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User:Htonl

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User:Myselfalso

Hello, I'm myselfalso. --Myselfalso 20:49, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Welcome to the world of myselfalso
My real world name is Harry. I've been watching wikipedia for some time, and use it for quick reference quite frequently.

I'm pretty good with straight up HTML script. I have an interest in politics, history, sports, and science fiction. I also write my own stories, though I am not published (but I hope to be!).

I work at Hersheypark in the Rides Department. I've been employed for five seasons, and I will be going into my sixth this summer.

I have a basic understanding of Spanish--I've taken Spanish 101 and 102 at HACC.

Platycrat Party
Support a multi-party system for the United States of America and become a Platycrat!

The WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE of the Platycrat Party will RISE AGAIN!

Interests
I have many interests including Family Guy and Futurama. I'm interested in space exploration. Coincidentally, I'm also a Trekkie.

Super Bowl XL
Super Bowl XL Champions! How about that! For the first time in 26 years, the Pittsburgh Steelers won the Super Bowl! Congratulations to Coach Bill Cowher, RB Jerome Bettis, QB Ben Roethlisberger, WR Hines Ward and the Pittsburgh Steelers for winning Super Bowl XL!

Pittsburgh Penguins
On January 24, 2006, Mario Lemieux retired. Sadly due to health issues, he was unable to continue playing. He was also a minus 15 or 16 for the season (which isn't very good). He has also stepped down as CEO of the team, allowing Ken Sawyer to take the title of CEO. Also, the Pittsburgh Penguins announced that the team was being put up for sale.

Attention any billionaires:  If you'd like to see the Pittsburgh Penguins stay in Pittsburgh, please buy the team and keep them there.

Please, if you are able, let me know on the Myselfalso User_talk:Myselfalso page. Many thanks!

Star Trek Movies
Which movie do you think is the second worst Star Trek movie? Go here,, to comment which one you think is. Most people agree that Star Trek V is the worst, so what is second to that?

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The Brothers Grimm (film)

The Brothers Grimm is a 2005 film about brothers Will and Jake Grimm who are travelling con-artists and who encounter a genuine fairy-tale curse which requires genuine courage instead of their usual bogus exorcisms.

 * Directed by Terry Gilliam. Written by Ehren Kruger.

Eliminating Evil Since 1812

Will Grimm

 * I made that armour! It's not magic... it's just shiny.
 * It seems that the music has turned horribly French.
 * Miss Krauss, perhaps you don't realize who we are. We're the Brothers Grimm, the men who vanquished the mill witch of Karlstadt, the frog boy of Glutenhof, and the cannibal chef of the Schwarzwald in the gingerbread house of terror.

The Mirror Queen

 * Truth is much more terrible than fiction.
 * What a beautiful bedtime story this will be!
 * Who's the fairest of them all?

Dialogue

 * Will Grimm: We're here to save your land from evil enchantments.
 * Sasha: Papa, they're famous!
 * Will Grimm: Right you are, son! The famous Brothers Grimm! Look at this strapping young man.
 * Father: He is my daughter.
 * Will Grimm: And a fine wife he'll make some lucky man!

 * Angelika: Show us the way, Grandmother Toad, and I'll give you a kiss. [she licks the toad.]
 * Will Grimm: That's just not right.

 * Will Grimm: We cannot fight an entire forest!
 * Angelika: You're just scared!
 * Will Grimm: Just scared? I'm terrified!

 * [Bunst and Hidlick see Sasha get "eaten" by a mud creature.]
 * Bunst: I... I do believe I've soiled myself.
 * Hidlick: Oh, good... I thought it was me.

 * Will Grimm: You killed my friends!
 * Delatombe: I only wish you had more!

 * [Women are talking upstairs.]
 * Will Grimm: What do you say, Jake? A little chit, a little chat.
 * Jacob Grimm: A little huff, a little puff. Thank you very much, Will.

 * Jacob Grimm: Angelika, we'll find your sisters. All right, we'll bring them back.
 * Will Grimm: [getting angry] Bring back her sisters? [he kicks Jacob] Bring them back? Bring them back with what? Magic beans?
 * Jacob Grimm: Why do you say that?
 * Will Grimm: Magic beans don't work! They don't bring people back to life! They did not then and they will not now!

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User:Akendall~enwikiquote

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User talk:Zero0000

Hello, you might get a faster reply if you write instead to my Wikipedia talk page. Don't forget to mention you are writing about Wikiquote. --Zero0000 04:19, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

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Lehi (group)
As requested, I've posted the entire text of the now-deleted "Lehi (group)" below. (I would have emailed it to you, but I'm not sure if the Hebrew characters would have survived the trip.) I have changed only the WP box link (to point to the same WP article the original did) and the heading levels (to avoid interfering with other talk page postings). Please read Votes for deletion archive/Lehi (group) before copying this to Wikisource to consider if they may raise some of the objections discussed. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 18:45, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

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Lohamei Herut Israel, known by its acronym Lehi and also as the Stern Gang or Stern Group after its founder, was an armed underground Zionist group in Palestine during the years 1940-1948. Usually regarded as the most extreme of such groups, it conducted a campaign of assassination and other violence mostly directed against British individuals such as police and government officials. It also, on occasion, attacked Arab targets or killed alleged Jewish collaborators. It received the label "terrorist" from almost everyone, including from the mainstream Jewish organizations. More surprisingly, it accepted this label itself and sought to justify it. The following is a translation of an article "Terror" (Hebrew: טירור) that appeared in the Lehi newspaper He Khazit ("The Front", Hebrew: החזית), issue 2, August 1943. No author is given for the article, which was the usual practice in this newspaper. Underlines are in the original.

Terror
We must first restrict the concept to the area which we will deal with in this article, for many things may be called "terror" and it is not easy to find the boundaries. It would not be difficult, for example, to defend the method of terror if we were to say that terror is not to make the enemy or dodger fear by threats and attempts on his life. According to an absolutely correct, broad definition, terror is any force placed on a person through sanctions. If, for example, I don't let a person work for a living, that is also terror, though I do not judge him nor banish him and I do not seek to end his life. If we dig further and analyze societal concepts, we will find — sometimes to our own surprise — that terror rules, much more than it would seem. Generally, it is clearly accepted that terror is anti-legal, but in the end [we must ask]: What is legality ? Is there any doubt that a great part of the law books, particularly those of political laws, are only a cover for a government of compulsion, that is, force? If the power is in my hands (power meaning the police and the army), then I can legislate any laws suitable to my path, and afterwards any lawbreaker is a revolutionary and terrorist or anarchist. This is a very simple and accepted method. Come and you will easily see that law is based on "terror," on the means of effecting law through compulsion.

We do not deal here with legal philosophy. We only wanted to hint that the whole "complex" and legal system against terror can be easily eliminated through clear and easy excuses, that the face of those who tout the legal "democratic" way can be revealed, and we can see how great is the terror concealed in all these. But we do not want to follow this easy path, and so we will ignore this possibility and allow citizens from right and left to live with the illusion that their methods and the methods of their government are not terror. We will defend the most difficult stand in this case, narrowing the definition of terror to the narrow confines of threat and attempts on the life of the enemy through land mines, bombs, etc. All of society's upper crust, as is known, from the left to the right, is always "shocked" to the depths of its corrupt soul by these acts, and is willing to aid the regime in eliminating and executing these anarchistic terrorists. He is not willing to do so, for example, if through legal means 769 people on the Struma were killed and thousand more who could have been saved were not given the chance. This is not terror, this is at worse a "bad law," "cruelty." It is very comfortable, living behind this kind of wall of intentionally distorted concepts. And it is very easy to say that other means should be used to fight "violence." It is possible that there is a small group of Puritanical people who see all killings as forbidden. Of course, it is difficult to argue with them if they wish to be consistent, but now the borders between defense and attack have become blurred. The difference will never again be sharp. Not only in times of war is it clear that one must attack; it is now clear, and in the future surely will be emphasized, that one should begin by attacking before being attacked by the enemy. Similarly, no reasonable person can presume a difference between the murder of individuals and of groups ("war" in common language). Murder is murder.

It is possible that someone will want to bring excuses from other areas. "Terrorists," they will say, "attack from ambush. This is not appropriate, this is cheating, this is not heroism!" Of course, that is typical Don-Quixoteism if not intentional fooling. In the Middle Ages, when war was a sport, gentlemen's rules, chivalrous rules of how it is appropriate to kill and how it is not were set; this is permitted, and this is not. Today war is not a sport, it's a question of life and death. Heroism is not a goal, as war is not an end. The only goal is victory. It would be worthwhile to see and hear the man who would dare claim that before trying to save the millions of Jews who were killed in the Diaspora we would have to check if the means were moral and that it would have been forbidden to use immoral means. It is unlikely that such a man would be found, and if he were, he would undoubtedly be a degenerate. No, there is no support for the others' moral hesitations, spiritual and aesthetic. In this sensed there has been no change since the days of Ehud ben Gera and Judith. Ehud ben Gera and Judith were absolutely terrorists. They saw craftiness and murder as means to push away danger and bring victory, and they used them in the name of G d, the Lord of Israel.

Neither Jewish morality nor Jewish tradition can negate the use of terror as a means of battle.

The last excuse remains: how beneficial is it? There was a time when the debate about terrorism was abandoned in the land of revolutions, Russia. The "revolutionaries" spilled oceans of ink against the "terrorists," the Socialists, against the Social Democrats. The period of debate is from them forward. It was tied to the problem of the principle of "collective" and "individual" as historic factors. The estimation of the Social Republicans also underwent a substantial change. From a distance it seems there work bore a great deal of fruit, both in toppling the government and in revolutionary education, but this might only be because the question is phrased incorrectly. If the question is "an a revolution be waged or can liberty be obtained through terror?" then the answer is "No!" If the question is "Do these activities help the cause of revolution and liberation at all?" the answer is "Yes." There isn’t a big difference whether the enemy is internal (Russia) or external (Poland, France, Czechoslovakia). In tactical terms only the negative sides of terror are seen: the enemy is only partially hurt, only in a few limbs of his body. The movement pays dearly in casualties. Therefore, tactically all terror activities seem to have failed (even in the best case scenario, when the action succeeded). But from a strategic point of view every action is successful. Those who write histories of revolutionary Russia must begin with the Social Democrats. One who writes about Second Temple Jewish history must begin with Judah and Hezkiah the Galilites. Those who write of the Serbian, Polish, and French wars of liberation will begin with the names of terrorists who threatened the life and property of the enemy, be it individually or through guerilla action. The Jewish press in this country tends to write about and glorify the same acts when committed by others (terror actions against the Reich are excellent!) and without shame will undoubtedly renounce them when the time for our war of liberation comes. They will find thousands of excuses.

We are quite far from moral hesitations on the national battlefield. We see before us the command of the Torah, the most moral teaching in the world: "Obliterate…until destruction." We are particularly far from this sort of hesitation in regard to an enemy whose moral perversion is admitted by all.

But primarily terror is part of our political battle under present conditions and its role is large and great:
 * It demonstrates, in clear language, to those who listen throughout the world and to our despondent brothers outside the gates of this country of our battle against the true terrorist who hides behind his piles of papers and the laws he has legislated.
 * It is not directed against people, it is directed against representatives . Therefore it is effective.
 * If it also shakes the Yishuv from their complacency, good and well.

Only so will the battle for liberation begin.

Source
Translated from the original document by a professional translator commissioned by Zero. Original believed out of copyright or never copyrighted due to its illegal nature; translation hereby placed into the public domain by Zero. Scans of the Hebrew text are provided: [[Media:LehiTerror_1.jpg|first page]], [[Media:LehiTerror_2.jpg|second page]].

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Brian Regan (comedian)

Brian Joseph Regan (born 2 June 1958) is an American stand-up comedian who uses observational, sarcastic, and self-deprecating humor. His performances are relatively clean as he refrains from profanity and off-color humor.

Brian Regan Live (1997)

 * Uh... I don't know. I'd be a lot better off, if I would've studied more, when I was growing up, you know? But, you know, the day where it all went wrong, was the day they started the spelling bee.
 * 'Cause up until that day, I was an idiot, but nobody else knew, you know?
 * Then the spelling bee day, you know, popped up.
 * "Alright kids, up against the wall. It's time for public humiliation. |teacher
 * Spell a word wrong, sit down in front of your friends." Yeah, that's great for little egos:|Brian
 * "Hey, look at me, I'm a moron!|kid
 * I wasn't even close! I was using numbers, and stuff!"|kid
 * That's why I admired that kid who spelled it wrong, on purpose, so he could sit down, you know|Brian
 * He knew he wasn't going to win, so why stand there for 3 hours?|Brian
 * First round,'Cat' |teacher
 * "K-A-T, I'm outta here." |Kid
 * Then, as he passed you, |Brian
 * "I know there's two 'T's!" |kid

 * "Brian, what's the 'I before E' rule?" |teacher
 * Um... I before E... ALWAYS. |Brian
 * "What are you, an idiot, Brian?" |teacher
 * Apparently! |Brain
 * So, she says, "No, Brian, it's I before E, EXCEPT after C, AND when sounding like A, as in neighbor, and weigh, and on weekends, and holidays, and all throughout May, and you'll always be wrong NO MATTER WHAT YOU SAY!" |teacher
 * That's a hard rule. That's a— that's a rough rule. |Brian
 * Plurals were hard, too. |Brian
 * "Brian, how do you make a word a plural?" |teacher
 * Um... You put a 'S'… you- you add an ‘S’ at the end of it. | Brian
 * "When?" |teacher
 * Uuhhhh... On weekends, and holidays, and,... |Brian
 * "No, Brian. No, let me show you.” |teacher
 * So, she asks this kid, who knew everything, Irwin. |Brian
 * “Irwin! Irwin, what is the plural for ox?" |teacher
 * 'Oxen. The farmer used his oxen.' |Irwin
 * "Brian?" | teacher
 * (chuckling) What? | Brian
 * "Brian, what’s the plural for box?" |teacher
 * Boxen. I bought 2 boxen of doughnuts. |Brian
 * "No, Brian, no... Let's try another one. Irwin, what's the plural for goose?" |teacher
 * 'Geese. I saw a flock... of geese.' | Irwin
 * "Brian!" | teacher
 * (Chuckling)'Wha-at? | Brian
 * "Brian, what's the plural for MOOSE?" |teacher
 * MOOSEN! I saw a flock of moosen! There were many of 'em. Many much, moosen. Out in the woods—in the woodes—in the woodsen. The meese want the food. Food is to eatenesen! THE MEESE WANT THE FOOD IN THE WOODENESEN! AND THE FOOD IN THE WOODYENESEN! |Brian
 * "BRIAN! Brian... You're an imbecile." | teacher
 * Imbecilon! |Brian
 * "What are you speaking, German, Brian?" | teacher
 * "German, Jermaine! Jermaine, Jackson! Jackson Five! Tito!
 * "Brian, what the hell are you talking about!?" |Teacher
 * I don't know. I don't know, really... |Brian

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Zach Galifianakis

Zachary Knight "Zach" Galifianakis (born October 1, 1969) is a Greek-American comedian, actor and writer.

Live at the Purple Onion (2007)

 * Hello, my name is Zach Galifianakis, and I hope I'm pronouncing that right.

 * I was named after my grandad. Yes, my name is Zach Grandad Galifianakis.

 * If you love Barry Manilow, you're gonna love the Insane Clown Posse. Love 'em. They're exactly... well, they're not EXACTLY alike, but they're a little bit alike...

 * Seriously!, this is a DVD! I need dinosaurs, thunder, race wars, something! Dammit, I gotta sell this motherfucker.... 36.63.

 * I want to combine the NAACP with Mothers Against Drunk Driving. It's called Mothers Against the Advancement of Colored People.

 * I failed kindergarten because I couldn't spell my last name.

 * Growing up my dad was like "Zach, you have a great last name: Galifianakis... Galifianakis... Begins with a 'gal', ends with a 'kiss'"... I'm like "That's great, Dad. Can we get it changed to 'Galifiana-fuck' please?"

 * When I was a kid, I had dyslexia. And I would write about it in my dairy.

 * When you look like I do, it's hard to get a table for one at Chuck E Cheese.

 * Whenever I'm with a woman I whisper softly into her ear, "Will you touch my vagina...?" and she's like, "What!?" and I'm like, "That's what you're supposed to say."

 * Did you ever wake up with an erection...and then you realize you're just in a massage chair at Brookstone? And you yell to the sales clerk "I'll take it!"

 * At what age do you think it's appropriate to tell a highway it's adopted?

 * I think those neighborhood signs that say 'slow children playing' are so very mean.

 * My girlfriend looks a little like Charlize Theron...and a lot like Patrick Ewing.

 * I dream of moving to India, or Pakistan, and becoming a cabdriver.

 * I'm going to do all new, fresh material...you guys been keeping up with this O.J. thing?

 * I call my balls the bush twins.

 * I dream of starting a three-man country trio called the Chixie Dicks.

 * This is my impression of a Southern woman. "Tsk, I am so mad at the Taliban right now!"

 * That was some really great "fatcting".

 * The only good time to say I have diarrhea is during a game of Scrabble, because it's worth a shitload of points.

 * The Forgetful Vegan: Man that sure was some good pepperoni pi-Oh Fuck!

 * For 8 years now I've been addicted to cold turkey. When I tell people I'm quitting cold turkey, they say,"What are you quitting?", I'm fucking quitting cold turkey.

Between Two Ferns (2008-2011)

 * You shaved your head for V For Vendetta. Did you also shave your V for Vagina?  (to Natalie Portman).

Saturday Night Live (March 12, 2011)

 * The only time it's ok to yell out 'I have diarrhea' is when you're playing Scrabble...because it's worth a shitload of points.

 * I wear a lot of Axe body spray, but I live in a black neighborhood. Over there, they call it Ask body spray. If you don't get that joke, then you're not racist.

Saturday Night Live (May 4, 2013)

 * I once played charades with a couple that was deaf.....they were amazing. I mean, none of this sounds like business.

 * I like to stump Google. The other day I Google'd "how many Mexicans live in North Korea"....Google didn't know.  I also Google'd "how many candles does Dave Navarro own?"...14,000.

 * Sometimes I order a beet salad, so when the waiter comes and lays down my salad I can say "thanks for laying down those funky beets". It's an expensive joke because I don't even like beets.

 * Here's something you'll never see in Braille: "If you see something, say something".

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Charlton Heston

Charlton Heston (4 October 1924 – 5 April 2008), born  John Charles Carter, was an American film actor known for his heroic roles and for his long involvement in political issues, including as a five-time president of the National Rifle Association.

Quotes

 * Let me make a short, opening, blanket comment. There are no "good guns". There are no "bad guns". Any gun in the hands of a bad man is a bad thing. Any gun in the hands of a decent person is no threat to anybody — except bad people.
 * Interview on Meet the Press (May 18, 1997)

 * You do not define the First Amendment. It defines you. And it is bigger than you. That's how freedom works. It also demands you do your homework. Again and again, I hear gun owners say, how can we believe anything the anti-gun media says when they can't even get the facts right? For too long, you have swallowed manufactured statistics and fabricated technical support from anti-gun organizations that wouldn't know a semi-auto from a sharp stick. And it shows. You fall for it every time.
 * Speech to the National Press Club (September 14, 1997)

 * I simply cannot stand by and watch a right guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States come under attack from those who either can't understand it, don't like the sound of it, or find themselves too philosophically squeamish to see why it remains the first among equals: Because it is the right we turn to when all else fails. That's why the Second Amendment is America's first freedom.
 * Speech to the National Press Club (September 14, 1997)

 * Now, I doubt any of you would prefer a rolled up newspaper as a weapon against a dictator or a criminal intruder. Yet in essence, that is what you have asked our loved ones to do, through an ill-contrived and totally naive campaign against the Second Amendment.
 * Speech to the National Press Club (September 14, 1997)

 * You could say that the paparazzi and the tabloids are sort of the "assault weapons" of the First Amendment. They're ugly, a lot of people don't like them, but they're protected by the First Amendment — just as "assault weapons" are protected by the Second Amendment.
 * Interview Fox News Channel (September 15, 1997)

 * Political correctness is tyranny with manners.
 * Speech at the Harvard Law School (1999), as quoted in "Appreciation : Charlton Heston" in Time magazine (April 6, 2008)

Before you claim to be a champion of free thought, tell me: Why did political correctness originate on America's campuses? And why do you continue to tolerate it? Why do you, who're supposed to debate ideas, surrender to their suppression? Let's be honest. Who here thinks your professors can say what they really believe? It scares me to death and should scare you too, that the superstition of political correctness rules the halls of reason. You are the best and the brightest. You, here in the fertile cradle of American academia, here in the castle of learning on the Charles River, you are the cream. But I submit that you, and your counterparts across the land, are the most socially conformed and politically silenced generation since Concord Bridge. And as long as you validate that ... and abide it ... you are — by your grandfathers' standards — cowards.
 * Telling us what to think has evolved into telling us what to say, so telling us what to do can't be far behind.
 * Speech at Harvard Law School cited to the NRA website (February 16, 1999)]

I have a message from the mayor, Mr. Wellington Webb, the mayor of Denver. He sent me this and said, "Don't come here. We don't want you here." I said to the mayor, well, my reply to the mayor is, I volunteered for the war they wanted me to attend when I was 18 years old. Since then, I've run small errands for my country, from Nigeria to Vietnam. I know many of you here in this room could say the same thing. But the mayor said "Don't come." I'm sorry for that. I'm sorry for the newspaper ads saying the same thing, "Don't come here." This is our country. As Americans, we're free to travel wherever we want in our broad land.
 * Thank you all for coming and thank you for supporting your organization. I also want to applaud your courage in coming here today. Or course, you have a right to be here. As you know, we've cancelled the festivities, the fellowship we normally enjoy at our annual gatherings. This decision has perplexed a few and inconvenienced thousands. As your president, I apologize for that. But it's fitting and proper that we should do this. Because NRA members are, above all, Americans. That means that whatever our differences, we are respectful of one another and we stand united, especially in adversity.
 * NRA members are in city hall, Fort Carson, NORAD, the Air Force Academy and the Olympic Training Center. And yes, NRA members are surely among the police and fire and SWAT team heroes who risked their lives to rescue the students at Columbine. "Don't come here"? We're already here. This community is our home. Every community in America is our home.
 * NRA annual meeting opening remarks, Denver, Colorado, 1999-05-01
 * Mayor Webb asked the NRA not to hold this meeting, which fell shortly after the Columbine High School massacre on April 20, 1999.
 * In, this speech is edited to "Good Morning... Thank you all for coming, and thank you for supporting your organization. I also want to applaud your courage in coming here today... I have a message from the Mayor, Mr. Wellington Webb, the Mayor of Denver. He sent me this, and said "Don't come here. We don't want you here." I said to the mayor... This is our country, as Americans we're free to travel wherever we want in our broad land... "Don't come here"? We're already here."

 * Tragedy has been and will always be with us. Somewhere right now, evil people are planning evil things. All of us will do everything meaningful, everything we can do to prevent it, but each horrible act can’t become an axe for opportunists to cleave the very Bill of Rights that binds us. America must stop this predictable pattern of reaction. When an isolated terrible event occurs, our phones ring demanding that the NRA explain the inexplicable. Why us? Because their story needs a villain. ... That is not our role in American society and we will not be forced to play it. ... Now, if you disagree that's your right, I respect that, but we will not relinquish it, or be silenced about it, or be told "do not come here, you are unwelcome in your own land."
 * NRA annual meeting closing remarks, Denver, Colorado, 1999-05-01; referring to the complaints that some had that the NRA should not proceed to have its scheduled convention in Denver out of sensitivity to the fact that the Columbine shootings had occurred near the convention site; used on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (August 19, 2010) as reasoning why a proposed mosque near the site of the September 11th terrorist attacks must be allowed to be built.

I admit I was overcome by the power of its simple symbolism. I looked at that musket and I thought of all of the lives given for that freedom. I thought of all of the lives saved with that freedom. It dawned on me that the doorway to all freedoms is framed by muskets. So I lifted that musket over my head for all to see. And as flashbulbs popped around the room, my heart and a few tears swelled up, and I uttered five unscripted words. When I did, that room exploded in sustained applause and hoots and shouts that seemed to last forever. ... So as we set out this year to defeat the divisive forces that would take freedom away, I want to say those words again for everyone within the sound of my voice to hear and to heed, and especially for you, Mr. Gore: From my cold dead hands!
 * I remember a decade ago at my first annual meeting in St. Louis. After my banquet remarks to a packed house, they presented me with a very special gift. It was a splendid hand-crafted musket.
 * Speech at NRA Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina (May 20, 2000)
 * referencing a slogan from a series of NRA bumper stickers, "I'll give you my gun when you take it from my cold, dead hands"

 * Sam is the only person I've ever physically threatened on a set.
 * On working with director Sam Peckinpah, as quoted in "(Westerns Channel Begins Production on Original Documentary Focusing on Western Films of Legendary Director Sam Peckinpah" (August 29, 2003)

Los Angeles Times interview (1956)

 * "Moses Film Role Awes Portrayer" by Dan. L. Thrapp, in Los Angeles Times (October 28, 1956)

 * I always work on the theory that the audience will believe you best if you believe yourself. This meant that I had to come to understand Moses well enough to believe in my portrayal of him.

 * To me Moses is all men grown to gigantic proportions. He was a man of immense ability, immense emotions, immense humanness and immense dedication. There is something of Moses in each of us — the more there is, the better we are. It is interesting to note that once Moses climbs Mt. Sinai and talks to God there is never contentment for him again. That is the way it is with us. Once we talk to God, once we get his commission to us for our lives we cannot be again content. We are happier. We are busier. But we are not content because then we have a mission — a commission, rather.

 * Moses is the keystone to every man's ethical code. He was the first man of record in history to conceive of the law as separate from the will of a ruler, to choose whether a man should live by grace of law, or law by grace of man. In a literal sense Moses lives at every council table today.

Interview in The Sunday Times (1990)

 * "Charlton Heston: Great sport with a line in heroic role models" by Jani Allan, in The Sunday Times (June 17, 1990)

 * It's fashionable for modern actors to talk about getting "inside" a character. But you can't get to the inside without getting the outside right first.

 * Celebrity is a corrosive condition for the soul. I have tried to restrain its inroads on me, but there are odd corners of my character that have been harmed.

 * I used to think if it wasn't possible to be a family man and a totally dedicated artist, I'd rather be the former. I'm an idealist and a romantic.

 * To be an actor you need four things: energy, concentration, a lot of luck and, of course, good roles.

 *  I have played some of the great men in history and I believe in the great man who does heroic deeds, even in these egalitarian times.

Winning the Cultural War (1999)

 * “You simply disobey. Peaceably, yes. Respectfully, of course. Nonviolently, absolutely. But when told how to think or what to say or how to behave, we don’t. We disobey the social protocol that stifles and stigmatizes personal freedom.” 16 February 1999

Video farewell (2002)

 * Video taped message, announcing that he had symptoms of Alzheimer's disease (9 August 2002)

 * My dear friends, colleagues, and fans, my physicians have recently told me I may have a neurological disorder whose symptoms are consistent with Alzheimer's disease. So I wanted to prepare a few words for you now because when the time comes, I may not be able to.

 * I have lived my whole life on the stage and screen before you. I found purpose and meaning in your response. For an actor that is no greater loss than the loss of his audience. I can part the Red Sea, but I can't part with you, which is why I won't exclude you from this stage in my life. For now, I'm not changing anything. I will insist on work when I can; the doctors will insist on rest when I must. If you see a little less spring in my step, if your name fails to leap to my lips, you will know why. And if I tell you a funny story for the second time, please laugh anyway.

 * I'm neither giving up nor giving in. I believe I'm still the fighter that Dr. King and JFK and Ronald Reagan knew. But it's a fight I must someday call a draw. I must reconcile courage and surrender in equal measure.

 * I also want you to know I'm grateful beyond measure. My life has been blessed with good fortune. I'm grateful I was born in America, that cradle of freedom and opportunity where a kid from the Michigan North Woods can work hard and make something of his life. I'm grateful for the greatest words ever written, that let me share with you the infinite scope of the human experience. As an actor, I'm thankful I have lived not one life, but many.

Quotes about

 * It could be that today's conservative movement remains in thrall to the same narrative that has defined its attitude toward film and the arts for decades. Inspired by feelings of exclusion after Hollywood and the popular culture turned leftward in the '60s and '70s, this narrative has defined the film industry as an irredeemably liberal institution toward which conservatives can only act in opposition—never engagement. Ironically, this narrative ignores the actual history of Hollywood, in which conservatives had a strong presence from the industry's founding in the early 20th century up through the '40s, '50s and into the mid-'60s]. The conservative Hollywood community at that time included such leading directors as Howard Hawks, Frank Capra, and Cecil B. DeMille, and major stars like John Wayne, Clark Gable, and Charlton Heston. These talents often worked side by side with notable Hollywood liberals like directors Billy Wilder, William Wyler, and John Huston, and stars like Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, and Spencer Tracy. The richness of classic Hollywood cinema is widely regarded as a testament to the ability of these two communities to work together, regardless of political differences. As the younger, more left-leaning "New Hollywood" generation swept into the industry in the late '60s and '70s, this older group of Hollywood conservatives faded away, never to be replaced. Except for a brief period in the '80s when the Reagan Presidency led to a conservative reengagement with film—with popular stars like Clint Eastwood, Sylvester Stallone, and Arnold Schwarzenegger making macho, patriotic action films—conservatives appeared to abandon popular culture altogether. In the wake of this retreat, conservative failure to engage with Hollywood now appears to have been recast by today's East Coast conservative establishment into a generalized opposition toward film and popular culture itself. In the early '90s, conservative film critic Michael Medved codified this oppositional feeling toward Hollywood in his best-selling book Hollywood vs. America.
 * Govindini Murty, “Hey, Conservatives: It's Safe to Go to the Movies Again”, The Atlantic, (Oct. 12, 2011).

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Thank You for Smoking

Thank You for Smoking is a 2006 comedy-drama film that is a satirical look at the machinations of Big Tobacco's chief spokesman, Nick Naylor, who spins on behalf of cigarettes while trying to remain a role model for his twelve-year-old son.
 * Written and directed by Jason Reitman, based on the novel by Christopher Buckley.

America is living in spin. (taglines)

Nick Naylor

 * Few people on this planet know what it is to be truly despised. Can you blame them? I earn a living fronting an organization that kills one thousand two hundred human beings a day; 1200 people. We're talking two jumbo jet plane loads of men, women, and children. I mean there's Attila, Genghis, and me, Nick Naylor, the face of cigarettes, the Colonel Sanders of nicotine. This is where I work, the Academy of Tobacco Studies. It was established by seven gentlemen you may recognize from C-Span. These guys realized quick if they were going to claim cigarettes were not addictive, they better have proof. This is the man they rely on—Erhardt Von Grupten Mundt. They found him in Germany; I won't go into the details. He's been testing the link between nicotine and lung cancer for thirty years, and hasn't found any conclusive results. The man's a genius—he could disprove gravity. Then we got our sharks. We draft them out of Ivy League law, schools and give them timeshares and sports cars. It's just like a John Grisham novel, well—you know—without all the espionage. Most importantly, we've got spin control. That's where I come in. I get paid to talk. I don't have an MD or law degree. I have a bachelor's in kicking ass and taking names. You know that guy who can pick up any girl? I'm him, on crack.
 * After watching the footage of the Kent State shootings, Bobby Jay, then seventeen, signed up for the National Guard so that he too could shoot college students. But, the National Guard recruiter was out to lunch, so Bobby Jay ended up shooting Panamanians instead.  Which was almost as good as college students, only they shoot back.
 * How many alcohol related deaths a year? 100,000? That's, what, 270 a day? Tragedy. How many firearms related deaths a year? 11,000? That comes out to a measly 30 a day!
 * In 1910, the US was producing ten billion cigarettes a year, by 1930 we were up to one hundred twenty three billion, what happened in between? Three things: a World War, Dieting and movies. [...] 1927, talking pictures are born.  Suddenly directors need to give their actors something to do while they're talking. Cary Grant and Carole Lombard are lighting up, Bette Davis, a chimney, and Bogart, remember the first picture with him and Lauren Bacall? [...]  She sort of shimmies in through the doorway. Nineteen years old. Pure sex.  She says "Anyone got a match?" and Bogie throws the matches at her... and she catches them.  Greatest romance in the century, how did it start?  Lighting a cigarette.  In these days, when someone smokes in the movies, they're either a psychopath... or an European.  The message that Hollywood needs to send out is "Smoking is Cool!".  We need the cast of, uh, Will & Grace smoking in their living room, Forrest Gump puffing away between his box of chocolates, Hugh Grant earning back the love of Julia Roberts by buying her favorite brand - her Virginia Slims.  Most of the actors smoke already.  If they start doing it on screen... We can put the sex back into cigarettes.
 * Everyone's got a mortgage to pay. [inner monologue] The Yuppie Nuremberg defense.
 * Michael Jordan plays ball. Charles Manson kills people. I talk. Everyone has a talent.

BR

 * People, what is going on out there? I look down this table, all I see are white flags! Our numbers are down all across the board. Teen smoking, our bread and butter, is falling like a shit from heaven! We don't sell Tic Tacs for Christ's sake. We sell cigarettes! And they're cool and available and addictive. The job is almost done for us! Now, this environmentalist [Pussy] is challenging us.  We have to have an answer!  I'm asking you, when this cocksucker puts Captain Hook on our product, what the fuck are we going to do!?
 * 50 million dollars?! Are you out of your fucking mind?!
 * The rest of you people go slam your fucking brains against your desks until something useful comes out!

Senator Ortolan Finisterre

 * The great state of Vermont will not apologize for its cheese!
 * When you're looking for a cancer kid, he should be hopeless. He should have a wheelchair, he should have trouble talking, he should have a little pet goldfish in a Zip-lock bag, hopeless.

Others

 * Heather Holloway: My other interviews have pinned you as a mass murderer, blood sucker, pimp, profiteer and my personal favorite, yuppie Mephistopheles.
 * Doak "The Captain" Boykin: You're family now. Tobacco takes care of its own.
 * Joey Naylor: It's like you always said, Dad, "If you want an easy job, go work for the Red Cross."
 * Bobby Jay Bliss : It was some pretty fucked up shit.
 * Polly Bailey : Are you a tit man?

Dialogue

 * Nick Naylor: I speak on behalf of cigarettes.
 * Child: My mommy says that cigarettes kill.
 * Nick Naylor: Now, is your mommy a doctor?
 * Child: No.
 * Nick Naylor: A scientific researcher of some kind?
 * Child: No.
 * Nick Naylor: Now, she doesn't exactly sound like a credible expert now, does she?
 * Little girl sinks back into her chair
 * Nick Naylor: Look at it this way. How many you want to be lawyers? Lawyers earn money to talk.
 * One little boy raises his hand
 * Nick Naylor: OK, let me try this again. How many of you want to be movie stars?
 * Multiple children: Yes!
 * Nick Naylor: Movie stars get paid to talk! That is what I do, I talk.

 * Nick Naylor: Now, what we need is a smoking role model, a real winner.
 * Jeff Megall: Indiana Jones meets Jerry Maguire.
 * Nick Naylor: Right, on two packs a day.

 * Jeff Megall: Sony has a futuristic sci-fi movie they're looking to make, Message from Sector Six.
 * Nick Naylor: Cigarettes in space?
 * Jeff Megall: It's the final frontier, Nick.
 * Nick Naylor: But wouldn't they blow up in an all-oxygen environment?
 * Jeff Megall: [long pause] Probably. But, you know, it's an easy fix. One line of dialogue: "Thank God we created the, you know, whatever device." You ought to make a product to tie in with the movie, such as a new brand of cigarettes.
 * Nick Naylor: Sector Sixes?

 * Joey: What happens when you're wrong?
 * Nick Naylor: See, Joey, that's the beauty of argument. When you argue correctly, you're never wrong.

 * Jeff Megall: Do you know what time it is in Tokyo, Nick?
 * Nick Naylor: No.
 * Jeff Megall: 4 pm tomorrow. It's the future, Nick. Anyway for Pitt to smoke it's 10 million, for the pair it's 25.
 * Nick Naylor: 25?! Usually when I buy 2 of something I get a discount.  What's the extra 5 for?
 * Jeff Megall: Synergy. These are not stupid people, they got it right away.  Pitt and Zeta-Jones lighting up after some cosmic fucking in the bubble suite's gonna sell a lot of cigarettes.
 * Nick Naylor: Well for that kind of money, my people will expect some very serious smoking. Can Brad blow smoke rings?
 * Jeff Megall: I don't have that information.
 * Nick Naylor: Well for 25 million, we'd want smoke rings.
 * Jeff Megall: Oh, one other thing. You'll be co-financing this picture with the Sultan of Glutan.
 * Nick Naylor: The Sultan of Glutan, the one that massacred and enslaved his own people? Aren't they calling him the Hitler of the South Pacific?
 * Jeff Megall: I can't speak to that. In all my dealings with him he's been a very reasonable and sensitive guy, he's fun, you'll like him.  [his phone beeps] Oh, thats London calling, it's 7 am in the old empire.
 * Nick Naylor: Jeff, when do you sleep?
 * Jeff Megall: Sunday.

 * [Inside the elevator at Entertainment Global Offices (EGO)]
 * Jack: Do you hear that?
 * Nick Naylor: [pause] No.
 * Jack: Exactly!

 * [Nick Naylor and his son arguing about ice cream]
 * Joey: So, what happens when you're wrong?
 * Nick: Well, Joey, I'm never wrong.
 * Joey: But you can't always be right.
 * Nick: Well, if it's your job to be right, then you're never wrong.
 * Joey: But what if you are wrong?
 * Nick: Okay, let's say that you're defending chocolate and I'm defending vanilla. Now, if I were to say to you, "Vanilla's the best flavor ice cream", you'd say …?
 * Joey: "No, chocolate is."
 * Nick: Exactly. But you can't win that argument. So, I'll ask you: So you think chocolate is the end-all and be-all of ice cream, do you?
 * Joey: It's the best ice cream; I wouldn't order any other.
 * Nick: Oh. So it's all chocolate for you, is it?
 * Joey: Yes, chocolate is all I need.
 * Nick: Well, I need more than chocolate. And for that matter, I need more than vanilla. I believe that we need freedom and choice when it comes to our ice cream, and that, Joey Naylor, that is the definition of liberty.
 * Joey: But that's not what we're talking about.
 * Nick: Ah, but that's what I'm talking about.
 * Joey: But … you didn't prove that vanilla's the best.
 * Nick: I didn't have to. I proved that you're wrong, and if you're wrong, I'm right.
 * Joey: But you still didn't convince me.
 * Nick: Because I'm not after you. I'm after them.

 * Joey: You're The Sultan of Spin!
 * Nick: "The Sultan of Spin"?
 * Joey: Mom subscribes to Newsweek.

 * Joey: Why did you tell that reporter all your secrets?
 * Nick: You're too young to understand.
 * Joey: Mom says it's because you have dependency issues and it was all just a matter of time before you threw it all away on some tramp.
 * Nick: Well, that's one theory.

 * [Nick and Heather are introducing themselves to each other]
 * Heather Holloway: Heather Holloway.
 * Nick: Nick Naylor. Big Tobacco.
 * Heather Holloway: [holds up tape recorder] Is this kosher?
 * Nick: Only if I can call you Heather.
 * Heather Holloway: By all means. So, Mr. Naylor …
 * Nick: [interrupting] Nick.
 * Heather Holloway: Nick. Let's start with …
 * Nick: '82 Margaux.
 * Heather Holloway: Okay. Is it good?
 * Nick: "Good"? It'll make you believe in God.

 * Jack: Hey, Neil! Neil! I'm going to impale your mom on a spike and feed her dead body to my dog with syphilis!
 * Neil: Ha, you got me!
 * [Jack turns back to Joey and Nick, who both look confused.]
 * Jack: It's an inside joke.

 * Nick: What?
 * Bobby: I got a call from the paper.
 * Nick: Really? What did they want?
 * Bobby: They wanted the correct spelling of my name and job title.
 * Polly: You didn't tell her about us, did you?
 * Nick: Who? … Heather? No! … I mean, maybe in passing.
 * Polly: In passing.
 * Bobby: Oh God, he fucked her. I tried to warn you …
 * Polly: Hey, he didn't fuck her. You didn't fuck her, did you? … When?
 * Bobby: In passing.
 * Nick: Look, she's a really nice girl.
 * Bobby: Oh God, we're really fucked.

 * [All voice-overs reading the newspaper article]
 * Nick: Nick Naylor, the lead spokesman for big tobacco, would have you believe he thinks cigarettes are harmless, but really he's doing it for the mortgage.
 * Polly: The "M.O.D. Squad"—meaning, of course, "Merchants of Death"—is comprised of Polly Bailey, of the Moderation Council, and Bobby Jay Bliss, of the gun business's own advisory group, S.A.F.E.T.Y.
 * Bobby: As explained by Naylor, the sole purpose of their meetings is to compete for the highest death toll as they compare strategies on how to dupe the American people.
 * Jeff: The film, Message from Sector Six, would emphasize the sex appeal of cigarettes in a way that only floating, nude, copulating Hollywood stars could.
 * Lorne: This did not stop Nick from bribing the dying man with a suitcase of cash to keep quiet on the subject of his recent lung cancer diagnosis.
 * Jill: Nick's own son, Joey Naylor, seems to be being groomed for the job as he joins his father on the majority of his trips.

 * Nick: [on Bobby's dessert: a piece of apple pie topped with a slice of cheese and an American flag] That's disgusting.
 * Bobby: It's American.
 * Polly: Can I have a bite?

 * Senator Ortolan Finisterre: Please state your name, address, and current occupation.
 * Nick: My name is Nick Naylor. I live at 6000 Massachusetts Avenue. I am currently unemployed but until recently I was the Vice President of the Academy of Tobacco Studies.
 * Senator Ortolan Finisterre: Mr. Naylor, as Vice President of the Academy of Tobacco Studies, what was required of you? What did you do?
 * Nick: I informed the public of all the research performed in the investigation on the effects of tobacco.
 * Senator Ortolan Finisterre: And what, so far, has the Academy concluded in their investigation into the effects of tobacco?
 * Nick: Well, many things actually. Why just the other day they uncovered evidence that smoking can offset Parkinson's disease.
 * Senator Ortolan Finisterre: I'm sure the health community is thrilled. Mr. Naylor, who provides the financial background for the Academy of Tobacco Studies?
 * Nick: Conglomerated tobacco.
 * Senator Ortolan Finisterre: That's the cigarette companies.
 * Nick: For the most part, yes.
 * Senator Ortolan Finisterre: Do you think that might affect their priorities?
 * Nick: No. Just as, I'm sure, campaign contributions don't affect yours.
 * Audience laughs
 * Senator Lothridge: Mr. Naylor is not here to testify on the goings on of the Academy of Tobacco Studies. We're here to examine the possibility of a warning label on cigarettes. Now, Mr. Naylor, I have to ask you out of formality, do you believe that smoking cigarettes, over time, can lead to lung cancer and lead to other respiratory conditions such as emphysema.
 * Nick: Yes. In fact, I think you'd be hard pressed to find someone who really believes that cigarettes are not potentially harmful. I mean -- show of hands -- Who out here thinks that cigarettes aren't dangerous?
 * Senator Dupree: Mr. Naylor, there's no need for theatrics.
 * Nick: I'm sorry. I just don't see the point in a warning label for something people already know.
 * Senator Dupree: The warning symbol is a reminder, a reminder of the dangers of smoking cigarettes.
 * Nick: Well, if we want to remind people of danger why don't we slap a skull and crossbones on all Boeing airplanes, Senator Lothridge. And all Fords, Senator Dupree.
 * Senator Ortolan Finisterre: That is ridiculous. The death toll from airline and automobile accidents doesn't even skim the surface cigarettes. They don't even compare.
 * Nick: Oh, this from a Senator who calls Vermont home.
 * Senator Ortolan Finisterre: I don't follow you, Mr. Naylor.
 * Nick: Well, the real demonstrated #1 killer in America is cholesterol. And here comes Senator Finisterre whose fine state is, I regret to say, clogging the nation's arteries with Vermont cheddar cheese. If we want to talk numbers, how about the millions of people dying of heart attacks? Perhaps Vermont cheddar should come with a skull and crossbones.
 * Senator Ortolan Finisterre: That is lu-- The great state of Vermont will not apologize for its cheese!
 * Senator Lothridge: Mr. Naylor, we are here to discuss cigarettes -- not planes, not cars -- cigarettes. Now as we discussed earlier these warning labels are not for those who know but rather for those who don't know. What about the children?
 * Nick: Gentlemen, it's called education. It doesn't come off the side of a cigarette carton. It comes from our teachers, and more importantly our parents. It is the job of every parent to warn their children of all the dangers of the world, including cigarettes, so that one day when they get older they can choose for themselves. I look at my son who was kind enough to come with me today, and I can't help but think that I am responsible for his growth and his development. And I'm proud of that.
 * Senator Ortolan Finisterre: Well, having said that, would you condone him smoking?
 * Nick: Well, of course not. He's not 18. That would be illegal.
 * Senator Ortolan Finisterre: Yes, I've heard you deliver that line on 20/20, but enough dancing. What are you going to do when he turns 18? C'mon, Mr. Naylor. On his 18th birthday will you share a cigarette with him? Will you spend a lovely afternoon -- like one of your ludicrous cigarette advertisements? You seem to have to have a lot to say about how we should raise our children. What of your own? What are you going to do when he turns 18?
 * Nick: If he really wants a cigarette, I'll buy him his first pack.

 * [Ron has just arrived in Senator Finisterre's office. In the office, is pride awards for his state, Vermont's cheese.]
 * Ron Goode: You wanted to see me sir.
 * Senator Ortolan Finisterre: Have a seat, Ron.
 * [Ron sits down in a chair in front of a desk, facing Senator Finisterre.]
 * Senator Ortolan Finisterre: You see, Ron, I can't be everywhere I'm needed. That's why I send people like you to speak on my behalf. When you're there, you're not Ron Goode, a guy whom your friends probably like, you're Senator Finisterre's aide and your name really doesn't matter. So when Ron Goode acts like a complete asshole on The Joan Lunden Show, I'm being an asshole on The Joan Lunden Show.
 * Ron Goode: Senator, sir, he sprang on me like....
 * Senator Ortolan Finisterre: Where in the hell did you find Cancer Boy?
 * Ron Goode: He was supposed to be quite reliable the Pulmonary Council was one of his references.
 * Senator Ortolan Finisterre: Fucking non-profits! When you're looking for a cancer kid, he should be hopeless. He should have a wheelchair, he should have trouble talking, he should have a little pet goldfish in a Zip-lock bag, hopeless.
 * Ron Goode: I apologize, sir, but if it wasn't for Nick Naylor-
 * Senator Ortolan Finisterre: Nick Naylor? Don't you even think of using him as an excuse!  The man shills bullshit for a living. You work for a fucking senator! A senator who's supposed to be tough on tobacco. Have a little...  pride, for God's sake!

Taglines

 * America is living in spin.
 * Nick Naylor doesn't hide the truth … he filters it.

Cast

 * Aaron Eckhart – Nick Naylor
 * Maria Bello – Polly Bailey
 * Cameron Bright – Joey Naylor
 * Adam Brody – Jack
 * Sam Elliott – Lorne Lutch
 * Katie Holmes – Heather Holloway
 * David Koechner – Bobby Jay Bliss
 * William H. Macy – Senator Ortolan Finisterre
 * J.K. Simmons – BR
 * Robert Duvall – Captain
 * Kim Dickens – Jill Naylor
 * Rob Lowe – Jeff Megall
 * Todd Louiso – Ron Goode
 * Dennis Miller – Himself
 * Joan Lunden – Herself
 * Jeff Witzke – Kidnapper
 * Richard Speight Jr. – Ricky Del, the Eager Trainee
 * Nancy O'Dell – Herself

title: Thank You for Smoking


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John W. Campbell

John Wood Campbell, Jr. (8 June 1910 – 11 July 1971) was an influential American science fiction editor and writer, known for his challenges to writers.

Quotes

 * The world’s prize stupid oaf is the man who thinks he already has all the answers.
 * Second-Order Logic? (editorial) in Astounding, Feb. 1955, p. 6

 * A successful crackpot is still a crackpot.
 * Point of Diminishing Returns (editorial) in Astounding, April 1955, p. 160

 * The curve of progress in the physical sciences is, assuredly, still rising rapidly. But I wonder how fast the curve of human-effort-invested-per-discovery-achieved is rising?
 * Point of Diminishing Returns (editorial) in Astounding, April 1955, p. 161

 * Hypnosis has been a seriously neglected factor of the human mind; now it must be attacked as a major engineering problem. For once, we have an aspect of the mind that ties directly into a solid engineering job; it will require that psychology submit to that harshest of all disciplines—the absolutely inflexible, utterly autocratic, uncompromisingly dogmatic discipline of “Does it work?”
 * Design Flaw (editorial) in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, October 1955, p. 92

 * It’s frustrating to have to yield one’s Opinion to someone else; the ancient, surging feeling “I have a right to my own opinion!” resents that necessity violently. O.K., friend, your opinion may, indeed, be just as good as mine . . . but is it as good as the Universe’s? The cultural group was able to apply pressure that forced Galileo to retract his stated opinion, and that proved his opinion wasn’t as good as theirs, didn’t it? Winning the argument is not equivalent to proving yourself the better and righter man. You may, in the more general terms of the Universal Laws, simply be the more bigoted and stupid man.
 * A Word for It (editorial) in Astounding, November 1955, p. 5

 * Logic happens to be one of the levels of reality; ignoring it is perfectly possible, just as it is possible for a drunken driver to ignore the concrete-and-steel bridge abutment in his path. The difficulty is that logic—like the bridge-abutment—won’t ignore the individual man.
 * A Word for It (editorial) in Astounding, November 1955, p. 158

 * Immunity corrupts; absolute immunity corrupts absolutely.
 * Breakthrough in Psychology! (editorial) in Analog, December 1965, p. 6

About Campbell

 * Of course, I never wrote the "important" story, the sequel about the first amplified human. Once I tried something similar. John Campbell's letter of rejection began: "Sorry — you can't write this story. Neither can anyone else."
 * to Vernor Vinge, after Vinge proposed writing a story about the first human with hyper-amplified intelligence. (From Vinge's comments on Bookworm in The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge).

 * In the so-called Golden Age of American science fiction, when the late John W. Campbell, editor extraordinary, gathered around him in a handful of months the greatest stable of science fiction talent ever seen, he would throw out challenges to his writers, like: "Write me a story about a man who will die in twenty-four hours unless he can answer this question: 'How do you know you’re sane?'"; and this one — surely one of the most provocative of all: "Write me a story about a creature that thinks as well as a man, but not like a man."
 * Theodore Sturgeon, in the introduction to the 1977 English translation of Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky.

 * [Stanley] Weinbaum met the challenge of a demand John Campbell was to make of his writers in later years: "Write me a story about an organism that thinks as well as a man, but not like a man."
 * Isaac Asimov, in the introduction to the 1974 compilation The Best of Stanley G. Weinbaum

 * Suppose you meet a man who asks you what your field of endeavor is and you tell him that you are the world's greatest living vertebrate paleontologist, which is, of course, what you are. And suppose that, on hearing this, the man you meet fixes you with a glittering eye and proceeds to lecture you for five hours on vertebrate paleontology, getting all his facts wrong, yet somehow leaving you unable to argue them. You will then have met [John W.] Campbell.
 * Isaac Asimov, as quoted in Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction by Alec Nevala-Lee (2018)

 * [John W.] Campbell, for whom this award was named, was a fucking fascist. Through his editorial control of Astounding Science Fiction, he is responsible for setting a tone for science fiction that haunts this genre to this very day.
 * Jeannette Ng, upon receiving the 2019 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer
 * Literary award renamed after Hong Kong author calls out ‘fascist’ writer, in the Inkstone News

title: John W. Campbell


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Günter Nooke

Günter Nooke (born January 21, 1959) is a German politician (CDU), former civil rights activist, and Federal Government Commissioner for Human Rights Policy and Humanitarian Aid.

Quotes

 * An interim candidate would not make a radical change.
 * International Herald Tribune, March 7, 2000: "2 Kohl Party Contenders Have Strong Ties to Ex-Communist Region : German Politics Opens Up to the East"
 * On Angela Merkel's chance for Chancellorship

 * If we're going to have Kati Witt and 'The G.D.R. Show,' why not have a Nazi-era celebrity introducing 'The Third Reich Show'?
 * New York Times, October 1, 2003: "Artifacts of Überkitsch Evoke Old East Germany; High and Low Culture Offer Powerful Reminders"
 * To German journalists, on so-called Ostalgie revival television shows

 * It was not a vote for Hohmann or against Merkel - it was a vote for an open society.
 * BBC (UK Version), November 14, 2003: "CDU red-faced over 'anti-Semitism' row"
 * During the Hohmann crisis - voting for the expulsion, but saying the No votes represented a kick-back against "political correctness"

 * She showed the direction, and the party followed her. It was decisive that Merkel appeared human and credible, thereby winning over the trust of the party members.
 * The Christian Science Monitor, April 10, 2000: "Embattled German conservatives try 'girl' power"
 * On the fact, that Merkel was the first to break with Helmut Kohl publicly.

 * Sie haben Diktatur nicht erlebt, Frau Roth! Wenn sich alle einig sind, bedeutet das noch nicht, dass alle Recht haben!
 * Translation: You did not experience dictatorship, Mrs Roth! If everyone agrees - it does not mean, that everyone is right!
 * In response to Claudia Roth, plenary session of German Parliament (Bundestag), June 17, 2004, on Controversial Memorial Concept remembering the victims of the 20th century's two totalitarian regimes

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AK-47

The AK-47 (also known as the Kalashnikov, AK, or in Russian slang, Kalash) is a selective-fire, gas-operated 7.62×39mm assault rifle, first developed in the Soviet Union by Mikhail Kalashnikov.

Historical Quotes and Analysis

 * Is there a design this good that doesn't kill people?
 * Good Magazine, September/October 2007.

 * A village is the last damned place to RON: to remain overnight in. There would be Vietnamese all around us. Old mamasan might come with an AK-47 to show us whose hooch we were really in, with a VC battalion behind her.
 * William Calley, Lieutenant Calley: His Own Story (1971) with John Sack, p. 55

 * Kalashnikov had already distinguished himself by inventing a device that counted the shells a tank had fired and now, as he recuperated from his wounds, he set about designing something that could rival the Germans' MP44. A hand-held sub-machinegun. Something that came to be known as the AK47. It wasn't actually read, as the name implies, until 1947, two years after Hitler's penis had been buried under the Kremlin, but that didn't stop it becoming by far and away the most successful gun in the whole of military history. No patent was ever taken out, which meant anyone with a foundry could set up shop and make one too. And they did. AKs were produced all around the world in such vast numbers that so far 70 million have been sold. And that in turn means that one person in 90 across the whole planet has got one. And as a result of that, it is said that the AK47 has killed more people than the atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Think of any conflict since 1947 and it's a fairly safe bet that at least one of the sides has been using AK47s. The warlords in Mogadishu, the Vietcong in Vietnam, the Republican Guard in Iraq. This half-timbered gun has been a 50-year thorn in Uncle Sam's side.
 * Jeremy Clarkson, I Know You Got Soul: Machines With That Certain Something (2004), p. 115

 * Interestingly, however, it doesn't actually do anything especially interesting. You get a 30-round magazine that fires normal 7.62mmn ammunition at a rate of 600 bullets per minute. That gives you enough ammo for a three-second burst, which is about average. And there's nothing unusual about its range either. Reckon on 1,100 yards or so. In fact it even has a few design defects, like it weighs nearly 10 lbs. That doesn't sound like much but you trying carrying it around all day, in a jungle. Then there are the sights, which are too far forward on the barrel. But worse is the safety switch. To get it from 'safe' to 'single shot' you have to go through the 'fully automatic' setting. And as you move it, it gives away its Russian origins, and your position, by going 'clack.' So there you are, trying to ease off the safety for a nice, clean shot. But as you do so the target hears the mechanism and fires. You then fire back only to find you're in fully automatic mode and that you've missed. So why then, if it's heavy, flawed and nothing special, has it been such a hit? Well, the simple answer is its simplicity. In a competition to find the least-complicated machine ever made, it would tie in first place with the mousetrap.
 * Jeremy Clarkson, I Know You Got Soul: Machines With That Certain Something (2004), p. 118

 * Once, while I was working in Switzerland, a Hell's Angel offered me a brand-new AK47, still in its greaseproof wrapping paper, for £300. He would have even thrown in a thousand rounds of ammunition for good measure. 'Here,' he said, 'try it out.' And so I did, firing at a railway sleeper maybe 60 yards away at the bottom of a quarry. The effect was astonishing. The bullets smashed the sleeper into two pieces that ended up ten feet from one another. So much, I remember thinking, for those Hollywood heroes who say 'ow' when they're hit.
 * Jeremy Clarkson, I Know You Got Soul: Machines With That Certain Something (2004), p. 119

 * The AK is different. There are children in the world today named Kalash, in its honour. You will find images of it in national emblems. And closer to home, the only private number plate I've ever even half considered buying is 'AK47'. I think it would give my Volvo a bit more cred. So what's the deal then? Why does the AK rise above all the heat and pieces? Why has it got soul when, undoubtedly, the others do not? Well, it was born amid unimaginable strife and suffering so it has genuine working-class, hard-man origins. And unlike Cilla Black, who bangs on about her harsh Scouser upbringing from the luxury of her Thames-side mansion, the AK has never sold out. You never find an AK in the pampered hands of an American solider, boasting about how it was brought up in a cave in Saigon. It was born to help the underdog and that's what it's been doing, non-stop for nigh on 60 years.
 * Jeremy Clarkson, I Know You Got Soul: Machines With That Certain Something (2004), p. 122

 * Then you have Che Guevara, possibly the coolest man ever to have walked the planet. Yes, his real name was Earnest, but he managed to make James Dean and Steve McQueen look like a couple of nancy boys. I loathed the man's politics but I loved the T-shirt. Even his beard worked because you knew it wasn't grown for any of the usual reasons- vanity, laziness or insecurity. It was grown because he lived in a wood and there was no water with which to shave. There are people today who spend a fortune trying to look good, but he managed to look better using only a beret and a boiler suit. I bet he had a lot of sex. I bet he also had an AK-47.
 * Jeremy Clarkson, I Know You Got Soul: Machines With That Certain Something (2004), p. 122

 * Design is rarely art because design, when all is said and done, exists purely to make money. And yet the AK was never designed to do that. In fact Mikhail Kalashnikov lives today on nothing more than a Soviet Army pension. And that's why his most famous creation can be called an art form. And that's what gives it soul.
 * Jeremy Clarkson, I Know You Got Soul: Machines With That Certain Something (2004), p. 122

 * I'm proud of my invention, but I'm sad that it is used by terrorists. … I would prefer to have invented a machine that people could use and that would help farmers with their work — for example a lawnmower.
 * Mikhail Kalashnikov, designer of the AK-47, as quoted in "Kalashnikov: 'I wish I'd made a lawnmower'" by Kate Connolly, in The Guardian (29 July 2002)

 * Whenever I look at TV and I see the weapon I invented to defend my motherland in the hands of these bin Ladens, I ask myself the same question: "How did it get into their hands?" I didn't put it in the hands of bandits and terrorists, and it's not my fault that it has mushroomed uncontrollably across the globe. Can I be blamed that they consider it the most reliable weapon?
 * Mikhail Kalashnikov, quoted in "The Man Who Invented The AK-47 Has Died — Here's His Greatest Regret" by Adam Taylor, in Business Insider (23 December 2013)

 * For all the billions of dollars spent by the United States military on space-age weapons and technology, the AK still remains the most devastating weapon on the planet. Its banana-shaped magazine gives this gun a familiar silhouette that makes it a symbol of third-world rebellion and power. Unlike the scourge of land mines in the world, the eighty to one hundred million AKs manufactured and distributed since the rifle's invention in 1947 pose a more dangerous threat because they can be easily transported, repaired, and used by roving bands of assailants. The AK has made possible coups in Africa, terrorist raids in the Middle East, and bank robberies in Los Angeles. It has become a cultural icon, its signature shape defining in our consciousness what a deadly rifle is supposed to look like. Why has the AK earned such a legendary reputation? The gun has few moving parts so it hardly ever jams. It doesn't always shoot straight, but in close combat its awesome firepower (600 rounds a minute)) give it a edge over more sophisticated weapon designs, such as the M-16. American GIs in Vietnam reported that AKs buried in rice paddies for six months or more, unearthed filthy and rusted shut, fired perfectly after kicking the action bolt with the heel of a boot.
 * Larry Kanaher, AK-47: The Weapon That Changed The Face Of War (2006), p. 2-3

 * In a stroke of irony, the world's most advanced and destructive weapon, the atom bomb, led the way for the low-tech AK.
 * Larry Kanaher, AK-47: The Weapon That Changed The Face Of War (2006), p. 5

 * The AK series of assault rifles have quite literally transformed the world's security situation. With more than 100 million of the family (including all variants) produced, the AK is the most mass-produced weapon in history.
 * Chris McNab, "AK-47/AKM (1949)", Small Arms: The World's Greatest Small Arms From the Age of Automatic Weapons (2022), London: Amber Books, hardcover, p. 116

 * [In] 1944 Russian engineer Mikhail Kalashnikov, supported by a design team, began a competitive development against several other weapon producers to create a new selective-fire rifle that would use the intermediate round. It was a long process, and it should be noted that Kalashnikov himself was not the only key individual behind the design. Another central figure was Aleksandr Zaitsev, who convinced Kalashnikov of the need for a major redesign to enhance reliability. Yet with the war over, in 1948 their 'AK-47' entered army trials and the following year it was adopted as the standard Soviet rifle. In 1959, it was modernized- i.e. cheapened- in terms of its production methods, the receiver being a stamped design rather than machined steel. Other improvements of the AKM, as it was known, included a basic scoop-like muzzle brake, a Parkerized bolt and a wire-cutting bayonet device. The AKM became the defining, most widely distributed model in the AK series.
 * Chris McNab, "AK-47/AKM (1949)", Small Arms: The World's Greatest Small Arms From the Age of Automatic Weapons (2022), London: Amber Books, hardcover, p. 117-118

 * Much mythology has accrued around the AK, mainly on account of Hollywood representations. If you dig deeper, however, you find that it is no more powerful than many other assault rifles and is not particularly accurate. What it dies deliver, in spades, is awesome reliability, total ease of use and maintenance, and vast distribution across the world.
 * Chris McNab, "AK-47/AKM (1949)", Small Arms: The World's Greatest Small Arms From the Age of Automatic Weapons (2022), London: Amber Books, hardcover, p. 118

 * The author has personally spoken to soldiers who have unearthed an AK after six months buried in the mud at the bottom of an African river, and fired straight through a magazine on full-auto without even cleaning the gun. (The AK barrels are also chromium-lined, and therefore incredibly resilient.) The furniture is similarly tough, whether the variant is fitted with a solid wooden stock or one of the folding metal types. Keep it clean and the AK will last a lifetime.
 * Chris McNab, "AK-47/AKM (1949)", Small Arms: The World's Greatest Small Arms From the Age of Automatic Weapons (2022), London: Amber Books, hardcover, p. 118

 * The AK-47 went head-to-head with the M-16, and emerged on the winning side.
 * Narration in the Top Ten Rifles presentation by the Military Channel (renamed American Heroes Channel in 2014), part of their Top Ten series which began in 2005. The narrator was referring to the AK-47s service on the North Vietnamese side of the Vietnam War.

 * I do not believe in taking away the right of the citizen to own guns for sporting, hunting and so forth, or for home defense. But I do believe that an AK-47, a machine gun, is not a sporting weapon.
 * Former President Ronald Reagan on February 6, 1989 when asked his opinion on gun control after the January 17, 1989 Cleveland Elementary School shooting that killed five schoolchildren in Stockton.

 * Regardless of its users' skills, the AK is renowned for its reliability and ruggedness. This is due to the fact that its tolerances are loose but its components are designed to function effectively when integrated. Every part was designed to last and to be "soldier-proof." The Russians consider its service life to be at least 25 years. An AK can be buried in mud, dragged through sand, and frozen solid yet will still load and fire. There are reports of rusted AKs being dug up in Vietnam after being buried with dead NVA for months and then fired without cleaning. One can literally drive tent stakes with the butt without damaging the weapon. Most magazines, regardless of the material they are made from, are robust enough to withstand rough handling. During the Vietnam War the author's Cambodian company discovered a Chinese-made Type 56 in the jungle covered with inches of matted leaves. It was completely rusted, except for the chrome-plated bore and chamber, and the wood furniture was in the first stages of rotting. After returning to the camp a round was found in the chamber, with eight in the magazine, which was rusted in place. It was removed after working in solvent. The weapon was still set on semi-automatic and the selector lever was rusted in place, but again was freed with a little solvent. After ejecting the loaded round, inspecting the bore, and chambering another round from the magazine, the weapon fired without any further cleaning. It had lain in the jungle exposed to the weather for a year, possibly much longer. The author does not think an M16 would have been operational after suffering the same extreme conditions.
 * Gordon L. Rottman, The AK-47: Kalashnikov-series assault rifles (2011), p. 59

 * The Trace: Does it matter what kind of gun a victim is shot with? David H. Newman: It matters a great deal. If it’s a small caliber gun, the wounds are visibly smaller. If it’s a shotgun wound, it’s more visually striking. I’ve seen children who have been shot with a shotgun. I remember this one boy, I think he was eight, he and a friend were playing with a shotgun, and his friend shot him in the face. When he came in, he was still very much alive, but he was in terrible pain and didn’t really have any facial features. But the worst is a wound from an AR-15 or AK-47 — high-muzzle velocity weapons, which impart a tremendous amount of kinetic energy into the body. Those are much more destructive. You’re looking at a wound that, externally, is two, three, four times bigger than any handgun wound. And that is reflective of the damage that happens on the inside. When a bullet from a high-muzzle velocity weapon hits the intestines, it’s like an explosion, whereas a low-muzzle velocity can be very similar to a knife going through the intestines; there’s bleeding, but it doesn’t destroy the whole area. A high-muzzle bullet, however, destroys whole areas of body. With a bone that’s been shot with a standard-issue caliber handgun, you’ll see a break, a hole in the bone, and maybe some displacement. But a high-muzzle weapon shatters that bone into hundreds of microscopic pieces, in a way that cannot be repaired. You need to essentially clean out the bone that has been struck and remove it from the body; it’s now a worthless tissue. You can’t believe that a bullet could do this amount of damage.
 * David H. Newman, the director of clinical research in the department of emergency medicine at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Film and Television Quotes

 * This is the AK-47 assault rifle, the preferred weapon of your enemy, and it makes a very distinctive sound when fired at you, so remember it.
 * James Carabatsos/Joseph Stinson, Heartbreak Ridge (1986). Spoken by Clint Eastwood as Gunnery Sergeant Tom Highway.

 * AK-47, the very best there is. When you absolutely, positively, got to kill every motherfucker in the room; accept no substitutes.
 * Gun dealer Ordell Robbie, portrayed by Samuel L. Jackson in Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown (1997) (1:26:55).

 * Of all the weapons in the vast Soviet arsenal, nothing was more profitable than Avtomat Kalashnikova model of 1947, more commonly known as the AK-47, or Kalashnikov. It's the world's most popular assault rifle, a weapon all fighters love. An elegantly simple nine pound amalgamation of forged steel and plywood, it doesn't break, jam, or overheat. It will shoot whether it's covered in mud or filled with sand. It's so easy even a child could use it, and they do. The Soviets put the gun on a coin. Mozambique put it on their flag. Since the end of the Cold War, the Kalashnikov has become the Russian people's greatest export. After that comes vodka, caviar, and suicidal novelists. One thing is for sure, no one was lining up to buy their cars.
 * Yuri Orlov, portrayed by Nicolas Cage in 's Lord of War (2005)

 * You get rich by giving the poorest people on the planet the means to continue killing each other. Do you know why I do what I do? I mean, there are more prestigous assignments. Keeping track of nuclear arsenals. You'd think that more critical to world security. But, it's not. No. Nine out of ten war victims today are killed with assault rifles and small arms. Like yours. Those nuclear missiles, they sit in their silos. Your AK-47, that is the real weapon of mass destruction.
 * Interpol Agent Jack Valentine, portrayed by Ethan Hawke in 's Lord of War (2005).

 * Corporal, stow this next to my seat. Better be prepared, never know when you might need an AK.
 * Captain Dave "Captain America" McGraw, Generation Kill (2008), Episode 2: The Cradle of Civilization

 * All right, boys, meet your dates for tonight. I'll take the tall blonde.
 * Marshal Georgy Zhukov, handing out assault rifles, and General Leonid Brezhnev, portrayed by Jason Isaacs and Gerald Lepkowski in 's The Death of Stalin (2017).

Song lyrics

When that window rolls down and that A.K. comes out? You can squeeze your little handgun until you run out. And you can run for your back-up, but them machine gun shells gon' tear your back up.
 * Hip-hip hooray for the AK! Spray when I lay competition, what a great day.
 * 2Pac, "Tha Lunatic", 2Pacalypse Now (1991)
 * I've seen gangsters get religious when they start bleeding. Saying "Lord, Jesus help me" 'cause their ass leaking.
 * 50 Cent, "Heat", from the album Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2003)
 * Oh, you've got a gun? So you want to pop that? AK-47. Now nigga, stop that.
 * Calvin "Snoop Dogg" Broadus, "Drop it Like It's Hot" (2004)
 * AK-47 is the tool. Don't make me act the motherfucking fool.
 * Ice Cube, "Straight Outta Compton", from the eponymous album (1988).
 * Even saw the lights of the Goodyear Blimp And it read, "Ice Cube's a pimp" (yeah) Drunk as hell but no throwin up Half way home and my pager still blowin up Today I didn't even have to use my A.K. I got to say it was a good day
 * Ice Cube, "It Was a Good Day", from his third studio album, The Predator (1992).

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~ UDScott 20:30, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

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