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Bill O'Reilly (commentator)

William James "Bill" O'Reilly, Jr. (born September 10, 1949, in Westbury, New York) is an American broadcast journalist and author. He came to national prominence hosting Inside Edition from 1989 to 1995. He hosted the American cable television news analysis program The O'Reilly Factor on the Fox News Channel from 1997 to 2017. He was terminated by Fox in early 2017 after a New York Times article disclosed several multi-million dollar settlements alleging sexual misconduct. O'Reilly subsequently founded the No-Spin Zone media franchise. He has written or co-written over 20 non-fiction books on politics and history, along with several novels.

Quotes

 * We'll do it live... WE'LL DO IT LIVE! DO IT LIVE... look, I'll write it and we'll do it live! Fucking thing SUCKS!
 * offhand remark to cameraman on the set of Inside Edition, late 1980s - early 1990s
 * clip aired on

 * All this is beyond me. I had trouble with Lincoln Logs. Remember Lincoln Logs? I mean, that was it for me.
 * , clip aired on
 * on the video game Super Mario Bros.

 * Winston Churchill said that democracy was the worst possible form of government, except for all the others. Maybe we can say the same about capitalism. For all of its faults, it gives most hardworking people a chance to improve themselves economically, even as the deck is stacked in favor of the privileged few... Here are the choices most of us face in such a system: Get bitter or get busy.
 * Quoted in
 * Quoted in

 * I don't care about the Constitution!
 * On trying terrorists in a court of law

 * Saddam Hussein... I believe is involved with this World Trade Center and Pentagon bombing. I believe that you're going to find out that money from Iraq flowed in and helped this happen.
 * 2001-09-14

 * I want to quote this— "On my honor, I will do my best to do my duty to God and to my country and obey Scout law", on and on and on and on. I mean, God's in the first 10 words. So – why did you have to tell them you were an atheist if you didn't have any trouble reading the oath? Why didn't you just shut up?
 * to atheist Eagle Scout Darrel Lambert
 * to atheist Eagle Scout Darrel Lambert

 * I wouldn't read the book, and I'll tell you why. I wouldna read Mein Kampf either. If I were going to UNC in 1941, and you, professor, said read Mein Kampf, I woulda said, "Hey, professor, with all due respect, shove it. I ain't reading it."
 * regarding the University of North Carolina assigning incoming students Michael Sells' book Approaching the Qur'an: The Early Revelations to read
 * regarding the University of North Carolina assigning incoming students Michael Sells' book Approaching the Qur'an: The Early Revelations to read

 * Paula Evan, Winston-Salem North Carolina: "Bill, if you are so concerned about public figures being bad role models for children please stop rudely interrupting your guest and telling them to shut up!" Well, the 'shut up' line has happened only once in six years, Miss Evans.

 * Our military machine will crush Iraq in a matter of days and there's no question that it will.
 * [to guest saying the war is "going to go on for months"] There's no way. There's absolutely no way. They may bomb for a matter of weeks, try to soften them up as they did in Afghanistan. But once the United States and Britain unleash, it's maybe hours. They're going to fold like that.
 * 2003-02-10

 * Once the war against Saddam Hussein begins, we expect every American to support our military, and if you can't do that, just shut up. Americans, and indeed our foreign allies, who actively work against our military once the war is underway, will be considered enemies of the state by me. Just fair warning to you, Barbara Streisand and others who see the world as you do. I don't want to demonize anyone, but anyone who hurts this country in a time like this, well — let's just say you will be spotlighted.

 * Think about this — some of us actively fighting to remove Saddam Hussein don't agree with the cause themselves, but they're doing their duty. And it is our duty as loyal Americans to shut up once the fighting begins, unless — unless facts prove the operation wrong, as was the case in Vietnam.

 * If the Americans go in and overthrow Saddam Hussein and it's clean, he has nothing, I will apologize to the nation, and I will not trust the Bush Administration again, all right?
 * on finding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq
 * on finding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq
 * on finding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq

 * I was wrong. I am not pleased about it at all and I think all Americans should be concerned about this… What do you want me to do, go over and kiss the camera?
 * in response to a request to make good on his 2003-03-18 promise to publicly apologize if weapons of mass destruction were not found in Iraq
 * in response to a request to make good on his 2003-03-18 promise to publicly apologize if weapons of mass destruction were not found in Iraq

 * I go on Good Morning America yesterday and say that I'm personally sorry my analysis on WMDs before the war was wrong and I'm angry about the CIA mistake. I mean, any honest commentator would say that, but the left-wing press sees my admission as some kind of liberal policy vindication and is using my words to hammer the president. Well, that's dishonest. I still believe removing Saddam was the right thing to do and that history will prove it. And there's also the possibility that WMDs will be found, so I might have to apologize for my apology. I don't mind. I still hope they find WMDs.

 * Like a brain surgeon who drinks a martini when he's not on call, the successful kids in your school may smoke pot on occasion, but they are not stoners.

 * And guys, if you exploit a girl, it will come back to get you. That's called "karma."

 * There is no question that Whoopi Goldberg's foolish comments at a John Kerry fundraiser hurt Kerry — who had no idea how to handle the situation. Chevy Chase should have learned from that. Even he has to know that calling the president of the United States an "F" is not going to be accepted by most Americans. Now you don't see this kind of thing on the right. You don't see prominent conservatives cursing out Democratic members of Congress, for example. Now I know talk radio can get rough but nothing like what these Hollywood nitwits are throwing out there.

 * I'll tell you what. I've been in combat. I've seen it, I've been close to it... and if my unit is in danger, and I've got a captured guy, and the guy knows where the enemy is, and I'm looking him in the eye, the guy better tell me. That's all I'm gonna tell you. The guy better tell me. If it's life or death, he's going first.
 * Roger from Portland
 * You just said you've been in combat, but you've never been in the military, have you?
 * Bill O'Reilly
 * No, I have not.
 * Roger from Portland
 * Then why do you say you've been in combat?
 * Bill O'Reilly
 * Why do I say that, Roger? Because I was in the middle of a couple of firefights in South and Central America.
 * Roger from Portland
 * But you were a media guy.
 * Bill O'Reilly
 * Yeah. A media guy with a pen, not a gun. And people were shooting at me, Roger.
 * on his experience as a journalist covering firefights in South and Central America
 * on his experience as a journalist covering firefights in South and Central America
 * on his experience as a journalist covering firefights in South and Central America
 * on his experience as a journalist covering firefights in South and Central America

 * I just wish Katrina had only hit the United Nations building, nothing else, just had flooded them out, and I wouldn't have rescued them.

 * If I'm the president of the United States, I walk right into Union Square, I set up my little presidential podium, and I say, "Listen, citizens of San Francisco, if you vote against military recruiting, you're not going to get another nickel in federal funds. Fine. You want to be your own country? Go right ahead. And if Al-Qaeda comes in here and blows you up, we're not going to do anything about it. We're going to say, look, every other place in America is off limits to you, except San Francisco. You want to blow up the Coit Tower? Go ahead."
 * reacting to 60% of San Francisco voters approving a nonbinding ballot measure encouraging public schools and colleges to prohibit military recruiting on campus
 * reacting to 60% of San Francisco voters approving a nonbinding ballot measure encouraging public schools and colleges to prohibit military recruiting on campus
 * reacting to 60% of San Francisco voters approving a nonbinding ballot measure encouraging public schools and colleges to prohibit military recruiting on campus
 * reacting to 60% of San Francisco voters approving a nonbinding ballot measure encouraging public schools and colleges to prohibit military recruiting on campus
 * reacting to 60% of San Francisco voters approving a nonbinding ballot measure encouraging public schools and colleges to prohibit military recruiting on campus
 * reacting to 60% of San Francisco voters approving a nonbinding ballot measure encouraging public schools and colleges to prohibit military recruiting on campus

 * Most people showed up, and I think there were, like, 1,300 of them, to hear what the woman had to say. These far-left Nazis— and that's what they are, OK?— came in, not only insulted Ms. Coulter but violated the rights of the people who came to hear what she had to say. This is unacceptable on every level. And it's unacceptable to do what they do on their websites: to defame, to lie, to do whatever, you know, sleazy thing they can think of to people with whom they disagree.
 * about University of Connecticut students chanting insults during an appearance by Ann Coulter
 * about University of Connecticut students chanting insults during an appearance by Ann Coulter
 * about University of Connecticut students chanting insults during an appearance by Ann Coulter

 * David Letterman
 * How can you possibly take exception with the motivation and the position of someone like Cindy Sheehan?
 * Bill O'Reilly
 * Because I think she's run by far-left elements in this country. I feel bad for the woman.
 * David Letterman
 * Have you lost family members in armed conflict?
 * Bill O'Reilly
 * No, I have not.
 * David Letterman
 * Well, then you can hardly speak for her, can you?
 * Well, then you can hardly speak for her, can you?

 * When I die, I don't want my demise to be used as a political rally, and that's what happened yesterday.
 * In response to civil rights leader Coretta Scott King's funeral.
 * In response to civil rights leader Coretta Scott King's funeral.

 * I'm not buying this. If, if you're eleven years old, or twelve years old, thirteen, and you have a strong bond with your family, OK.  Even if the guy [kidnapper] threatens you - this and that. … If you can get away, you get away.

 * Bill O'Reilly
 * I'm effete. I'm not a tough guy. This is all an act.
 * Stephen Colbert
 * You're breaking my heart, Bill.
 * Bill O'Reilly
 * I'm sensitive, y'know, I'm a—
 * Stephen Colbert
 * If you're an act, then what am I?
 * interview on

 * The Soros-Lewis mob despises Fox News because we have their number and report on them accurately. They use the MoveOn website to smear this network and others with whom they disagree. These people use propaganda techniques perfected by Dr. Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi minister of information. They lie, distort, defame all the time.
 * on MoveOn.org organizing a petition to the Nevada Democratic Party to drop Fox News as a debate sponsor. George Soros, financier, and Peter Lewis, chairman of Progressive Insurance, made donations to MoveOn.org.
 * on MoveOn.org organizing a petition to the Nevada Democratic Party to drop Fox News as a debate sponsor. George Soros, financier, and Peter Lewis, chairman of Progressive Insurance, made donations to MoveOn.org.
 * on MoveOn.org organizing a petition to the Nevada Democratic Party to drop Fox News as a debate sponsor. George Soros, financier, and Peter Lewis, chairman of Progressive Insurance, made donations to MoveOn.org.

 * America today is a confused society, caught up in a terror war, a culture war, and a media war, where honesty and professional standards have vanished.

 * Bill O'Reilly
 * I think it takes more faith to be like you, an atheist, than like me, a believer, and it's because of nature. You know, I just don't think we could've lucked out to have the tides come in, the tides go out, sun go up, sun go down. Don't think it could've happened.
 * Richard Dawkins
 * We have a very full understanding of why the tides go in, the tides go out, of why the continents drift about, of why life is there. Science is ever more piling on the evidence, piling on the understanding.
 * Bill O'Reilly
 * But it had to get there, I understand that you, you know, the uh, physiology of it if you will, but it had to come from somewhere.
 * interviewing Richard Dawkins about his book The God Delusion
 * interviewing Richard Dawkins about his book The God Delusion
 * interviewing Richard Dawkins about his book The God Delusion

 * The hate websites on both the left and the right— I object to. You know I object to. Now, you're a little bit more a libertarian about this in our previous conversations. But I say this. There's no difference between the KKK and the Nazis, who have websites, than the Daily Kos. Because the Daily Kos is basically saying, "We're allowing this kind of thing to come on." It's good that Tony Snow has a recurrence of cancer; we hope he dies. We're sorry the assassination attempt against Dick Cheney failed; let them try again. And on and on and on and on.
 * about comments posted to Daily Kos blog posts
 * about comments posted to Daily Kos blog posts
 * about comments posted to Daily Kos blog posts

 * This is the worst stuff on the Internet. There isn't anything worse than this.
 * on Daily Kos
 * on Daily Kos

 * Chris Dodd
 * Talking about Al-Qaeda attacking San Francisco and blowing up San Francisco.
 * Bill O'Reilly
 * When did I say that, Senator?
 * Chris Dodd
 * That's not offensive?
 * Bill O'Reilly
 * When did I say that?
 * Chris Dodd
 * You said it in 2005, I think is correct?
 * Bill O'Reilly
 * When? Where? What forum? When?
 * Chris Dodd
 * Right here, I believe, on your own show.
 * Bill O'Reilly
 * No, you're wrong. I didn't say it here. You don't know what the hell I said, with all due respect.
 * Bill O'Reilly
 * You didn't hear it and you don't know what I did.
 * Chris Dodd
 * Focus on your legitimate criticism.
 * Bill O'Reilly
 * Look, you're a propagandist, Senator. You're a propagandist.
 * referring to quote from The Radio Factor on 2005-11-08, not The O'Reilly Factor (see above)
 * Look, you're a propagandist, Senator. You're a propagandist.
 * referring to quote from The Radio Factor on 2005-11-08, not The O'Reilly Factor (see above)
 * referring to quote from The Radio Factor on 2005-11-08, not The O'Reilly Factor (see above)
 * referring to quote from The Radio Factor on 2005-11-08, not The O'Reilly Factor (see above)

 * And I couldn't get over the fact that there was no difference between Sylvia's Restaurant and any other restaurant in New York City. I mean, it was exactly the same, even though it's run by blacks, primarily black patronship. It was the same.
 * There wasn't one person in Sylvia's who was screaming, "MFer, I want more iced tea." You know, I mean everybody was— it was like goin' into an Italian restaurant in an all-white suburb, in the sense of people were sitting there and they were ordering and having fun, and there wasn't any kinda craziness at all.
 * on his meal with Al Sharpton at Sylvia's in Harlem
 * on his meal with Al Sharpton at Sylvia's in Harlem
 * on his meal with Al Sharpton at Sylvia's in Harlem

 * CNN has gone to the dark side.
 * in response to CNN's playing a tape of his surprise at Sylvia's Restaurant being like "any other restaurant in New York"
 * in response to CNN's playing a tape of his surprise at Sylvia's Restaurant being like "any other restaurant in New York"

 * You know, look, if I could strangle these people and not go to hell and get executed, I would, but I can't.
 * of people who criticize him
 * of people who criticize him

 * Many parents are worried in America about the gay agenda and indoctrination of their children to see homosexuality in a certain way.
 * 2007-10-26
 * see Mackris lawsuit quote below, expressing contrary attitude on homosexuality indoctrination

 * It's all coming from the haters on the far left. Just throw it in the garbage. But the regular folks who really enjoy this program, what we want you to ask, Laurie, is why do we do things? Why do we do them?
 * explaining to his ombudsman, Laurie Dhue, what to do about mail complaining about the low quality of Fox News Channel material; November 2007
 * explaining to his ombudsman, Laurie Dhue, what to do about mail complaining about the low quality of Fox News Channel material; November 2007

 * On the pinhead front, 16-year-old Jamie Lynn Spears is pregnant. The sister of Britney says she is shocked. I bet. Now most teens are pinheads in some ways. But here the blame falls primarily on the parents of the girl, who obviously have little control over her....

 * Bill O'Reilly
 * You know, what's the difference between the Ku Klux Klan and Arianna Huffington? What's the difference?
 * Mary Katherine Ham
 * Well, I think there's a difference. Well, she actually— I think things have actually improved because people like you and like myself speak out about these things and say that, hey this is a—
 * Bill O'Reilly
 * I don't see any difference between Huffington and the Nazis.
 * Mary Katherine Ham
 * She actually—
 * Bill O'Reilly
 * What's the difference?
 * Mary Katherine Ham
 * I still don't think she's a Nazi.
 * Bill O'Reilly
 * I didn't say she was a Nazi.
 * Mary Katherine Ham
 * [laughing] Alright.
 * Bill O'Reilly
 * I only said there's no difference between what the two do. I want everybody to know that.
 * to Mary Katherine Ham, editor of townhall.org, about a (since removed) comment by "Klip" to, writing of Nancy Reagan, "Like her evil husband, she has lived far too long. Here's hoping the hag suffers for several weeks, then croaks in the tub."
 * I only said there's no difference between what the two do. I want everybody to know that.
 * to Mary Katherine Ham, editor of townhall.org, about a (since removed) comment by "Klip" to, writing of Nancy Reagan, "Like her evil husband, she has lived far too long. Here's hoping the hag suffers for several weeks, then croaks in the tub."
 * to Mary Katherine Ham, editor of townhall.org, about a (since removed) comment by "Klip" to, writing of Nancy Reagan, "Like her evil husband, she has lived far too long. Here's hoping the hag suffers for several weeks, then croaks in the tub."
 * to Mary Katherine Ham, editor of townhall.org, about a (since removed) comment by "Klip" to, writing of Nancy Reagan, "Like her evil husband, she has lived far too long. Here's hoping the hag suffers for several weeks, then croaks in the tub."

 * Millions of American families are dealing with teenage pregnancy...It is true that some Americans will judge Governor Palin and her family. There's nothing anyone can do about it.

 * Meantime, the anti-liberal Fox News Channel and The Wall Street Journal, whose editorial page is conservative, are both doing very well.

 * Well, you know, if Mr. Hawking wants to come on and tell us how the earth got here or why the sun comes up and goes down without interruption, why the tide goes in and goes out — no miscommunications ever, you know, if he wants to explain how all that happened, we're ready to receive him, but of course he can't.
 * If they wanna be nonbelievers, I don't care, that's up to them, but it's just as much of a stretch to be an atheist as it is to believe in God, because there's no explanation for how the planet got here, and Hawkings [sic] doesn't have it.
 * responding to question to BillOReilly.com by Eric of Los Angeles, "What are your thoughts on Stephen Hawking's assertion that science can explain everything without the need for a deity?"
 * responding to question to BillOReilly.com by Eric of Los Angeles, "What are your thoughts on Stephen Hawking's assertion that science can explain everything without the need for a deity?"

 * Every fair-minded person should support government safety nets for people who need assistance through no fault of their own. But guys like McDermott don't make distinctions like that. For them, the baby Jesus wants us to "provide," no matter what the circumstance. But being a Christian, I know that while Jesus promoted charity at the highest level, he was not self-destructive.
 * referring to Jim McDermott saying "This is Christmas time. We talk about good Samaritans, the poor, the little baby Jesus in the cradle and all this stuff. And then we say to the unemployed, we won't give you a check to feed your family. That's simply wrong."
 * referring to Jim McDermott saying "This is Christmas time. We talk about good Samaritans, the poor, the little baby Jesus in the cradle and all this stuff. And then we say to the unemployed, we won't give you a check to feed your family. That's simply wrong."

 * I'll tell you why it's not a scam, in my opinion, all right? Tide goes in, tide goes out, never a miscommunication. You can't explain that.
 * interviewing David Silverman of American Atheists regarding the organization's Huntsville, Alabama "You Know They're All Scams" billboard
 * interviewing David Silverman of American Atheists regarding the organization's Huntsville, Alabama "You Know They're All Scams" billboard
 * interviewing David Silverman of American Atheists regarding the organization's Huntsville, Alabama "You Know They're All Scams" billboard

 * It's not a traditional America anymore. And there are 50% of the voting public who want stuff. They want things, and who is going to give them things? President Obama. He knows it, and he ran on it. And whereby 20 years ago, President Obama would have be roundly defeated by an establishment candidate like Mitt Romney. The white establishment is now the minority. And the voters, many of them, feel that this economic system is stacked against them and they want stuff.
 * Election coverage,

 * Do the atheists in Wisconsin realize they're going to Hell? Did you ask them that?
 * , quoted in
 * regarding the moving of a nativity scene from a town hall in Ellwood City, Pennsylvania to a church because the Wisconsin-based threatened to sue

David Silverman: Christianity. O'Reilly: That's not a religion. That's a philosophy. Silverman: So you are going to actually tell me on live television that Christianity is not a religion? O'Reilly: Correct. It is a phil-o-so-phy.
 * Bill O'Reilly: What religion is involved with Christmas? What religion?
 * O'Reilly: Mr. Silverman, it is a fact that Christianity is not a religion, it is a philosophy. If the government were saying that the Methodist religion, all right, deserves a special place in the public square, I will be on your side.
 * , quoted in

Bill O'Reilly: I'm crying. John Stossel: It's not so bad. I mean, no, Christians aren't being killed. Bill O'Reilly: No, not yet. John Stossel: And not in America, and they're not going to be. Bill O'Reilly: They're verbally being killed.
 * John Stossel: That nun has something to complain about, but your "war on Christianity", you're just a 10-foot-tall crybaby.
 * , quoted in
 * referring to Little Sisters of the Poor's lawsuit against the Affordable Care Act mandating that employers offer insurance plans covering contraception

 * History will record that the two biggest deficits of the Obama administration were the failure to create a robust economy and the president's retreat from the terrorist battlefield. For years, Talking Points has been telling you the Obama administration has no strategy to defeat the ISIS threat. But President Obama somehow does not seem to understand that the civilized world is losing the fight against ISIS. Just hours before the Paris attack the president said 'we have contained' ISIS. Obviously that is not true. They are a threat worldwide, they continue to kill people with impunity. Nevertheless, the president is unrepentant and unwilling to admit that his strategy has failed. At a press conference today in Turkey he said, 'The strategy we're pursing is the right one.' The Republican Party is taking note. Senator Ted Cruz says 'Barack Obama does not wish to defend the country,' and Senator Lindsey Graham warns, 'There's a 9/11 coming, and it's coming from Syria if we don't disrupt their operations inside of Syria.' It is long past time that we the people demand ISIS be defeated, not contained.
 * The O'Reilly Factor (16 November 2015)

 * Bill O'Reilly: 13,000 dead now in the USA. Many people who are dying, both here and around the world, were on their last legs anyway, and I don't want to sound callous about that. Sean Hannity: You're gonna get — hold on, you're going to get hammered for that. O'Reilly: Well, I don't care. I mean, a simple man tells the truth.
 * The Sean Hannity Show, Premeire Radio Networks,, quoted in

Disputed

 * … it's one of those mitts, those loofa mitts you know, so I got my hands in it... So anyway I'd be rubbing your big boobs and getting your nipples really hard, kinda' kissing your neck from behind...and then I would take the other hand with the falafel [sic] thing and I'd just put it on your wet, juicy, pussy but you'd have to do it really light, just kind of a tease business or else I'd get very horny....
 * alleged in Mackris v. O'Reilly complaint, 2004-10-13, [Item 78]
 * From sexual harassment lawsuit by his former producer Andrea Mackris.

 * If you cross Fox News Channel, it's not just me, it's Roger Ailes who will go after you... The person gets what's coming to them but never sees it coming. Look at Al Franken, one day he's going to get a knock on his door and life as he's known it will change forever. That day will happen, trust me.
 * alleged in Mackris v. O'Reilly, quoted in

Quotes about O'Reilly

 * Petty malice is now the major premise of American life. This meanness has become so common that it even dominates our leisure time, with Americans worshipping mega-millionaire assholes like Bill O'Reilly and Donald Trump. It's an utterly masochistic addiction- and no wonder, since Middle America has taken so much shit over the past 30 years, we've grown not only used to the meanness, but we can even get a rush off it. America is now Zed Nation: addicted to the pain that our masters so lovingly deliver to us, rewarding them not only with greater incomes, but with our admiration, our leisure time, and our souls.
 * Mark Ames, Going Postal: Rage, Murder and Rebellion: From Reagan's Workplaces to Clinton's Columbine and Beyond (2005), p. 205

 * Like all great theologies, Bill's can be boiled down to one sentence: There must be a god, because I don't know how things work.
 * Stephen Colbert, on

 * The picture of this grieving mother demanding answers from a war president was too much for Bill O'Reilly of Fox News. He and Rush Limbaugh launched a relentless right-wing smear campaign against her. O'Reilly called her actions "treasonous."
 * Amy Goodman and David Goodman, Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People Who Fight Back (2006)

 * I'm not smart enough to debate you point to point on this, but I have the feeling that about 60% of what you say is crap.
 * David Letterman, on

 * O'Reilly is the ultimate spinmeister, the consummate propagandist. And as they teach in Propaganda 101, the first argument of the successful propagandist is to claim that what you are doing is telling the straight truth, while everyone with whom you disagree is doctoring their story to cover up their flaws. In O'Reilly's case, the "no-spin" zone is a place where most Republicans get treated with kid gloves, while their adversaries are raked over the coals.
 * Robert W. McChesney, in

 * Sean Hannity ain't never going to let white supremacy go, and he genuinely believes what he's doing. Bill O'Reilly and others are just trying to get ratings, but Hannity really believes that whites got special white rights. He's not just being anti-black; it's anti-anything other than white. He won't let that issue die.
 * James Meredith Interview with Jackson Free Press (2008)

 * He’s a character I’ve known since I was a kid. He makes me laugh more than anything else, because he’s this faux character, a character he plays in a series called The O’Reilly Factor—the braggadocio Irish guy who plays as if he’s smarter than you, but in fact he doesn’t know very much and can’t really back up what he says. Everybody from my neighborhood knows that character and thinks that character is a joke. You know, the tough-guy part of it is the biggest fraud of all. Bill’s from Long Island. Sorry, that’s not tough-guy territory.
 * Lawrence O’Donnell, in Playboy Interview, May 2011.

 * When, when did conservatives steal rock and roll from us? When did that happen? All the AM stations, nothing but racist fascist douchebags, all their break music is this blasty-ass, gut-bucket rock and roll. Bill O'Reilly will play the White Stripes, for God's sakes! Then you turn it over to NPR and their break music is a sad, lonely saxophone echoing through a sewer pipe somewhere. When did that happen?
 * Patton Oswalt, No Reason to Complain (2006)

 * Bill O'Reilly is a demon-possessed messenger of Satan. O'Reilly regularly slanders Westboro Baptist Church on his program, and he only has guests who join him in slandering Westboro Baptist Church, and refuses to allow Westboro Baptist Church to respond! Thus, Bill O'Reilly is a blaspheming hell-bound hypocrite claiming to be fair and balanced and running a no-spin zone. Hah! O'Reilly is of his father the Devil.
 * Fred Phelps, leader of Westboro Baptist Church, in

 * Wollstonecraft was an Enlightenment philosopher who argued for the rule of reason and the education of women, and against monarchy and slavery. Her "radical" views earned her the epithet "a hyena in petticoats," most likely from an ancestor of Bill O'Reilly.
 * Jen Sorensen, Slowpoke: One nation, oh my God! (2008)

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 * Christopher Reeve]]

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 * Constitutional protection for bodily autonomy is of vital importance to people with disabilities, because that protection has far too often been denied to them in both reproductive and non-reproductive contexts. Perhaps most notoriously, around 60,000 Americans were forcibly sterilized in state-sanctioned programs to prevent those adjudged to have psychiatric disabilities from reproducing.
 * "Brief for Autistic Self Advocacy Network and the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund as Amicus Curiae (Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Org., 142 S. Ct. 2228)" (20 Sept. 2021), p. 7

 * With disabled people in particular, police aren't trained to deal with us, they shoot first and ask questions later instead of taking the time to try and understand what we want to get across during interactions with them. Because everything is considered a threat first, we are more likely to die first. I absolutely don't think that the police are trained properly to handle calls when disability and mental illness are at play. If they did Alfred would still be alive.
 * Keah Brown; as qtd. in Brittney McNamara, “Up to Half of People Killed by Police Are Disabled”, Teen Vogue, (September 29, 2016).

 * Pamela Anderson has more prosthetics in her body than I do; nobody calls her disabled.
 * Aimee Mullins on prosthetics in her TED talk

 * He just wrote a really cogent, beautiful response online. Didn’t fight with anybody, didn’t call anybody anything, didn’t judge anybody. And he completely opened my eyes to a perspective I never thought of. He said, “I understand what an actor is. I, too, am an actor. But I’m an actor in a wheelchair, and I never see parts that are leading roles for a person in a wheelchair. And so the one time I see a role where there’s a person in a wheelchair, I think, wow, this could be it. This could be the moment where I have all of the tools necessary to play this part. Do I get a shot at playing it?” And he was like, “Because when you think of it on the flip side, they never call people with wheelchairs in to play able-bodied people, and they’ll get able-bodied people to play people in wheelchairs.” I never thought of it like that. My perspective, obviously, as someone who is not in a wheelchair—I just never thought of it that way. And I sat there and I was like, it’s powerful because you don’t think about representation, you don’t think about how important it is for people to see themselves onscreen in a real way. And at the same time, I don’t think Bryan Cranston did anything wrong. I don’t think everything has to be a fight. It’s just, like, a moment to be like, hey, maybe next time people in Hollywood can look at that and go, maybe you can get a relatively unknown actor to play that role and then put an A-lister opposite them and maybe this becomes their breakout. Maybe this becomes the thing that blows them up. And that’s where you realize how powerful representation is, because if you’re a person in a wheelchair, how many movies come along where the lead character is in a wheelchair? There’s virtually none. And even myself, I was like, oh man, I have to try and understand that a little bit more. It was eye-opening.
 * Trevor Noah, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, "Let's Talk This Out", (1/10/2019); as quoted in "Trevor Noah’s Remarks About Disability Representation Only Scratch the Surface, but They’re a Good Start" as quoted by Marissa Martinelli, Slate, (Jan 14, 2019).

 * When people project and understand that in an instant and as they grow older they face Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, MS, strokes, all the diseases of the brain and central nervous system, which will effect the entire population as we get older. People begin to realize hey I'm lucky, I'm just temporarily not disabled. So, the point is we're beginning to see equality, we're beginning to see new opportunities and that brings me to the other part we've already talked about, acceptance and the other part is denial. And what I mean by that, and everybody has to work it out for themselves, my point of view may not be your point of view, so please hold onto your belief and let me hold onto my belief. But my belief is that there is nothing we can't accomplish if we set our minds to it.
 * Christopher Reeve, ”AN EVENING WITH CHRISTOPHER REEVE”, COPPS COLISEUM – (MAY 13 1999)

 * Some people are able to accept living with a severe disability. I am not one of them, and that is why I have a keen interest in research and am deeply disturbed by unreasonable attempts to block scientific progress.
 * Christopher Reeve, Testimony in favor of funding human cloning experiments [S. 1758 Human Cloning Prohibition Act of 2001], (Senate - March 5, 2002)

 * While bilingual is understood as a valuable asset or goal for middle-class and upper-class students, for working-class and poor students it is framed as a disability that must be overcome
 * Jonathan Rosa Looking Like a Language, Sounding Like a Race: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and the Learning of Latinidad (2018)

 * Due to the lack of federal record-keeping, we can’t even tell you precisely how many people are killed by police in the US in any given year, let alone how many of them are disabled. But we do know it’s a lot: A report from the Ruderman Family Foundation earlier this year found wildly varying estimates of the number of disabled people killed by police, from 25 percent to more than 40 percent of police shooting victims. For perspective, census data puts the overall incidence of disability at about 20 percent of the population.
 * At the same time, people of color in the United States are generally more likely to be disabled, or to lack adequate care, due to factors like environmental racism, occupational segregation, and poor access to health care. This is a systemic inequality that begins long before a fatal interaction with police ever takes place.
 * S.E., Smith, “Disability is a hidden side of the police violence epidemic“, Vox, (Oct 4, 2016).

 * [Bioethics] is "a phony branch of elite philosophy whose principle purpose seems to be to justify allowing badly ill or disabled people to die."
 * Larry Thornberry, "The Dean of Suspense", The American Spectator, (2009-07-08).

 * Not only do physically disabled people have experiences which are not available to the able-bodied, they are in a better position to transcend cultural mythologies about the body, because they cannot do things the able-bodied feel they must do in order to be happy, ‘normal,’ and sane….If disabled people were truly heard, an explosion of knowledge of the human body and psyche would take place.
 * Susan Wendell, in The Rejected Body: Feminist Philosophical Reflections on Disability.

 * The provision of the wheelchairs would therefore address some challenges (for the disabled) such as integration into society as well as access to health and basic services and fill other gaps. We cannot talk about inclusivity if we do not empower people, at the grassroots level.
 * Saara Kuugongelwa (2021) cited in: "Modern wheelchairs enables mobility, accessibility to disabled in Namibia" in China.org.cn, 20 December 2021.

Attributed

 * Disability is not a brave struggle or ‘courage in the face of adversity.’ Disability is an art. It’s an ingenious way to live.
 * Storm Marcus, Storm Reading, 1993, quoted in Making an entrance: theory and practice for disabled and non-disabled dancers, by Adam Benjamin, p. 23.

 * If there was a country called disabled, I would be from there. I live disabled culture, eat disabled food, make disabled love, cry disabled tears,  climb disabled mountains and tell disabled stories…
 * “Disabled Country,” Neil Marcus per UC Berkeley Bancroft Library Oral History project

 * Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you’re needed by someone.
 * Martina Navratilova, quoted in p 15, Grand Ideas from Within By Janice M. Mcdermott & Joan Stewart

ADA.gov, "QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS: THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT AND PERSONS WITH HIV/AIDS"

 * The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) gives federal civil rights protections to individuals with disabilities similar to those provided to individuals on the basis of race, color, sex, national origin, age, and religion. It guarantees equal opportunity for individuals with disabilities in public accommodations, employment, transportation, State and local government services, and telecommunications.
 * Q: Are people with HIV or AIDS protected by the ADA?
 * A: Yes.  An individual is considered to have a "disability" if he or she has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities, has a record of such an impairment, or is regarded as having such an impairment.  Persons with HIV disease, both symptomatic and asymptomatic, have physical impairments that substantially limit one or more major life activities and are, therefore, protected by the law.
 * Q: What employers are covered by the ADA?
 * A: The ADA prohibits discrimination by all private employers with 15 or more employees.  In addition, the ADA prohibits all public entities, regardless of the size of their work force, from discriminating in employment against qualified individuals with disabilities.

 * Q: What employment practices are covered by the ADA?
 * A: The ADA prohibits discrimination in all employment practices.  This includes not only hiring and firing, but job application procedures (including the job interview), job assignment, training, and promotions.  It also includes wages, benefits (including health insurance), leave, and all other employment-related activities.

Pasquale S. Toscano, "The Myth of Disability ‘Sob Stories’", New York Times, (June 14, 2017).

 * Of course, the idea that disability begets preternatural abilities is nothing new. The Greek seer Tiresias’ blindness gave him access to the spiritual sphere in Sophocles’ “Oedipus Cycle.” (As students of literature, we associate a similar capability with the blind poet Homer.) And so it goes for our modern mythologies: In “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,” the blindness of Chirrut Îmwe, played by Donnie Yen, seems to connect him with the Force; Sofia Boutella’s character, Gazelle, likewise wears prosthetics that double as lethal blades in the spy thriller “Kingsman.” But I don’t feel like some “super-crip” — a supernaturally endowed disabled character — on nights when I can’t focus because of muscle spasms, on afternoons when I can’t spend time with friends because they’re playing disc golf, and on mornings when I remember how the nurses would catheterize me six times daily during that month I spent in the hospital, until they taught me to do it myself.
 * It is probably safe to say that people like Franklin Delano Roosevelt (polio), Harriet Tubman (narcolepsy) or even the Oscar-winning actress Marlee Matlin (deafness) succeeded both despite and because of their impairments. Do I think that disability made an impact on these figures, that it offered up a unique brand of understanding and metamorphosed into a kind of Muse for them? Of course. But most people with disabilities will not be remembered by history. They are usually living challenging lives with little to show for it: Unemployment rates are disturbingly high, health care costs are often debilitating, and the emotional toll of living with an “aberration” can rend families apart. The only thing that a fidelity to positive stereotypes accomplishes, then, is to absolve society of maintaining commitments to the disabled, like making places more accessible, since it would be ridiculous to aid people who already have a leg up with added perks.
 * And yet it is not a “perk” to take the elevator when your friends walk up the stairs or to park in one of the handicapped spaces or to use a capacious bathroom stall or to be wheeled to the gate when you fly. It’s not just convenient either. It’s essential. This is the challenging, needy underbelly of living with an impairment that positive stereotyping can obscure. Accommodations serve the invaluable purpose of ensuring the human dignity of people with disabilities — our ability to participate in society as completely as possible without being de facto quarantined for “defects” in a world that prizes fitness and forgets that disability is the most fluid identity category of all.

=== Pasquale Toscano, "Where are all the superheroes with disabilities?", Boston Globe, (06/01/2018) ===
 * The origin myths of many superheroes lie in life-altering accidents or bodily mutations. Fans of the genre emphasize that disability, largely unrepresented in other forms of fiction, is part of these characters’ stories. But those stories then go on to wish disability away, via bionic implants and armored suits. “ ‘Disabled’ superheroes aren’t disabled at all,” says Chris Gavaler, author of “On the Origin of Superheroes.”
 * The absence of characters living with permanent disabilities affects the way viewers and readers see themselves, argues Rachel Kolb, an Emory University graduate student who is deaf and writes widely about disability in literature. “If we don’t see ourselves within the cultural representations that surround us,” she says in an interview, “it becomes more difficult to imagine ourselves in various kinds of situations, various ways of exercising agency and justice and power and goodness. And all the other themes that tend to be a part of superhero movies.”
 * ACCORDING TO LAWRENCE Carter-Long, spokesman for the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, about 20 percent of Americans identify as disabled, while only about 2 percent of characters on television and in film have disabilities.
 * Advocates are also wary of plots that go out of their way to portray disabilities as inconsequential, in a way that minimizes the genuine challenges they pose. When Netflix launched a show based on Marvel’s Daredevil character, a New York Times reviewer wrote that the central superhero “is sightless but not blind to crime.” In fact, he doesn’t seem blind to much of anything, including women or agile villains.
 * Fundamentally, what Carter-Long and others want are more complex representations of people with disabilities — and not just in superhero blockbusters. “If there are few disabled characters being created or shown for disabled people to identify with, we then have fewer opportunities to be a meaningful part of what a huge number of non-disabled people simply take for granted,” Carter-Long said.
 * "It's got spastic in its name" the great philosopher Evan Mitchell once said

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Charles Péguy

Charles Péguy (January 7, 1873 – September 4, 1914) was a French poet, socialist activist and essayist.

Quotes

 * There will be things that I do that no one will be left to understand.
 * Le Mystère des saints Innocents [The Mystery of the Holy Innocents] (1912)

The Portal of the Mystery of Hope (1912)

 * Le Porche du mystère de la deuxième vertu, trans. David Louis Schindler Jr., 1929

 * The faith that I love the best, says God, is hope.
 * Opening line.

 * In my servant the ant, my tiny servant, who hoards greedily like a miser. Who works like one unhappy and who has no break and who has no rest.

 * I am so resplendent in my creation. That in order really not to see me these poor people would have to be blind.

 * Faith is a loyal Wife. Charity is a Mother. An ardent mother, noble-hearted. Or an older sister who is like a mother. Hope is a little girl, nothing at all.

Basic Verities, Prose and Poetry (1943)

 * Charles Péguy: Basic Verities, Prose and Poetry, trans. Ann and Julien Green (1943)

 * He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.
 * "Lettre du Provincial" (21 December 1899)

 * Tyranny is always better organised than freedom.
 * "War and Peace"

 * The sinner is at the heart of Christianity. No one is as competent as the sinner in matters of Christianity. No one, except a saint.
 * "Un Nouveau théologien" (1911)

 * The life of the honest man must be an apostasy and a perpetual desertion. The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man must be a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful to truth must make himself continually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable renascent errors. And the man who wishes to remain faithful to justice must make himself continually unfaithful to inexhaustibly triumphant injustices.
 * p. 51

 * Dans ce bel honneur de métier convergeaient tous le plus beaux, tous le plus nobles sentiments. Une dignité. Une fierté. Ne jamais rien demander à personne, disaient-ils. … Un ouvrier de ce temps-là ne savait pas ce que c’est que quémander. C’est la bourgeoisie qui quémande. C’est la bourgeoisie qui, les faisant bourgeois, leur a appris a quémander.
 * Work for them was joy itself and the deep root of their being. And the reason of their being. There was an incredible honor in work, the most beautiful of all the honors. … We have known this devotion to l’ouvrage bien faite, to the good job, carried and maintained to its most exacting claims. … Today, what remains of all this? How has … the only people that loved to work … been transformed into one which in the workyard takes the greatest pains not to lift a hand?
 * p. 81

 * These bygone workmen did not serve, they worked. They had an absolute honor, which is honor proper. A chair rung had to be well made. That was an understood thing. That was the first thing. It wasn’t that the chair rung had to be well made for the salary or on account of the salary. It wasn’t that it was well made for the boss, nor for connoisseurs, nor for the boss’ clients. It had to be well made itself, in itself, for itself, in its very self. A tradition coming, springing from deep within the race, a history, an absolute, an honor, demanded that this chair rung be well made. Every part of the chair which could not be seen was just as perfectly made as the parts which could be seen. This was the selfsame principle of cathedrals. … There was no question of being seen or of not being seen. It was the innate being of work which needed to be well done.
 * p. 82

 * Towards this fine honor of a trade converged all the finest, all the most noble sentiments—dignity, pride. Never ask anything of anyone, they used to say. … In those days a workman did not know what it was to solicit. It is the bourgeoisie who, turning the workmen into bourgeois, have taught them to solicit.
 * p. 83.

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Talk:Les Tontons flingueurs

Having any quotes in the languages of their initial expression is always a good start, but there should also be english translations provided, to the extent they are available or can be attempted. ~ Kalki 17:22, 22 Jun 2004 (UTC)

 * I understand that such a page may be quite frustrating for non french speakers, but most of these quotes can't be accurately translated into other languages as they're deeply bound to french culture and way of talking. I don't think I have any sufficient talent to translate the ones that could make sense in english. Also, these quotes are funny only to people who have seen the film, and I don't know if it's ever been dubbed or subtitled in english. Maybe it would be a good source for translations. ~ Romanito 09:11, 23 Jun 2004 (UTC)

I understand that, but it would be nice to at least try to explain what some of these quotes mean. For example, why has the sentence "C'est curieux chez les marins, ce besoin de faire des phrases" become such a classic? Why is it so funny? I understand French very well but I just don't "get" this joke. How would you translate it into english? I have seen "we need a bigger boat" but I fail to see the connection.

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Thomas Edison

Thomas Alva Edison (11 February 1847 – 18 October 1931) was an American inventor and businessman who developed many devices which greatly influenced life worldwide into the twenty-first century.

1800s

 * To Monsieur Eiffel the Engineer, the brave builder of so gigantic and original a specimen of modern Engineering from one who has the greatest respect and admiration for all Engineers including the Great Engineer the Bon Dieu.
 * When Thomas Edison visited the Eiffel Tower during the 1889 World's Fair, he signed the guestbook with this message, as quoted in The Tallest Tower by Joseph Harris, p. 95

 * During all those years of experimentation and research, I never once made a discovery. All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved were those of invention, pure and simple. I would construct a theory and work on its lines until I found it was untenable. Then it would be discarded at once and another theory evolved. This was the only possible way for me to work out the problem. … I speak without exaggeration when I say that I have constructed 3,000 different theories in connection with the electric light, each one of them reasonable and apparently likely to be true. Yet only in two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory. My chief difficulty was in constructing the carbon filament. . . . Every quarter of the globe was ransacked by my agents, and all sorts of the queerest materials used, until finally the shred of bamboo, now utilized by us, was settled upon.
 * On his years of research in developing the electric light bulb, as quoted in "Talks with Edison" by George Parsons Lathrop in Harper's magazine, Vol. 80 (February 1890), p. 425.
 * Variant:
 * Through all the years of experimenting and research, I never once made a discovery. I start where the last man left off. … All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved were those of invention pure and simple.
 * As quoted in ''Makers of the Modern World : The Lives of Ninety-two Writers, Artists, Scientists, Statesmen, Inventors, Philosophers, Composers, and Other Creators who Formed the Pattern of Our Century (1955) by Louis Untermeyer, p. 227

 * I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph. No, when I have, fully decided that a result is worth getting, I go about it, and make trial after trial, until it comes.
 * Quoted by Theodore Dreiser in A Photographic Talk with Edison, Success magazine (February 1898)

1900s

 * The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.
 * This has been reprinted many times with slight variations on the wording; it is part of a much larger quote directly from Edison published in 1903:
 * Nineteen hundred and three will bring great advances in surgery, in the study of bacteria, in the knowledge of the cause and prevention of disease. Medicine is played out. Every new discovery of bacteria shows us all the more convincingly that we have been wrong and that the million tons of stuff we have taken was all useless. The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease. They may even discover the germ of old age. I don't predict it, but it might be by the sacrifice of animal life human life could be prolonged. Surgery, diet, antiseptics — these three are the vital things of the future in preserving the health of humanity. There were never so many able, active minds at work on the problems of diseases as now, and all their discoveries are tending to the simple truth — that you can't improve on nature.
 * As quoted in "Wizard Edison" in The Newark Advocate (2 January 1903), p. 1 according to research by Barbara and David P. Mikkelson at snopes.com

 * X-rays ... I am afraid of them. I stopped experimenting with them two years ago, when I came near to losing my eyesight and Dally, my assistant practically lost the use of both of his arms.
 * Quoted in 'Edison Fears Hidden Perils of the X-Rays', New York World (3 Aug 1903), 1

 * Hell! There ain't no rules around here! We are tryin' to accomplish somep'n!
 * Response received (after Edison spat on the floor and before he walked off) when M. A. Rosanoff joined the West Orange, New Jersey team in 1903 and humbly asked: “Mr. Edison, please tell me what laboratory rules you want me to observe.” M. A. Rosanoff’s quote appeared in Harper’s Monthly, September 1932, p. 24.

 * Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
 * Edison claimed authorship of this statement in a 1927 letter: "it is quite true I once made the statement that genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration, and I am still of the same opinion".
 * He repeated the claim in a 1932 interview with Harper's Monthly: "You may have heard people repeat what I have said. 'Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration'".
 * It is not clear exactly when Edison first made this form of the remark; it was attributed to him with this wording by 1901.
 * Precursors:
 * A poet's inspiration is most frequently an editor's perspiration
 * Unattributed aphorism in an 1881 newspaper article.
 * No inspiration without perspiration
 * Attributed to Kate Sanborn in an 1891 newspaper article.
 * Inspiration is perspiration
 * Cited as an unattributed "proverb" in an 1891 article.
 * Genius is inspiration, talent is perspiration
 * Attributed to Sanborn in an 1893 newspaper article.
 * Genius and adaptability is one per cent. Hard work is 99 per cent
 * Unattributed aphorism in an 1895 newspaper article.
 * [Thomas Edison] says, "Inspiration is perspiration".
 * Attributed to Edison in an 1897 issue of The Musician magazine.
 * Once, when asked to give his definition of genius, Edison replied: "Two per cent. is genius, and 98 per cent. is hard work." At another time, when the argument that genius was inspiration was brought before him, he said: "Bah!  Genius is not inspired.  Inspiration is perspiration"
 * From an April 1898 article in Ladies' Home Journal containing stories about Edison "as told by his intimate friends".
 * Edison is credited with the extremely funny and acute saying that "genius is ninety percent perspiration"
 * From a May 1898 article.
 * Even Mr. Edison is quoted as having said that genius may be divided into two parts, of which inspiration is 2 per cent and perspiration 98.
 * From a speech by J. K. Orr to an Atlanta high school, as reported in a May 1898 newspaper article.
 * "Genius is three per cent. inspiration and ninety-seven per cent. perspiration"
 * Unattributed saying from an 1899 "help wanted" advertisement.
 * Variants:
 * None of my inventions came by accident. I see a worthwhile need to be met and I make trial after trial until it comes. '''What it boils down to is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
 * Statement in a press conference (1929), as quoted in Uncommon Friends: Life with Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, Alexis Carrel & Charles Lindbergh (1987) by James D. Newton, p. 24.
 * Variant forms without early citation: "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework." "Genius: one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration."
 * Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
 * As quoted in Thomas Alva Edison : Sixty Years of an Inventor's Life (1908) by Francis Arthur Jones, p. 14

1910s

 * Nature is what we know. We do not know the gods of religions. And nature is not kind, or merciful, or loving. If God made me — the fabled God of the three qualities of which I spoke: mercy, kindness, love — He also made the fish I catch and eat. And where do His mercy, kindness, and love for that fish come in? No; nature made us — nature did it all — not the gods of the religions
 * Thomas Edison ""No Immortality of the Soul" says Thomas A. Edison. In Fact, He Doesn't Believe There Is a Soul — Human Beings Only an Aggregate of Cells and the Brain Only a Wonderful Machine, Says Wizard of Electricity". New York Times. October 2, 1910

 * Some day some fellow will invent a way of concentrating and storing up sunshine to use instead of this old, absurd Prometheus scheme of fire. I'll do the trick myself if someone doesn't get at it. . . . Sunshine is spread out thin and so is electricity. Perhaps they are the same, but we will take that up later. . . . This scheme of combustion to get power makes me sick to think of — it is so wasteful. It is just the old, foolish Prometheus idea, and the father of Prometheus was a baboon. When we learn how to store electricity, we will cease being apes ourselves; until then we are tailless orang-outangs. You see, we should utilize natural forces and thus get all of our power. Sunshine is a form of energy, and the winds and the tides are manifestations of energy. Do we use them? Oh, no; we burn up wood and coal, as renters burn up the front fence for fuel. We live like squatters, not as if we owned the property. There must surely come a time when heat and power will be stored in unlimited quantities in every community, all gathered by natural forces. Electricity ought to be as cheap as oxygen, for it can not be destroyed.
 * As quoted in The Fra: A Journal of Affirmation vol. 5 no. 1, April 1910, by Elbert Hubbard, pp. 6-7
 * Variant:
 * We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature's inexhaustible sources of energy — sun, wind and tide. … I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.
 * In conversation with Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone (1931); as quoted in Uncommon Friends : Life with Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, Alexis Carrel & Charles Lindbergh (1987) by James Newton, p. 31

1920s

 * If our nation can issue a dollar bond, it can issue a dollar bill. The element that makes the bond good, makes the bill good, also. The difference between the bond and the bill is the bond lets money brokers collect twice the amount of the bond and an additional 20%, whereas the currency pays nobody but those who contribute directly in some useful way. … It is absurd to say our country can issue $30 million in bonds and not $30 million in currency. Both are promises to pay, but one promise fattens the usurers and the other helps the people.

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“People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt on the project nor contribute a pound of material, will collect more money from the United States than will the People who supply all the material and do all the work. This is the terrible thing about interest ...But here is the point: If the Nation can issue a dollar bond it can issue a dollar bill. The element that makes the bond good makes the bill good also. The difference between the bond and the bill is that the bond lets the money broker collect twice the amount of the bond and an additional 20%. Whereas the currency, the honest sort provided by the Constitution pays nobody but those who contribute in some useful way. It is absurd to say our Country can issue bonds and cannot issue currency. Both are promises to pay, but one fattens the usurer and the other helps the People. If the currency issued by the People were no good, then the bonds would be no good, either. It is a terrible situation when the Government, to insure the National Wealth, must go in debt and submit to ruinous interest charges at the hands of men who control the fictitious value of gold.” ― Thomas A. Edison

 * Commenting on Henry Ford's currency plan in ”Ford sees wealth in Muscle Shoals”, New York Times (6 December 1921), p. 6

 * My mind is incapable of conceiving such a thing as a soul. I may be in error, and man may have a soul; but I simply do not believe it. What a soul may be is beyond my understanding.
 * "Do We Live Again?" an interview with Edison, as quoted in Mr. Edison's New Argument from Design" in The Illustrated London News'' (3 May 1924)

1930s

 * I believe in the existence of a Supreme Intelligence pervading the Universe.
 * As quoted in Thomas A. Edison, Benefactor of Mankind : The Romantic Life Story of the World's Greatest Inventor (1931) by Francis Trevelyan Miller, Ch. 25 : Edison's Views on Life — His Philosophy and Religion, p. 293

 * We really haven't got any great amount of data on the subject, and without data how can we reach any definite conclusions? All we have — everything — favors the idea of what religionists call the "Hereafter." Science, if it ever learns the facts, probably will find another more definitely descriptive term.
 * As quoted in Thomas A. Edison, Benefactor of Mankind : The Romantic Life Story of the World's Greatest Inventor (1931) by Francis Trevelyan Miller, Ch. 25 : Edison's Views on Life — His Philosophy and Religion, p. 295

 * It is very beautiful over there!
 * These have sometimes been reported as his last words, but were actually spoken several days before his death, as he awoke from a nap, gazing upwards, as reported by his physician Dr. Hubert S. Howe, in Thomas A. Edison, Benefactor of Mankind : The Romantic Life Story of the World's Greatest Inventor (1931) by Francis Trevelyan Miller, Ch. 25 : Edison's Views on Life — His Philosophy and Religion, p. 295

 * We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
 * As quoted in Golden Book (April 1931), according to Stevenson's Book of Quotations (Cassell 3rd edition 1938) by Burton Egbert Stevenson.

 * There is a great directing head of people and things — a Supreme Being who looks after the destinies of the world. I am convinced that the body is made up of entities that are intelligent and are directed by this Higher Power. When one cuts his finger, I believe it is the intelligence of these entities which heals the wound. When one is sick, it is the intelligence of these entities which brings convalescence. You know that there are living cells in the body so tiny that the microscope cannot find them at all. The entities that give life and soul to the human body are finer still and lie infinitely beyond the reach of our finest scientific instruments. When these entities leave the body, the body is like a ship without a rudder — deserted, motionless and dead.
 * As quoted in The Romance and Drama of the Rubber Industry (1936) by Harvey Samuel Firestone

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 * Restlessness is discontent — and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man — and I will show you a failure.
 * The Diary and Sundry Observations of Thomas Alva Edison (1948), p. 110

 * So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake … Religion is all bunk.
 * As quoted in What on Earth is an Atheist! (1972) by Madalyn Murray O'Hair, p. 251

 * Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
 * As quoted in An Enemy Called Average (1990) by John L. Mason, p. 55

 * If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
 * As quoted in Motivating Humans : Goals, Emotions, and Personal Agency Beliefs (1992) by Martin E. Ford, p. 17

 * To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
 * As quoted in Behavior-Based Robotics (1998) by Ronald C. Arkin. p. 8

 * Everyone steals in commerce and industry. I've stolen a lot, myself. But I know how to steal! They don't know how to steal!
 * As quoted in Tesla : The Modern Sorcerer (1999) by Daniel Blair Stewart, p. 411
 * Variant: Everyone steals in commerce and industry. I have stolen a lot myself. But at least I know how to steal.

 * I find out what the world needs. Then, I go ahead and invent it.
 * As quoted in American Greats (1999) Edited by Robert A. Wilson and Stanley Marcus, p. 70

 * Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
 * As quoted in Artifacts : An Archaeologist's Year in Silicon Valley (2001) by Christine Finn. p. 90

 * I never did a day's work in my life, it was all fun.
 * As quoted in Edison & Ford Quote Book (2003) edited by Edison & Ford Winter Estates

 * Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
 * As quoted in Edison & Ford Quote Book (2003) edited by Edison & Ford Winter Estates

 * I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.
 * As quoted in Jesus : Myth Or Reality? (2006) by Ian Curtis, p. 289

 * I do not believe in the God of the theologians; but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt
 * The Freethinker (1970), G.W. Foote & Company, Volume 90, p. 147

 * I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. Seventy-five of us worked twenty hours every day and slept only four hours — and thrived on it.
 * Diary entry, as quoted in Defending and Parenting Children Who Learn Differently : Lessons from Edison's Mother (2007) by Scott Teel, p. 12

The Philosophy of Paine (1925)

 * Essay in The Diary and Sundry Observations (1948) edited by Dagobert D. Runes - Full essay online

 * Tom Paine has almost no influence on present-day thinking in the United States because he is unknown to the average citizen. Perhaps I might say right here that this is a national loss and a deplorable lack of understanding concerning the man who first proposed and first wrote those impressive words, 'the United States of America.' But it is hardly strange. Paine's teachings have been debarred from schools everywhere and his views of life misrepresented until his memory is hidden in shadows, or he is looked upon as of unsound mind. We never had a sounder intelligence in this Republic. He was the equal of Washington in making American liberty possible. Where Washington performed Paine devised and wrote. The deeds of one in the Weld were matched by the deeds of the other with his pen.

 * I consider Paine our greatest political thinker. As we have not advanced, and perhaps never shall advance, beyond the Declaration and Constitution, so Paine has had no successors who extended his principles. Although the present generation knows little of Paine's writings,and although he has almost no influence upon contemporary thought, Americans of the future will justly appraise his work. I am certain of it. Truth is governed by natural laws and cannot be denied. Paine spoke truth with a peculiarly clear and forceful ring. Therefore time must balance the scales.

 * Looking back to those times we cannot, without much reading, clearly gauge the sentiment of the Colonies. Perhaps the larger number of responsible men still hoped for peace with England. They did not even venture to express the matter that way. Few men, indeed, had thought in terms of war. Then Paine wrote 'Common Sense,' an anonymous tract which immediately stirred the fires of liberty. It flashed from hand to hand throughout the Colonies. One copy reached the New York Assembly, in session at Albany, and a night meeting was voted to answer this unknown writer with his clarion call to liberty. The Assembly met, but could find no suitable answer. Tom Paine had inscribed a document which never has been answered adversely, and never can be, so long as man esteems his priceless possession. In 'Common Sense' Paine flared forth with a document so powerful that the Revolution became inevitable. Washington recognized the difference, and in his calm way said that matters never could be the same again.. It must be remembered that 'Common Sense' preceded the declaration and affirmed the very principles that went into the national doctrine of liberty. But that affirmation was made with more vigor, more of the fire of the patriot and was exactly suited to the hour. It is probable that we should have had the Revolution without Tom Paine. Certainly it could not be forestalled, once he had spoken.

 * Many a person who could not comprehend Rousseau, and would be puzzled by Montesquieu, could understand Paine as an open book. He wrote with a clarity, a sharpness of outline and exactness of speech that even a schoolboy should be able to grasp. There is nothing false, little that is subtle, and an impressive lack of the negative in Paine. He literally cried to his reader for a comprehending hour, and then filled that hour with such sagacious reasoning as we find surpassed nowhere else in American letters — seldom in any school of writing.

 * He has been called an atheist, but atheist he was not. Paine believed in a supreme intelligence, as representing the idea which other men often express by the name of deity. His Bible was the open face of nature, the broad skies, the green hills. He disbelieved the ancient myths and miracles taught by established creeds. But the attacks on those creeds — or on persons devoted to them — have served to darken his memory, casting a shadow across the closing years of his life. When Theodore Roosevelt termed Tom Paine a "dirty little atheist" he surely spoke from lack of understanding. It was a stricture, an inaccurate charge of the sort that has dimmed the greatness of this eminent American. But the true measure of his stature will yet be appreciated. The torch which he handed on will not be extinguished.

 * The memory of Tom Paine will outlive all this. No man who helped to lay the foundations of our liberty — who stepped forth as the champion of so difficult a cause — can be permanently obscured by such attacks. Tom Paine should be read by his countrymen. I commend his fame to their hands.

Disputed

 * Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
 * As quoted inThe A-V Magazine Vol. 89, No. 1 (January 1981), p. 18, and The Extended Circle : A Dictionary of Humane Thought (1985) by Jon Wynne-Tyson, p. 75; this has been cited to "Harper's Magazine (1890)" but no occurrence prior to the 1981 appearance has been located.

 * I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
 * As quoted in: [J. L.] Elkhorne. Edison — The Fabulous Drone, in 73 Vol. XLVI, No. 3 (March 1967), p. 52

 * When you've exhausted all possibilities, remember this: You Haven't!
 * Not located in Edison's writings, but found in Robert H. Schuller's self-help book Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do! from 1983.

Misattributed

 * There is time for everything.
 * This expression greatly predates any use of it by Edison. George Head used it in A Home Tour Through the Manufacturing Districts of England in the Summer of 1835 (1836), p. 198, in which he states: If time be judiciously employed, there is time for everything.
 * There is also an entry in the Bible (Ecclesiastes 3:1) that says There is [a] time for everything, however this varies a lot between the different translations.

 * I am much less interested in what is called God's word than in God's deeds. All bibles are man-made.
 * John Burroughs, in "Religious Contrasts : Letters of Pantheist and a Churchman", in The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 128, No. 4 (October 1921), p. 520

 * There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.
 * Sir Joshua Reynolds. Edison liked the quote and posted it around his factory.

Quotes about Edison

 * To my simple mind it is not obvious that a successful electrician is an authority on the immortal soul, any more than that a successful military strategist has an ear for music, or an admirable French cook a grasp of the higher mathematics.
 * G. K. Chesterton, on the interview with Edison "Do We Live Again?" in which he stated "My mind is incapable of conceiving such a thing as a soul."

 * He felt there was a central processing core of life that went on and on. That was his conclusion. We talked of it many times together . . . Call it religion or what you like, Mr. Edison believed that the universe was alive and that it was responsive to man's deep necessity. It was an intelligent and hopeful religion if there ever was one. Mr. Edison went away expecting light, not darkness.
 * Henry Ford, as quoted in Thomas A. Edison, Benefactor of Mankind : The Romantic Life Story of the World's Greatest Inventor (1931) by Francis Trevelyan Miller, p. 294

 * It impressed me that Thomas Edison and the Wright brothers were so single-minded in figuring out how to make a light bulb or an airplane. They spent lots of time obsessively perfecting their inventions.
 * Temple Grandin "Society Is Failing Visual Thinkers, and That Hurts Us All", New York Times (January 9, 2023)

 * If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. … I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety percent of his labor.
 * Nikola Tesla, as quoted in The New York Times (19 October 1931)

 * He never was an atheist. Although he subscribed to no orthodox creed, no one who knew him could have doubted his belief in and reverence for a Supreme Intelligence, and his whole life, in which the ideal of honest, loving service to his fellowman was predominant, indicated faithfully those two commandments wherein lies "all the law and all the prophets."
 * Arthur L. Walsh, vice-president of Thomas A. Edison Industries, Inc. Palo, as reported in "The Light Goes Out" in The Washington Post (18 October 1931)

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Talk:Abba Ebben

I don't know how to do it, but someone please correct the *name* of the subject of this article: Though it's a Hebrew name, the man's name is universally rendered in English as Abba Eban, first name Abba, surname Eban. He was covered for decades in the Western press; it's not debatable how to spell his name. This must be done. Thank you very much.

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M*A*S*H (TV series)

M*A*S*H is an American television comedy series set during the Korean War of 1950–1953. The ensemble cast members play the surgeons, nurses, and other personnel who serve at a mobile army surgical hospital (or MASH) in South Korea's Gyeonggi Province, near the North Korean border. Some of the hospital's medical staff are career military officers, while others are conscripted civilians. The nearly constant influx of wounded takes a physical and emotional toll on the staff, who work around the clock. Each person copes with the stress in their own way.

The series was developed by Larry Gelbart, Gene Reynolds, and Burt Metcalfe. Their principal source material was Richard Hooker's 1968 novel MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors; the novel's 1970 film adaptation, M*A*S*H; and scores of interviews with people who recalled experiences in the American wars in Korea and/or Vietnam.

M*A*S*H premiered on the US television network CBS on 17 September 1972. It continued for 11 seasons, with a total of 251 episodes. The series finale on 28 February 1983 was one of the most-watched television broadcasts in US history.

Quotes by season

 * Season 1
 * Season 2
 * Season 3
 * Season 4
 * Season 5
 * Season 6
 * Season 7
 * Season 8
 * Season 9
 * Season 10
 * Season 11

Press event on the final day of filming
Production of the eleventh and final season of M*A*S*H concluded on 14 January 1983, when the cast and crew filmed "As Time Goes By". This was the second-to-last episode in the series but the last one to be filmed. Several castmembers spoke at the press conference that followed. Some members of the cast and crew were also interviewed individually.

 * I'm always astounded by the number of cameras that point at us when we talk about this show, and by the amount of interest. And I'm astounded by the breadth and depth of the [reach] that television is capable of, evidenced by the telegrams that were read at the beginning of this conference, [from] Secretary Kissinger and President Ford and President Reagan. It moves me to the realization that television is a great medium for bringing people together, because that's probably the [only] time I will ever agree with any of the three of them.
 * From Mike Farrell's statement at the press conference
 * We really haven't slept much in eleven years. Larry [Gelbart] used to stay up all night writing us scripts the night before we began shooting; I've done it a number of times. … M*A*S*H has changed my life. It's given me the chance to develop as a writer and a director—and as an actor. … I've learned to work with people in … a creative way that I really never knew before and didn't know was possible. We've all learned that; we've all grown as people and as professionals, as artists. … We're stopping because … we feel that if we went further we would risk squeezing it dry, not being able to give it our best …. [F]rom the beginning, Gene Reynolds and Larry Gelbart encouraged the actors each week to comment on the script, and we'd go through it take by take …. [W]e worked all night to get it as good as we could.
 * From Alan Alda's statement at the press conference
 * I don't know [if M*A*S*H has made me a better actor], but I know it's made me a better human being. … I think there's a nobility about … what [the show] attempts to do, and there's a nobility about the people who are playing these parts. And the longer we've been together, the more familiar we are with one another, the deeper we've gone … into ourselves, so that when we're playing scenes with one another, it's … the two characters plus the two people who are wearing the clothes … of those characters.
 * From Harry Morgan's statement at the press conference
 * I'm feeling like I have another couple of years to become most fully and most honestly myself with this group of people, because I'm not an actual joiner; I'm essentially a private person. And now … I'm beginning to see the power and the potential in committing yourself to a group, and that it doesn't threaten your individuality, it teaches you about it.
 * From David Ogden Stiers's statement at the press conference
 * [T]he heroes [in M*A*S*H] have not been—for the most part—your career Army people. Only Colonel Potter (Harry Morgan) has the career …. The others tend to attain their heroism … through an anti-military point of view. … We've tried to be fair about [our depictions of officers and of the United States Armed Forces]. … [W]hile we were depicting [the Korean War], … many of [our viewers] identified with [the show because of the Vietnam War].
 * Burt Metcalfe, in a one-on-one interview on the set of M*A*S*H on the final day of shooting, 14 January 1983
 * I do get letters from the clergy, and [I've received] some very nice comments … from spiritual leaders saying that M*A*S*H seems to have made a contribution [to changing Americans' attitudes toward war]. And I like to think that's true.
 * William Christopher, in response to a journalist's question at the press conference

Archive of American Television

 * Gene Reynolds and I—and Burt Metcalfe, who started as associate producer and wound up eventually as executive producer of the series—we talked to countless surgeons, nurses, chopper pilots, patients, orderlies involved either in [the Korean War or the Vietnam War] …. [We] combined big, thick loose-leaf binders filled with their memories, their observations, their experiences of the … wars. And that served us in very good stead; we used an awful lot of stuff. … Gene and I, after the second season, went to Korea, visited what had been the real-life counterpart of the fictional 4077th, and spent a couple of weeks with the people there, and brought back some 22 hours of audiotape—again with those impressions that were invaluable to us. They shut down the actual MASH unit in June of 1997. I was invited to go over, my wife was invited to go over, with Larry Linville and David Ogden Stiers, and we watched them case the flag. And it was quite touching to sit on this little parade ground and hear a little Army band—it was not like the movies at all—play the unit's song, and then play "Suicide Is Painless". That was not a show business event. They were not there to celebrate the series, they were there to honor the unit that had served so long and so well; but, they couldn't help acknowledge how proud they were. It's not every Army unit that has a series dedicated to them.
 * Larry Gelbart, in his interview for the Archive of American Television on 22 October 1998

Cast

 * Alan Alda as Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce (seasons 1–11)
 * Loretta Swit as Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan (seasons 1–11)
 * Jamie Farr as Maxwell Q. Klinger (seasons 1–11)
 * George Morgan as John Patrick Francis Mulcahy (pilot episode)
 * William Christopher as John Patrick Francis Mulcahy (seasons 1–11)
 * Wayne Rogers as John Francis Xavier "Trapper John" McIntyre (seasons 1–3)
 * McLean Stevenson as Henry Braymore Blake (seasons 1–3)
 * Larry Linville as Franklin Marion "Frank" Burns (seasons 1–5)
 * Gary Burghoff as Walter Eugene "Radar" O'Reilly (seasons 1–8)
 * Mike Farrell as B. J. Hunnicutt (replaced Trapper; seasons 4–11)
 * Harry Morgan as Sherman Tecumseh Potter (seasons 4–11)
 * David Ogden Stiers as Charles Emerson Winchester III (seasons 6–11)

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10 Things I Hate About You

10 Things I Hate About You is a 1999 American film about a pretty, popular teenager who can't go out on a date until her ill-tempered older sister does. The film parallels Shakespeare's comedy, The Taming of the Shrew, set in a modern-day high school.
 * Directed by Gil Junger. Written by Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith.

'''How do I loathe thee? Let me count the ways.''' (Taglines)

Katarina "Kat" Stratford

 * Remove head from sphincter, then drive!
 * I hate the way you talk to me, and the way you cut your hair. I hate the way you drive my car, I hate it when you stare. I hate your big, dumb combat boots and the way you read my mind. I hate you so much it makes me sick — It even makes me rhyme. I hate the way you're always right. I hate it when you lie. I hate it when you make me laugh — Even worse when you make me cry. I hate it when you're not around. And the fact that you didn't call. But mostly I hate the way I don't hate you — Not even close, not even a little bit, not even at all.

Dr. Walter Stratford

 * No drinking, no drugs, no kissing, no tattoos, no piercings, no ritualistic animal slaughters of any kind. Oh, God, I'm giving them ideas.

Patrick Verona

 * What is it with this chick? She got beer flavored nipples?
 * It's not everyday you find a girl who'll flash someone to get you out of detention.

Bianca Stratford

 * You're asking me out? That's so cute! What's your name again?
 * I happen to like being adored, thank you.

Dialogue

 * Bianca: You know, there's a difference between like and love. I mean, I like my Skechers but I love my Prada backpack.
 * Chastity: But I love my Skechers.
 * Bianca: That's because you don't have a Prada backpack.
 * Chastity: Oh.

 * Dr. Stratford: This morning I delivered a set of twins to a fifteen-year-old girl, and you know what she said to me?
 * Bianca: "I'm a crack-whore who should have made my skeezy boyfriend wear a condom"?
 * Dr. Stratford: Close...but no. She said, "I should have listened to my father."
 * Bianca: She did not!
 * Dr. Stratford: Well, that's what she would have said if she wasn't so doped up.

 * Patrick: I was in the laundromat, I saw your car and came over to say hi!
 * Kat: Hi!
 * Patrick: Not much of a talker are you?
 * Kat: Depends on the topic. My fenders don't whip me into a verbal frenzy.
 * Patrick: You're not afraid of me are you?
 * Kat: Afraid of you? Why would I be afraid of you?
 * Patrick: Some people are.
 * Kat: Well I'm not.
 * Patrick: You may not be afraid of me but I'll bet you've thought of me naked, huh?
 * Kat: Am I that transparent? I want you, I "need" you. Oh baby, oh baby.

 * Bianca: Where did you come from? Planet Loser?
 * Kat: As opposed to Planet Look-at-Me, Look-at-Me?
 * Dr. Stratford: [Claps] Ok, here's how we solve this one: Old rule out. New rule: Bianca can date [Bianca smiles, Kat with a shocked face] when she does. [Points at Kat]
 * Bianca: But she's a mutant! What if she never dates?
 * Dr. Stratford: Then you'll never date. Oh I like that. And I'll get to sleep at night, the deep slumber of a father whose daughters aren't out being impregnated.

 * Cameron: She never wanted me. She wanted Joey the whole time.
 * Patrick: Cameron, do you like the girl?
 * Cameron: Yeah.
 * Patrick: Yeah, and is she worth all this trouble?
 * Cameron: Well, I thought she was, but you know, I...
 * Patrick: Well, she is or she isn't. See first of all, Joey is not half the man you are. Secondly, don't let anyone ever make you feel like you don't deserve what you want. Go for it.

 * Dr. Stratford: Hello Katarina. Make anybody cry today?
 * Kat: Sadly no, but it's only 4:30.

 * Patrick: Someone still has her panties in a twist.
 * Kat: Don't, for one minute, think that you had any effect whatsoever on my panties.
 * Patrick: Then what did I have an effect on?
 * Kat: Other than my upchuck reflex? Nothing.

 * Bianca: Ah-ha! [Pulls out black underwear] Black panties!
 * Cameron: Well, what does that tell us?
 * Bianca: She wants to have sex some day, that's what!
 * Cameron: You know she could just like the color!
 * Bianca: You don't buy black lingerie unless you want someone to see it!
 * Cameron: So um... Can I see "your" room?
 * Bianca: No! A girl's room is very personal!

 * Kat: Argh! What is it: Asshole day? [As Joey walks away after blocking Kat's car in] Do you mind?
 * Joey: [smirking as he walks past] Not at all!
 * [Kat rams her car into the side of Joey's sports car]
 * Joey: You bitch!
 * Kat: Whoops!
 * [Later]
 * Dr. Stratford: Whoops? My insurance does not cover PMS!
 * Kat: Well, then tell them I had a seizure!
 * Dr. Stratford: [Sighs] Is this about Sarah Lawrence? Are you punishing me because I want you to stay close to home?
 * Kat: Aren't you punishing me because Mom left?
 * Dr. Stratford: Do you think you could leave her out of it?
 * Kat: Fine! Then stop making my decisions for me!
 * Dr. Stratford: I'm your father. That's my right.
 * Kat: So what I want doesn't matter?
 * Dr. Stratford: You're 18! You don't know what you want! And you won't know what you want until you're 45, and even if you get it you'll be too old to use it!
 * Kat: I want to go to an East Coast School! I want you to trust me to make my own choices and I want you stop trying to control my life just because you can't control yours!
 * Dr. Stratford: Yeah? Well I want... [pager goes off] Damn! We'll talk about Sarah Lawrence later!
 * Kat: Can't wait!
 * Bianca: [Runs down the stairs with the phone in her hand] Did you just maim Joey's car?
 * Kat: Yeah! Looks like you're gonna have to take the bus!

 * Mr. Morgan: [After reading a Shakespearean sonnet] Now, I know Shakespeare's a dead white guy, but he knows his shit, so we can overlook that. I want you all to write your own version of this sonnet.
 * [Kat raises her hand in the background]
 * Mr. Morgan: Yes, Miss "I-Have-An-Opinion-About-Everything"?
 * Kat: Do you want this in iambic pentameter?
 * Mr. Morgan: [Stares at Kat] You're not going to fight me on this?
 * Kat: No, I think it's a really good assignment.
 * Mr. Morgan: [Chuckles] You're just messing with me aren't you?
 * Kat: No, I'm really looking forward to writing it.
 * Mr. Morgan: Get out of my class.

 * Ms. Perky: People perceive you as somewhat...
 * Kat: Tempestuous?
 * Ms. Perky: "Heinous bitch" is the term used most often.

 * Kat: [About the Prom] Who would go to that antiquated mating ritual?
 * Mandella: I would! But I don't have a date!
 * Kat: Do you really want to get all dressed up so some Drakkar Noir wearing Dexter with a boner can feel you up, all while you're forced to listen to a band that, by definition, blows?
 * Mandella: All right, all right, we won't go. It's not like I have a dress anyway.
 * Kat: You're looking at this from entirely the wrong perspective! We're making a statement!
 * Mandella: [Mockingly] Oh goody! Something new and different for us!

 * Dr. Stratford: [Bianca and Chastity are sneaking past Bianca's father] Shoulda used the window!
 * Bianca: Hi Daddy!
 * Dr. Stratford: Hi... where're we going?
 * Bianca: Well, if you must know... a small study group of friends.
 * Dr. Stratford: Otherwise known as an orgy?
 * Chastity: Mr. Stratford, it's just a party!
 * Dr. Stratford: And hell is just a sauna.

 * Patrick: So what's your excuse?
 * Kat: For?
 * Patrick: Acting the way we do.
 * Kat: I don't like to do what people expect. Why should I live up to other people's expectations instead of my own?
 * Patrick: So you disappoint them from the start and then you're covered, right?
 * Kat: [Smiles] Something like that…
 * Patrick: Then you screwed up.
 * Kat: How?
 * Patrick: You never disappointed me.

 * Patrick: You're right. She's still pissed.
 * Michael: Sweet love, renew thy force!
 * Patrick: Hey, man! Don't say shit like that to me. People can hear you.
 * Cameron: Look. you embarrassed the girl. Sacrifice yourself on the alter of dignity and even the score.
 * [Patrick walks off]
 * Michael: Listen. Don't say shit like that to him. People can hear you.

 * Dr. Stratford: Do you know what happens at proms?
 * Bianca: Yes. We'll dance, we'll kiss, we'll come home. It's not quite the crisis situation you imagine.
 * Dr. Stratford: Kissing? That's what you think happens? I've got news for you. Kissing isn't what keeps me up to my elbows in placenta all day long.
 * Bianca: Can we, for two seconds, ignore the fact that you're severely unhinged and discuss my need for a night of teenage normalcy?
 * Dr. Stratford: What's normal? Those damn... Dawson's river kids sleeping in each other's beds and whatnot?
 * Bianca: Daddy that is so not...
 * Dr. Stratford: I've got news for you. I'm down, I've got the 411, and you are not going out and getting jiggy with some boy, I don't care how dope his ride is. Mamma didn't raise no fool.

 * Patrick: None of that stuff is true.
 * Kat: State trooper?
 * Patrick: Fallacy. Uh, Dead guy in the parking lot?
 * Kat: Rumor. The Duck?
 * Patrick: Hearsay. Bobby Ridgeway's balls?
 * Kat: Fact. But he deserved it. He tried to grope me in the lunch line.
 * Patrick: Fair enough.
 * Kat: The accent?
 * Patrick: It's real. I lived in Australia until I was 10.
 * Kat: With the Pygmies?
 * Patrick: Close. With my mom.
 * Kat: Where were you last year? I know the porn career's a lie.
 * Patrick: Do you?
 * [Both laugh]

 * Joey: You messed with the wrong guy, and now you're gonna pay. You and that little bitch.
 * Cameron: All right, that's enough, okay! You crossed the line.
 * [Joey punches Cameron in the face, knocking him to the ground.]
 * Joey: Oh. come on! Get up, you little punk! [Bianca finger pose, turn around and punches Joey in the nose,] Shit Bianca! I'm shooting a nose spray ad tomorrow!
 * Bianca: That's for making my date bleed, [punches him again] That's for my sister, [knees him in crotch] and that's for me! [to Cameron] Are you okay?
 * Cameron: [Smiling big] Never been better.

 * Patrick: [While dancing] Milwaukee.
 * Kat: What?
 * Patrick: That's where I was last year.  I wasn't in jail, I don't know Marilyn Manson, and I didn’t sleep with a Spice Girl--I don’t think. You see, my grandpa, he was ill, so I spent most of the year on his couch watching Wheel of Fortune and making Spaghettios. End of story
 * Kat: [Laughs] No way!

 * Dr. Stratford: Where's your sister going?
 * Kat: She's meeting some bikers. Big ones. Full of sperm.
 * Dr. Stratford: Funny. [A little curious] So, tell me about this dance, was it hoppin'?
 * Kat: Ugh. Parts of it.
 * Dr. Stratford: Which parts?
 * Kat: [Laughingly] The part where Bianca beat the hell out of some guy.
 * Dr. Stratford: Bianca did what?
 * Kat: What's the matter, upset that I rubbed off on her?
 * Dr. Stratford: [Proud] No, impressed.

 * Dr. Stratford: You know fathers don't like to admit it when their daughters are capable of running their own lives. It means we've become spectators. Bianca still let's me play a few innings - you've had me on the bench for years. When you go to Sarah Lawrence, I won't even be able to watch the game.
 * Kat: When I go?
 * Dr. Stratford: Oh, boy. Don't tell me you changed your mind. I already sent 'em a check.
 * [Kat gasps in surprise, then hugs her father]

 * Patrick: Some asshole paid me to take out this really great girl.
 * Kat: Is that right?
 * Patrick: Yeah, but I screwed up. I, um, I fell for her.

 * Kat: You can't just buy me a guitar every time you screw up, you know.
 * Patrick: Yeah, I know. But then, you know, there's always drums and bass and maybe even one day a tambourine.

Taglines

 * How do I loathe thee? Let me count the ways.
 * Allusion to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese, No. LXIII:
 * "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways."
 * I burn, I pine, I perish!
 * Allusion to William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Act I, Scene I:
 * "I burn, I pine, I perish."
 * Romeo, Oh Romeo, Get Out Of My Face.
 * They're spitefully romantic.

Cast

 * Julia Stiles - Kat Stratford, Walter’s daughter and Bianca’s older sister
 * Heath Ledger - Patrick Verona, Kat’s love interest
 * Joseph Gordon-Levitt - Cameron James, Bianca's love interest
 * Larisa Oleynik - Bianca Stratford, Walter’s daughter and Kat’s younger sister
 * Larry Miller - Dr. Walter Stratford, Kat & Bianca’s father
 * Andrew Keegan - Joey Donner
 * David Krumholtz - Michael Eckman, Cameron’s best friend
 * Susan May Pratt - Mandella, Kat’s best friend and Michael’s love interest
 * Daryl "Chili" Mitchell - Mr. Morgan
 * Allison Janney - Ms. Perky
 * David Leisure - Mr. Chapin
 * Gabrielle Union - Chastity, Bianca’s best friend

title: 10 Things I Hate About You