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Kolkata

Kolkata, previously known as Calcutta, is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the east bank of the Hooghly Tiver, it is the principal commercial, cultural, and educational centre of East India, while the Port of Kolkata is India's oldest operating port as well as its sole major riverine port. As of 2011, the city had 4.5 million residents; the urban agglomeration, which comprises the city and its suburbs, was home to approximately 14.1 million, making it the third-most populous metropolitan area in India.

In the late 17th century, the three villages that predated Kolkata were ruled by the Nawab of Bengal under Mughal suzerainty. After the Nawab granted the East India Company a trading license in 1690, the area was developed by the Company into an increasingly fortified mercantile base. Nawab Siraj ud-Daulah occupied Kolkata in 1756, and the East India Company retook it in the following year and by 1772 assumed full sovereignty. Under East India Company and later under the British Raj, Kolkata served as the capital of India until 1911, when its perceived geographical disadvantages, combined with growing nationalism in Bengal, led to a shift of the capital to New Delhi. The city was the centre of the Indian independence movement; it remains a hotbed of contemporary state politics.

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 * jal, juochuri, mithye katha ei tin niye kalikata.
 * English translation from Bengali: Forgery, swindling and falsehood, these three make up Kolkata.
 * 18th century saying quoted by Sumanta Banerjee in The World of Ramjan Ostagar, The Common Man of Old Calcutta, published in Calcutta – The Living City Vol I, Oxford University Press, paperback edition, 1995, p 82.

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Yet the city of Calcutta stopped suddenly in its tempestuous rush; taxis and private cars; vans and tiger-crested double decker buses stopped precariously in their tracks. Those who came running and screaming from both sides of the road – porters, vendors, shopkeepers and clients – even they are now like still life on the artist’s canvas. Stunned they watch crossing from one side of the road to the other, with uncertain steps, a child, completely naked. It had rained in Chowringhee a short while ago.
 * The red lights did not forbid,
 * Nirendranath Chakraborty in the poem Jesus of Calcutta translated from Bengali by Manish Nandy. Used by the Corporation of Calcutta in an advertisement. Reproduced in The Common Man of Old Calcutta, published in Calcutta – The Living City Vol II,  Oxford University Press, paperback edition, 1995, p 254.
 * The tradition is one of iconic crossings across the river Hooghly in the stretch of the river falling within the enlarged Kolkata metro area – Vivekananda Bridge (Bally Bridge), Rabindar Setu, [sic] (Howrah Bridge) and Vidyasagar Setu (Second Hooghly Bridge). While the mighty river forms the backdrop of the development of the region over centuries, it had also posed a challenge as regards connection to the rest of the country. It is this challenge that the continuing tradition addresses, and addresses a new with a state-of-the art, recently opened and the newly christened Nivedita Bridge.
 * S S Chakraborty, in Design and Construction Features of Nivedita Bridge
 * ‘Kali’ means “Kalichun” (a kind of lime produced from local snail shells) and ‘kata’ implies heaps of burnt shells. Thus, Kolkata has got its name from the manufacture of shell lime or Kalichun.
 * Prof Suniti Kumar Chatterji in his book “Kalikata Namer Byutpatti”, quoted in Water Resources, Conservation and Management, p. 85

 * When Calcutta was attacked by Siraj ud-Daulah in 1756, the city was too valuable to abandon and a few months later Robert Clive retook Calcutta and defeated Siraj-ud-daulah [sic] at the Battle of Plassey.
 * Lizzie Collingham, in "Curry: A Tale of Cooks and Conquerors (13 April 2010)", p. 99

 * Bullock carts formed the eight - thirteenths of the vehicular traffic (as observed on 27th of August 1906, the heaviest day's traffic observed in the port of Commissioners" 16 day's Census of the vehicular traffic across the existing bridge). The road way on the existing bridge is 48 feet wide except at the shore spans where it is only 43 feet in road ways, each 21 feet 6 inches wide. The roadway on the new bridge would be wide enough to take at least two lines of vehicular traffic and one line of trams in each direction and two roadways each 30 feet wide, giving a total width of 60 feet of road way which are quite sufficient for this purpose.... The traffic across the existing floating bridge Calcutta & Howrah is very heavy and it is obvious if the new bridge is to be on the same site as the existing bridge, then unless a temporary bridge is provided, there will be serious interruptions to the traffic while existing bridge is being moved to one side to allow the new bridge to be erected on the same site as the present bridge.
 * Committee of The Commissioners of Port of Calcutta instituted to construct a new bridge across Hooghly River in Calcutta, in A Flashback: The Seamless Bonds of Time

 * The New Howrah Bridge was re-christened as the Rabindra Setu in the year 1965, in the honour of the country's first Nobel laureate Gurudev Rabindra Nath Tagore.
 * The Commissioners of Port of Calcutta, in "A Flashback: The Seamless Bonds of Time".

 * The great thoroughfare, which commencing in the extreme south, assumes the various names of Russa Road, Chowringhee Road, Bentick Street, Chitpore Road, and Barrackpore Trunk Road, forms a continuation of the Dum Dum Road and was the old line of communication between Morshedabad [sic] and Kalighat. It is said to occupy the site of the old road made by the Sabarna Roy Choudhurys, the old zemindars of Calcutta, from Barisha, where the junior branch resided, to Halisahar, beyond Barrackpore, which was the seat of the senior branch.
 * H. E. A Cotton, in Calcutta Old and New (1909), p. 221

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 * Even their enemies admit their courtesy, and a generous Britisher sums up his long experience by ascribing to the higher classes in Calcutta “polished manners, clearness and comprehensiveness of understanding, liberality of feeling, and independence of principle, that would have stamped them gentlemen in any country in the world.”
 * Will Durant, Our Oriental Heritage.
 * Kolkata is a great city, has great food and great people. We had some problems finding the kind of old buildings we were looking for, and even handling the crowds, but on the whole it was fun shooting there.
 * Sanjay Dutt, in Parineeta (October 2007)

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 * The pleasant surprise that awaits the visitor to Calcutta is this: it is poor and crowded and dirty, in ways which are hard to exaggerate, but it is anything but abject. Its people are neither inert nor cringing. They work and they struggle, and as a general rule (especially as compared with ostensibly richer cities such as Bombay) they do not beg. This is the city of Tagore, of Ray and Bose and Mrinal Sen, and of a great flowering of culture and nationalism. There are films, theaters, university departments and magazines, all of a high quality. The photographs of Raghubir Singh are a testament to the vitality of the people, as well as to the beauty and variety of the architecture. Secular-leftist politics predominate, with a very strong internationalist temper: hardly unwelcome in a region so poisoned by brute religion. When I paid my own visit to the city some years ago, I immediately felt rather cheated by the anti-Calcutta propaganda put out by the Muggeridges of the world.
 * Hitchens, C. The Missionary Position, Mother Theresa [sic] in Theory and Practice (2012)

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Grew a City As the fungus sprouts chaotic from its bed So it spread Chance-directed, chance-erected, laid and built On the silt Palace, byre, hovel – poverty and pride Side by side And above the packed and pestilential town Death looked down.
 * Thus the midday halt of Charnock – more’s the pity! -
 * Rudyard Kipling quoted by Geoffrey Moorhouse in Calcutta: the City Revisited, 1971, Penguin Books, p 31.

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 * The vicissitudes of destiny had not completely obliterated so prestigious a heritage. Calcutta was still India’s artistic and intellectual beacon and its culture continued to be as alive and creative as ever, The hundreds of bookstalls of College Street were still laden with books – originl editions, pamphlets, great literary works, publications of every kind, in every English, as well as in the numerous Indian languages. Though the Bengalis now costituted barely half of the city’s working population, there was no doubt that Calcutta produced more writers than Paris and Rome combined, more literary reviews than London and New York, more cinemas than New Delhi, and more publishers than the rest of the country, Every evening its theatres put on several theatrical productions, countless classical concerts and recitals at which everyone, from a universally renowned sitarist like Ravi Shankar to the humblest of flute or tabla players, was united with the popular audiences before whom they performed in the same love of music.
 * Dominique Lapierre in The City of Joy, translated from French by Kathryn Spink, 1985, Arrow Books, p 37-38.

M

 * To countless Indians, and for most people familiar with India, the singularly unique name Chowringhee immediately identifies with Calcutta. It represents the nearest equation in India to what Piccadilly is to London, Fifth Avenue to New York and the Champs Elysees to Paris. Nostalgic Londoners like to regard their Circus as the centre of the universe. Calcuttans are more reserved in their acclaim, although the fervour they display for their city is perhaps unmatched.
 * , in p. 21

 * Calcutta is by far the richest city in India, even though its various problems have started to turn its richness into a collapsing wealth. It is possibly the richest city anywhere between Rome and Tokyo in terms of the money that is accumulated and represented here.
 * Geoffrey Moorhouse in Calcutta: the City Revisited, 1971, Penguin Books, p 133.

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 * Calcutta, more than New Delhi, is the British-built city of India...In the building of Calcutta, known first as the city of palaces, and later as the second city of the British Empire, the British worked with immense confidence, not adopting the styles of Indian rulers, but setting down in India adaptations of the European classical styles as emblems of a conquering civilisation. But the imperial city, over 200 years of its development also became an Indian city…To me at the end of 1962, after some months of Indian small-town and district life, Calcutta gave me the immediate feel of the metropolis, with all the visual excitement of a metropolis… Twenty-six years later the grandeur of the British-built city… could still be seen in a ghostly way, because so little had been added since independence, so little had been added since 1962… The British had built Calcutta and given it their mark. And though the circumstances were fortuitous – when the British ceased to rule, the city began to die.
 * V. S. Naipaul, in India: A Million Mutinies Now, 1990, Minerva, p 281-82.

 * In 1946 there were the Hindu-Muslim massacres. They marked the beginning of the end for the city. The next year India was independent, but partitioned. Bengal was divided. A large Hindu refugee population came and camped in Calcutta; and Calcutta, without a hundredth part of the resilience of Europe, never really recovered. Certain important things were in the future – the cinema of Satyajit Ray, especially – but the great days of the city, all its intellectual life, were over. And it could appear that the British-built city – its grandeur still ghostly at night – began to die when the British went away.
 * V. S. Naipaul, in India: A Million Mutinies Now, 1990, Minerva,

 * For years and years, even during the time of my first visit in 1962, it has been said that Calcutta was dying, that its port was silting up, its antiquated industry declining, but Calcutta hadn't died. It hadn't done much, but it had gone on; and it had begun to appear that the prophecy has been excessive. Now it occurred to me that perhaps this was what happened when cities died. They don't die with a bang; they didn't die only when they were abandoned. Perhaps, they died like this: when everybody was suffering, when transport was so hard that working people gave up jobs they needed because the fear the suffering of the travel; When no one had clean water or air; No one could go walking. Perhaps city died when they lost amenities that cities provided, the visual excitement, the heightened sense of human possibility, and became simply places where there were too many people, and people suffered.”
 * V. S. Naipaul, in Migrancy, Culture, Identity (20 February 2008), p. 104

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 * Calcutta's the only city I know where you are actively encouraged to stop strangers at random for a quick chat.
 * Tahir Shah (2001), in Sorcerer's Apprentice, p. 56

 * Where does one go in a tremendous city like Calcutta to find insider information? I recalled India's golden rule: do the opposite of what would be normal anywhere else.”
 * Tahir Shah (2001), in “Sorcerer's Apprentice”, p. 123

 * There is nothing quite as unpleasant as wearing a pair of briefs which have been trailed through a Calcutta courtyard. Nothing, that is, except having one's elbows and knees lacerated by unseen slivers of glass and discarded razor blades.”
 * Tahir Shah (2001), in “Sorcerer's Apprentice”, p. 68

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 * We do not know why Mr. Ghulam Mohammad thought it his duty to anticipate the verdict of history regarding the responsibility of Lord Mountbatten for the tragedy of the Punjab. He is reported to have stated at a Press Conference in London that when the history of the events of this dark chapter comes to be written ‘a part of the blame-would rest on Lord Mountbatten.’ He has made two specific charges.  The last British Viceroy was aware of a deep laid conspiracy by the Sikhs and Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh “to throttle Pakistan by eliminating Muslim” and refused to take action.  The other charge is that Lord Mountbatten forced partition too quickly.  The British Commonwealth Relations Office has repudiated both charges.  It has pointed out that it was the then Governor of Punjab who had proved himself to be an avowed partisan of Muslim League, and had looked on impotently while sanguinary riots organized by the Muslim League and the Muslim National Guards took place in North Punjab in March and April 1947.  It may be convenient for Mr. Ghulam Mohammed to forget that what happened in August 1947, was a mere continuation of the bloody chain of reaction which was set in motion by the Muslim League at Calcutta in August 1946.  In March and April 1947, Sikhs had been brutally massacred and looted and they were abused as cowards because they had not reacted at once with violence.  As a matter of fact Lord Mountbatten yielded to his pro-Muslim advisers and stationed the major portion of the Punjab Boundary Force in East Punjab with the result that there was no force to check or control the terrible massacres of Hindus and Sikhs that occurred in Sheikhupura and other places.  We should certainly like an impartial investigation into the events of those days and we have no doubt it will be found that while, on the Indian side, it was the spontaneous outburst of a people indignant at what they considered the weakness and the appeasement policy of their leadership, on the Muslim side, the League, the bureaucracy, the police and the army worked like Hitler’s team with the tacit if not open approval of those in charge of the Pakistan Government.
 * Editorial entitled “Who Was Responsible?” The Hindustan Times (July 7, 1948) . Wednesday, July 7, 1948. “Who was Responsible?” in Gurbachan Singh Talib in ', 1950, Amritsar: ' pp 248 ff

 * But the systematic manner in which Pakistan leaders are attempting to paint the people of this country as demons out to destroy innocent Muslims, while hiding, it not defending, the horrible outrages perpetrated by members of their own community from Calcutta to Sheikhupura is nothing but an attempt to defame this country and throw dust in the eyes of the outside world regarding the crimes committed by their co-religionists. They also know, as does everyone in this country, that the Punjab disaster was but the culminating act of the tragedy which began with the unprincipled campaign of communal hated and violence which they and their party leaders had been preaching for years as the only means of securing the ambition of their heart, namely, the separation of a part of this country where they could play the role of rulers, even though at the cost of unexampled suffering and misery to their own co-religionists both in Pakistan and India.
 * The Hindustan Times in its editorial dated October 23, 1948. in Gurbachan Singh Talib in ', 1950, Amritsar: '

 * Take your map of India, and find, if you can, a more uninviting spot than Calcutta. Placed in the burning plain of Bengal, on the largest delta of the world, amidst a network of sluggish, muddy streams, in the neighbourhood of the jungles and marshes of the Sunderbands, [sic] and yet so distant from the open sea as to miss the benefits of the breeze… it unites every condition of a perfectly unhealthy situation. The place is so bad by nature that human efforts could do little to make it worse.
 * Sir George Trevelyan, in 1863. Quoted in Calcutta: Old and New by H.E.A. Cotton, edited by N.R.Ray, General Printers and Publishers Pvt. Ltd. Originally published 1909, Revised edition 1980, p 194.

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 * Those places where sadness and misery abound are favoured settings for stories of ghosts and apparitions. Calcutta has countless such stories hidden in its darkness, stories that nobody wants to admit they believe but which nevertheless survive in the memory of generations as the only chronicle of the past. It is as if the people who inhabit the streets, inspired by some mysterious wisdom, relalise that the true history of Calcutta has always been written in the invisible tales of its spirits and unspoken curses.”
 * Carlos Ruiz Zafón, in The Midnight Palace (2 June 2011), p. 206

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 * "Dare I suggest we are witnessing a rather seismic shift in Brand Beckham, away from Spiceman and over to Spicewoman."
 * Concerning Brand Beckham

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Larry Bird

Larry Joe Bird (born December 7, 1956) is a retired American NBA basketball player, widely considered one of the best players of all time and one of the top clutch performers in the history of sports. Drafted into the NBA sixth overall by the Boston Celtics in 1979, Bird started at small forward and power forward for thirteen seasons, teaming with legendary center Robert Parish and forward Kevin McHale. Due to back problems, he retired as a player from the NBA in 1992. Bird was voted to the NBA's 50th Anniversary All-Time Team in 1996 and inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1998. He served as head coach of the Indiana Pacers from 1997 to 2000. In 2003, he assumed the role of president of basketball operations for the Pacers, which he currently still holds.

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 * I have really enjoyed coaching. It's a great experience. Every player should have the chance to do it. The problem is, I'm not that good at it.
 * Peter Vecsey (May 26, 2000) "Looks Like Larry's Indy Mood to Stay", New York Post.

 * Well, I don't worry about ratings. I'm trying to win a ballgame right now. Whatever it takes to win a ballgame, we're going to do it. If it takes a four-hour game, that's what we have to do.
 * Marty McNeal (June 11, 2000) "Bryant: A Game-Day Decision - Magic Had to Convince Him to Stay Out After Friday's Injury", The Sacramento Bee, p. C13.

 * I'm a firm believer in that you play the way you practice.
 * Michael Marot (May 24, 2000) "Pacers Notebook/Pacers Make Turnaround", The Journal Gazette, p. 2B.

 * I've always been interested in jobs in the NBA. But I've been in this for 20 years and it might be time to do something else.
 * Sam Smith (February 14, 2000) "Bird's Flight Path May End at Boston", Chicago Tribune, p. 12.

 * I hate to lose more than I like to win.
 * Douglas S. Looney (May 22, 1998) "Larry Bird : Doer and Teacher", Christian Science Monitor, p. 8.

 * You can make all the excuses you want, but if you're not mentally tough and you're not prepared to play every night, you're not going to win.
 * Sam Smith (February 17, 1998) "Making a Run From the Border", Chicago Tribune, p. 5.

 * There is nothing better than being out there when the game is on the line; only now, I get to see what my players will do. How will they react? Retirement is fine for some people, but I got bored. I'm used to more of a fast-paced life.
 * Ailene Voisin (February 3, 1998) "Bird on the Bench - Larry the Legend Comes Home, Wins Accolades as Coach", The Sacramento Bee, p. D1.

 * I was always making decisions and they were easier decisions because I had control of the game, I had control of the ball. As a coach you sort of put the ball in other player's hands and let them make decisions for you. But I still get a kick out of winning basketball games and that's what I'm in this for.
 * Ross Atkin (January 29, 1998) "Yes, Great Players Can Make Good Coaches - Larry Bird enjoys immediate success with the Indiana Pacers", Christian Science Monitor, p. 14.

 * I know the rigors of the NBA and what these guys can expect. I know my job is to prepare them, to get them in shape. We'll find a good offense and a good defense. And then let's do it.
 * Bob Ryan (October 31, 1997) "Bird Setting Feverish Pace With Indiana", Boston Globe, p. E1.

 * I wanted to compete at the highest level again - and that's the NBA.
 * Dan Weber (October 30, 1997) "Life Is Still Good For Coach Larry", Post-Tribune, p. C1.

 * When thou was a player, I didn't expect my teammates to play the way I did. I did expect them to work hard hard every day and get better. And I never learned anything by losing.
 * Don Wade (October 18, 1997) "A Bird on the Bench is Worth 12,252 In Roberts Stadium Seats", The Evansville Courier, p. C1.

 * It's unbelievable. But I've never been to a pro football game. I've never been to a pro hockey game, either. I guess I'm not much of a sports fan.
 * Dan Shaughnessy (September 7, 1997) "There'll Be No Bird Watching", Boston Globe, p. D1.

 * I don't miss it at all. I'm glad I'm out.
 * Larry Guest (December 12, 1993) "In Background, A Legend Trying to Restock Celtics", The Orlando Sentinel, p. C1.

 * Basketball has been my life and I worked at it so hard because I enjoyed it so much.
 * Sam Smith (December 25, 1991) "Bird Still Celtics' Main Man - At Age 35, He's Enjoying Basketball More Than Ever", Chicago Tribune, p. 1.

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 * Larry Bird is what keeps me going. He's my measuring stick. I don't think I would be as interested in the game if I weren't trying to play better than him.
 * Magic Johnson — reported in Alan Goldstein (February 7, 1988) "Five at the Top of Their Game; Bird, Johnson aren't alone anymore as best players in the NBA", Baltimore Sun, p. 19.

 * Larry is different than people think. He really loves the game and is really smart. He has the innate ability to focus on what's important and has a great feel for players. He knows how to deal with people. He's direct and definite. I think the players appreciate that.
 * Donnie Walsh — reported in Sam Smith (February 8, 2004) "Bird sets fast pace - Hall of Fame player and former coach Larry Bird finds 'every day's exciting' in his first go-around as general manager of the Indiana Pacers", Chicago Tribune, p. 11.

 * The guy has been there. What he tells us is not just what he believes deep down, but what he knows, because he has been through it.
 * Chris Mullin — reported in John Brennan (May 30, 1999) "Pacers: Timing Is On Our Side", The Record, p. S1.

 * Who in their right mind wouldn't listen to what Larry Bird tells them? He knows what it takes to be a successful player, and he's letting us do the things to have the success.
 * Reggie Miller — reported in Associated Press (May 12, 1998) "Report Says Bird Is Coach of the Year", The Orlando Sentinel, p. C4.

 * It's not what he says, it is how he says it that is making the difference. He doesn't scream at you, he doesn't embarrass you when you make a mistake. He just looks at you, and you get the message. Then when the time is right, he'll talk to you calmly and explain what he wants.
 * Travis Best — reported in The Hawk Eye staff (January 16, 1998) "Bird achieves", The Hawk Eye.

 * Guys like Larry Bird -- he played so hard, he wants everybody else to play hard. That's not unreasonable. Any coach would want that and demand that.
 * Magic Johnson — reported in David Steele (May 9, 1997) "Magic Says Bird Will Succeed", San Francisco Chronicle, p. B8.

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John Oliver

John William Oliver (born 23 April 1977) is a British comedian, political satirist and actor. He is most famous in America for his work on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and the satirical comedy podcast The Bugle. Having left The Daily Show at the end of 2013, Oliver became the host of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver on HBO on Sunday, 27 April 2014.

Quotes

 * It's very dangerous, a British person saying "I felt ownership of this country". Historically, does not go well. It's amazing! I just went to India and I felt like I belonged.
 * John Oliver - Finding a Place for Satire & Immigration as a Comedian | The Daily Show (21 November 2023) (ff. 0:08:16)

 * I would say, what is more quintessentially America than coming to a country you don't belong in and deciding you're going to stay?
 * John Oliver - Finding a Place for Satire & Immigration as a Comedian | The Daily Show (21 November 2023) (ff. 0:12:52)

 * Thanks very much for taking this magical moment and reminding me that joy is ephemeral, pain is forever.
 * See John Oliver's Hilarious Reaction to Donald Trump's Iowa Caucus Victory (Exclusive) (15 January 2024)

 * The deeper you look into these stories, the more flawed you realize things are, systemically. But the more you encounter people work incredibly hard to change things. Like clockwork, at some point during a story, I go into Tim [Carvell]'s office, who I... run the show with, and we'll say "Burn it down. Just burn everything to the ground." 'Cause it feels like things are so bad in a story, only flames are going to purify the hell that we've built for ourselves. But you do then work through that, much like this shitty hot sauce, to realizing that, in lieu of-— even as you're waiting for major change that you think might not come, incremental change is possible, and valuable.
 * "John Oliver Fears For Humanity While Eating Spicy Wings | Hot Ones" (ff. 0:21:07) (1 February 2024)

John Oliver: Terrifying Times (2008)

 * Many people would argue that the most dangerous inhabitant of the earth is currently the self styled 43rd president of the United States. Not so much in deed anymore as in word. Because to hear that man speak is to wish upon yourself physical harm.

 * I started looking into these groups in America, campaigns groups who want to put stickers on the front of all school science text books saying that Evolution is only one possible theory of life on earth. Now, although this seems like a stupid idea at first, second, and thirty ninth glance, look at it once more. Give it that fortieth view. Because it's brilliant. Let's have stickers on the front of all books! Slap one on the front of the Bible saying "Of course this could all be bullsh*t. Maybe he never died! Perhaps he opened a donkey sanctuary. He had a clear bond with donkeys." Or slap one on the Theory of Gravity! "Look, that's just one man's opinion. Maybe we could all fly! R. Kelly believed it so. Why would he lie to us? What does he possibly stand to gain?"

 * But if you think it's going to get any better, let me burst that bubble of optimism now because I was fortunate enough last year to be invited to the First Republican Presidential Candidate Debate in Simi Valley in California, which, interestingly, was exactly as much fun as it sounds. But it was, obviously a privilege to be there and I did get to witness one incredible moment of political theater when all, at that point, ten of the potential leaders of the free world were asked the same question. And that question was "Who here doesn't believe in evolution?" And three of those men raised their hands. And then none of those three men put their hands down and said "Only joking." And their confidence was seductive!

 * You might look at the Oreo Pizza and think, "That is a reprehensible foodstuff". I put it to you that that is the single most patriotic item I have ever seen in my life! Hoist that up a flagpole! ... Because that is the biggest imaginable "fuck you" you could possibly issue to terrorists. By hoisting the Oreo Pizza up a flagpole, what you're essentially saying is, "There is nothing you can do to us, we are not already doing to ourselves".

 * The world's become so horrifying now. It's too easy to become cynical about things and that's not fair and it doesn't work. And in fact, there is hope for the world. And it is in the form of Wikipedia. Now, Wikipedia will save us all. I found this out when recently a friend of mine emailed me and he said that someone had created a Wikipedia entry about me. I didn't realize this was true, so I looked it up. And like most Wikipedia entries, it came with some flamboyant surprises, not least amongst them my name. Because in it it said my name was John Cornelius Oliver. Now my middle name is not Cornelius because I did not die in 1752. But obviously, I want it to be. Cornelius is an incredible name. And that's when it hit me — the way the world is now, fiction has become more attractive than fact. That is why Wikipedia is such a vital resource. It's a way of us completely rewriting our history to give our children and our children's children a much better history to grow up with. We seem to have no intention of providing them with a future. Let's at least give them a past. It is in a very real sense the least we can do.

Interview with The Rolling Stone (2013)

 * Jon called me and asked, "Would you like to host the show?" My first reaction was, "Yeah, sure. Whatever you want. No problem." It was only on hanging up that my knees started to buckle. I was like, "Holy shit! What did I just agree to? I'm about to destroy the most beloved show on American television."
 * You’re not supposed to see your country’s most famous author in the audience watching you. You’re supposed to look down at that point and realize that you’re naked and then wake up.
 * I’ve made so many people angry that they kind of blur into one unpleasant memory of people staring at you with somewhere between passive aggression and active aggression.

Last Week Tonight (2014–present)

 * Welcome to Last Week Tonight! I am John Oliver and welcome, welcome... welcome to whatever this is.
 * Last Week Tonight -- "India, Pomegranates & Lisa Loeb (ff. 0:00:30) (27 April 2014)

 * Lest we forget, when Europe goes far right, they go far, right through Belgium.
 * Last Week Tonight -- "Net Neutrality, Spelling Bees & EU Elections" (ff. 0:01:11) (1 June 2014)

 * The cable companies have figured out the great truth of America: If you want to do something evil, put it inside something boring. Apple could put the entire text of "Mein Kampf" inside the iTunes user agreement, and you'd just go, "Uh, agree, agree, agr-- what? Agree, agree."
 * Last Week Tonight -- "Net Neutrality, Spelling Bees & EU Elections" (ff. 0:17:15) (1 June 2014)

 * When your rainy day fund is so big you've got to check it for swimming cartoon ducks, you might not be a not-profit anymore.
 * Last Week Tonight -- "FIFA, Syria & Tiananmen Square (ff. 0:16:18) (8 June 2014)

 * Congratulations, Dave, you've just constructed a straw man so large you could burn it in the desert and hold an annoying festival around it.
 * Last Week Tonight -- Immigration, Stephen Hawking & Football (ff. 0:16:15) (15 June 2014)

Stephen Hawking: Yes. And also a universe where you're funny.
 * John Oliver: You've stated that you believe there could be an infinite number of parallel universes. Does that mean that there is a universe out there where I am smarter than you?
 * Last Week Tonight -- "Stephen Hawking Extended Interview" (ff. 0:05:37) (15 June 2014)

 * … we were in a situation where, in the event of us launching a nuclear strike, the President's command would theoretically have gone through a man gambling with fake poker chips, who would've then tried to call a drunk guy wrestling with a Russian George Harrison, who would've then needed to send someone with a bag full of burritos to wake up an officer and tell him to go grab an LP-sized floppy disk and begin the solemn process of ending the world as we know it.
 * Summary of 2013–2014 reports on U.S. nuclear readiness and scandals surrounding senior commanders.
 * Last Week Tonight -- "Nuclear Weapons, Russian Geckos & Thailand" (ff. 0:16:35) (27 July 2014)

 * Please, make sure your college years are the best ones of your life because, thanks to the debt that we are saddling you with, they almost certainly will be.
 * Last Week Tonight -- "Student Debt, Gecko Update & ISIS" (ff. 0:23:40), (8 March 2014)

 * Drug companies are a bit like high school boyfriends; they're much more concerned with getting inside you than being effective once they're in there.
 * After quoting a BBC report claiming that most "Big Pharma" companies spend more money on marketing than research and development.
 * Last Week Tonight -- "Marketing to Doctors" (ff. 0:02:20) (8 Feb 2015)

 * As far as I can see, this is a system that has enriched multiple companies and that pays and fires teachers with a cattle birthing formula, confuses children with talking pineapples, and has the same kind of rules regarding transparency as Brad Pitt had for Fight Club.
 * Last Week Tonight -- "Standardized Testing" (ff. 0:16:53) (3 May 2015)

 * For the record if someone did that to me I'd hitch a ride to the International Space Station straight away; of course who am I kidding, they would never let me in, I've got spiders for hands! The internet is mean!
 * Last Week Tonight -- "Online Harassment" (ff. 0:04:02) (21 June 2015)

 * In science, you don't just get to cherry-pick the parts that justify what you were going to do anyway! That's religion! You're thinking of religion.
 * In response to Al Roker's advice to "find the study that sounds best to you".
 * Last Week Tonight -- "Scientific Studies" (ff. 0:14:44), (8 May 2016)

 * It's like catching an ice cream cone out of the air because a child was hit by a car.
 * On David Cameron announcing his resignation after the Brexit referendum.
 * Last Week Tonight -- "Brexit Update" (ff. 0:00:48), (27 June 2016)

 * He is truly one of the most revolting humans (minions) I have ever seen. In a way, there is no more fitting spokesman for the Trump administration than an entitled, elitist arsehole who refuses to take responsibility for the messes he makes, and who can somehow pick a fight with the Statue of Liberty.
 * On Stephen Miller.
 * Last Week Tonight -- "Stephen Miller" (ff. 0:02:45), (4 August 2017)

 * Oh, why do I love Salisbury? It's simple. The population is 40,302. And their member of parliament is John Glen, a Conservative whose eight-year tenure has been widely viewed as a failure. (open brackets: "citation needed", closed brackets.)
 * After he talks about how Sergey Skripal poisoning suspects' statement sounds like they're reading from Salisbury's Wikipedia page.
 * Last Week Tonight -- "Saudi Arabia" (ff. 0:02:43) (15 October 2018)

 * Please, buy [Last Week Tonight Presents: A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo] for your children, buy it for any child you know, or just buy it because you know it would annoy Mike Pence. You'd be doing a nice thing in a really dickish way, and isn't that the dream at the end of the day?
 * Last Week Tonight -- "Mike Pence" (ff. 0:19:24) (19 March 2018)

 * Britain is basically Pompeii if Pompeii had voted for the volcano.
 * On Brexit.
 * Last Week Tonight -- "Brexit III" (ff. 0:14:30) (17 February 2019)

 * Calling slave labor "chores" is a euphemism on par with calling Hitler a "best-selling author with a side hustle" or JFK's assassination a "bad hair day" or this a comedy show.
 * Last Week Tonight -- "U.S. History" (ff. 0:09:36) (2 August 2020)

 * And look, do I think it’s bad if Disney pays more taxes? No, I don’t. That would be a good thing. I don’t love that it might happen not through meaningful tax reform but on the whim of one right-wing dipshit who’s scared of gay people and doesn’t understand the First Amendment. But hey: Ends, means, what are you gonna do?
 * Oliver thinks desantis is a right-wing dipshit who's scared of gay people John Oliver, Last Week Tonight'' (May 2022)

 * Hope and joy are crucial here; they are the fuel that powers the ongoing fight for equality. And while there is a lot of fear and uncertainty right now, it is worth remembering that progress -- while not always linear -- is always possible.
 * Last Week Tonight -- "Transgender Rights II" (ff. 0:25:46) (17 October 2022)

 * There is a natural human impulse to protect children, to grab a toddler you don't know if you see them running into traffic, and if that impulse is broken or disincentivized by a government, there is absolutely a humanitarian crisis, no matter what any asshole has to say about it.
 * Last Week Tonight -- "Israel-Hamas War" (ff.'' 0:26:54) (12 November 2023)

 * It has to be possible to feel the pain in one community without denying it in another. It has to be! That is perhaps the most necessary precondition for peace because real peace here will clearly be difficult! It's gonna be struggled toward as part of a larger pursuit of justice which will, in turn, require an honest and uncomfortable reckoning with all the decisions that brought us to this point.
 * Last Week Tonight -- "Israel-Hamas War" (ff.'' 0:29:30) (12 November 2023)

 * You can see how baiting customers with one price and then switching it for another might be considered a bait-and-switch! There's actually a great Econ book on the subject entitled "Words Mean What Words Mean"!
 * Last Week Tonight -- "Elon Musk" (ff.'' 0:09:58) (17 December 2023)

 * Wait, he "loves drama"?! I'm sorry, I'm really not that comfortable with one of the most powerful people on Earth being summed up the same way you describe Andy Coen on New Year's Eve!
 * Last Week Tonight -- "Elon Musk" (ff.'' 0:28:35) (17 December 2023)

 * From the beginning, America -- like most countries -- was built on polite fictions by men who could somehow hold in their heads the idea that all men were created equal at the exact same time that they were drawing up the three-fifths compromise.
 * Last Week Tonight -- "Supreme Court Ethics" (ff. 0:25:05) (18 February 2024)

 * We have spoken to experts who have all told us that, best they can tell, this is somehow legal. Which seems crazy to me, 'cause it really feels like it shouldn't be.
 * Last Week Tonight -- "Supreme Court Ethics" (ff. 0:27:14) (18 February 2024)

 * Whenever they don't want to talk about something, it's probably worth you knowing about it.
 * Last Week Tonight (25 February 2024)

 * If your friend told you to download an app and you saw it in the App Store with good reviews, you might assume that everything on it was legitimate even before you saw MetaTrader's logo, which looks like three men in suits jerking each other off under a table -- an appropriate metaphor for cryptocurrency if I have ever seen one.
 * Last Week Tonight -- "Pig Butchering Scams" (ff. 0:11:35) (25 February 2024)

 * If you're funny enough, you can make people forget a lot of things, whether it's common-sense internet safeguards, lessons from previous relationships, or that they've been accidentally learning about financial fraud and human trafficking for the last twenty minutes. We're having fun, aren't we?
 * Last Week Tonight -- "Pig Butchering Scams" (ff. 0:19:00) (25 February 2024)

 * One project leader in the 80s and early 90s is remembered for saying "No secrets" and "The only thing that will make me rip off your head and shit down your neck is withholding information." And I'm sorry, but that should be the mug.
 * Last Week Tonight -- "Boeing" (ff. 0:06:07) (3 March 2024)

 * I'm curious, is it a rule that, to be in Congress, you have to be one of the weirdest motherfuckers to ever live?
 * Last Week Tonight, in response to Nancy Pelosi's "Tic, tac, toe, a winner" comment on the House floor (17 March 2024)

 * I'm not saying college is the right choice for everyone -- but it should be a choice.
 * Last Week Tonight -- "Student Loans" (ff. 0:29:22) (17 March 2024)

 * I know I've spend a lot of time over the last ten years reassuring everyone that this show does comedy and not journalism, but I think we can all agree that the most important thing we do here is stir shit up.
 * Last Week Tonight -- "Executions" (ff. 0:11:55) (7 April 2024)

 * The fact is, no matter how executions are performed, they'll never be humane. No matter how many times you call them "textbook" or claim it's "much better than anything they did to the victims", or show people viral videos of dizzy tweens on helium, it's never gonna be okay, and we are kidding ourselves if we think taking someone's life actually lowers the number of killers in the world; it literally, definitionally, creates more.
 * Last Week Tonight -- "Executions" (ff. 0:26:29) (7 April 2024)

 * Manchin's argument speaks to what can be so dispiriting about our current politics, because while there is nothing fundamentally wrong with civility and compromise, it does depend on who you're being civil to and what you're compromising with. 'Cause remember, this is the moment when one of the loudest voices in the senate campaign against Mangi is also happily encouraging people to "take things into their own hands" when it comes to those they don't agree with. And it's pretty scary to think that, in the name of building bridges, some appear to be perfectly fine finding a middle ground with those willing to throw protestors off them.
 * Last Week Tonight (21 April 2024)

 * While you can believe aliens exist or not, when it comes to UFOs, belief doesn't really come into it; whatever they are, people are seeing them. That poster in Mulder's office shouldn't have said "I Want To Believe", it should've said "Believe, Smelieve, What The Fuck Is That Thing?"
 * Last Week Tonight -- "UFOs" (ff. 0:04:42) (21 April 2024)

 * "There's something out there that's better than our airplane." It is chilling to hear that from a Navy pilot and not the usual place: the Executive Boardroom at Boeing.
 * Last Week Tonight -- "UFOs" (ff. 0:21:00) (21 April 2024)

 * When New Jersey sends us mayors, they're clearly not sending their best.
 * Last Week Tonight -- Campus Protests

 * Everyone who's ever been to a protest has, at some point, seen a sign and thought to themselves "Shit, not sure about that one. I'm here for abortion rights; do we really need to bring 9/11 into this"?
 * Last Week Tonight -- Campus Protests

 * Student protests against injustice generally age pretty well, and the efforts to criticize or crack down on them tend not to.
 * Last Week Tonight -- Campus Protests

 * You know God! The freak known for building a nude garden He could watch all day. The guy who commissioned the construction of an all-animal fuck boat, and who sat back and watched while His own son got nailed. Oh, I'm sorry! Am I misunderstanding the Bible by taking things out of context? Forgive me, I haven't read it. I looked at the summary; it told me all I needed to know.
 * Last Week Tonight -- "Public Libraries"

 * I know it is not shocking that an episode of this show would advocate to support your local libraries; it's pretty much implicit in our whole vibe. My suit, glasses, and desk all practically scream "support your local libraries" to which the rest of my body would say out of respect, "Shh!"
 * Last Week Tonight -- "Public Libraries"

 * "I know I talk a lot on this show about the bad stuff Ronald Reagan did. So to balance that out, I do want to mention something positive he did for the planet. In 2004 – and this is true – he died."
 * Last Week Tonight -- "Deep-Sea Mining"

About Oliver

 * On the 6th May 2011 episode of The Bugle John created the phrase "fuckyoulogy", an obituary for someone recently deceased who most certainly will not be missed.

 * Here's a guy who likes to take boring topics and make them interesting. If you can do that for an administrative process like the FCC on net neutrality, imagine the level of interest in issues people are even more familiar with at the state level.
 * State Senator Cyrus Habib, John Oliver Inspired a Bill Introduced in the State Legislature Today, The Stranger, Jan 16, 2015

 * The knowing know that police reform, that abortion rights, that labor unions are important, but go no further: What is important, after all, is to signal that you know these things. What is important is to launch links and mockery at those who don't. The Good Facts are enough: Anybody who fails to capitulate to them is part of the Problem, is terminally uncool. No persuasion, only retweets. Eye roll, crying emoji, forward to John Oliver for sick burns.
 * Emmett Rensin, The Smug Style in American Liberalism, Vox.com, April 21, 2016

 * When John Oliver told viewers that if they opposed abortion they had to change the channel until the last minute of the program, when they would be shown “an adorable bucket of sloths,” he perfectly encapsulated the tone of these shows: one imbued with the conviction that they and their fans are intellectually and morally superior to those who espouse any of the beliefs of the political right. Two days before the election, every talking head on television was assuring us that Trump didn’t have a chance, because he lacked a “ground game.” After his victory, one had to wonder whether some part of his ground game had been conducted night after night after night on television, under flattering studio lights and with excellent production values and comedy writing.
 * Caitlin Flanagan, How Late-Night Comedy Fueled the Rise of Trump, TheAtlantic, May 2017

 * For years, Oliver has criticized the estate tax, which opponents, in a smart linguistic move dreamed up by Frank Luntz, long ago labeled the “death tax”; and the tax code’s raft of loopholes that benefit special interests he identified as oil companies and hedge fund managers. Oliver even briefly established the bogus Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption to draw attention to tax-exempt status granted to churches and charities. Back in July 2014, in an episode in which he lamented the "Wealth Gap in America” (which has resulted in the richest one percent of Americans controlling 20 percent of annual income), Oliver said, “At this point the rich are just running up the score…What sets America apart is that we are actively introducing policies that disproportionately benefit the wealthy,” such as tax cuts and loopholes like trusts. So it’s a little surprising to discover that just months before, Oliver had a tax attorney set up two revocable trusts, one for him and one for his wife, to hide the couple’s purchase of a $9.5 million Manhattan penthouse. Then he used a tax loophole created by Donald Trump himself back in the 1970s, when the current president was merely a prominent New York real estate developer and aspiring celebrity author.
 * Ken Silverstein, The John Oliver Property Tax Scam: HBO Comedian Secretly Buys Manhattan Mansion, Observer.com, May 10, 2017

 * No one takes more glee in dumping their shit on middle America than John Oliver. [...] If he delivered the exact same words sounding as if he went to school with Miley Cyrus, no one would take him seriously.
 * Derek Hunter, Outrage, Inc.: How the Liberal Mob Ruined Science, Journalism, and Hollywood (Harper/Broadside 2018) p. 55

 * There is no "fact-checking" of John Oliver, Beyonce or Kim Kardashian. They're entertainers, not politicians or journalists.
 * Derek Hunter, Outrage, Inc.: How the Liberal Mob Ruined Science, Journalism, and Hollywood (Harper/Broadside 2018) p. 55

 * Over the years, John Oliver has a history of creating energy for an overlooked issue over the course of his program, and then turning that energy into activism through a stunt at the end. He's pointed out how ridiculously corrupt the predatory lending industry is by buying 15 million dollars worth of medical debt for just 60 thousand dollars and forgiving it. He's raised awareness for net neutrality by making the petititon site "goffcyourself.com". He's written a children's book called  Last Week Tonight With John Oliver Presents: A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo to combat Mike Pence's support for conversion therapy, which raised millions of dollars for The Trevor Project and  AIDS United. That is a much more concrete difference to make than getting a bunch of liberals to show up to the "Rally to Restore Sanity."
 * Skip Intro, Jon Stewart doesn't understand Capitalism | The Problem with Jon Stewart, YouTube, Apr 19, 2022

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Rubén Darío

Félix Rubén García Sarmiento (January 18, 1867 – February 6, 1916) was a Nicaraguan poet who wrote under the pseudonym of Rubén Darío.

Quotes

 * I seek a form that my style cannot discover, a bud of thought that wants to be a rose.
 * Prosas Profanas y Otros Poemas (Profane Hymns and Other Poems). I Seek a Form (1896).

 * Dichoso el árbol, que es apenas sensitivo, y más la piedra dura porque esa ya no siente, pues no hay dolor más grande que el dolor de ser vivo, ni mayor pesadumbre que la vida consciente.
 * Blessed is the almost insensitive tree, more blessed is the hard stone that doesn't feel, for no pain is greater than the pain of being alive, and no sorrow more intense than conscious life.
 * Cantos de vida y esperanza (1901), "Lo fatal" ("Fatalism")
 * Quoted in Chambers Dictionary of Quotations (1997), p. 305.

 * The America of Moctezuma and Atahualpa, the aromatic America of Columbus, Catholic America, Spanish America, the America where noble Cuauhtémoc said: "I am not on a bed of roses" —our America, trembling with hurricanes, trembling with Love: O men with Saxon eyes and barbarous souls, our America lives. And dreams. And loves. And it is the daughter of the Sun. Be careful.
 * Cantos de Vida y Esperanza (Songs of Life and Hope). A Roosevelt (To Roosevelt) (1905).

Los Cisnes y Otros Poemas (The Swans and Other Poems) (1905)

 * The tree is happy because it is scarcely sentient; the hard rock is happier still, it feels nothing: there is no pain as great as being alive, no burden heavier than that of conscious life.
 * Fatalidad (Fatality).

 * Pity for him who one day looks upon his inward sphinx and questions it. He is lost.
 * Pity for Him Who One Day.

Quotes about Rubén Darío

 * From before I knew how to read, my parents had me memorize poems by Ruben Dario, the great Nicaraguan poet who founded the modernist movement that transformed the Spanish language and whose work I recited with pleasure to whoever was naïve enough to ask me to do so. The rhythm of Dario’s poems fascinated me. Often—and even alone—I would recite his work out loud. Understanding the meaning of his verse didn’t matter, for the music of his poems was the most important thing. It was like the voice of the wind, the pounding of rain on windows, or the eternal roar of the ocean waves.
 * Claribel Alegría speech (2006) Translation from the Spanish by David Draper Clark

 * In Spanish, we have a tradition of open-ended, poetic stories. It's a very popular genre. Bequer, Lorca, Dario all wrote in this way. There are lots of writers who never wrote stories that had the knot-and-ending style. And they are considered great writers; they give a lot of pleasure.
 * Rosario Ferré interview in Backtalk: Women Writers Speak Out by Donna Marie Perry (1993)

 * In Nicaraguan history, the great modernist poet Rubén Darío is a strong figure, not just for literary people but for workers and farmers who possess a relatively low educational level. Attempting to trace the importance of poetry in the lives of Nicaraguans, one logically goes back to Darío...Most of those interviewed here speak of their links to Darío. His work is at the very roots of poetic experience in the country in much the same way that Whitman's Leaves of Grass shaped poetry in the United States.
 * Margaret Randall Introduction in Risking a Somersault in the Air: Conversations with Nicaraguan Writers

 * Rubén Darío, our national poet and cultural hero
 * Daisy Zamora Interview (2023)

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/Shōgun

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The result was: delete. —LrdChaos (talk) 13:47, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Shōgun
Assuming this is a legitimate quote, there is no telling if it comes from the well-known novel, the TV series, the novel and the series, or something else entirely. Unless the creator of this page or someone else can tell us more, then it should be deleted. - InvisibleSun 05:20, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Vote closed. Result: delete (five votes to delete (one implicit), no dissent). —LrdChaos (talk) 13:44, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete unless identified as notable topic and quote(s) sourced. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 06:02, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per InvisibleSun and Jeffq. —LrdChaos (talk) 14:18, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, concur with above. ~ UDScott 14:31, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. 121a0012 01:36, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/Ed Farmer

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The result was: delete. —LrdChaos (talk) 13:48, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Ed Farmer
While there is ample evidence that this person is notable (large number of Google results, Wikipedia page), I don't believe that the page's single, short quote is worth recording on a quote site like this (for the lazy, the quote is "That's a star!"). On a larger scale, I generally don't believe that quotes from sports announcers have any place here, unless they're memorable for more than just being something they say everything   happens. You end up with a list of short quotes that aren't special, and if you remove them, you're pretty much out of content. For example, see Fran Healy (baseball), which includes such gems as "Got 'em!!" and "Score it 4-3;" that page at least has a couple of other quotes to buoy it. —LrdChaos (talk) 14:12, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Vote closed. Result: delete (four votes to delete, no dissent). —LrdChaos (talk) 13:44, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Delete. —LrdChaos (talk) 14:12, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, unless more (memorable) quotes are added, per LrdChaos. ~ UDScott 14:36, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. I'd also like to see any quotes properly sourced. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 16:54, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. - InvisibleSun 19:37, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/Extreme Championship Wrestling

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The result was: delete. —LrdChaos (talk) 13:49, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Extreme Championship Wrestling
This page appears to consist almost entirely of "fan chants", which are effectively impossible to ever provide sources for. For most of them, there's more explanation than quote, especially for the inane ones like "This match rules!", "Bullshit!", "Boring", etc. etc. —LrdChaos (talk) 18:40, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Vote closed. Result: delete (five votes to delete, one vote to keep). —LrdChaos (talk) 13:45, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Delete. —LrdChaos (talk) 18:40, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. ~ UDScott 18:41, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. - InvisibleSun 19:39, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. 121a0012 01:36, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep: a page has to start somewhere, this was moved from a main wiki page. Bdve 01:51, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. Unsourced, inane quotes from fans strikes me as too Warholian for Wikiquote. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 01:59, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
 * It's difficult to provide attribution, stating who exactly said these things (given their very nature), but sources, where people have actually already collected and recorded them, are easier to provide. Here's one. There are three basic questions to think about relating to inclusion in Wikiquote: Were the original texts from which the quotes are excerpted widely published?  Has someone else outside of Wikiquote and independent of the original author already collected and recorded these quotations?  Are these actually quotes from, by, or about a subject? In this case, the answers to the first two are: No, there are no original published texts since these are epithets uttered by fans at sporting fixtures.  Some of these epithets have been written down and recorded, as per the above.  The sticky question is whether these are actual quotes from, by, or about a subject.  It's hard to see how "Oh my god!" and "Sit the fuck down!" are quotations that are specific to the particular subject at hand, and it doesn't seem likely that broadening the scope of the subject to a point where they were would improve matters. Uncle G 13:37, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
 * It seems to me that shouts from a crowd are no different in kind than an extemporaneous slip of the tongue by a notable person, in that neither "original" is written down beforehand, but either can be expected to be documented by a reliable publication if it's interesting. Based on this, it's completely reasonable to demand a reliable source for "famous crowd chants". Pro-Wrestling-Power.com doesn't even show up on the Alexa radar yet, but it is at least conceivable that we might find a reliable source. As far as specificity goes, a reasonable comparison might be that we sometimes cite famous non-original uses of quotes, although they should always include the original where known, or otherwise make it clear that they aren't original. But Uncle G's problem examples are the kind of unoriginal quotes we should weed out because they are just too common to be quoteworthy, even with disclaimers. The problem I have with our wrestling articles in general is that 95% of the material is just this kind of crap. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 22:36, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/Carlitos Bala

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The result was: delete. —LrdChaos (talk) 13:50, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Carlitos Bala
Not notable, at least in the English-speaking world. No en.WP page, and with the exception of this WQ page (at #1) and a BitTorrent download page (at #2), most of the results are in Spanish (when doing an "English-only" search, fewer than 200 results appear). The quotes themselves seem rather pointless; none seem to really have any meaning. —LrdChaos (talk) 19:28, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Vote closed. Result: delete (five votes to delete, one vote to keep from anon with no contributions). —LrdChaos (talk) 13:46, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Delete. —LrdChaos (talk) 19:28, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. - InvisibleSun 19:40, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete unless reliable evidence of notability in the English-speaking world provided and quotes properly sourced. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 20:41, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. ~ UDScott 20:45, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. 121a0012 01:36, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep* This page was helpful to me in doing some research on the subject. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.29.143.16 (talk • contribs) 17:58, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/James Turinsky

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The result was: speedy delete. —LrdChaos (talk) 13:50, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

James Turinsky
Not notable. ~ UDScott 12:19, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Vote closed early. Result: speedy delete, unremarkable subject. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 22:18, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, unless evidence of notability is provided. ~ UDScott 12:19, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. Complaining about someone's code and/or laziness on a mailing list does not make a person notable. —LrdChaos (talk) 13:07, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. I did a google search for key phrases from the single quote and found only one hit. Not notable. David | Talk 16:11, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. - InvisibleSun 18:16, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

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Dave Sim

 (born May 17, 1956, in Hamilton, Ontario) is a Canadian comic-book writer and artist. Sim is best known as the creator of the 6,000-page graphic novel  (1977–2004).

Sourced

 * If something knocks you five degrees out of whack, the journey of a thousand miles that begins with a single step ends up thousands of miles away from its intended destination.

 * It seems to me a core element of belief in God that a choice is a choice and it eliminates all other choices.

 * What the feminists and their ventriloquist puppet husbands are talking about doing with Government-Funded Daycare is raising children as if they were a herd of interchangeable swine. No surprise coming from a gender which has no ethics, no scruples, no sense of right and wrong.

 * I'd rather live in the gutter embracing reality than live like a king embracing unreality.

 * If you really want to do it nothing and no one is going to stop you, if you don't really want to do it, nothing and no one is going to help you.

 * I'd rather take a major financial hit being honest than get rich by lying.

Dave Sim's Collected Letters Volume 2 (2007)

 * Reality is reality. It is the way things are, not the way you want them to be in your head.

 * Pointing out that there's a turd lying on the carpet is not the same as shitting on the carpet.(p. 75)

Following Cerebus (2004-)

 * I take it as a given that God's knowledge of the Cerebus storyline dwarfs my own as God's knowledge of everything dwarfs my own. (#2, p. 9)

 * [A]n attractive lie is always going to be more popular than a hard truth. (No. 11, p. 27)

 * Because I say what is empirically true: nothing exists except God, I am deemed to be insane. (ibid, p. 28)

Collected Letters 2004

 * In my experience women are like cats. When you don't want them you can't get rid of them and when you do want them it's like trying to pick up lint with a magnet. (p. 267)

Cerebus Guide to Self-Publishing (1997)

 * The first five years that I did Cerebus I could have made more money baby-sitting (that isn't a joke). Five years. Think about it. (p. 20)

 * In any creative field--any creative field--you must first understand that you have no value whatsoever. Your work has no value whatsoever. You are completely worthless. Whatever potential you have is just that--potential--and when you are discussing self-publishing a comic book, you have about the same chance of success as 10 thousand others. (p. 21)

 * ...there is very little about self-publishing a comic book that can be taught, but everything about it can be learned. (p. 21)

 * Stop trying to impress some art-school teacher with a stick up his butt whose opinions you never respected from the time you entered his class until you left it 10 years ago. Draw like you. (p. 27)

 * Get out of your own way. (p.28)

 * The greatest mistake you can make is to say that your work is better than a lot of the shit that's out there. No doubt. But being better than shit is not exactly a shining credential. (p. 30)

 * No companies are ever going to pay you enough money to sue them successfully. (pp. 50-51)

Melmoth (1991)

 * Oscar: In a society where dissenting viewpoints are suppressed, those viewpoints are potent and dangerous... Where dissent is tolerated, it rapidly becomes quaint and is viewed as un-sophisticated; people merely amuse themselves with the expression of contrary opinion. (p. 41)

Church & State volume I (1987)

 * Cerebus: The valuable lesson is that you can get what you want and still not be very happy... (p. 296)

 * Anything done for the first time unleashes a demon. (Cover and title of Cerebus #65, August 1984, collected in Church & State I, p. 7 and 273)
 * Usually quoted with "Anything" unspaced (as in the title p. 7), sometimes quoted spaced (as in the art p. 273, as "Any thing done for the first time unleashes a demon.") because the cover art piles "Any" and "thing" (though they are joined, the leg of the "y" being also the bar of the "t").
 * Compare to a quote misattributed to Emily Dickinson: "Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon." (origin and date unknown, also attributed to Dave Sim)

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Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called SrinathN. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name SrinathN~enwikiquote that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:35, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 05:58, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

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User talk:Cavin.wilson~enwikiquote

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Your account will be renamed
Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Cavin.wilson. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Cavin.wilson~enwikiquote that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:19, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 05:44, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

title: User talk:Cavin.wilson~enwikiquote