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Napoleon Hill

Napoleon Hill (26 October 1883 – 8 November 1970) was an American self-help author. He is best known for his book Think and Grow Rich (1937), which is among the 10 best-selling self-help books of all time. Hill's works insisted that fervid expectations are essential to improving one's life. Most of his books were promoted as expounding principles to achieve "success".

 * See also: Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude (1960), co-authored with W. Clement Stone

Quotes

 * Every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
 * A maxim of Hill's, specifically cited as such, in Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude (1960), co-authored with W. Clement Stone, Ch. 14, p. 222.

 * Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
 * As quoted in Diamond Power : Gems of Wisdom from America's Greatest Marketer (2003) by Barry Farber, p. 53

 * Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! And powerful things at that, when mixed with definiteness of purpose, and burning desire, can be translated into riches. Use auto-suggestion, have faith, imagination and overcome fear and time is your opposite player as in checkerboard.
 * As quoted in Self-Motivation Through Risk Taking! : Are You Leading Or Do You Wither with Problems? (2005) by M. Nadarajan Munisamy

 * The greatest achievements of men, were at first, nothing but dreams of the minds of men who knew that dreams are the seedlings of all achievements. A burning desire, to be and to do, is the starting point, from which the dreamer must take off
 * The Science of Personal Achievement (Audio - Nightingale-Conant).

The Law of Success (1928)

 * The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons: Teaching, for the First Time in the History of The World, the True Philosophy Upon Which All Personal Success Is Built

 * Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement. Just as the electron is the last unit of matter discernible to the scientist. DESIRE is the seed of all achievement; the starting place, back of which there is nothing, or at least there is nothing of which we have any knowledge.
 * p. 109

Think and Grow Rich (1938)

 * In every chapter of this book, mention has been made of the money-making secret which has made fortunes for more than five hundred exceedingly wealthy men whom I have carefully analyzed over a long period of years. The secret was brought to my attention by Andrew Carnegie, more than a quarter of a century ago. The canny, lovable old Scotsman carelessly tossed it into my mind, when I was but a boy. Then he sat back in his chair, with a merry twinkle in his eyes, and watched carefully to see if I had brains enough to understand the full significance of what he had said to me. When he saw that I had grasped the idea, he asked if I would be willing to spend twenty years or more, preparing myself to take it to the world, to men and women who, without the secret, might go through life as failures. I said I would, and with Mr. Carnegie's cooperation, I have kept my promise. Author's Preface

 * This secret was extensively used by President Woodrow Wilson, during the World War. It was passed on to every soldier who fought in the war, carefully wrapped in the training received before going to the front. President Wilson told me it was a strong factor in raising the funds needed for the war.  Author's Preface

 * Psychologists have correctly said that when one is truly ready for a thing, it puts in its appearance. When the opportunity came, it appeared in a different form, and from a different direction than... expected. That is one of the tricks of opportunity. It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. Perhaps this is why so many fail to recognize opportunity... p. 13

 * All achievement, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea! p.18

 * Remember, no more effort is required to aim high in life, to demand abundance and prosperity, than is required to accept misery and poverty. p. 38

 * Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought. p. 54

 * We are what we are, because of the vibrations of thought which we pick up and register, through the stimuli of our daily environment.''' Resolve to throw off the influences of any unfortunate environment, and to build your own life to order. p. 54

 * I know that I have the ability to achieve the object of my Definite Purpose in life, therefore, I demand of myself persistent, continuous action toward its attainment, and I here and now promise to render such action. p. 54

 * I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice, therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects. p. 55

 * Of all the ages of civilization, this is the most favorable for the development of the imagination, because it is an age of rapid change. On every hand one may contact stimuli which develop the imagination. Through the aid of his imaginative faculty, man has discovered, and harnessed, more of Nature's forces during the past fifty years than during the entire history of the human race, previous to that time... p. 62

 * He has conquered the air so completely, that the birds are a poor match for him in flying. He has harnessed the ether, and made it serve as a means of instantaneous communication with any part of the world.

 * He has discovered that his own brain is both a broadcasting, and a receiving station for the vibration of thought, and he is beginning now to learn how to make practical use of this discovery... p. 62

 * He has increased the speed of locomotion, until he may now travel at a speed of more than three hundred miles an hour. The time will soon come when a man may breakfast in New York, and lunch in San Francisco. p. 62

 * The earth on which you live, you, yourself, and every other material thing are the result of evolutionary change, through which microscopic bits of matter have been organized and arranged in an orderly fashion. p. 63

 * Moreover--and this statement is of stupendous importance--this earth, every one of the billions of individual cells of your body, and every atom of matter, began as an intangible form of energy. p. 64
 * As far as science has been able to determine, the entire universe consists of but two elements--matter and energy. Through the combination of energy and matter, has been created everything perceptible to man, from the largest star which floats in the heavens, down to, and including man, himself. p. 64

 * Thomas A. Edison "failed" ten thousand times before he perfected the incandescent electric light bulb. That is--he met with temporary defeat ten thousand times, before his efforts were crowned with success. p. 73

 * Temporary defeat should mean only one thing, the certain knowledge that there is something wrong with your plan. Millions of men go through life in misery and poverty, because they lack a sound plan through which to accumulate a fortune. p. 73

 * There is something radically wrong with a civilization, and a system of education, which permit 98% of the people to go through life as failures. But I did not write this book for the purpose of moralizing on the rights and wrongs of the world; that would require a book a hundred times the size of this one. p. 85

 * Discipline comes through self-control. This means that one must control all negative qualities. Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself. Self-mastery is the hardest job you will ever tackle. If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self. You may see at one and the same time both your best friend and your greatest enemy, by stepping in front of a mirror. p. 86

 * No person may enjoy outstanding success without good health. Many of the causes of ill health are subject to mastery and control. These, in the main are: a. Overeating of foods not conducive to health. b. Wrong habits of thought... c. Wrong use of, and over indulgence in sex. d. Lack of proper physical exercise e. An inadequate supply of fresh air, due to improper breathing. p. 86

 * Procrastination is one of the most common causes of failure.... Procrastination stands within the shadow of every human being, waiting his opportunity to spoil one's chances of success.

 * Most of us go through life as failures, because we are waiting for the "time to be right" to start doing something worthwhile. The time will never be "just right." Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

 * Most of us are good "starters" but poor "finishers" of everything we begin. Moreover, people are prone to give up at the first signs of defeat. There is no substitute for persistence. Failure cannot cope with Persistance. p. 86

 * Success comes through the application of power, and power is attained through the cooperative efforts of other people. A negative personality will not induce cooperation. p. 87

 * Sex energy is the most powerful of all the stimuli which move people into action. Because it is the most powerful of the emotions, it must be controlled, through transmutation, and converted into other channels.

 * No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like. The most essential step in the marketing of personal services is that of selecting an occupation into which you can throw yourself wholeheartedly. p. 87

 * Truly, thoughts are things, and their scope of operation is the world, itself. p. 87

 * The person with a "closed" mind on any subject seldom gets ahead. Intolerance means that one has stopped acquiring knowledge. The most damaging forms of intolerance are those connected with religious, racial, and political differences of opinion. p.88

 * The most damaging forms of intemperance are connected with eating, strong drink, and sexual activities. Overindulgence in any of these is fatal to success. p.88

 * Inability to cooperate with others. More people lose their positions and their big opportunities in life, because of this fault, than for all other reasons combined.

 * Sons and daughters of wealthy men, and others who inherit money which they did not earn... Power in the hands of one who did not acquire it gradually, is often fatal to success.

 * Quick riches are more dangerous than poverty.

 * There is no substitute for honesty... there is NO HOPE for the person who is dishonest... p.88

 * Most people are too indifferent or lazy to acquire facts with which to think accurately. They prefer to act on "opinions" created by guesswork or snap-judgments. p.88

 * The strongest oak tree of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It’s the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun. p. 112

 * Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along. p. 127

 * You have absolute control over but one thing, and that is your thoughts. This is the most significant and inspiring of all facts known to man! It reflects man's Divine nature. This Divine prerogative is the sole means by which you may control your own destiny. If you fail to control your own mind, you may be sure you will control nothing else. p. 173

 * If you must be careless with your possessions, let it be in connection with material things. Your mind is your spiritual estate! Protect and use it with the care to which Divine Royalty is entitled. You were given a will-power for this purpose. p. 173

 * Unfortunately, there is no legal protection against those who, either by design or ignorance, poison the minds of others by negative suggestion. This form of destruction should be punishable by heavy legal penalties, because it may and often does destroy one's chances of acquiring material things which are protected by law. p. 173

 * Doubting Thomases scoffed scornfully when Henry Ford tried out his first crudely built automobile on the streets of Detroit. Some said the thing never would become practical. Others said no one would pay money for such a contraption... p. 173

 * Mind control is the result of self-discipline and habit. You either control your mind or it controls you. There is no half-way compromise. The most practical of all methods for controlling the mind is the habit of keeping it busy with a definite purpose, backed by a definite plan...Without this control, success is not possible. p. 173

 * Building alibis with which to explain away failure is a national pastime. The habit is as old as the human race, and is fatal to success! Why do people cling to their pet alibis? The answer is obvious. They defend their alibis because THEY CREATE them! A man's alibi is the child of his own imagination. It is human nature to defend one's own brain-child. p. 173

 * Building alibis is a deeply rooted habit. Habits are difficult to break, especially when they provide justification for something we do. Plato had this truth in mind when he said, The first and best victory is to conquer self. To be conquered by self is, of all things, the most shameful and vile. p. 173

 * In parting, I would remind you that "Life is a checkerboard, and the player opposite you is time. If you hesitate before moving, or neglect to move promptly, your men will be wiped off the board by time. You are playing against a partner who will not tolerate indecision! p. 173

Power of the Master Mind

 * The "Master Mind" may be defined as: "Coordination of knowledge and effort, in a spirit of harmony, between two or more people, for the attainment of a definite purpose."
 * '', January 1963, p. 148.

 * Men take on the nature and the habits and the power of thought of those with whom they associate in a spirit of sympathy and harmony.
 * Think & Grow Rich, January 1963, p. 150.

 * Money is shy and elusive. It must be wooed and won by methods not unlike those used by a determined lover, in pursuit of the girl of his choice.
 * Think & Grow Rich, January 1963,  p. 152.

 * Poverty needs no plan. It needs no one to aid it, because it is bold and ruthless.
 * Think & Grow Rich, January 1963, p. 153.

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The Sopranos

The Sopranos (1999–2007) is an American television series, airing on HBO, about a fictional Italian-American Mafia family in Northern New Jersey led by Tony Soprano.

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 * The Sopranos: Season 1
 * The Sopranos: Season 2
 * The Sopranos: Season 3
 * The Sopranos: Season 4
 * The Sopranos: Season 5
 * The Sopranos: Season 6

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Richard Middleton

Richard Middleton is Professor of Music at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne in the UK. He is also the founder and co-ordinating editor of the journal Popular Music.

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 * 'Form' has always come into being in a dialogue between particular 'instances' and the larger body of work, or 'tradition.'

 * The term "chorus form" is often used to denote a type of performance - typically in jazz or rhythm 'n' blues, but also sometimes in country music and rock 'n' roll - where a given structural unit is repeated an indefinite number of times. The unit itself may be sectionally elaborate, as in the case of most Tin Pan Alley ballads. It may be twelve-bar blues, or something similar, as in the case of many R&B and rock 'n' roll numbers: here, a three-line AAB lyric, set to a three-phrase melody, is underpinned by a single gestural sweep in the harmony. Occasionally - as in some funk, dub reggae, and hip-hop, for example - it may approach the status of open-ended process.

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Talk:Lao Tzu

This page needs to be merged with Lao Zi.

This page has now been made into a redirect to Lao Zi. I personally still tend to prefer Lao Tze or Lao Tzu, but I defer to modern pinyin form, and Wikipedia usage. ~ Kalki 03:32, 31 May 2004 (UTC)

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early comments 2005 - 2007
"ommision" I just reverted seems more fabulous than factual. Cite your sources. ~ Kalki 23:15, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I didn't want to add this, as I don't quite know how things work around here, but I've heard of a saying by laozi:

I have three treasures which I hold fast. The first is mercy.

Dessydes 03:05, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

The Chinese edition of this page on wikiquote doesn't seem to have an equivalent of this attributed quote: "A true traveler has no fixed plan, and is not intent on arriving.", according to what I was told by someone who reads Chinese.

Can someone from the Chinese version verify it and add its Chinese version, please. meta:user:alif01

Stephen Mitchell's version of the Tao Te Ching is an interpretation, not a translation. Mitchell doesn't actually speak Chinese. --130.76.96.14 23:56, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Regarding the unsourced quotes:
 * "A journey of a thousand miles starts with the first step." - This comes from chapter 64. It is more accurate to say "A journey of a thousand li begins from beneath your feet."
 * "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." - This is not part of the Tao Te Ching. It is misattributed to Laozi by people who didn't actually read the book.
 * "Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking." - The first sentence comes from chapter 60. The second sentence is not in the Tao Te Ching. It was added by Stephen Mitchell in his interpretation. --130.76.96.14 00:39, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Regarding Chapter 60, first sentence "Ruling a big country is like cooking a small fish.", the Wing-Tsit Chan translation/commentary (Source Book in Chinese Philosophy, 1969) adds as a footnote "Too much handling will spoil it". Chan does not source this footnote to a particular commentator (all of the commentary in this book is translated from classical sources) which indicates that he sees "too much handling will spoil it" as more a translation than a commentary, something which would have been intrinsically understood by the reader.71.105.94.247
 * Point taken but literally it means "Ruling a big country is like cooking a small fish" and only: while I admit it is intrinsically understandable, grammatically it isn't translation. --Aphaia 09:14, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

Translations
I am impressed with a bunch of translation linked as "external links" ... we need to have all of them? Now it seems to me sort of link directories ... --Aphaia 05:39, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

In a just society, it is shameful to be poor. In a corrupt society, it is shameful to be rich.
I see this going around on the internet but cannot find any source. Did some more extensive searching and found (on wikiquote) that it was not even him:

“When a country is well governed, poverty and a mean condition are things to be ashamed of. When a country is ill governed, riches and honor are things to be ashamed of.” — Confucius (551–479 BC), 'The Analects', Chapter VIII (邦有道貧且賤焉恥也，邦無道富且貴焉恥也. )

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when your cup is full, stop pouring
Wayne Dyer attributes the quote: when your cup is full, stop pouring to Lao Tzu. Is this correct? Thanks, --Lbeaumont 02:03, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

 * Dyer is referring to Chapter 9:

Rather than fill it to the brim by keeping it upright

Better to have stopped in time;

Hammer it to a point,

And the sharpness cannot be preserved for ever;

There may be gold and jade to fill a hall

But there is none who can keep them.

To be overbearing when one has wealth and position

Is to bring calamity upon oneself.

To retire when the task is accomplished

Is the way of heaven.
 * --130.76.96.23 21:06, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

Unsourced

 * Note that many of the pictographic declarations in Tao Te Ching are interpreted, translated and paraphrased in many ways, and thus variants abound.

 * Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage.

 * He who obtains has little; he who scatters has much.

 * The true free living human-being is the one that achieves his dream without depending on someone.

 * To lead people walk behind them.

 * To see things in the seed, that is genius.

 * When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.

 * When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

 * It's only when a mosquito lands on your testicles that you realize there's always a way to solve problems without using violence

 * New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.
 * This is being widely circulated in picture form, attributed to Lao Tzu, but I can't find source details. Greenman (talk) 11:33, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

 * “If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.”
 * This is being attributed to Lao Tzu on social media sites. I believe that it's misattributed, but can't confirm that it's not from the Stephen Mitchell interpretation. Cobalt137cc (talk) 12:49, 27 November 2013 (UTC)
 * One big tip off that it is in fact new age palaver is the word "depressed" which I don't recall being used in ancient Chinese vernacular. Jbgfour (talk) 04:58, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Here's an attribution to Warren Buffet Tomruen (talk) 12:58, 14 May 2015 (UTC)
 * This source says Junia Bretas,, and here says in the comments: Tomruen (talk) 13:16, 14 May 2015 (UTC)
 * “If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.” This is NOT a Lao Tzu quote but a translation of “Depressão é excesso de passado em nossas mentes. Ansiedade excesso de futuro. O momento presente é a chave para a cura de todos oa males mentais.” By Junia Bretas, a Brazilian motivational speaker

Quotes about Laozi (unsourced)

 * I know how birds can fly, fishes swim, and animals run. The runner may be snared, the swimmer hooked, and the flyer shot by the arrow. But there is the dragon: I cannot tell how he mounts on the wind through the clouds, and rises to heaven. Today I have seen Lao-tzu, and can only compare him to the dragon.
 * Attributed to Confucius

 * I recall this was attributed to Confucius within an simplified version of the Zhuangzi - which I didn't perceive as an overly Confucius-friendly document. I look thru the full text (http://ctext.org/zhuangzi), but I don't see proper reference.  perhaps parts of The Revolution of Heaven.  Found references that it's from text translation (of what?) by James Legge.

Stephen Mitchell version
Please note that Stephen Mitchell's version, while a pleasure to read, is not a translation of Laozi. It is an interpretation that strays from the original work. Translations of the Daodejing vary in their quality. The Ivanhoe translation is said to be a good one. --130.76.96.23 20:50, 16 October 2009 (UTC)
 * I was about to write the same thing. Before adding a Mitchell translation, editors should check other translations to see whether the quote should properly be attributed to Mitchell rather than to Laozi Grover cleveland (talk) 19:52, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

"Water your dreams"
Anyone able to find a source for this quote, widely attributed to Laozi?
 * Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.

I'll see what I can dig up. JesseW (talk) 15:42, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

What does this quote mean? Please if you have the answer, type below. I doubt anyone will ever read or answer my question. ~
 * To some extent it can mean whatever it indicates to any reader of the quote — but in whatever interpretations it might be given, it is very likely not credible as even a very loose translation of anything by Laozi; though it does seem to have spread widely on the internet, the earliest occurrence of such a statement actually published in print is in Thrive Through Menopause (52 Brilliant Ideas) (2008) by Monica Troughton, where it is attributed to Laotzu — but most likely it had already begun its career as a misattribution on the internet prior to that. The origins of it currently are obscure. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 04:19, 5 March 2018 (UTC)

"The words of truth are paradoxical"
I've seen this attributed to Laozi. Anyone know if this is correctly attributed? 71.235.191.13 16:35, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

 * The original quote seems to be: "The words of truth are always paradoxical!" – see, bottom of page. ~ DanielTom (talk) 16:47, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

"One does not walk into the forest....."
"One does not walk into the forest and accuse the trees of being off-center, nor do they visit the shore and call the waves imperfect. Why then do we look at ourselves this way?"

Another internet meme going around attributed to Lao Tzu, which I cannot find. If someone could find the actual source of this and add it to the misquotations section, that would be great.

2/13/2021: (don't know where the misquotations section is) It appears that this quote is more accurately a summarization of a blog post by Hindu Guru Ram Dass

Unsourced Leadership Quote
I've come across this quote multiple times, attributed to Lao Tzu but have not been able to track down any textual source for it. Does anyone have an idea where it comes from?

"Go to the people. Live with them. Learn from them. Love them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. But with the best leaders, when the work is done, the task accomplished, the people will say 'We have done this ourselves.'"

Uncle Jay (talk) 16:21, 15 August 2017 (UTC)

Those of the second order—the people love and praise them: Those of the third order—the people fear them: Those of the fourth order—the people despise them. Where confidence is lacking How exceedingly will distrust flourish. '''When his public duties are fulfilled and his plans have succeeded The people all say—"We did this ourselves."''' »
 * @Uncle Jay: It may be from the Tao Te Ching:
 * « Pre-eminent rulers—the people are unaware of their existence:
 * (translation by Orde Poynton). ~ DanielTom (talk) 20:55, 15 August 2017 (UTC)

 * @DanielTom Thanks for the find! Good to know there's at least a kernel of truth in the quote -- though I'm wondering if the rest is a modern embellishment for added inspiration.
 * If the two are really connected, what's the next step for figuring that out, or including it here? Is there a way to list something as the original quote plus modernizations/embellishments, one step short of Misattributed?
 * I apologize if I'm thinking in the wrong terms on this. I'm new to editing here and was just curious about this one: the quote seems pretty ubiquitous in certain circles, which is what brought me here, and I wanted to get to the truth of it.
 * Uncle Jay (talk) 15:16, 16 August 2017 (UTC)

@Uncle Jay: The original quote is already listed in the article:
 * A leader is best when people barely know that he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worst when they despise him. Fail to honor people, They fail to honor you. But of a good leader, who talks little, when his work is done, his aims fulfilled, they will all say, "We did this ourselves."
 * Ch. 17

The variant you mentioned is indeed very widely quoted, so I agree that it too should be included in the article (maybe under the "Misattributed" section, but I'm not sure). The easiest way may be to simply add another bullet point after "Ch. 17" stating something like:

 * A paraphrase of this quotation, with modern embellishments, is often attributed to Laozi: "Go to the people. Live with them. Learn from them. Love them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. With the best leaders when the work is done, the task accomplished, the people will say, 'We have done this ourselves.'"

You can do this yourself. (I may do it eventually, if I can come up with better wording.) Thanks ~ DanielTom (talk) 16:23, 16 August 2017 (UTC) (P.S. Pinging @Kalki, native speaker, and article contributor.) ~ DanielTom (talk) 16:37, 16 August 2017 (UTC)

@DanielTom: I made the suggested changes, opting for a brief mention in the Tao Te Ching section and the full explanation in Misattributed, as I didn't see any other major comments in the main sections.

This is my first significant page edit, so please let me know if I messed something up. Thanks for the help! Uncle Jay (talk) 17:30, 16 August 2017 (UTC)

Attributed

 * When the student is ready the teacher appears. When the student is truly ready the teacher disappears.

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Between "老子 Lǎozi (c. 6th – 5th century BC) was a Chinese monist philosopher; also called Lao Zi, Lao Tzu, Lao Tse, or Lao Tze. The Tao Te Ching (道德經, Pinyin: Dào Dé Jīng, or Dao De Jing) represents the sole document generally attributed to Laozi." and the beginning of the quotes the page is blank apart from the illustrations on the right. Is it possible for there to be some text next to the illustrations? Mcljlm (talk) 11:35, 8 March 2023 (UTC)

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Jacques Ninio

Jacques Ninio (born in Cairo, Egypt, 1942, died in Paris, France, 2020) is a French specialist in visual perception at the Centre National des Recherches Scientifiques, Paris.

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 * Political, scientific, or religious debates are often distorted according to an immutable principle: one brings together the person who is wrong, who is a hardened demagogue, and whose cause one secretly espouses, to face an opponent who is right but who does not know the case well enough to counter his adversary on precise technical points. Take the case of the charlatan who claims to transmit thoughts at a distance. A newspaper that claims to be objective, well-balanced, reader-respectful, and nonpartisan will put two discourses in opposition: that of the charlatan who claims to have abilities not explained by physics, and that of critics: academicians or Nobel Prize winners who will bring out their authority, express their righteous indignation, say that they cannot give any credence to a phenomenon so manifestly opposed to the most sacred laws of physics, and the like. The reader to whom the two contradictory discourses have been served up will not fail to congratulate the newspaper for its remarkable objectivity.  The only one who will not be given the floor is the professional magician who "knows the trick" and could perform it without further ado for the public. Had he been allowed to speak, the reader would understand everything right away, and there would be nothing left to write in the next few days on this subject. The whole art thus consists of getting the charlatans to speak on the one hand and the distinguished scientists to speak on the other, provided the latter have nothing relevant to say on the subject. But it sometimes happens, alas, that an independent journal comes along and lets the cat out of the bag.
 * Source: The Science of Illusions; English translation by Franklin Philip (emphasis added).

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James Samuel Coleman

 (May 12, 1926, Bedford, Indiana – March 25, 1995, Chicago) was an American sociologist.

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 * Industrial society has made of high school a social system of adolescents...set apart, in an institution of their own.
 * The Adolescent Society (1961), p. 337. New York: Free Press.

 * It is not so much that he was an American sociologist... as it was that he determined what American sociology would be... What made Paul unique was not his involvement with ideas or his involvement with people, but his ability to stir the two together.
 * James Samuel Coleman; as cited in: Wilbur Schramm, The Beginnings of Communication Study in America: A Personal Memoir 1998, p. 63; About Paul Lazarsfeld.

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Kristin Hersh

Martha Kristin Hersh (born August 7, 1966) is an American singer-songwriter, musician and author, known for her solo work and with her rock bands Throwing Muses and 50FootWave.

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 * For years I gave the press really ugly pictures of myself which would make me cringe...And I didn't exist!...They can't market you, so you don't appear to the public, so you don't have a voice.
 * quoted in Evans, Liz (1994). ''Women, Sex and Rock 'n' Roll: In Their Own Words, p. 217. London, Pandora.

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Richard Taruskin

Richard Taruskin (April 2, 1945 – July 1, 2022) was an American musicologist, music historian, and critic who has written about the theory of performance, Russian music, 15th-century music, 20th-century music, nationalism, the theory of modernism, and analysis.

Quotes

 * Compatibility, not incompatibility, is the issue. For pc set 'analysis' is incompatible with nothing, as the fact of its universal potential applicability already testifies. It begins not with observation of musical particularities but with a universe of possibilities. The comparison of any musical entity with such a universe yields an inexhaustible quarry of 'true facts' but no criterion of relevance. As long as not such criterion has been established… the endless stream of ostensible relations stemming from the pc survey can persuade us for a while that analysis is being accomplished. But in fact it is only a tabulation that can just as well be carried on in the presense of analysis as in its absence (hence the universal 'compatibility'). Nor is it really so innocuous as I may be making it seem, since in its anodyne effect (one never comes back from the fishing expedition empty-handed, there is always 'something to say' some 'finding' to report) it can deflect attention away from the task at hand, which is to formulate analytical methods, not concoct a universal solvent.
 * Taruskin, Richard. "Reply to van den Toorn", p. 57.

 * The nice thing about an -ism, someone once observed, is how quickly it becomes a wasm. Some musical wasms—academic-wasm, for example, and its dependent varieties of modern-wasm and Serial-wasm—continue to linger on artificial life support, thought, and continue to threaten the increasingly fragile classical ecosystem."
 * New York Times, March 10, 1996. Quoted in Ashby, Arved, ed. (2004). The Pleasure of Modernist Music. ISBN 1580461433.

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Peter Medawar

Sir Peter Medawar (February 28, 1915 – October 2, 1987) was a Brazilian-born English scientist best known for his work on how the immune system rejects or accepts organ transplants. He was co-winner of the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet.

1950s

 * The bells which toll for mankind are—most of them, anyway—like the bells of Alpine cattle; they are attached to our own necks, and it must be our fault if they do not make a cheerful and harmonious sound.
 * The Future of Man, 1959

1960s

 * There is no such thing as a Scientific Mind. Scientists are people of very dissimilar temperaments doing different things in very different ways. Among scientists are collectors, classifiers and compulsive tidiers-up; many are detectives by temperament and many are explorers; some are artists and others artisans. There are poet-scientists and philosopher-scientists and even a few mystics. What sort of mind or temperament can all these people be supposed to have in common? Obligative scientists must be very rare, and most people who are in fact scientists could easily have been something else instead.
 * "Hypothesis and Imagination" (Times Literary Supplement, 25 Oct 1963)

 * The similarity between them is not the taxonomic key to some other, deeper, affinity, and our recognizing its existence marks the end, not the inauguration, of a train of thought.
 * In ‘Herbert Spencer and the Law of General Evolution’. Spencer Lecture, Oxford, 1963: reprinted in Medawar, P. B. (1967). The Art of the Soluble. Methuen, London. pp. 37-58.

 * Simultaneous discovery is utterly commonplace, and it was only the rarity of scientists, not the inherent improbability of the phenomenon, that made it remarkable in the past. Scientists on the same road may be expected to arrive at the same destination, often not far apart.
 * Peter Medawar, "The Act of Creation" (New Statesman, 19 June 1964)

 * If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.
 * Review of Arthur Koestler’s The Act of Creation, in the New Statesman, 19 June 1964

 * The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
 * In The Art of the Soluble, 1967.

 * Scientific discovery is a private event, and the delight that accompanies it, or the despair of finding it illusory, does not travel. One scientist may get great satisfaction from another’s work and admire it deeply; it may give him great intellectual pleasure; but it gives him no sense of participation in the discovery, it does not carry him away, and his appreciation of it does not depend on his being carried away. If it were otherwise the inspirational origin of scientific discovery would never have been in doubt.
 * ‘Hypothesis and Imagination’ in The Art of the Soluble, 1967.
 * I could quote evidence of the beginnings of a whispering campaign against the virtues of clarity. A writer on structuralism in the Times Literary Supplement has suggested that thoughts which are confused and tortuous by reason of their profundity are most appropriately expressed in prose that is deliberately unclear. What a preposterously silly idea! I am reminded of an air-raid warden in wartime Oxford who, when bright moonlight seemed to be defeating the spirit of the blackout, exhorted us to wear dark glasses. He, however, was being funny on purpose.
 * Lecture on 'Science and Literature', 1968.
 * Reprinted in Pluto's Republic (Oxford University Press, 1982)

 * The purpose of scientific enquiry is not to compile an inventory of factual information, nor to build up a totalitarian world picture of natural Laws in which every event that is not compulsory is forbidden. We should think of it rather as a logically articulated structure of justifiable beliefs about nature.
 * Induction and Intuition in Scientific Thought, 1969

Review of Teilhard de Chardin's "The Phenomenon of Man", 1961

 * Source: "Review of Teilhard de Chardin's The Phenomenon of Man". In: Mind Vol 70 (1961), pp. 99-105

 * Yet the greater part of it, I shall show, is nonsense, tricked out with a variety of metaphysical conceits, and its author can be excused of dishonesty only on the grounds that before deceiving others he has taken great pains to deceive himself.

 * In no sense other than an utterly trivial one is reproduction the inverse of chemical disintegration. It is a misunderstanding of genetics to suppose that reproduction is only 'intended' to make facsimiles, for parasexual processes of genetical exchange are to be found in the simplest living things.

 * There is much else in the literary idiom of nature-philosophy: nothing-buttery, for example, always part of the minor symptomatology of the bogus.

 * The Phenomenon of Man stands square in the tradition of Naturphilosophie, a philosophical indoor pastime of German origin which does not seem even by accident (though there is a great deal of it) to have contributed anything of permanent value to the storehouse of human thought.

 * I do not propose to criticize the fatuous argument I have just outlined; here, to expound is to expose.

 * How have people come to be taken in by The Phenomenon of Man ? We must not underestimate the size of the market for works of this kind, for philosophy-fiction. Just as compulsory primary education created a market catered for by cheap dailies and weeklies, so the spread of secondary and latterly tertiary education has created a large population of people, often with well-developed literary and scholarly tastes, who have been educated far beyond their capacity to undertake analytical thought.

 * It is written in an all but totally unintelligible style, and this is construed as prima-facie evidence of profundity.
 * French is not a language that lends itself naturally to the opaque and ponderous idiom of nature-philosophy, and Teilhard has according resorted to the use of that tipsy, euphoristic prose-poetry which is one of the more tiresome manifestations of the French spirit.

 * It would have been a great disappointment to me if Vibration did not somewhere make itself felt, for all scientistic mystics either vibrate in person or find themselves resonant with cosmic vibrations; but I am happy to say that on page 266 Teilhard will be found to do so.

 * In spite of all the obstacles that Teilhard perhaps wisely puts in our way, it is possible to discern a train of thought in The Phenomenon of Man.

The Art of the Soluble, 1967

 * Source: P. B. Medawar (1967), The art of the soluble, London: Methuen

 * It is not envy or malice, as so many people think, but utter despair that has persuaded many educational reformers to recommend the abolition of the English public schools.
 * Introduction

 * If a person a) is poorly, b) receives treatment intended to make him better, and c) gets better, no power of reasoning known to medical science can convince him that it may not have been the treatment that restored his health.
 * p. 14.

Lucky Jim, 1968

 * Source: "Lucky Jim" (New York Review of Books, 28 March 1968)

 * Scientists are entitled to be proud of their accomplishments, and what accomplishments can they call 'theirs' except the things they have done or thought of first? People who criticize scientists for wanting to enjoy the satisfaction of intellectual ownership are confusing possessiveness with pride of possession. Meanness, secretiveness and, sharp practice are as much despised by scientists as by other decent people in the world of ordinary everyday affairs; nor, in my experience, is generosity less common among them, or less highly esteemed.

 * It just so happens that during the 1950s, the first great age of molecular biology, the English Schools of Oxford and particularly of Cambridge produced more than a score of graduates of quite outstanding ability —much more brilliant, inventive, articulate and dialectically skilful than most young scientists; right up in the Watson class. But Watson had one towering advantage over all of them: in addition to being extremely clever he had something important to be clever about. This is an advantage which scientists enjoy over most other people engaged in intellectual pursuits, and they enjoy it at all levels of capability. To be a first-rate scientist it is not necessary (and certainly not sufficient) to be extremely clever, anyhow in a pyrotechnic sense. One of the great social revolutions brought about by scientific research has been the democratization of learning. Anyone who combines strong common sense with an ordinary degree of imaginativeness can become a creative scientist, and a happy one besides, in so far as happiness depends upon being able to develop to the limit of one's abilities.

 * Watson's childlike vision makes them seem like the creatures of a Wonderland, all at a strange contentious noisy tea-party which made room for him because for people like him, at this particular kind of party, there is always room.

Presidential Address, 1969

 * Source: Presidential Address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Exeter, 3 September 1969

 * We cannot point to a single definitive solution of any one of the problems that confront us — political, economic, social or moral, that is, having to do with the conduct of life. We are still beginners, and for that reason may hope to improve. To deride the hope of progress is the ultimate fatuity, the last word in poverty of spirit and meanness of mind. There is no need to be dismayed by the fact that we cannot yet envisage a definitive solution of our problems, a resting-place beyond which we need not try to go.

 * Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. I suppose we all realize the degree to which fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

 * Creosote has a pretty technological smell.

 * We shall not read it for its sociological insights, which are non-existent, nor as science fiction, because it has a general air of implausibility; but there is one high poetic fancy in the New Atlantis that stays in the mind after all its fancies and inventions have been forgotten. In the New Atlantis, an island kingdom lying in very distant seas, the only commodity of external trade is — light: Bacon's own special light, the light of understanding.
 * On Francis Bacon's New Atlantis

 * We wring our hands over the miscarriages of technology and take its benefactions for granted. We are dismayed by air pollution but not proportionately cheered up by, say, the virtual abolition of poliomyelitis.

1970s

 * It is the great glory as well as the great threat of science that everything which is in principle possible can be done if the intention to do it is sufficiently resolute.
 * The Threat and the Glory, 1977
 * Only human beings guide their behaviour by a knowledge of what happened before they were born and a preconception of what may happen after they are dead; thus only humans find their way by a light that illuminates more than the patch of ground they stand on.
 * (with Jean Medawar) The Life Science, 1977

Advice to a Young Scientist (1979)

 * Source: Advice to a Young Scientist (1979), p. 13. From chapter 3, "What Shall I Do Research On?"

 * It can be said with complete confidence that any scientist of any age who wants to make important discoveries must study important problems. Dull or piffling problems yield dull or piffling answers. It is not enough that a problem should be "interesting" - almost any problem is interesting if it is studied in sufficient depth.

 * Source: Advice to a Young Scientist (1979), p. 25, quoting his own article "Unnatural science", New York Review of Books 24 (Feb 3, 1977), pp. 13–18

 * To be creative, scientists need libraries and laboratories and the company of other scientists; certainly a quiet and untroubled life is a help. A scientist's work is in no way deepened or made more cogent by privation, anxiety, distress, or emotional harassment. To be sure, the private lives of scientists may be strangely and even comically mixed up, but not in ways that have any special bearing on the nature and quality of their work. If a scientist were to cut off an ear, no one would interpret such an action as evidence of an unhappy torment of creativity; nor will a scientist be excused any bizarrerie, however extravagant, on the grounds that he is a scientist, however brilliant.

 * I believe in "intelligence," and I believe also that there are inherited differences in intellectual ability, but I do not believe that intelligence is a simple scalar endowment that can be quanitified by attaching a single figure to it—an I.Q. or the like.

 * I once spoke to a human geneticist who declared that the notion of intelligence was quite meaningless, so I tried calling him unintelligent. He was annoyed, and it did not appease him when I went on to ask how he came to attach such a clear meaning to the notion of lack of intelligence.  We never spoke again.
 * p. 25, footnote to previous quotation.

1980s

 * Observation is the generative act in scientific discovery. For all its aberrations, the evidence of the senses is essentially to be relied upon—provided we observe nature as a child does, without prejudices and preconceptions, but with that clear and candid vision which adults lose and scientists must strive to regain.
 * Medawar, Peter (1982). Pluto's Republic, p. 99. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

 * A scientist is no more a collector and classifier of facts than a historian is a man who complies and classifies a chronology of the dates of great battles and major discoveries.
 * (with Jean Medawar) Aristotle to Zoos: A Philosophical Dictionary of Biology, 1983, p. 27.

 * The attempt to discover and promulgate the truth is nevertheless an obligation upon all scientists, one that must be persevered in no matter what the rebuffs—for otherwise what is the point in being a scientist?
 * (with Jean Medawar) Aristotle to Zoos: A Philosophical Dictionary of Biology, 1983, p. 196.

 * No virus is known to do good: it has been well said that a virus is "a piece of bad news wrapped up in protein."
 * (with Jean Medawar) Aristotle to Zoos: A Philosophical Dictionary of Biology, 1983, p. 275.

 * I do not believe—indeed, I deem it a comic blunder to believe—that the exercise of reason is sufficient to explain our condition and where necessary to remedy it, but I do believe that the exercise of reason is at all times necessary...
 * The Limits of Science. (New York: Harper & Row, 1984) p. 98.

 * When asked to make the formal declaration that I did not intend to overthrow the Constitution of the United States, I was fool enough to reply that I had no such purpose, but that were I to do it by mistake I should be inexpressibly contrite.
 * P. B. Medawar (1986), Memoir of a thinking radish: an autobiography, Oxford University Press, p. 117.

1990s

 * Karl Popper’s conception of the scientific process is that is realistic – it gives a pretty fair picture of what goes on in real life laboratories.
 * Medawar, Peter B. 1990. The Threat and the Glory: Reflections on Science and Scientists. New York: HarperCollins.

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Alban Berg

Alban Maria Johannes Berg (February 9, 1885 – December 24, 1935) was an Austrian composer. He was a member of the Second Viennese School along with Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern, producing works that combined Mahlerian romanticism with a highly personal adaptation of Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique.

Quotes

 * I think the origin of all this clamour for tonality is not so much the need to sense a relationship to the tonic, as a need for familiar chords: let us be frank and say "for the triad"; and I believe I have good reason to say that just so long as a certain kind of music contains enough such triads, it causes no offence, even if in other ways it most violently clashes with the sacred laws of tonality.
 * Quoted in Reich, Willi (1971). Schoenberg: A Critical Biography, p. 34. Translated by Leo Black.

 * The best music always results from ecstasies of logic.
 * Quoted by Donal Henahan in the New York Times Magazine, May 11, 1975.

Quotes about

 * I regard Alban Berg as a musical swindler and a musician dangerous to the community. One should go even further.  Unprecedented events demand new methods.  We must seriously pose the question as to what extent musical profession can be criminal.  We deal here, in the realm of music, with a capital offence.
 * Anon, quoted in Nicolas Slonimsky (1953). Lexicon of Musical Invective: Critical Assaults on Composers Since Beethoven's Time, p. 54.

 * If...Berg departs so radically from tradition, through his substitution of a symmetrical partitioning of the octave for the asymmetrical partionings of the major/minor system, he departs just as radically from the twelve-tone tradition that is represented in the music of Schoenberg and Webern, for whom the twelve-tone series was always an integral structure that could be transposed only as a unit, and for whom twelve-tone music always implied a constant and equivalent circulation of the totality of pitch classes.
 * George Perle (1990). The Listening Composer, p. 98. California: University of California Press. ISBN 0520069919.

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The Big Lebowski

The Big Lebowski is a 1998 film about an amiable unemployed slacker, The Dude, and his close friends, all fond of their nights at the local bowling alley, who are drawn into a Chandleresque plot involving the missing younger wife of a millionaire namesake. The film has given rise to a non-traditional religious philosophy based on it and Taoism known as Dudeism.
 * Directed by Joel Coen. Written by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen.

Her life was in their hands. Now her toe is in the mail. taglines

Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski

 * Well, sir, it's this rug I had. It really tied the room together.
 * Look, let me explain something to you. I'm not Mr. Lebowski. You're Mr. Lebowski. I'm the Dude. So that's what you call me. That, or His Dudeness … Duder … or El Duderino, if you're not into the whole brevity thing.
 * This aggression will not stand, man.
 * This is a very complicated case, Maude. You know, a lotta ins, lotta outs, lotta what-have-you's. And, uh, lotta strands to keep in my head, man. Lotta strands in old Duder's head. Luckily I'm adhering to a pretty strict, uh, drug regimen to keep my mind, you know, limber.
 * Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
 * Careful, man, there's a beverage here!
 * Oh boy, how you gonna keep 'em down on the farm once they've seen Karl Hungus.
 * Yeah, well, the Dude abides.
 * Obviously, you're not a golfer.
 * Who the fuck are the Knutsens?
 * Oh, nice marmot.

Walter Sobchak

 * I'm perfectly calm, Dude.
 * OVER THE LINE!!
 * Nihilists! ..Fuck me. I mean, say what you want about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos.
 * Here you go, Larry. You see what happens? You see what happens, Larry?! See what happens?! [The Dude: Oh, great...] This is what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass, Larry! [Proceeds to smash up what he wrongly believes is Larry's new Corvette] This is what happens, Larry! You see what happens, Larry?! Do you see what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass, this is what happens! You see what happens, Larry?! You see what happens, Larry?! Do you see what happens, Larry, when you fuck a stranger in the ass?! This is what happens, Larry! This is what happens, Larry!
 * Censored dub for television: "Here you go, Larry. You see what happens? You see what happens, Larry?! See what happens?! [The Dude: Oh, great...] This is what happens, Larry! See what happens, Larry?! See what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps?! This is what happens! See what happens, Larry?! You see what happens, Larry?! This is what happens when you feed a stoner scrambled eggs!"
 * That rug really tied the room together, did it not?
 * Eh, fuck it, Dude. Let's go bowling.
 * Life does not start and stop at your convenience, you miserable piece of shit!
 * Shut the fuck up, Donny.
 * Forget it, Donny, you're out of your element!
 * Is this your homework, Larry?
 * Language problem here. Little prick stonewalling me...!
 * Have you ever heard of Vietnam?
 * You're (or You are) entering a world of pain!
 * You want a toe? I can get you a toe.
 * Who am I? I'm a fucking veteran that's who I am!
 * Donny was a good bowler, and a good man. He was one of us. He was a man who loved the outdoors... and bowling, and as a surfer he explored the beaches of Southern California, from La Jolla to Leo Carrillo and... up to... Pismo. He died, like so many young men of his generation, he died before his time. In your wisdom, Lord, you took him, as you took so many bright flowering young men at Khe Sanh, at Langdok, at Hill 364. These young men gave their lives. And so would Donny. Donny, who loved bowling. And so, Theodore Donald Karabotsos, in accordance with what we think your dying wishes might well have been, we commit your final mortal remains to the bosom of the Pacific Ocean, which you loved so well. Good night, sweet prince.

Jesus Quintana

 * HEY! What's this "day of rest" shit?! What's this bullshit?! I don't fuckin' care! It don't matter to Jesus. But you're not foolin' me, man. You might fool the fucks in the league office, but you don't fool Jesus. This bush league psych out stuff. Laughable, man – HA HA! I would have fucked you in the ass Saturday. I fuck you in the ass next Wednesday instead. Wooo! You got a date Wednesday, baby!
 * You ready to be fucked, man? I see you rolled your way into the semis. Dios mio, man. Liam and me, we're gonna fuck you up.
 * Let me tell you something, pendejo. You pull any of your crazy shit with us, you flash a piece out on the lanes, I'll take it away from you, stick it up your ass and pull the fucking trigger 'til it goes "click."
 * You said it, man. Nobody fucks with the Jesus.

Others

 * The Stranger: A wiser man than myself once said, "Sometimes you eat the b'ar.… Sometimes the b'ar, well, he eats you."

Dialogue

 * The Dude: [shaking his head] Nobody calls me Lebowski. You got the wrong guy. I'm The Dude, man.
 * Blond Treehorn Thug: Your name's Lebowski, Lebowski - Your wife is Bunny.
 * The Dude: My … my wi– my wife, Bunny? Do you see a wedding ring on my finger? Does this place look like I'm fucking married? The toilet seat's up, man!

 * The Dude: ..Yeah, man, it really tied the room together.
 * Walter Sobchak: This was a valued, uh …
 * The Dude: Yeah.
 * Donny: [Donny takes a seat] What tied the room together, Dude?
 * The Dude: My rug.
 * Walter Sobchak: Were you listening to The Dude's story, Donny?
 * Donny: What?
 * The Dude: Walter …
 * Walter Sobchak: Were you listening to The Dude's story?
 * Donny: I was bowling.
 * Walter Sobchak: So you have no frame of reference here, Donny. You're like a child who wanders into the middle of a movie and wants to know–
 * The Dude: Walter, Walter, what's the point, man?
 * Walter Sobchak: There's no reason–Here's my point, Dude. There's no fucking reason why these two–
 * Donny: Yeah, Walter, what's your point?
 * Walter Sobchak: Huh?
 * The Dude: Walter, what is the poin–? Look, we all know who is at fault here–what the fuck are you talking about?
 * Walter Sobchak: Huh? No, what the fuck are you … ! I'm not … we're talking about unchecked aggression here, Dude.
 * Donny: What the fuck is he talking about?
 * The Dude: My rug.
 * Walter Sobchak: Forget it, Donny, you're out of your element!
 * The Dude: Look, Walter–Walter, the Chinaman who peed on my rug, I can't go give him a bill, so what the fuck are you talking about?
 * Walter Sobchak: What the fuck are you talking about? The Chinaman is not the issue here, Dude! I'm talking about drawing a line in the sand, Dude. Across this line, you do not... Also, Dude, "Chinaman" is not the preferred nomenclature. "Asian-American," please.
 * The Dude: Walter, this isn't a guy who built the railroads here. This is a guy...
 * Walter Sobchak: What the fuck are you...?
 * The Dude: Walter, he peed on my rug!
 * Donny: He peed on The Dude's rug.
 * Walter Sobchak: Donny, you're out of your element! Dude, the Chinaman is not the issue here!
 * The Dude: So, who...who...?
 * Walter Sobchak: Jeff Lebowski, the other Jeffrey Lebowski. The millionaire!
 * The Dude: That's fucking interesting, man. That's fucking interesting.
 * Walter Sobchak: Plus, he has the wealth, obviously, and the resources. So that there's no reason–there's no FUCKING reason–why his wife should go out and owe money all over town, and then they come, and they pee on your fucking rug! Am I wrong?
 * The Dude: No.
 * Walter Sobchak: Am I wrong?
 * The Dude: Yeah, but–
 * Walter Sobchak: Okay, then. [Grunts] That rug really tied the room together, did it not?
 * The Dude: Fuckin' A.
 * Donny: And this guy peed on it.
 * Walter Sobchak: Donny. Please.

 * Brandt: Uh, our guest needs to be going now, Mrs. Lebowski.
 * The Dude: [realizes] Ohh, you're Bunny.
 * Bunny Lebowski: [takes off her sunglasses] I'll suck your cock for a thousand dollars.
 * Brandt: Ah-hahahahaha! Ah - Wonderful woman. We're all, we're all very fond of her. Very free-spirited.
 * Bunny Lebowski: Brandt can't watch, though - or he has to pay a hundred.
 * Brandt: Ah-haha. That's marvelous.
 * The Dude: [Dude turns his head back as Brandt escorts him away] ..Uh, I'm just gonna go find a cash machine.

 * Walter Sobchak: Fucking dog has fucking papers—OVER THE LINE!
 * Smokey: Huh?
 * Walter Sobchak: I'm sorry, Smokey. You were over the line, that's a foul.
 * Smokey: Bullshit. Mark it 8, Dude.
 * Walter Sobchak: Uh, excuse me. Mark it zero. Next frame.
 * Smokey: Bullshit, Walter. Mark it 8, Dude.
 * Walter Sobchak: Smokey, this is not 'Nam. This is bowling. There are rules.
 * The Dude: Hey, Walter, c'mon, it's just–Hey man, it's Smokey. So his toe slipped over a little, you know, it's just a game, man.
 * Walter Sobchak: This is a league game, this determines who enters the next round robin. Am I wrong?
 * Smokey: Yeah, but I wasn't...
 * Walter Sobchak: [turns to Smokey] Am I wrong?
 * Smokey: Yeah, but I wasn't over. Gimme the marker Dude, I'm marking an 8.
 * Walter Sobchak: Smokey, my friend, [pulls out an M1911A1 pistol] you're entering a world of pain.
 * The Dude: Walter, man...
 * Walter Sobchak: You mark that frame an 8, you're entering a world of pain.
 * Smokey: I'm not...
 * Walter Sobchak: A world of pain.
 * Smokey: Look, Dude, I–This is your partner...
 * Walter Sobchak: [shouting] Has the whole world gone CRAZY?! [stands up] AM I THE ONLY ONE AROUND HERE WHO GIVES A SHIT ABOUT THE RULES?! MARK IT ZERO!
 * The Dude: They're calling the cops, man. Put the piece away. [Walter's dog barks repeatedly]
 * Walter Sobchak: MARK IT ZERO! [points gun in Smokey's face]
 * The Dude: Walter, put the piece away …
 * Smokey: Walter...?
 * Walter Sobchak: [shouting] YOU THINK I'M FUCKING AROUND HERE?! [racks slide on pistol] MARK IT ZERO! [Walter's dog stops barking]
 * Smokey: [shivers a second, then marks the card] All right, it's fucking zero. Are you happy, you crazy fuck?
 * Walter Sobchak: [calmly lowers and unloads gun] It's a league game, Smokey.

 * Walter Sobchak: You know, Dude, I myself dabbled in pacifism at one point. Not in 'Nam of course.
 * The Dude: And, you know, he's got emotional problems, man.
 * Walter Sobchak: You mean … beyond pacifism?

 * The Dude: Fuckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
 * Walter Sobchak: Yeah, but he's a pervert, Dude.
 * The Dude: Yeah.
 * Walter Sobchak: No! He's a sex offender, with a record. He served 6 months in Chino for exposing himself to an eight year old.
 * The Dude: Oh!
 * Walter Sobchak: When he moved to Hollywood, he had to go door to door to tell everyone he was a pederast.
 * Donny: What's a pederast, Walter?
 * Walter Sobchak: Shut the fuck up, Donny.

 * The Dude: She probably kidnapped herself.
 * Walter Sobchak: Huh?
 * Donny: What do you mean, Dude?
 * The Dude: Rug Peers did not do this–Look at it! A young trophy wife marries this guy for his money... she figures he isn't given her enough, you know, she owes money all over town...
 * Walter Sobchak: That fucking bitch.
 * The Dude: It's all a goddamn fake, man! It's like Lenin said: You look for the person who will benefit, and, uh, uh, you know...
 * Donny: "I am the walrus"?
 * The Dude: You know what I'm trying to say?
 * Donny: "I am the walrus".
 * Walter Sobchak: That fucking bitch!
 * The Dude: Oh yeah!
 * Donny: "I am the walrus".
 * Walter Sobchak: That's ex–Shut the fuck up, Donny! V.I. Lenin! Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov!
 * Donny: What the fuck is he talking about?
 * Walter Sobchak: Fuckin' exactly what happened to those... That makes me fuckin' sick!
 * The Dude: Well, what do you care, Walter?
 * Walter Sobchak: Those rich fucks! This whole fuckin' thing! I did not watch my buddies die face-down in the muck so this fuckin' strumpet, this fuckin' whore could waltz around town–
 * The Dude: Walter, Walter–I don't see any connection to Vietnam, man.
 * Walter Sobchak: Well there isn't a literal connection, Dude..
 * The Dude: Walter, face it–There isn't any connection. Your roll.
 * Walter Sobchak: Have it your way, but my point that–
 * The Dude: Your roll.
 * Walter Sobchak: My point is–
 * Jesus Quintana: Are you ready to be fucked, man? [Dude, Walter and Donny turn as Jesus approaches] I see you rolled your way into the semis. Dios mio, man. Liam and me, we're gonna fuck you up!
 * The Dude: Yeah... well, you know, that's just, like, uh... your opinion, man.
 * Jesus Quintana: Let me tell you something, pendejo. You pull any of your crazy shit with us, you flash a piece out on the lanes, I'll take it away from you and stick it up your ass and pull the fucking trigger 'til it goes "click".
 * The Dude: Jesus.
 * Jesus Quintana: You said it, man. Nobody fucks with The Jesus. [leaves]
 * Walter Sobchak: … [turns to Dude] Eight year olds, Dude.

 * [Dude and Walter sit in a diner as Dude shows Walter the severed toe]
 * Walter Sobchak: [laughs] That wasn't her toe, Dude.
 * The Dude: Whose toe was it, Walter?
 * Walter Sobchak: How the fuck should I know? I do know that nothing about it indicates...
 * The Dude: The nail polish, Walter!
 * Walter Sobchak: Fine, Dude. As if it's impossible to take some nail polish, apply it to someone else's toe...
 * The Dude: Someone else's?
 * Walter Sobchak: Pinking shears... [imitates snipping]
 * The Dude: Where the fuck are they gonna...
 * Walter Sobchak: You want a toe? I can get you a toe. Believe me. There are ways, Dude–you don't wanna know about it, believe me.
 * The Dude: Yeah, but Walter...
 * Walter Sobchak: Hell, I can get you a toe by 3:00 this afternoon, with nail polish. These fucking amateurs! [chuckles] They send us a toe, we're supposed to shit ourselves with fear. Jesus Christ!
 * The Dude: Walter...
 * Walter Sobchak: Now the point is...
 * The Dude: They're gonna kill her, Walter, and then they're gonna kill me.
 * Walter Sobchak: Dude... That's... That's just the stress talkin', man. Now so far, we have, what appears to me, to be a series of victimless crimes...
 * The Dude: What about the toe?!
 * Walter Sobchak: [slams fist on counter] FORGET ABOUT THE FUCKING TOE!
 * Waitress at diner: [approaches Walter and Dude] Excuse me, sir. Could you please keep your voices down? This is a family restaurant.
 * Walter Sobchak: Oh please, dear? For your information, the Supreme Court has roundly rejected prior restraint!
 * The Dude: Walter, this is not a First Amendment thing, man.
 * Waitress at diner: Sir, if you don't calm down, I'm gonna have to ask you to leave.
 * Walter Sobchak: Lady, I got buddies who died face-down in the muck so that you and I could enjoy this family restaurant!
 * The Dude: Alright, I'm outta here [drops money and (inadvertently) a joint on counter, subtly picks up the joint]
 * Walter Sobchak: [talking to Dude as he leaves] Oh come on, Dude... Don't walk away, man! C'mon, this affects all of us, man! Our basic freedoms! [to the waitress] I'm stayin'. I'm finishing my coffee. [the waitress and the diner patrons look at him in disbelief] Enjoying my coffee.

 * [The Dude is riding home in a cab; "Peaceful, Easy Feeling" by the Eagles is playing on the radio]
 * The Dude: Jesus, man, can you change the channel?
 * Cab Driver: Fuck you, man! If you don't like my fucking music, get your own fucking cab!
 * The Dude: I had a really rough...
 * Cab Driver: I'll pull to the side and kick your ass out.
 * The Dude: Man, come on, I had a rough night, and I hate the fucking Eagles, man.
 * Cab Driver: [pulls over and kicks the Dude out of his cab] Out of my fucking cab! Out!
 * The Dude: Man! Man, hey! [the cab driver drives off]

 * Donny: [Runs over to Walter and Dude] They posted the next round for the tournament!
 * Walter Sobchak: Donny, shut the f— When do we play?
 * Donny: This Saturday. Quintana and—
 * Walter Sobchak: Saturday? Well, they'll have to reschedule.
 * The Dude: Walter, what am I gonna tell Lebowski?
 * Walter Sobchak: I told that fuck down at the league office … Who's in charge of scheduling?
 * The Dude: Walter …
 * Donny: Burkhalter.
 * Walter Sobchak: I told that kraut a fucking thousand times that I don't roll on Shabbos!
 * The Dude: Walter …
 * Donny: They already posted it.
 * Walter Sobchak: WELL, THEY CAN FUCKING UNPOST IT!
 * The Dude: Who gives a shit?! They're gonna kill that poor woman, man! What am I gonna tell Lebowski?
 * Walter Sobchak: C'mon, Dude - Uh, eventually she'll get tired of her little game and, you know, wander on back.
 * Donny: How come you don't roll on Saturday, Walter?
 * Walter Sobchak: I'm Shomer Shabbos.
 * Donny: What's that, Walter?
 * The Dude: Yeah, and in the meantime, what do I tell Lebowski?!
 * Walter Sobchak: Saturday, Donny, is Shabbos, the Jewish day of rest. That means that I don't work, I don't drive a car, I don't fucking ride in a car, I don't handle money, I don't turn on the oven, and I sure as shit DON'T FUCKING ROLL!
 * Donny: Sheesh.
 * Walter Sobchak: SHOMER SHABBOS!
 * The Dude: Walter, how am I going to—
 * Walter Sobchak: Shomer fucking Shabbos.
 * The Dude: Oh, fuck! That's it, I'm outta here.
 * Walter Sobchak: Come on, Dude … [rolls his eyes at Donny] (mouths) What a fucking baby …
 * [Donny nods]

 * Walter Sobchak: Fucking Germans. Nothing changes. Fucking Nazis.
 * Donny: They were Nazis, Dude?
 * Walter Sobchak: Oh, come on, Donny, they were threatening castration! Are we gonna split hairs here? Am I wrong?

 * Maude Lebowski: What do you do for.. for recreation?
 * The Dude: Oh, the usual - I bowl. Drive around. The occasional acid flashback.

 * Walter Sobchak: [talking to The Dude] We're gonna see some tank battles.. Fighting in desert is very different from fighting in canopy jungle. I mean that was a foot-soldier's war - Whereas this thing here should, uh.. y'know - Should be a piece of cake. I mean, I had an M16 Jacko, not an Abrams fucking tank. Me and Charlie - eyeball to eyeball. That's fucking combat. The man in the black pajamas, Dude. Worthy fuckin' adversary.
 * Donny: Who was in pajamas, Walter?
 * Walter Sobchak: Shut the fuck up, Donny. ..Whereas what we have here.. Bunch of fig-eaters wearin' towels on their head tryin' to find reverse on a Soviet tank - This.. this is not a worthy fuckin' adversary..
 * Jesus Quintana: HEY! [He and his partner appear in front of Dude, Walter, and Donny] What's this "day of rest" shit?! What's this BULLSHIT?! I don't fuckin' care! It don't matter to Jesus. But you're not foolin' me, man. You might fool the fucks in the league office, but you don't fool Jesus. This bush-league psych out stuff. Laughable, man – HA HA! I would have fucked you in the ass Saturday. I fuck you in the ass next Wednesday instead. WOOO! You got a date Wednesday, baby! [walks away with his partner]
 * Walter Sobchak: …He's crackin'.

 * Walter Sobchak: I'm saying, I see what you're getting at, Dude, he kept the money. My point is, here we are, it's shabbos, the sabbath, which I'm allowed to break only if it's a matter of life or death...
 * The Dude: Will you come off it, Walter? You're not even fucking Jewish, man.
 * Walter Sobchak: What the fuck are you talkin' about?
 * The Dude: Man, you're fucking Polish Catholic...
 * Walter Sobchak: What the fuck are you talking about? I converted when I married Cynthia! Come on, Dude!
 * The Dude: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah...
 * Walter Sobchak: And you know this!
 * The Dude: Yeah, and five fucking years ago you were divorced.
 * Walter Sobchak: So what are you saying? When you get divorced you turn in your library card? You get a new license? You stop being Jewish? I'm as Jewish as fucking Tevye.
 * The Dude: It's all a part of your sick Cynthia thing, man. Taking care of her fucking dog. Going to her fucking synagogue. You're living in the fucking past.
 * Walter Sobchak: Three thousand years of beautiful tradition, from Moses to Sandy Koufax...You're goddamn right I'm living in the fucking past! I'm... Jesus. What the hell happened?

 * The Dude: You thought that Bunny had been kidnapped and you were fuckin' glad, man. You could use it as an excuse to make some money disappear. All you needed was a sap to pin it on! You'd just met me! You f... You human … paraquat! You figured "oh, here's a loser", you know? A deadbeat, someone the square community won't give a shit about.
 * The Big Lebowski: Well, aren't you?
 * The Dude: Well, yeah!

 * The Dude: Well, take care, man, gotta get back.
 * The Stranger: Sure. Take it easy, Dude.
 * The Dude: Oh yeah!
 * The Stranger: I know that you will.
 * The Dude: Yeah, well - The Dude abides.
 * The Stranger: "The Dude abides." I don't know about you, but I take comfort in that. It's good knowin' he's out there. The Dude. Takin' 'er easy for all us sinners. Shoosh. I sure hope he makes the finals.

 * Walter Sobchak: Is this your homework Larry? Is this your homework Larry?
 * The Dude: [aggravated] Look man, is--
 * Walter Sobchak: Dude please, Is this your homework Larry?
 * The Dude: Just ask him about the car man.
 * Walter Sobchak: Is this yours, Larry? Is this your homework Larry?
 * The Dude: Is that car out front?
 * Walter Sobchak: Is this your homework Larry?
 * The Dude: We know it's his fucking homework! Where's the fucking money you little brat?!
 * Walter Sobchak: Look, Larry...Have you ever heard of Vietnam?
 * The Dude: Oh, for Christ sake, Walter.
 * Walter Sobchak: You're entering a world of pain, son. We know that this is your homework, we know you stole the car--
 * The Dude: And the fucking money!
 * Walter Sobchak: And the fucking money. And..we know this is your homework.
 * The Dude: They're gonna cut your dick off, Larry!
 * Walter Sobchak: You're killing your father, Larry!
 * Walter Sobchak: All right. This is pointless. Okay, time for Plan B.

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 * The Dude: Get out of that car! Get the fuck out of the car, man. Get out of the fu-- [Da Fino steps out of the car] Who the fuck are you?!
 * Da Fino: Easy man, relax. No physical harm intended.
 * The Dude: Who the fuck are you, man?
 * Da Fino: Ok man, I'm..okay
 * The Dude: Why are you following me around? Come on fuckhead!
 * Da Fino: Hey, relax man. I'm a Brother Shamus.
 * The Dude: Brother Shamus? Like an Irish monk?
 * Da Fino: What the fuck are you talking about? My name's Da Fino. I'm a private snoop. Like you, man.
 * The Dude: I'm not-- Just stay away from my special lady friend.
 * Da Fino: Hey hey, i'm not messing with your special lady.
 * The Dude: She's not my special lady. She's my fucking lady friend-- I'm just trying to help her conceive, man.
 * Da Fino: Hey man, i'm not tryin to--
 * The Dude: Who're you working for? Lebowski? Jackie Treehorn?
 * Da Fino: The Knutsens.
 * The Dude: The?-- Who the fuck are the Knutsens?
 * Da Fino: The Knutsens. It's a wandering daughter job. Bunny Lebowski, man. Her real name is Fawn Knutsen, she ran away from home. Her parents want her back. [Shows Dude a picture of Fawn] See. Crazy, huh? Ran away about a year ago. The Knutsens told me I should show her this when I found her. It's the family farm. It's outside of Moorhead, Minnesota. They think it'll make her homesick.
 * The Dude: Jesus fucking Christ. She's been kidnapped Da Fino.
 * Da Fino: That's terrible.
 * The Dude: Well maybe not, but she's definitely not around.
 * Da Fino: Hey, uh, phfff, maybe you and me could pool our resources, trade information... a professional courtesy...compeers, you know what i mean.
 * The Dude: Yeah yeah, I get it. Fuck off, Da Fino. And stay away from my special--from my fucking lady friend man.

Taglines

 * They figured he was a lazy, time-wasting slacker. They were right.
 * Her life was in their hands. Now her toe is in the mail.
 * Times like these call for a Big Lebowski.
 * It takes guys as simple as the Dude and Walter to make a story this complicated … and they'd really rather be bowling.
 * Lebowski: not a man, a way of life.

Quotes about The Big Lebowski

 * Alphabetized by author

 * We believe that the Dudeist tradition started as a response to the excesses of civilization. That was Lao Tzu's deal anyway. Lots of similar traditions dealt with issues of work and status and anxiety and nature the same way. But they were all, pretty much, taken over by fascists and real reactionaries. Even Taoism was taken over by charlatans and phonies. But the pure undogmatic centre of lots of traditions (Christianity, Vedism, Buddhism etc) is all the same. And that's Dudeism.
 * Oliver Benjamin, on his founding of Dudeism, based on the film, as quoted in "Big Lebowski Spawns Religion" by Yusuf Laher in Don't Panic Online (11 April 2011)
 * The Dude is an extreme case, but he provides an ideal which can help you to bring a little more "Dude" into your life, without giving up on the rat race entirely.
 * Oliver Benjamin, as quoted in "The man who founded a religion based on The Big Lebowski" by Richard S. Ehrlich at CNN (August 2011; updated 20 March, 2013)
 * Coen brothers' The Big Lebowski is a genial, shambling comedy about a human train wreck, and should come with a warning like the one Mark Twain attached to Huckleberry Finn: "Persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot." … Everybody knows somebody like the Dude — and so, rumor has it, do the Coen brothers. They based the character on a movie producer and distributor named Jeff Dowd, a familiar figure at film festivals, who is tall, large, shaggy and aboil with enthusiasm. Dowd is much more successful than Lebowski (he has played an important role in the Coens' careers as indie filmmakers), but no less a creature of the moment. Both dudes depend on improvisation and inspiration much more than organization.
 * Roger Ebert, in a review in Chicago Sun-Times (6 March 1998)
 * The Coen Brothers' 1998 follow up to Fargo is a mystery comedy for stoners. No character in the story is exactly what or who they seem to be. Inspired surrealistic dream sequences and touches of ribald humor spike the humorous punch. There's also a shot of red-hot political satire that predicts the Republican Party's post-Reagan shift toward nihilism. You'd never guess that the movie is loosely based on Raymond Chandler's detective novel The Big Sleep.
 * Cole Smithey, in review of The Big Lebowski (18 July 2011)

Cast

 * Jeff Bridges – Jeffrey Lebowski – "The Dude"
 * John Goodman – Walter Sobchak
 * Julianne Moore – Maude Lebowski
 * Steve Buscemi – Theodore Donald "Donny" Kerabatsos
 * David Huddleston – Jeffrey Lebowski – "The Big Lebowski"
 * Philip Seymour Hoffman – Brandt
 * Tara Reid – "Bunny" Lebowski, AKA Bunny LaJoya, AKA Fawn Knutsen
 * Philip Moon – Woo, AKA "The Chinaman"
 * Mark Pellegrino – Blond
 * Peter Stormare – Nihilist #1, Uli Kunkel, AKA "Karl Hungus"
 * Flea – Nihilist #2, Kieffer
 * Torsten Voges – Nihilist #3, Franz
 * Aimee Mann – Nihilist #4 in pancake diner, Toe Donor
 * John Turturro – Jesus Quintana
 * Dom Irrera – Tony
 * Jon Polito – Da Fino
 * Ben Gazzara – Jackie Treehorn
 * Sam Elliott – The Stranger
 * David Thewlis – Knox Harrington

title: The Big Lebowski


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Paul Lansky

Paul Lansky (born June 18, 1944) is one of the 'original' electronic music or computer music composers who has been producing works from the seventies right up to the present day.

Quotes

 * I hope it is clear...that the ways in which pitches represent pitch classes, and the ways pitch classes abstract pitch, must be examined in order to describe any kind of musical sense or progression, and that if one steps back into abstracted considerations derived without respect to such concerns, an understanding of the qualities of musical uniqueness will continue to be suppressed in favor of generalizations, which at best evoke a vague sense of what a piece may be doing, perhaps in common with some other pieces, but not what one piece is doing, all by itself.
 * Lansky, Paul (1975). Pitch-Class Consciousness, Perspectives of New Music XIII/2 (Spring-Summer).

title: Paul Lansky


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Holly Kruse

Holly Kruse is assistant professor of communication at the University of Tulsa.

Sourced

 * Women are still a relative rarity in rock bands, and studies of women's experiences with pop and rock music have indicated that girls are socialized to pop and rock music differently from boys: boys and young men tend to learn songs by ear and talk about popular music's technical aspects, while girls and young women tend to focus on lyrics rather than on equipment and instrumentation, and to resist learning songs by ear. Miki Bernyi's experience testifies to the truthfulness of those findings:
 * 'Girls don't have the patience to spend six years learning someone else's music. Me and Emma [Anderson] can't jam because we only know how to play our own songs. Jamming's more of a boy's thing....I think that women play more imaginatively because they learn to play while they're writing songs, instead of waiting to be technically good first.'
 * Quoted in Evans, 1994, p. 44.

 * "These differences can make it difficult for female musicians to enter male-dominated musical cultures."
 * Holly Kruse (1999). Key Terms in Popular Music and Culture, pg. 94. Malden, Massachusetts. ISBN 0631212639.

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Tuck Everlasting (2002 film)

Tuck Everlasting is a 2002 film about a young woman who meets and falls in love with young man who is part of a family of immortals.
 * Directed by Jay Russell. Screenplay by Jeffrey Lieber and James V. Hart. Based on the novel by Natalie Babbitt.

A secret is about to be discovered. An adventure is about to begin. (taglines)

Narrator

 * For some, time passes slowly, an hour can seem an eternity. For others, there's never enough. For the Tucks, it didn't exist.
 * Winnie Foster was to be sent 500 miles away to be educated, but what her parents didn't understand was that she only wanted to step outside her fence... so she did. What in these quiet woods should be so forbidden? Winnie had always sensed a mystery waiting for her there.
 * For some, time passes slowly, an hour can seem an eternity. For others, there's never enough. For Jesse Tuck, it didn't exist.
 * Tuck said it to Winnie the summer she turned 15: Do not fear death, but rather the unlived life. You don't have to live forever. You just have to live. And she did.

Jesse Tuck

 * How am I supposed to take you home when I can't make my feet move from this spot? If I could die tomorrow I would, just so I could spend one more night with you.

Angus Tuck

 * If there's one thing I've learned about people, many will do anything — anything — not to die. And they'll do anything to keep them living their life.

Miles

 * We all had a drink. Except for the cat, and that's important. The water tasted like... heaven. It floated over your tongue like a cloud. Tuck carved a T in the trunk and we moved on west to find a place to settle down. We put up a house for Mae and Tuck and a little shed for Jesse and me. That was the first time we figured there was something... peculiar. Jesse fell thirty feet and landed on is neck. He was up on his feet before Mae could work up a good cry. Didn't hurt him a bit, no broken bones... nothing. But that's not all... not by a long shot. Things began to happen. Some brush-poppers mistook Mae's horse for a deer. Thing is, the bullets didn't kill him. Barely even left a mark. Then Tuck got bitten by a rattlesnake, and you know what... he didn't die. But the cat did, of old age. And Miles got married. Tuck figured it early on. It was the spring. We all drank from it, even the horse. It had to be... the source of our changelessness. I begged her to come back... to me and find the spring and drink from it. The children, too. It was our only hope... to be together. She'd made up her mind that I'd... sold my soul to the devil. And she left me. She took my babies with her. Everyone... pulled away after that. There was talk of witchcraft... and... black magic. I went lookin' for wars to fight... and I saw brave men die at Vera Cruz. And then Gettysburg. Thousands of them in the blink of an eye. But not me. I couldn't die. Like Little Anna. The influenza took her before she was fifteen. And Bo. He'd be almost eighty now if he were still alive. And my sweet... my sweet young bride. She died in an insane asylum. Old and alone. But I'm still here... I'm still here.

Mae Tuck

 * [to Miles] You're as cozy as barbed wire.

Dialogue

 * Young Pastor: You speak blasphemy, sir.
 * Man in Yellow Suit: Fluently.

Taglines

 * A secret is about to be discovered. An adventure is about to begin.
 * If you could choose to live forever, would you?
 * Tuck's family drinks water from a magical spring, which allows them to live for eternity.
 * The spring holds the secret, the secret of life and death.

Cast

 * Alexis Bledel - Winnie Foster
 * Jonathan Jackson - Jesse Tuck
 * Ben Kingsley - The Man in the Yellow Suit
 * William Hurt - Angus Tuck
 * Sissy Spacek - Mae Tuck
 * Scott Bairstow - Miles Tuck
 * Amy Irving - Mrs. Foster
 * Victor Garber - Robert Foster
 * Julia Hart - Sally Hannaway
 * Noami Kline - Beatrice Ruston
 * Robert Luis - Night Deputy
 * Elisabeth Shue - Narrator

title: Tuck Everlasting (2002 film)