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Talk:Tea

The following quotes were moved here from the page because the source has no apparent notability. If he is notable, please create a wp page, a wq page or add evidence of notability here. ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 07:57, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

 * "Tea is drunk to forget the din of the world." — T'ien Yiheng

"Japanese proverb" removal
The following proverb is not in Japanese proverbs. After talking to Aphaia, who is not sure of such proverb (or maybe it's just a bad translation), I decided to move it here. Only add it if you can confirm it's a proverb (in which case add it, and the Japanese original, to the proverbs page) or if you can attribute it to someone (Aphaia said it sound like something a tea master might say). ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 20:37, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

 * "A man without tea in him is incapable of understanding truth and beauty." ~ Japanese proverb

This quote is from Okakura Kakuzo, Book of Tea (1906)

Actually the quote does not seem to be in Okakura's book. A word search failed to find it. 46.11.46.185 21:32, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

claimed Lady Astor quote removal
I removed the follow spurious exchange between Lady Astor and Sir Winston Churchill:

 * "Mr. Churchill, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea!" "And if you were my wife, I would drink it!"
 * Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989) notes:

 * Exchange described as a false story by George Thayer in a review of a book about Churchill.—The Washington Post, April 27, 1971, p. B6.

 * Thayer spent a year as research assistant to Randolph Churchill on the biography of his father, Sir Winston Churchill. Another story Thayer declared false has Lady Astor reproaching Churchill, “Winston, you are drunk,” to which he replied, “Indeed, Madam, and you are ugly—but tomorrow I’ll be sober.”

 * http://www.bartleby.com/73/2004.html

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LiveJournal quote removal
I removed the following quote due to doubt of notability. It sounds a bit witty but from my view not meets our notability criteria - "quotes from notable people". --Aphaia 05:20, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
 * "When the news reporter said 'Shopkeepers are opening their doors bringing out blankets and cups of tea' I just smiled. It's like yes. That's Britain for you. Tea solves everything. You're a bit cold? Tea. Your boyfriend has just left you? Tea. You've just been told you've got cancer? Tea. Coordinated terrorist attack on the transport network bringing the city to a grinding halt? TEA DAMMIT!" - "jslayeruk," posted on LiveJournal
 * It's featured by Snopes and show all over the place in viral quotes lists. Circeus 15:50, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

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 * The entire British Empire was built on cups of tea ... and if you think I'm going to war without one, mate, you're mistaken.
 * Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.

 * Computer... Tea, Earl Grey, hot.
 * Jean-Luc Picard

 * If you are cold, tea will warm you. If you are heated, it will cool you. If you are depressed, it will cheer you. If you are excited, it will calm you.
 * William Gladstone

 * A true warrior, like tea, shows his strength in hot water.
 * Chinese proverb

 * Drinking a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary.
 * Chinese proverb

 * Rather three days without food than a day without tea.
 * Chinese proverb

 * Bring me a cup of tea and 'Times'.
 * Queen Victoria's first command upon the throne

 * Tea pot is on, the cups are waiting, Favorite chairs anticipating, No matter what I have to do, My friend there's always time for you.
 * Unknown

 * Tea and books - Mmmmmm, two of life's exquisite pleasures that together bring near-bliss.
 * Christine Hanrahan

 * Women are like tea bags, they don't know how strong they are until they get into hot water.
 * Eleanor Roosevelt

 * The spirit of the tea beverage is one of peace, comfort and refinement.
 * Arthur Gray in The Little Tea Book (1903).

 * To an Englishman, tea is of far greater importance than toilet paper.
 * — anon.

 * There is no trouble so great or grave that cannot be much diminished by a nice cup of tea.
 * Bernard-Paul Heroux.

 * Tea in Iran has the role of wine in France.
 * Rose-Marie Kivijärvi, in the iranian documentary Tea and coffee society (2009).

 * Of course, Abu Latif in Tea house had no intention of selling something. He Drink last cup of Arabic tea...and farewell with the golden dome. ~ In town cannot find a doctor (Personal Blog) by Jamal Naserizadeh (Jamal Nazareth).

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Talk:Irony

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 * "Irony is jesting behind hidden gravity." ~ John Weiss

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Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (25 May 1803 – 18 January 1873) was an English novelist, playwright, and politician.

Quotes

 * The Wind and the Beam loved the Rose, And the Rose loved one: For who recks the Wind where it blows?  Or loves not the Sun?None knew whence the humble Wind stole,  Poor sport of the skies: None dreamt that the Wind had a soul  In its mournful sighs.O happy Beam, how canst thou prove  That bright love of thine? In thy light is the proof of thy love,  Thou hast but to shine.How its love can the Wind reveal?  Unwelcome its sigh: Mute, mute to the Rose let it steal—  Its proof is—to die!
 * "Nydia’s Song", often anthologised, including by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch in The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse (1912)

 * Two lives that once part, are as ships that divide When, moment on moment there rushes between    The one and the other, a sea,— Ah, never can fall from the days that have been    A gleam on the years that shall be.
 * "A Lament", in The Poetical and Dramatic Works of Sir Edward Bulmer Lytton, Bart, Vol. III (London: Chapman & Hall, 1853), p. 226
 * Compare "Ships that pass in the night", Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863), Part III, "The Theologian's Tale: Elizabeth", IV.

The Disowned (1828)

 * There is no society, however free and democratic, where wealth will not create an aristocracy.
 * Chapter III

 * A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
 * Chapter XXXIII

 * The easiest person to deceive is one’s own self.
 * Chapter XLII

 * It is not Wisdom, but Ignorance, which teaches men presumption; Genius may be sometimes arrogant, but nothing is so diffident as Knowledge.
 * Chapter LXII

Paul Clifford (1830)

 * He is certainly a man who bathes and "lives cleanly," (two especial charges preferred against him by Messrs. the Great Unwashed).
 * Dedicatory Epistle
 * This is the origin of the rather derogatory phrase, "the great unwashed".

 * It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.
 * Book I, Chapter I
 * "It was a dark and stormy night" is probably the most parodied and ridiculed opening line in literature. It is the inspiration for a satirical prize, the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, and was used by Charles M. Schultz in the Peanuts cartoons.

 * Repent!—that is the idlest word in our language.
 * Book I, Chapter XVIII

Eugene Aram (1832)

 * Poverty makes some humble, but more malignant.
 * Book I, Chapter VII

 * The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells.
 * Book I, Chapter VII

 * Love is a very contradiction of all the elements of our ordinary nature: it makes the proud man meek,—the cheerful, sad,—the high-spirited, tame; our strongest resolutions, our hardiest energy, fall before it. Believe me, you cannot prophesy of its future effect in a man from any knowledge of his past character.
 * Book I, Chapter X

 * Fate laughs at probabilities.
 * Book I, Chapter X.

The Last Days of Pompeii (1834)

 * Buy my flowers—O buy—I pray! The blind girl comes from afar; If the earth be as fair as her children say, These flowers her children are!
 * "The Blind Flower-Girl's Song", in Book I, Chapter II

 * He who has loved often has loved never.
 * Book I, Chapter II

 * Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm; it is the real allegory of the tale of Orpheus—it moves stones, it charms brutes. Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
 * Book I, Chapter VIII

 * There is no tongue that flatters like a lover's; and yet, in the exaggeration of his feelings, flattery seems to him commonplace.
 * Book III, Chapter IX

Ernest Maltravers (1837)

 * The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.
 * Book I, Chapter XIV

 * Books are waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.
 * Book I, Chapter XV

 * There is no anguish like an error of which we feel ashamed.
 * Book II, Chapter III

 * When stars are in the quiet skies,  Then most I pine for thee; Bend on me, then, thy tender eyes,  As stars look on the sea!
 * "Night and Love", in Book III, Chapter I

Alice, or The Mysteries (1838)

 * Beauty, thou art twice blessed; thou blessest the gazer and the possessor; often at once the effect and the cause of goodness! A sweet disposition—a lovely soul—an affectionate nature—will speak in the eyes—the lips—the brows—and become the cause of beauty. On the other hand, they who have a gift that commands love, a key that opens all hearts, are ordinarily inclined to look with happy eyes upon the world—to be cheerful and serene—to hope and to confide. There is more wisdom than the vulgar dream of in our admiration of a fair face.
 * Book II, Chapter I

 * There is an old age which has more youth of heart than youth itself!
 * Book V, Chapter I

 * When the People have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
 * Book VI, Chapter V

The Lady of Lyons (1838)

 * Castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up.
 * Act I, Scene III

 * Rank is a great beautifier.
 * Act II, Scene I

 * Curse away! And let me tell thee, Beauseant, a wise proverb The Arabs have,—"Curses are like young chickens, And still come home to roost!"
 * Act V, Scene II

Richelieu (1839)

 * You speak As one who fed on poetry.
 * Act I, Scene I

 * Love hath no need of words.
 * Act I, Scene II

 * Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword.
 * Act II, Scene II
 * This is the origin of the much quoted phrase "the pen is mightier than the sword". Compare: "Hinc quam sic calamus sævior ense, patet. The pen worse than the sword", Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 4, Subsect. 4.

 * Take away the sword— States can be saved without it!
 * Act II, Scene II

 * Ambition has no risk.
 * Act III, Scene I

 * In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves For a bright manhood, there is no such word As "fail".
 * Act III, Scene I

 * Our glories float between the earth and heaven Like clouds which seem pavilions of the sun, And are the playthings of the casual wind.
 * Act V, Scene III

Night and Morning (1841)

 * When a person's down in the world, I think an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.
 * Book I, Chapter VI

 * The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan.
 * Book I, Chapter VI

 * Little minds give importance to the man who gives importance to nothing.
 * Book IV, Chapter VII

Zanoni (1842)

 * Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.
 * Book II, Chapter VI

 * To the man who aspires to know, no man who has been the meanest student of knowledge should be unknown.
 * Book III, Chapter IV

 * Man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance.
 * Book IV, Chapter IV

 * We commenced research where modern conjecture closes its faithless wings. And with us, those were the common elements of science which the sages of to-day disdain as wild chimeras, or despair of as unfathomable mysteries.
 * Book V, Chapter X, Letter I
 * Quoted by H.P. Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled, Part One, Science, Ch. 1 (1877)

 * Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.
 * Book VII, Chapter XVI

The Last of the Barons (1843)

 * Happy the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame—to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell!
 * Book V, Chapter I

 * Though Hope be a small child, she can carry a great anchor!
 * Book VIII, Chapter IV

 * Night, to the earnest soul, opens the Bible of the Universe, and on the leaves of Heaven is written,—"God is everywhere!"
 * Book IX, Chapter V

 * "It is destiny!"—phrase of the weak human heart! "It is destiny!"—dark apology for every error! The strong and virtuous admit no destiny! On earth, guides Conscience—in heaven, watches God. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one—to dethrone the other!
 * Book X, Chapter VI

Lucretia (1846)

 * Light literature,—that grace and flower of human culture, that best philosophy of all, humanizing us with gentle art, making us wise through the humours, elevated through the passions, tender in the affections of our kind.
 * Part I, Epilogue

 * The most useless creature that ever yawned at a club, or counted the vermin on his rags under the suns of Calabria, has no excuse for want of intellect. What men want is not talent, it is purpose,—in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labour.
 * Part II, Chapter XII

 * Why should the soul ever repose? God, its Principle, reposes never. While we speak, new worlds are sparkling forth—suns are throwing off their nebulae—nebulae are hardening into worlds. The Almighty proves His existence by creating.
 * Part II, Chapter XII

The New Timon (1846)

 * The brilliant chief, irregularly great, Frank, haughty, rash,— the Rupert of debate!
 * Part I, Section III
 * In April, 1844, Benjamin Disraeli thus alluded to Lord Stanley: “The noble lord is the Rupert of debate.”

 * Alone!—that worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard; Yet all that poets sing, and grief hath known, Of hope laid waste, knells in that word ALONE!
 * Part II, Section II

 * Love gains the shrine when Pity opes the door.
 * Part III, Section II

 * He never errs who sacrifices self.
 * Part IV, Section III

The Caxtons (1849)

 * Childhood and genius have the same master-organ in common—inquisitiveness. Let childhood have its way, and as it began where genius begins, it may find what genius finds.
 * Part I, Chapter IV

 * Master books, but do not let them master you. Read to live, not live to read.
 * Part II, Chapter I

 * It is not study alone that produces a writer; it is Intensity.
 * Part III, Chapter V

 * We cannot think or act, but the soul of some man, who has lived before, points the way. The dead never die.
 * Part IV, Chapter I

 * Earnest men never think in vain, though their thoughts may be errors.
 * Part IV, Chapter II

 * It is an inevitable law that a man, in spite of himself, should live for something higher than his own happiness. He cannot live in himself or for himself, however egotistical he may try to be. Every desire he has links him with others.
 * Part VI, Chapter I

A Strange Story (1850)

 * The heart loves repose and the soul contemplation, but the mind needs action.
 * Chapter LX

 * Believe me that the happiest act of intellect, however lofty, is that which enables it to be cheerfully at home with the Real!
 * Chapter LXXIII

 * Be prepared for either wisdom through joy, or wisdom through grief. Enough that, looking only through the mechanism by which this mortal world is impelled and improved, you know that cruelty is impossible to wisdom.
 * Chapter LXXIX

Caxtoniana (1862)

 * The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who, early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.
 * Essay VII. On the Management of Money

 * In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.
 * Essay X. Hints on Mental Culture

 * Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light—every eye looking on finds its own.
 * Essay XIV. On Essay-writing in General, and these Essays in Particular

 * Strike from mankind the principle of Faith, and men would have no more history than a flock of sheep.
 * Essay XVIII. Faith and Charity

The Coming Race (1870)

 * My father died shortly after I was twenty-one; and being left well off, and having a taste for travel and adventure, I resigned, for a time, all pursuit of the almighty dollar, and became a desultory wanderer over the face of the earth.
 * Chapter I
 * This is the origin of the phrase "pursuit of the almighty dollar". Washington Irving coined the expression almighty dollar itself.

Kenelm Chillingly (1873)

 * A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes to-day.
 * Book I, Chapter VIII

 * Life consists in the alternate process of learning and unlearning; but it is often wiser to unlearn than to learn.
 * Book IV, Chapter VII

 * There are times when the mirth of others only saddens us, especially the mirth of children with high spirits, that jar on our own quiet mood.
 * Book V, Chapter IV

 * Memory, no less than hope, owes its charm to "the far-away."
 * Book V, Chapter IV

 * The good man does good merely by living.
 * Book VIII, Chapter VIII

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Yehuda Ashlag

Yehuda Ashlag (4 October 1886 – 6 October 1954) was a Kabbalist who lived in Jerusalem from 1922 until his death in 1954, who received the name Baal HaSulam (The Master of the Ladder) for his Sulam commentary on The Zohar. He advanced while writing the commentaries, and published his primary work, Talmud Eser Sefirot (The Study of the Ten Sefirot), which is considered the predominant Kabbalistic study text for our generation. He worked as an Orthodox rabbi, and was born in Warsaw, Poland, to a family of scholars connected to the Chassidic courts of Prosov and Belz. His son Baruch (1907-1991) extended the teaching lineage by pursuing his work.

Introduction to the Book of Zohar

 * In addition to the animal essence, we have something that is above animal existence. This something is called our egoism. It is based on our aspirations to wealth, honor, fame, power, and knowledge. Animals do not have these aspirations [...] — envy, inclination to pleasures, and aspiration to honor. These aspirations bring a person to a level above the animal. Since they are above animal qualities, these aspirations and qualities are praiseworthy. On the other hand, their common natural utilization puts us below all other levels [i.e. still, vegetative, and animate].
 * Introduction to the Book of Zohar, in Introduction to the Book of Zohar: Volume Two, Michael Laitman, ed., Laitman Kabbalah Publishers, 2005, p. 94.

 * [T]he thought of creation itself dictates the presence of an excessive will to receive in the souls, to fit the immense pleasure that the Creator thought to bestow upon them. For the great delight and the great desire to receive must go hand in hand.
 * Introduction to the Book of Zohar, in Introduction to the Book of Zohar: Volume Two, Michael Laitman, ed., Laitman Kabbalah Publishers, 2005, p. 119.

Selected Articles
- Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag, "Divinity in Exile", in Kabbalah for the Student, Michael Laitman, ed., Laitman Kabbalah Publishers, 2008, p. 190.
 * If one thinks that there is another authority and force apart from the Creator, he is committing a sin.

- Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag, "The Reason for the Heaviness in the Work", in Kabbalah for the Student, Michael Laitman, ed., Laitman Kabbalah Publishers, 2008, p. 193.
 * The essence of one's work is only to come to the sensation of the existence of the Creator, to feel the existence of the Creator, that “the whole earth is full of His glory.”

- Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag, "One Is Where One Thinks", in Kabbalah for the Student, Michael Laitman, ed., Laitman Kabbalah Publishers, 2008, p. 231.
 * One is where one thinks.

- Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag, "An Allegory about the Rich Man's Son in the Cellar", in Kabbalah for the Student, Michael Laitman, ed., Laitman Kabbalah Publishers, 2008, p. 232.
 * Had Israel not sinned, they would have been given only the five books of Moses and the book of Joshua.

- Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag, "Matan Torah (The Giving of the Torah)", in Kabbalah for the Student, Michael Laitman, ed., Laitman Kabbalah Publishers, 2008, p. 243.
 * The aim of the Creator from the time He created His Creation is to reveal His Godliness to others.

- Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag, "Matan Torah (The Giving of the Torah)", in Kabbalah for the Student, Michael Laitman, ed., Laitman Kabbalah Publishers, 2008, p. 249.
 * All of Israel are responsible for one another.
 * Please note that in Kabbalistic terms "Israel" refers to a spiritual nation, rather than a religious faith or a nation-state.

- Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag, "Love of Friends", in Kabbalah for the Student, Michael Laitman, ed., Laitman Kabbalah Publishers, 2008, p. 282.
 * There are many sparks of sanctity in each person in [a] group. And when you collect all the sparks of sanctity into one place, as brothers, with love and friendship, you will certainly have a very high level of sanctity...

- Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag, "Introduction to the Study of the Ten Sefirot", in Kabbalah for the Student, Michael Laitman, ed., Laitman Kabbalah Publishers, 2008, p. 355.
 * Rabbi Elazar, son of Rabbi Shimon, says, ‘Since the world is judged by its majority, and the individual is judged by the majority, if he performs one Mitzva, happy is he, for he has sentenced himself and the whole world to a scale of merit. If he commits one sin, woe unto him, for he has sentenced himself and the whole world to a scale of sin.’ (...) Moreover, it is written, “one sinner destroyeth much good.” This is because one sin sentences the person and the entire world to a scale of sin.

- Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag, "Introduction to the Book, From the Mouth of a Sage", in Kabbalah for the Student, Michael Laitman, ed., Laitman Kabbalah Publishers, 2008, p. 483.
 * [I]f all people were to come by equal concepts and inclinations, without any difference whatsoever, all the souls of all the people would be regarded as one soul. Its value would be like the light of the sun: the light clothes in all the inhabitants of the world, yet we do not discern that there are separate forms in the sunlight. Similarly, one conceptual soul would robe many bodies, since places do not separate at all in spiritual matters if there are no separate forms in their qualities.

- Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag, "Introduction to the Book, From the Mouth of a Sage", in Kabbalah for the Student, Michael Laitman, ed., Laitman Kabbalah Publishers, 2008, p. 487.
 * Know that all the sophistications in the knowledge are mostly mistakes that should fall before the truth. Yet, the truth itself is simple, without any wit.

On Love for the Fellow Man

 * When humanity will reach its goal, regarding the success of the bodies, namely they will reach the perfect level of love for one another, then all the bodies will unite to one body and one heart, and only then all the hoped for happiness at its highest peak, will be revealed to humanity.

- Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag, "The Freedom", http://www.kabbalah.info/engkab/matan_torah/freedom.htm

On Human Nature

 * It is well known to researchers of nature that one cannot perform even the slightest movement without motivation, meaning without somehow benefiting oneself. When, for example, one moves one’s hand from the chair to the table it is because one thinks that by putting one’s hand on the table one will thus receive greater pleasure. If one would not think so, one would leave one's hand on the chair for the rest of one's life without moving it an inch, all the more so concerning greater efforts.

- Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag, "The Peace", http://www.kabbalah.info/engkab/matan_torah/peace.htm

On Thoughts and Desires
- Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag, "A Thought is an Upshot of the Desire", http://www.kabbalah.info/engkab/morning_lesson_articles/a_thought_is_an_upshot_of_the_desire.htm
 * A thought is an upshot of the desire. When someone thinks about what he wants, he does not think of something undesirable. For example, a person never thinks about the day of his death. On the contrary, he will always contemplate his perpetuity, for this is his desire. Thus, one always thinks of what is desirable (...) It turns out that thought serves desire, and desire is the “self” of the person. Now, there is a great self, or a small self. A great self dominates the small selves. He who is a small self has no dominion whatsoever, and the advice is to magnify the self through the diligence of the thought on the desire, since it grows to the extent that one thinks of it.

On Politics
- Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag, "The Solution", http://www.kabbalah.info/engkab/morning_lesson_articles/the_solution.htm
 * The duration of every political phase is just as long as it takes to unveil its shortcomings and evil. While discovering its defects, it makes way for a new phase, liberated from these failings. Thus, these impairments that appear in a situation and destroy it are the very forces of human evolution, as they raise humanity to a more corrected state.

On Human Development
- Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag, "The Solution", http://www.kabbalah.info/engkab/morning_lesson_articles/the_solution.htm
 * There is a positive force, meaning constructive, and a negative force, meaning negative and destructive. They create and complement the entire reality in general and particular through their harsh and perpetual war with one another. As we have said above, the negative force appears at the end of every political phase, elevating it to a better state, and thus the phases follow one another until they reach their ultimate perfection (...) In addition, being a social creature, the individual development is not enough. Rather, one’s ultimate perfection depends on the development of all the members of society.

What is Corporeality?
- Yehuda Ashlag, Talmud Eser Sefirot, Part 2, Table of Questions for the Meaning of Words, Question #14, http://www.kabbalah.info/engkab/talmud_eser_sefirot/part_2/table_questions.htm
 * Anything that is perceived and sensed by the five senses, or which takes time and space, is called 'Corporeal.'

What is Spirituality?
- Yehuda Ashlag, Talmud Eser Sefirot, Part 2, Table of Questions for the Meaning of Words, Question #66, http://www.kabbalah.info/engkab/talmud_eser_sefirot/part_2/table_questions.htm
 * The term “Spirituality” as it is expressed in books of Kabbalah, means that it is devoid of any corporeal contingency, meaning time, space, imagination, and so on. Sometimes, this term indicates only the Ohr Elyon (lit. Upper Light) in the Kli (lit. Vessel), although a Kli is also completely spiritual in every way.

On Shame with regard to Receiving
- Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag, "The Revelation of Godliness", http://www.kabbalah.info/engkab/matan_torah/revelation.htm
 * It is much like a rich man, who takes a man from the market and feeds him and gives him gold and silver and all desirables every day. And each day he showers him with more gifts than the day before. Finally the rich man asks: Do tell me, have your wishes all been fulfilled? And the man from the market replies, not yet, for how pleasant and wonderful it would be if all those possessions and precious things came to me through my own work as they came to you, and I would not be receiving the charity of your hand. The rich man told him then: In this case, there has never been born a person who could satisfy your wishes.

On the Meaning of Life
- Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag, "Introduction to Talmud Eser Sefirot", Item 2, http://www.kabbalah.info/engkab/introduction_to_talmud_eser_sefirot.htm
 * Indeed, if we set our hearts to answer but one very famous question, I am certain that all these questions and doubts will vanish from the horizon, and you will look unto their place to find them gone. This indignant question is a question that the whole world asks, namely, “What is the meaning of my life?” In other words, these numbered years of our life that cost us so heavily and the numerous pains and torments that we suffer for them, to complete them to the fullest, who is it that enjoys them?

On Eternal Bestowal and Transient Reception
- Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag, "Introduction to the Book of Zohar", Item 24, http://www.kabbalah.info/engkab/zohar/zohar_intro/zoharintro_1.htm
 * [S]ince the essence of the soul is but a will to bestow, and all its manifestations and possessions are fulfillments of that will to bestow (...) therefore it is immortal and irreplaceable. The soul, with all its manifestations is eternal and exists forever. Absence does not apply to them upon the departure of the body. On the contrary, the absence of the corrupted form of the body, greatly strengthens it, thus enabling it to rise to the Heavens. Thus we have clearly shown that the persistence in no way depends upon the concepts it has acquired, as philosophers claim, but its eternality is in its very essence, meaning in its will to bestow, which is its essence. And the concepts it acquires are its reward, not its essence.

On Above Reason
- Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag, Talmud Eser Sefirot, Part 1, Chapter 2, Item 30, http://www.kabbalah.info/engkab/talmud_eser_sefirot/part_1/tzimtzum_and_kav.htm
 * No mind of a creature can attain Him.

On Freedom
- Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag, "The Freedom", in Kabbalah for the Student, Michael Laitman, ed., Laitman Kabbalah Publishers, 2008, p. 376.
 * [W]hen we examine the acts of an individual, we shall find them compulsory. He is compelled to do them and has no freedom of choice. In a sense, he is like a stew cooking on a stove; it has no choice but to cook. And it must cook because Providence has harnessed life with two chains: pleasure and pain (...) there is no difference here between man and animal. And if that is the case, there is no free choice whatsoever, but a pulling force, drawing them toward any bypassing pleasure and rejecting them from painful circumstances. And Providence leads them to every place it chooses by means of these two forces [i.e. pleasure and pain], without asking their opinion in the matter.

- Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag, "The Freedom", in Kabbalah for the Student, Michael Laitman, ed., Laitman Kabbalah Publishers, 2008, p. 387-88.
 * [W]hat a terrible wrong inflict those nations that force their reign on minorities, depriving them of freedom without allowing them to live their lives by the tendencies they have inherited from their ancestors (...) For we can see how all the nations that ever fell, throughout the generations, came to it only due to their oppression of minorities and individuals, which had therefore rebelled against them and ruined them. Hence, it is clear to all that peace cannot exist in the world if we do not take into consideration the freedom of the individual. Without it, peace will not be sustainable and ruin shall prevail.

On Creation
- Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag, "Introduction to the Book, Panim Meirot uMasbirot", in Kabbalah for the Student, Michael Laitman, ed., Laitman Kabbalah Publishers, 2008, p. 440.
 * [A]ngels made no complaint about any of the creatures that were created during the six days of Creation, except about Man. This is because he was created in God's image and consists of Upper and Lower together. When the angels saw it, they were startled and bewildered. How would the pure, spiritual soul descend from its sublime degree, and come and dwell in the same abode with this filthy, beastly body? (...) The answer that came to them is is that there is already a tower filled abundantly, and empty of guests. To fill it with guests, we need the existence of this human, made of Upper and lower together (...) Know that this tower, filled abundantly, implies all the pleasure and the goodness for which He has created the creatures.

- Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag, "Introduction to the Book, Panim Meirot uMasbirot", in Kabbalah for the Student, Michael Laitman, ed., Laitman Kabbalah Publishers, 2008, p. 463.
 * "Of all Your work, not a thing You have forgotten; You did not add, and You did not subtract." It is a mandatory law that perfect operations stem from the perfect Operator.

On Torah
- Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag, "Introduction to the Book, Panim Meirot uMasbirot", in Kabbalah for the Student, Michael Laitman, ed., Laitman Kabbalah Publishers, 2008, p. 466.
 * [T]he whole purpose of the Torah is to correct the sin of the Tree of Knowledge, which induced the confusion of the conduct of the sustenance of reality.

- Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag, "Introduction to the Book, From the Mouth of a Sage", in Kabbalah for the Student, Michael Laitman, ed., Laitman Kabbalah Publishers, 2008, p. 481.
 * "The whole Torah is the names of the Creator." All the stories and the laws and the sentences, all are His Holy Names.

- Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag, "Introduction to the Book, From the Mouth of a Sage", in Kabbalah for the Student, Michael Laitman, ed., Laitman Kabbalah Publishers, 2008, p. 484.
 * Because there is no difference or disparity of form between them (...) "The Torah and the Creator and Israel are one."

- Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag, "Introduction to the Book, From the Mouth of a Sage", in Kabbalah for the Student, Michael Laitman, ed., Laitman Kabbalah Publishers, 2008, pp. 484-85.
 * [E]ven if a person excels in Torah and good deeds more than all his contemporaries, if he has not learned the secrets of Torah and the wisdom of truth, he must reincarnate in the world (...) Now the matter is clarified—the whole part of the revealed Torah is but a preparation to become worthy and merit attaining the concealed part. It is the concealed part that is very wholeness and the purpose for which man is created.

On Form, Essence & Matter
- Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag, "Preface to the Book of Zohar", in Introduction to the Book of Zohar: Volume Two, Michael Laitman, Laitman Kabbalah Publishers, 2005, pp. 30-31.
 * Know that the essence of a person, as such, is quite impossible to perceive without his material embodiment (...) This is because our five senses and our imagination do not offer us anything more than the revelation of the actions of the essence, but not the essence itself.

title: Yehuda Ashlag


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Isaac Bashevis Singer

 Isaac Bashevis Singer (Yiddish: יצחק באַשעװיס זינגער or יצחק בת־שבֿעס זינגער; pseudonym: Icek Hersz Zynger; born 21 November 1902 as Icek Zynger, died 24 July 1991) was a Polish-American writer of short stories and novels in Yiddish; he used his mother's name in devising his penname "Bashevis" (son of Bathsheba). He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978.

Quotes

 * We must believe in free will — we have no choice.
 * An ironic statement which Singer made in many interviews over many years; here quoted in "Isaac Singer’s Promised City" City Journal (Summer 1997)
 * Variants or variant translations: We must believe in free will — we have no other choice. You must believe in free will; there is no choice. We have to believe in free will. We’ve got no choice.
 * This makes more sense if you consider the statement "we must believe in free will; we have no [other logical] choice"

 * I am a vegetarian for health reasons—the health of the chicken.
 * Singer was very devoted to the vegetarian cause and was frequently quoted as saying this statement, as reported in Judaism and Vegetarianism by Richard H. Schwartz (New York: Lantern Books, 2001, ISBN 1-930051-24-7 ), p. 177

 * As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behavior toward creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right.
 * Enemies, A Love Story (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1972), p. 257

 * Life is God's novel. Let him write it.
 * Quoted in Voices for Life (1975) edited by Dom Moraes

 * I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.
 * On winning the Nobel Prize, TIME magazine (16 October 1978)

 * I don't invent characters because the Almightly has already invented millions… Just like experts at fingerprints do not create fingerprints but learn how to read them.
 * The New York Times (26 November 1978)

 * The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.
 * The New York Times (26 November 1978)

 * A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise… Because that is how life is — full of surprises.
 * The New York Times (26 November 1978)

 * The Jewish people have been in exile for 2,000 years; they have lived in hundreds of countries, spoken hundreds of languages and still they kept their old language, Hebrew. They kept their Aramaic, later their Yiddish; they kept their books; they kept their faith.
 * The New York Times (26 November 1978)

 * Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
 * The New York Times (3 December 1978)

 * Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.
 * The New York Times (3 December 1978)

 * Even in love, people betray themselves. And when you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself. I would say a great part of human history is a history of self-betrayal and betrayal of others.
 * "Isaac Bashevis Singer's Universe" by Richard Burgin in The New York Times (3 December 1978)

 * Children don't read to find their identity, to free themselves from guilt, to quench the thirst for rebellion or to get rid of alienation. They have no use for psychology... They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff... When a book is boring, they yawn openly. They don't expect their writer to redeem humanity, but leave to adults such childish illusions.
 * Nobel lecture as quoted in The Observer (17 December 1978) Variant: "They still believe in God, the family, angels, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other obsolete stuff."

 * When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.
 * TIME (18 July 1983)

 * We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.
 * Stories for Children (1984)

 * Take three quarts of duck's milk...
 * First words of a "recipe for high-priced cookies" in Stories for Children (1984)

 * If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.
 * The New York Times (30 June 1985)

 * Vegetarianism is my religion. I became a consistent vegetarian some twenty-three years ago. Before that, I would try over and over again. But it was sporadic. Finally, in the mid-1960s, I made up my mind. And I've been a vegetarian ever since. When a human kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice. Man prays for mercy, but is unwilling to extend it to others. Why should man then expect mercy from God? It's unfair to expect something that you are not willing to give. … This is my protest against the conduct of the world. To be a vegetarian is to disagree — to disagree with the course of things today. Nuclear power, starvation, cruelty — we must make a statement against these things. Vegetarianism is my statement. And I think it's a strong one.
 * Preface to Food for the Spirit: Vegetarianism and the World Religions by Steven Rosen (New York: Bala Books, 1987, ISBN 978-0896470224 )

 * I started to "write" even before I knew the alphabet. I would dip a pen in ink and scribble. I also liked to draw — horses, houses, dogs. The Sabbath was an ordeal for me, because it is forbidden to write on that day.
 * "A Day of Pleasure" (1996)

 * I know as a writer how valuable a tool is the wastebasket. Perhaps God throws away many experiments before He finds the right expression. Perhaps we are the discards — or we could be the part He keeps. This mystery is what keeps us all going, to see what happens in the next chapter.
 * "Isaac Singer’s Promised City" by Stefan Kanfer in City Journal (Summer 1997)

Nobel lecture (1978)

 * Nobel Lecture (8 December 1978)

 * The storyteller and poet of our time, as in any other time, must be an entertainer of the spirit in the full sense of the word, not just a preacher of social or political ideals. There is no paradise for bored readers and no excuse for tedious literature that does not intrigue the reader, uplift him, give him the joy and the escape that true art always grants. Nevertheless, it is also true that the serious writer of our time must be deeply concerned about the problems of his generation. He cannot but see that the power of religion, especially belief in revelation, is weaker today than it was in any other epoch in human history. More and more children grow up without faith in God, without belief in reward and punishment, in the immortality of the soul and even in the validity of ethics. The genuine writer cannot ignore the fact that the family is losing its spiritual foundation.

 * Not only has our generation lost faith in Providence but also in man himself, in his institutions and often in those who are nearest to him. In their despair a number of those who no longer have confidence in the leadership of our society look up to the writer, the master of words. They hope against hope that the man of talent and sensitivity can perhaps rescue civilization. Maybe there is a spark of the prophet in the artist after all.

 * I have many times resigned myself to never finding a true way out. But a new hope always emerges telling me that it is not yet too late for all of us to take stock and make a decision. I was brought up to believe in free will.

 * Although I came to doubt all revelation, I can never accept the idea that the Universe is a physical or chemical accident, a result of blind evolution. Even though I learned to recognize the lies, the clichés and the idolatries of the human mind, I still cling to some truths which I think all of us might accept some day. There must be a way for man to attain all possible pleasures, all the powers and knowledge that nature can grant him, and still serve God — a God who speaks in deeds, not in words, and whose vocabulary is the Cosmos.

 * I am not ashamed to admit that I belong to those who fantasize that literature is capable of bringing new horizons and new perspectives — philosophical, religious, aesthetical and even social. In the history of old Jewish literature there was never any basic difference between the poet and the prophet. Our ancient poetry often became law and a way of life.

 * Strange as these words may sound I often play with the idea that when all the social theories collapse and wars and revolutions leave humanity in utter gloom, the poet — whom Plato banned from his Republic — may rise up to save us all.

 * One can find in the Yiddish tongue and in the Yiddish spirit expressions of pious joy, lust for life, longing for the Messiah, patience and deep appreciation of human individuality. There is a quiet humor in Yiddish and a gratitude for every day of life, every crumb of success, each encounter of love. The Yiddish mentality is not haughty. It does not take victory for granted. It does not demand and command but it muddles through, sneaks by, smuggles itself amidst the powers of destruction, knowing somewhere that God's plan for Creation is still at the very beginning.

 * There are some who call Yiddish a dead language, but so was Hebrew called for two thousand years. It has been revived in our time in a most remarkable, almost miraculous way. Aramaic was certainly a dead language for centuries but then it brought to light the Zohar, a work of mysticism of sublime value.

 * Yiddish has not yet said its last word. It contains treasures that have not been revealed to the eyes of the world. It was the tongue of martyrs and saints, of dreamers and Cabalists — rich in humor and in memories that mankind may never forget. In a figurative way, Yiddish is the wise and humble language of us all, the idiom of frightened and hopeful Humanity.

Quotes about Isaac Bashevis Singer

 * Basically, this modern Yiddish literature detected and depicted a paradox that casts a sharp light on the situation of Yiddishkeit at the start of the new century: it was a literature of rupture that the rabbis rejected as impious, a literature turned towards the realities of life, towards the world of the underdog, but if it testifies in this way to the earthquakes that were shaking Yiddishland, it did not take flight beyond the linguistic and cultural frontiers of this world and set foot in universal culture. Though very many Jews in Poland were moved by reading Adam Mickiewicz, how many Polish intellectuals between the two wars were aware of Peretz? This literature remained entirely focused on the Yiddish world, its fund of religious mythology, its customs and traditions, a literature that prospered at the heart of the crisis this world was undergoing, for the exclusive use of those who were its direct witnesses or its agents. Curiously, it is only posthumously, one could say, decades after the disappearance in fire and blood of the world from which it arose, that this literature has begun to enter the pantheon of human culture in general, and, paradox of paradoxes, the broad non-Yiddish-speaking public has begun to discover Sholem Aleichem and Shalom Asch by way of Isaac Bashevis Singer.
 * Alain Brossat and Sylvia Klingberg, Revolutionary Yiddishland: A History of Jewish Radicalism (2016)

 * I think that physical descriptions of people should be minimal. There are exceptions-take Isaac Bashevis Singer. He very often starts off a story by giving you a full physical description. If you look very closely at the description, of course it's extremely good. He stamps character on a twist of the nose or a tuft of red beard.
 * 1979 and 1980 interview in Conversations with Nadine Gordimer edited by Nancy Topping Bazin and Marilyn Dallman Seymour (1990)

 * What is rarely known except by scholars is the range and variety of the pre-Holocaust Ashkenazi communities of Europe: traditional, socialist, communist; Orthodox and secular; capitalist and worker; Yiddish-speaking and/or fluent in the vernacular of wherever they lived: Russian, Polish, French, Czech, German. ... There is a whole literature, not just Nobel Prize winner Isaac Bashevis Singer, or Sholem Aleykhem whose Tevye stories hit Broadway as Fiddler on the Roof, but also brilliant narrative writers and experimental poets such as Chaim Grade, Kadia Molodowsky, Anna Margolin, Mani Leyb, Itsik Manger, and a host of others.
 * Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz The Colors of Jews: Racial Politics and Radical Diasporism (2007)

 * Sholem Asch and Isaac Bashevis Singer reflected through the prism of their personalities and unique talents the soul of the jew as a human being, and in this way they became universal writers.
 * Chava Rosenfarb "Sholem Asch and Isaac Bashevis Singer" (1992) in Confessions of a Yiddish Writer and Other Essays, translated from the Yiddish with Goldie Morgentaler

 * The only famous Yiddish stories from Latin America I'm able to make people invoke are the handful of ones by the masters Sholem Aleichem, Sholem Asch, and Isaac Bashevis Singer. They are set in, or at least refer to, Argentina (and on occasion in an eternally rainy Brazil) and invariably deal with the Jewish prostitution ring-la trata de blancas.
 * Ilan Stavans Introduction to Yiddish South of the Border: An Anthology of Latin American Yiddish Writing edited by Alan Astro (2003)

 * Once Jews no longer obeyed the imperatives of their religion, they were virtually obliged to create new forms of identity, turning accommodation from means to end. Literature was a proving ground for the reinvention of the self. One-tenth of the Nobel Prize winners for literature in the twentieth century were born Jews, but only two of them-Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1966) and Isaac Bashevis Singer (1978)-wrote in a Jewish language and only about half thought of themselves as Jews.
 * Ruth Wisse The Modern Jewish Canon (2000)

"I.B. Singer's Misogyny" by Evelyn Torton Beck
In ''Nice Jewish Girls. A Lesbian Anthology'' (1982)

 * Isaac Bashevis Singer, who recently won the Nobel Prize for Literature, is the one author by whom thousands of people the world over will measure both Yiddish literature and Jewish culture. Unfortunately, readers who are unfamiliar with Jewish history and culture may assume that Singer's portrayal of pre-war Polish Jewry is an authentic representation of reality. It is, instead, a rather distorted picture of shtetl and city life, reflecting fringe elements of that society rather than the norm. Singer is not interested in the ordinary life of the average Jew. His preoccupation with sex, for example, was hardly characteristic of the hard-working Jews of Eastern Europe, who had to wage a daily struggle for mere survival. His focus is not on the values or realities of Jewish life but on the aberrations of human psychology. Unlike nineteenth-century Jewish writers who, while critical of Jewish life, believed in Jewish values and in the possibility of preserving them, Singer is a pessimistic modernist who believes all humans are essentially depraved.

 * While Singer presents men in terms of their individual psychological aberrations, he treats women as a class, making far more frequent use of clichés and stereotypes in depicting them than in depicting men. Singer's vision-combining the traditional Jewish image of woman as subservient and inferior with the misogynistic view of woman's nature in the philosophies of Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Freud and Weininger represents a powerful assault on the Jewish woman.

 * a lesbian relationship, which Singer views as the ultimate aberration.

 * The most persistent of Singer's stereotypes, one that almost subsumes all the others, is woman as temptress.

 * Like so many other male writers, Singer sees the world as essentially male-centered and clearly views women as "other"-separate, subsidiary, apart, alien. He betrays a deep mistrust, revulsion and hostility toward women, especially those who stray in any way from their prescribed roles or cease to organize their lives around men. Singer portrays women almost entirely as the sum total of their biological functions and in terms of their relationships (or lack of them) with men. He uses physical details of women's bodies as signposts of their personalities.

 * In so frequently associating male lost with violence toward women, Singer diverges most strongly from traditional Jewish life and comes closest to the Western pornographic imagination.

 * Singer seems to be responding favorably to the feminist challenge, at least on the level of official pronouncement. At a public lecture in New York City last fall, he went so far as to say that Judaism had made an "historical mistake" in not teaching women Torah, that the denial of women's rights had contributed to assimilation, that he welcomed giving Jewish women full religious rights in the synagogue (including aliyoth and ordination), and that a reversal of these inequities would be "wonderful for religion and justice." (JTA, 11/8/78). As encouraging as such remarks may be, they nonetheless stand in stark contrast to Singer's most recent fictional writings, which continue to present the male/female dichotomy in unchanged sexist terms. While it is possible to explain this gap between the written and the spoken word as the result of the time lag between the two media, it seems more likely that this discrepancy is exactly what it appears to be-an unresolved contradiction.

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A History of Violence (film)

A History of Violence is a 2005 film about how when the owner of a diner becomes a public hero after foiling a robbery, he is targeted by mobsters who claim he is an old rival with a secret past.
 * Directed by David Cronenberg. Written by John Wagner, Vince Locke and Josh Olson.

Everyone has something to hide. taglines

Carl Fogarty

 * You should ask Tom... how come he's so good at killing people?

 * Still crazy fucking Joey.

 * Any last words before I blow your brains out you miserable prick?

Jack Stall

 * If I rob Mulligan's pharmacy, are you going to whack me if I don't give you a piece of the action?
 * Who is your daddy, and what does he do?

Richie Cusack

 * Do you like being married? Does it work for you?  I can't see it working for me.  I never felt the urge, you know.  A lot of great looking women in the world.  I never met one, made me want to give up all the others.   Sure you can fuck around, but it's so much damn work, keepin' it quiet.  It's not worth the effort.  Don't see the upside.  You see the upside Joey?

 * [After his guys fail to kill Tom] How do you fuck that up?

 * [About Fogerty] You took his eye. Jesus Joey, you took his eye! Barbed wire, wasn't it?

Dialogue

 * Tom Stall: In this family, we do not solve our problems by hitting people!
 * Jack: No, in this family, we shoot them!
 * [Tom slaps Jack, who walks away, visibly upset]

 * Carl: You got anything to say before I blow your brains out, you miserable prick?
 * Tom: [Dropping the act for the first time] I should've killed you back in Philly.
 * Carl: [Smirks] Yeah, Joey. You should have. [aims at Tom, but is shot dead from behind by Jack]

 * Tom: I'm here to make peace. Tell me what I gotta do to make things right.
 * Richie: You could do something I guess... You could die, Joey.

 * Richie: Jesus, Joey!
 * [Tom/Joey shoots him]
 * Tom/Joey: Jesus, Richie.

Taglines

 * Everyone has something to hide.

 * Tom Stall had the perfect life... until he became a hero.

Cast

 * Viggo Mortensen — Tom Stall/Joey
 * Ed Harris — Carl Fogarty
 * Ashton Holmes — Jack Stall
 * William Hurt — Richie Cusack

title: A History of Violence (film)


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Samuel Alito

Samuel Anthony Alito Jr. (born April 1, 1950) is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was nominated by President George W. Bush and has served on the court since January 31, 2006.

Quotes

 * The First Amendment, I think, is the jewel of our Constitution.
 * Alito: Threat to Judicial Independence at Historic High, by Michael Scholl [2006-10-04].

 * I am particularly proud of my contributions in recent cases in which the government has argued in the Supreme Court that racial and ethnic quotas should not be allowed and that the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion.
 * "Application to become deputy assistant AG", Washington Times, (1985)

 * Our country as a whole, no less than the Hastings College of Law, values tolerance, cooperation, learning, and the amicable resolution of conflicts. But we seek to achieve those goals through "[a] confident pluralism that conduces to civil peace and advances democratic consensus-building," not by abridging First Amendment rights.
 * Dissenting, CLS v. Martinez, 130 S. Ct. 2971, 3015-16 (2010).

 * In order to have a society in which public issues can be openly and vigorously debated, it is not necessary to allow the brutalization of innocent victims.
 * Dissenting, Snyder v. Phelps, 131 S. Ct. 1207, 1229 (2011).

 * You can't say that marriage is the union between one man and one woman. Until very recently, that's what the vast majority of Americans thought. Now it's considered bigotry.
 * On marriage and specifically Gay marriage. Speech before the Federalist Society, November 2020

Misattributed

 * The separation of church and state has been a cornerstone of American democracy for over two hundred years. Getting rid of it was long overdue.
 * Invented in.
 * Satirizing his decision in .

About Samuel Alito

 * Justice Samuel Alito minced no words in his public evisceration of the Supreme Court’s 6-3 Murthy v. Missouri decision to greenlight the Biden administration’s flagrant First Amendment violations. …While most of his colleagues mocked self-censorship, Alito and his fellow dissidents accurately classified Big Tech and the Biden administration’s coordinated attempt to suppress online speech, especially during the media-fueled panic over Covid-19, as a “serious threat to the First Amendment” that warrants intervention. …Alito concluded his written thrashing with a warning that the threat of government censorship “did not come with expiration dates” or lose steam “merely because White House officials opted not to renew them on a regular basis.” On the contrary, he wrote that Facebook and other Big Tech companies’ publicized promise to “continue reporting to the White House and remain responsive to its concerns for as long as the officials requested” suggests this will be an ongoing losing battle for Americans who want to speak their minds on social media.
 * Jordan Boyd, "Alito: Americans Will Regret Court’s Allowance Of ‘Blatantly Unconstitutional’ Censorship", The Federalist (June 26, 2024)

 * Your record raises troubling questions about whether you appreciate the checks and balances in our Constitution -- the careful efforts of our Founding Fathers to protect us from a government or a president determined to seize too much power over our lives.
 * Sen. Dick Durbin, (D-ILL) at Alito's confirmation hearing.

 * “If you were good friends [ with businessman Paul Singer ], what were you doing ruling on his case?” said Charles Geyh, an Indiana University law professor and leading expert on recusals. “And if you weren’t good friends, what were you doing accepting this?” referring to the flight on the private jet.
 * Charles Gardner Geyh quoted in "Justice Samuel Alito Took Luxury Fishing Vacation With GOP Billionaire Who Later Had Cases Before the Court", Pro Publica (June 20, 2023)

 * You have obviously had a very distinguished record, and I certainly commend you for long service in the public interest. I think it is a very commendable career and I am sure you will have a successful one as a judge.
 * Sen. Ted Kennedy, speaking on Alito's nomination to the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals. Committee On The Judiciary, U.S. Senate, Hearing, [1990-04-05].

 * I believe Mr. Alito has the experience and the skills to be the kind of judge the public deserves – one who is impartial, thoughtful, and fair. I urge the Senate to confirm his nomination.
 * Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), speaking on Alito's nomination to the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals, Congressional Record, [1990-04-27], p. S5281.

 * The confirmation of Sam Alito as U.S. Attorney for New Jersey is testimony to the commitment he has shown and the success of his efforts as a law enforcement official. I am confident that he will continue to do all he can to uphold the laws of this nation with the kind of determination and vigor that has been his trademark in the past.
 * Former Senator Bill Bradley (D-NJ), Congressional Record, [1987-12-08], p. S17427.

 * There was the abortion brief and also the brief in the Wygant case. I had a big hand in writing it, and so did Sam Alito, who had this marvelous phrase saying that a particular African American baseball player would not have served as a great role model if the fences had been pulled in every time he was up at bat, a point which some people were greatly offended by because they thought it to be pamphleteering. I thought it was entirely appropriate.
 * Charles Fried (Solicitor General 1985 to 1989) in 2003.

 * Of course he's against abortion.
 * Rose Alito, Samuel Alito's 90-year-old mother in an Associated Press, "On abortion, a nuanced stand" telephone interview from her Hamilton, N.J., home by Warren Richey, Christian Science Monitor, (November 2, 2005).

 * There's an outside chance that Roberts might assign [the opinion] to Alito, but, you know, [it's] Alito's second year on the Court; he should still do the tax and ERISA cases for a few more years. I think this case is too intersting for him.
 * Georgetown University law professor Richard Lazarus, in a panel discussion on Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency, C-SPAN2, [2006-11-29] (at approx. 60:00).
 * The panel, held a few hours after oral argument, was asked which justice would write the controlling opinion when the case was decided.

 * the people's right to have their day in court is being foreclosed. Corporate victories in federal and state elections work hand in hand with this mission by assuring the nomination of more commercially-responsive judges such as Chief Justice Roberts, and Justices Scalia and Alito, with the same being true in many states.
 * Ralph Nader, Breaking Through Power (2016)

 * When Justice Samuel Alito wrote the leaked draft of his opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, he cited the conservative argument that someone who places a newborn for adoption today will likely find the baby a good home because of high demand.

 * In a footnote, he cited a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report from 2008 describing the domestic supply of infants available for adoption as “virtually nonexistent.”
 * If Roe falls, adoption may become 'replacement' for abortion. One adoptee argues it shouldn't (May 20, 2022)

 * Samuel 'no ladies at Princeton' Alito
 * Jen Sorensen, Slowpoke: One nation, oh my God! (2008)

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Great Big Sea

Great Big Sea is a musical band from Newfoundland, Canada.

Up (1995)

 * I've been the world over, north, south, east and west, But the middle of nowhere, where I likes it best. Where it's wave over wave, sea over bow, I'm as happy a man as the sea will allow.

 * I've sailed the world over for decades or more And oft' times I wonder what I do it for. I don't know the answer. It's pleasure and pain, But with life to live over I'd do it again
 *  Wave Over Wave

 * Well, a process man am I and I am telling you no lie I work and breathe among the fumes that trail across the sky There's thunder all around me and there's poison in the air There's a lousy smell that smacks of hell and dust all in me hair

 * There's overtime and bonus opportunities galore. The young men like their money and they all come back for more, but soon your knocking on and you look older than you should For every bob made on the job, you pay it with flesh and blood.

 * And every day you're in this place you're two days nearer death.
 * Chemical Worker's Song (Process Man)

 * And the old black rum's got a hold on me Like a dog wrapped 'round my leg And the old black rum's got a hold on me Will I live for another day?

 * So I drank all of my money and I slept out in the rain Every day is different, but the nights they're all the same You never see the sun on the old black rum, But I know I'm gonna do it again.
 * The Old Black Rum

Sea of No Cares (2002)

 * When you're in love, there's no time and no space. There's a permanent smile on your face
 *  Sea of No Cares

 * Well, I came into a scolding wife a few short years ago And ever since I lead a life of misery and woe My wife she is a tyrant around the room and in Ah, she'd sell me to the devil for a glass or two of gin.

 * And if the devil will take her, I'd thank him for his pain. I swear to God I'll hang me self if I get married again.
 * The Scolding Wife

Something Beautiful (2004)

 * Got to leave it all behind you. Give the sun a chance to find you. Let it go.

 * Hey man, you don't know what you're missing. You count your curses and forget about the blessings. Don't you think you should learn a little lessson?
 * Let It Go

 * But every mountain has it's faces that'd make you want to stop On this so unwelcome journey from the bottom to the top.

 * And there's one more thing I've come to know for sure. There's no bitterness that smolders, no chip on any shoulder that a random act of kindness couldn't cure.
 * Something Beautiful

 * Just like the final movie scene, the prince will find his perfect queen. The hero always saves the world. The villains get what they deserve. The boy will always get the girl when I am king.
 * When I Am King

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Harry Reid

Harry Mason Reid (December 2, 1939 – December 28, 2021) was a retired American politician who served as a United States Senator from Nevada from 1987 to 2017. He served as the leader of the Senate Democrats from 2005 to 2017 and as the Senate Majority Leader from 2007 to 2015.

Quotes

 * President Bush is a liar. He betrayed Nevada and he betrayed the country... All Americans should be concerned, not just because he lied to me or the people of Nevada and indeed all Americans, but because the President's decision threatens Americans' lives.
 * remarks made in February 2002, over the decision to deposit radioactive waste at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. Las Vegas Sun, quoted March 5, 2002

 * I know procedures around here. And I know that there will still be Senate business conducted. But I will, for lack of a better word, screw things up.
 * threatening to obstruct the Senate if the Republicans used the nuclear option. Quoted in The Washington Post, December 13, 2004, GOP May Target Use of Filibuster

 * The man's father is a wonderful human being. I think this guy is a loser.
 * on George W. Bush. Las Vegas Review-Journal, May 6, 2005

 * RS: You’ve called Bush a loser. Reid: And a liar. RS: You’ve apologized for the loser comment. Reid: But never for the liar, have I?
 * Stone'' interview, May 24, 2005

 * [F]or more than three years this Congress, which has been given the name “The Do-Nothing Congress,” has turned a blind eye to the intractable war in Iraq, ignoring the Administration’s many mistakes, allowing it to stay a failed course. Here we are with six days left in the 109th Congress, and the Republicans, which control the House and the Senate and the White House, have not held one hearing, not one, into the President’s wartime failures.
 * "Reid: America Deserves Accountability for Iraq Contracting Abuses", Senate Democratic Caucus website, September 18, 2006 (accessed 2006-09-21)

 * Alberto Gonzales was never the right man for this job. He lacked independence, he lacked judgment, and he lacked the spine to say no to Karl Rove. This resignation is not the end of the story. Congress must get to the bottom of this mess and follow the facts where they lead, into the White House.
 * Following the resignation of Alberto Gonzales as Attorney General

 * In the summertime, because it gets so hot here, you could literally smell the tourists coming.
 * Following opening of a new Capitol Visitors Center that includes air conditioning.

 * Instead of joining us on the right side of history, all Republicans have come up with is this slow down, stop everything, let's start over. You think you've heard these same excuses before, you're right. When this country belatedly recognized the wrongs of slavery, there were those who dug in their heels and said, slow down, it's too early. Let's wait. Things aren't bad enough. When women spoke up for the right to speak up, they wanted to vote, some insisted slow down, there will be a better day to do that. The day isn't quite right. When this body was on the verge of guaranteeing equal civil rights to everyone, regardless of the color of their skin, some senators resorted to the same filibuster threats that we hear today. More recently, when chairman Chris Dodd of Connecticut, one of the people who will go down as a chief champion of the bill before us today, said that Americans should be able to take care of their families without fear of losing their jobs, you heard the same old excuses, seven years of fighting and more than one presidential veto, it was slow down, stop everything, start over. History is repeating itself before our eyes. There are now those who don't think it is the right time to reform health care. If not now, when, madam president? But the reality for many that feel that way, it will never, never be a good time to reform health care.
 * On the Senate floor, during a debate on health care reform, December 7, 2009

 * Reid spoke of future President Barack Obama in 2008 describing him as a, "light-skinned' African American 'with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one." Reid apologized for these remarks in January 2010 when they were publicized.
 * Majority Leader Reid apologizes to Obama for 2008 remarks - Washington Post January 9, 2010

 * I said … unprepared, unscripted, that, "I know how to fight and I know how to dance, and I'd much rather dance than fight." ... What I didn't tell everybody was I was always a better fighter than dancer.
 * "Reid Says He's A Fighter Who'd Rather Dance", All Things Considered, NPR (18 May 2010)

Quotations about Harry Reid

 * Jim Margolis
 * He is unique in this city. And you see it in so many different ways. Is he the best TV talking head? No. He'd be the first to tell you that. Should he smile more? Yes. Should he say goodbye on the phone when he's done talking to you? Probably. But those are things you'd assume are part and parcel of a polished figure in Washington. That is not Harry Reid.

 * in late July, the U.S. Senate decided to do exactly nothing about climate change. They didn't do less than they could have they did nothing, preserving a perfect two-decade bipartisan record of no action. Senate majority leader Harry Reid decided not even to schedule a vote on legislation that would have capped carbon emissions.
 * Bill McKibben in The Global Warming Reader (2012)

 * Barack Obama
 * In a battle between perfection and progress, he always chose progress.

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Sophie B. Hawkins

Sophie Ballantine Hawkins (born 1 November 1967) is an American singer, songwriter, artist and actress.

Quotes

 * The message I got from my record label at the time — and this was on purpose — was that I wasn't selling enough. Even when the single was a hit, it wasn't enough of a hit — I never got to number 1; I only got to number 5. And MTV didn't like the first video for the song, and we had to do another one. So I never felt anything except how bad I was and like, "Oh, shame on you!"
 * Interviewed by Cathay Che, The Advocate (8 May 2001)

Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover

 * Original (MTV banned) video - Official video

 * Damn I wish I was your lover I'll rock you till the daylight comes Make sure you are smiling and warm.

 * I am everything Tonight I'll be your mother— I will Do such things to ease your pain Free your mind and you won't feel ashamed.

 * Shucks, for me there is no other You're the only shoe that fits I can't imagine I'll grow out of it.

Right Beside You

 * Official video

 * I'm dancing in the shadows of life And death is all around me tonight I miss you making love to me right Beside myself I'm holding you tight Someone is waiting for me to rise And drive into the ocean I cried And I cried and I cried my baby to sleep Beside myself my soul to keep Right beside you I see Right beside you I stay Right beside you I'll be Right beside you always.

As I Lay Me Down

 * Video at YouTube

 * It felt like spring time on this February morning In a courtyard birds were singing your praise...

 * As I lay me down to sleep This I pray That you will hold me dear Though I'm far away I'll whisper your name into the sky And I will wake up happy

 * It's not too near for me Like a flower I need the rain Though it's not clear to me Every season has its change And I will see you When the sun comes out again.

The Cream Will Rise (1997)

 * A documentary on Hawkins life and career

 * This documentary has lifted the lid off a coffin, and now I'm looking at stuff that I didn't know was there.

Quotations from SophieBHawkins.com

 * Quotations from interviews at SophieBHawkins.com

 * So many people are throwing up their hands because the world has gotten so dark, but I went against the current and I actually found more light and positive energy. That was a great feeling.

 * The reality is that we're all in the wilderness, and we have to survive on our own, and things constantly change and if we don't accept that, then we're just trying to fool ourselves. But the beauty of wilderness is that sometimes you can wake up in the morning and feel so sweet and whole.

 * Before I was signed, I just wanted to get into the system, even though I didn't know what that meant. After I got signed I found that I was confused by all the mixed messages from the label about what I'd have to do to keep their support. I fought and fought to maintain my identity and grow as an artist at the same time, but when I realized that to get their support on Timbre I'd have to start working with schlocky writers and totally sell out, I decided to pack up my marimba and split.

 * I used to be more dogmatic, more disciplined and segregated about my time to work; now I have to jump from one song to another, or score a scene in a movie, then get out the door for a performance at a moment's notice. The illusion of control over my schedule is totally obsolete. There is no way to say, "I can't do that right now." It's "Yes, thank you for the opportunity, whatever it takes to get the music out there."

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This article includes only movie quotes, but there's also comics, you know? And there's a good quotes in those too. Like this one; Hell and Back: Captain:  "Am I wrong, Commander... Or are you just checking out my butt? Commander: "I'm sorry, sir. I'm rather confused" Captain:   "No sweat, we're all liberals here. Just don't let it get too good to you"

 * A page for the comics could be made, or they given a section on this page... depending upon the amount of material provided, and the preferences of those most involved in editing it. ~ Kalki 00:28, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

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Scott McClellan

Scott McClellan (born 14 February 1968) was the White House Press Secretary to President George W. Bush.

Quotes

 * If anyone in this administration was involved in it, they would no longer be in this administration.
 * Source: Press briefing, September 29, 2003
 * Jeff Gannon: Since there have been so many questions about what the President was doing over 30 years ago, what is it that he did after his honorable discharge from the National Guard? Did he make speeches alongside Jane Fonda, denouncing America's racist war in Vietnam? Did he testify before Congress that American troops committed war crimes in Vietnam? And did he throw somebody else's medals at the White House to protest a war America was still fighting? What was he doing after he was honorably discharged? Scott McClellan: We've already commented on some of his views relating back to that period the other day.
 * Source: Press briefing, February 10, 2004
 * Q: But if you stand out strongly trying to let the Arab world know that this is wrong and then you have the proverbial spokesperson for the conservative party saying this, doesn't that send a mixed message? Scott McClellan: The President's views have been very -- have been made very clear. Go ahead.
 * Source: Press briefing, May 6, 2004
 * Jeff Gannon: In your denunciations of the Abu Ghraib photos, you've used words like "sickening," "disgusting" and "reprehensible." Will you have any adjectives left to adequately describe the pictures from Saddam's rape rooms and torture chambers? And will Americans ever see those images? Scott McClellan: I'm glad you brought that up, Jeff, because the President talks about that often.
 * Source: Press briefing, May 10, 2004
 * Jeff Gannon: Last Friday, the Senate Intelligence Committee released a report that shows that Ambassador Joe Wilson lied when he said his wife didn't put him up for the mission to Niger. The British inquiry into their own prewar intelligence yesterday concluded that the President's 16 words were "well-founded." Doesn't Joe Wilson owe the President and America an apology for his deception and his own intelligence failure? Scott McClellan: Well, one, let me point out that I think those reports speak for themselves on that issue. And I think if you have questions about that, you can direct that to Mr. Wilson.
 * Source: Press briefing, July 15, 2004
 * Well, I indicated yesterday that I think there were some -- a few staff-level meetings. But, no, I'm making sure that I have a thorough report back to you on that. And I'll get that to you, hopefully very soon.
 * Source: Press briefing, January 5, 2006
 * I think I previously indicated that he attended three Hanukkah receptions at the White House. It is actually only two Hanukkah receptions that he attended. [...] I don't get into discussing staff-level meetings.
 * Source: Press briefing, January 17, 2006
 * The President is a very straightforward and plainspoken person, and I'm someone who believes in dealing in a very straightforward way with you all, as well, and that's what I've worked to do.
 * Source: Press briefing, July 12, 2005
 * Isn't it my right to talk and say what I want to?
 * Source: Press briefing, October 13, 2005
 * This relationship is built on trust, and you know very well that I have worked hard to earn the trust of the people in this room, and I think I've earned it -- and I think I've earned it with the American people.
 * Source: Press briefing, October 31, 2005
 * That's accurate.
 * White House transcript lists McClellan’s answer as "I don't think that's accurate."
 * Source: Press briefing, October 31, 2005
 * No, you don't want the American people to hear what the facts are, Helen, and I'm going to tell them the facts.
 * Source: Press briefing, November 8, 2005
 * I'm sorry, who?
 * Source: Press briefing, January 4, 2006
 * Q: ...would he possibly stand under a sign that says "Mission Accomplished" today as he did three years ago? Scott McClellan: Well, Peter, I think that there are some Democrats that refuse to recognize the important milestone achieved by the formation of a national unity government. And there is an effort simply to distract attention away from the real progress that is being made by misrepresenting and distorting the past. And that really does nothing to help advance our goal of achieving victory in Iraq. Q: Scott, simple yes or no question, could the President stand under a sign that says -- Scott McClellan: No, see, this is -- this is a way that -- Q: It has nothing to do with Democrats. Scott McClellan: Sure it does. Q: I'm asking you, based on a reporter's curiosity, could he stand under a sign again that says, "Mission Accomplished"? Scott McClellan: Now, Peter, Democrats have tried to raise this issue, and, like I said, misrepresenting and distorting the past -- Q: This is not -- Scott McClellan: -- which is what they're doing, does nothing to advance the goal of victory in Iraq. Q: I mean, it's a historical fact that we're all taking notice of -- Scott McClellan: Well, I think the focus ought to be on achieving victory in Iraq and the progress that's being made, and that's where it is. And you know exactly the Democrats are trying to distort the past. Q: Let me ask it another way: Has the mission been accomplished? Scott McClellan: Next question. Q: Has the mission been accomplished? Scott McClellan: We're on the way to accomplishing the mission and achieving victory.
 * Source: Press briefing, May 1, 2006

 * In this case, the 'liberal media' didn't live up to its reputation. If it had, the country would have been better served.
 * Bush press secretary Scott McClellan of the Iraq War, What Happened

 * As I have heard Bush say, only a wartime president is likely to achieve greatness, in part because the epochal upheavals of war provide the opportunity for transformative change of the kind Bush hoped to achieve. In Iraq, Bush saw his opportunity to create a legacy of greatness.
 * Bush press secretary Scott McClellan, on Bush's need to be a wartime president to improve the chance of a "great" legacy, What Happened, pp. 131

 * As a Texas loyalist who followed Bush to Washington with great hope and personal affection and as a proud member of his administration, I was all too ready to give him and his highly experienced foreign policy advisers the benefit of the doubt on Iraq. Unfortunately, subsequent events have showed that our willingness to trust the judgment of Bush and his team was misplaced.
 * Bush press secretary Scott McClellan, What Happened

 * I had allowed myself to be deceived into unknowingly passing along a falsehood. It would ultimately prove fatal to my ability to serve the President effectively.  I didn't learn that what I'd said was untrue until the media began to figure it out almost two years later. … Neither, I believe, did President Bush.  he too had been deceived, and therefore became unwittingly involved in deceiving me.  But the top White House officials who know the truth -- including Rove, Libby, and possibly Vice President Cheney -- allowed me, even encouraged me, to repeat a lie.
 * Bush press secretary Scott McClellan, on the illegal outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame by White House officials, What Happened; Politico.com

 * I do not believe that the President was in any way directly involved in the leaking of her identity, but that was a very disillusioning moment for me when I found out when it initially hit the press, and I was in North Carolina, if I remember correctly, and a reporter shouted out to the President, "Is it true that you authorized the secret leaking of this classified information?" We walked onto Air Force One, and the Presidents asks, "What was the reporter asking?", and I said, "He asserted that you were the one who authorized Scooty Libby leaking this information," and he said, "Yeah, I did."
 * Bush press secretary Scott McClellan, on illegal leaking of counter-terrorist CIA agent identity; May 29, 2008; Countdown

 * I heard Bush say, "You know, the truth is I honestly don't remember whether I tried it or not. We had some pretty wild parties back in the day, and I just don't remember."  I remember thinking to myself, How can that be?  How can someone simply not remember whether or not they used an illegal substance like cocaine?  It didn't make a lot of sense.
 * Bush press secretary Scott McClellan, on the cocaine rumors that surfaced during the 2000 campaign, What Happened, pp. 48-49

 * I think the president should have stood by his word, and that meant Karl should have left. [...] I think the president should have stood by the word that we said, which was that if you were involved in this in any way, then you would no longer be in this administration. And Karl was involved in it.
 * About George W. Bush on the, as quoted in McClellan: Bush did not live up to word on leak (June 2, 2008) by Ben Feller,

 * We had higher standards at the White House. The president said he was going to restore honor and integrity. He said we were going to set the highest of standards. We didn't live up to that. When it became known that his top adviser had been involved, then the bar was moved.
 * About George W. Bush on the, as quoted in McClellan: Bush did not live up to word on leak (June 2, 2008) by Ben Feller,

 * I was part of this propaganda campaign, absolutely.
 * About the, as quoted in McClellan: Bush did not live up to word on leak (June 2, 2008) by Ben Feller,

 * ...I could not say honestly today that this administration does not believe in torture, does not engage in torture.
 * Interview with ABC News’ Jake Tapper, July 07, 2008

Quotes about McClellan

 * I don't want to get too fulsome on you. I don't think you're going to be dining out on the book for the rest of your life, but I think this is a primary document of American history.  I'm very impressed with it and I think at some point people will be teaching history classes based on it. … This may be the most revealing look at any sitting President since John Dean was sworn in by the Erwin Committee in 1973.
 * MSNBC host Keith Olbermann to Bush press secretary Scott McClellan on the latter's book What Happened; May 29, 2008; Countdown

 * My impression is... that this is, what I would call from the Watergate days, a modified, limited hangout, and I say that because, not because he was malevolent in his desire to put it out there, but press secretaries know very little in the big picture of what's happening at the White House. They're pretty much told what the policymakers and what the other political people in the White House would want them to know so they don't compromise themselves and they can try to be as honest as possible when they're out there briefing the press.  So that's why I think it's pretty limited, but yet fascinating for what it is, and he certainly does nail a few things down. … I think I've read all the memoirs of everybody who's served at the White House at one time or another, going all the way back as early as I could find them, and this is a very unusual one.  My situation was of course testimony.  I was under oath; there was an intense investigation going on.  This is really not in the same context.  I can't really think of anything quite similar.  I was thinking of press secretaries.  The only one who's become anywhere similar was Ford's press secretary, who resigned over the pardon in his disquiet with the pardon, Jerald terHorst, where he said that he was unhappy with what was going on.  Ron Nessen, too, was to a degree fairly frank, but he'd left office.  When I look back at all press secretaries, this is probably about the only time I can think of a press secretary coming forward while the President was still there, and laying out some of the ugly truth.
 * Former Nixon counsel John Dean on What Happened; May 29, 2008; Countdown; see below for contrary view

 * Here's the thing about Scott McClellan. His performance on the podium suggested he was totally incompetent.  He was really badly suited to that job.  He hated the public attention and being in front of the cameras.  But behind the scenes, well, I've known Scott since 1999, 2000.  He actually was inside the circle of trust.  That's why his comments are so damning and so critical here, because he did have walk-in access -- something that Tony Snow never did; and Dana Perino would be hard-pressed to have the same kind of relationship.
 * Richard Wolffe of Newsweek, on What Happened; May 30, 2008; Countdown; see above for contrary view

 * What Happened, I'll say it again, a Rosetta Stone for understanding the last seven years.
 * MSNBC host Keith Olbermann, June 9, 2008;

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User:Jacqui M Schedler~enwikiquote

Jacqui ★ @ Wikipedia

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Kirsten Dunst

Kirsten Caroline Dunst (born April 30, 1982) is an American actress.

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 * It's important to me that I don't get trapped in the whole teen scene because I feel that you can get lost in those kind of movies, and they aren't really about the actors; they're about the selling of the concept, and how much money it makes. So I just try to choose the scripts that have the best characters for myself, or would be the most challenging, or fun.
 * Interview in The Guardian (14 October 2000)

 * Being an actress doesn't make you popular in school. I was always leaving to make a movie then coming back in.
 * Interview in The Guardian (14 October 2000)

 * You need your family in this business. It's one of the most important things to keep you grounded. You come home and your mom's like, "Clean the kitty's litter box." It's not like it's all about me.
 * Interview in The Guardian (14 October 2000)

title: Kirsten Dunst