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Predator (film)

Predator is a 1987 film about a team of commandos reunited in a Central American jungle for a rescue and extract mission, but the lurking secret of the jungle will leave the crew facing death from something never before seen on Earth. A sequel was produced and released in 1990.
 * Directed by John McTiernan. Written by Jim Thomas and John Thomas.

Nothing like it has ever been on earth before (taglines)

Dutch

 * RUN, GO! GET TO THE CHOPPER!
 * You're one... ugly motherfucker!
 * [after pinning a man to the wall with his knife] Stick around.

Dialogue

 * General: Eighteen hours ago, we lost a chopper... Carrying a cabinet minister and his aide in this charming little country. We’ve got a transponder fixed on their position... [Pointing] About here.
 * Dutch: ... This cabinet minister, does he always travel on the wrong side of the border?
 * General: Apparently, they strayed off course. And we're fairly certain they're in guerrilla hands.
 * Dutch: So why don't you use the regular army? What do you need us for?
 * Dillon: 'Cause some damn fool accused you of being the best!
 * Dutch: ... Dillon!... You son of a bitch!
 * [Dillon and Dutch arm wrestle]
 * Dutch: What's the matter? The CIA got you pushing too many pencils?

 * Dillon: Dutch, what the general is sayin' is a couple of our friends are about to get squeezed and we can't let that happen. We need the best. That's why you're here...
 * Dutch: Go on.
 * Dillon: Simple setup. One-day operation. We pick up their trail at the chopper, grab those hostages, and bounce back before anyone knows we were there.
 * Dutch: What do you mean, "we"?
 * Dillon: I'm goin' in with you, Dutch.
 * Dutch: General, my team always works alone. You know that.
 * General: I'm afraid we all have our orders, Major. Once you reach your objective, Dillon will evaluate the situation and take charge...

 * Dutch: What happened here, Billy?
 * Billy: Strange, Major. There was a firefight. They were shooting in all directions.
 * Dutch: I can't believe Hopper walked into an ambush.
 * Billy: I don't believe he did. I can't find a single track. It just doesn't make sense...
 * Dutch: What about the rest of Hopper's men?
 * Billy: There's no sign, sir. They never left here. Hell, it's like they just disappeared...
 * Dutch: ... Stick with the guerrilla trail. Let's get the hostages. [To the others] We move. Five-meter spread. No sound.

 * Poncho: You're hit! You're bleeding, man.
 * Blain: I ain't got time to bleed.
 * Poncho: Oh, okay. [firing a few round from his parabolic grenade launcher] You got time to duck?

 * [after Dutch's team completes the assault on a rebel camp, he notices something amiss]
 * Dutch: You set us up! [pushes Dillon to a wall] It's all bullshit, all of it! The cabinet minister, the whole business. Got us in here to do your dirty work.
 * Dillon: Look we just stopped a major invasion. In three days they'd have been across the border with this stuff!
 * Dutch: Why us?
 * Dillon: Because nobody else could've pulled it off. You're pissed about the cover story, I knew I couldn't get you in here without it.
 * Dutch: So what story did you hand to Hopper?
 * Dillon: Look, we've been looking for this place for months. My men were in that chopper when it got hit! Hopper's orders were to go in and get my men and he disappeared.
 * Dutch: He didn't disappear - he was skinned alive!
 * Dillon: And my orders were to get somebody who could crack these bastards!
 * Dutch: So you cooked up a story and dropped the six of us in a meat grinder...What happened to you, Dillon? You used to be somebody I could trust.
 * Dillon: I woke up. Why don't you? You're an asset. An expendable asset. And I used you to get the job done, got it?
 * Dutch: My men are not expendable...and I don't do this kind of work.

 * Dutch: He's killing us one at a time.
 * Billy: Like a hunter...

 * Dillon: Hold it Dutch, I'm going after Mac!
 * Dutch: That's not your style, Dillon.
 * Dillon: I guess I picked up some bad habits from you, now get your people the hell out of here!
 * Dutch: You can't win this Dillon.
 * Dillon: Maybe I can get even...
 * Dutch: ... Dillon! [Throws him an extra weapon]
 * Dillon:... Just hold on to that damn 'chopper.

 * Dutch: He's using the trees... [approaches and grabs Anna] Yesterday - what did you see?
 * Dillon: You're wasting your time.
 * Dutch: No more games.
 * Anna: ... I don't know what it was. It...
 * Dutch: Go on.
 * Anna: It changed colours, like the chameleon. It uses the jungle.
 * Dillon: You sayin' that Blain and Hawkins were killed by a fuckin' lizard? That's a bullshit psyche job! There's two or three men out there at the most! Fuckin' lizard...!
 * Dutch: What's your name?
 * Anna: Anna.
 * Dutch: [draws his knife] Anna... this thing is hunting us. All of us. You know that.
 * [As Anna nods, Dutch cuts her bonds, freeing her hands]
 * Dillon: What the hell do you think you're you doing?
 * Dutch: We're gonna need everyone.
 * Dillon: I'm taking her back! We're out of here in five minutes.
 * Dutch: We're not going yet.
 * Dillon: Look, the rendezvous is ten to twelve miles away from here; you think the chopper's gonna wait?
 * Dutch: Dillon, we make a stand now, or there will be nobody left to go to the chopper.
 * Anna: There is something else... When the big man was killed, you must have wounded it. Its blood was on the leaves.
 * Dutch: If it bleeds, we can kill it.

 * Dutch: What the hell ARE you?
 * The Predator: [distorted replay] What the hell are YOU? [activates self-destruct device. Dutch runs off into the jungle as the Predator laughs. Dutch jumps into a ditch seconds before detonation]

Taglines

 * Nothing like it has ever been on earth before.
 * It came for the thrill of the hunt. It picked the wrong man to hunt.
 * Soon the hunt will begin.
 * [from trailer] In a part of the world where there are no rules, deep in the jungle where nothing that lives is safe, an elite rescue squad is being led by the ultimate warrior. But now, they're up against the ultimate enemy. Nothing like it has ever been on earth before. We cannot see it, but it sees the heat of our bodies and the heat of our fear. It kills for pleasure, it hunts for sport. But this time, it's picked the wrong man to hunt.

About Predator

 * James Cameron: I always wanted to see something with mandibles.
 * John McTiernan, Kevin Peter Hall, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Joel Silver, John Davis, Jim Thomas, John Thomas (2001). If It Bleeds We Can Kill It: The Making of 'Predator' (Television program). AMC.
 * One of the great science fiction horror films, often imitated, but never properly duplicated, not even by its own sequel.
 * Cargill, C. Robert (August 2, 2007). "The 10 Best Movies of 1987". Film.com. Retrieved April 23, 2010.
 * There's something deeply hypocritical about a film that first establishes that its guerrillas are the evil variety by having one of them cold-bloodedly execute a hostage, then gives its squad of "expendables" free rein to cold-bloodedly murder all of them minutes later. It's the Reagan era all over: tobacco-chewing, tough-talking, US of A military triumphalism on one hand and self-pitying, bugle-salute sentimentalism on the other (when Bill Duke – giving the one thing in Predator that could actually be termed a performance – goes all misty-eyed over his microwaved buddy Ventura). Most of the big 80s action directors displayed some ambivalence towards the mildly fascistic butt-kicking mores of their chosen form: James Cameron developed his My Little Pony eco side; Paul Verhoeven sharpened his satire. But the full mess and insincerity and dumb contradictions are there unapologetically in Predator, a piece of preening post-Vietnam powder-puff for the US ego.
 * Phil Hoad, ”My favourite film: Predator”, The Guardian, (4 Nov 2011).
 * I think Predator has odd moments of self-consciousness too. The one interesting (as opposed to efficient) piece of screenwriting is the scene after they've stormed the rebel encampment, when the alien hunter is watching the soldiers in infrared. Carl Weathers's CIA agent thanks Duke for skewering a deadly scorpion on his back; Duke's reply – "Any time" – is played back with menacing distortion by the predator, until it sounds like a warning. The radio operator (played by Lethal Weapon screenwriter Shane Black) tells a variation of the dirty joke he tried out in the helicopter, also concerning an echo. Landham finally gets it, and his booming laugh is picked up by the alien and played back, grotesquely. Echoes, echoes, and more echoes … until all the machismo is hollow. Something telling is going on here, tonally. The final image of the sequence is the predator watching the heat fade out of the scorpion in its own palm. It's like the film is saying: there's always someone bigger.
 * Phil Hoad, ”My favourite film: Predator”, The Guardian, (4 Nov 2011).
 * Predator presents a confused but not unsympathetic mix of genres: the in-your-face, shape-shifting horror of Alien (film) and the sweaty military mystique of Rambo and Top Gun, with the whole salted by the camp humor and comic book heroics of the typical Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle. It`s also, if only half-consciously, a political allegory, with something unformed but urgent to say about U.S. involvement in Central America.
 * Dave Kehr, “`PREDATOR` LOSES ITS HUNT FOR HIGHER PURPOSE”, Chicago Tribune, (June 12, 1987).
 * McTiernan had a good idea in making his monster all but invisible. (through the film`s first hour, his presence is suggested only through a clever optical effect). Schwarzenegger and his team are, to say the least, very definite physical presences; the only force that could possibly threaten them would be their opposite, something airy and unseen. McTiernan, regrettably, seems more interested in spectacle than suspense, and the attack sequences are filmed for splashy visual impact. And an apocalyptic finale that raises the antiwar message to the nuclear level is more than McTiernan`s metaphor can bear. But Predator remains, if not exactly a thinking man`s Arnold Schwarzenegger movie, at least an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie that reflects some thought.
 * Dave Kehr, “`PREDATOR` LOSES ITS HUNT FOR HIGHER PURPOSE”, Chicago Tribune, (June 12, 1987).
 * In the context of racially charged white anxieties about immigration and social order, the historical demonization of Black men is a trope, a stereotype, that easily maps onto cinematic typecasting. The 1987 Hollywood film that launched the Predator franchise fits this pattern. Predator depicted a Black, dreadlocked, large and super-virile male in a way that converged white art with white political history. A white man once said he thought it was cool that I had dreadlocks like the Predator. This is not a compliment.
 * Tamari Kitossa, “How Hollywood’s ‘Alien’ and ‘Predator’ movies reinforce anti-Black racism”, The Conversation, (August 16, 2020)
 * PREDATOR starts out as a second cousin to Rambo and Missing in Action, with Arnold Schwarzenegger (as Maj. Dutch Schaefer) leading a covert mission to find military operatives missing in Latin America. After 45 long minutes, he and his cohorts (among them Carl Weathers) find an enemy camp and conduct a raid. Knock, knock, says Mr. Schwarzenegger, kicking down the door to a hut. Stick around, he says, running somebody through with a sword.
 * Janet Maslin, “SCHWARZENEGGER IN 'PREDATOR'”, New York Times, (JUNE 12, 1987).
 * Predator, which opens today at the National and other theaters, is alternately grisly and dull, with few surprises, though the creature's face, when finally revealed, has an interesting claw configuration where its mouth ought to be. The habitat is a good deal more interesting than the action, since it contains both floristy-looking palm fronds and large, deciduous trees that have produced some autumn leaves. The film was shot in Mexico.
 * Janet Maslin, “SCHWARZENEGGER IN 'PREDATOR'”, New York Times, (JUNE 12, 1987).
 * Grisly and dull, with few surprises.
 * Mitchell, Elvis (June 12, 1987). "The New York Times Review: Predator". The New York Times. p. C6.
 * Yeah, I think there’s something very unique about that movie. For one, the movie itself is something that inspired me to do mixed genre pictures later. I remember going to see it with my older brother who was a body builder and we saw every Arnold Schwarzenegger movie that came out and we went to see that one thinking it was a Commando type film and then it starts turning – I remember the audience reaction to the film in the theater, they were kinda confused when it turned sci-fi and horror and Arnold didn’t really win at the end, a Predator blows himself up and flies off looking like he’s going to a looney bin in a helicopter. And they were a little like “wow what was that movie?” And it just caught on and kept growing in popularity. And the movie itself was very unique.
 * Robert Rodriguez, "PREDATORS Interview: Director Nimrod Antal and Producer Robert Rodriguez", Jake Lasker, Collider, 1 July 2010
 * Slightly above-average actioner that tries to compensate for tissue-thin-plot with ever-more-grisly death sequences and impressive special effects.
 * "Predator Review". Variety. January 1, 1987. Retrieved May 4, 2009.
 * "Predator" is an ominous high-tech Stone-Age mixture—ominous because the production is high tech and the script, and its values and mentality, are Stone Age. It's in the bare-bones action-adventure mode that producers Joel Silver and Lawrence Gordon used in "The Warriors" and "The Driver," chic action-fables where nothing impedes the streamlined flow—neither logic, originality nor a single naturalistic moment. Sometimes the form works, but in "Predator," they've hit nada. There's a difference between Walter Hill's minimalism and vacuity—which is what we get from Jim and John Thomas' screenplay. It's arguably one of the emptiest, feeblest, most derivative scripts ever made as a major studio movie. There's no need to do a Mad magazine movie parody of this; it's already on the screen.
 * Michael Wilmington, REVIEW : SCHWARZENEGGER VS. ALIEN IN 'PREDATOR'”, Los Angeles Times, (June 12, 1987).

Cast

 * Arnold Schwarzenegger - Major 'Dutch' Schaeffer
 * Carl Weathers - Agent Al Dillon
 * Elpidia Carrillo - Anna
 * Bill Duke - Sergeant 'Mac' Eliot
 * Jesse Ventura - Blain Cooper
 * Sonny Landham - Billy
 * Richard Chaves - Poncho
 * Shane Black - Hawkins
 * RG Armstrong - General Phillips
 * Kevin Peter Hall - Predator

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The Glass House

The Glass House (2001–2006) was a half-hour Australian comedy talk show, hosted by Wil Anderson, Corinne Grant and Dave Hughes, screening on Wednesday nights on ABC.

Quotes

 * Wil: [Politically correct version of 'baa, baa black sheep'] Blah, blah, blah. I hate myself Pass the weed. I have to testify in court.
 * Dave: [In response to an American panellist saying, "If [Australians] don't vote, you get fined."] Yeah, and if you don't vote you get George Bush!

Headlines

 * "Two Australians Kidnapped in Iraq: Unfortunately not Will Anderson" (September 17, 2004)
 * "Will Anderson to write and star in a comedy show with Rove: Australian comedy dies" (September 25, 2004)
 * "Dicko boycotts ARIAs: No one gives a shit" (September 25, 2004)
 * "The Glass House finally removed from detention centres: refugees happy, now think that torture is over."
 * "Pope ponders evolution: Hmmm, no."
 * "George Bush discovers Bird Flu: Decides to invade Turkey"
 * "Osama Bin Ladin hiding in hole: Not sure how he got to Tasmania"

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Finding Nemo
I see that, in the Finding Nemo article, you've twice edited the seagulls' quote of "Mine!" into "Mate!". Wiki policy recommends avoiding a revert war by discussing such a controversy. I've started a discussion at Talk:Finding Nemo. I would appreciate it if you could offer your reasoning there. Thank you. — Jeff Q 16:42, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)

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User:FinalGamer

Hello everyone here, this is a little about me, if you care. Glad to be part of the most biggest encyclopaedia in history.

Brief info
Favourite article in Wikiquote: Mystery Science Theater 3000. I crack up every time I read the jokes.

First article created: American McGee's Alice.

Favourite Quote: How stupid that this planet be called Earth, when it should clearly be called Ocean - Arthur C Clarke

Funniest Quote: ''I think so Brain, but. . .me and Pippi Longstocking. . .I mean, what would the children look like?'' - Pinky, from Pinky and the Brain.

''Note: Swearing and offensive language may be on this page. Please use caution!'' On this page, will be quotes I hear that are from non-famous people. Either quotes from me, or family or friends or anywhere else, which I hope shall be witty, insightful, and/or helpful. I checked the FAQ and village Pump, and as far as I know, this is acceptable. Post down any comments you want to say about any of this. Be constructive, appreciative, or opposing. On this page, I'll let you say whatever you want about these quotes or myself. I'm all ears.

Quotes from myself

 * "A friend indeed helps a friend in need."
 * Paraphrase of the old saying: A friend in need is a friend indeed.
 * "There is no such thing as normal."
 * "Time and History are like one giant river. It flows along, following the course of nature, until the river is broken into two smaller rivers.  One river is the history we live in.  The other is what we could've lived in, the parallel history, which runs parallel with our river of History.  Eventually, the river gets broken into smaller and smaller rivers, tributaries of Time.  As the river gets smaller, it becomes easier to change, alter, block, or destroy."
 * "All of the pain and agony of the 20th century and even now, began with a single bullet. Why bother fighting anymore?"
 * An article on TIME Magazine's website told of how all the wars of the 20th and 21st century were caused by the student (called Gavrilo Princip) who shot and killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne. This action cause the First World War, which caused the second World War, and so forth.  See this link.
 * "Humans were never meant to be. We were an accident, freaks, all of us.  It seems that we are a fatal mistake, now that we, the freaks,  rule and destroy the world."
 * This is somewhat true. I read an article in New Scientist which told of the beginning of humans being a baby chimpanzee with a genetic abnormality, causing loss of fur, regression of thumbs, etc.  I'm not being racist here, but this was what I thought as I wondered about why humans destroy everything.
 * "I am an outcast of Life."
 * "You're either okay or not. There's no "I guess I'm okay" in life."
 * Said this to a friend when we both felt depressed on a bad day.
 * "Someone's view of the world is either straight or bent. For me, it has been twisted into a double helix."
 * "What idiot is gonna buy some dressed-up pseudolixir based on statistics from American Marketing?!?!"
 * I am the creator of the word "Pseudolixir", which means something that claims to be a cure, or something miraculous or beneficial, but is actually false. Like anti-wrinkle cream for 10-year old girls.
 * "What happens if you met yourself in the past, present and future at the exact SAME TIME??? That would be one freaky get together!"
 * "She may act like a prat, she may talk like a prat, but don't be fooled, she really is a prat!"
 * Paraphrase of one of Groucho Marx's line (and I didn't know that when I said this). The word prat, if you don't know because i don't hear this word a lot, means someone who acts stupidly.
 * "Why's everyone going on about Jeffrey Archer lying a lot? He writes fiction.  Of course he lies!  If he can make up stories in books, he can do it with his mouth!"
 * Jeffrey Archer was a novelist who became an MP, a lord and got jailed for perjury (lying under oath in court).
 * "Look, you've got your God, I've got my Dragons!"
 * This was when someone told me that dragons don't exist (and I believe that dragons do exist) so I told him this. If people can believe from God because of one book (which is very good) then I can believe in Dragons (by the fact that in every civilisation in history, there has been at least one creature defined as a Dragon).
 * "Teacher: Have you got the ssEMMII-SKIMMMMEDD-MILK?" Me: "I've got your FUCKING MILK!!!"
 * This happened when I was four years old in a supermarket. The teacher treated me as if I was retarded, and after repeating Semi-Skimmed Milk for the third time (which I went and got without any trouble) I snapped when she asked me again for the FOURTH time.  My mother was in the next aisle, and she applauded, along with several other customers.  If you wonder about my upbringing, don't worry.  I knew swear-words when I was two, and this was from programmes like Bottom or the Young Ones.
 * "Fuck the Towers! What about the people IN the Towers?!?!?
 * When I first heard about 9/11 (On that very day at 4:03pm) and someone said that the World Trade Center got damaged. Please don't be offended by this, or take it the wrong way.  I didn't care about the building, but I DID care about the 3,000 people working there.  See below.
 * "You can replace a building, but you can't replace a heart, a soul, or a human being."
 * This was shortly after 9/11 and the damage and casualties had been assessed. I felt quite struck because a student from my High School was visiting the World Trade Center at the time, and another student was on a plane to New York.  Webster's High School shares its sympathies...
 * "We are all connected by threads. All of us, have some connection with everyone else because of these threads of fate.  Almost as if the Tapestry of Fate had been shredded to pieces and we all took one thread from it."
 * An odd comment I made after a historic play in my area called "Common Threids" (spelt the Scottish way) which told of how people in a town are connected over the years by intertwining threads of history. Quite interesting.

Quotes from friends, family, and other people I know

 * "Don't be afraid of the dead. Be afraid of the living."
 * My Greek Grandmother said this when someone said about how graveyards and zombies were scary.

Miscellaneous quotes I hear from other places

 * "It's like cancer. It starts off small, but grows and grows within your body, infesting you, making you sick.  Eventually, it can kill you, anger."
 * Interesting simile from a webcomic called Jack, of how anger is very like the emotional form of a cancer.
 * Black Mage: "Excuse me, do you by any chance work for UPS?" White Mage: "No, why?" Black Mage: "'Cause I swear I could've saw you checkin' out my package!!!"
 * A hilariously stupid chat-up line from a webcomic called 8-bit Theater.

Email
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Zell Miller

Zell Bryan Miller (February 24, 1932 – March 23, 2018) was an American author and politician from the U.S. state of Georgia. A Democrat, Miller served as lieutenant governor from 1975 to 1991, 79th Governor of Georgia from 1991 to 1999, and as U.S. Senator from 2000 to 2005.

Miller was a conservative Democrat. In 2004, he supported Republican President George W. Bush against the Democratic nominee John Kerry in the presidential election. Miller was a keynote speaker at both major American political parties' national conventions - Democratic in 1992 and Republican in 2004.

Quotes

 * Lyndon Johnson is a Southerner who sold his birthright for a mess of pottage|mess of dark pottage.
 * During his 1964 Congressional race. History News Network

 * I know what Dan Quayle means when he says it's best for children to have two parents. You bet it is! And it would be nice for them to have trust funds, too. We can't all be born rich and handsome and lucky. And that's why we have a Democratic Party. My family would still be isolated and destitute if we had not had F.D.R.'s Democratic brand of government. I made it because Franklin Delano Roosevelt energized this nation. I made it because Harry Truman fought for working families like mine. I made it because John Kennedy's rising tide lifted even our tiny boat. I made it because Lyndon Johnson showed America that people who were born poor didn't have to die poor. And I made it because a man with whom I served in the Georgia Senate, a man named Jimmy Carter, brought honesty and decency and integrity to public service..
 * Keynote address at the 1992 Democratic National Convention

 * I say bomb the hell out of them. If there's collateral damage, so be it. They certainly found our civilians to be expendable.
 * Speech on Senate floor shorty after attacks against U.S. on September 11, 2001. ; (at end of video).

 * I wish we lived in the day where you could challenge a person to a duel.
 * To Chris Matthews on Hardball after his speech at the 2004 RNC, September 1, 2004.

 * Kerry would let Paris decide when America needs defending. I want Bush to decide.
 * Speech given at the Republican National Convention, New York, September 1, 2004.

 * My mouth ain't no prayer book.
 * Political Insider | ajc.com

 * I’m southern born, and southern bred, and when I die, I’ll be southern dead.
 * Following death of former Democratic Georgia state House Speaker Tom Murphy in December 2007. Zell Miller: Murphy death ends era of individual power player | ajc.com

 * How could this great land of plenty produce too few people in the last 30 years?
 * Miller asked in March 2007 during a fund-raiser in Macon, Georgia, for Sav-A-Life Care Center, a crisis pregnancy center. Sav A Life Care Center > Home
 * Here is the brutal truth that no one dares to mention: We’re too few because too many of our babies have been killed. Over 45 million since Roe v. Wade in 1973.” "If those 45 million children had lived, today they would be defending our country, they would be filling our jobs, they would be paying into Social Security. Still, we watch as 3,700 babies are killed every single day in America. It is unbelievable that a nation under God would allow this.
 * Zell Miller: Abortion Killed Over 45 Million

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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is a 2004 film about a couple who undergo a procedure to erase each other from their memories when their relationship turns sour, but it is only through the process of loss that they discover what they had to begin with.
 * Directed by Michel Gondry. Written by Charlie Kaufman and Michel Gondry.

You can erase someone from your mind. Getting them out of your heart is another story.(taglines)

Joel Barish

 * Sand is overrated. It's just tiny little rocks.
 * Why do I fall in love with every woman I see who shows me the least bit of attention?
 * I'm constitutionally incapable of making eye-contact with a woman I don't know.
 * She was nice. Nice is good.
 * Random thoughts for Valentine's Day, 2004. Today is a holiday invented by greeting card companies. To make people feel like crap.
 * This is working like gangbusters!
 * Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.
 * Are we like those bored couples you feel sorry for in restaurants? Are we the dining dead?
 * It's all being wiped away.
 * I could die right now, I'm just … happy. I've never felt that before. I'm just exactly where I want to be.
 * I loved you on this day. I love this memory.
 * I ditched work today. Took a train out to Montauk. I don't know why, I'm not an impulsive person.

Clementine Kruczynski

 * Drink up, young man. It'll make the whole seduction part less repugnant.
 * I'm always anxious thinking I'm not living my life to the fullest, you know? Taking advantage of every possibility? Just making sure that I'm not wasting one second of the little time I have.
 * … you stop listening to what is true, and what is true is constantly changing.
 * I apply my personality in a paste.
 * I'm a vindictive little bitch, truth be told.
 * I'm not a concept. Too many guys think I'm a concept or I complete them or I'm going to make them alive, but I'm just a fucked up girl who is looking for my own peace of mind. Don't assign me yours.
 * You look familiar. Ever shop at Barnes & Noble?
 * I don't need nice. I don't need myself to be it, and I don't need anybody else to be it at me.
 * People don’t understand how lonely it is to be a kid.

Mary Svevo

 * [Quoting Alexander Pope] "How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each prayer accepted, and each wish resigned."
 * [Quoting Friedrich Nietzsche] "Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders."
 * Adults are, like, this mess of sadness and phobias.

Quotes

 * Clementine: Hi!
 * Joel: Excuse me?
 * Clementine: I just said hi.
 * Joel: Oh! Hi, hello.
 * Clementine: I'm Clementine … no jokes about my name.
 * Joel: I don't know any jokes about your name.
 * Clementine: Huckleberry Hound.
 * Joel: I don't know what that is.
 * Clementine: Huckleberry Hound! [singing] Oh my darling, oh my darling, oh my darling Clementine.
 * Joel: I don't know what that means.
 * Clementine: Are you nuts?
 * Joel: It's been suggested.

 * Clementine: You're not a stalker or anything, right?
 * Joel: I'm not a stalker. You're the one that talked to me, remember?
 * Clementine: That is the oldest trick in the stalker book.
 * Joel: Really? There's a stalker book? Great, I gotta read that one.

 * Clementine: Joel, I'm not a concept. Too many guys think I'm a concept or I complete them or I'm going to make them alive, but I'm just a fucked up girl who is looking for my own peace of mind. Don't assign me yours.
 * Joel: I remember that speech really well.
 * Clementine: I had you pegged, didn't I?
 * Joel: You had the whole human race pegged.
 * Clementine: Probably.
 * Joel: I still thought you were going to save me. Even after that.
 * Clementine: I know.

 * Clementine: This is it, Joel. It's going to be gone soon.
 * Joel: I know.
 * Clementine: What do we do??
 * Joel: Enjoy it.

 * [During Joel's exploration of a memory]
 * Joel: I'm in my head already, aren't I?
 * Howard: I suppose so. This – this is about what it would look like.

 * Joel: [in the house on the beach] I really should go! I've gotta catch my ride.
 * Clementine: So go.
 * Joel: I did. I thought maybe you were a nut … but you were exciting.
 * Clementine: I wish you had stayed.
 * Joel: I wish I had stayed too. Now I wish I had stayed. I wish I had done a lot of things. I wish I had … I wish I had stayed. I do.
 * Clementine: Well, I came back downstairs and you were gone!
 * Joel: I walked out, I walked out the door!
 * Clementine: Why?
 * Joel: I don't know. I felt like I was a scared little kid, I was like … it was above my head, I don't know.
 * Clementine: You were scared?
 * Joel: Yeah. I thought you knew that about me. I ran back to the bonfire, trying to outrun my humiliation, I think.
 * Clementine: Was it something I said?
 * Joel: Yeah, you said "so go." With such disdain, you know?
 * Clementine: Oh, I'm sorry.
 * Joel: It's okay.

 * Clementine: You know me, I'm impulsive.
 * Joel: That's what I love about you.

 * Joel: I can't see anything I don't like about you.
 * Clementine: But you will, you will think of things and I'll get bored with you and feel trapped because that's what happens with me.
 * Joel: Okay.

Cast

 * Jim Carrey – Joel
 * Kate Winslet – Clementine
 * Kirsten Dunst – Mary
 * Elijah Wood – Patrick
 * Tom Wilkinson – Howard
 * Mark Ruffalo – Stan

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Talk:Douglas Adams

Suggestions

 * 1) "Here the man in blue crimplene accosted us once more but we patiently explained to him that he could fuck off."

This one seems pretty weak - suggest deleting it.

there's nothing from dirk gently!
 * So suggest something!

I don't know what the hell "Fit the Xth" is. My only conjecture is that it's some idiot looking for publicity. In any case, it's pretty annoying, and doesn't occur in the books, so I'm axing it.

 * Fit the Xth is the tenth episode of the Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the fourth episode of the second series.—137.43.4.16 11:26, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)

The radio episodes were numbered "Fit the First", "Fit the Second", and so on. Currently (as in right this moment), the latest episode is Fit the Fifteenth. - Furrykef 02:31, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC)

And my only conjecture is that you're some idiot who goes around erasing whatever he doesn't understand.

 * "If we see you smoking we will assume you are on fire and take appropriate action." -Douglas Adams

Is on the Drugs page, but not here. I don't know the original source, so I'm not going to immediately put it back in. If anyone knows whether this quote was from DNA...

"Technology is a word that describes something that doesn't work yet" - this is attributed to Bran Ferren here: http://www.douglasadams.com/dna/19990901-00-a.html

Hmmmm........uncanny.....
Have you read all of his material?? In fact, there is a bunch of stuff he said that most people don't know......so please....

Deleting parts of a page?
Hm. The Wiki concept seems to be too 'open' for me. I don't see much sense in contributing if some days later somebody comes along and deletes big parts of what I entered. sunny 07:32, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * It does seem that major portions have been deleted by the last edit from IP 138.78.20.2. Sometimes things are lost inadvertently during attempts at major configuration changes, but all acts of deliberate deletion of quotes should be done with a specified reason. I am now examining what the most recent editors have done, and trying to restore what has been lost in a new edit, and perhaps a new configuration. ~ Kalki 07:50, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * I just reverted the most recent edit, that was made by IP 138.78.20.2, but I am also examining the structure of the article and might make some rearrangements. ~ Kalki 07:58, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * Thank you. sunny

That quote:

"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."

is twice in the page.

Towel?
I've searched this page for word 'towel' and have found no matches!

It's imposible to cite guide and do not mention a towel.

Clearly not 62.180.31.65 03:40, 20 January 2007 (UTC)DTP

Yet unconfirmed quotes
Does anybody have a source link or other confirmation that this quote is from Douglas Adams?

"Don't destroy the Earth in the first chapter. You'll need it later." -- Douglas Adams

This quote seems to be widely attributed to Adams, but it really doesn't sound like him to me. Can anybody definitively confirm or deny: "To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity."

page numbers
Do the page numbers apply to most versions of the book, the original, or just a certain copy one editor happened to own? They don't match with my copy, "published by Gollancz in 2005". I think I shall replace them with chapter numbers if no-one objects, as the chapters are generally quite short. Boffy b 22:45, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Citing chapter numbers is almost always a much better practice than using page numbers, which can vary widely between editions. ~ Kalki 23:19, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)

inconsistencies/doubled lines

 * "Think of a number, any number." - Asked of the mattress by Marvin
 * is also in the "Marvin" section, since Marvin says that and the mattress answers.

 * "We apologise for the inconvenience" - God's final message to humans.
 * didn't the Vogons say that? I haven't read all the books through yet, but it sounds like the public announcement at the beginning of the first book

(80.109.255.5 19:38, 7 May 2005 (UTC))

 * The "We apologise for the inconvenience" is God's Final Message to His Creation, and is indeed not said by the Vogons. - Furrykef 20:15, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

 * If memory serves, it was great burning letters in the side of a mountain? You had to climb up to see it, certainly no one said it.

 * Marvin was looking through a telescope to see the burning letters (just before he died). I always took the joke to mean that the telescope was in fact out of order, yet Marvin believed, and accepted what he saw as God's final message.

On Computers - Salmon of Doubt
This quote appears in the article:
 * First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure.

I've read The Salmon of Doubt and Douglas says pretty much exactly that, but it's much longer. I agree this is a nice concise version, but did Douglas indeed shorten it himself somewhere (source anyone?) or has a wiki editor summarised this? (in which case it's not a quote) —EatMyShortz 11:01, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

How can Adams be dead?
I'm sure I read somewhere that he played an active role in writing the Guide's movie script.

I think he worked on it before he died.

I remember reading somewhere (Salmon of Doubt maybe?) that the movie was supposed to be made 10 or 15 years ago and it just never happened, so id assume they just got his scripts and finished it up/edited it.

 * Even death couldn't stop Douglas Adams. He did indeed write (or possibly participated in the writing of) the screenplay for the film and thanks to the wonders of digital technology he also managed to voice Agrajag in the radio series, three years after his death

This may have more to do with recording the books during his lifetime rather than digital technology per say. 92.20.181.25 11:18, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

I suspect (without proof) that Douglas was instrumental in not writing the screenplay. He was perhaps the English's greatest procastinator and the movie was in development hell for years, only finally seeing the light of day four years after his death. --94.168.159.173 15:32, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

Indeed, as a point of logic, anyone at all can be dead, dead as a doornail, but then it is highly unlikely that you are.

Dirk Gently Merge
An editor suggested that Dirk Gently be merged into this article. Given that there's only one quote on the Dirk Gently page, I don't see a reason why there shouldn't be a merge. Ripberger 23:20, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

Salmon of Doubt??
The happening quote, "Anything that happens happens, anything that in happening etc.." is attributed to the Salmon of Doubt, but this is from one of the HH books, I believe the third one. So, as that was published first, shouldn't it be in there?

"Writing is easy..."
I've removed the following:

 * Writing is easy. You only need to stare at a piece of blank paper until a drop of blood forms on your forehead.
 * (note: this quote is often attributed to Gene Fowler rather than Douglas Adams.)

because whoever actually said it, it can't have been Adams, as the man himself seems to confirm here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CziXZEoPg3c. About 1:35 in he does use the quote but also says "I think it comes from Ring Lardner".

Unsourced

 * I may be a pretty sad case, but I don't write jokes in base 13!
 * Douglas Adams, referring to the theory that the disparity between the question and answer of life, the universe and everything is an obscure math joke on his part (6 times 9 equals 42 in base 13). He mentioned this when interviewed on the BBC by Clive Anderson, among other occasions.

 * "42 is a nice number that you can take home and introduce to your family"
 * Douglas Adams, responding to the "Why 42?" at Brown University (circa 1994)

 * Mozart tells us what it's like to be human, Beethoven tells us what it's like to be Beethoven and Bach tells us what it's like to be the universe.
 * From The Salmon of Doubt

 * "Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner."
 * From The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

 * "Mark Knopfler has an extraordinary ability to make a Schecter Custom Stratocaster hoot and sing like angels on a Saturday night, exhausted from being good all week and needing a stiff drink."
 * Adams' Description of the guitar on the Dire Straits track "Tunnel of Love" from So Long and Thanks For All the Fish

 * "Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."
 * From Life, The Universe and Everything

Religion

 * Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
 * From The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
 * I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.
 * If I were not an atheist, I think I would have to be a Catholic because if it wasn't the forces of natural selection that designed fish, It must have been an Italian. (Riding the Rays, an article written in 1992)
 * This article (Riding the Rays) was also part of "Salmon of Doubt"

Computers

 * I wrote an ad for Apple Computer: 'Macintosh - We might not get everything right, but at least we knew the century was going to end.'
 * He started to count to ten. He was desperately worried that one day sentient life forms would forget how to do this. Only by counting could humans demonstrate their independence of computers. -Ford Prefect, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
 * The Macintosh may only have 10% of the market, but it is clearly the top 10%.
 * First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure.
 * [The World Wide Web is] the only thing I know of whose shortened form — www — takes three times longer to say than what it's short for.
 * Technology is a word that describes something that doesn't work yet.
 * JavaOne keynote, 1999
 * The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he who, by peddling second-rate technology, led them into it in the first place.
 * I first saw this program in the same week that evidence was discovered of life on Mars. This is more exciting.
 * On the subject of Creatures, an artificial-life computer program

Learning

 * You live and learn. At any rate, you live.
 * (Marvin)
 * I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer.
 * (Zaphod Beeblebrox - H2G2)

Profession

 * In fact, I wanted to be John Cleese, and it took some time to realize the job was in fact taken.

Time

 * It takes an awful long time to not write a book.
 * Time is the worst place, so to speak, to get lost in...
 * I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. (This quote was used by Scott Adams in a Dilbert comic strip)
 * Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so. (Ford Prefect)
 * Anything that happens, happens. Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen causes something else to happen. Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen happens again. It doesn't necessarily have to happen in that order, though.
 * From "Mostly Harmless"

Travel

 * If you've never visited or spent time in Santa Fe, New Mexico, then let me say this: you're a complete idiot. I was myself a complete idiot till about a year ago.....
 * From "Maggie and Trudie"

Hollywood

 * Getting a movie made in Hollywood is like trying to grill a steak by having a succession of people coming into the room and breathing on it.
 * MIT (1999)

Life

 * "Life, is like a grapefruit. [...]it's orangey-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, too. Oh, and some people have half a one for breakfast."
 * Ford Prefect, in a dream sequence

 * "He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife."
 * Life, the Universe, and Everything

 * "It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes."
 * Life, the Universe, and Everything

 * "Life! Don't talk to me about life."
 * Marvin

 * "What to do if you find yourself stuck with no hope of rescue: Consider yourself lucky that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given your present circumstances seems more likely, consider yourself lucky that it won't be troubling you much longer."
 * Fit the Eight

 * "It's funny how just when you think life just can't possibly get any worse it suddenly does."
 * Marvin

 * "Life, loathe it or ignore it, you can't like it."
 * Marvin

 * "Everybody has their moment of great opportunity in life. If you happen to miss the one you care about, then everything else in life becomes eerily easy."
 * Mostly Harmless

 * "One definition of life, albeit not a particularly useful one, might run something like this: Life is that property which a being will lose as a result of falling out of a cold and mysterious cave, thirteen miles above ground level. This is not a useful definition, a) because it could equally well refer to the subjects glasses if he happens to be wearing them, and b) because it fails to take into account the possibility that the subject might happen to fall on the, say, the back of an extremely large passing bird. The first of these flaws is due to sloppy thinking, but the second is understandable, because the mere idea is, quite clearly, utterly ludicrous."
 * Fit the Tenth

The Universe

 * There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened. - (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, almost all versions)
 * The simple truth is that interstellar distances will not fit into the human imagination - (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
 * In the beginning the universe was created. This made a lot of people angry and has been widely regarded as a "bad move". - (The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe)

Everything

 * "The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair."
 * From Mostly Harmless
 * "What's so bad about being drunk?" - "Just ask a glass of water."
 * From The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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Tami Stronach

Tamara "Tami" Stronach (born 31 July 1972 in Tehran, Iran) is an Israeli-American dancer and choreographer who has also worked as an actress.

Quotes

 * The more wishes you make, the more magnificent Fantasia will become.
 * as "The Childlike Empress in ''The Neverending Story.

 * I am committed to using technology in my dances but not for the purpose of making a comment on technology, but rather to use it as a tool to express the human condition. I think that there are many disadvantages to using technology, it is expensive, difficult to set up and can steal the show by drawing too much attention away from the dance. I love the beauty and the simplicity of a warm body moving without frills, but I think technology is part of our common language now and to not create a relationship with it in dance seems like ignoring a vital tool for connection.
 * Interview in the Greenpoint Gazette.

Quotes about Stronach

 * A slyly anarchic dancer
 * Jennifer Dunning in The New York Times.

 * Stronach’s fragile beauty belies an emotional strength, pragmatic resiliency, and intellectual courage. Her ideas and choreography are both enigmatic and playful.
 * Joe Del Priore in the Greenpoint Gazette.

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James Abourezk

James George Abourezk (February 24, 1931 – February 24, 2023) was an American attorney and politician who served as a United States Representative and United States Senator from South Dakota. He was the first Greek Orthodox Christian of Lebanese-Antiochite descent to serve in the United States Senate.

Quotes

 * I marveled at the Hezbollah resistance to Israel . . . It was a marvel of organization, of courage and bravery.
 * The Arabs who were involved in 9/11 cooperated with the Zionists, actually. It was a cooperation. They gave them the perfect excuse to denounce all Arabs.

 * There's a direct correlation, we've found, between the demonization of Saddam, and violent acts against Arab-Americans in this country.
 * The Arabs: Who they are, who they are not, from the Moyers collection

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Pete Seeger

Peter Seeger (3 May 1919 – 27 January 2014) was a U.S. musician, political activist, and author; usually known as Pete Seeger.

Quotes

 * This machine surrounds hate and forces it to surrender.
 * Inscription on his banjo, inspired by the inscription on Woody Guthrie's guitar : "This machine kills fascists"

 * We'll walk hand in hand We'll walk hand in hand We'll walk hand in hand some day... The whole wide world around some day.
 * Lyrics added to "We Shall Overcome" by Seeger in the late 1940s, whose musical arrangement and renditions helped popularize the song among civil-rights activists in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He also changed the primary lines from from "We Will Overcome" to "We Shall Overcome".

 * To everything (turn, turn, turn) There is a season (turn, turn, turn) And a time for every purpose under heaven.
 * "Turn! Turn! Turn!" (1954); a song which adapts a passage from the book of Ecclesiastes to music, with a few additional lyrics.

 * A time to gain, a time to lose A time to rend, a time to sew A time of love, a time of hate A time of peace... I swear it's not too late.
 * "Turn! Turn! Turn!" (1954)

 * Where have all the flowers gone, long time passing? Where have all the flowers gone, long time ago? Where have all the flowers gone? Young girls have picked them everyone. Oh, when will they ever learn?
 * "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" (1955)

 * Where have all the soldiers gone? Gone to graveyards, everyone. Oh, when will they ever learn? Oh, when will they ever learn?
 * "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" (1955)

 * I have been singing folksongs of America and other lands to people everywhere. I am proud that I never refused to sing to any group of people because I might disagree with some of the ideas of some of the people listening to me. I have sung for rich and poor, for Americans of every possible political and religious opinion and persuasion, of every race, color, and creed. The House committee wished to pillory me because it didn’t like some few of the many thousands of places I have sung for.
 * Statement to the court (1961) prior to his sentencing on contempt of Congress charges for his refusal to reveal names of communist or socialist acquaintances before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1955.

 * A good song can only do good, and I am proud of the songs I have sung. I hope to be able to continue singing these songs for all who want to listen, Republicans, Democrats, and independents.
 * Statement to the court prior to his sentencing for contempt of Congress (1961); also quoted on NPR: Weekend Edition (2 July 2005)

 * If I've got a talent, it's for picking the right song at the right time for the right audience. And I can always seem to get people to sing with me.
 * "A Minstrel with a Mission", Life magazine, 1964.

We are waist deep in the Big Muddy and the big fool says to push on.
 * Every time I read the paper those old feelings come on.
 * "Waist Deep in the Big Muddy" (1967)

 * One blue sky above us One ocean lapping all our shore One earth so green and round Who could ask for more And because I love you I'll give it one more try To show my rainbow race It's too soon to die.
 * "My Rainbow Race" (1967)

 * ... And this is the origin of pop music: it's a professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music as well.
 * Pop Chronicles, Show 1 - Play A Simple Melody: Pete Seeger on the origins of pop music, interview recorded 2.14.1968.

 * In the largest sense, every work of art is protest. … A lullaby is a propaganda song and any three-year-old knows it. … A hymn is a controversial song — sing one in the wrong church: you'll find out. …
 * Pop Chronicles, Show 33 - Revolt of the Fat Angel: American musicians respond to the British invaders. Part 1, interview recorded 2.14.1968.

 * All songwriters are links in a chain.
 * Interview with Paul Zollo in 1988

 * I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax. I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other.
 * "The Old Left", New York Times Magazine, 22 January 1995, sect. 6 p. 13

 * I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it. But if by some freak of history communism had caught up with this country, I would have been one of the first people thrown in jail.
 * "The Old Left", New York Times Magazine, 22 January 1995, sect. 6 p. 13

 * When I meet people who say, "Oh, there's no hope, Peter, look at the things that are going wrong, and those stupid people in Bosnia, there are going to be things like that all around the world, power-hungry people says I know how to handle this, just give me the bomb. There's no hope." But I say to them, I said, "Did you ever think that our great Watergate president would leave office the way he did?" "No, I guess I didn't think that." I said, "Did you think that the Berlin Wall would come down so peacefully?" "No, I didn't think that would happen, yeah." I said, "Did you think Mandela would be president of South Africa?" "No, I didn't predict that." "Well, if you couldn't predict those three things, then don't be so confident that there's no hope." And I give them a bumper sticker. It says, "There's No Hope, But I May Be Wrong."
 * ""An Afternoon with Pete Seeger", Living on Earth, April 17, 1998

 * I'd really rather put songs on people's lips than in their ears.
 * 1994 interview, quoted in Filene Romancing the Folk: Public Memory & American Roots Music (2000), p. 197

 * The world would never amount to a hill of beans if people didn't use their imaginations to think of the impossible.
 * Pete Seeger's Storytelling Book, 2001, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, ISBN 0156013118, p. 220

 * There's no hope, but I may be wrong.
 * NPR: Weekend Edition (2 July 2005)

 * The world will be saved by people fighting for their homes.
 * NPR: Weekend Edition (2 July 2005)

 * I feel most spiritual when I'm out in the woods. I feel part of nature. Or looking up at the stars. [I used to say] I was an atheist. Now I say, it's all according to your definition of God. According to my definition of God, I'm not an atheist. Because I think God is everything. Whenever I open my eyes I'm looking at God. Whenever I'm listening to something I'm listening to God.
 * "Pete Seeger's Session", a Beliefnet interview (2006)

 * Technology will save us if it doesn't wipe us out first.
 * "We Shall Overcome: An Hour With Legendary Folk Singer & Activist Pete Seeger" on Democracy Now (4 September 2006)

 * The key to the future of the world, is finding the optimistic stories and letting them be known.
 * "Pete Seeger, Songwriter and Champion of Folk Music, Dies at 94" New York Times (28 January 2014)

 * If it can't be … reused, repaired … then it should be … redesigned or removed from production.
 * Berkeley salutes folk singer Seeger (6 February 2014)

How Can I Keep from Singing: Pete Seeger (1981)

 * Quotations from How Can I Keep from Singing: Pete Seeger (1981) by David King Dunaway ISBN 0070181500

 * Shh. Listen to the sounds that surround you. Notice the pitches, the volume, the timbre, the many lines of counterpoint. As light taught Monet to paint, the earth may be teaching you music.

 * A productive mistake is: (1) made in the service of mission and vision; (2) acknowledged as a mistake; (3) learned from; (4) considered valuable; (5) shared for the benefit of all.
 * p. 90

 * The easiest way to avoid wrong notes is to never open your mouth and sing. What a mistake that would be.
 * p. 95

 * "So, are you going to practice today?" asks my inner mom. "Well, sure. But I've got one more phone call to make. The dishes are dirty. I have to feed the cat." I don't hate practicing. I resist it. The goddess of procrastination can seduce me by lifting one eyebrow. After decades of practicing or avoiding the same, walking over to the piano remains the hardest part.
 * p. 117

 * At the audition, your assignment is to find something new in the song. Something you've never noticed before. A breath carried over, a thought that ties the whole thing together. Then take the risk and do it.
 * p. 119

 * If singing were all that serious, frowning would make you sound better.
 * p. 122

Misattributed

 * If I had a hammer, I'd hammer in the morning I'd hammer in the evening, All over this land. I'd hammer out danger, I'd hammer out a warning, I'd hammer out love between my brothers and my sisters, All over this land... Well I got a hammer, And I got a bell, And I got a song to sing, all over this land. It's the hammer of Justice, It's the bell of Freedom, It's the song about Love between my brothers and my sisters, All over this land.
 * "If I Had A Hammer" (1949) Though Seeger composed the music of this song the lyrics were actually written by fellow member of The Weavers, Lee Hays.

Quotes about Pete Seeger

 * my first experience with Pete Seeger was weaning me from rhythm and blues, which — as my parents badly wanted to do. They were horrified. They thought all rhythm and blues singers were dope addicts, even though they didn’t know what dope addicts were. So my auntie — they spirited me away with my auntie to a Pete Seeger show. And it was like a vaccine. Either it was going to take or not. And it took. And I loved the music, and I discovered that this man did what my family, in a sense, had done for many years, which was, having become Quakers when I was eight years old, fused everything with their politics. And this was music and politics in a way that I had never known. But it was so natural to me, his music and what he did with his life. And I understood that very quickly. And when I found out at an early age — I don’t know if this is myth or not, but when the press went to his house for an interview at one point, that he was on the roof tacking a few of the last shingles on, and he wouldn’t come down, and he was ready. I knew this was a man I wanted to follow for his political and musical events that he did. And so, I did. There was Harry Belafonte, Odetta and Pete. And I listened to Pete’s music endlessly and heard the stories about him and learned his songs and followed him.
 * Joan Baez on Democracy Now (2009)

 * the first time I heard Pete Seeger was on TV with the Weavers doing the Hootenanny. But I didn’t know him as Pete Seeger...I met him as a human being because of the Albany, Georgia civil rights movement in the 1960s. And he actually thought the singing in Southwest Georgia was so powerful that they should organize a singing group. And he talked about the Almanac Singers and the Weavers and said to Jim Forman of SNCC, “If you organized a group, you would have a group that could travel all over the country singing songs about the movement, and they might also bring financial support to the movement”...The other thing that Seeger taught me was the idea of a working singer, that you did not have to be a star. You had to know you were a singer. You had to know what your music was. And you had to be willing to do it for the rest of your life, as long as you had voice. And people would keep up with you. They would catch up with you if you did not go away. And it was a very important model for a young singer. And as a Freedom Singer, we made $10 a week. It was the perfect way to start my career as a musician, but it was looking at Pete Seeger and his years and years of doing music as a part of struggle that really inspired me. He was a very important model. And what’s incredible is that he has not — he has not broken stride in any way.
 * Bernice Johnson Reagon on Democracy Now (2009)

 * There was a new popular music of protest. Pete Seeger had been singing protest songs since the forties, but now he came into his own, his audiences much larger. Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, singing not only protest songs, but songs reflecting the new abandon, the new culture, became popular idols. A middle-aged woman on the West Coast, Malvina Reynolds, wrote and sang songs that fit her socialist thinking and her libertarian spirit, as well as her critique of the modern commercial culture.
 * Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States

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Joni Mitchell

Joni Mitchell (born Roberta Joan Anderson on November 7, 1943) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and painter.

Quotes

 * “That's one thing that's always, like, uh, the major difference between the performing arts to me, and being a painter, you know. Like, a painter does a painting, and he does a painting — and that's it, you know. He’s had the joy of creating it, and he hangs on a wall, and somebody buys it, somebody buys it again, or maybe nobody buys it, and it sits up in a loft somewhere until he dies. But he’s never, you know, nobody ever says to him, you know, nobody ever said to Van Gogh, 'Paint a Starry Night again, man!' You know? He painted it, and that was it.”
 * Miles of Aisles (1974)

 * I need to explore and discover and so that has given me, really, to some what seems like courage, but really it's just in my stars, there's nothing I can do about it . . . . I guess I'll just take my award and run now.
 * Said on being inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, www.chartattack.com (January 29, 2007)

 * I don't like being too looked up at or too looked down on. I prefer meeting in the middle to being worshipped or spat out.
 * The New York Times (February 4, 2007)

 * …This is a period of relaxation for me, but there are still some weeds that need pulling. I kind of go with Thumper, you know, from Bambi. “If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all.” That was my philosophy for a long time as a young person. However, I lost Thumper’s guidance as I grew older…He returns from time to time.
 * On whether she pulled out all the “weeds in your soul” during her youth in “Joni Mitchell: 'I'm a fool for love. I make the same mistake over and over'” in The Guardian (2020 Oct 27)

 * …It’s, you know, the words to the song are your script. You have to bring the correct emotion to every word. You know, if you sing it pretty – a lot of people that cover my songs will sing it pretty – it’s going to fall flat. You have to bring more to it than that.
 * On inhabiting the sentiment behind a vocal performance in “Joni Mitchell: 'I'm a fool for love. I make the same mistake over and over'” in The Guardian (2020 Oct 27)

 * …I liked playing the coffeehouses, where I could step off the stage and go sit in the audience and be comfortable, or where there wasn’t a barrier between me and my audience in the clubs. The big stage had no appeal for me; it was too great a distance between me and the audience, and I never really liked it. I didn’t have a lot of fame in the beginning, and that’s probably good because it made it more enjoyable.
 * On her discomfort with fame in “Joni Mitchell: 'I'm a fool for love. I make the same mistake over and over'” in The Guardian (2020 Oct 27)

 * …The later work is much richer and deeper and smarter, and the arrangements are interesting too. Musically I grow, and I grow as a lyricist, so there’s a lot of growth taking place. The early stuff – I shouldn’t be such a snob against it. A lot of these songs, I just lost them. They fell away. They only exist in these recordings. For so long I rebelled against the term: “I was never a folk singer.” I would get pissed off if they put that label on me. I didn’t think it was a good description of what I was. And then I listened, and – it was beautiful. It made me forgive my beginnings…
 * On comparing her early and later works and coming to terms with being categorized as a folk singer in “Joni Mitchell: 'I'm a fool for love. I make the same mistake over and over'” in The Guardian (2020 Oct 27)

 * (Do you ever make yourself cry when you write?) No, never. I’m not a weeper. I’m a snarler. I just put all the weeping in the words. The words are the weeping.
 * Interview (2021)

 * Truth and beauty. That’s what I hope to deliver.
 * Interview (2021)

Interview with Rolling Stone (1979)

 * (Would you like to shatter any preconceptions?) I do have this reputation for being a serious person. I’m a very analytical person, a somewhat introspective person; that’s the nature of the work I do. But this is only one side of the coin, you know. I love to dance. I’m a rowdy. I’m a good-timer...But as far as shattering preconceptions, forget it. I feel that the art is there for people to bring to it whatever they choose.

 * All I knew was, whatever it was that I felt was the weak link in the previous project gave me my inspiration for the next one. I wrote poetry and I painted all my life. I always wanted to play music and dabbled with it, but I never thought of putting them all together. It never occurred to me. It wasn’t until Dylan began to write poetic songs that it occurred to me you could actually sing those poems.

 * The way I saw the educational system from an early age was that it taught you what to think, not how to think. There was no liberty, really, for free thinking. You were being trained to fit into a society where free thinking was a nuisance.

 * Art. They think it’s a pretentious word from the giddyap. To me, words are only symbols, and the word art has never lost its vitality. It still has meaning to me. Love lost its meaning to me. God lost its meaning to me. But art never lost its meaning. I always knew what I meant by art.

 * I thought, “You don’t even know who I am. You want to worship me?” That’s why I became a confessional poet. I thought, “You better know who you’re applauding up here.” It was a compulsion to be honest with my audience.

 * I remember being at the Philadelphia Folk Festival and having this sensation. It was like falling to earth. It was about the time of my second album. It felt almost as if I’d had my head in the clouds long enough. And then there was a plummeting into the earth, tinged with a little bit of apprehension and fear. Shortly after that, everything began to change. There were fewer adjectives to my poetry. Fewer curlicues to my drawing. Everything began to get more bold. And solid in a way.

 * Many, many times as a writer, I’ve come to a day where I say, “None of this has any meaning.” If you maintain that point of view, if you hold onto it and possess it, that’s it for you. There’s a possibility that you can come firmly to that conclusion, as Rimbaud did, and give it up.

 * If I experience any frustration, it’s the frustration of being misunderstood. But that’s what stardom is – a glamorous misunderstanding. All the way along, I know that some of these projects are eccentric. I know that there are parts that are experimental, and some of them are half-baked. I certainly have been pushing the limits and – even for myself – not all of my experiments are completely successful. But they lay the groundwork for further developments. Sooner or later, some of those experiments will come to fruition. So I have to lay out a certain amount of my growing pains in public.

 * I feel frustrated sometimes. I feel bitterness, but I’m not embittered. Feelings pass. A lot of the humor in the music is missed. They insist on painting me as this tragic . . . well not even a tragic, because in this town people don’t understand tragedy. All they understand is drama. You have to be moral to understand tragedy [laughs].

 * Hejira was an obscure word, but it said exactly what I wanted. Running away, honorably. It dealt with the leaving of a relationship, but without the sense of failure that accompanied the breakup of my previous relationships. I felt that it was not necessarily anybody’s fault. It was a new attitude.

 * as an artist I say to myself, “If you’re that good, how come you can’t be yourself?”

 * I can put my dukes up now if I have to in life, but out of appreciation for honesty. I won’t settle for anything less in the studio. So much of music is politics. It’s going for the big vote. It amounts to a lot of baby kissing.

 * I’m still obsessed with pushing the perimeters of what entails a pop song. I can’t really let go of that impulse yet. I don’t know where I’m going. I never really do. My songs could come out any shape at this point.

 * Misery knows no rent bracket

 * it’s a funny time for women. We demand a certain sensitivity. We’ve made our outward attacks at machoism, right, in favor of the new sensitive male. But we’re just at the fledgling state of our liberty where we can’t handle it. I think we ask men to be sensitive and equal, but deep down think it’s unnatural. And we really want them to be stronger than us. So you get into this paradoxical thing.

 * I think if you’re healthy, aging can be quite a beautiful process, and I think we’ve created an artificial problem for ourselves.

 * I like to work myself up to a state of enthusiasm about anything I do, otherwise, what’s the point?

 * any acts of frustration or concern or anxiety in my life are all peripheral to a very solid core. A very strong, continuing course I’ve been following. All this other stuff is just the flak that you get for engaging in the analytical process in the first place. Even Freud knew that; to me it was the hippest thing he ever said: “Dissection of personality is no way to self-knowledge.” All you get out of that is literature, not necessarily peace of mind. It’s a satisfying, but dangerous, way to learn about yourself.

 * It’s a funny thing about happiness. You can strive and strive and strive to be happy, but happiness will sneak up on you in the most peculiar ways. I feel happy suddenly. I don’t know why. Some days, the way the light strikes things. Or for some beautifully immature reason like finding myself running to the kitchen to make myself some toast. Happiness comes to me even on a bad day. In very, very strange ways. I’m very happy in my life right now.

Interview (1997)

 * (about the label "female songwriter") It implies limitations...They tend to lump me always with groups of women. I always thought, “They don’t put Dylan with the Men of Rock; why do they do that to me with women?”

 * I was kind of a media dropout. I was lucky if I could name the president. I was much more inner-world oriented.

 * I don’t think of myself as confessional. That’s a name that was put on me. The confessional poets like [Sylvia] Plath, whom I read later when they started calling me confessional, most of their stuff seemed contrived to me and not as greatly honest as it was touted to be. I never wanted to act the part of the poet, with pearls of language and wisdom falling from my lips...I’ve always used the songwriting process as a self-analysis of sorts. Like the Blue album – people were kind of shocked at the intimacy. It was peculiar in the pop arena at that time, because you were supposed to portray yourself as bigger than life. I remember thinking, “Well, if they’re going to worship me, they should know who they’re worshiping.”

 * I don’t think of myself as an intellectual...It’s a nice place to visit; I wouldn’t want to live there. I spend as little time there as possible.

 * I feel more ambidextrous: I suffer, I enjoy; I suffer, I enjoy.

Interview (2014)

 * I've always been a painter. I didn't come to it late. I was always the school artist. I came to music late, you know, relatively. I mean, I picked up — I tried it at 8. I took a year of piano lessons and wrote my first song when I was 8, wrote it out in notes.

 * I've got nervous energy like a kid, still.

 * at that point, that's when I forged my identity as an artist. At 8, I, you know, rebelled against the church and I rebelled against the educational system. I stepped outside the box and forged my identity as an artist.

 * (about her experience as a student in school) All they did was, she said something and you said something back. From here on in, I'm not even going to try unless they ask us a question that nobody knows the answer to.

 * (about "River.") We needed a sad Christmas song, didn't we?

 * (about "Both Sides Now") I wrote it when I was 21. I took a lot of ridicule, too. "What do you know about life? You're only 21." You know, but I really think it took me to — that was done in my 50s — to, you know, it took a mature woman to bring it to life...I grew into that song.

 * I sing my sorrow and paint my joy.

 * Like Van Gogh's paintings were a diary of his life, my paintings are kind of a diary of my life. And they're all good moments that I've preserved, and I've got them around me.

Woman of Heart and Mind: A Life Story (2003)

 * Any time I make a record it's followed by a painting period. It's good crop rotation.

 * I was demanding of myself a deeper and greater honesty, more and more revelation in my work in order to give it back to the people where it goes into their lives and nourishes them and changes their direction and makes light bulbs go off in their head and makes them feel. And it isn't vague, it strikes against the very nerves of their life and in order to do that you have to strike against the very nerves of your own.
 * On the writing period of Blue

 * There's been a tremendous amount of growth. An actress is not expected to continue to play her ingenue roles, you know, I've written myself roles to grow into gracefully, but there is no growing into gracefully in the pop world. Basically the reason I'm so unruly in this business is because I never wanted to be a human jukebox.

Songs

 * In our possessive coupling So much could not be expressed So now I'm returning to myself These things that you and I suppressed.
 * "Hejira"

 * You go down to the pick up station Craving warmth and beauty You settle for less than fascination A few drinks later you're not so choosy When the closing lights strip off the shadows On this strange new flesh you've found Clutching the night to you like a fig leaf You hurry To the blackness And the blankets To lay down an impression And your loneliness.
 * "Down to You" from Court and Spark

 * Oh, you're in my blood like holy wine, You taste so bitter and so sweet Oh I could drink a case of you, darling And I would still be on my feet I would still be on my feet.
 * "A Case of You" from Blue

 * Rows and flows of angel hair, And ice cream castles in the air, And feather canyons ev’rywhere, I’ve looked at clouds that way. But now they only block the sun, They rain and snow on ev’ryone, So many things I would have done But clouds got in my way.
 * "Both Sides Now"

 * I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now, From up and down, and still somehow It’s cloud illusions I recall, I really don’t know clouds at all.
 * "Both Sides Now"

 * Tears and fears and feeling proud, To say "I love you" right out loud, Dreams and schemes and circus crowds, I’ve looked at life that way. But now old friends are acting strange They shake their heads, they say I’ve changed Well something’s lost, but something’s gained In living ev’ry day.
 * "Both Sides Now"

 * I’ve looked at love from both sides now From give and take, and still somehow, It’s love’s illusions I recall I really don’t know love at all.
 * "Both Sides Now"

 * And the seasons they go round and round, And the painted ponies go up and down, We’re all captive on the carousel of time We can’t return we can only look behind From where we came And go 'round and 'round and 'round In the circle game.
 * "Circle Game"

 * I came upon a child of god, He was walking along the road And I asked him, where are you going And this he told me: "I’m going on down to Yasgur’s farm  I’m going to join in a rock ’n’ roll band I’m going to camp out on the land, I’m going to try an’ get my soul free.
 * "Woodstock"

 * I don't know who I am / but you know, life is for learning.
 * "Woodstock"

 * We are stardust, We are golden, And we’ve got to get ourselves Back to the garden.
 * "Woodstock"

 * By the time we got to Woodstock We were half a million strong  And everywhere there was song and celebration. And I dreamed I saw the bombers Riding shotgun in the sky And they were turning into butterflies Above our nation.
 * "Woodstock"

 * They paved paradise And put up a parking lot With a pink hotel, a boutique and a swinging hot spot.
 * "Big Yellow Taxi"

 * Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got Till it's gone. They paved paradise, And put up a parking lot.
 * "Big Yellow Taxi"

 * They took all the trees And put them in a tree museum And they charged all the people A dollar and a half just to see 'em.
 * "Big Yellow Taxi"

 * Hey farmer, farmer, Put away that DDT now Give me spots on my apples But leave me the birds and the bees Please!
 * "Big Yellow Taxi"

 * I remember the time you told me, you said "Love is touching souls," Surely you've touched mine, cause Part of you pours out of me In these lines from time to time.
 * "A Case of You" from Blue

 * I wanna be strong, I wanna laugh along, I wanna belong to the living. Alive, alive, I wanna get up and jive, Wanna wreck my stockings in some jukebox dive.
 * "All I Want" from Blue

 * Secrets and sharing soda, That's how our time began. Love is a story told to a friend It's second hand.
 * "Conversation"

 * Some are friendly Some are cutting Some are watching it from the wings Some are standing in the centre giving to get something.
 * "People's Parties"

 * Laughing and crying, you know it's the same release.
 * "People's Parties"

 * Friends have told her "Not so proud" Neighbors trying to sleep are yelling "Not so loud" Lovers in anger, "Block of ice" Harder and harder just to be nice.
 * "Shades of Scarlett Conquering" from The Hissing of Summer Lawns

 * It's coming on Christmas, They're cutting down trees. They're putting up reindeer And singing songs of joy and peace. I wish I had a river I could skate away on
 * "River" from Blue

About Joni Mitchell

 * Joni, you have more class than Richard Nixon, Mick Jagger, and Gomer Pyle combined!
 * Anonymous audience member, recorded on Miles of Aisles

 * She is of course well past the stage of having to prove herself artistically. She is in possession of one of the most extraordinary song catalogs of the past half-century.  Her chords break harmonic rules, have no technical names and defy Western musical theory.  Her voice is an instrument that has grown sublimely heavier and huskier over the decades. . . .Once you get past the security gates, Ms. Mitchell's house feels like a pocket of middle-class comfort in the midst of zillionaire Beverly Hills.  In some ways life is still as it was in 1974, when she bought the house: She has no computer, no voice mail, no cellphone and no e-mail.  At one point, when we tried to remember one of her lyrics, we scrolled through my iPod.  She said it was the first time she had listened to one.
 * The New York Times (February 4, 2007)

 * Joni Mitchell said in an interview, Everything I am,/I'm not.
 * Naomi Shihab Nye Voices in the Air (2018)

 * That's the music that I play at home all the time, Joni Mitchell. Court and Spark I love because I'd always hoped that she'd work with a band. But the main thing with Joni is that she's able to look at something that's happened to her, draw back and crystallize the whole situation, then write about it. She brings tears to my eyes, what more can I say? It's bloody eerie. I can relate so much to what she says. "Now old friends are acting strange/They shake their heads/They say I've changed".
 * Jimmy Page in Rolling Stone magazine (March 13, 1975)

 * Joni, what fucking chords were you playing on Court and Spark? I could never figure them out.
 * Ian "Lemmy" Killmeister, as quoted by Robert Trujillo at Lemmy's memorial service 01-09-2015

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For information about me, please check out my Wikipedia profile. Until then, enjoy my personal favorite quotes.

LIFE IS…

 * “Some mistakes you never stop paying for.” – Roy Hobbs (Robert Redford) in The Natural (1984)

 * “I have three rules which I live by: Never get less than 12 hours sleep, never play cards with a guy who has the same first name as a city, and never go near a lady with a tattoo of a dagger on her hand. Now you stick with that, and everything else is cream cheese.” – Coach Bobby Finstock (Jay Tarses) in Teen Wolf (1985)

 * “Days get shorter and shorter, nights longer and longer. Before you know it, your life is just one long night with a few comatose daylight hours.” – Bruce (Tom Cruise) in Cocktail (1988)

 * “Most things in life, good and bad, just kinda happen to ya.” – Uncle Pat (Ron Dean) in Cocktail (1988)

 * “The world is made for people who aren't cursed with self-awareness.” – Annie Savoy (Susan Sarandon) in Bull Durham (1988)

 * “We can’t run from ourselves; our destiny chooses us.” – Prof. Petrovsky (Martin Landau) in Rounders (1998)

 * “Friends come in and out of our lives like busboys in a restaurant.” – Gordie (Wil Wheaton) in Stand By Me (1986)

 * “Screws fall out all the time. The world is an imperfect place.” – John Bender (Judd Nelson) in The Breakfast Club (1985)

 * “The saddest thing in life is wasted talent.” – Lorenzo (Robert De Niro) in A Bronx Tale (1993)

 * “You can’t lose what you don’t put down in the middle. [Brief pause] But you can’t win much either.” – Mike McDermott (Matt Damon) in Rounders (1998)

 * “The more you know about who you are and what you want, the less you let other things upset you.” – Bob Harris (Bill Murray) in Lost In Translation (2003)

 * “You live and learn. At any rate, you learn.” – Douglas Adams (1952-2001)

 * “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you’re gonna miss it.” – Ferris Buehler (Matthew Broderick) in Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)

 * "The trouble is that once you see it, you can't unsee it. And once you've seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an act as speaking out. There is no innocence. Either way, you're accountable." — Arundhati Roy (b. 1961)

SIMPLE PLEASURES

 * “I believe in the soul, the cock, the pussy, the small of a woman's back, the hanging curve ball, high fiber, good scotch, that the novels of Susan Sontag are self-indulgent, overrated crap. I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. I believe there ought to be a constitutional amendment outlawing Astroturf and the designated hitter. I believe in the sweet spot, soft-core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days. [Pause] Good night.” – Crash Davis (Kevin Costner) in Bull Durham (1988)

 * “I like simple pleasures like butter in my ass, lollipops in my mouth. That’s just me. That’s just something I enjoy.” – Floyd Gandolli (Phillip Baker Hall) in Boogie Nights (1997)

 * "I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?  Reality leaves a lot to the imagination." – John Lennon (1940-1980)

SOME ADVICE

 * “It’s not a lie if you believe it.” – George Costanza (Jason Alexander) on Seinfeld

 * “The older you get, the more rules they’re going to try and get you to follow. You just got to keep on livin, man! L-I-V-I-N!” – David Wooderson (Matthew McConaughey) in Dazed and Confused (1993)

 * “Don’t get into anything you can’t walk away from in 30 seconds.” – Neil McCauley (Robert De Niro) in Heat (1995)

 * “Dig up the past, all you get is dirty.” – Gideon (Tim Blake Nelson) in Minority Report (2002)

 * “If A equals success, then the formula is: $$A = X + Y + Z$$ ; X is work, Y is play, and Z is keeping your mouth shut.” – Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

 * “Eighty percent of success is showing up.” – Woody Allen

 * “There are three things which I consider excellent advice. First, don't smoke to excess. Second, don't drink to excess. Third, don't marry to excess.” – Mark Twain (1835-1910), addressing the St. Timothy’s School for Girls, Catonsville MD, June 9, 1909 (Twain’s last public address)

MISCELLANY

 * “Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.” – Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) to Red (Morgan Freeman) in a note, near the end of The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

 * “A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.” – Bob Dylan

 * “You can’t satisfy everybody, but it’s worth the effort.” – JB82

 * “If I can change, and you can change … everybody can change!” – Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) in Rocky IV (1985)

 * “I must be crazy to be in a loony bin like this!” – R. Patrick McMurphy (Jack Nicholson) in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)

 * “Chaos killed the dinosaurs!” – Jason “J.D.” Dean (Christian Slater) in Heathers (1989)

 * “Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself.” – Sean McGuire (Robin Williams, 1951-2014) in Good Will Hunting (1997)

 * “The only difference between a hero and a coward is that the hero stays in fights and the coward runs away.” – Cus D’Amato, Mike Tyson’s first boxing coach

 * “Using the whole fist, Doc?” – Irwin Fletcher (Chevy Chase) in Fletch (1985)

 * “It’s a fool who looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart.” – Everett (George Clooney) in O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)

 * “If hooking a car battery up to a monkey's brain will help find the cure for AIDS and save somebody's life, I have two things to say ... the red is positive and the black is negative.” – Nick DiPaolo

 * “History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of ‘history’ it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time - and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened.” – Raoul Duke (Johnny Depp) in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) and Hunter S. Thompson (1937-2005) in the book of the same name (1973)

 * “Cinema has evolved in two paths. One is spectacle. Like the phantasmagoria, its goal is the creation of a total substitute sensory world. The other is peep show, which claims for its realm both the erotic and the untampered observance of real life, and imitates the keyhole or voyeur's window without need of color, noise, grandeur.” – Jim Morrison (1943-1971) in The Lords: Notes on Vision

 * “I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.” – Bob Dylan (again)

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Kevin Spacey

Kevin Spacey Fowler, KBE (born on 26 July 1959) is an American actor, producer, and singer. He grew up in California and began his career as a stage actor during the 1980s, before being cast in supporting roles in film and television. He gained critical acclaim in the early 1990s, culminating in his first Academy Award for The Usual Suspects (Best Supporting Actor) (1995), followed by a Best Actor Academy Award win for American Beauty (1999). His other starring roles in Hollywood include Seven, L.A. Confidential, Pay It Forward, K-PAX, Beyond the Sea (which he also directed, produced and co-wrote), and Superman Returns. He has earned him several Emmy and Golden Globe nominations. From 2003 to 2015, he was artistic director of the Old Vic theatre in London. He also starred as Frank Underwood in the Netflix series House of Cards from 2013-2017, until he was removed from the series following several sexual misconduct allegations made against him. In July 2023, he was cleared at Southwark Crown Court, London of sexually assaulting four men on nine occasions between 2004 and 2013.

Quotes

 * Well, whoever Keyser Söze is, I can tell you he is going to get gloriously drunk tonight.
 * Oscar acceptance speech for his performance in The Usual Suspects (February 1996)
 * Dianne, thank you for teaching me about caring about the right things, and I love you.
 * Oscar acceptance speech for his performance in American Beauty (March 2000)
 * Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane.
 * On the character "Prot", in the movie K-PAX; Premiere magazine (September 2001)
 * John Lennon was many things to many people. A poet, a rocker, a leader, a troublemaker, a father, a husband — a man. Growing up, to me, he was a hero. The work of John Lennon was marked by its exquisite beauty and by its brutal honesty. So in that vein, let me say, that while I'm both deeply honored to be here — I'm also incredibly pissed-off. I'm outraged because this passionate prophet of peace, and so many others, are not with us here — because we live in an all-too-violent world. And so in the spirit of this occasion it is up to all of us, to do what we can, not only to keep John's songs alive, but help rebuild New York — and that includes your host...
 * Prelude to his performance of "Mind Games" in Come Together: A Night for John Lennon's Words and Music (2001)
 * The thing that is always so surprising about plays written in another century is how remarkably elastic they are. When you listen to the way in which Shakespeare attacks relationships, for example, even though the words may start off sounding foreign, in actuality they are so accessible, the motivations so clear, the resonances so contemporary. When you put it in a modern context - we could well be in a place with someone like Gaddafi or Mubarak - it becomes apparent how Richard III resonates with that type of personality, with media and manipulation, alliances and petty jealousies.
 * As quoted in The Old Vic, Summer 2011
 * I have a lot of respect and admiration for Anthony Rapp as an actor. I'm beyond horrified to hear his story. I honestly do not remember the encounter, it would have been 30 years ago. But if I did behave then as he describes, I owe him the sincerest apology for what would have been deeply inappropriate drunken behavior, and I am sorry for the feelings he describes having carried with him all these years. This story has encouraged me to address other things about my life. I know that there are stories about me and that some have been fueled by the fact that I have been so protective of my privacy. As those closest to me know, in my life I have had relationships with both men and women. I have loved and had romantic encounters with men throughout my life, and I choose now to live as a gay man. I want to deal with this honestly and openly and that starts with examining my own behavior.
 * official statement on Twitter regarding Anthony Rapp's allegations of sexual assault, October 29, 2017

Quotes about Kevin Spacey

 * I mean, my mother knows. Or thinks she knows. Or supposes. Or suspects. I told her I was writing a story on Kevin Spacey, and she said, “Well, I hear he’s gay.” Now, you must understand some things about my mom. She is eighty years old and lives in a condominium in Florida. Although she loves movies—especially dark and intricate mysteries, which she calls “murders,” as in “You know how I like a good murder”—she has no connection to the movie business and has never, to my knowledge, outed anyone before. “Ma, where did you hear that?” “At the pool.” Of course—the pool. It is shocking what kind of knowledge is forced upon our parents—what kind of innocence is lost—at the pools of America. It is shocking, indeed, to imagine how many of America’s pools had to learn Kevin Spacey’s supposed secret before the supposed secret reached my mother’s pool and the grasp of her saintly and intrepid ears. One imagines the information—if information is what it is—creeping across the nation, from Hollywood to Florida, pool by pool, sort of like the dogged swimmer of Cheever’s short story, until at last an entire nation of moviegoers comes to hold Kevin Spacey under suspicion, until at last our own suspicion is all we know of him, all we have of him, all that’s left of him. It was not as surprising, though, to hear my mother repeat a rumor she’d heard about Kevin Spacey as it was to hear ostensible sophisticates in New York and Los Angeles repeat the very same rumor, as though my mother, on this count, were truly in the know; as though we have become unanimous in what we’ve heard, homogenized even to the extent of our access to secrets; as though the only thing one could possibly say about Kevin Spacey is what everyone else has already said, which is that he is supposed to be very smart, that he is supposed to be very private, that he is supposed to be extraordinarily committed to the protection and development of his extraordinary gifts as an actor, and that he is supposed to be gay. And that is all he’s supposed to be, by advance billing; that is it. He is one of our culture’s usual suspects, and, like the character he played in the movie of that name, he is both narrowed by our suspicions and set free by them, sprung by them, for he is an actor, and when all we know of an actor is that we don’t quite trust him, don’t quite believe him, then he is free to become whatever he wants to become, which, in the case of Kevin Spacey, is a movie star.
 * Esquire magazine says "Kevin Spacey Has a Secret" by Tom Junod (October 1997)

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Paul Reubens

Paul Reubens (27 August 1952 – 30 July 2023) was an American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and children's entertainer. He was known for his character Pee-wee Herman.

Quotes

 * There were just things in Disney movies that probably were too scary for kids.
 * "Paul Reubens by Paul Rudd", Interview Magazine

 * There were nude pictures... a lot of it is erotic or sexual. But I don't view my collection as dirty in any way. I view it as art.
 * 2004 interview with Entertainment Weekly

 * Does anyone come back from this? I don't know the answer to that, but I'll be damned if I'm going to let this destroy me.
 * 2004 interview with Entertainment Weekly

 * Please accept my apology for not going public with what I've been facing the last six years. I have always felt a huge amount of love and respect from my friends, fans and supporters. I have loved you all so much and enjoyed making art for you.
 * Official Instagram message, posted after his death, as quoted in "How Paul Reubens Became Pee-wee Herman" by Laura Zornosa, in TIME (31 July 2023)

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