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Henry VIII of England

Henry VIII (June 28, 1491 – January 28, 1547) was King of England from 22 April 1509 until his death in 1547. Henry is best known for his six marriages, including his efforts to have his first marriage (to Catherine of Aragon) annulled. His disagreement with Pope Clement VII about such an annulment led Henry to initiate the English Reformation, separating the Church of England from papal authority. He appointed himself Supreme Head of the Church of England and dissolved convents and monasteries, for which he was excommunicated. Henry is also known as "the father of the Royal Navy," as he invested heavily in the navy, increasing its size from a few to more than 50 ships, and established the Navy Board.

Domestically, Henry is known for his radical changes to the English Constitution, ushering in the theory of the divine right of kings. He also greatly expanded royal power during his reign. He frequently used charges of treason and heresy to quell dissent, and those accused were often executed without a formal trial by means of bills of attainder.

Quotes

 * For this book is for me and all kings to read.
 * On William Tyndale's The Obedience of a Christian Man (c. 1528), quoted in John Strype, Ecclesiastical Memorials: Relating Chiefly to Religion, and Its Reformation Under the Reigns of King Henry VIII., King Edward VI., and Queen Mary the First, Volume I (1816), p. 177

 * [We are] not only prince and king, but set on such a pinnacle of dignity that we know no superior on earth.
 * Letter to William Benet (September 1530), quoted in J. J. Scarisbrick, Henry VIII (1968; 1971 ed.), p. 350

 * I shall never consent to his being judge in that affair [sc. the divorce]. Even if his holiness should do his worst by excommunicating me and so forth, I shall not mind it, for I care not a fig for all his excommunications. Let him follow his own at Rome, I will do here what I think best.
 * Remarks to the papal nuncio (June 1531), quoted in J. J. Scarisbrick, Henry VIII (1968; 1971 ed.), p. 379

 * Well-beloved subjects, we thought that the clergy of our realm had been our subjects wholly, but now we have well perceived that they be but half our subjects, yea, and scarce our subjects: for all the prelates at their consecration make an oath to the pope, clean contrary to the oath that they make to us, so that they seem to be his subjects, and not ours.
 * Speech to Parliament (11 May 1532), as quoted in Hall's Chronicle (1809), edited by Sir Henry Ellis, p. 788

 * Well trusting therefore that these urgent causes shall be so indifferently pondered and weighed in the balance of the Pope's judgment and heart, and also his own duty, which things well considered, he having also regard to his oath in the receipt of his dignity which he there actually giveth for observance both of the general Councils and the antique laws of the fathers of the Church, considering also with himself how we at the time of our coronation be likewise obliged both to support and maintain the immunities and princely liberties of our realm and crown, which to contrary I make myself sure his holiness well informed, will never require, since it is prohibite both by God's precept and law of nature by these words. Quod tibi non vis fieri alteri ne facias.
 * Draft of a despatch to the ambassadors at Rome (January 1533), quoted in Nicholas Pocock, Records of the Reformation: The Divorce 1527-1533. Mostly now for the first time printed from mss. in the British Museum, the Public Record Office, the Venetian Archives and other libraries, Vol. II (1870), p. 438

 * We be informed by our judges that we at no time stand so highly in our estate royal as in the time of Parliament, wherein we as head and you as members are conjoined and knit together into one body politic, so as whatsoever offence or injury (during that time) is offered to the meanest member of the House is to be judged as done against our person and the whole Court of Parliament.
 * Speech to Parliament on parliamentary privilege (March/April 1542), as quoted in Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland Volume III (1808), by Raphael Holinshed, p. 824

 * Alas, how can the poor souls live in Concord when you preachers sow amongst them in your sermons debate and discord? They look to you for light and you bring them darkness. Amend these crimes, I exhort you, and set forth God's word truly, both by true preaching and giving a good example, or else, I, whom God has appointed his vicar and high minister here, will see these divisions extinct, and these enormities corrected...
 * Last speech to parliament, December 24, 1545.
 * See also: Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII, Great Britain. Public Record Office, John Sherren Brewer, Robert Henry, vol. XX, part 2, p. 513.

 * Be not judges yourselves of your own fantastical opinions and vain expositions; and although you be permitted to read Holy Scriptures and to have the Word of God in your mother tongue, you must understand it is licensed so to do only to inform your conscience and inform your children and families, not to make Scripture a railing and taunting stock against priests and preachers. I am very sorry to know and hear how irreverently that precious jewel, the Word of God, is disputed, rimed, sung, and jangled in every alehouse and tavern, contrary to the true meaning and doctrine of the same.
 * Last speech to parliament, December 24, 1545.
 * English Church History from the Death of King Henry VII to the Death of Archbishop Parker, Rev. Alfred Plummer, 1905, Edinburg, T. & T. Clark, p. 85.

Quotes about Henry VIII

 * We may be amused by a defence of Richard III., but we can feel only indignation and disgust at an apology for Henry VIII., whose atrocities are as well authenticated as those of Robespierre, and are less excusable.
 * Lord Campbell, Lives of the Lord Chancellors (1846)

 * I am sure you were at Hampton Court when the French king's ambassador was entertained there at those solemn banqueting-houses, not long before the king's death; namely, when, after the banquet was done the first night, the king was leaning upon the ambassador and upon me: if I should tell what communication between the king's highness and the said ambassador was had, concerning the establishing of sincere religion then, a man would hardly have believed it: nor had I myself thought the king's highness had been so forward in those matters as then appeared. I may tell you, it passed the pulling down of roods, and suppressing the ringing of bells. I take it that few in England would have believed, that the king's majesty and the French king had been at this point, not only, within half a year after, to have changed the mass in both the realms into a communion (as we now use it), but also utterly to have extirped and banished the bishop of Rome, and his usurped power, out of both their realms and dominions.
 * Thomas Cranmer, quoted in John Foxe, The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe, Vol. V (1870), pp. 563-564

 * Two beheadings out of six wives is too many.
 * Will Cuppy, 'Henry the Horrible', The Bookman, Volume LXIV, Issue 2 (1926), p. 229

 * Henry the Eighth has been favoured by some Protestant writers because the Reformation was achieved in his time. But the mighty merit of it lies with other men and not with him; and it can be rendered none the worse by this monster's crimes, and none the better by any defence of them.  The plain truth is, that he was a most intolerable ruffian, a disgrace to human nature, and a blot of blood and grease upon the History of England.
 * Charles Dickens, A Child's History of England

 * Quisquis enim hic felicem agit vitam, atque rempublicam recte gubernat, sicut nobilissimus meus pater fecit, qui promouit omnem pietatem atque expulit omnem ignorantiam, habet certissimum iter in coelum.
 * [W]hoever leads an auspicious life here and governs the commonwealth rightly, as my most noble father did, who promoted all piety and banished all ignorance, has a most certain way to heaven.
 * Edward VI to his stepmother, Dowager Queen, Katherine Parr, February 7, 1547. (Harley MS 5087, art. 34, fol.14r.), quoted in Katherine Parr: Complete Works and Correspondence, 2011, Janel Mueller, ed., University Of Chicago Press, ISBN 0226647242 ISBN 9780226647241, pp. 128-129.

 * Henry's outwardly formidable and impressive personality helped from the first, despite his youth. This was a King that men could look up to—indeed, had to look up to because none could match his physical size. The feelings he inspired always mingled some fear with the awe, and it would be hard to say that any of his subjects—even his close companions at court, even his wives—came to love him; but for a man so manifestly King to every eye, so quick at judging men and situations, and so capable of exercising both easy charm and unchallenged authority, awe and devotion and apprehension did more than affection could have done. Henry established this palpable hold over his people's imagination and obedience as soon as he ascended the throne, and he retained it largely unimpaired to the day of his death.
 * Geoffrey Elton, Reform and Reformation: England 1509–1558 (1977; 1984), p. 23

 * And thus much touching the end of king Henry, who, if he had continued a few months longer (all those obits and masses, which appear in his will made before he went to Boulogne, notwithstanding), most certain it is, and to be signified to all posterity, that his full purpose was to have repurged the estate of the church, and to have gone through with the same, so that he would not have left one mass in all England.
 * John Foxe, The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe, Vol. V (1870), p. 692

 * Evangelicals often had reason to view Henry VIII as another persecuting Pharaoh, but when the king turned against the pope and began wielding his sword against "persecutors" like Thomas More in the early 1530s, some clearly began to envision him as an agent of divine vengeance against their enemies.
 * Karl Gunther, Reformation Unbound: Protestant Visions of Reform in England, 1525-1590 (2014), p. 87

 * A pig, an ass, a dunghill, the spawn of an adder, a basilisk, a lying buffoon, a mad fool with a frothy mouth.
 * Martin Luther, quoted on page 46 of A History of the Protestant Reformation in England and Ireland by William Cobbett

But with the reign of King Bluebeard, you don't have to pretend. Women, their bodies, their reproductive capacities, their animal nature, are central to the story. The history of the reign is so graphically gynaecological that in the past it enabled lady novelists to write about sex when they were only supposed to write about love; and readers could take an avid interest in what went on in royal bedrooms by dignifying it as history, therefore instructive, edifying.
 * It's no surprise that so much fiction constellates around the subject of Henry and his wives. Often, if you want to write about women in history, you have to distort history to do it, or substitute fantasy for facts; you have to pretend that individual women were more important than they were or that we know more about them than we do.
 * Hilary Mantel "Royal Bodies", London Review of Books, 35:4 (21 February 2013).

 * Pig, dolt and liar.
 * Martin Luther, quoted in Ackroyd, Peter (1999). The Life of Thomas More. New York: Anchor Books.
 * Henry VIII was a golden and gifted boy who grew up to become a forceful, energetic and ambitious ruler — he was a majestic and ruthless monarch who created an ‘imperial’ monarchy by asserting English independence, defying Rome, breaking up the monasteries, promoting his realm’s military and naval power and his own autocracy, all ultimately enabling the triumph of Protestantism. Yet he became a bloated, thin-skinned tyrant who ordered the killing — on faked evidence — of many, including two of his wives, because of his own wounded pride. Both hero and monster, he was, in his paranoid cruelty, the English Stalin.
 * Simon Sebag Montefiore, Monsters: History's Most Evil Men and Women (2009), p. 145

 * And even where the dogs licked the blood of Naboth, even there shall the dogs lick thy blood also, O king! And I am that Micheas whom thou wilt hate, because I must tell thee truly that thy marriage is unlawful; and I know I shall eat the bread of affliction, and drink the water of sorrow, yet because our Lord hath put it into my mouth I must speak it. There are many other preachers, yea, too many, who preach and persuade thee otherwise, feeding thy folly and frail affections upon the hope of their own worldly promotion; and by that means they destroy thy soul, thy honor and posterity, to obtain fat benefices, to become rich abbots and get episcopal jurisdiction and other ecclesiastical dignities. There, I say, are the four hundred prophets who, in the spirit of lying, seek to deceive thee; but take good heed lest you, being seduced, find Achab's punishment, which was to have his blood 'licked up by the dogs,' saying it was the greatest miscarriage of princes to be daily abused by flatterers.
 * William Petow, sermon (1 May 1532), on 1 Kings 22, quoted in "Last of the Carthusians and the Fate of the Observant Fathers," in Catholic world, 1881, Volume 34, Catholic Publication Society, New York, p. 257.

 * Commonwealth schoolchildren are often taught one of the key events in British history with the help of a mnemonic: "King Henry the Eighth, to six wives he was wedded: One died, one survived, two divorced, two beheaded." Beheaded! In 1536 Henry had his wife Anne Boleyn decapitated on trumped-up charges of adultery and treason because she gave him a son that did not survive, and he had become attracted to one of her ladies-in-waiting. Two wives later he suspected Catherine Howard of adultery and sent her to the ax as well. (Tourists visiting the Tower of London can see the chopping block for themselves.) Henry was clearly the jealous type: he also had an old boyfriend of Catherine’s drawn and quartered, which is to say hanged by the neck, taken down while still alive, disemboweled, castrated, decapitated, and cut into four. The throne passed to Henry’s son Edward, then to Henry’s daughter Mary, and then to another daughter, Elizabeth. “Bloody Mary” did not get her nickname by putting tomato juice in her vodka but by having three hundred religious dissenters burned at the stake. And both sisters kept up the family tradition for how to resolve domestic squabbles: Mary imprisoned Elizabeth and presided over the execution of their cousin, Lady Jane Grey, and Elizabeth executed another cousin, Mary Queen of Scots. Elizabeth also had 123 priests drawn and quartered, and had other enemies tortured with bone-crushing manacles, another attraction on display in the Tower. Today the British royal family is excoriated for shortcomings ranging from rudeness to infidelity. You’d think people would give them credit for not having had a single relative decapitated, nor a single rival drawn and quartered.
 * Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature (2012)

 * A lying, greedy and idiotic king, a beetle and a pile of dung, the spawn of a snake, a chicken, a lying toad mixed all together by Satan's spawn.
 * Henry Randall, quoted on page 77 of A Tale of the Worst Kings in England by John Gaist.

 * Summitry was now reaching its premodern heyday, for reasons relevant to our larger story.Although by about 1500 several strong national states had emerged in Europe, they remained greatly dependent on their monarchs. This kind of personalized power is at the heart of summitry. One of the most famous encounters took place on the so-called Field of the Cloth of Gold in June 1520, toward the summit bringing together Henry VIII of England and François I of France. The young English monarch, whose titles still included “King of France,” had resumed the old struggle in 1512. But his advisor Cardinal Thomas Wolsey secured a truce and then arranged a summit to consummate an enduring peace. It took place on the edge of Calais, the last English enclave in France, in a shallow dip known as the Val d’Or. Both sides of the valley were carefully reshaped to ensure that neither party enjoyed a height advantage. A special pavilion was constructed for the meeting and festivities, surrounded by thousands of tents and a three-hundred-foot-square timber castle for the rest of those attending. Henry’s entourage alone numbered more than five thousand, while the French crown needed ten years to pay off its share of the cost.
 * David Reynolds, Summits: Six Meetings that Changed the Twentieth Century (2007), p. 16
 * At the appointed hour on June 7, 1520, the Feast of Corpus Christi, the two monarchs with their retinues in full battle array appeared on the opposite sides of the valley. There was a moment of tense silence—each side feared an ambush by the other. Then the two kings spurred their horses forward to the appointed place marked by a spear in the ground and embraced. The ice was broken. They dismounted and went into the pavilion arm in arm to talk. Then began nearly two weeks of jousting, feasting and dancing that culminated in a High Mass in the open air. Choirs from England and France accompanied the mass and there was a sermon on the virtues of peace. n both choreography and cost, the Field of the Cloth of Gold resembles contemporary summits. In a further similarity, style was more important than substance: by 1521 the two countries were at war again. In many ways they were natural rivals, whereas Henry was bound—by marriage and interest—to France’s enemy Charles V, king of Spain. Both before and after the Cloth of Gold Henry met Charles for discussions of much greater diplomatic magnitude. And although Wolsey hoped the meeting of the British and French elites might build bridges, this soon proved an illusion. As the Cloth of Gold demonstrated, egos were everything in these summits, with each side alert to any hint of advantage gained summits by the other. Commines was implacably opposed to such meetings for this very reason. It was, he said, impossible “to hinder the train and equipage of the one from being finer and more magnificent than the other, which produces mockery, and nothing touches any person more sensibly than to be laughed at.”
 * David Reynolds, Summits: Six Meetings that Changed the Twentieth Century (2007), pp. 16-17

 * He had survived pretenders, excommunication, rebellion and threats of invasion, died in his bed and passed his throne peacefully to his heir. He had won a title, Defender of the Faith, which English monarchs still boast... He had made war on England's ancient enemies and himself led two assaults on France. For nearly four decades he had cut an imposing figure in Europe...bestriding its high diplomacy as few of his predecessors, if any, had done. He had defied pope and emperor, brought into being in England and Ireland a national Church subject to his authority, wiped about a thousand religious houses off the face of his native land...and bestowed on English kingship a profound new dignity. He...had brought the Scriptures in the vernacular to his people, hesitantly and perhaps partly unwittingly, but none the less decisively, allowed his country to be directed towards the continental Reformation...and given to his people a new sense of unity – the unity of ‘entire Englishmen’ rather than that of 'Englishmen papisticate' or of those who were 'scarce our subjects'. The England which he had led back into European affairs...had disowned allegiance to any external authority, indisputably emerged from his reign with a new political 'wholeness'... Thanks above all to Thomas Cromwell, his reign had given England much 'good governance'.
 * J. J. Scarisbrick, Henry VIII (1968; 1971), pp. 642-643

 * Henry's reign in many ways left a deeper mark on the mind, heart and face of England than did any event in English history between the coming of the Normans and the coming of the factory.
 * J. J. Scarisbrick, Henry VIII (1968; 1971), p. 644

 * He became more and more odious as he grew older, but he never lost his interest in theology, and it was the interest of a man with brains. The continuity of the Church was preserved with its creeds, orders, sacraments and discipline, because a wicked king knew something about the faith and was proud of his knowledge. The Reformation was to come and pass, but the Church was to remain—not a sect devoted to any man's opinions, but a body wide enough to include those who sympathised with Colet or with More or with Erasmus, a body suffering violence, but not destroyed; and this was so because Henry VIII was in all things a traditionalist, and because he had no wish to impair the prestige of the Church, believing himself to be its head and its defender.
 * H. Maynard Smith, Pre-Reformation England (1938), p. 515

 * Henry VIII not only countenanced the practice of military pastimes by permitting them to be exercised without restraint but also endeavoured to make them fashionable by his own example. Hall assures us, that, even after his accession to the throne, he continued daily to amuse himself in archery, casting of the bar, wrestling, or dancing, and frequently in tilting, tourneying, fighting at the barriers with swords, and battle-axes, and such like martial recreations, in most of which there were few that could excel him. His leisure time he spent in playing at the recorders, flute, and virginals, in a setting of songs, singing and making of ballads. He was also exceedingly fond of hunting, hawking, and other sports of the field; and indeed his example so far prevailed, that hunting, hawking, riding the great horse, charging dexterously with the lance at the tilt, leaping, and running, were necessary accomplishments for a man of fashion.
 * Joseph Strutt, the Sports and Pastimes of the People of England (1801, William Hone ed. 1833)

 * His policy was both wise and strong. While not encouraging transoceanic adventure in the face of predominant Spanish power, he made possible the future liberation of his country's energies by the only means—the foundation of a Royal Navy... It was Henry VIII who built an effective fleet of royal fighting ships, with royal dockyards at Woolwich and Deptford; he also founded the corporation of Trinity House. Henry's maritime policy had a double importance. Not only did he create ships specially manned and commissioned to fight, and to fight in the public service alone, but his architects designed many of these royal ships on an improved model. They were sailing vessels better adapted to the ocean than the rowed galleys of the Mediterranean powers, and better adapted to manoeuvring in battle than the more clumsy ‘round’ ships of the mediaeval type in which the English merchants sailed the sea, and in which the Spaniards crossed the Atlantic. The new type of English warship was three times the length of its beam or more, while the normal ‘round’ ship was only twice the length of its beam. Hitherto sea-battles had consisted of ramming, archery and boarding, very much like the battles of the old Greek and Roman navies. But a new age was at hand. From the port-holes of Henry VIII's fleet protruded the iron mouths of great cannon in a row, ready to give the shattering ‘broadside,’ the operation of war to which, more than to any other, British maritime and colonial power owe their existence. It was Henry VIII himself who had insisted that his naval architects should mount heavy cannon in the body of the ship; they had devised the expedient of piercing apertures in the very hold itself through which the great shot could be discharged.
 * G. M. Trevelyan, Illustrated History of England  (1926; 1956), pp. 295-296

 * The Royal Navy was Henry's creation, and it saved both himself and his daughter after him when they adopted an island policy and defied the Catholic powers of Europe. Wolsey had no notion of the importance of sea power to England. He was a great medieval churchman, a civil servant of the old school, and a diplomatist of the Renaissance type. But of the future development of England at home and on the sea Wolsey had no vision at all. His master, with that curious instinct of oneness with the English people which was the secret of Tudor greatness, saw deeper. He could use Wolsey's consummate administrative powers during the years of his own apprenticeship in statecraft, and then pass over him along a path of his own which no Cardinal could be expected to tread.
 * G. M. Trevelyan, Illustrated History of England  (1926; 1956), pp. 296-297

 * It is indeed a fact of the first importance that Henry VIII, the most wilful but not the least wise of our Kings, did more for Parliament than any other person in our history. His father, Henry VII, and his own first great Minister Wolsey had seldom summoned Parliament; until the breach with Rome the two Houses seemed, like other European Parliaments, to be declining, perhaps towards ultimate extinction. But Henry VIII, in the middle of his reign, decided to use Parliament as his instrument and accomplice in the destruction of the Papal power, the spoliation of the monasteries, and the subordination of the medieval liberties of the Church to the laity and above all to the Crown. He had no standing Army, and without the general acquiescence of his subjects and the support of their more influential classes Henry could not have carried through this immense revolution. He found in Parliament, particularly in the Commons, the expression of that popular support he required. To be despot himself he raised up in Parliament a force that was destined to prevent his successors from being despots.
 * G. M. Trevelyan, 'Monarchy and the Constitution: A Historical Survey', The Times (11 May 1937), p. 40

 * Having learnt of the date [of his coronation], from all directions a vast multitude of persons at once hurried to London to see their monarch in the full bloom of his youth and high birth. For everybody loved him; and their affections were not half-hearted, because the king on his father's side descended from Henry VI and on his mother's from Edward IV. For just as Edward was the most warmly thought of by the English people among all the English kings, so this successor of his, Henry, was very like him in general appearance, in greatness of mind and generosity and for that reason was the more acclaimed and approved of by all. Henry was also recommended by his handsome bearing, his comely and manly features (in which one could discern as much authority as good will), his outstanding physical strength, remarkable memory, aptness at all the arts of both war and peace, skill at arms and on horseback, scholarship of no mean order, thorough knowledge of music, and his humanity, benevolence and self-control.
 * Polydore Vergil, The Anglica Historia of Polydore Vergil, A.D. 1485–1537, ed. Denys Hay (1950), p. 151

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A remake of this film is due to be released in 2006, hence the 1940 date in the title. Juxtaposed 08:07, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

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Hi, Anthere. Could you please let us know more closely why you block User:JarlaxleArtemis on our WQ:VP? Including you banned him in which qualification (Board member, Steward etc...)?

We have no policy to ban users because he or she has been banned from the other community. And it is not very accountable to put a line in Block log in my opinion. The user in question occured no trouble on this project, so I would like to have a public explanation. It doesn't mean I complain you about blocking. I just would like you to give a comment to the community. --Aphaia 09:04, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

Hi. I did not have time to fix all points this morning about this user this morning. But here is generally my stance on the issue. This user has have a generally totally unacceptable behavior on at least one project. His case is currently pending for banning for a year on the english wikipedia. It would be for a whole bunch of reasons, such as in particular for use of profanities and personal attacks against editors. The arbcom is taking months to fix the issue. My edits on his talk page have been reverted by him three times. He is currently blocked. I have received mails from him, one calling me a "fucking bitch".

My opinion is that it is just plain unacceptable behavior from anyone working on our projects. Some time ago, an editor threatened to sue the Foundation for the reason another editor was displaying private information about him/her on the projects. If this is not acceptable from anyone to display private information, I also consider it is unacceptable from ANY editor to insult and humiliate any editors without a reaction of some sort. And such behavior imho should grant at least a temporary block on the projects he is participating to, in particular when the issue is mentionned by some editors.

This is a personal position, but, my position is definitly that such a behavior is NOT acceptable. It is my position that a minimum of wikilove and respect of others should be showed between participants. My qualification was not the one of a steward who is not allowed to take such a decision, but the one of a board member.

Now, if your community decide to revert the block and welcome warmly such an editor, please suit yourself. Revert the block. And hold the responsability of the editor good behavior. Anthere

Thanks Ant, I am sad to hear you blamed so. You are not so, definitely. But you seems not to be yourself now with a heavy frustration.
 * You missed one of my points, if it is a decision by the Board, I am les interest in further argument. And following your statement on the above, you state it is your decision as a Board member. Do I understand you correctly? If not, please let me know.
 * I am not allowed to make such a decision as a steward. It is not a decision of the board, I have not been able to discuss online with jimbo and angela for ages... However, it is a decision as a board member. If you feel it is not suitable, then revert or ask Jimbo, who will probably be a better reference than I.
 * I would like you to notice you that you could ask (demand, or another word more suitable) the community to block him on that reason. The information on the above deserves to consinder and it could affect the community decision. Or I would like you to consider you had been better not to make an action by yourself, but find a delegate.
 * The english arbcom is taking months to make a decision, which outcome seems quite obvious to me. I would find sad that you yourself take 6 months to block someone who is clearly, amongst other things, having a very unclear behavior with regards to copyright respect. One editor could also be less tolerant than LinuxBeak and also threaten to sue us for the insult he would receive. I would find most sad that 6 months are also necessary here to come to the decision the editor is problematic after it took so many months for a first project to do so. So, I prefer to do a preemptive block (not a infinite one), which can 1) make your community aware the guy might be a problem and 2° find the time to make a decision if needed here. In case you go to his user talk page on en, you'll notice he reverts all "bad comments" about him there, so it makes little sense I leave a warning here, which he will revert on the spot. Still, in case of cp infringment or insults left to people, the Foundation will be liable.
 * As the matter you mentioned here and there, I don't think it is suitable to argue here, but I would like you to notice your words suggest you judge things from the viewpoint of 'friend or foe'. And on my part, I know you esteem justice and far from favoritism, so I don't care your current tone.
 * I mostly mean to protect the community and the good editors from the community as much as I can, and to remove or do what I can for those who are not suitable to leave. But I can only help if there is a general feeling that what I do is meant to help. If what I try to do to help is heavily criticized, I will not dare do it again. Board members can only do so if the community trust they do not act with bad faith.
 * Have a nice day, Salut. Aphaia
 * Have a good sunday Aphaia and hope you are well.

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In regards to: Village_pump I would be interested in joining any effort conducted on wikiquote itself (I am blocked on Meta, unfortunately).

For example, there are two women who are redlinked on List of the White House Coronavirus Task Force members, one of them is the coordinator of the Task Force itself. Ottawahitech (talk) 16:49, 11 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you for organizing the Village_pump. I found it useful. I hope this will catch on - we could definitely use help at Talk: Ann Landers. Ottawahitech (talk) 17:08, 16 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you ! Anthere (talk) 21:14, 16 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi again, I added a postcard to my user page as suggested at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Women/SheSaid#So_what_should_I_do_to_help_?
 * but when I click on the postcard it takes me to the file at commons and not to an explanation of this drive. Am I making sense? Ottawahitech (talk) 18:04, 18 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Yes you do make sense. This is how images work on wikis... when you click on images, you get to their image pages. It is possible to force going to a specific other page, but I am usually not doing that myself... Anthere (talk)

So sorry to hear on the village pump that you have/had Covid. From all I hear it is a terrible disease. I hope you get over it very soon. You have done a great job on #shesaid and I hope you will be able to continue. Ottawahitech (talk) 20:29, 29 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your support User:Ottawahitech. The past 11 days have been real tough but I feel I am now on the right path, though I suspect it will take me more time to be really "fixed". My whole family got it as well so we are still deep in it... Anthere (talk)
 * Thanks again for reaching out to communicate with the community here. I am sure it is not easy to do. Please let us know how you are doing when you feel like it. Be well, Ottawahitech (talk) 22:45, 29 November 2020 (UTC)
 * I see you have started contributing again. That's excellent news. Members of the en-WQ have been busy building on the skeleton you left us at WQ:shesaid.
 * Please take it easy, and take a lot of rest before diving back in. Hapyy new year, Ottawahitech (talk) 02:47, 5 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Yeah !!! Anthere (talk)

An idea for the next WQ shesaid campaign
Hi ,

I was looking at the Twitter en-WQ article and noticed that not one of the celebrities quoted on the page was a woman.

I wonder if it would be a good idea to have the next campaign centered on providing quotes from notable women to various social networking articles. What do you think? Thanks in advance, Ottawahitech (talk) 16:59, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

 * I think it is a great idea. Let me show you what Malik is doing on the French Wikiquote / Wikipedia.
 * He set up that page : https://fr.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wikiquote:SheSaid/Hall_of_Fame_2021, so that it can be used to populate https://fr.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wikiquote:Citation_du_jour
 * And then quotes can also be used to populate the Wikimag (the French version of our Wikipedia magazine), such as here : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipédia:Wikimag/2021/42#Citation
 * Now we could perfectly « sort out » a list of cool quotes and use those on twitter and various places . Could be instagram too. Anthere (talk) 17:13, 18 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks so much for an example of what can be done. Unfortunately, I don't know anyone at en-WQ who can do anything like that. In my experience it impossible to get any of the long-term enWQuotians (with the exception of one or two very busy individuals) to help with the simplest tasks required to make the #shesaid campaign successful. I hope I am making sense. Ottawahitech (talk) 14:42, 25 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Very true. Well, let’s keep that in mind and simply do what is possible to do :) Anthere (talk)
 * On a more uplifting note:
 * en-WQ now has over 100 articles about African women
 * en-WQ has gained dozens of new good-faith editors who will hopefully stick arond after the 2021-campaign ends.
 * Cheers, Ottawahitech (talk) 20:30, 26 November 2021 (UTC)
 * This is good to know ! Candy started to compute the figures this year and she will add her findings next week on the meta page. We have a very strong participation in Italian again this year. Ukrainian seems very active too. French is more sluggish but ok. We have 38 entries in Igbo :) I think Candy was having difficulties to figure out how many new women we had in English because not all are added on the list and the hashtag tool is broken ! So it is super hard to track actually. Some of them might be listed into those subpages Wiki Loves Women/Focus Group/She Said Campaign but not in the actual page. The real good news is that it leads new participants to discover Wikiquote ! Anthere (talk)

Tracking
A decade or so ago I was an unwitting participant in a similar contest for which i received an unexpected award. The contest was held on enwiki by the w:wp: WikiProject Medicine. I wonder if user:whatamIdoing knows how they tracked participants. Just a thought. Ottawahitech (talk) 13:33, 5 December 2021 (UTC)

 * If you refer to this message, it's not a contest. Someone ran a script to count up everyone who made edits to articles tagged by WPMED, and then posted messages to hundreds of people's talk pages.  They did it once a year for several years.  I don't think it's been done since the pandemic started. WhatamIdoing (talk) 06:29, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Yes this is what I meant. I thought it was one of the many contests I saw at enwiki in which I never intentionally participated. Interesting that they stopped holding those just in time for COVID (which has just disappeared off the enwiki main page where it has been lodged for well over a year. I wonder if it is because wikipedians believe it is no longer a threat? Best proof that enwiki is run by Americans for Americans -- oops, sorry, no politics :).
 * BTW I am trying the Reply button which I think just showed up on some WQ talkpages. Is there a way to add an edit summary? Ottawahitech (talk) 00:36, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Ahahahah :) I know what you mean Anthere (talk)
 * Anthere, you are working way too hard for someone recovering from a serious illess. Please take it easy, there wil be a tomorrow on en-wiki (I hope?). BTW I wasn't sure where you wanted me to drop Marie-Christine Gasingirwa? I hope I am making sense? Ottawahitech (talk) 16:32, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Hi there ! This article has been written by User:Cnyirahabihirwe123. This user is Clementine from Rwanda. She is one of the WLW Focus Group member and leads the SheSaid initiative in Rwanda. So yeah, all the stuff produced by her group is to be added to the list of created entries. In case you ask... yes, we have communicated the need to either add them to the page OR to put the hashtag... but some of the group members are completely new to Wikiquote, or to this campaign (and in some cases, quite baby wikimedians actually...) so there is a learning curve :))))
 * So yes, let’s put those in ! Anthere (talk)

Nigerian women articles on WQ
We now have 101 women in Category:Nigerian women!!! a category that you created on 1 October 2021. I cannot tell how many were added since the cat-creation, but I am sure it is the majority. Ottawahitech (talk) 15:35, 15 December 2021 (UTC)
 * yooohooo ! Anthere (talk)

2022 shesaid campaign?
Hi, I see you have added the following text at the bottom Of the introduction of SheSaid: "Next drive... October to December 2022 ! Before publishing the Wikiquote add #SheSaid on the Summary section then PUBLISH and/or list the article below."

I checked the shesaid meta page, but I see no icon associated with this year's campaign. Are you still the organizer of the campaign, or should I bug someone else about it? :) Cheers, Ottawahitech (talk) 16:30, 8 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Yes, it is on :) Ok, I thought it was kind of obvious that the main page was about the current version whilst the 2021 and 2020 were archives. But... apparently, it was not clear... so I updated the banner to make it clearer :) What do you think ? https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:WLW_SheSaid_menu Anthere (talk) 01:30, 9 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the prompt reply.
 * Apologies about my question I was just wondering because Meta has a lot of dead pages, and I don’t want to lose momentum by sending people off to the wrong location.
 * I like to check pageviews to determine if an effort is paying off. So I checked the views on meta. As you can see the ‘’Wiki Loves Women/SheSaid: ‘’ page had more pageviews in October of 2020 than in 2021 and even less 2022. I hope this does not mean we are losing the battle…
 * I am worried because I have not noticed a lot of new wanabe editors or new articles created about women in October at enwq. I know I myself have neglected SheSaid only partially because of lack of time, but mostly because an atmosphere of excitement seems to be lacking around here.
 * I better stop this rambling that leads to nowhere…
 * Cheers, Ottawahitech (talk) 17:51, 9 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Well, first, no... it is not dead. Perhaps less views in 2021 than 2020... but rather more entries in 2021 than 2020... so who knows...
 * Some peers want the project to be promoted in the site notice this year (the banner is ready... but they were waiting for some translations). So I expect more views of the meta page this year. Whether it will results in more or less entries... I dunno. Wikiquote is traditionally a small wiki project, with not so many active participants and it is never a place bubbling with excitement. I know I was happy precisely with that the past two years, because the French wikiquote is a very low pace quiet space. I participate to a giant edit-a-thon this week and hope I can get some entries done ;) Anyway... I am personally not expecting a huge amount of entries ;) We do our best... still, the Ukrainian are up to. The Philippines as well. We are a handful on the French one from different coutries. There are at least two groups in Nigeria who are keen. I hope Camelia and Ciel will have some time on it as well, but I am not sure how much.
 * Prithee P and I organizing a webinar next Saturday. If it is not too early for you... you will be welcome ;)
 * Next week, I will send a few messages to some related lists, Women in Red and such. I did not have time last week :( But the social media communication (on Facebook and twitter) have already started thanks to Afek (https://twitter.com/WikiLovesWomen). And we use the Wiki GenderGap Telegram channel to discuss SheSaid.
 * Anyway, yours is not a rambling :) It is fair comments and questions. Your guidance is welcome !!! Anthere (talk) 23:27, 9 October 2022 (UTC)

Newbie
I decided to start participating on Wikiquote after learning about SheSaid. I'm not sure if I did this correctly - Lucy Feagin. SL93 (talk) 05:26, 18 October 2022 (UTC)
 * . Welcome ! Looks good to me. My suggestion would be to also add the sister links on the Wikipedia article so that readers find the wikiquote page more easily; Such as here. Cheers. Anthere (talk) 10:35, 18 October 2022 (UTC)

Shesaid-box on the top of each page
Today I was visiting Simple-enwp and to my delight was met with a shesaid-box on the top of each page.

The reason for my visit were notifications (old, but I do not visit Simple very often) that 3 of pages I had created a few years ago were facing deletion. This was rather ironic because 2 of the 3 were women-related pages. I cannot say more because I do not want to be accused of “Participating by proxy”. Cheers, Ottawahitech (talk) 14:08, 19 October 2022 (UTC)
 * lol. Yes, the banner is active. We are keeping them on a very low diet. I saw it a couple of times. Once on Wikiquote and once on the English Wikipedia. Anthere (talk) 14:13, 19 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Well it seems to be working: almost 150 participants have registered so far at enWQ shesaid participants. Cheers, Ottawahitech (talk) 21:28, 20 October 2022 (UTC)
 * OO Anthere (talk)

Layzie Bone
Bonjour. Pourquoi Special:Diff/3197135 pour Layzie Bone pour #SheSaid? je suis confus. Est-ce une femme? Toutes mes excuses si j'ai tort. Merci beaucoup. -- User:Djm-leighpark(a)talk 08:09, 23 November 2022 (UTC)

 * & Special:Diff/3197227 ... Ooh la la! -- User:Djm-leighpark(a)talk 09:07, 23 November 2022 (UTC)
 * ahahahaha. Oh la la ! J’ai du m’endormir sur mon clavier :)))) Anthere (talk) 13:51, 23 November 2022 (UTC)

Jean-Yves Duclos
Hi ,

I would like to add a Canadian politician, Jean-Yves Duclos (sorry not a woman:), to the French WQ. But since I do not speak French I wonder how inviting the folks over at https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiquote are and if they insist I read documentation before starting a new page? Would I be better off posting the information in English at the French equivalent of the Village pump?

Thanks in advance, Ottawahitech (talk) 17:10, 10 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Hi User:Ottawahitech I think it is probably more reasonable to invite contributions from the village pomp because French use templates that you would not be familiar with and that will be complicated for you if you do not read French... Perhaps also ask if there is a page to request translation ? Anthere (talk) 16:02, 12 December 2022 (UTC)

Beaucoup de nouveautés
Bonjour. Je vois que vous vous êtes exclamé ici qu'il y a beaucoup de nouveautés pour "SheSaid" sur "enWQ". Il y en aurait plus si les commentaires "SheSaid" étaient ajoutés. En raison de l'augmentation massive des articles créés juste avant le début du mois de décembre, je considère l'outil AWB comme le seul moyen de se remettre à jour. Malheureusement, les administrateurs sont insuffisants pour me donner accès à cet outil, voir ici. Il y avait aussi un échec de lien de Wikidata vers « enWQ » avec ces nouveaux articles. J'espère travailler sur certaines choses pour aider cela. Veuillez noter que vous utilisez une ancienne version de mes "Quarry queries" qui a un problème avec le calcul de la longueur. Mes nouvelles versions sont ici :, , ,. Merci -- User:Djm-leighpark(a)talk 01:34, 15 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Noted. I updated all queries accordingly ! In some languages, there will be quite a few Wikidata links to add... Anthere (talk)
 * Mon autre utilisateur Bigdelboy a maintenant la permission d'utiliser l'outil AWB. J'ai aussi une idée pour une "Quarry query" qui identifiera ceux avec des catégories féminines et des modèles féminins qui n'ont pas de commentaire d'édition "shesaid". Merci. -- User:Djm-leighpark(a)talk 06:01, 15 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Oh, that would be a great move to find the lost articles ! Anthere (talk)

default sort problems
Hi ,

Just to let you know many of the participants of the #shesaid campaign use unnecessary parenthesizes in the default sort template and unfortunately that creates problems in categories. For example the following in category: living people: Ottawahitech (talk) 20:17, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
 * 1) Itunu Hotonu
 * 2) Mo'Cheddah
 * 3) Phumzile van Damme

Yeah... I was looking and... lot’s of stuff to clean-up... pffff Anthere (talk) 20:19, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

 * Is it possible all participants are using a template to publish a new page? If so, it may be easier to fix by providing better instructions rather than trying to fix all those articles. The good news is that most of the articles have gone up in quality, I think? I wonder how @UDScott feels about it. They do a lot more in this area. Ottawahitech (talk) 20:38, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Perhaps it is related to a specific group ? Have you noticed that articles with this problem were all in relation to a specific country ? We could first inform group leads to make sure they are aware, and possibly target the groups where we noticed the issue ? I am already noting many articles untagged in relation to Nigeria and Rwanda. Anthere (talk) 20:56, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
 * I have t do some research to figure out which groups make this small error. What does "untagged" mean? Ottawahitech (talk) 21:04, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Articles that do not have the tag #shesaid even though it seems evident to me that their editors are part of the drive. Anthere (talk) 21:13, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Yes, a lot of cleanup is needed as a result of the SheSaid campaign additions - don't get me wrong, I am happy for new additions, but so many of the added pages need some level of cleanup. I was trying to keep up with them and clean them up as they got added, but got completely overwhelmed by the sheer numbers, so I've resorted to tagging them for cleanup instead. In this case, yes I believe the root cause is the template. But as with any template, the parenthesis are put there to show where template text needs to be replaced by the correct text for a given page (and the parentheses removed). I'm sure this is a product of having new(ish) users creating these pages and not knowing the ins and outs of templates. We probably need more explicit instructions, but we'll still have to go back and clean up all the ones that have this issue. ~ UDScott (talk) 15:43, 8 January 2024 (UTC)
 * is about a Nigerian naval officer and architect. It was started on 6 December 2022 by Kojodavid (not on participants list)
 * is about a Nigerian rapper and singer. It was started on 2 December 2023 by Taoheedah (listed as participant in SheSaid)
 * is about a South African consultant and former Member of Parliament. It was started bon 4 January 2024 by Saliousoft (not on participants list)
 * Ottawahitech (talk) 15:49, 8 January 2024 (UTC)
 * As an afterthought: It may help if the participants could optionally add what country they are from Ottawahitech (talk) 15:59, 8 January 2024 (UTC)
 * In fact, this is called a description on a user page :)))) Anthere (talk) 18:08, 8 January 2024 (UTC)
 * When all articles are listed, I’ll try to go through them by batches starting from the top to remove those parenthesis... waiting for the dust to settle... Anthere (talk)
 * So I found that all articles produced by the Rwanda group were done... without ANY hashtag... I asked them to find a way to add them to the list... https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Wikimedia_User_Group_Rwanda/Wiki_Loves_Women_SheSaid_2023_in_Rwanda_(10th_December-30th)?enroll=zkhnypcf
 * And there are Nigerians ones listed here... which probably are tagged, but not sure : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/She_Said_2023_Event_in_Nigeria
 * I feel a little bit tired. I fully understand why user:UDScott felt a tiny bit overwhelmed ;) Anthere (talk) 18:08, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

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 * "Rap is something you do, Hip-Hop is something you live"
 * KRS One

 * "I really do think it's a great musical stench. I find it very offensive, artless and styleless. To me it's very reminiscent of thuggery, pop thuggery. I don't want to hear it at all."
 * Morrissey

 * "Stimulant and sedative, original, repetitive, violently competitive -- a school unaccredited."
 * Mos Def

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Hi. Please note that it is against wikiquote policy to link to quote sites. I have reverted your edit to Courage. Thanks for your co-operation ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 16:04, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

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User talk:Flashmorbid~enwikiquote

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Die Hard (film)

Die Hard is a 1988 American action film about a New York cop who tries to save his estranged wife and several others robbed and taken hostage by German terrorists during a Christmas party in a Los Angeles skyscraper.
 * Directed by John McTiernan. Written by Jeb Stuart and Steven E. de Souza, based on Nothing Lasts Forever by Roderick Thorp.

40 Stories Of Sheer Adventure!

John McClane

 * [after dropping Marco's body onto Powell's car] Welcome to the party, pal!

 * [while crawling through a narrow ventilation shaft] Now I know what a TV dinner feels like.

 * [after shooting Hans and killing Eddie] Happy trails, Hans.

 * [sarcastically mocking Holly] Come out to the coast! We'll get together, have a few laughs.

 * Nine million terrorists in the world and I gotta kill the one with feet smaller than my sister...

Hans Gruber

 * Who said we were terrorists?
 * [addressing the hostages] I wanted this to be professional, efficient, adult, cooperative. Not a lot to ask. Alas, your Mr. Takagi did not see it that way... so he won't be joining us for the rest of his life. We can go any way you want it. You can walk out of here or be carried out. But have no illusions. We are in charge. So, decide now, each of you. And please remember: we have left nothing to chance.
 * [Humming "Ode to Joy", to Mr. Takagi] Nice Suit. John Philips, London. I have two myself. Rumor has it Arafat buys his there too.
 * [to Mr. Takagi] And when Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept...for there were no more worlds to conquer. Benefits of a classical education.
 * [to Mr. Takagi] I could talk about industrialization and men's fashion all day, but I'm afraid work must intrude.
 * [to Mr. Takagi] I'm going to count to three, there won't be a four... Give me the code.
 * [to hostages] I wanted this to be professional. Efficient, adult, cooperative, not a lot to ask. Alas, your Mr. Takagi did not see it that way, so he won't be joining us for the rest of his life.
 * [reading McClane's note] "Now I have a machine gun. Ho…ho…ho."

Others

 * Argyle: If this is their idea of Christmas, I gotta be here for New Year's.

Dialogue

 * John McClane: Drop it, dickhead. It's the police.
 * Tony Vreski: You won't hurt me.
 * John McClane: Oh, yeah? Why not?
 * Tony Vreski: Because you're a policeman. There are rules for policemen.
 * John McClane: Yeah. That's what my captain keeps telling me. [elbows Tony in the ear]

 * Marco: You are dog now! No more table! Where are you going, pal?! Next time you have a chance to kill someone, don't hesitate.
 * [McClane, knowing where Marco is from his taunting, shoots through the table, killing him]
 * John McClane: Thanks for the advice.

 * John McClane: [calling the police on a radio taken from the terrorists] Mayday, Mayday, emergency, anyone copy, channel nine. Terrorists have seized the Nakatomi Building, and are holding at least 30 people hostage. I repeat, unknown number of terrorists, six or more armed with automatic weapons at Nakatomi Plaza, Century City. Somebody answer me, god dammit!
 * First LAPD Operator: [to other operator] It's the same address as that fire signal.
 * Second LAPD Operator: I'll take this. [to McClane] Attention, whoever you are: this frequency is reserved for emergency calls only.
 * John McClane: No fuckin' shit, lady! Do I sound like I'm orderin' a pizza?! They have already killed one hostage, they are fortifying their positions while you're jerkin' me off on a radio! Now send the police down ASAP...
 * Second LAPD Operator: [interrupting] Sir, I've already told you: this is a reserved channel. If this is an emergency call, dial 911 on your telephone. Otherwise, I'll report this as an FCC violation.
 * John McClane: Fine, report me! Come the fuck down here and arrest me! Just send the police now!
 * [Karl shoots at him. The operators react with annoyed surprise on the other end when they hear the gunshots]
 * Second LAPD Operator: See if a black-and-white can drive by.

 * Hans Gruber: I thought I told all of you, I want radio silence until further-
 * John McClane: Ooooh, I'm very sorry Hans. I didn't get that message. Maybe you should've put it on the bulletin board. I figured since I've waxed Tony and Marco and his friend here, I figured you and Karl and Franco might be a little lonely, so I decided to give you a call.
 * Karl Vreski: [to Hans] How does he know so much about us?!
 * Hans Gruber: Eh, that's... very kind of you. I assume you are our mysterious party crasher. You are most troublesome, for a security guard.
 * John McClane: [imitates buzzer] Sorry, Hans. Wrong guess. Would you like to go for Double Jeopardy where the scores can really change?
 * Hans Gruber: Who are you, then?
 * John McClane: Just a fly in the ointment, Hans. The monkey in the wrench. The pain in the ass.

 * Hans Gruber: Mr. Mystery Guest? Are you still there?
 * John McClane: Yeah, I'm still here. Unless you wanna open the front door for me.
 * Hans Gruber: Uh, no I'm afraid not. But you have me at a loss. You know my name but who are you? Just another American who saw too many movies as a child? Another orphan of a bankrupt culture who thinks he's John Wayne? Rambo? Marshall Dillon?
 * John McClane: I was always kinda' partial to Roy Rogers actually. I really liked those sequined shirts.
 * Hans Gruber: Do you really think you have a chance against us, Mister Cowboy?
 * [Elevator rings as Hans's minions arrive on John's floor]
 * John McClane: [quietly] Yippee ki-yay, motherfucker.

 * Ginny: [Karl smashes a table of glasses in fury] God. That man looks really pissed.
 * Holly Gennero-McClane: He's still alive.
 * Ginny: What?
 * Holly Gennero-McClane: Only John can drive somebody that crazy.

 * Sergeant Al Powell: [over radio] Hey, John? John McClane you still with us?
 * John McClane: Yeah. But all things being equal, I'd rather be in Philadelphia. Chalk up two more bad guys. [Begins removing glass from foot]
 * Sergeant Al Powell: Well, the boys down here will be glad to hear that. You know we got a pool going on you.
 * John McClane: What kind of odds am I getting?
 * Sergeant Al Powell: You don't wanna know.
 * John McClane: Put me down for 20, I'm good for it.

 * Deputy Chief Dwayne Robinson: I got a hundred people down here and they're all covered in glass!
 * John McClane: Glass? Who gives a shit about glass? Who the fuck is this?
 * Deputy Chief Dwayne Robinson: This is Deputy Chief Dwayne T. Robinson, and I am in charge here.
 * John McClane: Oh you're in charge? Well I got some bad news for you Dwayne, from up here it doesn't look like you're in charge of jack shit.
 * Deputy Chief Dwayne Robinson: You listen to me you little asshole-
 * John McClane: Asshole? I'm not the one who just got butt-fucked on national TV, Dwayne! Now, you listen to me, jerk-off, if you're not a part of the solution, you're a part of the problem. Quit being a part of the fuckin' problem and put the other guy back on!

 * Big Johnson: [Whooping as their helicopter buzzes along just above street level] Just like fuckin' Saigon! Eh, Slick?
 * Little Johnson: [grins back] I was in junior high, dickhead!

 * Theo: Those guys in the suits, I don't know who they are.
 * Hans Gruber: That's the FBI. They're ordering the others to cut the building's power. Regular as clockwork.
 * Theo: [grins in realization] Or a time lock.
 * Hans Gruber: Precisely. The circuits that cannot be cut are cut automatically in response to a terrorist incident. You asked for miracles, Theo. I give you the F...B...I...

 * Holly Gennero-McClane: [noticing Hans taking the bearer bonds] After all your posturing, all your little speeches, you're nothing but a common thief.
 * Hans Gruber: I am an exceptional thief, Mrs. McClane. And since I'm moving up to kidnapping, you should be more polite!

 * John McClane: So that's what this is about, Hans? A fucking robbery?
 * Hans Gruber: [with his pistol pointed to Holly's head] Put down the gun.
 * John McClane: Why'd you have to nuke the whole building, Hans?
 * Hans Gruber: Well, when you steal $600, you can just disappear. When you steal 600 million, they will find you, unless they think you're already dead. Put down...the gun.
 * [McClane complies and drops his weapon. Eddie attempts to draw his weapon.]
 * Hans Gruber: [to Eddie] Nein! This is mine!
 * John McClane: [with his arms around his head, grinning] You got me.
 * Hans Gruber: Still the cowboy, Mr. McClane. Americans, all alike. Well, this time John Wayne does not walk off into the sunset with Grace Kelly.
 * John McClane: That's Gary Cooper, asshole.
 * Hans Gruber: Enough jokes.
 * John McClane: You'd have made a pretty good cowboy yourself, Hans.
 * Hans Gruber: [draw his pistol away from Holly] Oh, yes. What was it you said to me before? "Yippee ki-yay, motherfucker."

Taglines

 * High above the city of L.A. a team of terrorists has seized a building, taken hostages and declared war. One man has managed to escape. An off-duty cop hiding somewhere inside. He's alone, tired... and the only chance anyone has got.
 * Thirteen terrorists. One cop. The odds are against John McClane... That's just the way he likes it.
 * He's the only chance anyone has got.
 * It's Christmas Eve In L.A. And The Party Action's About To Explode... On The Fortieth Floor!
 * Suspense, Excitement, Adventure, On every level!
 * 40 Stories High — with Suspense, Excitement and Adventure on every level!
 * 40 Stories of Sheer Adventure

Cast

 * Bruce Willis — John McClane
 * Alan Rickman — Hans Gruber
 * Bonnie Bedelia — Holly Gennero McClane
 * Reginald VelJohnson — Sgt. Al Powell
 * Paul Gleason — Deputy Police Chief Dwayne T. Robinson
 * James Shigeta — Joseph Takagi
 * Alexander Godunov — Karl
 * Clarence Gilyard Jr. — Theo
 * De'voreaux White — Argyle
 * Hart Bochner — Harry Ellis
 * Grand L. Bush — FBI Agent Johnson
 * Robert Davi — FBI Special Agent Johnson

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Sam Brown

Sam Brown, Jr. (born July 27, 1943, in Council Bluffs, Iowa) was a political activist, the head of ACTION under Jimmy Carter, and ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.

Quotes

 * Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
 * The Washington Post (26 January 1977)

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Kristin Kreuk

Kristin Kreuk (born December 30, 1982) is a Canadian-born actress and model of Dutch and Indonesian Chinese descent known for her roles on the Canadian television series teen soap Edgemont and on the American television series Smallville.

Quotes

 * Just because I don't do bad things doesn't mean I don't have bad thoughts.
 * Biography at IMDB
 * Sometimes I love [acting] but then sometimes I think it's too much for me. And I don't know if it is something that I could do for the rest of my life.
 * Biography at IMDB
 * I never dreamed of being an actor, but I'm beginning to love it more and more because I like challenging myself. When I feel like I'm not learning or having fun anymore, then I'll stop.
 * Teen People's "25 Hottest Stars Under 25" in 2002
 * When I filmed the pilot, I thought it was a quality show with a good cast, but I had no expectations. I just hoped people would connect with it because there's a lot of heart.
 * Teen People's "25 Hottest Stars Under 25" in 2002
 * I'd fly. I sit and watch the birds go by and say, I wish I could do that.
 * Teen People's "25 Hottest Stars Under 25" in 2002
 * Since I was a kid, I've been telling everyone about the rain forest and how it's being destroyed.
 * Teen People's "25 Hottest Stars Under 25" in 2002
 * I spill water on myself all the time at nice restaurants. I've run into poles and knocked myself out.
 * Teen People's "25 Hottest Stars Under 25" in 2002

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Cass Elliot

Cass Elliot (born Ellen Naomi Cohen; September 19, 1941 – July 29, 1974), widely known as Mama Cass, was an American singer, actress, and member of the singing group the Mamas and the Papas.

Quotes

 * My advice is precisely the advice my mother gave me. If you believe you have talent, the next thing you must have is determination. If you keep working, keep striving, and try always to move forward a little bit with every job you do, you’ll eventually make it. And I believe that!
 * As quoted in "Twenty Questions for Mama Cass" by Frederick Todd in American Girl magazine (June 1970)

 * I think I would like to be a Senator or something in twenty years. I don't think I really know enough yet. I'm just 30 now and I wouldn't even be eligible to run for office for another five years. But I have a lot of feelings about things. I know the way I would like to see things for this country and in my travels, when I talk to people, everybody wants pretty much the same thing: peace, enough jobs, no poverty and good education. And I've learned a lot. It's funny. So many people in show business go into politics, and I used to say "What the heck do they know about it?" But when you travel around, you really do get to feel — not to be cliche — the pulse of the country and what people want. I'm concerned and it's not good to be unconcerned and just sit there.
 * Appearance on The Mike Douglas Show; as quoted at the official Cass Elliot website

 * Our job as entertainers is to ease some pain. So to begin with, you have to know what and where the pain is. I've never campaigned before and I wanted to be damn sure before putting my name behind anyone. I wrote to all the campaign officers to find out what they were. My issue is that it's all very well to sit back and complain but when it's your country you have a responsibility.
 * Statement in Spring of 1972, while participating in the presidential campaign of George McGovern; as quoted at the official Cass Elliot website.

 * I don't think it's so important who you vote for — you vote for who you believe in. The important thing is to vote, because it's our way and it's the best way.
 * Appearance on The Midnight Special in August 1972 in a Get Out The Vote drive; as quoted at the official Cass Elliot website.

Rolling Stone interview (1968)

 * Interview with Jerry Hopkins, Rolling Stone magazine No. 20 (26 October 1968)

 * Having the baby changed my life a lot. I don't want to go on the road, you see. It's actually a matter of economics, much like the Vietnamese war, I guess. I didn't want to go on the road and I wanted to stay home with my baby. I guess I could go to Kansas and be a waitress and support my child that way. But I'd rather live comfortable and I wanted to do more creative work. I didn't just want to be part of a group. I wanted to be able to do television, and a movie if it came up, to sort of diversify myself, to extend myself. Within the framework of a group, that freedom is not possible.

 * I think the unique thing about music and graphic art is as oposed to, say, acting and directing, that if you are good you can always create a place for yourself. In acting, for instance, there's only a certain amount of good parts; you have to find the right vehicle. But if you're making good music, man, there's so much room. I think that any group that's really good can make it, anytime. That was my feeling behind the Mamas and Papas. When I heard us sing together the first time… we knew, we knew… this is it. This was when we first came to California, after we'd left the islands.

 * I hated it. Everybody'd say, "Hey, mama, what's happening?" Then came the Mamas and Papas and I was stuck with it. And now people call me Mama Cass because of the baby. So I don't know whether I'm gonna be able to really get away from it.
 * On her dislike of being called "Mama" Cass.

 * I would love, in all honesty, to do another album with the Mamas and Papas sometime. I miss them. We're still friends and we want to be friends. Because you break up a successful group, which is really what I did, you know, there's some kind of karma here. I don't feel guilty about it; I left the group because I had to. That was being honest.

 * Everything I've learned in life I've learned either by doing it or watching the changes other people go through. And when you're famous, you don't get to meet people — because they want you to like them when they present themselves to you, present the best sides of themselves, and you don't see the real people. Which is why I don't really go anywhere. And when I do, I put on my silly face and do what they expect me to do. Actually, I never do what they expect me to do. It's the only way I could go on doing what I have to do. I do whatever I… you know, I didn't even comb my hair today. I didn't know we were taking pictures but when I found out, it didn't change my mind any.

 * I say, "Look, I'm here now. There must be a reason I'm here." If that's fatalistic, be that as it may. Where my work is, is where my life is, and if we're falling in the ocean, we're falling into the ocean.

 * I would say that there are certain glittering generalities that can be made about every sign that will hold true about everybody who's a member of that sign. For instance, if you had been a Virgo, you would have understood how I hate to be late. I broke up a group I was in once called The Big Three because one of the guys was chronically late and I couldn't take it. I feel when you're supposed to be some place on time, you're there on time. You don't hang people up. It doesn't matter if you're the President of the United States. That's not what you are here for, to hang people up. When I know somebody's sign, and I usually know everybody's sign whether they tell me or not — after getting into this for several years — it helps me to deal with them. Usually I'd rather let people deal with me. That's a total ego hang up, but that's where it's at.

 * I've always wanted to go to England; I've always felt a tremendous drawing to England — especially the Elizabethan period. I felt I was familiar with a lot of it — more than what I was familiar with from what I read and studied in school. I went to England. I started driving. I drove to Stonehenge and found that I had been there. It was familiar to me. I went to the tower of London and knew that I had been there. It was more than just feeling vibrations, which a lot of people can do — feel, you know, vibrations of a place that has antiquity screaming through it. It was an irrefutable fact. It was like coming home for me.

 * I've heard that story about kids are high naturally, but I've seen kids that aren't high, kids who've had the high taken out of them.

 * I hope these babies have a world to live in. I hope they have a place to go, a land to walk on. I remember when I was ten years old, in Washington, D.C., and I lived with fear of the atom bomb that would keep me awake nights and make me wake up screaming. I used to babysit for my younger brother and sister and I'd be terrified if I heard a siren, a police car, or an ambulance. I'd say, "My God, what if this is it! How do I protect them?" We used to have duck-and-cover exercises in school, where they'd ring a bell at any time of the day, sometimes five or six times a day, and we'd crawl under our desks and put our hands like this to protect the back of our necks from the bomb. We all carried that with us.

 * I think everybody who has a brain should get involved in politics. Working within. Not criticizing it from the outside. Become an active participant, no matter how feeble you think the effort is.

 * My philosophy is I'm gonna fight as hard as I can to keep all the bad things from happening. But if they are gonna happen and I happen to be in the city where they are happening — like in the song, "California Earthquake" — then there's not much I can do about it. I can't uproot my whole life, just because I have a feeling that things may not work out all right. There's also always the chance that everything is going to be just swell, guys. Just hang in there. But I don't think it can happen on its own.

 * I think the most successful way to overthrow any government is through infiltration. It's been proven for years. The dream, of course, is that there is going to be a fantastic cataclysm, and that tomorrow we have Adlai Stevenson in the White House. That's not going to happen, and not because Adlai Stevenson is dead. The reason it's not going to happen is that kind of overthrow is not possible. So I will work in the only way I know how, and that is within the establishment — because that is the only existing program. Let someone come up with another one and if it's good I'd do it in a second.

 * I know very few who are willing to die for their convictions. I wouldn't be hit on the head with a billy club or have mace squirted in my face. When I was younger and a radical at American University maybe… as a matter of fact, I was at the march on the Pentagon just last year, right in the front taking pictures, just being there to find out what was happening, and I was knocked down and stepped on. I don't want to do that again. It didn't accomplish anything. They lied about everything that happened. Everything in the newspapers were just lies.

 * Let's take the people who have latent thoughts about maybe the United States isn't always right. They hear a song like "Give a Damn" and maybe it'll awaken them. If it makes you cross that bridge between apathy and effective participation, that's great. There's so much talk about the Drug Generation and songs about drugs. That's stupid. They aren't songs about drugs; they're about life. Music can play a huge part, because it's the international communicative force.
 * The reference to "Give a Damn" could be to a song by Spanky & Our Gang or a subsequent song of the same title by Paul Stookey.

 * I've always been so apathetic. I figured okay, maybe the world is going to fall down around me. Now I feel… maybe that's motherhood, too. I want to make a better world, I want to make sure she has some place to walk around.

Misattributed

 * Sweet dreams till sunbeams find you Sweet dreams that leave all worries behind you But in your dreams whatever they be Dream a little dream of me.
 * "Dream a Little Dream of Me" (1931), was one of Cass Elliot's biggest hits but the lyrics by Gus Kahn were written many years before her definitive rendition; the music by Fabian Andre & Wilbur Schwandt. More information on how she came to record it is provided at NPR: "Dream a Little Dream of Me" ranked as one of the 100 most important American musical works of the 20th century.

Quotes about Elliot

 * She was the unsung hero who was quite willing to stand back and pull the strings — and though everyone thinks someone else had done it. It was like the Wizard of Oz you know... she's back there behind the curtains: "Ignore that woman behind the curtain"...
 * Denny Doherty

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Frances Farmer

Frances Elena Farmer (19 September 1913 – 1 August 1970) was an American film actress.

Quotes

 * If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.
 * This Is Your Life television show

 * I didn't think then, and I still don't, that I was actually sick.
 * This Is Your Life television show

 * There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream.
 * As quoted in "True Frances Farmer story remains elusive" by Rita Rose in The Indianapolis Star (23 January 1983)

 * It was pretty sad, because for the first time I found how stupid people could be. It sort of made me feel alone in the world. The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it.
 * On reaction to her high school essay "God Dies", Collier's magazine, (8 May 1937)

 * What they had me doing first was autographing copies of Come and Get It at the Bon Marche, where I had been fired a couple of years back. That was bad enough but think of me autographing a book written by somebody else. That took crust but it didn't turn out so badly because when I got to the store, about twenty people finally strolled in and looked at me from a distance and kept their buying firmly in control. What the Goldwyn people had forgotten was that up that way I'm still remembered as the freak from West Seattle High.
 * Collier's magazine, (8 May 1937)

 * [Hollywood]: It's a nuthouse. The other day a man phoned and wanted me to endorse a certain brand of cigarettes. I had nothing against them and in fact will smoke them or anything else that comes along, but I didn't know why he was bothering me. I thought maybe if I was nice they'd give me a carton as a thank offering, so I rather tentatively broached the matter of remuneration. What was the endorsement worth, I asked, and he said three thousand dollars. What are you going to do in an atmosphere like that?
 * Collier's magazine, (8 May 1937)

 * I do not know Tyrone Power. I fucked him a lot, but I do not know him. Gentlemen, this meeting is over.
 * After being asked by an advertising executive what Tyrone Power was really like, as she was preparing to sign a lucrative contract to advertise "Minute Maid Orange Juice", as quoted in "The History of My Encounter with Jeanira Ratcliffe" (April 1999) by Jack Randall Earles; varying accounts of this incident exist, some having her end her statement with "I don't care to sell your goddamned orange juice."

God Dies (1931)

 * An essay with which she won first prize in a writing contest during high school.

 * I went to Sunday School and liked the stories about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautiful. They made you warm and happy to think about. But I didn't believe them. The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.

 * Religion was too vague. God was different. He was something real, something I could feel. But there were only certain times when I could feel it. I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath, after I had washed my hair and scrubbed my knuckles and finger-nails and teeth. Then I could lie quite still in the dark with my face to the window with the trees in it, and talk to God. "I am clean, now. I've never been as clean. I'll never be cleaner." And somehow, it was God. I wasn't sure that it was… just something cool and dark and clean.

 * I couldn't get that same feeling during the day, with my hands in dirty dish water and the hard sun showing up the dirtiness on the roof tops. And after a time, even at night, the feeling of God didn't last. I began to wonder what the minister meant when he said, "God, the father, sees even the smallest sparrow fall. He watches over all his children." That jumbled it all up for me. But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn't God. So at night, when I went to bed, I would think, "I am clean. I am sleepy." And then I went to sleep. It didn't keep me from enjoying the cleaness any less. I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget.

 * I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was… nothingness.

Quotes about Farmer

 * Frances was a rebel when it wasn't fashionable — a free-thinking woman of the '30s and '40s whose outspoken nature, shocking language and anti-social behavior landed her in jails and mental institutions.
 * Rita Rose in The Indianapolis Star (23 January 1983)

 * The nicest thing I can say about Frances Farmer is that she is unbearable.
 * Director William Wyler, after working with her on the film Come and Get It (1936), as quoted in Blackface to Blacklist : Al Jolson, Larry Parks, and The Jolson Story (1998) by Doug McClelland

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Janis Joplin

Janis Lyn Joplin (19 January 1943 – 4 October 1970) was an American singer and songwriter.

Quotes

 * Music’s for grooving man, and music’s not for puttin’ yourself through bad changes, y’know? I mean, you don’t have to go take anybody’s shit, man, just to like music, y’know what I mean? You don’t. So... so if you’re getting’ more shit than you deserve, you know what to do about it man. Y’know, it’s just music. Music’s... music's s’posed to be different than that.
 * Spoken on the live recording of "Piece Of My Heart" on "Cheap Thrills" (1968)

 * To sing blues, you've got to be able to, ... be willing to, feel things.
 * Pop Chronicles: Show 52 - The Soul Reformation: Phase three, soul music at the summit. [Part 8], interview recorded 1968 July 13.

 * Fourteen heart attacks and he had to die in my week. In MY week.
 * On being shunted off the front page of Newsweek magazine by the late ex-President Dwight D. Eisenhower following his death; New Musical Express interview, (12 April 1969); cited in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations

 * Tomorrow never happens. It's all the same fucking day, man.
 * Comments on a performance of "Ball and Chain" Festival Express (1970)

I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama! (1969)

Friends they turn away.''' I keep movin' on But I never found out why I keep pushing so hard the dream, I keep tryin to make it right Through another lonely day, whoaa.
 * '''Time keeps movin' on,
 * "Kozmic Blues", co-written with Gabriel Mekler

Twenty-five years, honey just in one night, oh yeah.''' Well, Im twenty-five years older now So I know we can't be right And Im no better, baby, And I cant help you no more Than I did when just a girl.
 * '''Dawn has come at last,
 * "Kozmic Blues", co-written with Gabriel Mekler

And I know that I could always try. It don't make no difference, baby, yeah, I better hold it now, I better need it, yeah, Im gonna use it till the day I die, whoa.
 * Aww, but it don't make no difference, baby, no, no,
 * "Kozmic Blues", co-written with Gabriel Mekler

For I know that they don't come with age, no, no.''' Well, ain't never gonna love you any better, babe. And I'm never gonna love you right, So you'd better take it now, and right now.
 * '''Don't expect any answers, dear,
 * "Kozmic Blues", co-written with Gabriel Mekler

And I know that I could always try. '''Theres a fire inside everyone of us, You'd better need it now, I got to hold it, yeah, I better use it till the day I die.'''
 * Oh! But it don't make no difference, babe, hey,
 * "Kozmic Blues", co-written with Gabriel Mekler

And I like to have a good time, But if it gets too pale after a while Honey and I start looking to find One good man.
 * Honey, I love to go to parties,
 * "One Good Man"

Oh ain’t much, honey ain’t much, It’s only everything...'''
 * '''One good man,
 * "One Good Man"

I never wanted a mansion in the south. I just-a want to find someone sincere Who’d treat me like he talks, One good man.
 * An’ I don’t want much outa life,
 * "One Good Man"

Pearl (1971)

You say that it's over now, But still you hang around me, come on, Won't you move over.
 * You say that it's over baby, Lord,
 * "Move Over" · Lyric video at YouTube

You know that I need a man, But when I ask you to you just tell me That maybe you can.
 * You know that I need a man, honey Lord,
 * "Move Over"

Please don'tcha do it to me baby, Either take this love I offer Or honey let me be.
 * Please don'tcha do it to me babe, no!
 * "Move Over"

You're playing with me, hey hey hey, Make up your mind, darling, You're playing with me, come on now! Now either be my loving man, I said-a let me honey, let me be, yeah!
 * Oh yeah, make up your mind, honey,
 * "Move Over"

 * Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz? My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends
 * "Mercedes Benz", co-written with Bob Neuwirth in 1970, inspired by the first line of a song by Michael McClure: "Come on, God, and buy me a Mercedes Benz."

Misattributed

I want you to come on, come on, come on, come on and take it, Take another little piece of my heart now, baby!'''
 * '''Well, I’m gonna show you, baby, that a woman can be tough.
 * "Piece of My Heart" (1968); though this song became well known because of her performances, and as one of her greatest hits, it was actually written by Jerry Ragovoy and Bert Berns · Live performance in Germany (1968)

 * You know you got it if it makes you feel good.
 * "Piece of My Heart" (1968) written by Jerry Ragovoy and Bert Berns

Nothing don’t mean nothing honey if it ain’t free...''' And feeling good was easy, lord, when he sang the blues. You know feeling good was good enough for me, Good enough for me and my Bobby McGee.
 * '''Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose,
 * "Me and Bobby McGee" another of her greatest hits, the song was actually written by Kris Kristofferson, and first released as sung by Roger Miller

Please don't you leave me, I feel so useless down here With no one to love Though I've looked everywhere And '''I can't find me anybody to love, To feel my care.'''
 * Work me Lord, work me Lord.
 * "Work Me, Lord", from her album I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama! (1969) was written by her bandmate Nick Gravenites, whom she credits at the start of her famous performance of the song at the Woodstock Music Festival, as well as others, such as a live performance in Stockholm (1969)

Quotes about Joplin

You were talking so brave and so sweet''' Giving me head on an unmade bed While the limousines wait in the street.
 * '''I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel

And those were the reasons and that was New York. I was running for the money and the flesh. I was running for the money and the flesh That was called love, for the workers in song And it still is for those of us left.
 * Leonard Cohen, lyrics common to both "Chelsea Hotel #1" (1972) and "Chelsea Hotel #2" (1974) · Chelsea Hotel #1 (19 April 1972 performance, with full lyrics ) & Chelsea Hotel #2 (18 December 2012 performance)

You just threw it all to the ground You got away, they can’t pay you now For making your sweet little sound, can they? Making your sweet little sound on the jukebox Making your sweet little sound on the jukebox Making your sweet little sound on the radio Making your sweet little sound.
 * Ah, but you got away, didn't you baby
 * Leonard Cohen, "Chelsea Hotel #1" · Chelsea Hotel No. 1 (1972 performance)

You just turned your back on the crowd ''' You got away, I never once heard you say I need you, I don't need you I need you, I don't need you And all of that jiving around.
 * '''Ah but you got away, didn't you babe
 * Leonard Cohen, "Chelsea Hotel #2" · "Chelsea Hotel #2" Live

You were famous, your heart was a legend You told me again you preferred handsome men But for me you'd make an exception.'''
 * '''I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel

And clenching your fist for the ones like us Who are oppressed by the figures of beauty You fixed yourself, you said, "Well never mind, We are ugly but we have the music."
 * Leonard Cohen, "Chelsea Hotel #2"

 * Wow, that's heavy.
 * "Mama" Cass Elliot, caught on camera mouthing this, listening to her at the Monterey Pop Festival.

'''Did we compliment each other? Yes, but not often enough.
 * Janis knew more than I did about "how it was", but she lacked enough armor for the inevitable hassles. She was open and spontaneous enough to get her heart trampled with a regularity that took me thirty years to experience or understand. On the various occasions when we were together, she seemed to be holding in something she thought I might not want to hear, like older people do when they hear kids they love saying with absolute youthful confidence, "Oh, that'll never happen to me." Sometimes you know you can't tell them how it is, they have to find out for themselves. Janis felt like an old soul, a wisecracking grandmother whom everybody loved to visit. When I was with her, I often felt like a part of her distant family, a young upstart relative who was still too full of her own sophistry to hear wisdom.
 * Grace Slick, in Somebody to Love? : A Rock-and-Roll Memoir (1998) by Grace Slick and Andrea Cagan

A little lady or a honky-tonk Pearl Has to find someplace in this world Where she feels at home.
 * A banker's daughter or a runaway girl,

A banker's daughter is so hard to deceive A little lady is so hard to please Honky-tonk Pearl wears her heart on her sleeve, And her heart will not grow cold.
 * John Phillips, "Pearl", on the Mamas and the Papas album People Like Us (1971)

Here's a prayer for honky-tonk Pearl — Hope she finds someplace outta this world Where she feels at home.'''
 * '''Here's a wish for a runaway girl;
 * John Phillips, "Pearl", on the album People Like Us (1971)

 * "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose" is as good an epitaph for the counterculture as any; we'll never know how-or if-Janis meant to go on from there. Janis Joplin's death, like that of a fighter in the ring, was not exactly an accident. Yet it's too easy to label it either suicide or murder, though it involved elements of both. Call it rather an inherent risk of the game she was playing, a game whose often frivolous rules both hid and revealed a deadly serious struggle. The form that struggle took was incomplete, shortsighted, egotistical, self-destructive. But survivors who give in to the temptation to feel superior to all that are in the end no better than those who romanticize it. Janis was not so much a victim as a casualty. The difference matters.
 * Ellen Willis 1976 article in Beginning to See the Light: Pieces of a Decade (1981)

 * You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.

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Grace Slick

Grace Slick (born Grace Barnett Wing, October 30, 1939) is a retired American singer-songwriter and current artist who was a key figure in San Francisco's burgeoning psychedelic music scene in the mid-1960s. Her music career spanned four decades. She performed with The Great Society, Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship and Starship.

Quotes

 * I was appalled that the San Francisco ethic didn't mushroom and envelope the whole world into this loving community of acid freaks. I was very naive.
 * As quoted in The Routledge Dictionary of Quotations (1987) edited by Robert Andrews

 * It was the first time many of the bands had met and saw each other perform, so we were all really marveling at each other. It was just one good group of people after another. And different kinds of music — from Jimi Hendrix to Ravi Shankar, The Mamas and the Papas  to The Who. They had a backstage area where there was food being served 24 hours a day, so everybody was  wandering around meeting each other. It was just amazing.
 * On the Monterey Pop Festival, quoted in Hippie (2004) by Barry Miles, p. 212

 * She's more even -[daughter China] - I think it jumps generations. You get a screwball in one, and then the next one is straight, then you get a screwball. My grandmother was goofy, my mother was straight.
 * Speaking on the Joan Rivers Show, 1990

 * But we all do sort of the same thing and that is rearrange what you thought was real, and, uh, they remind you of the beauty of very simple things. You forget, because you're so busy going from A to Z, that there's, uh, 24 letters in between.
 * Interview on the History Channel documentary Getting High - The History of LSD, 2001; sampled on Drop Out by Infected Mushroom

White Rabbit (1965)

 * Originally written for The Great Society and later released on Surrealistic Pillow (1967) by Jefferson Airplane - Performance with Jefferson Airplane - Performance at Woodstock (1969) - Performance with Jefferson Starship

 * One pill makes you larger And one pill makes you small, And the ones that mother gives you Don't do anything at all. Go ask Alice When she's ten feet tall.

 * And if you go chasing rabbits And you know you're going to fall, Tell 'em a hookah smoking caterpillar Has given you the call. Call Alice When she was just small

 * When the men on the chessboard Get up and tell you where to go And you've just had some kind of mushroom And your mind is moving low. Go ask Alice I think she'll know.

 * When logic and proportion Have fallen softly dead And the White Knight is talking backwards And the Red Queen's "off with her head!" Remember what the dormouse said: "Feed your head! Feed your head!"

Somebody to Love? (1998)

 * Somebody to Love?: A Rock-and-Roll Memoir (1998) by Grace Slick and Andrea Cagan

 * In Germany I ingested the entire contents of the hotel mini-bar before a show and stuck my fingers in this guy's nostrils because I thought they would fit.
 * On this incident Paul Kantner remarked: "I remember one night in Germany she spotted a guy picking his nose and she jumped on the guys lap and picked his nose. Half of the audience was grossed out, the other half thought it was great. Hey, half isn't bad!"

 * I've enjoyed the accommodations offered by police departments from Florida to Hawaii. Any time I saw a badge, something in me would snap.

 * Jim Morrison was a well-built boy, larger than average, and young enough to maintain the engorged silent connection right through the residue of chemicals.

 * The first words I ever heard the alcohol rehab counselor say were 'Good morning, assholes!' With that, I liked him right away.

 * The wiser you get on the inside, the uglier you get on the outside. The world's great gurus have beautiful things to say but they generally look like shit.

 * Man is the only animal that knows he's going to die, so we invent a heaven to keep from going crazy. Most people are hypnotized by organized religion from childhood.

 * Loss either teaches you to persist in the face of suffering, or hardens you into a bitter cynic. Sometimes, it does a little of both.

 * Janis knew more than I did about "how it was", but she lacked enough armor for the inevitable hassles. She was open and spontaneous enough to get her heart trampled with a regularity that took me thirty years to experience or understand. On the various occasions when we were together, she seemed to be holding in something she thought I might not want to hear, like older people do when they hear kids they love saying with absolute youthful confidence, "Oh, that'll never happen to me." Sometimes you know you can't tell them how it is, they have to find out for themselves. Janis felt like an old soul, a wisecracking grandmother whom everybody loved to visit. When I was with her, I often felt like a part of her distant family, a young upstart relative who was still too full of her own sophistry to hear wisdom. '''Did we compliment each other? Yes, but not often enough.

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 * If you remember the Sixties, you weren't there.
 * Attributed to Slick in Bangkok Babylon (2006) by Jerry Hopkins, p. 217, and elsewhere, this was also attributed to Paul Kantner in The New Yorker, Vol. 67 (1991), Dennis Hopper in Roger Ebert's Movie Home Companion (1992), and in various books to numerous others, including Judy Collins, George Harrison, and comedian Robin Williams.

The cite is a two-line article in the Comedy column of the Los Angeles Times in 1982:

EXIT LINE: Comedian Charlie Fleischer observes: “If you remember the ’60s, you really weren’t there.” (QuoteInvestigator.com)

Quotes about Grace Slick

 * A startling presence, both vocally and visually... Off the cuff, like the whole '60's were off the cuff. An Oscar Wilde in drag who combined insight and sarcasm that was sometimes light, sometimes dark. A provocateur.
 * Paul Kantner as quoted in The Buffalo News (6 September 1991)

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Rosalind Russell

Rosalind Russell (4 June 1907 – 28 November 1976) was a four-time Academy Award nominated and Tony Award winning American film and stage actress, perhaps best known for her role as a fast-talking newspaper reporter in the Howard Hawks screwball comedy His Girl Friday.

Quotes

 * Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly.
 * Rosalind Russell, Life is a Banquet

Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies (2001 ed): Art. Rosalind Russell p. 383

 * At MGM there was a first wave of top stars, and a second wave to replace them in case they got difficult. I was in the second line of defence, behind Myrna Loy.

 * Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.

Quotes about

 * Roz Russell got so frightened at Cary's glibness that she told me she'd hired a gag writer on the side to interpolate bits for her.
 * , speaking about His Girl Friday with James Bawden in either 1978, 1983 or 1988; as quoted in Classic Film Stars: Interviews from Hollywood's Golden Era (2016) by Bawden and Ron Miller, p. 36

 * Roz is in Hollywood, but she's not of it.
 * , as quoted by Russell in Life is a Banquet (1977), p. 241

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Adventures in the Screen Trade

Adventures in the Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood and Screenwriting is a 1983 book about Hollywood written by American novelist and screenwriter William Goldman. The title is a parody of Dylan Thomas's Adventures in the Skin Trade.

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 * NOBODY KNOWS ANYTHING. Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what's going to work. Every time out it's a guess—and, if you're lucky, an educated one.
 * Chapter One: The Powers That Be

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