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Gabriel Biel

Gabriel Biel (c. 1420 – 7 December 1495) was a German scholastic philosopher.

Expositio Canonis Missae

 * To be crushed in the winepress of passion.
 * Lectio 52.

 * Always in these matters desiring rather to be taught than to teach.
 * Lectio 53.

 * No one conquers who doesn't fight.
 * Lectio 78.

 * Pro tali numismate tales merces.
 * Translation: You get what you pay for.
 * Lectio 86.

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Jimmy Kimmel

James Christian "Jimmy" Kimmel (born November 13, 1967) is an American television host and comedian. Before his current position as host of Jimmy Kimmel Live! on ABC, Kimmel was well-known as co-host of Comedy Central's The Man Show. Kimmel is also a successful television producer, with popular shows including Crank Yankers and The Andy Milonakis Show to his credit.

Quotes

 * There were a lot of people who didn't think we'd get to this milestone.
 * On hitting 1,000 shows in late-night television, with his program Jimmy Kimmel Live! — reported in Bill Brioux, The Canadian Press (April 3, 2008) "At 1,000, Kimmel's caught on", The Hamilton Spectator, p. G13.

 * I'm not seen as classy enough to host the Oscars.
 * Chris Ayres (March 6, 2008) The Times, "Sex, lies and YouTube - Interview", p. 24.

 * Though it makes me sick to do so without my writers, there are more than a hundred people whose financial well-being depends on our show. It is time to go back to work.
 * On returning back to work at Jimmy Kimmel Live! during the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike — reported in San Mateo County Times staff (December 19, 2007) "Here is your pregnant Spears", San Mateo County Times.

 * There's something comforting and pleasurable about watching people win money.
 * On hosting the television game show Set for Life — reported in Gary Levin (January 11, 2007) "TV is riding a wave of prime-time game shows", Asbury Park Press.

 * I'm on the Internet a lot more than I watch TV and most everybody I know is, and yet if you watch most late-night talk shows, it's as if it doesn't even exist. So the Internet, it's just something I wanted to make use of in some way. I was fascinated by what appeared to be a child singing this song. It just struck me as funny.
 * On his initial impression of Andy Milonakis — reported in Susan Carpenter, Tribune Newspapers: Los Angeles Times (May 3, 2006) "Making a fool of himself for video - Andy Milonakis' success story", Chicago Tribune, p. 8A.

 * I believe that David Letterman is the greatest talk show host that ever hosted a talk show. He'd be the last person to say that and he'd probably be horrified to hear that, but I really do believe that. Anything I do, I feel, is a pale imitation at best of what he does. I just try to do whatever I can not to imitate him, because that is the inclination when you idolize somebody, when you watch the show every night growing up as a kid.
 * Julie Hinds (January 29, 2006) "Jimmy Kimmel Loves Detroit - The Late-Night Host Makes Nice As He Brings His Show To The City For Super Bowl Week", Detroit Free Press, p. 1M.

 * I don't believe that lack of intelligence and appreciation for lowbrow comedy go hand-in-hand necessarily.
 * Associated Press (January 28, 2003) "Jimmy Kimmel is living it up", The Grand Rapids Press, p. B5.

 * "To be perfectly honest with you, ABC picks you to do this and then the machine goes into action and you shoot promos. But I'm still sitting in my bedroom at home going, 'Jeez, I don't know if I can do this. I don't know if I'm going to be able to do it.' And it's a weird situation to be in. And I guess we'll all find out.
 * On getting his own late-night program, Jimmy Kimmel Live! — reported in Alan Sepinwall (January 26, 2003) "A regular guy steps into stardom", The Star-Ledger, p. 1.

 * I'm excited, but I am also realistic. I have seen what happened to the people who came before me and failed. It's an unforgiving arena to be in.
 * On the beginning of Jimmy Kimmel Live! — reported in Terry Morrow (January 24, 2003) "Kimmel & family head to ABC (beer's on hold)", The Knoxville News-Sentinel, p. 9.

 * We use puppets because they can get away with more.
 * On the concept of the program Crank Yankers — reported in Walt Belcher (May 31, 2002) "From The Remote Bergs To The Well-Heeled Burbs, Singles Seek Love", The Tampa Tribune, p. 4.

 * We wanted to figure out a way to get crank phone calls on television. Watching someone on TV talking on a phone isn't that entertaining, and obviously we couldn't send a camera crew around to the people getting the calls, so it was limited to either animation or puppets. And puppets seemed halfway between cartoons and people, so that seemed like the most real way that we could do it.
 * Discussing Crank Yankers — reported in Hugh Hart (May 30, 2002) "Kimmel, Carolla Pulling The Strings On Crank Calls Show", Sun-Sentinel, p. 3E.

 * We're going to give men what they really want to see on TV. Monkeys, midgets, beer drinking and women jumping on trampolines.
 * On the start of The Man Show — reported in Walt Belcher (June 13, 1999) "Wise guys Corolla, Kimmel revel in new 'Man Show'", The Tampa Tribune, p. 4.

About

 * But you have to recognize the fact that, critically, Jimmy is great at what he does, and I think he's doing some of the best comedy in late night. I'm a very big fan.
 * Robert Morton, former executive producer for David Letterman on Late Show (CBS) and Late Night (NBC) — reported in Don Kaplan (September 12, 2006) "It's Good To Be Kimmel - Midnight Turns Into Jimmy's Prime Time", New York Post.

 * We've always known Jimmy's had a great deal of raw talent. It's exciting watching him use that talent to become such a dynamic and gifted late night host. The sky is the limit for Jimmy and this show.
 * ABC Chairman Lloyd Braun — reported in ZAP2IT.COM (December 10, 2003) "'Jimmy Kimmel' back for a second season", Chicago Tribune RedEye Edition, Chicago Tribune, p. 46.

 * He's a very driven, very focused and very dedicated guy, and it's basically like a dictatorship working with him. He's not scared to tell you that your idea sucks.
 * Adam Carolla — reported in Kevin D. Thompson (October 31, 1999) "It's A Guy Thing: Comic Appeals To 'Common Man'", The Palm Beach Post, p. 1J.

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James P. Cannon

James P. Cannon (February 11, 1890 – August 21, 1974) was an American Marxist and Trotskyist leader. Cannon was the leading founder of the Socialist Workers Party and the Communist Labor Party, which would be a early precursor to the Communist Party of America.

Quotes

 * Without revolutionary theory, the workers, even with the best will in the world, cannot fight the capitalist system successfully. This statement holds good, not merely in the question of the final revolutionary struggle for power, it applies equally in every aspect of the daily struggle. Workers who have no understanding of the theory of revolution cannot follow a consistent line of action that leads toward it. Behind every action aimed at the bourgeoisie, there must be the theory of the revolutionary overthrow of the bourgeoisie. False policies in the ranks of the workers, whereby even their own good will and energy is transformed into a force operating against their own interests, spring in the first place from false theory. Only by an understanding of the revolutionary nature of their struggle, and of the necessity of shaping their actions in the light of this theory and adapting them to the execution of it, can the workers follow a systematic policy of opposition to the bourgeoisie and of defense of their own interests. Revolutionary theory is not something separate from action, but is the guiding principle of all revolutionary action.
 * "The Bolshevization of the Party" (1924)
 * The Bolshevization of the party in this sense means the final ideological victory of Marxism and Leninism, or in other words, of Marxism in the period of imperialism and the epoch of the proletarian revolution, and to reject the Marxism of the Second International and the remnants of the elements of syndicalism.
 * "The Bolshevization of the Party" (1924)
 * The party must fight with all its power and with every necessary strategy against the attempt to isolate it and throw its energy back upon itself. The party must also conduct a resolute struggle against the tendency to construe “party work” only in the sense of inner party work as well as against the tendency to make an artificial separation between mass work and inner party work.
 * "Unite the Party!", (1925)
 * Trotskyism is not a new movement, a new doctrine, but the restoration, the revival of genuine Marxism as it was expounded and practiced in the Russian revolution and in the early days of the Communist International.
 * History of American Trotskyism

 * The economic prerequisites for the socialist revolution are fully matured in the US. The political premises are likewise far more advanced than might appear on the surface.
 * Theses on the American Revolution

 * The workers of America have power enough to topple the structure of capitalism at home and to lift the whole world with them when they rise.
 * The Struggle for a Proletarian Party

 * The American capitalists are richer and stronger than their counterparts in other lands. They are also younger and more ignorant, and therefore more inclined to seek a rough settlement of difficulties without diplomatic subtlety and finesse. All that does not change the fact that American capitalism operates according to the same laws as the others, is confronted with the same fundamental problems, and is headed toward the same catastrophe.
 * Fascism and the workers' part

 * These monster cities we live in today are blights of modern society. They will certainly give way to planned cities interlinked to the countryside. Everybody will live with the natural advantages of the country and the cultural associations of the town.
 * What socialist America will look like?

 * Recoiling against the cult of Stalin, which caused such devastation in the American radical movement, some people now describe all reference to the Marxist authorities as the cult of Marx, the cult of Lenin, or the cult of Trotsky. Those who used to forbid themselves to say anything until it was first said by Stalin, or even to think any thoughts which had not first been thought for them by Stalin, have suddenly decided that the cure for this mental, moral and political prostration is to listen to nothing that is said and to read nothing that has been written outside the borders of the fifty states.
 * Trotsky on America

 * Yes, reaction is in full sway in America. Many of our finest spirits, our bravest boys, our best fighters, wear their lives away in the penitentiaries of America. The boys that threw themselves into the struggle during the war, those who did not take down their flag when the persecution became severe, the very cream of the move ment, have languished in prison for over two years, and I say it is a shame and a disgrace that we have not made any effective protest against it. It is a pitiful thing that for two years the campaign for the release of our fellow workers and comrades, which should have been carried on upon the basis of the class struggle, which should have been the rallying cry to arouse the workers and inspire an irresistible campaign for amnesty, has been left almost entirely to such as the American Civil Liberties Bureau on the one hand, the Socialist Party's Amnesty Committee on the other, and the IWW lawyers on the third; and there is very little difference among them. Now, I say, we are going to stem the tide. We are going to stop the stampede by putting up a program and plan of action with a set of fighting leaders and give out the rallying cry: Fellow workers, stand and fight! It is better to die in the struggle than to be crushed to death with out resistance!
 * Speech at the First Workers Party Convention (1921)

 * This knowledge will not fall from heaven; it will be acquired only by those who have the mind and the will to study, as Marx required of his first disciples. Wilhelm Liebknecht’s little volume of reminiscences will be an aid and stimulus in this direction. It ought to have a place on the bookshelf of every revolutionary worker.
 * "Marx, the Man" (1930)

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Good Bye Lenin!

Good Bye Lenin! is a 2003 film, set in 1990, about a young man who must protect his fragile mother from a fatal shock after a long coma by keeping her from learning that her beloved nation of East Germany as she knew it has disappeared.
 * Written and directed by Wolfgang Becker.

The German Democratic Republic lives on – in 79 m²!

Alexander Kerner

 * Are you serious?! This is 30,000 Marks! [The bank teller says his time is up] Your time is up, too! We used this money for 40 years and now you Wessies think you can tell us it's worthless!? [Bank security men arrive] Let go of me! [Alex shouts at the customers] What are you looking at? It was your money, too!
 * Somehow my scheme had taken on a life of its own. The GDR I created for her increasingly became the one I might have wished for.
 * After over a year, it was time to end the scheme. But unlike in real life, the GDR would get the sendoff it deserved.
 * My mother outlived the GDR by three days. I believe it was a good thing she never learned the truth. She died happy. She wanted us to scatter her ashes to the winds. That's prohibited in Germany, both East and West. But we didn't care. She's up there somewhere now. Maybe looking down at us. Maybe she sees us as tiny specks on the Earth's surface, just like Sigmund Jähn did back then. The country my mother left behind was a country she believed in; a country we kept alive till her last breath; a country that never existed in that form; a country that, in my memory, I will always associate with my mother.

Sigmund Jähn

 * [In a fictional address as the new head-of-state of the DDR] Dear citizens of the German Democratic Republic... If you've lived to see the wonder of watching our blue planet from the depths of the cosmos, you see things differently. Up there, in the depths of space, the people's lives seem small and insignificant. Our German Democratic Republic seems tiny. You ask yourself what humanity has accomplished. Which objectives did we set, which objectives did we realize? Today is our country's anniversary. It's a very little country, seen from the cosmos. But still thousands of people came to us last year. People who we looked to as enemies and who want to live with us today. We know our country is not perfect. But what we believe in, inspired a lot of people in the whole world. Maybe we have drifted off course from time to time. But we collected ourselves. Socialism doesn't mean walling yourself in. Socialism means reaching out to others, and living with others. Not just to dream about a better world, but to make a better world. I have therefore decided to open the GDR borders.

Dialogue

 * Dr. Wagner: You must protect her from any kind of excitement. And I do mean any kind, Mr. Kerner.
 * Alexander Kerner: Any kind of excitement.
 * Dr. Wagner: It would be life-threatening.
 * Alexander Kerner: And this here? [Shows the doctor a newspaper reading "Good Luck, Germany. Yes to Reunification"]
 * Alexander Kerner: Wouldn't you call this exciting?

 * Alexander Kerner: All this stuff has to go. Are the old curtains in the cellar?
 * Ariane Kerner: You can't be serious.

 * Ariane Kerner: You were in a coma. Eight months ago.
 * Christiane Kerner: Eight months? What happened?
 * Ariane Kerner: Yeah, it was...
 * Alexander Kerner: It was in October, in the supermarket. There was this enormous queue and it was really hot and you just passed out.
 * Christiane Kerner: In October?
 * Alexander Kerner: It was an unusually hot October day.

 * Denis: Eighth floor?
 * Alexander Kerner: Yup.
 * Denis: Elevator?
 * Alexander Kerner: Broken.
 * Denis: Shit.
 * Alexander Kerner: You can say that again.

 * Sigmund Jähn: Where to?
 * Alexander Kerner: Wannsee
 * Sigmund Jähn: I know what you think. Everyone does. But I'm not him.

 * Denis: Denis [handing Alex a video cassette]
 * Denis: It's my best production ever. A pity your Mom will be the only audience...

 * Robert Kerner: Sorry, do we know each other?
 * Alex: Yes we know each other.
 * Robert Kerner: Yeah, I can't quite place you, help me out?
 * Alex' stepsister: His name is Alexander...
 * Robert Kerner: [Stunned] Alex?

Cast

 * Daniel Brühl - Alexander Kerner
 * Katrin Saß - Christiane Kerner
 * Chulpan Khamatova - Lara
 * Maria Simon - Ariane Kerner
 * Florian Lukas - Denis

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8 Mile (film)

8 Mile is a 2002 film about a young white rapper participating in a freestyle rap contest.
 * ''Directed by Curtis Hanson. Written by Scott Silver.

Every Moment is a Chance to Turn it Around. taglines

Jimmy "B-Rabbit" Smith Jr.

 * Do you ever wonder at what point when you gotta just say "fuck it" man? Like when you gotta stop living up here and start living down here?
 * Who told you I was a "dope rapper?"
 * Ward, I think you were a little hard on the Beaver. So was Eddie Haskell, Wally and Ms. Cleaver.
 * You ain't the future of shit, bitch. You're just David fuckin' Porter.
 * If something needs to happen with this shit, it needs to happen now.
 * So what, at least I got a fuckin' job.
 * Mom, you gotta stop living your life like this.
 * You're a maggot. You can't hack it. Paul's a gay. You're a faggot.
 * That "Leave It To Beaver" line almost killed me.
 * Man, that's all we ever do man is talk shit. (imitating Sol) We need to get fine bitches and phat rides. (imitating Iz) No what we need to do is put our money in savings bonds. (imitating Future) No what we need to do is get our songs on JLB. Man shut the fuck up! None of us never do shit about nothing. We're still broke as fuck and live at home with our moms!
 * My Motto: Fuck Lotto. I will get the seven digits from your mother for a dollar tomorrow.

 * This guy ain't no motherfucking MC. I know everything he is about to say against me. I am white. I am a fucking bum. I do live in a trailer with my mom. My boy Future is an Uncle Tom. I do have a dumb friend named Cheddar Bob who shoots his self in his leg with his own gun. I did get jumped by all six of you chumps. And Wink did fuck my girl. I'm still standing here screaming "Fuck the free world!" Don't ever try to judge me dude. You don't know what the fuck I've been through, but I know something about you! You went to Cranbrook. That's a private school! Whats the matter, dawg? You embarrassed? This guy is a gangster? His real name's Clarence.

 * Fuck the beat,I'll go acapella
 * I'm a piece of fucking white trash,I say it proudly
 * Fuck this battle. I don't wanna win, I'm outtie
 * Here tell these people something they don't know about me. (tosses microphone)

Future

 * DJ! Spin that shit!
 * You know what, do what the fuck you wanna do, 'cause I don't give a shit any more.
 * Free comes with a dick up your ass.
 * Rip it baby, rip it!

Sol
I ain't getting back in that piece of shit. It's a death trap. Fuckstard.

Cheddar Bob

 * Fuck Cheddar Bob!
 * Fuck the free world!

Free World members

 * Wink said you lived in a trailer park. We didn't believe him so we had to see for ourselves.
 * [After giving Jimmy a beatdown in retaliation for attacking Wink. A member holds out a gun, cocks it and points at Jimmy sitting down] You know, I could end your shit right now.

Dialogue

 * Alex: It's almost beautiful.
 * Jimmy Smith Jr: When I was younger, I always wanted to live in a house like this, like what it used to be.

 * Jimmy Smith Jr; Future: [DJ Iz is rambling on about the abandoned houses in Detroit and Jimmy and Future look at each other all confused] What the fuck is he talking about?

 * DJ Iz: That's why brothers need to sign themselves a deal. I'm telling you record labels supply niggas with the kind of benefits they need.
 * Sol: Dawg. We sign us a deal you can take the motherfucking benefits, we're talking Bentley's and Benjamins not Blue Cross and Blue Shield.
 * Future: Look to tell you all niggas the truth, I don't give a fuck about none of that. I just wanna hit 31 and a 3rd on the box you know what I'm saying? One of them strong songs on JLB.
 * DJ Iz: No what we need to do is save that shit up and put it into some savings bonds every week, stack it and build our own studio.
 * Future: Savings Bonds?
 * Sol: [to DJ] Let me ask you a question Dawg. How the fuck are we brothers? We need fine bitches and fat rides, not no goddamn savings bonds.
 * Jimmy Smith Jr: Man that's all we ever do is talk shit!
 * [imitating Sol]
 * Jimmy Smith Jr: "We need to get fine bitches and fat rides",
 * [imitating DJ]
 * Jimmy Smith Jr: "No, what weed to do is put our money in savings bonds",
 * [imitating future]
 * Jimmy Smith Jr: "No, what we need to do is put our songs on JLB." Man shut the fuck up. All of us never do shit about nuttin' and we're still broke as fuck and living at home with our moms.

 * Alex: [to Jimmy] So, how come they call you Rabbit?
 * Future: Cause he's fast and he likes to fuck a lot.

 * Lickety Split: Me and Papa Doc will battle any motherfuckers here!
 * Papa Doc: Yeah.
 * Sol: Told you them niggas was talking shit.
 * Future: [quietly] Man, fuck the Free World.
 * Cheddar Bob: [loudly] Yeah, fuck the Free World!
 * Lickety Split: Fuck the Free World? Hey, one of you two bitches is whack, hey, yo, fat-ass, yeah I'm talking about you Sol, how about if I kick you in the chest, will pork chops fall out your asshole? [Papa Doc and Lotto laugh] You cats is pussy soft like wet flowers, Leadaz of the Free World are here to smash on you cowards! Look at Future.
 * Future: Hey, don't even start, nigga!
 * Papa Doc: Yeah, what you gonna do about it, faggot?
 * Future: Who you callin' a faggot?

 * Jimmy Smith Jr: Don't even start, Mom, it's been a long fuckin' day.
 * Stephanie: Yeah, tell me about it. Me and Greg are having problems.
 * Jimmy Smith Jr: He find out about the eviction notice?
 * Stephanie: No...
 * Jimmy Smith Jr: The settlement check ain't coming?
 * Stephanie: No, it's coming, it's coming, it's just...it's our sex life.
 * Jimmy Smith Jr: [horrified] Mom, I don't need to hear this shit!
 * [He walks out of the room, and Stephanie follows him.]
 * Stephanie: I mean, it's good, it's real good, it's just--
 * Jimmy Smith Jr: Mom, I don't want to hear this!
 * Stephanie: --Greg won't go down on me.
 * Jimmy Smith Jr: Mom!

Taglines

 * Every Moment is a Chance to Turn it Around
 * Go back to where it all started.
 * Find Your Voice
 * Every moment is another chance
 * Lose Yourself In the Music
 * If the streets had a voice, this would be the story they'd tell.
 * Look, if you had one chance, one opportunity, to seize everything you ever wanted? One moment. Would you capture it? Or just let it slip?

Cast

 * Eminem- Jimmy Smith Jr
 * Mekhi Phifer- Future
 * Brittany Murphy - Alex
 * Kim Basinger - Stephanie Smith

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Stephen Colbert

Stephen Tyrone Colbert (born 13 May 1964) is an American satirist, comedian, writer, actor, and television host most famous for his work on The Daily Show, The Colbert Report from 2005 to 2014 where he portrays a parody of conservative media pundits, and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert since 2015. He graduated from Northwestern University in 1986, and appeared in the films Nobody Knows Anything! (2003), Snow Days (1999), and Shock Asylum (1997). In 1995, Colbert made his TV debut on Comedy Central in Exit 57 and was later on the show Strangers with Candy. Colbert did voice work for "The Ambiguously Gay Duo" on Saturday Night Live as the voice of Ace, and also provided the voices of "Myron Reducto", "Phil Ken Sebben", and "The Eagle Of Truth" on Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law.

Quotes

 * I didn't realize quite how liberal I was until I was asked to make passionate comedic choices as opposed to necessarily successful comedic choices.
 * "Fresh Air" NPR interview (24 January 2005)

 * (on Alex Jones) He is a terrible person who lies for a living.
 * "The Tonight Show," May 19, 2017.

 * Don't cry over spilled milk. By this time tomorrow, it'll be free yogurt.
 * "The Colbert Report," November 12, 2009.

 * Such a proud moment of professionalism. You work for years crafting cogent satirical essays and the thing that everybody remembers is me making love to a Chiquita and bursting into laughter. What you can't see off camera is Jon started laughing first. And then I'm weak. As much as I want to make the audience laugh, I really want to make Jon laugh.
 * Entertainment Weekly interview, August 13, 2004, on his character break during the infamous Prince Charles sketch on The Daily Show.

 * My character is self-important, poorly informed, well-intentioned, but an idiot… So we said, "Let's give him a promotion."
 * "Colbert spoofs cable news on Daily Show spinoff" Associated Press report (31 October 2005)

 * Truthiness is tearing apart our country, and I don't mean the argument over who came up with the word. I don't know whether it's a new thing, but it's certainly a current thing, in that it doesn't seem to matter what facts are. It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that's not the case anymore. Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty. People love the president because he's certain of his choices as a leader, even if the facts that back him up don't seem to exist. It's the fact that he's certain that is very appealing to a certain section of the country. I really feel a dichotomy in the American populace. What is important? What you want to be true, or what is true?
 * AV Club interview, (25 January 2006)

 * I think of him as well intentioned, poorly informed, high status idiot.
 * On his character in The Colbert Report, in an interview on 60 Minutes (30 April 2006)

 * You said the war would pay for itself in fruit baskets. You said that our soldiers would march in the streets of Havana and people would shower them with bananas and cigars. That didn’t happen. Would you like to look into the camera and apologize to the American people?
 * One of his questions to President Theodore Roosevelt in his series Better Know A President on The Colbert Report (17 May 2006)

 * Don’t be afraid to be a fool. Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics. Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us. Cynics always say no. But saying yes begins things. Saying yes is how things grow. Saying yes leads to knowledge. "Yes" is for young people. So for as long as you have the strength to, say yes.
 * Knox College commencement address (3 June 2006)

 * But you have one thing that may save you, and that is your youth. This is your great strength. It is also why I hate and fear you. Hear me out. It has been said that children are our future. But does that not also mean that we are their past? You are here to replace us. I don't understand why we're here helping and honoring them. You do not see union workers holding benefits for robots.
 * Knox College commencement address (3 June 2006)

 * If I want to say he didn't that's my right, and now, thanks to Wikipedia — it's also a fact.
 * On the ownership of slaves by George Washington, on The Colbert Report (31 July 2006).

 * Get your own entry in an encyclopedia... In the media age, everybody was famous for 15 minutes. In the Wikipedia age, everybody can be an expert in five minutes. Special bonus: You can edit your own entry to make yourself seem even smarter.
 * Wired Magazine article (14 August 2006)

 * Well folks, it's October and you know what that means: only a few more weeks 'til Hallowe'en when my family traditionally puts up our Christmas decorations. People come from far and wide to visit our haunted manger. We make their kids stick their hands in a spoooky bowl of Frankincense!! It's actually just spaghetti.
 * On The Colbert Report (28 September 2006). Video available at Colbert Nation

 * Language has always been important in politics, but language is incredibly important to the present political struggle. Because if you can establish an atmosphere in which information doesn't mean anything, then there is no objective reality. The first show we did, a year ago, was our thesis statement: What you wish to be true is all that matters, regardless of the facts. Of course, at the time, we thought we were being farcical.
 * New York Magazine interview (16 October 2006)

 * I have tender feelings for Nixon, because everybody has warm feelings about their childhood. Actually, I didn't like the Watergate trials 'cause they interrupted The Munsters... Nixon was the last liberal president. He supported women's rights, the environment, ending the draft, youth involvement, and now he's the boogeyman? Kerry couldn't even run on that today.
 * Rolling Stone interview (31 October 2006)

 * We claim no respectability. There's no status I would not surrender for a joke. So we don't have to defend anything.
 * Rolling Stone interview (31 October 2006)

 * I don't perceive my role as a newsman at all. I'm a comedian from stem to stern. You can cut me open and count the rings of jokes. If people learn something about the news by watching the show, that is incidental to my goal.
 * When asked what he perceives his role to be, given that many young people claim to get their news from The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, on newsman."Harvard University: A Conversation with Stephen Colbert" (1 December 2006).

 * Answer honestly... Disabuse me of my ignorance. Don’t let me get away with anything. Don’t try to play my game. Be real. Be passionate. Hold your ideas. Give me resistance. Give me traction I can work against. The friction between reality, or the truly held concerns of the person, and the farcical concerns that I have, or my need to seem important, as opposed to actually understanding what’s true... Where those two things meet is where the comedy happens. So be real. That's the best thing you can do. And call me on my bullshit.
 * On how he would recommend Colbert Report guests approach interviews, on A Conversation with Stephen Colbert (1 December 2006).

 * I would say laughter is the best medicine. But it’s more than that. It’s an entire regime of antibiotics and steroids. Laughter brings the swelling down on our national psyche, and then applies an antibiotic cream... Obviously, it’s a challenge to make light of the darkness but, um, it’s better than crying about it.
 * Entertainment Weekly interview (4 January 2007)

 * I'm surprised at the reaction it got. I went down there and did exactly what I wanted. I didn't expect it to be some sort of cultural-political line in the sand. I did the style of jokes I'd been doing for six months. The fact that anybody found it surprising or alarming that I would do that was educational to me.
 * On the reaction to his performance at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, in Entertainment Weekly (4 January 2007)

 * At Pottery Barn, if you knock over a lamp, you have to glue it back together, even if when you're done it looks terrible and it doesn't work. Oh, and you have to stay in the store forever. Oh, and it's an exploding lamp.
 * On the "Pottery Barn Rule," The Colbert Report (16 May 2007)

 * We decided that my character had a pre-show tradition, like a ritual, which was to sing the lyrics to "I Want You To Want Me" by Cheap Trick into the mirror. Because, more than anything else, as much as he says he's bringing the truth, he just wants to be liked.
 * Parade web exclusive interview (19 September 2007)

 * Not living in fear is a great gift, because certainly these days we do it so much. And do you know what I like about comedy? You can’t laugh and be afraid at the same time—of anything. If you're laughing, I defy you to be afraid.
 * Parade interview (23 September 2007)

 * After acting for so many years, do you know who you are anymore? Because actors are liars basically, you lie about who you are to an audience.
 * Stephen Colbert to Viggo Mortensen, The Colbert Report September 18, 2014

 * We worked very hard to keep him from being a jerk by keeping in mind he's well intentioned. Just poorly informed. He wants to do the right thing but has none of the tools to achieve it. Because he has no curiosity, he doesn't like to read and he won't listen anybody, except the voices in his head.
 * On his character in The Colbert Report in an interview on Larry King Live (11 October 2007)

 * Winning the Nobel Prize does not automatically qualify you to be commander in chief. I think George Bush has proved definitively that to be president, you don’t need to care about science, literature or peace.
 * "A Mock Columnist, Amok", in The New York Times (14 October 2007)

 * While skin and race are often synonymous, skin cleansing is good, race cleansing is bad.
 * "A Mock Columnist, Amok", in The New York Times (14 October 2007)

 * Well, I thought it was funny.
 * A six-word autobiography, NationalPost.com, (13 December 2007)

 * I teach Sunday School, motherfucker.
 * Interviewing Stanford University professor emeritus Dr. Philip Zimbardo, author of the book The Lucifer Effect. After an increasingly heated debate on the problem of theodicy, Colbert sets the record straight responding to Zimbardo's slightly sarcastically charged "Obviously you learned well in Sunday School". The Colbert Report (11 February 2008)

 * It would be a very short pint. It would be gummy bears and matzah, and be called Chewy Jewy.
 * In response to a question about what he would put into a Jon Stewart Ben & Jerry's ice cream flavor, University of Buffalo Distinguished Speakers Series (4 April 2008)

 * Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. Give a man a sub-prime fish loan and you're in business, buddy.
 * A parody of the "Give a man a fish..." proverb alluding to the subprime mortgage crisis of the aughts on The Colbert Report (14 May 2008)

 * The market is not finished. The market still has over nine thousand points to drop. We'll get to Christmas at least.
 * On the Financial crisis of 2008 The Colbert Report (6 October 2008)

 * If you don't give power to the words that people throw at you to hurt you, they don't hurt you anymore — and you actually have power over those people. … So, if you can, realize that the things that people say about you — they don't really matter — it's who you are. And the older you get, the more you'll understand that — because it gets better. And people get nicer too.
 * Stephen Colbert - It Gets Better (13 July 2011)

 * Accountability is meaningless unless it's for everybody, whether it's the leader of the network or the leader of the free world.
 * Addressing problems on sexual misconduct in the workplace, and holding people accountable. The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (31 July 2018)

 * The message of Christ isn't that you can't kill me. The message of Christ is you can kill me and that's not death.
 * Interview with Joe Hagan appearing in Vanity Fair, October 2020

 * When you’re in this room, I don’t know how to describe it. It’s soaked in history. It just washes over you. I mean, it’s not even like it’s in the past. You’re in history. You’re in it.
 * "Stephen Colbert Tells Rep. Adam Schiff What Russian Oligarch Revealed About Trump 'Pee Tape'" (2021?)+videos

 * There once was a man in Nantucket Whose poll numbers really did suck it; At least he is not That orange pol pot Who ate all his meals from a bucket.
 * Limerick from his opening monologue of  of 25 November 2021, after reading about President Biden's revival of his family's tradition of visiting Nantucket at Thanksgiving.

White House Correspondents' Association Dinner (2006)

 * Address at the Hilton Washington hotel, Washington, D.C. (29 April 2006)

 * Before I get started, if anybody needs anything else at their tables, just speak slowly and clearly into your table numbers. Someone from the NSA will be right over with a cocktail.

 * I believe democracy is our greatest export. At least until China figures out a way to stamp it out of plastic for three cents a unit.

 * I believe in America. I believe it exists. My gut tells me I live there. I feel that it extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and I strongly believe it has 50 states. And I cannot wait to see how the Washington Post spins that one tomorrow.

 * That's where the truth lies, right down here in the gut. Do you know you have more nerve endings in your gut than you have in your head? You can look it up. I know some of you are going to say "I did look it up, and that's not true." That's 'cause you looked it up in a book. Next time, look it up in your gut. I did. My gut tells me that's how our nervous system works.

 * Somebody pinch me. You know what? I'm a pretty sound sleeper, that may not be enough. Somebody shoot me in the face. Is he really not here tonight? Dammit.
 * Expressing his awe at being so close to the president.

 * I believe it's yogurt, but I refuse to believe it's not butter.

 * I stand by this man. I stand by this man because he stands for things. Not only for things, he stands on things. Things like aircraft carriers and rubble and recently flooded city squares. And that sends a strong message, that no matter what happens to America, she will always rebound — with the most powerfully staged photo ops in the world.

 * Mayor Nagin is here from New Orleans, the chocolate city... Mayor Nagin, I'd like to welcome you to Washington D.C., the chocolate city with a marshmallow center, and a graham cracker crust of corruption. It's a Mallomar I guess is what I'm describing.

 * I believe the government that governs best is the government that governs least. And by these standards, we have set up a fabulous government in Iraq.

 * I've got a theory about how to handle these retired generals causing all this trouble: Don't let them retire! Come on, we've got a stop-loss program; let's use it on these guys. I've seen Zinni and that crowd on Wolf Blitzer. If you're strong enough to go on one of those pundit shows, you're strong enough to stand on a bank of computers and order men into battle. Come on.

 * I give people the truth, unfiltered by rational argument. I call it the "No Fact Zone". Fox News, I hold a copyright on that term.

 * I know there are some polls out there saying this man has a 32% approval rating. But guys like us, we don't pay attention to the polls. We know that polls are just a collection of statistics that reflect what people are thinking in "reality." And reality has a well-known liberal bias.

 * Sir, pay no attention to the people who say the glass is half empty, because 32% means it's 2/3 empty. There's still some liquid in that glass, is my point. But I wouldn't drink it. The last third is usually backwash.

 * Jesse Jackson is here. I had him on the show. Very interesting and challenging interview. You can ask him anything, but he’s going to say what he wants at the pace that he wants. It's like boxing a glacier. Enjoy that metaphor, by the way, because your grandchildren will have no idea what a glacier is.

 * As excited as I am to be here with the president, I am appalled to be surrounded by the liberal media that is destroying America — with the exception of Fox News. Fox News gives you both sides of every story: the president's side, and the vice president's side. But the rest of you, what are you thinking, reporting on NSA wiretapping or secret prisons in eastern Europe? Those things are secret for a very important reason: they're super-depressing. And if that's your goal, well, misery accomplished. Over the last five years you people were so good — over tax cuts, WMD intelligence, the effect of global warming. We Americans didn't want to know, and you had the courtesy not to try to find out. Those were good times, as far as we knew.

 * But, listen, let's review the rules. Here's how it works: the president makes decisions. He's the Decider. The press secretary announces those decisions, and you people of the press type those decisions down. Make, announce, type. Just put 'em through a spell check and go home. Get to know your family again. Make love to your wife. Write that novel you got kicking around in your head. You know, the one about the intrepid Washington reporter with the courage to stand up to the administration. You know — fiction.

 * Then you write, "Oh, they're just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic." First of all, that is a terrible metaphor. This administration is not sinking. This administration is soaring. If anything, they are rearranging the deck chairs on the Hindenburg.

 * The greatest thing about this man is he's steady. You know where he stands. He believes the same thing Wednesday that he believed on Monday — no matter what happened Tuesday.

 * And though I am a committed Christian, I believe that everyone has the right to their own religion — be you Hindu, Jewish, or Muslim, I believe there are infinite paths to accepting Jesus Christ as your personal savior.

 * By the way, Mr. President, thank you for agreeing to be on my show. I was just as shocked as everyone here is, I promise you. How's Tuesday for you? I've got Frank Rich, but we can bump him. And I mean bump him. I know a guy. Say the word.

 * Ambassador Zhou Wenzhong, welcome! Your great country [of China] makes our Happy Meals possible!

 * I believe in pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps. I believe it is possible — I saw this guy do it once in Cirque du Soleil. It was magical.

 * Who's Britannica to tell me that the Panama Canal was built in 1914? If I want to say that it was built in 1941, that's my right as an American.

 * And I just like the guy. He's a good joe. Obviously loves his wife, calls her his better half, and polls show America agrees.
 * On George W. Bush.

The O'Reilly Factor, January 2007

 * Stephen: I spend so much time in the world that is spinning all the time, that to be in the no-spin zone actually gives me vertigo.

 * Stephen: They're New York Times, Bill! They hate George Bush, of course they're gonna hate you! They're haters, Bill!

 * Stephen: We on my show, and by "we" I mean ME!

 * Stephen: Absolutely! You have to be high to understand Jon Stewart.

 * Stephen: I do fear bears. They're giant, marauding, Godless killing machines!

 * Stephen: You know what I hate about people who criticize you? They criticize what you say, but they never give you credit for how loud you say it. Or how long you say it.

 * Stephen: I wanna thank you for not asking me about that thing we pre-agreed you wouldn't ask me about.

58th Primetime Emmy Awards

 * Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California (27 August 2006)
 * [presenting the award for best reality/competition show]
 * Jon Stewart: Thank you very much, it's a pleasure to be here tonight.
 * Stephen Colbert: Good evening, godless sodomites.
 * Stewart: [pause] What're you — what're you doing?
 * Colbert: I'm bringing the truth, Jon. We're in Hollywood, the belly of the beast.
 * Stewart: You can't just — you can't just read the prompter?
 * Colbert: I'm reading the prompter in here. [points to his heart] You can read that pablum.
 * Stewart: Award-show banter is not pablum! [reading from the prompter; reluctantly] "Reality television celebrates the human condition... by [mumbling] illuminating what's extraordinary in the ordinary person."
 * Colbert: [firmly] It warps the mind of our children and weakens the resolve of our allies.
 * Stewart: [still mumbling] "The results are often dramatic and always unexpected. We're here to honor achievement in that category."
 * Colbert: By giving you a golden idol to worship! [points at the giant Emmy statue next to the stage] KNEEL BEFORE YOUR GOD, BABYLON!
 * Stewart: This is, uh... this is about the Manilow thing, isn't it?
 * Colbert: I lost to BARRY MANILOW! Barry Manilow! I lost to the Copacabana! Singing and dancing is not "performing"! Wolverine I could've lost to — he's got claws for hands!
 * Stewart: All right.
 * Colbert: Can I hold one of yours?
 * Stewart: No! The nominees are...
 * Earlier in the evening, Colbert had been beaten in the Outstanding Individual Performance category by Barry Manilow.

2022

 * The other stunner that came out of the committee hearings was what the committee called the "big ripoff". The former president raised a quarter of a billion dollars off the big-lie, for a so-called "election defense fund", that investigators say, never existed... and this time we promise NO FRAUD.
 * Fight The Fraud Of The Former Fight The Fraud, Which Fought The Fraud Of The First Fraud Fund (via YouTube video 46,288 viewsJun 15, 2022)

2023

 * Yes, we all know the famous saying: where there’s smoke, there’s success.
 * Stephen Colbert on Biden’s Kyiv visit: ‘Like your dad meeting your boyfriend’ (Last modified on Tue 21 Feb 2023 18.30 GMT)

Quotes about Colbert

 * I was motivated to play Dungeons & Dragons. I mean highly, highly motivated to play it. Every day, if I could find someone to play with me. If I couldn't find someone to play with me, I would work on my player character.
 * I used to write things for friends. There was this girl I had a crush on, and she had a teacher she didn't like at school. I had a real crush on her, so almost every day I would write her a little short story where she would kill him in a different way. But, in sort of a James Bond-ian kind of explosives in the gas tank of his car kind of way.
 * Stephen Colbert An interview with Stephen Colbert

 * He's like a living wall of encyclopedias that like to drink beer.
 * Paul Dinello, quoted in Current Biography article, (November 2006)

 * It's one thing for an asshole to play an asshole. But your basic decency can't be hidden.
 * Jon Stewart, speaking to Colbert, in "America's Anchors" in Rolling Stone (31 October 2006)

 * Part of the joy of being in character is being able to get away with things others cannot. Though a lot of that is that [he] is so high on Nyquil you never know what he's going to do.
 * Jon Stewart, Philadelphia Inquirer interview (22 April 2007)]

 * He's able to create a universe where something surreal happens on the program that seems ordinary, and all of a sudden the absurd appears not mundane but expected, organic... So he can have a conversation with Richard Holbrooke and Willie Nelson and it all makes perfect sense and yet it couldn't appear anywhere else without appearing burlesque. Somehow he has managed to create a fake world that has impacted and found standing in the real world.
 * Jon Stewart, Vanity Fair interview,( October 2007)

 * The thing about Colbert is he's fucking brilliant... He was always the smartest guy in the room, and he was always smart enough not to let you know he was the smartest guy in the room.
 * Scott Wherry, a long-time friend, in Vanity Fair (October 2007)

 * His humor is an accumulation of the eccentricities, mannerisms and jokes of his ten older brothers and sisters, a medley that trickled down.
 * Colbert Report staffer, in "America's Anchors" in Rolling Stone (31 October 2006)

 * Stephen used to play a manic conservative, and now, he plays a depressed liberal. That is range, ladies and gentlemen.
 * Julia Louis-Dreyfus, 2018 Mark Twain Prize Ceremony (21 October 2018)

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Josh Lucas

Josh Lucas (born 20 June 1971) is an American actor.

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 * I just feel like I really want to be someone who literally disappears in the role. I want to be so strong as an actor that people wouldn't say [for example] 'Oh, that's Ben Affleck.' To me, that's just boring. It doesn't interest me. My goal is to always have the ability at hand where I can be really good, as opposed to, eh, that's Josh Lucas.
 * Interview with Steve Head, September 24, 2002.

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 * I would lie in bed the night before a new school and decide who I was going to be. It would usually be based on someone I admired from the school before.
 * Regarding moving so many times as a child

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Talk:H. G. Wells

I find Elasah Drogin, Margaret Sanger: Father of Modern Society (New Hope, KY: CUL Publications, 1986), p. 38. and also Time Magazine, 1998 (http://205.188.238.181/time/archive/preview/0,10987,988152,00.html) sited for the quote about Margaret Sanger. 1931 and 1935 are about equally cited, with the quote split between those years in one case. I also find -- H. G. Wells, in Douglas, Margaret Sanger: Pioneer of the Future, pp. 142-3, quoted from Annie Laurie Gaylor, Women Without Superstition. David R. Ingham 17:56, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

Now I find a definite source:

In remaining years Sanger often quoted Wells, and turned his tributes to her into a definitive authorization of her work. When supporters sent quotations praising Sanger to the Nobel Committee in Stockholm in an unsuccessful nomination effort for the Peace Prize, Wells' words resonated above all others: "When the history of our civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine" (from a 1935 speech at Barber's Hall, London, included in Round the World for Birth Control, Birth Control International Information Centre, 1937, MSM S62:598).

France and priests
I cannot find a source for this one: "I daren't drive a car in France, the temptation to run over a priest would be to great to resist"
 * Alan Liefting 21:56, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
 * I remember words to this effect being quoted by Kenneth Clark in Civilisation. I've found the passage, which is as follows: "I remember H. G. Wells, who was a kind of twentieth-century Voltaire, saying that he daren't drive a car in France, because the temptation to run over a priest would be too strong for him." — Kenneth Clark, Civilisation (1969), ch. 10: The Smile of Reason. Since this reads like a paraphrase rather than a quote, however, it doesn't tell us what Wells actually said or where Clark believed he had heard it. - InvisibleSun 22:18, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

Outrageous Creationist Quote-Mine by Richard Weikart
This page contained an outrageous quote-mine (quote taken out of context) from "The Modern Utopia" in which Wells is taken out of context to make him appear to support genocide for "inferior races.": "there is only one sane and logical thing to be done with a really inferior race, and that is to exterminate it." The actual context reverses the meaning; in fact Wells did not support "exterminating" anyone in his "Utopia" and even supports the right of mixed-race marriages!

This quote mine originated with creationist scholar Richard Weikart in his cunning and dishonest book "From Darwin to Hitler" in which he attempts to blame Christians mass-murdering Jews on Charles Darwin. Because Weikart's hoax was popular with creationists, it has been copied onto many creationist websites. Weikart wrote as follows:

'Ideas about racial extermination were not unique to Germany, but became very influential elsewhere also. H. G. Wells epitomized an influential Anglo-American social Darwinist attitude when he stated that "there is only one sane and logical thing to be done with a really inferior race, and that is to exterminate it."' [Richard Weikart, "From Darwin to Hitler", p.185]

What a cunning creationist liar! I have added the context by adding sentences before and after it. 69.253.44.13 05:43, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

Is Weikart a Cunning Liar, as Charged Above?
If the person making this slanderous charge could have figured out, if he or she had examined the source of my H. G. Wells quote, they would have found in my endnotes that I indicated that I got the H. G. Wells quotation from Diane Paul's book, _Controlling Human Heredity_, p. 75. Paul on that page gives no indication of the context, but states: "Fabians were often nationalist and imperialist, though few went as far as Wells, who bluntly asserted that 'there is only one sane and logical thing to be done with a really inferior race, and that is to exterminate it." She then cites a secondary source herself, so she may not realize the context, either. If my quotation is in error, it is because I relied on a secondary source that also got it wrong, not because I am a liar.
 * Ok, in keeping with Hanlon's Razor, we understand that you do not wish to be thought cunning. ~ Ningauble (talk) 16:05, 16 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Ningauble, are you trying to be funny or deliberately insulting? ~ DanielTom (talk) 23:08, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
 * It may be a little funny, but my intent was to admonish: The defense against the charge of "cunning liar" is that he did not invent the lie, but was spreading the lie of others. This is not very funny. Anyone with a modicum of familiarity with Wells' political work would recognize it as extremely uncharacteristic of him. Even if one were completely ignorant of his work, it is such an extreme and repugnant view that a responsible writer might be expected to check the veracity of the attribution before spreading libel. It is lamentably common for professional writers to use a rumored quote without verifying the source but, whatever one thinks of that sort of folly in general, when it is a defamatory lie in a polemical work I think Hanlon's Razor is both a charitable assumption and a fitting admonishment. ~ Ningauble (talk) 15:19, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

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Wikiquote no longer allows unsourced quotations, and they are in process of being removed from our pages (see Wikiquote:Limits on quotations); but if you can provide a reliable and precise source for any quote on this list please move it to H. G. Wells. --Antiquary 11:15, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

 * Advertising is legalized lying. - -- H.G. Wells, quoted in Michael Jackman, Crown's Book of Political Quotations, 1982, New York: Crown Publishing Inc., p. 2.

 * Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

 * Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

 * In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

 * It's not true that the more sex that you have, the more it interferes with your work. I find that the more sex you have, the better work you do.

 * No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

 * Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

 * Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.

 * Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.

 * Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

 * The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

 * The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

 * We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.

 * While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness is not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.

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Michelle Rodriguez

Michelle Rodriguez (born July 12, 1978) is an American actress.

Quotes

 * I quit high school really young, and I always loved information. I'm a self-taught kind of chick. I don't have any tactics on studying, memorizing things. It's selective memory. If I feel like it's going to be a prominent factor in the future, then I will remember that.
 * CinemaBlendInterview: Michelle Rodriguez Talks Technology And Aliens In Battle: Los Angeles 11 March 2011

I love being from Colombia.

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Michael Madsen

Michael Madsen (born September 25, 1958) is an American actor.

Quotes

 * Kids are a great excuse for you to stop acting like one.
 * Men's Health, March, 2004

Attributed

 * Encourage your kids' artistic side. Toughen up everything else.

 * I encourage my boys to do stuff in the arts, but I'm also an advocate of not taking any shit, I have a heavy bag and every morning the boys go three 3-minute rounds on the heavy bag with the gloves.
 * I'm a leading man trapped inside a bad guy's body.

 * Is it really selling out if it feeds your family?

 * The oddest thing is when children recognize me from Free Willy and their parents recognize me from Reservoir Dogs. The kids are, like, 'There's Glen!' and the parents are, like, 'Don't go near that guy!'

 * Well, one thing for sure, I won't be remembered for Free Willy. Or maybe I will.

 * Your children don't have to fear you to respect you.

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Kristanna Loken

Kristanna Sommer Løken (born October 8, 1979) is an American actress and model.

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 * If the person with whom I connect happens to be a female, that’s just the way it is. That’s what makes my wheels turn.
 * Curvemag

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Ran (film)

Ran is a 1985 Jidaigeki film about an aging Sengoku-era warlord who decides to abdicate as ruler in favor of his three sons. The story is based on legends of the daimyo Mōri Motonari, as well as on the Shakespearean tragedy King Lear.
 * Directed by Akira Kurosawa. Written by Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni, and Masato Ide.

Kyoami

 * Man is born crying. When he has cried enough, he dies.

 * Why stay with this mad old man? If the rock you stay on starts to roll, jump clean. Or you'll go with it and be squashed. Only a fool stays aboard.

 * The failed mind sees the heart's failings.

 * In a mad world, only the mad are sane!

 * He gives away his house, He gives away his lands, He now holds a new title: 'Lord of the rice fields' a scarecrow!

Saburo

 * Does a traitor betray himself?

Tango

 * Men prefer sorrow over joy... suffering over peace!

Dialogue

 * Hidetora: The Great Lord goes nowhere alone.
 * Jiro: You renounced your power. You have no need of an escort.
 * Hidetora: Only the birds and the beasts live in solitude.

 * Kurogane: Saburo is not our only enemy.
 * Jiro: So what? If they attack, we retaliate. We grab their land and enlarge our own.
 * Kurogane: Fine words, but words don't win wars.

 * Hidetora: I am lost...
 * Kyoami: Such is the human condition.

 * Kyoami: A serpent's egg is white and pure. A bird's is speckled and soiled.
 * Hidetora: This is a castle... Here's a wall.
 * Kyoami: The bird left the speckled egg for the white.
 * Hidetora: Strange...
 * Kyoami: The egg cracks; out comes a snake.
 * Hidetora: Empty space above the wall. Why?
 * Kyoami: The bird is gobbled by the snake.
 * Hidetora: Where am I? Who am I?
 * Kyoami: Stupid bird!

 * Kyoami: Are there no gods... no Buddha? If you exist, hear me. You are mischievous and cruel! Are you so bored up there you must crush us like ants? Is it such fun to see men weep?
 * Tango: Enough! Do not blaspheme! It is the gods who weep. They see us killing each other over and over since time began. They can't save us from ourselves.

 * Hidetora: What madness have I spoken? Wherein lies my senility?
 * Saburo: I'll tell you. What kind of world do we live in? One barren of loyalty and feeling.
 * Hidetora: I'm aware of that.
 * Saburo: So you should be! You spilled an ocean of blood. You showed no mercy, no pity. We too are children of this age... weaned on strife and chaos. We are your sons, yet you count on our fidelity. In my eyes, that makes you a fool. A senile old fool!

 * Hidetora: [Hidetora has just signed a pledge abdicating his authority to Taro] Are you a son?
 * Taro: What do you mean?
 * Hidetora: Is this a son's attitude? The hen pecks the cock and makes him a crow.

Quotes about Ran

 * What I was trying to get at in Ran, and this was there from the script stage, was that the gods or God or whoever it is observing human events is feeling sadness about how human beings destroy each other, and powerlessness to affect human beings' behavior.
 * Akira Kurosawa,

Cast

 * Tatsuya Nakadai - Lord Hidetora Ichimonji
 * Akira Terao - Taro Takatora Ichimonji
 * Jinpachi Nezu - Jiro Masatora Ichimonji
 * Daisuke Ryu - Saburo Naotora Ichimonji
 * Mieko Harada - Lady Kaede
 * Yoshiko Miyazaki - Lady Sue
 * Hisashi Igawa - Shuri Kurogane
 * Pîtâ - Kyoami
 * Masayuki Yui - Tango Hirayama
 * Kazuo Katô - Kageyu Ikoma
 * Norio Matsui - Shumenosuke Ogura
 * Toshiya Ito - Mondo Naganuma
 * Kenji Kodama - Samon Shirane

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