

 * Louis Ironson: I can't believe you're a Mormon. I can't believe I spent three weeks in bed with a Mormon.
 * Joe Pitt: Good morning. [he ruffles Louis' hair and gets up]
 * Louis: I can't believe you didn't tell me.
 * Joe: I did.
 * Louis: Yeah, after I asked. I thought you were a Protestant or something.
 * Joe: Well, I'm not.
 * Louis: But you're a lawyer! A serious lawyer!
 * Joe: The chief clerk of the chief justice of the Supreme Court is a Mormon, Louis.

When Your Heart Breaks, You Should Die

 * Harper Pitt: I don't understand why I'm not dead. When your heart breaks, you should die. But there's still the rest of you. There's your breasts and your genitals... They're amazingly stupid, like babies or faithful dogs. They don't get it, they just want him. Want him.

Was It Legal?

 * Roy Cohn: Yeah, you heard of Ethel Rosenberg. Maybe even read about her in the history books. Well, if it wasn't for me, Joe, Ethel Rosenberg would be alive today, writing some personal-advice column for Ms. Magazine. She isn't. Because, during the trial, Joe, I was on the phone every day talking with the judge. Every day, doing what I do best — talking on the telephone. Making sure that that timid Yid nebbish on the bench did his duty to America, to history. That sweet, unprepossessing woman, two kids, boo-hoo-hoo, reminded us all of our little Jewish mamas. She came this close to getting life. I pleaded till I wept to put her in the chair. Me, I did that. I'd have fucking pulled the switch if they let me. Why? Because I fucking hate traitors. Because I fucking hate communists. Was it legal? Fuck legal! Am I a nice man? Fuck nice! They say terrible things about me in The Nation? Fuck The Nation! You want to be nice or you want to be effective?! You want to make the law, or be subject to it? Choose!

My Wrath

 * Angel: My wrath is as fearsome as my countenance is splendid!

There are no Angels in America

 * Louis Ironson: There are no gods here, no ghosts and spirits in America, there are no angels in America, no spiritual past, no racial past, there's only the political, and the decoys and the ploys to maneuver around the inescapable battle of politics.

I'm no Good at Tests, Martin. I'd Rather Cheat

 * Roy Cohn: Yea, AZT. I want my own private stash, Martin. Of serious, honest-Abe medicine that I control here in the room with me. No placebos. No, I'm no good at tests, Martin. I'd rather cheat. So, send me my pills with a get-well bouquet, pronto, or I'm gonna ring up CBS and sing Mike Wallace a song. You know the ballad of adorable Ollie North and his secret Contra slush fund. You only think you know all I know. I don't even know what all I know. Half the time I just make it up and it still turns out to be true! We learned that trick in the fifties.

No Consequence

 * Angel: [To Prior] The stiffening of your penis is of no consequence!

The Polestar of Human Evil

 * Louis Ironson: I don't believe you! Not Roy Cohn! He's like...the polestar of human evil. He's the worst human being who ever lived. He's not human, even.

Hung up on words

 * Roy Cohn: Your problem, Henry, is that you are hung up on words, on labels: "gay", "homosexual", "lesbian." You think they tell you who a person sleeps with, but they don't tell you that. Like all labels, they refer to one thing and one thing only: Where does a person so identified fit in the food chain? In the pecking order. Not ideology or sexual taste, but something much simpler: clout. Who owes me favors. Not who I fuck or who fucks me, but who will pick up the phone when I call. To someone who doesn't understand this, homosexual is what I am because I sleep with men, but this is wrong. Homosexuals are not men who sleep with other men. Homosexuals are men who, in 15 years of trying, can't get a pissant anti-discrimination bill through City Council. They are men who know nobody, and who nobody knows. Now, Henry, does that sound like me?
 * Henry: No.
 * Roy: No. I have clout — lots! I pick up that phone, dial 15 numbers, and guess who's on the other end of the line? In under five minutes, Henry.
 * Henry: The President.
 * Roy: Better — his wife.
 * Henry: I'm impressed.
 * Roy: I don't want you to be impressed, Henry — I want you to understand. This is not sophistry, and this is not hypocrisy. This is reality. I have sex with men, but unlike nearly every other man of which this is true, I bring the guy I'm screwing to Washington, and President Reagan smiles at us and shakes his hand, because what I am is defined entirely by who I am. Roy Cohn is not a homosexual. Roy Cohn is a heterosexual man who fucks around with guys.

I Hate America

 * Norman "Belize" Arriaga: I hate America, Louis. I hate this country. Nothing but a bunch of big ideas and stories and people dying, and then people like you. The white cracker who wrote the national anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word 'free' to a note so high nobody can reach it. That was deliberate. Nothing on Earth sounds less like freedom to me. You come to room 1013 over at the hospital, Louis, I'll show you America. Terminal, crazy and mean. I live in America, Louis. I don't have to love it. You do that. Everybody’s gotta love somethin'.

My New Deal Pinko Parents Would Never Forgive Me

 * Louis Ironson: I'm not saying Kaddish for him. The drugs, okay, fine, sure. But no fucking way am I praying for him. My New Deal pinko parents in Schenectady would never forgive me. They're already so disappointed. He's a fag, he's an office temp. Now look, he's praying for Roy Cohn.

Darts at a blob of jello

 * Belize: But I've got better things with my time than to sit here and listen to this racist bullshit simply because I feel sorry for you-
 * Louis Ironson: I am not racist!
 * Belize: Oh, come on.
 * Louis Ironson:…So maybe I am a racist.
 * Belize: Scoffs I really hate that. It's no fun picking on you, Louis. You're so guilty. It's like throwing darts at a glob of jello. There are no satisfying hits, just quivering. The darts just plop in and vanish.

What Kind of a Homosexual are You Anyway?

 * Norman "Belize" Arriaga: Look at that heavy sky out there.
 * Louis Ironson: Purple.
 * Belize: Purple? What kind of a homosexual are you anyway? That's not purple, Mary, that color up there... is mauve.

Beyond Nelly

 * Prior Walter: Out of my way, I wanna meet my replacement [pushes past Belize into Joe Pitt's office] Oh, God.
 * Joe Pitt: Yes, can I help you?
 * Prior: [stares] I'm a prophet.
 * Joe: What?
 * Prior: PROPHET! PROPHET! I PROPHESY, I HAVE SIGHT, I SEE! What do you do?
 * Joe: [slightly stunned] I'm a clerk.
 * Prior: Oh, big deal, a clerk? You, what, you file things? You better be keeping a file on the hearts you break. That's all that counts in the end. You'll be having bills to pay in the world to come. You and your friend, the Whore of Babylon. Sorry, wrong room.
 * Prior: [back outside with Belize] He's the Marlboro Man!
 * [After Belize goes inside to look]
 * Prior: Home on the range!
 * Norman "Belize" Arriaga: Chaps and spurs.
 * Prior: Mega-butch! He made me feel beyond nelly, like I've got wispy daisies sprouting out my ears.

After This Misery Ends

 * Roy Cohn: [delirious, under the impression that Belize is the Angel of Death] Can I ask you something, sir?
 * Norman "Belize" Arriaga: "Sir"?
 * Roy: What's it like? After?
 * Belize: After...?
 * Roy: This misery ends?
 * Belize: Hell or heaven?
 * Roy: [laughs]
 * Belize: Like San Francisco.
 * Roy: A city! Good! I was worried... it'd be a garden. I hate that shit.
 * Belize: Mmmm. Big city. Overgrown with weeds, but flowering weeds. On every corner a wrecking crew and something new and crooked going up catty corner to that. Windows missing in every edifice like broken teeth, gritty wind, and a gray high sky full of ravens.
 * Roy: Isaiah.
 * Belize: Prophet birds, Roy. Piles of trash, but lapidary like rubies and obsidian, and diamond-colored cow spit streamers in the wind. And voting booths. And everyone in Balenciaga gowns with red corsages, and big dance palaces full of music and lights and racial impurity and gender confusion. And all the deities are creole, mulatto, brown as the mouths of rivers. Race, taste and history finally overcome. And you ain't there.
 * Roy: And Heaven?
 * Belize: That was Heaven, Roy.
 * Roy: The fuck it was!

Greetings Prophet

 * Angel: Greetings Prophet!  The great work begins!  The Messenger has arrived!

 * "The great work begins" was first written by psychoanalyst Carl G. Jung in 1918, and can be found in The Red Book\Liber Novus page 211. This line appears, contained within the introduction, under the header The Way To the Self, in which Jung includes a dialogue between the unconscious self and the Soul:
 * Self: What induces you to keep me awake?
 * Soul: Now is no time to sleep, but you should be awake and prepare important matters in nocturnal work. The great work begins.

The Kindness of Strangers

 * Prior Walter: I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
 * Hannah Pitt: Well, that's a stupid thing to do.

We Won't Die Secret Deaths

 * Prior Walter: This disease will be the end of many of us, but not nearly all, and the dead will be commemorated and will struggle on with the living, and we are not going away. We won't die secret deaths anymore. The world only spins forward. We will be citizens. The time has come.

The Idea

 * Prior Walter: [to Louis] You cry, but you endanger nothing in yourself. It's like the idea of crying when you do it. Or the idea of love.

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Breaking Up

Breaking Up is a 1997 film about a couple that keeps breaking up constantly.
 * Directed by Robert Greenwald. Written by Michael Cristofer.

Steve

 * Who says we want what we think we want? We want what we think we are supposed to want? Like what the books tell us to want. And the movies. That's what I wanted. Happy. Happy, happy, happy. Shit like that, ok? We didn't get that. That's the end of that. Ok? It's not ... the end of us. It's the end of a dream, that's all. You wake up in the morning, the dream's over, so what? We're still here ...

 * Maybe dull is the answer. Maybe dull will last.

Monica

 * There used to be reasons for people to be together, like stability, security and maybe even a kid. But you see, I don't need you for the those reasons nowadays. I mean, I can get them on my own now if I wanted to. So ... if there are no real reasons for two people to be together, then you are into unreal reasons, fantastic reasons, like happiness, good company and comfort and understanding and emotional support ... God, you wouldn't ask that much from a saint. So you look at this person and you say ... what the good is this person for anyway?

 * Something happened to the world and nobody understood it. It was confusing and people started jumping to conclusions. There are no more absolutes. Time, space, good, evil - the things we know the things we believe in the things we see we thought we understood these things. But maybe we don't, maybe they're all relative.

Dialogue

 * Monica: We are supposed to be talking!
 * Steve: [screaming] We are talking!
 * Monica: No, we are not talking.
 * Steve: Ok, we'll talk, talk! … talk! talk!
 * Monica: Aaaah!

 * Monica: You really make me sick.
 * Steve: Oh, thank you very much!
 * Monica: If I eat, I wanna throw up. If I don't, I get a headache. If I sleep, I have nightmares. If I don't sleep, I get depressed. I can't move. I am stuck on a chair, just going over every word, and it just makes me even sicker.
 * Monica: This is your idea of a conversation?

 * Steve: I'm going crazy…
 * Monica: See, that's different! I thought it was your everyday garden-variety existential crisis. But crazy is different.

 * Steve: I used to wake up ... I'd fall asleep and then I'd be wide awake and I just had to get out of here.
 * Monica: Why?
 * Steve: Not coz it was bad, ok? Coz being here with you, everything else was far away, just gone ... me and my life and everything I do and what I am. I was losing that here. I'd wake up and think "it's gone, I'm gone." I got to get back and see if it's still there. Coz here ... I don't know who I am here.

 * Steve: ... It changes everything.
 * Monica: It's supposed to change everything, Steve.
 * [pause]
 * Steve:Love, right? ... But suppose it doesn't last? I got to hang on to what I have besides this ...

 * Monica: You think you have free will. You make decisions, you make things happen. According to Marx, this is just behavior, superficial behavior. Underneath this behavior, there are patterns determining our destiny. And, here's the killer ... we have no control over them. No matter what we do, it makes no difference to the path of history.
 * Steve: Want to try and take a house in the beach this summer?
 * Monica: Can we afford it?

 * Monica: 20th century man, doubt.
 * Steve: What are you talking about now?
 * Monica: You me, everybody ... this is why we aren't sure of anything. this is why we feel cut off, drifting. this is why we can't make a commitment .... nothing means anything to us. You see what I mean?
 * Steve: You are saying you don't want to get married?
 * Monica: No, I am saying what I am saying.

 * Monica: I used to do that all the time, you know? I used to ask people stuff like if they were happy or stuff like that. I don't do it any more because it's stupid and none of my business.
 * Steve: [nods in agreement].
 * [pause]
 * Monica: Are you happy?

Cast

 * Russell Crowe — Steve
 * Salma Hayek — Monica

title: Breaking Up


text:
Utah

Utah is a state in the United States. It became the 45th state admitted to the Union on January 4, 1896. It is bordered by Nevada to the west, Idaho and Wyoming to the north, Colorado to the east, New Mexico to the southeast, and Arizona to the south. Utah is the 13th-largest, the 33rd-most populous, and the 10th-least-densely populated of the 50 United States. Utah has a population of about 2.9 million, approximately 80% of whom live along the Wasatch Front, centering on Salt Lake City, leaving vast expanses of the state nearly uninhabited. Its state government is currently controlled by the Republican Party, and its current Governor is Spencer Cox.

Quotes

 * Among the many settlements which lay dotted over the whole of the American continent the strangest perhaps was the Mormon colony at Salt Lake City. In the spring of 1847 members of this revivalist and polygamist sect started from the state of Illinois under their prophet leader, Brigham Young, to find homes free from molestation in the West. By the summer they reached the country round Salt Lake, and two hours after their arrival they had begun establishing their homes and ploughing up the soil.
 * Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Volume IV: The Great Democracies (1958), pp. 113

 * Within three years a flourishing community of eleven thousand souls, combining religious fervour, philoprogenitiveness, and shrewd economic sense, had been established by careful planning in the Salt Lake country, and in 1850 the territory received recognition by the Federal Government under the name of Utah. The colony was established in a key position on the trail which led both to Oregon and California. The sale of food and goods to the travellers and adventurers who moved in both directions along this route brought riches to the Mormon settler, and Salt Lake City, soon tainted, it is true, by the introduction of more lawless and unbelieving elements, became one of the richest cities in America.
 * Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Volume IV: The Great Democracies (1958), pp. 113-114

 * Utah will yet become the treasure-house of the nation.
 * Abraham Lincoln, Edward Tullige in "History of Salt Lake City" (1886), p. 697.

 * More and more, I like Utah.
 * Jay Nordlinger, Twitter post (19 April 2019)

 * Wilderness and the life dependent on it are fragile entities. They can be destroyed in a matter of years, if not days. Legislative protection is the surest way to maintain a wilderness reserve on our hungry and crowded planet. When wilderness is protected, watershed is protected. Biological diversity is protected. Game is protected. The proper functioning of a natural system is protected. Our quality of life is protected.
 * Wayne Owens, forward to Wallace Earle Stegner et al., Wilderness at the Edge: A Citizen Proposal to Protect Utah's Canyons and Deserts (1989)

 * Utah's my home. I couldn't live anywhere else. Sometimes, I get annoyed when I hear legislators say stupid things, but I'm sure legislators say stupid things everywhere.
 * Helen Z. Papanikolas Interview (2000)

 * This was the country the Mormons settled, the country which, as Brigham Young with some reason hoped, no one else wanted. Its destiny was plain on its face, its contempt of man and his history and his theological immortality, his Millennium, his Heaven on Earth, was monumentally obvious. Its distances were terrifying, its cloudbursts catastrophic, its beauty flamboyant and bizarre and allied with death.
 * Wallace Stegner, Mormon Country (1982).

 * The Utah deserts and plateaus and canyons are not a country of big returns, but a country of spiritual healing, incomparable for contemplation, meditation, solitude, quiet, awe, peace of mind and body. We were born of wilderness, and we respond to it more than we sometimes realize. We depend upon it increasingly for relief from the termite life we have created. Factories, power plants, resorts, we can make anywhere. Wilderness, once we have given it up, is beyond our reconstruction.
 * Wallace Stegner, Wilderness at the Edge (1990), introduction.

 * In 1849 the Mormons organized a "free and independent" government and erected the "State of Deseret," with Brigham Young as its head. But the very next year Congress deliberately snubbed it and created the "Utah Territory" out of the same accumulation of mountains, sage-brush, alkali and general desolation, -- but made Brigham Governor of it.
 * Mark Twain, Roughing It (1872).

title: Utah