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Talk:Dolly Parton

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 * I hope people see the brain underneath the wig and the heart beneath the boobs.
 * Associated Press Interview, 2003

 * Do I lift weights? Sure. Every time I stand up.

 * The way I see it, If you want the rainbow sometimes you gotta put up with the rain

 * How long does it take to do my hair? I don't know — I'm never there!

 * I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor little kids.

 * I hope people realise that there is a brain underneath the hair and a heart underneath the boobs.

 * I look just like the girls next door… if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.

 * I patterned myself after this woman that was the town tramp back home. She had blond hair and high heels and red fingernails and lips, and to me she was like what movie stars were to other kids. We'd see her, and I'd say, "Oh, look, she's got plastic goldfish in her heels!" and my mama would say, "She ain't nothin' but trash, nothin' but trash," and I thought, "Ooh, that's what I'm gonna be when I grow up — trash!"

 * I wanted to be the first woman to burn her bra, but it would have taken the fire department four days to put it out.
 * Variant: I was the first woman to burn my bra — it took the fire department four days to put it out.

 * If I hadn't had them, I would have had some made.

 * I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else.

 * I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb… and I also know that I'm not blonde.
 * Variant: I'm not offended by dumb blonde jokes because I know that I'm not dumb. I also know I'm not blonde.

 * Lots of women buy just as many wigs and makeup things as I do… They just don't wear them all at the same time.

 * My weaknesses have always been food and men — in that order.

 * People make jokes about my bosoms, why don't they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It's obvious I've got big ones and if people want to assume they're not mine, then let them.

 * Plastic surgeons are always making mountains out of molehills.

 * Storms make trees take deeper roots.

 * The night of our honeymoon my husband took one look and said, 'Is that all for me?'.

 * The way I see it, if you want the rainbow you gotta be willing to put up with the rain.
 * Variant: The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. [More on Rainbows]

 * We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

 * When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next.

 * Yeah I flirt, I'm not blind and I'm not dead!

 * You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.

 * (When asked on "Late Night with David Letterman" whether Dollywood (her theme park) has rides, similar to Disneyland's Space Mountain, she gestured to her bosom and said) Space Mountain? I've got Twin Peaks!

 * When asked why her feet were so small Dolly replied, "Things don't grow in the shade."

 * In 2008, Ms. Parton had to cancel her tour because of back problems. She said to a magazine, "Why don't you try waving these puppies around and see how your back feels?"

 * If you want the rainbow, you're just gonna have to put up with the rain

 * My mother had one on her and one in for as long as i can remember

 * I'm gonna get that gun of mine and I'm gonna change you from a rooster to a hen with one shot... and don't think i can't do it!

 * You gotta honk your own horn, 'cause if ya don't no ones ever gonna know your coming!

 * People ask me how long it takes to do my hair. I tell them, I don't know because I'm never there when it happens.

 * If I see something saggin', baggin', or draggin', I have it nipped, tucked, or sucked!

 * It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.

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Abu Bakr

Abū Bakr ibn Abu Quhhafa (c. October 573–22 August 634) was a companion of and the first Muslim ruler after Muhammad (632–634). Sunnis regard him as his rightful successor (caliph) and the first of four righteous Caliphs (Rashidun). The Shi'a believe he violated Muhammad's direct orders and orchestrated a coup d'état. Scholarly consensus lists him as the first Muslim Caliph.

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 * I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth is loyalty and disregard for truth is treachery. The weak amongst you shall be strong with me until I have secured his rights, if God wills; and the strong amongst you shall be weak with me until I have wrested from him the rights of others, if God wills. Obey me so long as I obey God and His Messenger. But if I disobey God and His Messenger, you owe me no obedience. Arise for your prayer, God have mercy upon you.
 * After assuming the office of Caliph, Abu Bakr's first address was as follows, quoted in Tareekh Ibn Kathir, Vol. 6, p. 305-306,  As quoted in Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources (1983) by, p. 344
 * In the name of the most merciful God, Abdallah Athik Ibn Abi Quhafa, to the rest of the true believers; health and happiness, and the mercy and blessing of God be upon you. I praise the most high God, and I pray for his prophet Mohammed. This is to acquaint you that I intend to send the true believers into Syria, to take it out of the hands of the infidels, And I would have you know, that the fighting for religion is an act of obedience to God.
 * Letter to the inhabitants of Mecca,  translated by Simon Ockley in History of the Saracens, 1708
 * How wretched are those in the sight of God who disobey Him.
 * Abdul Jaleel Qureshi, Hazrat Abu Bakr Nay Farmaya (Ferozesons, 2011), p.64)
 * It is a matter of great shame that the birds wake up in the morning before you.
 * Abdul Jaleel Qureshi, Hazrat Abu Bakr Nay Farmaya (Ferozesons, 2011), p.65)

Last Decree

 * In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful. This is the (final) command of Abu Bakr ibn Abu Quhafah, which he writes as he is exiting this world of the Hereafter... a time during which a disbeliever comes to believe, a wicked-doer comes to have faith, and a liar tells the truth: Verily, I appoint over you Umar ibn al-Khattab as my successor, so listen to him and obey him... If he acts justly, then that is what I think of him and that is what I know about him. But if he changes for the worse (i.e., he begins to act unjustly), then for each person is that which he has earned. Goodness is what I wanted, and I do not know anything of the Unseen world. "And whose who do wrong will come to know by what overturning they will be overturned." Quran, Chapter 26, verse 227
 * The Biography of Abu Bakr as-Siddeeq, p. 726, also quoted in Tareekh ul-Islam by Imam Al-Dhahabi, p. 116-117.

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Talk:Yu-Gi-Oh!

Organizing

 * I've started moving things around, this page is totally in shambles. If anyone would care to shed some light on which episode some of the quotes are from, please let me know. Curlyro 09:02, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Vandalism
70.59.47.75 15:49, 13 August 2007 (UTC) I think there has been vandalism in Season 1, because don't remember Tristan ever saying things like: "Holy **** on a ****ing sandwhich with **** on top...and a side helping of ****!!!"

Little Kuriboh
I think LittleKuriboh's quotes should be removed from this page. LittleKuriboh used to have a wikiquote page of his own, but it was deleted--for a reason.

I agree with you on that. It doesn't really count as "Season whatever" if it wasn't actually said in the series. Abridged Series doesn't count because it's not the ACTUAL series. Also, why did I find not two, but three of the sandwich quote? 70.16.132.157 21:44, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

Finally, someone willing to take the chance against the not-so-legit LittleKuriboh quotes. I believe they're more like "joke" quotes and weren't to be taken seriously, but no matter what is said, some people will still take them seriously, hence why they've shown up on this list. YGO is meant as a kids' show (or a show that the whole family can watch), so using the s or f words, such as in Tristan's sandwich "quote" would definitely not normally be a part of the show... And don't even start about Dragon Ball Z. --Kigurumi Loopy 07:56, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

You're absolutely right. LittleKuriboh's quotes do not belong on this page. Let whoever wants to, recreate a page for LittleKuriboh alone. Kazuki Takahashi would not appreciate this.

Accurate to Japanese original
Do you think we should perhaps try to make the quotes accurate to the original rather than the dub, the purpose of which is to pander to American audiences and distort the message.

Someone keeps removing a Season 2 quote
This quote actually happened. It shows the meeing of Marik and Bakura.

Bakura's only lines are I don't care.
 * Actually, the exact dub dialog goes like this:

 * [About 14 or 15 minutes into episode 68]

 * Marik: My name is Marik.

 * Bakura: I don't care.

 * Marik: What if I told you I had exclusive knowledge of certain secrets? You can have my Millennium Rod if you want, but before I hand it over to you, you have to do something for me in exchange, for I am somewhat of a collector myself. And once I possess what I desire, the Millennium Rod will mean absolutely nothing to me.

 * Bakura: Why should I help? I could take your Millennium Item by force as I have done to others in the past.

 * Marik: Because I know the whereabouts of several of the Millennium Items, including the Millennium Necklace worn by my sister.

 * Bakura: Perhaps there is a way we can work together... [Blah blah, etc etc.]

 * He only says "I don't care" once. Precis-chan 06:09, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

More Quotes
This is a great page. It could use some more though. Some good ones are on http://www.otakuboards.com/archive/index.php/t-17016.html and http://www.geocities.com/hikari_tenshi05/Yugioh_Quotes.html (however geocities is closing.)--Jackatlas 21:58, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

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Neverwinter Nights 2

These quotes are from the PC video game Neverwinter Nights 2.

 * Khelgar Ironfist: Prejudiced? I'm not prejudiced! By the Nine Hells, I even travel with a back-stabbing tiefling of all things, and you know how her kind are!

 * Player: And if you were laid to rest, I would not want anyone robbing your crypt, Neeshka. Please understand.
 * Neeshka: You'd build me a crypt? Wow. These tombs are so beautiful, that'd be a great place to sleep when I'm dead. I'm touched. That's a really sweet thing to do to me once I'm a corpse. Gods know I wouldn't keep a promise like that to some dead man.

 * Player: You're a kobold?
 * Deekin: Yes, Deekin very kobold, last Deekin look in mirror. Deekin not do that much, mirrors usually too high for Deekin.

 * Player: No reward is necessary.
 * Neeshka: Would you stop saying things like that!

 * Khelgar Ironfist: You'd best be careful, you simpering little father's girl, or you'll learn a thing or two about Ironfist honor and manhood!
 * Qara: Oh, you mean the two smallest things in all of Faerûn? From what I hear, no woman could learn about Ironfist manhood from you, Khelgar.
 * Khelgar Ironfist: Wh-what?! I'll have you know plenty of women know about Ironfist manhood! Plenty! They just all live up... around Waterdeep... or they'd tell you!

 * Neeshka: Well then, why don't you show us how it's done, firehair?
 * Qara: Firehair - imaginative and biting, with just the slightest hint of wit. Is that really the best your demon blood can squeeze out, tail for brains?
 * Neeshka: My brains are not in my tail.
 * Qara: So, are they right next to it? If so, might want to loosen the back of your pants a notch, because even with the hole, they're obviously not getting enough air.
 * Neeshka: Okay, explain that one to me.
 * Khelgar Ironfist: Well, she said your brains are next to your tail... which would imply that your brains are in your rear end. And that you breathe through your...

 * Grobnar: Now this is a whitethistle, can give you the runs, you know, and I made up a song for it, quite a catchy tune... Whitethistle, whitethistle, all in a row, in Neverwinter Woods they all grow...

 * Grobnar: I'm Grobnar Gnomehands, probably guessing where the last name comes from, don't you, well, tends to confuse most people.

 * Grobnar: ...and then, after I had welded the spring-mounted mechanical shield on my codpiece, I fired it, only to be thrown back almost thirty yards, right into a wall! Stung quite a bit, I'll say that much, but what I learned was...
 * [notices that the party members are all asleep]
 * Grobnar: Was...

 * Neeshka: Someone who doesn't play the odds doesn't last too long in my experience. Well, except me.

 * Orc #1: Maybe Hrulgat find troll? he need help if he find one.
 * Orc #2: You talk too much. Trolls might hear you. Be quiet.
 * [the player yells]
 * Orcs: Aaah! Troll! Run!

 * Player: Your mother would be so disappointed if she could see you now.
 * Lorne: What would you know of my mother?
 * Player: You don't keep your beard half as well as she keeps hers.

 * Player: Look, all this rambling doublespeak aside, just give me the short version, and I'll write it in my journal.

 * Sand: I think it is time everyone marched behind me, your new glorious leader.

 * Player: [to Grobnar] Tell me we did not come all this way for an invisible, non-existent kazoo that sounds a lot like you doing a phlegmy whistle.

 * Tholapsyx: Then I offer you this - a chance to live. In return, you will kill the fire giants and their king. <...> So this is your choice. Do we have a deal?
 * Sand: [quietly, to player] Just say yes, and we can run.

 * Neeshka: A balor demon. Be careful... one wrong answer, and we won't get to ask another question. Just stay calm, don't let him get to you.
 * Baalbisan: What is this thin-blooded thing I hear, its flesh reeking with the stench of the baatezu? Is it female? It must be - it is too weak to be otherwise.
 * Neeshka: "Weak?" Weak?! That's a laugh, saying that, while I'm out here and you're trapped inside that summoning circle, you half-witted tanar'ri hindlicker!
 * Sand: Next time, I would ask we leave the more impulsive members outside when we enter demon-caged labryrinths [sic] of death.

 * Guard #1: So, you think the Uthgardt are going to try to sack the town?
 * Guard #2: You already ask me that. I don't really care.
 * Guard #1: You don't care if a horde of barbarians invades Port Llast?
 * Guard #2: It'll be nice to do some fighting for once instead of standing around all day.
 * Guard #1: I hear that.

 * Harcourt: He [Lord Tavorick] urged me to go away, and said that I shouldn't return until I was... "younger and female", were his words, I believe.

 * Aldanon: I suppose we could see if she [Zhjaeve] tries to kill any of us, but that test has numerous procedural flaws in its execution... if you will pardon the semantics. She seemed reasonable enough when we spoke together in Crossroad Keep, but there was a foot of stone between us, which is notoriously hard for a blade to cut through to kill someone on the other side.

 * Grobnar: And we could look, at last, for the Wendersnaven!
 * Sand: Oh, Gods.
 * Grobnar: No, they're not gods. They're the Wendersnaven, they exist, even if you can't see them with the eye. Or touch them. They see all, know all, and have incredible powers - if they are on our side, we have a good chance of winning.
 * Sand': Oh, really? And how do we find something you can't see or touch and most likely exists in your head?

 * Sand: Omens aren't good by definition, Aldanon.
 * Aldanon: Oh, of course they are. Especially with a little milk and duskwood jam.

 * Aldanon: Good luck to you all! We will all most likely die if you fail, but try to keep that from your mind.

 * [if the player is a halfling, tiefling, or one of a few other races; Duncan is the brother of the player's foster father]
 * Player: I'm his nephew. I'm related.
 * Sand: Oh, really. I can see that. Thing is, last I heard Duncan was still a Realms man, so what part of the family tree did you fall out of?

 * Sal: "Demon's fire?" Sounds important.
 * Duncan: And that is why you are still cleaning tables and I own this place.

 * Duncan: You're right. Sorry I pointed out the fact that you were a charlatan, Sand.
 * Sand: And I didn't mean to bring up your excessive drinking, Duncan, and your long list of failed aspirations.

 * Neeshka: So I broke back into his [Leldon's] place, stole all the loot... every last copper, and left a note explaining to him how I got past each one of his traps.
 * Player: And what happened to all the money?
 * Neeshka: Well, you know.. a few coins here, a few coins there... it adds up. I have expenses... And stuff.

 * Callum: The orcs have a name for him - Katalmach. They say he attacks without warning - and without regard for his enemy's numbers.
 * Grobnar: Maybe this "kettle-head" person simply lacks basic math skills. You see, if we were to face three hundreds orcs, the odds.... well, if you carry the two... might be....

 * Dwarf: Who is this gnome?
 * Khelgar Ironfist: He's arrow bait. I'll tell you about it later.

 * Khelgar Ironfist: Anyone who wears them [Ironfist Gloves] gains the strength of ten, maybe twenty... it's how the clan earned the name Ironfist. With these, you could probably punch through a stone wall.
 * Player: Why would I want to punch a stone wall?

 * Neeshka: Bloodsucking fiends?
 * Khelgar Ironfist: Vampires, not you.

 * Judge: And you, Sand? Anything more you wish to add that you did not say in the first three hours?
 * Sand: Only that the dress the ambassador is wearing is clearly out of fashion, a blatant attempt to distract the court from the matter at hand, and is more appropriate for a Docks prostitute than a diplomatic envoy. Thank you.

 * [if the player is male]
 * Baalbisan: But it looks so female. How can I be certain?
 * Player: I suppose I could show you. Stand back - I'll need a lot of room.
 * Qara: ...
 * Baalbisan: It offers to reveal its parts, but my vision is not what it was. I doubt I could make out something so diminutive.
 * Neeshka: Well, from what I have heard, it is not that small at all.
 * Elanee: What did you say?
 * Neeshka: [quietly] Hey, I don't know, I'm just trying to help.

 * Sand: Sometimes if we could simply talk through these things, I wouldn't have the slightest chance of dying of fright ... or of soiling myself.

 [Player has joined the City Watch and is on patrol in the Docks]
 * Trent Vendal: Look at this. An actual Watchman on patrol.
 * Neeshka: What? Wh-?
 * Khelgar Ironfist: He means us, girl.
 * Neeshka: Oh, Gods, I keep forgetting.

 * Khelgar Ironfist: Duncan, another round!
 * Duncan: Get your drink yourself dwarf, seeing as how you haven't paid for a single drop your entire stay here.
 * Khelgar Ironfist: Been wondering when you'd give in and grant me free reign over your kegs. Anyone else want anything?

 * Shandra Jerro: Mother said he would cradle me and sing to me, and I would pull out his beard hairs.
 * Khelgar Ironfist: Eh. Just keep your distance from me, lass.

 * Shandra Jerro: [to player] Hnh. Must be all that traveling with Khelgar that made you so good with kids.
 * Khelgar Ironfist: Probably so, I have a boyish charm, I can't deny it.

 * The Collector: What is the meaning of this?
 * Player: Your name is Ninsy?
 * The Collector: You have no right to call me by that name! I am the Collector to you.
 * Player: I want you to open the vault for me, Ninsy.

 * Player: I'm [name]. Who am I speaking to?
 * Hewe: Name's Hewe. This here's Gulver.
 * Gulver: Idiot! What'd you tell 'em our names for?
 * Hewe: Well, he told us his.

 * Sand: We all need to fade into the woodwork, or landwork or... whatever it is, as long as we hide!

 * Sand: I suggest you not try my patience any further than you have or I might accidentally fire a magic missile into your face.

 * Neeshka: [about Elanee] I don't know. She's got pointy-ears but doesn't smell of the Lower Planes, so she's probably not a tiefling. And she's too tall to be a halfling - and too thin. Plus, the hangs out with animals, so she's an elf.

 * Player: Can you do anything else?
 * Bevil Starling: I - I... can make soup.

 * Aldanon: Well, when Garius invited me to this Keep...
 * Sand: Kidnapped.

 * Tarmas: Count yourself fortunate for that. I once shared a wagon with a kobold bard. He rhymed "sadder" with "bladder" and sang fondly of his navel.

 * Qaggoth-Yeg: I can smell you, little lordling. I can scent your craven soul amidst the dust of your ancestors.
 * Player: And we can smell you, too. What do you want?

 * [black smoke rises up out of the ground]
 * Sand: Ah... this would be the "impending" part of our impending doom.

 * Bishop: Well then you'll be paying me another way. My bedroll's a little cold at night - I'm thinking you can fix that.
 * Neeshka: I could always set you on fire, Bishop. That'd solve two problems.

 * Daerred: Now, I know you didn't have any jobs for an adventurer last time in Neverwinter. But we searched the city for opportunities. After that we took to the road and I found an old lady and rescued a cat. We each got an apple.
 * Shandra Jerro: Well, if it had been the Captain [player] doing it, the cat would be lost, the tree burned down, and the old lady would be traveling with us now.

 * Player: Who are you?
 * Neeshka: Neeshka - Neeesh-ka, emphasis on the "Neee". Not many people get it right. Or try to.
 * Player: What do you mean?
 * Neeshka: Usually they call me "thief", "cursed one", "demon wench", "rat-child", "goat-girl", the list goes on. You'd think "Neeshka" wasn't that hard to remember.
 * Player: You mean you get those insults all the time?
 * Neeshka: It's not too bad, I mean, all those things are true.

 * Player: Neeshka - that's an odd name.
 * Neeshka: I'm told it means something in the Lower Planes, but since I don't get down there much... although, obviously, good old grandpa made a habit of coming up there for the night life, if you, uh, get my meaning.
 * Player: So you're a tiefling?
 * Neeshka: Yeah, but shhh - don't tell anyone, I wouldn't want anybody else to figure it out - I mean, aside from the horns. And the traces of demon blood.

 * Khelgar Ironfist: Well, there was a time when I was quick to judge others based on what little I'd heard. But... traveling with even the worst, slimiest, smelliest of tieflings and no-honor tree-worshipping elves has taught me some of them are all right.

 * Khelgar Ironfist: Just to make sure my eyes aren't lying to me - a huge suit of armor did smash through here, attack the githyanki - and us - then we drove it back to the portal?
 * Neeshka: No... no, that's about right.
 * Khelgar Ironfist: Good. Because if my drinking is catching up with me, I'm stopping right now.

 * Player: What do they want?
 * Aldanon: Why, my house, of course! As if I would ever sell it - ridiculous. I'd sooner give up my left eye. But my right annoys me at times, so that would be an easier sell.

 * Aldanon: First they tried offering me ridiculous sums of gold. What do I need with more gold?
 * Neeshka: I wish more people would give that question a little thought.
 * Aldanon: Next they tried making loud noises at night. But I need little sleep, so the only thing they accomplished was scaring away the nightbirds that raid my garden, for which I thanked them.

 * Githyanki: Zeeaire has foretold your coming, Kalach-Cha. She sent me to end you.
 * Player: I'm surprised you're talking to me. Most githyanki just attack.

 * Shandra Jerro: Rescuing me? I can rescue myself! Sometimes, when there's not too many lizardfolk. Or githyanki.

 * Bishop: So the farm girl's going to join our band? Good. We need someone to make up for the paladin - or at least to catch arrows if Grobnar's already dead.

 * Lord Nasher Alagondar: By every God and his mother, what a fool I was to ever sign anything bearing Luskan's seal.

 * Sir Nevalle: I've scraped things from my boot that I respect more than Luskan.

 * Sir Nevalle: Know that if you are sent to Luskan, you will be killed.
 * Player: Tell me something I don't know.

 * Sand: Well, at best, they will put you on trial - or what seems to be one, then execute you. At worst, they will dispense with the courtroom mockery and execute you as soon as you step within the gate. And when I say "execute," do not think it will be one clean chop of a headman's axe... Luskans have all sorts of inventive ways for executing prisoners that is not best to describe on a full stomach.

 * Sir Nevalle: Also, Sand here... as much as I hate to admit it... may be able to spot something. He has a talent for seeing what's out of place.
 * Sand: Careful, lest I blush from all these compliments.
 * Sir Nevalle: That wasn't a compliment, Sand. Usually if something's out of place, you're suspiciously close by.

 * Elgun: Look, it's obvious you know I wasn't there. What do you want from me?
 * Player: Why did you say you were there?
 * Elgun: Free ale and the attention of women, of course. You think someone like me could get that otherwise?
 * Player: Tell me what actually happened.
 * Elgun: I'd heard there was a dryad in the Duskwood, so I figured... well, you know how dryads are. With men, I mean.
 * Shandra Jerro: Oh, gods. How predictable.
 * Grobnar: What? What does he mean?
 * Elanee: I think dryad legends to more to get men lost in the woods than dryads themselves.
 * Grobnar: What are you all talking about? You're making no sense.
 * Shandra Jerro: He went in there to try and..uh, sneak some kisses, Grobnar.
 * Grobnar: Ooooooooooooh, I see.

 * Sand: The sooner I put together these pieces, the sooner I... hmmm.

 * Cain Lethellon: And what do you call that then, love? "Ode to an Angry Banshee Giving Birth"?
 * Challenger #1: Yeah, well, what was your song? "Ode to a... um... lute player who's not that good"?
 * Challenger #2: I... really must be off. It's getting late and my mom... no! I mean, my wife, my wife will be looking for me. Yes. Excuse me.
 * Cain Lethellon: Well, ladies and gents, I don't know what to tell you exactly. You were promised a battle of bards, instead you've had a massacre of instruments. And here, I thought the twelfth challenger might have something different to offer.

 * Captain Ballard: Lord Nasher is concerned about m'lord's well-being, in light of the recent deaths of m'lord's associates.
 * Lord Cyran Tavorick: Bah! If Nasher cared about m'lord's well being, he'd buy me a potion of youth. Failing that, he'd send me a harem. Eighty-four girls, one for each of my years. Yes? Maybe?

 * Lord Cyran Tavorick: Nice enough fellow, Nasher. Seems to like sitting on that throne of his. Ancestor of mine made that throne, and you know where it got him? Exiled to Icewind Dale. Silly fool thought he'd sign his initials on the bottom.

 * Captain Ballard: Lord Tavorick. Good to see you alive.
 * Lord Cyran Tavorick: Even better to be so, Captain.

 * Master Veedle: You don't have to worry about rebuilding all of it - some accommodations will be built by people that come to live here. The inn, for example, is already operational. Naturally.

 * Georg Redfell: So the great hero returns - been watching out for danger like I said? And what about that angry swamp elf? See it yet?
 * Elanee: Swamp elf?
 * Georg Redfell: Ah, I see you have - look at her. She looks a little smaller than I expected, though, for a giant. Looks close enough, I suppose.
 * Elanee: [sarcastic] Ooooooh... the giant swamp elf. Yes, obviously you haven't heard. It still lives, constantly growing, constantly feeding. Of course, now that it's forced to range farther and farther... well, I imagine it will be here soon enough.
 * Georg Redfell: Oh. We'll be careful, then.

 * [Kistrel the spider eats the insect collection]
 * Neeshka: Gods, it's like watching Khelgar eat. Ewwww.

 * [the player agreed to befriend Kistrel the spider]
 * Shandra Jerro: I cannot believe we're doing this.
 * Neeshka: We let Khelgar tag along, didn't we?

 * Sir Nevalle: Milord, there are certain rites for inducting knights that must b-
 * Lord Nasher Alagondar: Nevalle, I knighted you at Redfallow's Watch in the mud with orcs surrounding us. Ceremonies can wait.

 * [if the player assigns Sand to lead the troops during the bridge assault]
 * Sand: Maybe when we're done we can send them to beat up Nevalle, just for fun.

 * Sand: So, quiet enough for you? I mean, now that Khelgar is done ranting - I heard it from several streets away. Actually helped me find this place.

 * Shandra Jerro: Gods, Sand, you hold your nose so high it's a wonder you don't wear your hat on it.

 * Grobnar: No one really knows how big the Wendersnaven are. They could be thousands of Khelgars high!
 * Khelgar Ironfist: What did I say 'bout usin' me as a unit of measurement?!
 * Grobnar: Er, right, several Neeshkas high.

 * Elanee: This place feels... unnatural, the wood and stone, it's as if they've been silenced.
 * Neeshka: I wish you'd both be silent. This whole trip has been nothing but one constant whine from the both of you. [imitates Khelgar] "Oohh me stomach! This boat rocks like a baby cradle!" [imitates Elanee] "This water is unnatural and deep! Nothing like the swamp of dead people I grew up in!"

 * Player: Do you have a problem with Qara?
 * Sand: Nope. definitely not. Not going to complain about a person standing right next to me...

 * Bevil: I've heard some of the things you've done - and even if they're as blown out of proportion as one of Georg's tall tales... Well, you got to be a little not right in the head to dive into those odds.

 * Khelgar Ironfist: By Tyr's right buttock!

 * Sand: I derive pleasure from clarification.

 * Khelgar Ironfist: You skinny....bull.
 * Neeshka: That doesn't even make sense.

 * Elanee: I think our leader will make a fine parent.
 * Player: Is that an offer?

 * Elanee: Instead of shadowing you, I would walk with you...
 * Khelgar Ironfist: With a frame like that, you'll probably blow away in the wind.
 * Neeshka: Oh, don't be jealous, barrel-boy.
 * Khelgar Ironfist: Jealous? Of an elf? and a tree-worshipper at that!
 * Elanee: I think you'll find tree-worshippers rare these days, dwarf, so do not take them lightly.
 * Neeshka: With a belly like that, I don't think Khelgar takes anything lightly.

 * Neeshka: Anyway - about this mess - I guess the Watch will clean this bodies up. Or maybe there'll be a rain or something!

 * Neeshka: I agree with Ammon Jerro. He's smart about these things... well, except about the tattoo aesthetic.

 * Teelah: Thank you, Captain! A year at the Mask, and I've learned to entertain almost any crowd, no matter their mood. Rustic jigs, elven interpretive dance, gnomish waltz... I even know a dwarven dance. It takes a false beard, though, and hardly any clothes. Well, you're supposed to wear the beard in place of clothes, and twirl it about provocatively... Maybe... you shouldn't tell anyone that I know that dance, actually.

 * Player: Very well, I could use someone as a pack mule.
 * Grobnar: Oh, I was turned into one once. But eventually I came back to normal.

 * Grishnak: You're a strange lookin' group. What'dya want?
 * Player: ...says the half-orc pirate.

 * Khulmar Ironfist: Very well, Khelgar, may stone shield you from the sky and ale always be at your hand... but not too much ale, you know how you get after the twelfth tankard.

 * Khelgar Ironfist: We'll put those lizards in their place, with fist or...fist. Either way, they're getting some fist!

 * Captain Brelaina: Get to the point, if we let her go, is she going to try to kill us or not?
 * Aldanon: I'm not sure. We could always try the experimental approach to find out, but that method has some theoretical and practical complications.

 * Grobnar: I play songs. Write songs. Build things. Repair things. Pick things. Plant things. Tinker with things until they're fixed... or, well, uh, need fixing. But that's rare. Sort of.

 * Sir Nevalle: Why Captain, don't we all live to serve Neverwinter?
 * Sand: Under penalty of death.

 * Georg Redfell: So the great hero returns - been watching out for danger like I said? And what about that angry swamp elf? See it yet?
 * Sand: Swamp Elf?
 * Georg Redfell: I see you have! He's a little smaller than I expected.
 * Sand: [to player] And I thought you were the only fool to come out of West Harbor. But here we are and already this fellow proves me wrong.

 * Georg Redfell: Hnh. Looks like you picked up an admirer. Well met there, boy. You sweep her off your seat from some seedy tavern, did you?
 * Bishop: Oh, yeah, she wasn't even conscious when we were married.
 * Casavir: Mind your tongue, Bishop.
 * Bishop: As long as she's here to do it for me? Come now.
 * Georg Redfell: Well put, well put.

 * Shandra Jerro: Trust me, I see enough of you as it is, and as much as Elanee may like the way you smell, I don't.

 * Khelgar Ironfist: Wh-what the hells is this? First, the demon, now this willow-thin slip of an elf? Let's invite all the realms! Make a grand army, tromping through the wilderness! "Enemies, come get us! Here we arrre!"

 * [Casavir and his group appear and attack the orcs that ambushed the player's party]
 * Khelgar Ironfist: Wh-? Hey! Those are our orcs!

 [Brelaina's response varies somewhat depending on the race and class of the player.]
 * Player: Won't I be recognized? I'm sure any thieves from the Docks will recognize me on sight.

[If the player is a warrior:]
 * Captain Brelaina: I do not know if you have heard the descriptions of you being passed around the Docks, but suffice to say that no one will recognize you when all they seem to know of your appearance is "a huge iron golem of a warrior, almost eight feet tall."

[If the player is a rogue:]
 * Captain Brelaina: I do not know if you have heard the descriptions of you being passed around the Docks, but suffice to say that no one will recognize you when all they seem to know of your appearance is "more a shadow than a person, almost invisible to the eye."

[If the player is a mage, sorcerer or warlock:]
 * Captain Brelaina: I do not know if you have heard the descriptions of you being passed around the Docks, but suffice to say that no one will recognize you when all they seem to know of your appearance is "an arcane master, composed of eldritch energy."

[If the player is a bard:]
 * Captain Brelaina: I do not know if you have heard the descriptions of you being passed around the Docks, but suffice to say that no one will recognize you when all they seem to know of your appearance is "a bard, who spins songs of death, and whose blade is like the keening of a banshee."

[If the player is a paladin, or a good-aligned priest/monk:]
 * Captain Brelaina: I do not know if you have heard the descriptions of you being passed around the Docks, but suffice to say that no one will recognize you when all they seem to know of your appearance is "a holy warrior, a disciple of faith who is surrounded by a light so bright, it burns the eyes."

[If the player is an evil-aligned priest or monk:]
 * Captain Brelaina: I do not know if you have heard the descriptions of you being passed around the Docks, but suffice to say that no one will recognize you when all they seem to know of your appearance is "an unholy warrior, a black disciple surrounded by a darkness so encompassing, enemies vanish into its depths like a cloak."

[If the player is a druid, barbarian, and ranger:]
 * Captain Brelaina: I do not know if you have heard the descriptions of you being passed around the Docks, but suffice to say that no one will recognize you when all they seem to know of your appearance is "a vicious beast from the wilderness, with the cunning of a wolf, eye of a hawk, and the strength of a bear.

[If the player is playing one of the newer classes:]
 * Captain Brelaina: I do not know if you have heard the descriptions of you being passed around the Docks, but suffice to say that no one will recognize you when all they seem to know of your appearance is "a whirlwind of elemental justice, into which no thief can escape."

 * Khelgar Ironfist: Maybe we should put these two fools in a room with Aldanon.
 * Sand: This chattering madness is something I would like to subject Grobnar to, if only to make him understand what it's like to listen to him.

 * Player: Where shall that meeting take place?
 * Sand: Someplace in the middle of nowhere, no doubt.
 * Grobnar: Is there really such a place?
 * Sand: Oh yes, Grobnar, and it's between your ears.

 * Zinn: I'm Zinn, the pretty lady to my right is Niyra, the elf is Shahra, and the gnome in the dress is Oyo.
 * Oyo: It's a robe, you bastard.

 * [Aldanon awakens in a prison cell]
 * Aldanon: What happened to my home? How did my manor get so... dark? And cold. I'll have to ask my assistant to start the fire at once... I say, some light, please! This door is odd. I don't remember having this placed in my home, either. I say - anyone! This door is stuck!

 * Deekin: Deekin not write this one. But Deekin sing it anyway. [sings]
 * I like gnomes,
 * So dumb and fat,
 * Fat and dumb
 * In burrows like moles
 * Shoot 'em full of arrows
 * Put 'em on a stick
 * That's why I like gnomes.
 * Grobnar: My word. Just hearing that gives me the shivers.
 * Qara: I'll bet that could have shattered a castle wall.
 * Sand: Well, that cleared my sinuses.
 * Shandra Jerro: How... pleasant. Now Grobnar, I'm sure he didn't m...
 * Grobnar: I say, this is... genius. The tone, the tempo. You can almost feel the angst and pain of the gnomes as they are filled with arrows... and put on sticks. And the theme of the piece... now, that is tragedy, in its deepest, most primal form. And the climax, the uplifting portion, where the affirmation of liking gnomes is confirmed... And then brought full circle with the physical and emotional double meaning of them being in the mind and in the stomach. Amazing. I say, traveling to Neverwinter with you all has really been broadening my horizons - who would have thought I'd get to meet a kobold author and playwright!

 * Bishop: That's as comforting as leaving the village idiot in charge of a trebuchet.
 * Grobnar: Oh, come now, that's hardly a proper analogy. It's more like leaving the village idiot in charge of a huge, savage, nearly-unstoppable wolf who can only understand simple commands like "kill," or "stop killing" or "oh no, put both halves of that man down this instant!" But really, this blade golem is such a gentle, unassuming creature... it would never do something so horrible, would you, Construct? Wooould you?

 * Black Garius: The power you seek is here... and I can allow you to rectify certain... inequities.
 * Sand: Yes, well, as tempting as the offer to become one of the many shadow reavers we have already slain is, I shall pass. Not much future, you see - for you or them.

 * Lord Nasher: (in reference to Aldanon seeking the way to reach the King of Shadows stronghold) Half the task will be him finding it and the second task will be trying to understand it when he tries to explain it.

 * Bishop: (to you) How many enemies do you have, anyway? There's almost more than I can count.
 * Elanee: There's a surprise.

 * Elanee: Let us promise to speak no more until the morrow, and we shall enjoy what brief time we have together.

 * Ammon: To think you believed me to be our mutual enemy... the irony runs deep, indeed.

 * Bishop: If you aren't willing to kill for it, how important can it be?"

 * Grobnar: Well, just as I suspected... I couldn't see it because it's invisible.

 * Player: Ok, you can travel with us.
 * Grobnar: Excellent. Oh, you won't regret this. I mean, too many times."

 * Grobnar: Why... that little werewolf has the same name as the gnome girl we met outside. What a coincidence!

 * Khelgar: They're monks, aye. Crazy water-drinking fools. Hmmmph. Hope drinking water isn't what makes them fight like that.

 * Hagen: There she is. She's the one who took my money.
 * Neeshka: It is so strange to hear that not directed at me.

 * Neeshka: What are we standing around for? We beat Garius and his wizards... come on, let's search the bodies.

 * Sand: Seems my exceptional wit and cunning instinct for verbal duels has landed me in trouble yet again.

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Knowledge is Power!

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Casino (film)

Casino is a 1995 crime drama film that tells a tale of greed, deception, money, power, and murder occur between two best friends: a mafia enforcer and a casino executive compete against each other over a gambling empire, and over a fast-living and fast-loving socialite.
 * Directed by Martin Scorsese. Written by Nicholas Pileggi and Martin Scorsese.

No One Stays At The Top Forever (taglines)

Sam "Ace" Rothstein

 * When you love someone, you've gotta trust them. There's no other way. You've got to give them the key to everything that's yours. Otherwise, what's the point? And for a while, I believed that's the kind of love I had.

 * No matter how big a guy might be, Nicky would take him on. You beat Nicky with fists, he comes back with a bat. You beat him with a knife, he comes back with a gun. And you beat him with a gun, you better kill him, because he’ll keep coming back and back until one of you is dead.

 * In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and keep them coming back. The longer they play, the more they lose. In the end, we get it all.

 * [voice over, while observing a blackjack cheat] You can spot these assholes by watching the way they bet. Like this guy. He's betting lavender chips at five hundred each with only one little problem: He's always guessed right. If he wasn't so fuckin' greedy, he'd have been tougher to spot. But in the end, they're all greedy.

 * [To a cheater, after casino thugs have broken his accomplice's hand with a hammer] Alright, I'm going to give you a choice: You can either have the money and the hammer, or you can walk out of here. You can't have both.

 * In Vegas, everybody's gotta watch everybody else. Since the players are looking to beat the casino, the dealers are watching the players. The boxmen are watching the dealers. The floormen are watching the boxmen. The pit bosses are watching the floormen. The shift bosses are watching the pit bosses. The casino manager is watching the shift bosses. I'm watching the casino manager. And the eye in the sky [the CCTV cameras] is watching us all.

 * We all have a past! You have a past, I have a past, and my past is no worse than yours, but you guys think you have the right to pass judgment on me!

 * Meeting in the middle of the desert always made me nervous. It's a scary place. I knew about the holes in the desert, of course, and everywhere I looked, there could have been a hole. Normally, my prospects of coming back alive from a meeting with Nicky were 99 out of 100. But this time, when I heard him say "a couple of hundred yards down the road," I gave myself 50/50.

 * [to Ginger, about her and Lester planning to run away with Amy] Yeah, but I've been told that before, "We're working it out." You think that you're home... after what you just put me through with Amy, is a favor to me? So, counting the watch, let's say another four thousand for expenses over the weekend... of which you must have had a good time. I know he did. That's for sure. I know that... fuckin' piece of shit had a good fuckin' time. On my money. You might as well have fucked him, which you probably did anyway. (Ginger glares at him) You're lookin' at me a certain way. You - you're teary-eyed, huh? You're upset. You're a good actress, you know that?  Good fuckin' actress. You can fuckin' get that pity out of people. I'm not a john, you understand?  You always thought I was, but I'm not. And I'm not a sucker. That fuckin' pimp cocksucker. He's lucky I didn't kill him last time. Lucky he's fuckin' livin'. And if you would've stayed with Amy... and you would've ran away... you would've been fuckin' dead. Both of you. Dead. Dead.

 * You wanna get rid of me? Here I am. Go ahead, get rid of me.

 * After all the threats and all the bullshit, it turned out Ginger didn't tell 'em anything. But by then, the Feds didn't need her, anyway. They had all the pieces they needed. And everybody began to tumble, one after the other... just like dominoes. Between Piscano complaining on a wire. Between Nicky, Ginger, me and my license... paradise... we managed to really fuck it all up.

 * After Ginger took off, she wasn't much help to anybody. She found some pimps, lowlifes, druggies and bikers in L.A.. And in a few months, they went through all the money and all the jewels. After they found her body, I hired a private doctor to do another autopsy. He said they gave her a hot dose. In the end, all she had left was $3,600 in mint-condition coins.

 * No matter what the feds or the papers might have said about my car-bombing, it was amateur night - and you could tell. Whoever it was, they put the dynamite under the passenger side. But what they didn't know - what nobody outside the factory knew - was that that model car was made with a metal plate under the driver's seat. It's the only thing that saved my life. The bombing was never authorized, but I suspect I know who lit the fuse, and so did the powers that be.

 * The word was out. The bosses had enough of Nicky. They had enough. How much were they gonna take? So they made an example of him and his brother. They buried them while they were still breathing. They had other ideas for me.

 * The town will never be the same. After the Tangiers, the big corporations took it all over. Today, it looks like Disneyland. And while the kids play cardboard pirates, Mommy and Daddy drop the house payments and Junior's college money on the poker slots. In the old days, dealers knew your name, what you drank, what you played. Today, it's like checking into an airport, and if you order room service, you're lucky if you get it by Thursday. Today, it's all gone. You got a whale show up with four million in a suitcase, and some 25-year-old hotel school kid is gonna want his social security number. After the Teamsters got knocked out of the box, the corporations tore down practically every one of the old casinos. And where did the money come from to rebuild the pyramids? Junk bonds. But in the end, I wound up right back where I started. I could still pick winners, and I could still make money for all kinds of people back home. And why mess up a good thing? And that's that.

Nicky Santoro

 * [About the bosses] These old greaseballs may not look it, but believe me, these are the men who secretly control Las Vegas, because they managed the Teamsters Union. The Teamsters Union was who you had to go to in order to borrow money to build a casino. And no one got approved for a loan from the Teamster's pension fund unless these guys in the room knew they were going to get their little suitcases.

 * They had so much fucking money in there, you could build a house outta stacks of $100 bills. And the best part was that upstairs, the board of directors didn't know what the fuck was going on. I mean, to them, everything looked on the up-and-up, right? Wrong! The guys inside the counting room were all slipped in there to skim the joint dry. They'd do short counts, they'd lose fill slips. They'd even take cash right outta the drop boxes. And it was up to this guy, right here, standing in front of about 2 million dollars, to skim the cash off the top without anybody getting wise — the IRS, or anybody. Now, notice how in the count room, nobody ever seems to see anything. Somebody's always looking the other way. Now look at these guys. They look busy, right? They're counting money. Who'd want to bother them? I mean, God forbid they should make a mistake and forget to steal. Meanwhile, you're in and you're out, past the jack-off guard, who gets an extra C note a week just to watch the door. I mean, it's routine, business as usual — in, out, hello, goodbye — and that's all there is to it. Just another fat fuck, walking out of the casino with a suitcase. Now that suitcase was going straight to one place: right to Kansas City, which was as close to Las Vegas as the Midwest bosses could go without getting themselves arrested. That suitcase was all the bosses ever wanted, and they wanted it every month.

 * [about Anthony Dogs' interrogation] To be truthful with you, I had to admire this fucking guy. He was one of the toughest Irishmen I ever met. This son-of-a-bitch was tough. For two days and two fucking nights, we beat the shit out of this guy. I mean, we even stuck ice picks in his balls, but he never talked. In the end, I had to put his fucking head in a vise.

 * Listen to me, Anthony. I got your head in a fucking vise. I'll squash your fucking head like a grapefruit if you don't give me a name. Don't make me have to do this, please. Don't make me be a bad guy; come on.

 * Charlie M? Charlie M?? You make me pop your fucking eye out of your head to protect that piece of shit?! Charlie M?! You dumb motherfucker!!!

 * I think that you've gotten the wrong impression about me. I think, in all fairness, I should explain to you exactly what it is that I do. For instance, tomorrow morning I'll get up nice and early, take a walk down over to the bank, walk in and see and uh, if you don't have my money for me, I'll crack your fucking head wide open in front of everybody in the bank. And just about the time that I'm coming out of jail, hopefully, you'll be coming out of your coma. And guess what? I'll split your fucking head open again, 'cause I'm fucking stupid. I don't give a fuck about jail. That's my business. That's what I do. And we know what you do, don't we, Charlie? You fuck people out of money and get away with it. Hey, you fat Irish prick, you put my fucking money to sleep. You go get my money or I'll put your fucking brain to sleep!

 * You know I'm trying to put something really big together out here. You know what I'm talking about, huh? You know! If you're acting like this now, how can I depend on you?

 * You know, I don't wanna bring this up, but you've been treating a lot of people with a lot of disrespect, even your own wife.

 * [Watching the FBI plane overhead while golfing] What the fuck is this? Where's this fucking guy gonna land, in the fairway? They're fucking agents, Frankie, look at this! $100 for whoever hits the plane.

 * [Chewing out Sam in the Nevada desert] You said I'm bringing heat on you? I gotta listen to people because of your fucking shit?! You're ordering me out? You better get your own fucking army, pal!

 * [Chewing out Sam in the Nevada desert] Get this through your head, you Jew motherfucker, you! You only exist out here because of me! That's the only reason! Without me, you, personally - every fucking wiseguy skell around will take a piece of your fucking Jew ass! Then where you gonna go? You're fucking warned! Don't ever go over my fucking head again, you motherfucker, you!

 * I used to send Marino back home with a piece of what I made. Not a big piece, but what did they know? They were 1,500 miles away, and I don't know anyone who can see that far.

 * [To Frank Marino, realizing how far he's gone with his affair with Ginger] I've fucked up, Frankie. I fucked up real good this time. I should never have started with this fucking broad.

 * [After Andy Stone is murdered by two men as he is walking to his car] As much as they liked him, he wasn't one of us. He wasn't Italian. As far as they knew, he could've talked. Otherwise, Stoney might still be alive. The first one to skip was John Nance. He found a nice warm secluded place in Costa Rica. He thought nobody would find him there, but then his kid got nabbed by the Feds for drugs. And so, naturally, the bosses were afraid he'd come out of hiding just to save his kid and give 'em all up. So... [The same two men come behind a bleeding John Nance and shoot him in the head] But anyway they, you know, they all had to follow. Everybody went down. Before you knew it, anybody who knew anything wound up getting whacked.

 * It took months for everything to calm down. But finally, my guys got out on bail and the bosses wanted me to send my brother Dominick out to Vegas. Always the dollars. Always the fucking dollars. I mean, it was still way too hot for me to even go near Vegas, so I set up a meeting with the guys way out in the sticks. I didn't want my brother to get fucked around. I mean, what's right is right. They don't give a fuck about— [Frankie hits him from behind with a baseball bat]

Others

 * Commissioner Webb: Mr. Rothstein, you people never will understand the way it works out here. You're all just our guests, but you act like you're at home. Let me tell you something, partner: you ain't home, but that's where we're gonna send you if it harelips the Governor. Thank you for your time.

 * Paige Novodor: Good evening, everyone. I'm Paige Novodor. What should've been a routine licensing hearing turned into bedlam yesterday when the flamboyant Tangiers Casino executive, Sam "Ace" Rothstein, accused the state's top gaming officials of corruption and hypocrisy. In a wild and unprecedented outburst that followed his gaming license denial, Rothstein followed several stunned commissioners into the hallway, where he continued his harangue until his own lawyers and friends urged him to leave.
 * Sam Rothstein{on tape}: I have a past, you have a past, and my past is no worse than yours. But you think you have the right to pass judgment!
 * Paige Novodor: Long suspected of running the Tangiers without a gaming license, yesterday's hearing was to determine whether someone with Rothstein's checkered personal history was qualified to officially hold a top gaming post.

 * Frank Marino: [Narrating, when asked by Remo if Nicky's having an affair with Ginger] What could I say? I knew if I gave the wrong answer — I mean, Nicky, Ginger, Ace — all of 'em could wind up getting killed. Because there's one thing about these old-timers: they don't like any fucking around with the other guys' wives. It's bad for business. So I lied. Even though I knew that by lying to Gaggi, I could wind up getting killed too.

Dialogue

 * Ace Rothstein: [narrating] Before I ever ran a casino or got myself blown up, Ace Rothstein was a hell of a handicapper, I can tell you that. I was so good that when I bet, I can change the odds for every bookmaker in the country. I'm serious. I had it down so cold that I was given paradise on earth. I was given one of the biggest casinos in Las Vegas to run: the Tangiers, by the only kind of guys that can get you that kind of money. Sixty-two million seven hundred thousand dollars. I don't know all the details.
 * Nicky Santoro: [narrating] Matter of fact, nobody knew all the details. But it should have been perfect. I mean he had me, Nicky Santoro, his best friend, watching his ass. And he had Ginger, the woman he loved, on his arm. But in the end, we fucked it all up. It should have been so sweet, too. But it turned out to be the last time that street guys like us were ever given anything that fuckin' valuable again.

 * [A man dressed like a cowboy is playing blackjack, his boots off and his feet up on the table]
 * Ace Rothstein: [to Billy] I don't give a shit who he's connected to. Tell him to take his fucking feet off the table. What does he think this is, a goddamn sawdust joint?
 * Billy Sherbert: [to cowboy] Sir, would you mind taking your feet off the table and put your shoes on, please?
 * Cowboy: Yeah, I would mind. I'm having a bad night.
 * Billy: [to Ace] Fucking asshole won't budge.
 * Ace: Call security. [to cowboy] How are you?
 * Cowboy: Good. How are you?
 * Ace: Good. Want to do me a favor? You want to take your feet off the table and put your shoes back on?
 * Cowboy: Fuck you!
 * Ace: [to security officers] I want you to exit this guy off the premises, and I want you to exit him off his feet and use his head to open the fucking door.
 * Security officer #1: [to cowboy] Sir, you're gonna have to leave. You mind coming with us outside?
 * Cowboy: Bullshit. I ain't going anywhere.
 * Security officer #1: [ejecting him as instructed] Bullshit, you're outta here!
 * Cowboy: Fuck you! Fuck you! You know who you're fucking with, huh? Do ya? [to Ace] You fucking faggot! You know who you're fucking with? Leave me alone!
 * Ace: [narrating] Sure enough, an hour later, I get the call.
 * Nicky Santoro: [to Ace on the phone] Ace, what happened over there? I mean, did you know that guy you threw out was with me?
 * Ace: No, I didn't know that, but you know what he did?
 * Nicky: No.
 * Ace: He insulted Billy, then I walk over to him politely, and he tells me to go fuck myself.
 * Nicky: What?
 * Ace: Then he called me a faggot, so what do you think I did? I threw that cocksucker out.
 * Nicky: Wha-? Ho-hold- [to cowboy] Hey, come here. You called my friend a faggot? You told him to go fuck himself?
 * Cowboy: I- I didn't-
 * Nicky: Is that what you did, tell him to go fuck himself? [beating him down with the handset] You fucking hick! You fucking hick, you! Come here. Come here! [to Marino] Get him up. [to cowboy] Come here. You go over there right now and you apologize. You better hope he lets you back in. If you ever get out of line there again, I'll smash your fucking head so hard, you won't be able get that cowboy hat on! You hear me? Fucking hick. [to Ace] Sammy, listen. This guy obviously doesn't know who he was talking to. You understand? He doesn't know that, uh, we're dear friends. I mean, he's already very sorry but, uh, if you could do me a favor: let him back in, I swear to you, he'll never get out of line again. I promise you that.
 * Ace: If he does it again, he's out for good. I don't care what it is, Nick. I'll never let him in the place again.
 * Nicky: I'm sorry about this, really. All right, Ace? Thanks, pal. [Hangs up and turns to the cowboy] You took your boots off? You put your feet on the table? You shit-kicking, stinky horse-manure-smelling motherfucker, you! You fuck me up over there, I'll stick you in a hole in the fucking desert. You understand? [slapping him] Go over there and apologize!

 * Ace Rothstein: I just want to run a square joint. That's it. I just want my license. I want everything nice and quiet. That's it.
 * Nicky Santoro: You mean, quiet like this? [holds up a magazine] "I'm the boss." That's quiet?
 * Ace: That's all taken out of context. I have no control over that. Ronnie and Billy were right there. They'll tell you exactly what happened.
 * Nicky: Well, back home they don't know about fucking control. That looks bad.
 * Ace: Looks bad? I'm going to tell you what looks bad. Every time you're on television, I get mentioned. That looks bad. That looks bad!
 * Nicky: What the fuck happened to you? Will you tell me?
 * Ace: What happened to me? What happened to you? You lost your control.
 * Nicky: I lost control? Look at you! You're fucking walking around like John Barrymore! A fucking pink robe and a fucking cigarette holder? I lost control?

 * Headline: ROTHSTEIN OUT OF GAMING
 * Remo Gaggi: What is he going to do now?
 * Andy Stone{sighing}: I don't know.
 * Remo: What in the world was he thinking, ranting and raving on like that? He knows all those guys he yelled at are friends of ours.
 * Andy: Maybe he could run things with a different job title. Would not be the best, but hey, what can we do?
 * Remo: So long as he is quiet; let him hide out in his office, call himself a janitor, I do not give a shit! But...whatever job he takes, make sure it is something quiet!
 * Strauss' instrumental from a famous film plays as scene cuts to Tangiers
 * Trudy: Ladies and gentlemen, the Tangiers Casino proudly presents the all-new Sam Rothstein show, Aces High!

 * [Ace meets with Andy Stone late at night, after Ace is denied a license to operate the casino and the bosses back home grow angry about his TV show and continued attacks on the Nevada gaming board]
 * Ace Rothstein: First of all, what they did was totally unconstitutional. We're on the list to be heard before the Supreme Court of the United States--
 * Andy Stone: [interrupting] These guys don't give a fuck about the Supreme Court! They want you to walk away.
 * Ace: Walk away? Andy, you can't be serious. How can I walk away? Don't you see what's at stake?
 * Andy: The old man said "maybe your friend should give in". When the old man says "maybe," that's like a papal bull. Not only should you quit, you should run.

 * Nicky Santoro: Where the fuck do you get off talking to people about me behind my back, going over my head?
 * Ace Rothstein: What people?
 * Nicky: What people, d'ja think I wasn't gonna find out?
 * Ace: I don't even know what you're talking about Nick...
 * Nicky: No? You said I'm bringing heat on YOU? I gotta listen to people because of your fuckin shit? You're orderin' me out? You better get your own fuckin' army pal!
 * Ace: I didn't do anything, I mean, I didn't order you or anybody. I only told Andy Stone that you had a lot of heat on you and that was a problem.
 * Nicky: You want me to get out of my own fuckin' town?
 * Ace: Yeah I said l-let the bullshit blow over for a while, so I can run the casino. Anything goes wrong with the casino it's my ass. It's not yours, it's my ass!
 * Nicky: Oh I don't know whether you know this or not, but you only have your fuckin' casino because I made that possible. I'm what counts out here, not your fuckin' country clubs or your fuckin' TV shows! And what the fuck are you doing on TV anyhow?! You know I get calls from back home every fuckin day, they think you went bat-shit!
 * Ace: I'm only on TV because I got to be able to hang around the casino. You understand that, you know that, come on.
 * Nicky: You fuckin' ass! You coulda had the food and beverage job without going on television. You wanted to go on TV!
 * Ace: Yeah I did want to go on TV. That way I have a forum, I can fight back, I'm known, people see me; they know they can't fuck around with me like they could if I was an unknown, that's right, yeah!
 * Nicky: You're making a big fuckin' spectacle of yourself!
 * Ace: Me? I wouldn't even be in this situation if it wasn't for you. You know, you brought down so much fuckin' heat on me, I mean every time I meet somebody the big question is, do I know you?
 * Nicky: Oh sure now you wanna bring your fuckin' license on me, is that it?
 * Ace: No, Nicky, when you asked me if you could come out here, what did I tell you? I mean you asked me and I know you were gonna come out no matter what I said, but what did I tell you? Do you remember what I told you? Do you remember what I told you?
 * Nicky: Back- Back up, back up a fuckin' minute here. One minute. I asked you? When the fuck did I ever ask you if I could come out here? Get this through your head, you-
 * Ace: You never-
 * Nicky: Get this through your head you Jew motherfucker, you! You only exist out here because of ME! That's the only reason. Without me, you, personally, every fuckin' wise guy skell around'll take a piece of your fuckin' Jew ass! Then where you gonna go? You're fuckin' warned. Don't ever go over my fuckin' head again. You motherfucker, you.

 * Nicky Santoro: I told you this was fucking dangerous. Remember I said, "Ginger, this is a dangerous situation, be very careful," you fucking yes me to death.
 * Ginger: If it's so fucking dangerous, then why don't you kill him?
 * Nicky: Kill him. Shut the fuck up, you don't know what you're talking about.
 * Ginger: Well then, have him killed, and get it over with.
 * Nicky: Hey, don't be such a fucking smart ass, will ya! I known the guy 35 years! I'm gonna fucking whack him for you?

 * Nicky Santoro: [voiceover] Now for the best, and I couldn't believe this shit. Piscano's expense reports took the cake.
 * FBI Agent 1: [looking through Piscano's expense reports and books] Oh, this is good. Bingo.
 * Nicky: [voiceover] He might as well have given them a fuckin' blueprint. Everybody's names, addresses, dates, everything.
 * FBI Agent 1: Look at this! Thank you so much, Mr. Piscano. How considerate of you. We appreciate it.
 * Artie Piscano: [weakly] Those are my — those are my mother's books.
 * FBI Agent 2: [begins handcuffing Piscano] You're under arrest.
 * [as he is handcuffed, Piscano has a heart attack and collapses on the floor]
 * Nicky: [voiceover] What a fuckin' balloonhead.

 * Nicky Santoro: [voiceover] When the bosses were arrested, some of 'em were so old that they needed doctors at their arraignment. But when it looked like they could get twenty-five years to life just for skimming a casino, sick or no fuckin' sick, you knew people were gonna get clipped. So, the day of the arraignment, they had this meeting right in the back of the courthouse. See, when something like this happens, you know how things are gonna work out; It's always better with no witnesses. So what about Andy?
 * Vinny Forlano: He won't talk. Stone's a good kid, straight-up man just like his father. That's the way I see it
 * Vincent Borelli: I agree. He's solid. A fuckin' Marine.
 * Americo Capello: He's okay. He always was. Remo, what do you think?
 * Remo Gaggi: (pause) Look...why take a chance? At least, that's the way I feel about it.

Taglines

 * No one stays at the top forever.

 * Luck has nothing to do with the games they play.

 * They had it all, they ran the show, and it was paradise...while it lasted.

 * Don't Push Your Luck.

 * Winner loses all.

Cast

 * Robert De Niro - Sam "Ace" Rothstein
 * Sharon Stone - Ginger McKenna
 * Joe Pesci - Nicky Santoro
 * James Woods - Lester Diamond
 * Don Rickles - Billy Sherbert
 * Alan King - Andy Stone
 * Kevin Pollak - Philip Green
 * L. Q. Jones - Pat Webb
 * Dick Smothers - Senator
 * Frank Vincent - Frank Marino
 * John Bloom - Don Ward
 * Pasquale Cajano - Remo Gaggi

 * Melissa Prophet - Jennifer Santoro
 * Bill Allison - John Nance
 * Vinny Vella - Artie Piscano
 * Oscar Goodman - Himself
 * Catherine Scorsese - Piscano's mother
 * Philip Suriano - Dominick Santoro
 * Erika Von Tagen - Older Amy
 * Richard Riehle - Charlie Clark
 * Frankie Avalon - Himself
 * Steve Allen - Himself
 * Jayne Meadows - Herself
 * Jerry Vale - Himself

title: Casino (film)


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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion/Jaswant Singh Khalra

 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: delete. —LrdChaos (talk) 15:11, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Jaswant Singh Khalra
Created a week ago; only content is what appears to be an entire speech. —LrdChaos (talk) 13:47, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Vote closed. Result: delete (seven votes to delete, no dissent). —LrdChaos (talk) 15:11, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

 * Delete. —LrdChaos (talk) 13:47, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete unless properly sourced quotes added and unsourced speech with unsourced translation removed (or at least cut down to pithy excerpts with a source). ~ Jeff Q (talk) 15:36, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per Jeffq. Cbrown1023 19:02, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete or possibly transwiki to Wikisource if they have a use for it. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 19:39, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. ~ UDScott 20:49, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. - InvisibleSun 01:14, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete and not transwiki, since the speaker died in 1995 and hence we have no reason currently this speach is in PD or under GFDL unless the poster give his or her identification which allows this poster to speak on the behalf of all involved parties as heirs of this person's copyright holder. --Aphaia 19:01, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

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Ludwig von Rochau

Ludwig August von Rochau (20 August 1810 – 15 October 1873) was a journalist and politician who participated in the Frankfurt Putsch of 1833 and subsequently spent ten years as an exile in France. He published Principles of Realpolitik, Applied to the Political Conditions of Germany (Grundregeln von Realpolitik, angewendet an den politischen Zuständen von Deutschland) in 1853.

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 * Mittel Energie auszuüben und nur ihn anzuordnen der Energie besitzt kann sie ausüben. Dieser direkte Anschluß der Energie und der Richtlinie bildet die grundlegende Wahrheit aller Politik und den Schlüssel zu aller Geschichte.
 * To rule means to exercise power, and only he who possesses power can exercise it. This direct connection of power and rule forms the fundamental truth of all politics and the key to all history.
 * As quoted in The German Idea of Freedom : History of a Political Tradition (1972) by Leonard Krieger, p. 354

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Realpolitik

Realpolitik [German: real ("realistic," "practical" or "actual") + politik ("politics")] is a term used to describe politics based on strictly practical rather than ideological notions and practiced without what would be considered sentimental illusions. Realpolitik is often used pejoratively as a term to imply politics imposed by means of physical violence, political extortion or economic suppression, or to imply completely amoral politics aimed solely to achieve the goals by any means.

Quotes

 * Mittel Energie auszuüben und nur ihn anzuordnen der Energie besitzt kann sie ausüben. Dieser direkte Anschluß der Energie und der Richtlinie bildet die grundlegende Wahrheit aller Politik und den Schlüssel zu aller Geschichte.
 * Translation: To rule means to exercise power, and only he who possesses power can exercise it. This direct connection of power and rule forms the fundamental truth of all politics and the key to all history.
 * August Ludwig von Rochau, as quoted in The German Idea of Freedom : History of a Political Tradition (1972) by Leonard Krieger, p. 354

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I noticed that the expansion of was failing to remove the conditional-argument syntax, leaving the heading with extra baggage; e.g.:
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I had to stare at that for quite a while before I realized that we wanted  instead of , because the second parameter is the default if the first (named) is not used. (The other way around, the default was, with "pg" already substituted. I guess MediaWiki treats numbered parameters a little differently.) Just to be sure, I tested this with Wikipedia's Template:X8 and my WP sandbox, using nearly every reasonable combination of variables (and a few unreasonable ones, too). After confirming it worked, I updated our vfd-new2. Aren't templates such fun? ~ Jeff Q (talk) 15:21, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Multi-article deletion discussions
I have come up with a basic revision for this template that allows the following:

 * If "pg" and "text" are specified (or 1 for pg and 2 for text are given), the linked "pg" will appear in the heading and the "text" discussion text will appear under it. (This is the standard system LrdChaos implemented.)
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The syntax I came up with is:

The problem is the same that vfd-new3 is currently experiencing. Even though the displayed material looks and works exactly as it should, the heading has unexpanded junk left over from the template. Specifically, the following template usage:

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I'm obviously missing something that, once resolved, should make it relatively easy to use the new process for both Steps II & III to nominate groups of articles under an unlinked descriptive heading (or a manually-linked short list of multiple articles).

Meanwhile, I am using Template:X0 to experiment. My first pass at using this vfd-new2 variation can be seen at this version of my sandbox. Note that everything looks fine on the displayed page, but editing it reveals the leftover junk in the headings. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 02:12, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

P.S. I think it will be less confusing to use "heading" or something else as a non-linked discussion-heading variable, instead of "discussion" when this is implemented, because "discussion" is more descriptive of what WP (and now WQ) refer to as "text". ~ Jeff Q (talk) 02:12, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Adding closures and nominator votes
Wikiquote has two traditional VfD nomination elements not usually included in Wikipedia's AfD Step II process:

 * Adding "Vote closes" timestamps for formal discussion deadlines. (Wikipedia has no formal deadlines.)
 * Adding a separate vote apart from the nomination.

The vote closure can easily be added later, and a bolded vote can easily be added to the "text" parameter during the nomination, so neither is a show-stopper. (Some editors don't even bother with a formal vote, allowing the nomination to imply their opinion.) I've continued doing all three steps (nomination, vote closure, vote) through the simple expedient of tacking the last two onto the template usage:

It somewhat defeats the purpose of a template for Step II, but on the other hand, many users (especially those coming from Wikipedia) may very well expect to do only the nomination, anyway. I'm not sure what we might do about this, but I wanted to point out this variation from Wikipedia. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 02:57, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

 * One thing that's different about Wikipedia's Articles for deletion process, at least in terms of voting, is that the initial nominator generally doesn't record a separate vote, unless they're simply listing an orphaned nomination. It's assumed, in the absence of any disclaimer, that the lister is voting for deletion (or else they wouldn't have nominated it in the first place). I think that if we started taking the same attitude, we could eliminate the initial vote. (We might also want to think about maing closures a little easier by losing the hard count, which might only serve to reinforce the (mistaken) idea that it's a 'traditional' vote). As to the close time, I personally think that it's the sort of thing that should be added by a sysop or a knowledgeable nominator (as it's always been, really). I don't think there's any need for including in the "how to" for listing a page for deletion. —LrdChaos (talk) 03:05, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Just another comment, Wikipedia doesn't have formal deadlines because there are so many! It takes us a while to get through the daily logs (there is about 5 days and then they will be closed, slowly).  Also, they try not to refer to it as voting, they call it "discussing".  That is because there are a great number o possible voters that may not know the proper policies.  Wikiquote is smaller and has many of the same people voting in all the discussions, and most of them understand and can apply the policies very well (leading to your voting more as opposed to discussing) (except for you Jeff, you normally write a book on your stance :) ).  Cbrown1023  talk  03:17, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Jeff, it's great the way you have it!  Cbrown1023  talk  03:26, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

 * Don't worry, Cbrown1023 — I'm quite aware of (and often poke fun at) my own verbosity on these matters. (I even had an editor who is an attorney tell me that I write like a lawyer, which I took as a compliment from her. ☺)

 * I pushed for both the formal vote, the specific close date, and the vote count because we had so few active sysops at the time (Kalki and three brand-new ones, myself included) that I was extremely uncomfortable with the opportunity for arguments between VfD participants over the results if everything were not made explicit. (The close date was made a policy, but the other elements were all things I routinely did to encourage by example, and for good and ill, most currently active sysops have picked up these habits. I've since reversed myself on "voting", but I still total up the results because it provides a context in which to make explicit judgment-call arguments (like dismissing one-shot or prankster editors' votes, or making clear how I made close calls).

 * Vote closing dates have occasionally been added by non-sysops with no significant problems. I see no need to limit it to sysops because it's easy to follow our tradition of setting the close time to 168 hours (1 week) from nomination, rounded up to the next whole hour.

 * The problem with the lack of a nominator's explicit vote is that an article is often nominated not because someone expects it to be deleted, but because the nominator wants to call urgent attention to its problems in the hopes that they'll be addressed quickly. The truth of en:Wikiquote (so far) is that there are only two community pages that all regular editors routinely participate on — WQ:VFD and WQ:VP — and participation on the village pump is quite variable, with some questions never getting a response, let alone an answer. Pressing issues of style and content practices often get their boost to resolution from a deletion nomination of an example article. To this end, it's good to have a means for a nominator to be able to state a case in the nomination separate from their opinion. But this isn't really required, and, as I said above, if a nominator wants to be sure of taking a clear position, there's no reason they can't do so in the nomination.

 * Okay, I've rambled enough on this for now. My closing point is that I agree with LrdChaos that none of these extra things need to be stuffed into a clear, concise "how-to". Our sysops can add closure dates as needed and can be trusted to deduce the nominator's opinion if not made explicit, or ask for an explicit call if unclear. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 15:05, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Done, Evaluation requested
I've added a new feature using parser functions that automatically addes a vote closing time 7 days and the exact hour from the nomination time. I'd like to get feedback on this.  Cbrown1023  talk  01:20, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
 * The first thing I notice is that the hour is wrong; it takes the hour from the current time, but VFD nominations close at the first :00 after the nomination (to ensure that the full 7 days/168 hours/10,080 minutes are given, plus a little buffer). I'm not too familiar with some of the parser function stuff, but is there any way to make it do math to fix that? I suspect not, but again, I don't know it very well, though it wouldn't be just as simple as adding one, due to wrapping from 23:00 to 00:00 (which I usually bump to 01:00 when I nominate at that hour, to avoid confusion). —LrdChaos (talk) 04:55, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Fixed.  Cbrown1023  talk  18:57, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

 * I just found another issue: this one occurs when a page is nominated during the 23:00 hour. While the hour math does the right thing and goes to 00:00 (which is technically correct; however, I prefer to give these an extra hour (to 01:00) to avoid ambiguity), but the close date is seven days from the 23:00 day, not the 00:00 day, so these are given only a 6-day period instead of 7. —LrdChaos (talk) 15:18, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
 * I just did another nomination where this problem popped up; is there any way to fix the template so it automatically handles this, or will we just need to change the date manually? —LrdChaos (talk) 23:19, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion/Charlie Haas

 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: delete. —LrdChaos (talk) 15:12, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Charlie Haas
A new wrestler article (see Charlie Haas), with no intro, no links, no source, just a single quote that has more to do with how it is presented that what it says, which isn't original. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 17:10, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

 * Vote closed. Result: delete (six votes to delete, no dissent). —LrdChaos (talk) 15:12, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

 * Delete unless original, pithy, sourced quotes added. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 17:10, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per above. Cbrown1023 19:02, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 19:40, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. - InvisibleSun 20:40, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. ~ UDScott 20:50, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. —LrdChaos (talk) 15:30, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

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Deletion discussions with names different from page names
Most of the pages we nominate for deletion, by far, have deletion discussions that exactly match the article title. There are occasional needs (like multiple related-page nominations) that either have more than one page name in their titles or, in the case of complex situations, have a descriptive title instead.

I have added a "discussion" parameter to this template to accomodate this situation. Just add the desired discussion name like so:

and the link shown in the VfD header, which is used to create the discussion, will be the desired discussion title instead of the name of the page being nominated for deletion. In the above example, the link would go to:

The nominator will also have to remember that the corresponding Step III template to add to WQ:VFD would be:

I haven't fully tested this yet, although I tested the template to make sure my change didn't break its ordinary use. Let me know if there is a problem. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 17:31, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Protection
This page has recently been seeing a lot of vandalism recently. Regardless of what you think of VfDs, I think we can agree that this template should be protected. – Ilovemydoodle (Not a sockpuppet) (talk / e-mail) 16:34, 15 July 2022 (UTC)

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R. Madhavan

Ranganathan Madhavan (born 1 June 1970) is an Indian actor, screenwriter, director and producer who predominantly appears in Tamil and Hindi films.

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 * I am the kind of guy who believes that films are supposed to be entertainment. I do not subscribe much to movies that leave you with a lingering feeling, make you feel angry or depressed. I am not yet ready to make films like that. I have grown up with films that are entertaining. Since I am such a huge fan of entertainment, I believe that the films that I do should also be entertaining, people can talk about it for three days and forget about it.
 * "Interview “People should talk about my films for 3 days and forget about it” - R. Madhavan" by, (30 August 2005).

 * When you see what goes on inside a slaughterhouse, I think you'll lose your appetite for animal flesh, too… Animals feel pain, just as people do. They value their lives, just as we value ours. They're terrified by the sights and smells of the slaughterhouse, and they fight for every last breath. I hope you'll also make the compassionate choice to go vegetarian.
 * "Be kind to animals, go vegetarian, appeals R Madhavan", (4 October 2012).

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~ Kalki 18:45, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

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Welcome
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