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Ansel Adams

Ansel Adams (February 20 1902 – April 22 1984) was an American fine art photographer most famous for his wilderness landscapes.

Quotes

 * A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense, and is, thereby, a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.
 * "A Personal Credo" (1943), published in American Annual of Photography (1944), reprinted in Nathan Lyons, editor, Photographers on Photography (1966), reprinted in Vicki Goldberg, editor, Photography in Print: Writings from 1816 to the Present (1988)

 * I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term — meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching — there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.
 * "A Personal Credo" (1943), published in American Annual of Photography (1944), reprinted in Nathan Lyons, editor, Photographers on Photography (1966), reprinted in Vicki Goldberg, editor, Photography in Print: Writings from 1816 to the Present (1988)

 * The herculean task of a photographer is to capture a momentary frame as beautiful in reality, as it would be in a dream.
 * Radio interview, 1972

 * For me the future of the image is going to be in electronic form. … You will see perfectly beautiful images on an electronic screen. And I'd say that would be very handsome. They would be almost as close as the best reproductions.
 * Interview with Paul Hill (March 1975), published in P. Hill & T.J. Cooper (1979), Dialogue with Photography

 * I eagerly await new concepts and processes. I believe that the electronic image will be the next major advance. Such systems will have their own inherent and inescapable structural characteristics, and the artist and functional practitioner will again strive to comprehend and control them.
 * The Negative (1981), introduction to second edition

 * It is horrifying that we have to fight our own Government to save the environment.

 * If what I see in my mind excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph.

 * I would never apologize for photographing rocks. Rocks can be very beautiful. But, yes, people have asked why I don’t put people into my pictures of the natural scene. I respond, “There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.” That usually doesn’t go over at all.

 * Yes, in the sense that the negative is like the composer’s score. Then, using that musical analogy, the print is the performance. (Paraphrased as "Film is the score and the print is the performance.")

Ansel Adams: An Autobiography (1985)

 * No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied — it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.

 * The only things in my life that compatibly exist with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.

About Ansel Adams

 * At one with the power of the American landscape, and renowned for the patient skill and timeless beauty of his work, photographer Ansel Adams has been visionary in his efforts to preserve this country's wild and scenic areas, both in film and on Earth. Drawn to the beauty of nature's monuments, he is regarded by environmentalists as a monument himself, and by photographers as a national institution. It is through his foresight and fortitude that so much of America has been saved for future Americans.
 * President Jimmy Carter, Presidential Medal of Freedom Remarks at the Presentation Ceremony, June 9, 1980 (See: Citation of the Presidential Medal of Freedom awarded to Ansel Adams)

 * His attacks on Reagan’s Secretary of the Interior, James Watt, have received so much attention that Watt was asked about the 'thunderous denunciations of his policies by Ansel Adams.' Watt replied with a shrug, 'Ansel Adams never took a picture with a human being in it in his life.' Adams’ friend photographer James Alinder responded, 'James Watt is no better historian of photography than Secretary of the Interior. Ansel Adams has not only made pictures of people, but his portraits form a major part of his photographic production.' In fact, the Carter Administration broke with tradition by having the Presidential portrait done not by a painter but by a photographer—Adams. Although the break with tradition was highly criticized, the Polaroid photo now hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington.
 * David Sheff, A candid conversation with America’s “photographer laureate” and environmentalist about art, natural beauty and the unnatural acts of Interior Secretary James Watt; March 1983.(See: David Sheff Interview)

 * While the photos at the D.M.V. (New York) will still be taken in color, the engraving is done in grayscale, hence the Ansel Adams feel.
 * Black and White and Wallet-Size, Unfit for Faking; Jesse McKinley, New York Times, March 16, 2013

Disputed

 * There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
 * Attributed to Adams without citing source in E.T. Schoch (2002), The Everything Digital Photography Book (2002) p. 105

 * When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
 * Attributed to Adams without citing source in: AB bookman's weekly: for the specialist book world. (1985) Vol 76, Nr. 19-27; p. 3326

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Good Will Hunting

Good Will Hunting is a 1997 film about Will Hunting, a janitor at MIT, who has an extraordinary ability in mathematics, and a psychologist who tries to help him with his gift and the rest of his life.
 * Directed by Gus Van Sant. Written by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon.

Some people can never believe in themselves, until someone believes in them. taglines

Will Hunting

 * Why shouldn't I work for the N.S.A.? That's a tough one, but I'll take a shot. Say I'm workin' at the N.S.A. and somebody puts a code on my desk, somethin' no one else can break. Maybe I take a shot at it, maybe I break it. And I'm real happy with myself, 'cause I did my job well. But maybe that code was the location of some rebel army in North Africa or the Middle East. And once they have that location, they bomb the village where the rebels are hidin'. Fifteen hundred people that I never met, I never had no problem with, get killed. Now the politicians are sayin', 'Oh, send in the Marines to secure the area,' 'cause they don't give a shit. It won't be their kid over there gettin' shot. Just like it wasn't them when their number got called 'cause they were out pullin' a tour in the National Guard. It'll be some kid from Southie over there takin' shrapnel in the ass. He comes back to find that the plant he used to work at got exported to the country he just got back from. And the guy who put the shrapnel in his ass got his old job, 'cause he'll work for fifteen cents a day and no bathroom breaks. Meanwhile he realizes the only reason he was over there in the first place was so that we could install a government that would sell us oil at a good price. And of course the oil companies used the little skirmish over there to scare up domestic oil prices. A cute little ancillary benefit for them but it ain't helpin' my buddy at two-fifty a gallon. They're takin' their sweet time bringin' the oil back, of course, maybe they even took the liberty of hirin' an alcoholic skipper who likes to drink martinis and fuckin' play slalom with the icebergs. It ain't too long 'til he hits one, spills the oil and kills all the sea life in the North Atlantic. So now my buddy's out of work. He can't afford to drive, so he's walkin' to the fuckin' job interviews, which sucks because the shrapnel in his ass is givin' him chronic hemorroids. And meanwhile he's starvin' 'cause every time he tries to get a bite to eat, the only blue plate special they're servin' is North Atlantic scrod with Quaker State. So what did I think? I'm holdin' out for somethin' better. I figure, fuck it, while I'm at it, why not just shoot my buddy, take his job, give it to his sworn enemy, hike up gas prices, bomb a village, club a baby seal, hit the hash pipe and join the National Guard? I could be elected president.

Sean Maguire
'''So if I asked you about art, you'd probably give me the skinny on every art book ever written. Michelangelo, you know a lot about him. Life's work, political aspirations, him and the Pope, sexual orientation, the whole works, right? But I'll bet you can't tell me what it smells like in the Sistine Chapel. You've never actually stood there and looked up at that beautiful ceiling. Seen that. If I ask you about women, you'd probably give me a syllabus about your personal favorites. You may have even been laid a few times. But you can't tell me what it feels like to wake up next to a woman and feel truly happy. You're a tough kid. And I'd ask you about war, you'd probably throw Shakespeare at me, right? "Once more into the breach, dear friends." But you've never been near one. You've never held your best friend's head in your lap, and watch him gasp his last breath looking to you for help. I'd ask you about love, you'd probably quote me a sonnet. But you've never looked at a woman and been totally vulnerable. Known someone that could level you with her eyes, feeling like God put an angel on Earth just for you. Who could rescue you from the depths of Hell. And you wouldn't know what it's like to be her angel, to have that love for her, be there forever, through anything, through cancer. And you wouldn't know about sleeping sittin' up in the hospital room for two months, holding her hand, because the doctors could see in your eyes that the terms "visiting hours" don't apply to you. '''You don't know about real loss, 'cause that only occurs when you've loved something more than you love yourself. And I doubt you've ever dared to love anybody that much. I look at you. I don't see an intelligent, confident man. I see a cocky, scared shitless kid.''' But you're a genius, Will. No one denies that. '''No one could possibly understand the depths of you. But you presume to know everything about me because you saw a painting of mine.''' You ripped my fuckin' life apart. You're an orphan, right? [Will nods] 'Do you think I'd know the first thing about how hard your life has been, how you feel, who you are, 'cause I read Oliver Twist''? Does that encapsulate you?''' Personally, I don't give a shit about all that, because you know what, I can't learn anything from you I can't read in some fuckin' book. Unless you want to talk about you, who you are. Then I'm fascinated. I'm in. But you don't wanna do that, do you, sport? You're terrified of what you might say. Your move, chief.
 * I thought about what you said to me the other day, about my painting. I stayed up half the night thinking about it. [pause] Something occurred to me. I fell into a deep, peaceful sleep, and I haven't thought about you since. You know what occurred to me? You're just a kid. You don't have the faintest idea what you're talking about. It's all right. You've never been out of Boston. '''

 * [Grabbing Will by the throat when he insults Sean's dead wife] If you ever disrespect my wife again, I will end you. I will fucking end you!

Morgan O’Mally

 * [to Skylar, in thick Bostonian accent] My boy's wicked smart.

Dialogue

 * Chuckie: All right, are we gonna have a problem?
 * Clark: There's no problem. I was just hoping you could give me some insight into the evolution of the market economy in the southern colonies. My contention is that prior to the Revolutionary War the economic modalities, especially of the southern colonies could most aptly be characterized as agrarian pre-capitalist and...
 * Will: [interrupting] Of course that's your contention. You're a first year grad student. You just got finished some Marxian historian, Pete Garrison prob’ly, you’re gonna be convinced of that until next month when you get to James Lemon, then you’re gonna be talkin’ about how the economies of Virginia and Pennsylvania were entrepreneurial and capitalist way back in 1740. That's gonna last until next year, you’re gonna be in here regurgitating Gordon Wood, talkin’ about you know, the Pre-revolutionary utopia and the capital-forming effects of military mobilization.
 * Clark: [taken aback] Well, as a matter of fact, I won't, because Wood drastically underestimates the impact of —
 * Will: ..."Wood drastically underestimates the impact of social distinctions predicated upon wealth, especially inherited wealth..." You got that from Vickers. "Work in Essex County," Page 98, right? Yeah I read that too. Were you gonna plagiarize the whole thing for us — you have any thoughts of — of your own on this matter? Or do — is that your thing, you come into a bar, you read some obscure passage and then you pretend — you pawn it off as your own — your own idea just to impress some girls? Embarrass my friend?
 * [Clark is stunned]
 * Will: See the sad thing about a guy like you, is in about 50 years you’re gonna start doin' some thinkin' on your own and you’re gonna come up with the fact that there are two certainties in life. One, don't do that. And two, you dropped a hundred and fifty grand on a fuckin’ education you coulda' got for a dollar fifty in late charges at the Public Library.
 * Clark: Yeah, but I will have a degree, and you'll be serving my kids fries at a drive-thru on our way to a skiing trip.
 * Will: [smiles] Yeah, maybe. But at least I won't be unoriginal.

 * Gerry: In 1905, there were hundreds of professors renowned for their studies of the universe, but it was a 26-year-old Swiss patent clerk doing physics in his spare time who changed the world. Can you imagine if Einstein would have given that up just so he could get drunk with his buddies in Vienna? We all would have lost something. [gestures condescendingly to the bartender] Tim would never have heard of him.
 * Sean: Pretty dramatic, Gerry.
 * Gerry: No it's not, Sean. This boy has that gift, he just doesn't have the direction for it. We can give him that.
 * Sean: Hey Gerry, in the 1960s there was a young man who had just graduated from the University of Michigan who was doing brilliant work in mathematics, specifically bounded harmonic functions. Then he went to Berkeley, where he was an assistant professor and showed amazing potential. Then he moved to Montana and blew the competition away.
 * Gerry: Yeah, so who was he?
 * Sean: Ted Kaczynski.
 * Gerry: Never heard of him.
 * Sean: Hey, Timmy?
 * Tim: Yo.
 * Sean Who's Ted Kaczynski?
 * Tim: The Unabomber.

 * Gerry: What do you mean, he didn't talk? You were in there for an hour.
 * Sean: He just sat there, counting the seconds until the session was over. It was pretty impressive, actually.
 * Gerry: Why would he do that?
 * Sean: To prove to me that he doesn't have to talk to me, if he doesn't want to.
 * Gerry:... What is this, some kind of staring contest between two kids from the old neighborhood?
 * Sean: Yeah, it is.  And I can't talk first.

 * Will: [about Skylar] Don't worry about me, I know what I'm doin'. Yeah, but this girl is like, you know, beautiful. She's smart. She's funny. She's different from most of the girls I've been with.
 * Sean: So, call her up, Romeo.
 * Will: Why? So I can realize she's not that smart, that she's fuckin' boring? Y'know? I mean...this girl is like fuckin' perfect right now, I don't wanna ruin that.
 * Sean: Maybe you're perfect right now. Maybe you don't wanna ruin that. I think that's a super philosophy, Will, that way you can go through your entire life without ever having to really know anybody...My wife used to fart when she was nervous. She had all sorts of wonderful idiosyncrasies. You know what? She used to fart in her sleep. [they laugh] Sorry I shared that with you. One night it was so loud it woke the dog up. She woke up and gone like "oh was that you?" I'd say yeah...I didn't have the heart to tell her...[cracks up] Oh God...
 * Will: [laughing hysterically] She woke herself up?
 * Sean: [in hysterics himself] Yes!.... Oh Christ....aahhh, but, Will, she's been dead two years and that's the shit I remember. [Will stops laughing] Wonderful stuff, you know, little things like that. Ah, but, those are the things I miss the most. The little idiosyncrasies that only I knew about. That's what made her my wife. Oh, and she had the goods on me, too; she knew all my little peccadillos. People call these things imperfections, but they're not — aw that's the good stuff. And then we get to choose who we let into our weird little worlds. You're not perfect, sport. And let me save you the suspense. This girl you met, she isn't perfect either. But the question is: whether or not you're perfect for each other. That's the whole deal. That's what intimacy is all about. Now you can know everything in the world, sport, but the only way you're findin' out that one is by givin' it a shot. You certainly won't learn from an old fucker like me. Even if I did know, I wouldn't tell a pissant like you.
 * Will: Why not? You told me every other fuckin' thing. Jesus Christ. Fuckin' talk more than any shrink I ever seen in my life.
 * Sean: I teach this shit, I didn't say I know how to do it.
 * Will: Yeah...You ever think about gettin' remarried?
 * Sean: My wife's dead.
 * Will: Hence the word: remarried.
 * Sean: She's dead.
 * Will: Yeah...Well, I think that's a super philosophy, Sean. I mean that way you could actually go through the rest of your life without ever really knowing anybody.
 * Sean: [smiles uncomfortably] Time's up.

 * Will: So, when did you know, like, that she was the one for you?
 * Sean: October 21st, 1975.
 * Will: Jesus Christ. You know the fuckin' date?
 * Sean: Oh yeah. Cus' it was game six of the World Series. Biggest game in Red Sox history.
 * Will: Yeah, sure.
 * Sean: My friends and I had, you know, slept out on the sidewalk all night to get tickets.
 * Will: You got tickets?
 * Sean: Yep. Day of the game. I was sittin' in a bar, waitin' for the game to start, and in walks this girl... Oh it was an amazing game, though. You know, bottom of the 8th Carbo ties it up at a 6-6. It went to 12. Bottom of the 12th, in stepped Carlton Fisk. Old Pudge. Steps up to the plate, you know, and he's got that weird stance.
 * Will: Yeah, yeah.
 * Sean: And BAM! He clocks it. High fly ball down the left field line! Thirty-five thousand people, on their feet, yellin' at the ball, but that's not because of Fisk. He's wavin' at the ball like a madman.
 * Will: Yeah, I've seen...
 * Sean: He's going, "Get over! Get over! Get OVER!" And then it HITS the foul pole. OH, he goes apeshit, and 35,000 fans, you know, they charge the field, you know?
 * Will: Yeah, and he's fuckin' bowlin' police out of the way!
 * Sean: Goin', "God! Get out of the way! Get 'em away!" Banging people...
 * Will: I can't fuckin' believe you had tickets to that fuckin' game!
 * Sean: Yeah!
 * Will: Did you rush the field?
 * Sean: No, I didn't rush the fuckin' field, I wasn't there.
 * Will: What?
 * Sean: No — I was in a bar havin' a drink with my future wife.
 * Will: You missed Pudge Fisk's homerun?
 * Sean: Oh yeah.
 * Will: To have a fuckin' drink with some lady you never met?
 * Sean: Yeah, but you shoulda seen her. She was a stunner.
 * Will: I don't care if Helen of Troy walks in the room, that's game six!
 * Sean: Oh, Helen of Troy...
 * Will: Oh my God, and who are these fuckin' friends of yours they let you get away with that?
 * Sean: Oh... They had to.
 * Will: W-w-w-what'd you say to them?
 * Sean: I just slid my ticket across the table and I said, "Sorry guys, I gotta see about a girl."
 * Will: I gotta go see about a girl?
 * Sean: Yeah.
 * Will: That's what you said? And they let you get away with that?
 * Sean: Oh yeah. They saw in my eyes that I meant it.
 * Will: You're kiddin' me.
 * Sean: No, I'm not kiddin' you, Will. That's why I'm not talkin' right now about some girl I saw at a bar twenty years ago and how I always regretted not going over and talking to her. I don't regret the 18 years I was married to Nancy. I don't regret the six years I had to give up counseling when she got sick. And I don't regret the last years when she got really sick. And I sure as hell don't regret missin' some damn game. That's regret.
 * [pause]
 * Will: Wow... [smiles] Woulda been nice to catch that game, though.
 * Sean: [shrugs sheepishly] I didn't know Pudge was gonna hit a homer!

 * Executive 1: Well, Will, I'm not exactly sure what you mean, we've already offered you a position..
 * Chuckie: Since this is obviously not my first time in such altercations, let me say this: [rubs thumb and fingers together, signifying cash] Look, we can do this the easy way or the hard way.
 * [The executives are silent]
 * Chuckie: At the current time I am looking at a number of different fields from which to disseminate which offer is most pursuant to my benefit. What do you want? What do I want? What does anybody want? Leniency.
 * Executive 1: I'm not sure--
 * Chuckie: --These circumstances are mitigated. Right now. They're mitigated. [throws his hands up]
 * Executive 1: Okay...
 * Chuckie: [pointing to one of the executives] He knows what I'm talking about. A retainer. Nobody in this town works without a retainer. You think you can find someone who does, you have my blessin'. But I think we all know that person isn't going to represent you as well as I can.
 * Executive 1: Will, our offer starts you at $84,000 a year, plus benefits.
 * Chuckie: [singing] Retainer... [softly] retainer.
 * Executive: You want us to give you cash right now?
 * Chuckie: Whoa-oh-oh... ea--now I didn't say that. Allegedly, your situation — for you — would be concurrently improved if I had $200 in my back pocket right now.
 * [The executives exchange looks and go for their wallets.]
 * Executive 1: Well, I don't think I...Larry?
 * Executive 2: I've got, uh... $73.
 * Executive 1: Will you take a check?
 * Chuckie: [to Executive 1] Let me tell you something. You're suspect. [He stands, slowly approaches Executives.] Yeah, you. I don't know what your reputation is in this town, but after the shit you tried to pull today, you can bet I'll be looking into you. [Takes money off the table]. Now the business we have heretofore you can speak with my aforementioned attorney. Good day gentlemen, and until that day comes, keep your ear to the grindstone.

 * Skylar: Well, what aren't you scared of? You live in this safe little world where no one challenges you and you're scared shitless to do anything else but defend yourself because that would mean you'd hafta' change.
 * Will: Oh no. Don't, don't, don't tell me about my world. Don't tell me about my world! I mean you just wanna have your fling with like the guy from the other side of town. Then you're going to go off to Stanford, you're going to marry some rich prick who your parents will approve of and just sit around with the other trust fund babies and talk about how you went slumming too, once.
 * Skylar: Why are you saying this? What is your obsession with this money? My father died when I was 13 and I inherited this money. You don't think that every day I wake up and wish I could give it back? That I would give it back in a second if I could have one more day with him? But I can't, and that's my life and I deal with it. So don't put your shit on me when you're the one that's afraid.
 * Will: I'm afraid? What am I afraid of? What the fuck am I afraid of?
 * Skylar: You're afraid of me! You're afraid that I won't love you back! Fuck it, I wanna give it a shot! At least I'm honest with you.
 * Will: I'm not honest with you?
 * Skylar: No, what about your twelve brothers?
 * Will: All right.
 * Skylar: No. You're not going. You're not leaving.
 * Will: What do you want to know? What? That I don't have twelve brothers?
 * Skylar: Yes.
 * Will: That I'm a fuckin' orphan?
 * Skylar: Ye-
 * Will: No, you don't wanna hear that!
 * Skylar: I didn't know that.
 * Will: No, you don't wanna hear that.
 * Skylar: I didn't know it.
 * Will: You don't wanna hear that I had fuckin' cigarettes put out on me when I was a little kid.
 * Skylar: [crying] Oh...I didn't know that...
 * Will: That this isn't fuckin' surgery, that some motherfucker stabbed me. You don't wanna hear that shit, Skylar.
 * Skylar: I do wanna hear it.
 * Will: Don't tell me you want to hear that shit!
 * Skylar: I want to hear it because I want to help you. Because I want to--
 * Will: Help me?! What the fuck? What I got a fucking sign on my back that says "save me?"
 * Skylar: No.
 * Will: Do I look like I need that?
 * Skylar: No. God, I just want to be with you because I love you!
 * Will: Don't bullshit me. Don't bullshit me. Don't you fuckin' bullshit me!
 * Skylar: I love you. I wanna hear you say that you don't love me. Because if you say that, then I won't call you, and I won't be in your life...
 * Will: [pause] I don't love you.
 * [Will walks out, while Skylar cries]

 * Sean: You feel like you're alone, Will?
 * Will: [chuckles] What?
 * Sean: Do you have a soul mate?
 * Will: Define that.
 * Sean: Someone you can relate to.
 * Will: Chuckie.
 * Sean: No, Chuckie's family. He'd lie down in fuckin' traffic for you. I'm talking about someone who opens things up for you.
 * Will: Sure, I got plenty.
 * Sean: Well, name them.
 * Will: Shakespeare, Nietzsche, Frost, O'Connor, Kant, Pope, Locke...
 * Sean: Well that's great. They're all dead.
 * Will: Not to me, they're not.
 * Sean: You can't give back to them. You can't have a lot of dialogue with them.
 * Will: Not without some serious smelling salts and a heater. [laughs]
 * Sean: Yeah. Well, that's what I'm saying. You'll never have that kind of a relationship in a world where you're always afraid to take the first step because all you see is every negative thing ten miles down the road.

 * Will: What? You're going to take the professor's side on this?
 * Sean: Don't give me a line of shit. No.
 * Will: Look. I didn't want the job.
 * Sean: It's not about the job. I don't care if you work for the government. But you can do anything you want, you are bound by nothing. What are you passionate about? What do you want? I mean there are guys who work their entire lives laying brick so that their kids have a chance at the opportunities you have here.
 * Will: I didn't ask for this.
 * Sean: No. You were born with it. So, don't cop out behind "I didn't ask for this."
 * Will: What do you mean "cop out?" I mean, w-w-what's wrong with layin' brick?
 * Sean: Nothing.
 * Will: There's nothing wrong---That's some-- That's somebody's home I'm building.
 * Sean: Right. My dad laid brick. Okay? Busted his ass so I could have an education.
 * Will: Exactly. That's an honorable profession. What's wrong with...with fixing somebody's car. Someone can get to work the next day because of me. There's honor in that.
 * Sean: Yeah, there is, Will. There is honor in that. And there's honor in, you know, taking that forty minute train ride so those college kids come in the morning and the floors are clean and the wastebaskets are empty. That's real work.
 * Will: That's right.
 * Sean: Right. And that's honorable. I'm sure that's why you took that job, I mean, for the honor of it. I just have a little question here. You could be a janitor anywhere. Why did you work at the most prestigious technical college in the whole fuckin' world? And why did you sneak around at night and finish other people's formulas that only one or two people in the world could do, and then lie about it? Cuz' I don't see a lot of honor in that, Will.''' So, what do you really want to do?
 * Will: I wanna' be a shepherd.
 * Sean: Really.
 * Will: I wanna move up to Nashua get a nice little spread get some sheep and tend to them.
 * Sean: Maybe you should go do that.
 * Will: What?
 * Sean: You know, if you're going to jerk off, why don't you just do it at home with a moist towel?
 * Will: You're chuckin' me?
 * Sean: Yeah, get the fuck out.
 * Will: Hey, no, no, no. Time's not up, yet.
 * Sean: Yeah it is.
 * Will: I'm not leavin'. No!
 * Sean: Listen. You're not going to answer my questions, you're wasting my fuckin' time.
 * Will: What? I thought we were friends. Whaddaya mean you -
 * Sean: Playtime's over, okay?

 * Chuckie: So uh...when're you done with those meetin's?
 * Will: I think the week after I'm 21.
 * Chuckie: Yeah, they gunna' hook you up with a job, or what?
 * Will: Yeah. Fuckin' sit in a room and do long division for the next fifty years.
 * Chuckie: Eh..probably make some nice bank, though.
 * Will: I'm gonna be a fuckin' lab rat.
 * Chuckie: Better than this shit. It's a way outta' here.
 * Will: What do I want a way out of here for? I mean, I'm gunna fuckin' live here the rest of my life. You know, we'll be neighbors, you know, we'll have little kids fuckin' take 'em to little league together up at Foley field.
 * Chuckie: Look, you're my best friend, so don't take this the wrong way. In 20 years, if you're still livin' here, comin' over to my house to watch the Patriots games, still workin' construction, I'll fuckin' kill you. That's not a threat, that's a fact. I'll fuckin' kill you.
 * Will: What the fuck are you talkin' about?
 * Chuckie: Look, you got somethin' that none of us —
 * Will: Oh, come on! Why is it always this, I mean, "I fuckin' owe it to myself to do this or that?" What if I don't want to?
 * Chuckie: No. No, no, no. No, fuck you. You don't owe it to yourself. You owe it to me. 'Cause tomorrow I'm gonna wake up and I'll be 50. And I'll still be doing this shit. And that's all right, that's fine. I mean, you're sittin' on a winning lottery ticket and you're too much of a pussy to cash it in. And that's bullshit. `Cause I'd do anything to fuckin' have what you got. So would any of these fuckin' guys. It'd be an insult to us if you're still here in 20 years. Hanging around here is a fuckin' waste of your time.
 * Will: You don't know that.
 * Chuckie: I don't?
 * Will: No. You don't know that.
 * Chuckie: Oh, I don't know that? Let me tell you what I do know. Every day I come by your house and I pick you up. And we go out we have a few drinks and a few laughs, and it's great. You know what the best part of my day is? It's for about 10 seconds from when I pull up to the curb to when I get to your door. Because I think maybe I'll get up there and I'll knock on the door and you won't be there. No goodbye, no see you later, no nothin'. Just left. I don't know much, but I know that.

 * Gerry: This is a disaster, Sean. I brought you in here because I wanted you to help me with the boy, not to run him out.
 * Sean: I know what I'm doing with the boy.
 * Gerry: I don't care if you have a report on the boy. I don't care if you have a few laughs, even at my expense, but don't you dare undermine what I'm trying to do here.
 * Sean: "Undermine."
 * Gerry: This boy is at a fragile point right now—.
 * Sean: I do understand, he is at a fragile point right now, okay? He's got problems.
 * Gerry: Well, what problems does he have, Sean? That he's better off as a janitor? Better off in jail? Better off hanging out with a bunch of retarded gorillas?
 * Sean: Why do you think he does that, Gerry? Do you have any fuckin' clue why? Mm?
 * Gerry: He can handle the problems. He can handle the work, and he obviously handled you.
 * Sean: Gerry, listen to me, listen. Why is he hiding? Why doesn't he trust anybody? Because the first thing that happened to him, he was abandoned by the people who were supposed to love him the most.
 * Gerry: Oh, come on, don't give me that Freudian crap.
 * Sean: Listen, Gerry, and why does he hang out with those "retarded gorillas" as you called them? Because any one of them, if he asked them to, would take a fuckin' bat to your head, okay? That's called loyalty.
 * Gerry: Yeah, that's very touching.
 * Sean: And who's he handling? He pushes people away before they have a chance to leave him. It's a defense mechanism, alright? And, for 20 years, he's been alone because of that. And, if you push him right now, it's gonna be the same thing all over again, and I'm not gonna let that happen to him.
 * Gerry: Don't you do that, Sean.
 * Sean: What, Gerry?
 * Gerry: Don't you do that, don't infect him with the idea that it's okay to quit, that it's okay to be a failure, because it's not okay, Sean. If you're angry at me for being successful, for being what you could have been, Sean—.
 * Sean: I'm not angry at you, Gerry.
 * Gerry: Oh, yes you're angry at me, Sean. You resent me.
 * Will: [appears behind door]
 * Gerry: But I'm not gonna apologize for any success I've had. You're angry at me for doing what you could have done, but ask yourself, ask yourself if you want Will to feel that way. If you want him to feel like a failure.
 * Sean: Oh, you arrogant shit. That's why I don't come to the goddamn reunions: 'cause I can't stand that look in your eye, y'know? That condescending, embarrassed look.
 * Gerry: [under his breath] Oh, Sean.
 * Sean: You think I'm a failure. But I know who I am, and I'm proud of what I do. It was a conscious choice. I didn't fuck up! And you and your cronies think I'm some sort of pity case, you and your kiss-ass chorus following you around going [singing] "The Fields medal, the Fields medal!" Why are you still so fuckin' afraid of failure?
 * Gerry: [chuckles] It's about my medal, isn't it? Oh, God, I can go home and get it for you, you can have it.
 * Sean: Oh, please don't. Y'know what Gerry? Shove the medal up your fuckin' ass, alright? 'Cause I don't give a shit about your medal 'cause I knew you before you were a mathematical god, when you were pimple-faced and homesick and didn't know which side of the bed to piss on.
 * Gerry: Yeah, you were smarter than me then and you're smarter than me now, so don't blame me for how your life turned out, it's not my fault.
 * Sean: I don't blame you! It's not about you, you mathematical dick! It's about the boy! He's a good kid, and I won't see you fuck him up like you're trying to fuck up me right now. I won't see you make him feel like a failure, too!
 * Gerry: He won't be a failure, Sean!
 * Sean: But if you push him, Gerry, if you ride him—!
 * Gerry: Sean, I am what I am today because I was pushed, and because I learned to push myself.
 * Will: [opens door]
 * Sean: [yelling] He's not you, you get that?
 * [Sean and Gerry look at Will suddenly]
 * Will: I can... come back.
 * Gerry: No, come in. I was just leaving.

 * Will: [Sean is going through Will's profile. Inside we see are pictures of Will after brutal assaults by his foster parents] You ever have any, uh, experience with that?
 * Sean: Twenty years of counseling, I've seen some pretty awful shit.
 * Will: No. I mean, have you ever had any experience with that?
 * Sean: You mean, personally? Yeah. Yeah I have.
 * [Sean looks away for a moment]
 * Will: I'm sure it ain't good.
 * Sean: My father was an alcoholic. Mean fuckin' drunk. Used to come home hammered, looking to whale on someone. So I would provoke him, so he wouldn't go after my mother and little brother. Interesting nights were when he wore his rings...
 * Will: He used to just put a belt, a stick, and a wrench on the kitchen table and say, "Choose."
 * Sean: Well, I gotta go with the belt there, Vanna.
 * Will: I used to go with the wrench.
 * Sean: Why?
 * Will: Cause fuck him, that' why.
 * Sean: Your foster father?
 * Will: Yeah.
 * [pause]
 * Will: [looking at his file] So what does it say? Will has an attachment disorder? Fear of abandonment? Is that why I broke up with Skylar?
 * Sean: Didn't know you had. Wanna talk about it?
 * [Will shakes his head, stares off]
 * Sean: Will, you see this, all this shit?
 * [Holds up the file, and drops it on his desk]
 * Sean: It's not your fault.
 * Will: [Softly, still staring off] I know...
 * Sean: No you don't. It's not your fault.
 * Will: [Serious] I know.
 * Sean: No. Listen to me son. It's not your fault.
 * Will: I know that.
 * Sean: It's not your fault.
 * [Will is silent, eyes closed]
 * Sean: [steps closer] It's not your fault.
 * Will: [choking up] Don't fuck with me, Sean. Not you.
 * Sean: [steps even closer] It's not your fault.
 * [Will shoves Sean back, and then, hands trembling, buries his face in his hands. Will begins sobbing. Sean puts his hands on Will's shoulders, and Will grabs him and holds him close, crying]
 * Will: Oh my God! I'm so sorry! I'm so sorry Sean!
 * Sean: Fuck them, OK?

 * [Will and Sean hug at their last meeting]
 * Will: Hey, does this violate the uh...patient-doctor relationship?
 * Sean: Only if you grab my ass.

 * Will: [voiceover, in a letter to Sean] Dear Sean, tell the professor sorry about the job. I had to go see about a girl.
 * Sean: [chuckling] Son of a bitch! He stole my line!

Taglines

 * Wildly charismatic. Impossibly brilliant. Totally rebellious. For the first 20 years of his life, Will Hunting has called the shots. Now he's about to meet his match.
 * Some people can never believe in themselves, until someone believes in them.

About Good Will Hunting

 * Robin Williams: What drew me to the role just was the idea of a guy trying to give back, who hadn’t been practicing in a while. Here he is, a vet with a history, with a life, an intelligent guy who admits he’s not as brilliant as the kid but who is saying, You’re brilliant but you don’t know shit about certain things. That appealed to me deeply. What can you give a kid like that? The one thing you can give him is just saying, “I can only offer you a certain point of view.” It’s almost like going though rehab and just trying to say, I know who you are, I know who you think you are. Let’s try to get down to who you are. That’s why that scene by the swan boats is so kind of basic, saying: The only thing I have to offer you is my experience if I can help you. That’s what made it very powerful for me.
 * "Robin Williams on Good Will Hunting", Janelle Nanos, Boston Magazine, 2013/01/08.

Cast

 * Robin Williams - Sean Maguire
 * Matt Damon - Will Hunting
 * Ben Affleck - Chuckie Sullivan
 * Stellan Skarsgård - Gerald Lambeau
 * Minnie Driver - Skylar
 * Casey Affleck - Morgan O'Mally
 * Cole Hauser - Billy McBride

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I have heard...
I have heard that the following quote originated with Oliver Wendell Homles. I was wondering if this was true and if so from what publication? If this is his quote, I think it would be a great addition to his page.

Thanks!

"I wouldn't give a fig for the simplicity on this side of complexity; I would give my right arm for the simplicity on the far side of complexity."

 * Somebody suggested it might be his son that said this, but there was no verification for that given, so I reinserted it.Wolfkeeper 19:51, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

Actually, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. did say it, or something like it, in a letter to Sir Frederick Pollock in the 1930s.78.133.49.191 15:43, 11 February 2016 (UTC)

"The only simplicity for which I would give a straw is that which is on the other side of the complex — not that which never has divined it." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. "Holmes-Pollock Letters : The Correspondence of Mr. Justice Holmes and Sir Frederick Pollock, 1874-1932" (2nd ed., 1961), p. 109.

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 * "...the white man hates him [the Indian], and hunts him down like the wild beasts of the forest, and so the red-crayon sketch is rubbed out, and the canvas is ready for a picture of manhood a little more like God's own image." (Now sourced)
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 * What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

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User talk:Uncle G's 'bot~enwikiquote

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

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User:Uncle G's 'bot~enwikiquote

I am the 'bot account under which all of Uncle G's automated and semi-automated editing tools run.

I am not currently flagged as a 'bot. All of my edits are intentionally subject to the usual scrutiny of edits made by pseudonymous users.

The tools are written in C++, cmd.exe script, and REXX. No, they are not currently available to others.

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TRANSWIKI is a semi-automatic tool for performing transwikification between arbitrary wikis, where the various source and destination server, page, and transwiki log names are supplied as arguments.

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Randall Terry

Randall Terry (born 1959) is an American political and conservative religious activist and musician. He founded the pro-life organization Operation Rescue in 1987 and led the group for its first 10 years.

Quotes

 * I want you to just let a wave of intolerance wash over you. I want you to let a wave of hatred wash over you. Yes, hate is good. … Our goal is a Christian nation. We have a Biblical duty, we are called by God, to conquer this country. We don't want equal time. We don't want pluralism.
 * At an anti-abortion rally in Fort Wayne, Indiana; quoted by the Fort Wayne News Sentinel (1993-08-16)

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User talk:JerryFriedman

Re: Ernest Dowson cleanup
''Hi. I noticed that you marked the Ernest Dowson page, which I just started, as needing cleanup. If you tell me what the problems are, I'll fix it myself. Thanks, JerryFriedman 16:37, 18 August 2005 (UTC)''

 * Hi. You can look at Templates/People for how a person's quote page should look like. FYI, today we

launched Help:Starting a new page especially to help new wikiquote users see the formatting guidelines. Did you notice it? (If not, could you tell me where you did look?) I am asking all these questions because I am certain we do not manage to point people at the documentation we have efficiently enough, and I am hoping to improve it with your help. Thanks! ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 18:22, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

 * I started the page before looking at anything except other pages (and I didn't even look at the source). After I saw your cleanup tag, I looked around the Main Page, where I found Templates/People and used that.  I didn't notice Help:Starting a new page, but it looks like it might have been fun.  What I haven't found is guidelines for formatting, such as whether to use italics for book titles and quotation marks for story or poem titles.  Hope this helps.  And how do I determine whether the page no longer needs cleanup?  Can you check it?  —JerryFriedman 17:48, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

 * I performed a final cleanup and removed the tag - thanks for all your work. If you wish, you can see the changes I made to see the final formatting issues the page had. Thanks ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 20:00, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

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User talk:152.130.8.67

Trick Daddy Dollars quote
Someone using this IP address added a line from Trick Daddy Dollars to the new Lyrics article. I've moved it from the "Sourced" section to a new "Attributed" section, following Wikiquote guidelines, because there is no specific work cited (i.e., song title, preferably with the album first featuring it, if available). Not being familiar with this artist's works, I did some hunting through Trick Daddy and Trick Daddy Dollars lyrics, as well as Googling for the lyrics themselves, but could find no such line. Could the contributor add this information so we can consider it sourced? Thank you for your help. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 20:03, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:Dawn of the Dead

Merge edit history
This page was merged with Dawn of the Dead (2004). The latter article's edit history is: — Jeff Q (talk) 22:18, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
 * (cur) (last) 06:50, 7 August 2005 (UTC) 203.129.39.47
 * (cur) (last) 20:35, 2 August 2005 (UTC) UDScott (→External links)
 * (cur) (last) 16:41, 2 August 2005 (UTC) UDScott
 * (cur) (last) 16:24, 2 August 2005 (UTC) UDScott
 * (cur) (last) 15:42, 2 August 2005 (UTC) UDScott

VfD notice
This article was preserved after a vote for its deletion. See its archived VfD entry for details. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 22:19, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

Cleanup needed after merge
This article needs some cleanup after the merge I just performed, but I have never seen this movie (and don't want to), so I must leave it to those who care about it. First, I removed a number of links to Wikipedia to non-existent articles and fixed two that gave misleading information. One should always check each and every new or corrected link before saving any edit.

Also, there were several dialog sections in UDScott's version whose chronological order I could not determine, so I put them at the end of the dialog section. (This assumes that the dialog was arranged in chrono order in the first place, which I don't know.) I also assumed, in general, that when two sections of the same dialog conflicted, the text with the most "ums" and "urs" was more likely to be accurate, but this is no substitute for true accuracy.

Finally, some of the dialog I read while merging sounded rather inane, and I suspect it was included because it meant something to the plot. I'd like to advise editors that Wikiquote dialog quotes are not meant to feature plot highlights unless they are pithy in and of themselves. Just as Wikiquote can never expect to have as complete as collection of people quotes as a fan site dedicated to that person, we don't try to tell the story of a film through its dialog. Our primary interest is in quotes that we expect folks to want to repeat and pass on. Long tracts of dialog are usually an indication of someone trying to re-tell the story, and should be reviewed for possible trimming or deletion. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 22:21, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

Cleanup in progress
I removed a section of dialogue that I presume is from the 1978 film (none of the listed characters appears in the remake). Also deleted or trimmed down a number of quotes that were meaningless except as related to the film's plot; luckily (?) most of the offending material was contributed by me, so I didn't have to worry about offending anyone. Merged quotes have been placed in chronological order.

The quotes for CJ and other individual characters presented more of a problem. Most of them appear under the "Quotes" heading, but I didn't want to casually delete the efforts of another contributor. Finally opted to make some minor corrections, delete one CJ quote (a shouted 1-word profanity), and leave the rest alone.

--RPickman 05:23, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

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Texe Marrs

Texe Marrs (born 1944) is an American Texan preacher and conspiracy theorist.

Quotes

 * "As the above report and photos … indicate, foreign troops are now permanently stationed in our country... We must steel ourself [sic] for what may soon come. The dark clouds surely are gathering. We may not have much more time." (January 1997).

 * "Even our children are being stealthily indoctrinated into the new faith... The Mattel Toy Co. has introduced its new 'Goddess of the Sun' Barbie doll. Is this the Whore of Babylon spirit, alive and with us today?" (March 1997).

 * "Yes, you and I will continue to pay taxes for the maintenance and upkeep of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. But we no longer own it. Now, the UN has ultimate jurisdiction".

 * "The UN and its elitist masters don't want you on their property! And in case you do "trespass" and enter forbidden areas of these pristine UN lands, you might just be shot. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agents and park personnel are now taught to love nature's Mother Earth and to despise and loathe human beings. They are being given firearms and instructed to use them. Meanwhile, foreign immigrants from India, China, Pakistan, Bulgaria, Russia and other nations are being recruited for this national park service police duty because, unlike U.S. nationals, non-English speaking foreigners will not hesitate to carry out orders and shoot American citizen "intruders"." (June 1997).

 * "Is the NIV the Feminist Bible for the New Age?" (August 1997).

 * "To the Illuminati, this is a year for which they've long awaited -- the triple witching of the Beast year." (November 1997).

 * "Texe Marrs uncovers insider news the controlled media dare not report: … Hillary Clinton reveals family secret masquerading as a Christian and Gentile, she's actually Jewish and her grandmother was the Yiddish-speaking Della Rosenberg. Why is the First Lady only now telling the world she's a Jew?" (Secrets (Vol. 39)).

Secrets (Volume 133) 25:10 August 2007.
 * "Is Ron Paul a Bible-believing Christian that believes in the book of Genesis all the way to Revelation? I seriously doubt that, but compare him to these other clowns. Compare him to these other buffoons. Compare him to these other lying, blaspheming dogs. Am I a bad person for saying things like that? It's just true."

Secrets (Volume 133) 43:45 August 2007.
 * "Now let's get this straight. You're a pastor of a church supposedly or a bishop. A guy in your church is a big homosexual faggot, and he's a U.S. senator, but you know people might accuse you of meddling if you told him if that's a sin and that he's going to have to leave the church if he doesn't change."

 * "The goal of the Jewish Masonic elite is to establish dictatorial Illuministic Communism and to enslave all mankind under the thumb of a Jewish master race led by a world messiah who is to rule from Jerusalem."
 * "Masonic Jews Plot to Control World" from Conspiracy World (2010) {pg 179}.

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Mike Rosen

Mike Rosen (born 5 December 1944) is an American radio host and author. He is the host of Denver's most popular radio talk show on 850 KOA (AM) (Monday through Friday 9am to 11:45am) and a columnist for the Rocky Mountain News.

Quotes

 * Non-supply siders: Concern themselves with 'How to divide up a [fixed] pie'. Supply siders: Concern themselves with 'How to make a bigger pie.'
 * October 22, 1996 KOA Radio

 * Television is to news as a bumper sticker is to Shakespeare. I remember hearing an analogy once that went something like that. Your typical nightly, 35-minute TV news broadcast is a headline service with pictures. Five minutes of police-blotter reporting - fires, murders, car accidents, etc. - five minutes of human-interest stories and small talk, five minutes of weather, five minutes of sports, ten minutes of commercials, and maybe a minute or two for business, science, politics, and affairs of the world.
 * July 3, 1998 Denver Post column

 * We protect the right of pacifists and other anti-war militants to assemble and advance their cause. But I don’t respect such people and I don’t shrink from exposing their ideas as destructive and suicidal. Pacifists are my enemy because wittingly or not, they serve the purposes of my enemy and jeopardize my freedom.
 * October 5, 2001 Rocky Mountain News column

 * One of the hackneyed liberal complaints goes something like this: 'Bush is the first president in history to cut taxes during a war.' Nonsense. Bush didn’t cut taxes; he cut tax rates across the board - on income, dividends and capital gains. And that’s precisely why tax revenues have soared. When a department store wants to make more money, it doesn’t raise its prices, it cuts them and announces a big sale. If you want more work and investment, you hold a sale on economic activity by cutting tax rates, thereby reducing the cost of productive activity and increasing the prospect of after-tax returns on work and investment.
 * July 22, 2005 Rocky Mountain News column

 * I don't believe that [blacks in New Orleans immediately prior to Hurricane Katrina]couldn't afford a bus ticket out of New Orleans for a minute- they might not be able to drive out in a brand new Lincoln, but they could afford a bus ticket.
 * March 15, 2006 KOA radio

Rocky Mountain News column, 2000
Mike Rosen. Rocky Mountain News column, March 31, 2000

 * Conservatives believe in individual freedom and responsibility. Liberals believe in sacrificing individual freedom for socially desirable outcomes. Liberals believe that one of government's primary roles is social engineering.

 * Conservatives believe in limited government. Liberals believe in intrusive government when required to achieve societal needs. (Exception: social-issues conservatives advocate government intrusion on matters of abortion, drugs and pornography.)

 * Conservatives believe in free markets. Liberals believe in government controls and central planning.

 * Conservatives believe that some problems have no solution, that they can only be mitigated at best. Liberals believe that most every problem has a government solution.

 * Conservatives are concerned about the production of wealth. Liberals are concerned about the redistribution of it.

 * Conservatives believe in equality of opportunity. Liberals believe in equality of outcome.

 * Conservatives believe that human nature is what makes us imperfectible. Liberals believe that human nature can be changed and perfected.

 * Conservatives are nationalists. Liberals hope for world government.

 * Conservatives believe in peace through strength. Liberals believe in peace through cooperation and good will.

REALITY A Plain-Talk Guide to Economics, Politics, Government and Culture

 * Don’t tell me you are a moderate. Moderate is an adjective. It is a qualifier. You may be a moderate conservative, a moderate democrat, or a moderate drinker but it doesn’t tell me what you believe in. It’s not a philosophy. Unless all you believe in is moderation for the sake of moderation. Grow up! You can’t be a good egg all of your life. Someday you have to either hatch or rot.

 * Ideology is about ideas; politics is about winning elections.

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User:Daniel Mayer

w:en:user:maveric149 (sysop), meta:user:Daniel Mayer (sysop, steward), wikimedia:user:Daniel Mayer (Wikimedia CFO)

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User:Dale.Rogers

 * Texan living in Oz
 * Student of ANZSOG
 * Open Source nut - currently running ubuntu a debian derivative
 * Cyberanthropologist by training and passion

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Madame Nhu

Madame Nhu (April 15, 1924 – April 24, 2011), also known as Madame Ngô Đình Nhu and born Trần Lệ Xuân, was considered the First Lady of South Vietnam from 1955 to 1963. In 1943, she married Ngô Đình Nhu, and converted from Mahayana Buddhism to Roman Catholicism, her husband's religion. She was influential on government policy and, since her brother-in-law Ngô Đình Diệm was unmarried, was regarded as the "First Lady" of Vietnam. Madame Nhu was sometimes called the "Dragon Lady". She often caused controversy because of her strong anti-Buddhist, pro-Catholic ideology. On November 1, 1963 her brother-in-law and her husband were assassinated in a coup d'état led by General Dương Văn Minh with the understanding that the United States would not intervene. At that time she was in the United States. The military government of Vietnam under General Dương Văn Minh confiscated all of her family's property in Saigon and she was not allowed to return to South Vietnam. She lived in exile in Europe until her death.

Quotes

 * I believe all the devils in hell are against us but we will triumph eventually because we have the Devil on our side.
 * In response to Diệm and Nhu, assassination in a coup d’état led by General Dương Văn Minh (Armed Forces Council)

 * Any crime committed against the Ngo family cannot be hidden under the label of suicide. I affirm that suicide has always been considered incompatible with our religion.
 * Addressing the claim that President Ngo Dinh Diem and her husband Ngo Dinh Nhu committed suicide (3 November 1963)

 * Let them burn and we shall clap our hands.
 * p.216. Referring to the immolation of Buddhist monks including Thích Quảng Đức in 1963.

 * If one has no courage to denounce, if one bows to madness and stupidity, how can one ever hope to cope with the other wrongs of humanity exploited in the same fashion by Communists?
 * "Letters to the Times: Mrs. Nhu Defends Stand", The New York Times, 14 August 1963. Referring to the self-immolation of Buddhist monks protesting government actions.

 * I may shock some by saying 'I would beat such provocateurs ten times more if they wore monks robes,' and 'I would clap hands at seeing another monk barbecue show, for one can not be responsible for the madness of others.
 * Jones, Howard (2003). Death of a Generation: How the Assassinations of Diem and JFK Prolonged the Vietnam War. pp.292-293
 * "Letters to the Times: Mrs. Nhu Defends Stand", The New York Times, 14 August 1963. Referring to the self-immolation of Buddhist monks protesting government actions.

 * Whoever has the Americans as allies does not need any enemies.
 * Jones (2003) Death of a Generation p.407. November 2nd, 1963, following the assassination of her husband and brother-in-law.

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