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Jack White

Jack White (born John Anthony Gillis on July 9, 1975) is an American musician, producer, and occasional actor. He is most well known as the frontman of the band The White Stripes, though he has been in several bands and collaborated with various artists. On April 24, 2012, White released his debut solo album, Blunderbuss, which received wide critical acclaim. His second studio album, Lazaretto, was released on June 10, 2014.

2003

 * No. I know that's blasphemous when you are from Detroit.
 * On not being a fan of Motown
 * Scaggs, Austin (May 1, 2003), "Jack White". Rolling Stone.

 * It is the pursuit of happiness that brings us happiness, and not the happiness achieved.
 * A message he left on his website to his fans, dated September 18th, 2003

2004

 * It seemed like there was no control over it. I think certain things just popped. God was blessing us in telling us that certain things were going the way they were supposed to go.
 * Perry, Andrew (2004). "The White Stripes uncut" ObserverGuarduan.co.uk (accessed June 6, 2006)
 * On why 2004 was, up to that point, the best year of his life

2007

 * I'm always surprised when anything about the band connects. But I love the fact that it's hard for people to understand. We've said before that it's always been a great thing to get certain people to go away thinking, 'Oh dear, she can't play the drums!' 'Fine, if you think it's all a gimmick, go away!' It weeds out people who wouldn't care anyway.
 * On how they are able to "sell what is really an art concept" to a mass audience
 * Perry, Andrew (2004). "The White Stripes uncut" Observer Music Monthly (accessed June 19, 2007).

 * Frank Sinatra was dignified. We don't have a Frank Sinatra, or a Patti Page nowadays. What do we have? Ashlee Simpson instead of Patti Page! I mean, look at those people - like Paris Hilton! Who are all these skanks, man? Little girls are looking up to these girls, and it's so gross. Those girls have no dignity at all, and parents are letting their kids dress up like those skanks. But what else have they got? What are the other choices? Somebody had the nerve to ask me if I wanted to play guitar on Lindsay Lohan's album! She's another one of those 16-year-old actresses, and she's making an album! Like, 'NO!' Ha ha ha!
 * On why dignity and celebrity don't go hand in hand
 * Perry, Andrew (2004). "The White Stripes uncut" Observer Music Monthly (accessed June 19, 2007).

2009

 * I feel it, you felt it—we're all struggling with the trouble that this industry is in right now. And it's not about sales; it's about beauty and romance and a relationship to art that's turning invisible, and it's affecting people's perception of music. It's affecting whether they think of it as a viable art, because it's so fucking disposable. It's not about being modern or retro or a Luddite or being hopeful or pessimistic about the future; it's about clinging on to what makes sense of our lives, and what give our lives value, and what gives us a commonality and a feeling of belonging.
 * Aaron, Charles (June 2009), "Gang of 4". "Spin".

2010

 * I love him (Josh Homme) too much, and you can't hurt someone that you love that much ... unless you're family.
 * Rolling Stone video interview of The Dead Weather (beginning at 1:50) "The Dead Weather Muse on the Future of Music, Supergroup War", Rolling Stone, April 17, 2010. Retrieved on January 5, 2015.

 * I have three dads: my biological father, God and Bob Dylan.
 * From the article A Mysterious Case of the White Stripes from Rolling Stone Magazine.

 * Every time there's a list of the 100 greatest records of all time, all those albums were recorded in two days. Hardly any of them took a year, I'll tell you. In this day and age, I think it's important that people know that.
 * On why they recorded Elephant in two weeks
 * Perry, Andrew (2004). "The White Stripes uncut" Observer Music Monthly (accessed June 19, 2007).

 * At times, we [the White Stripes] almost ignore our own music. If we have the stage, we've gotta play Son House's music, because there's nobody to keep it alive. We don't wanna be known as the band that's conducting music instruction class. But that's all everyone talks about - why MTV's not good, why radio's not good. And the answer is really because whatever you want to call it - blues, country, folk - isn't around any more. That's why everyone's so mad, and I'm tired of it being my job to bring it back.
 * On why he tends to look to the past
 * Perry, Andrew (2004). "The White Stripes uncut" Observer Music Monthly (accessed June 19, 2007).

 * 'I'm excited by the band [White Stripes]. It really excites me. But it wouldn't excite me if there weren't those limitations, if we weren't living in that box, if we weren't trapped. Once that goes away, then I'll know that it's not worth doing it any more.'
 * Perry, Andrew (13 November 2004). "What's eating Jack?", The Observer. (accessed October 22, 2014)

 * Is this some kind of fucking radio promotion? What the fuck is this? Let me just say that if whatever said radio station tries to blacklist us for my comments about their balloons, I would like them to know I want a written apology tomorrow for interrupting my song.
 * AT The Greek Theatre in Berkeley, California after some balloons bearing a radio station's logo floated on stage.
 * Chonin, Neva (2005). "White Stripes huge but not bloated" SFGate.com (accessed June 19, 2007)

 * You can't do better than that.
 * On being hugged by Pope John Paul II during the pontiff's visit to Detroit in 1987
 * Dolon, John (July 2007), "The White Stripes: New Jack City" Blender Volume unknown: pp. 109

 * Well that's a polite thing to say but that's fucking ridiculous.
 * White's thought when his neighbor and mentor, Brian Muldoon, predicted that White would one day "take his music somewhere"
 * Male, Andrew (July 2007). "The Mojo Interview", MOJO. (164):48

 * I tend to be that guy, you know? When me and four friends walk into a restaurant and nobody else talks to the host, I say, “Yeah, it’s a table for five.” I don’t want to be that guy; I wish someone else would say something. But it always ends up being me, and I hate what comes with that. There’s a lot of baggage—ego and narcissism—that comes with leadership. It’s difficult to cope with at times.
 * On being the drummer (not the frontman) of the band Dead Weather
 * "This is not a Spinal Tap". GQ magazine. (accessed 2009-07-15)

 * It'll sometimes hit me in the middle of a song, like, who do I think I am standing up here...playing.
 * On having a calling to stand on stage and perform to people—as a priest or as a musician
 * Marc Maron (June 8, 2012). "Jack White". WTF With Marc Maron. Season 2. Episode 289. 21:48 minutes in.

On 'gimmicks'

 * I saw a review of our new album, and it said, "Every single component of the White Stripes is a gigantic lie." What does that mean? Have I sat down and said I was born in Mississippi? No. Did I say I grew up on a plantation and learned how to play guitar from a blind man? I never said anything like that. It's funny that people think me and Meg sit up late at night, in front of a gas lamp, and come up with these intricate lies to trick people.
 * From the article White on White from Rolling Stone Magazine

 * I'm not saying I came up with anything [laughs]. It's like people thinking we would be more real if we went onstage in jeans and T-shirts. How ignorant is that, to think that because they don't wear a suit onstage that someone is giving you the real deal? People do come and see us and think, "Look at all these gimmicks." Go ahead, man. Go ahead and think that.
 * From the article White on White from Rolling Stone Magazine
 * In response to a question about his relationship with Meg being false

About

 * I see him becoming one of the greatest record producers there is.
 * Loretta Lynn, after working with White on her album Van Lear Rose
 * Male, Andrew (July 2007). "The Mojo Interview", MOJO. (164):48

 * Jack is the showman—the brassy frontman and the snake-oil trader.
 * The Edge, from U2 "This is not a Spinal Tap". GQ magazine. (accessed 2009-07-15)

 * I would love to be Jack White — or maybe I want the people who like Jack White to also like me. But I”m the guy who writes beautiful music at 85 beat per minute.
 * John Mayer
 * Eells, Josh (June 21, 2012). "John Mayers Regrets." Rolling Stone. 1159:48-53

 * I wasn’t prepared. He had a big Mercedes, with a custom sound system, and he drove like hell through Nashville traffic, with Slim Harpo at defcon 1 volume.
 * Ry Cooder, music producer
 * Wilkinson, Alec (March 13, 2017), "JACK WHITE’S INFINITE IMAGINATION". The New Yorker. Retrieved March 6, 2017.

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Catwoman (film)

Catwoman is a 2004 American film inspired by the DC Comics character of the same name. This film is released theaters July 23, 2004 in United States.
 * Directed by Pitof. Written by John Brancato, Michael Ferris and John Rogers.

CATch Her In IMAX (taglines)

Laurel Hedare

 * You're just a scared little girl playing dress-up.

Dialogue

 * George Hedare: What the hell is wrong with you, Phillips?! You... never... delivered the design! You do not in fact even know where they are and you do not know where they are because, and I quote you, you “cannot remember!” Your incompetence is staggering!
 * Patience Phillips: Huh?
 * George Hedare: Are you even listening to me?
 * Patience Phillips: Uh-uh.
 * [George sees Patience's picture of him she drew as a devil; crumbles it up; begins to walk away]
 * Patience Phillips: I'm sorry!
 * George Hedare: “Sorry?” Sorry's not nearly enough.
 * Patience Phillips: [demeanour suddenly changes] Okay. Then let me try the remix. I'm sorry for every second I wasted working for an untalented, unethical egomaniac like you!
 * George Hedare: Clean out your cubicle. You are fired! [He exits]
 * Patience Phillips: Wait, Mr. Hedare! I didn't mean it...Did I?
 * Sally: My hero.
 * [Everyone applauds]

 * [Deleted scene]
 * Laurel Hedare: You ask me, I think you look fabulous.
 * Patience Phillips: Well, maybe, he is right.
 * Laurel Hedare: Making people feel small is his game. You can't win. You got to refuse to play.
 * Patience Phillips: But, I thought I knew what he wanted.
 * Laurel Hedare: Don't feel bad, honey. So did I.

 * Detective Tom Lone: Being good is something you keep in your heart because you choose to put it there. I'm not saying it's easy. I'm not saying that some people don't choose to be bad, but I want something different for you. I want something better. You understand?
 * Kids: Yeah.
 * Girl: Can I see your gun?
 * Detective Tom Lone: No! You know what makes somebody—
 * Boy: Will you shoot it?
 * Detective Tom Lone: No! I want you to be the good guys, you got it?
 * Kids: Yeah!
 * Detective Tom Lone: Let's go shoot some hoops!

 * Laurel Hedare: How do I get in touch with you?
 * Catwoman: Well, I'm not exactly listed.

 * Laurel Hedare: Game over!
 * Catwoman: Guess what? It's overtime!

Taglines

 * CATch Her In IMAX

Cast

 * Halle Berry - Patience Phillips/Catwoman
 * Benjamin Bratt - Tom Lone
 * Sharon Stone - Laurel Hedare
 * Lambert Wilson - George Hedare

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Alan Greenspan

Alan Greenspan (born March 6, 1926) is an American economist who served as Chairman of the Federal Reserve of the United States from 1987 to 2006. He currently works as a private adviser and provides consulting for firms through his company, Greenspan Associates LLC. First appointed Federal Reserve chairman by President Ronald Reagan in August 1987, he was reappointed at successive four-year intervals until retiring on January 31, 2006 after the second-longest tenure in the position.

1950–60s

 * Once stock prices reach the point at which it is hard to value them by logical methodology, stocks will be bought as they were in the late 1920s not for investment but to be unloaded at a still higher price. The ensuing break could be disastrous because panic psychology cannot be summarily altered or reversed by easing money policies.
 * Greenspan in 1959..

 * The world of antitrust is reminiscent of Alice’s Wonderland: everything seemingly is, yet apparently isn’t, simultaneously. It is a world in which competition is lauded as the basic axiom and guiding principle, yet "too much" competition is condemned as "cutthroat." It is a world in which actions designed to limit competition are branded as criminal when taken by businessmen, yet praised as "enlightened" when initiated by the government. It is a world in which the law is so vague that businessmen have no way of knowing whether specific actions will be declared illegal until they hear the judge’s verdict—after the fact.
 * "Antitrust", essay at the National Association of Business Economists (25 September 1961); published in Rand, Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal.

 * Capitalism is based on self-interest and self-esteem; it holds integrity and trustworthiness as cardinal virtues and makes them pay off in the marketplace, thus demanding that men survive by means of virtue, not vices. It is this superlatively moral system that the welfare statists propose to improve upon by means of preventative law, snooping bureaucrats, and the chronic goad of fear.
 * The Assault on Integrity 1963

 * An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense—perhaps more clearly and subtly than many consistent defenders of laissez-faire—that gold and economic freedom are inseparable, that the gold standard is an instrument of laissez-faire and that each implies and requires the other.
 * Gold and Economic Freedom 1966

 * In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value. If there were, the government would have to make its holding illegal, as was done in the case of gold. If everyone decided, for example, to convert all his bank deposits to silver or copper or any other good, and thereafter declined to accept checks as payment for goods, bank deposits would lose their purchasing power and government-created bank credit would be worthless as a claim on goods. The financial policy of the welfare state requires that there be no way for the owners of wealth to protect themselves.
 * This is the shabby secret of the welfare statists' tirades against gold. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights. If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists' antagonism toward the gold standard.
 * Gold and Economic Freedom 1966

1970s

 * We are obviously all hurt by inflation. Everybody is hurt by inflation. If you really wanted to examine who percentage-wise is hurt the most in their incomes, it is the Wall Street brokers. I mean their incomes have gone down the most.
 * At a conference on inflation, Washington, D.C. (September 19, 1974). In Report of the Health, Education, and Welfare, Income Security, Social Services Conference on Inflation (1974), pp. 804–5.

1980s

 * Since becoming a central banker, I have learned to mumble with great incoherence. If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
 * Speaking to a Senate Committee in 1987, as quoted in the Guardian Weekly, November 4, 2005.

 * I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I said.
 * 1988 speech, as quoted in The New York Times, October 28, 2005.
 * Sometimes misquoted as: "If I have made myself clear, I've misspoken."

1990s

 * Clearly, sustained low inflation implies less uncertainty about the future, and lower risk premiums imply higher prices of stocks and other earning assets.… But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade?
 * Francis Boyer Lecture of The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, Washington, D.C., December 5, 1996.

 * For some, the benign inflation outcome of 1996 might be considered surprising, as resource utilization rates--particularly of labor--were in the neighborhood of those that historically have been associated with building inflation pressures. To be sure, an acceleration in nominal labor compensation, especially its wage component, became evident over the past year. But the rate of pay increase still was markedly less than historical relationships with labor market conditions would have predicted. Atypical restraint on compensation increases has been evident for a few years now and appears to be mainly the consequence of greater worker insecurity. In 1991, at the bottom of the recession, a survey of workers at large firms by International Survey Research Corporation indicated that 25 percent feared being laid off. In 1996, despite the sharply lower unemployment rate and the tighter labor market, the same survey organization found that 46 percent were fearful of a job layoff.
 * The reluctance of workers to leave their jobs to seek other employment as the labor market tightened has provided further evidence of such concern, as has the tendency toward longer labor union contracts. For many decades, contracts rarely exceeded three years. Today, one can point to five- and six-year contracts--contracts that are commonly characterized by an emphasis on job security and that involve only modest wage increases. The low level of work stoppages of recent years also attests to concern about job security.

 * Thus, the willingness of workers in recent years to trade off smaller increases in wages for greater job security seems to be reasonably well documented.

 * Testimony Before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, U.S. Senate February 26, 1997

 * Nor can private counterparties restrict supplies of gold, another commodity whose derivatives are often traded over-the-counter, where central banks stand ready to lease gold in increasing quantities should the price rise.
 * Testimony Before the Committee on Banking and Financial Services, U.S. House of Representatives July 24, 1998.

 * The reason there is very little support for the gold standard is the consequences of those types of market adjustments are not considered to be appropriate in the 20th and 21st century. I am one of the rare people who have still some nostalgic view about the old gold standard, as you know, but I must tell you, I am in a very small minority among my colleagues on that issue.
 * Speaking to a Hearing before the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Financial Services in 7/22/1998

2000s

 * It hardly makes any difference who will be the next president. The world is governed by market forces.
 * when asked by the Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger who, in his view, would be the next president of the United States

 * Intensive research in recent years into the sources of economic growth among both developing and developed nations generally point to a number of important factors: the state of knowledge and skill of a population; the degree of control over indigenous natural resources; the quality of a country's legal system, particularly a strong commitment to a rule of law and protection of property rights; and yes, the extent of a country's openness to trade with the rest of the world. For the United States, arguably the most important factor is the type of rule of law under which economic activity takes place. When asked abroad why the United States has become the most prosperous large economy in the world, I respond, with only mild exaggeration, that our forefathers wrote a constitution and set in motion a system of laws that protects individual rights, especially the right to own property. Nonetheless, the degree of state protection is sometimes in dispute. But by and large, secure property rights are almost universally accepted by Americans as a critical pillar of our economy. While the right of property in the abstract is generally uncontested in all societies embracing democratic market capitalism, different degrees of property protection do apparently foster different economic incentives and outcomes.
 * Alan Greenspan (2004) The critical role of education in the nation's economy.

 * American consumers might benefit if lenders provided greater mortgage product alternatives to the traditional fixed-rate mortgage.
 * February 2004, in a speech praising the benefits of adjustable-rate mortgages.

 * Rising interest rates have been advertised for so long and in so many places that anyone who has not appropriately hedged this position by now obviously is desirous of losing money.
 * November 2004 in a speech in Frankfurt.

 * While local economies may experience significant price imbalances, a national severe price distortion seems most unlikely in the United States, given its size and diversity.
 * October 19, 2004, playing down the threat of a national housing bubble.

 * Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it's pretty clear that it's an unsustainable underlying pattern.
 * May 2005, Greenspan said in a speech that he did not believe there was a national housing bubble similar to the bubble in the stock market. But he said there was "froth" in housing and he called the pace of housing price increases unsustainable.

 * A decline in the national housing price level would need to be substantial to trigger a significant rise in foreclosures, because the vast majority of homeowners have built up substantial equity in their homes despite large mortgage-market financed withdrawals of home equity in recent years.
 * July 2005, in testimony to the House Financial Services Committee.

 * [There are] signs of froth in some local markets where home prices seem to have risen to unsustainable levels.
 * July 2005, in testimony to the House Financial Services Committee.

 * That said, there can be little doubt that exceptionally low interest rates on ten-year Treasury notes, and hence on home mortgages, have been a major factor in the recent surge of homebuilding and home turnover, and especially in the steep climb in home prices. Although a 'bubble' in home prices for the nation as a whole does not appear likely, there do appear to be, at a minimum, signs of froth in some local markets where home prices seem to have risen to unsustainable levels.
 * Greenspan on June 9, 2005.

 * The resolution of our current account deficit and household debt burdens does not strike me as overly worrisome, but that is certainly not the case for our fiscal deficit, which, according to the Congressional Budget Office, will rise significantly as the baby boomers start to retire in 2008. Our fiscal prospects are, in my judgment, a significant obstacle to long-term stability because the budget deficit is not readily subject to correction by market forces that stabilize other imbalances.
 * March 10, 2005.

 * History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
 * At a symposium sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, August 26, 2005.

 * If you get beyond the political rhetoric [and assembled a group to solve Social Security] it would take them 15 minutes. It would take them 15 minutes only because 10 minutes was used for pleasantries.
 * Speech to the Commercial Finance Association on October 26, 2006, as reported by the Associated Press ("Finally, Greenspan can speak his mind").

 * I was aware that the loosening of mortgage credit terms for subprime borrowers increased financial risk. But I believed then, as now, that the benefits of broadened home ownership are worth the risk.
 * September 2007, Greenspan's memoir The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in the New World.

 * I really didn't get it until very late in 2005 and 2006.
 * Reuters (13 September 2007), "Greenspan says didn't see subprime storm brewing".

 * We had a bubble in housing.
 * The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer (18 September 2007), "Alan Greenspan Interview with Jim Lehrer".

 * Well, first of all, the Federal Reserve is an independent agency, and that means, basically, that there is no other agency of government which can overrule actions that we take. So long as that is in place and there is no evidence that the administration or the Congress or anybody else is requesting that we do things other than what we think is the appropriate thing, then what the relationships are don't, frankly, matter. And I've had very good relationships with presidents.
 * The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer (18 September 2007), "Alan Greenspan Interview with Jim Lehrer".

 * I think Bill Clinton was the best Republican president we've had in a while.
 * As quoted in Meet The Press (23 September 2007).

 * Cash is available and we should use that in larger amounts, as is necessary, to solve the problems of the stress of this.
 * December 2007, in an interview Sunday on ABC's This Week. Greenspan suggested the government should boost support to homeowners facing the prospect of losing their homes because their mortgages are resetting to higher interest rates.

 * Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholder's equity – myself especially – are in a state of shocked disbelief.
 * cited in: Quotes of 2008: 'We are in a state of shocked disbelief', Jan 01, 2009.

 * Yes, I’ve found a flaw. I don’t know how significant or permanent it is. But I’ve been very distressed by that fact.
 * Referring to his free-market ideology, when asked in 2008 by Representative Henry Waxman of the House Oversight Committee, “You had the authority to prevent irresponsible lending practices that led to the subprime mortgage crisis. You were advised to do so by many others. Do you feel that your ideology pushed you to make decisions that you wish you had not made?”

The Age of Turbulence (2008)

 * The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.
 * "Introduction" p. 17.

 * Modern dynamic economies do not stay still long enough to allow for an accurate reading of their underlying structures.
 * Chapter One, "City Kid", p. 36.

 * It did not go without notice that Ayn Rand stood beside me as I took the oath of office in the presence of President Ford in the Oval Office. Ayn Rand and I remained close until she died in 1982, and I'm grateful for the influence she had on my life. I was intellectually limited until I met her.
 * Chapter Two, "The Making of an Economist", p. 52.

 * It's hard to overemphasize how important Ford's deregulation was. True, most of the benefits took years to unfold-rail freight rates, for example hardly budged at first. Yet deregulation set the stage for an enormous wave of creative destruction in the 1980s:...
 * Chapter Three, "Economics Meets Politics", p. 72.

 * Treasury Secretary Brady didn't like the Fed either. He and the president were friends and had a lot in common-both were wealthy, Yale educated patricians and members of Skull and Bones.
 * Chapter Five, "Black Monday", p. 119.

 * We generally did not talk about the stock market very much at the Fed.
 * Chapter Eight, "Irrational Exuberance", p. 165.

 * Of course, shedding the debt burden would be a happy development for our country, but it would nevertheless pose a big dilemma for the Fed. Our primary lever of monetary policy was buying and selling treasury securities-Uncle Sam's IOU's. But as the debt was paid down, those securities would grow scarce, leaving the Fed in need of a new set of assets to effect monetary policy.
 * Chapter Ten, "Downturn", p. 214.

 * I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.
 * Chapter Ten, "Downturn", p. 218.

 * Globalization was exerting a dis-inflationary impact.
 * Chapter Eleven, "The Nation Challenged", p. 228.

 * When trust is lost, a nation's ability to transact business is palpably undermined.
 * Chapter Twelve, "The Universals of Economic Growth", p. 256.

 * The Fabians laid the groundwork for modern social democracy, and their influence on the world would end up being at least as powerful as that of Marx.
 * Chapter Twelve, "The Universals of Economic Growth", p. 265.

 *  In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.
 * Chapter Thirteen, "The Modes of Capitalism", p. 275.

 * Over the years I have had the most contact with Lee Kuan Yew, most recently in 2006, and have always found him impressive, even though we do not always see eye to eye. I met him first when he was George Shultz's guest at the famous (or infamous, depending on your perspective) Bohemian Grove, a male only bonding retreat among the redwoods of California.
 * Chapter Fifteen, "The Tigers and the Elephant", p. 312.

 * An area in which more rather than less government involvement is needed, in my judgment, is the rooting out of fraud. It is the bane of any market system.
 * Chapter Nineteen, "Globalization and Regulation", p. 375.

 * The probability of ten consecutive heads is 0.1 percent; thus, when you have millions of coin tossers, or investors, in the end there will be thousands of very successful practitioners of coin tossing, or stock picking.
 * Chapter Twenty-Five, "The Delphic Future", p. 465.

 * From the development of the textile loom two centuries ago to today's Internet, output per hour has increased fifty fold.
 * Chapter Twenty-Five, "The Delphic Future", p. 471.

 * Much of the securitization took the form of collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) with senior credit tranches certified by rating agencies as AAA. It was the failure to properly price such risky assets that characterized the crisis.
 * "Epilogue", p. 512.

2010s

 * We are going through a period with no precedent in American history.
 * quoted in "The Hand on the Lever" in The New Yorker (July 21, 2014) by Nicholas Lemann

Misattributed

 * I know you think you understand what you thought I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant
 * Attributed to Greenspan by Rupert Cornwell, "Alan Greenspan: The buck starts here", The Independent, 27 April 2003, citing an unspecified Capitol Hill hearing. However, as Ralph Keyes notes in The Quote Verifier (2006, p. 233), "This popular tongue twister gets attributed to the obfuscator du jour." The earliest known print attribution is to Robert McCloskey, U.S. State Department spokesman, by Marvin Kalb, CBS reporter, in TV Guide, 31 March 1984, citing an unspecified press briefing during the Vietnam war.
 * Earlier attributions include: "a high government official", Annual Report, North American Gas Tax Conference, Federation of Tax Administrators, 1967; Jerry Lewis (a sign pasted on the camera during a movie shoot), by Dick Kleiner, Hollywood Correspondent, Sumter Daily Item, Feb. 4, 1970; a sign on the desk of Suzanne Schroeder, collector of bureaucratic gobbledygook, AP wire story, Sarasota Herald-Tribune, July 3, 1973; Jack Nicklaus paraphrasing Richard Nixon, by Larry Dorman, The Palm Beach Post, Dec. 8, 1979; and "a Hollywood film director", by J.D. Douglas, The Third Way, 29 December 1977. Additionally, a thesis monograph by Michael David Katz, Georgia State University, 1973 is titled with the quote.
 * On the back of the first Stealers Wheel album, a very similar statement attributed to band member  Rod Coombes is found: "We know that you believe you understand what you think we said, but we are not sure you realize that what you heard is not what we meant." The album was released in 1972.
 * See Richard Nixon: "Now, when individuals read the entire transcript of the [March] 21st [1973] meeting, or hear the entire tape, where we discussed all these options, they may reach different interpretations, but I know what I meant, and I know also what I did"

Quotes About Greenspan

 * I got to know a lot of people on Wall Street. I used to tell then that Alan Greenspan was a musician. He was at Juilliard when I was there, a clarinet major, and he played in the Henry Jerome Band at the . After he became chairman of the Fed, Time had his picture on the cover, and inside they had a picture of him with the Edison Hotel band. One of the guys said, "I don't understand something. Why did Greenspan give up the music business, to become an economist?" "Very simple," I told him, "you should have heard him play the clarinet."
 * Marion Evans, in The Sound of Broadway Music: A Book of Orchestrators and Orchestrations (2009) by Steven Suskin

 * If you look at the speeches he gave just before he left the Fed, it's pretty much “After me - the Deluge. I'm getting out while my reputation's intact”.
 * Michael Hudson (9/17/07, BBC World Service "Quote of the Day").

 * If you want a simple model for predicting the unemployment rate in the United States over the next few years, here it is: It will be what Greenspan wants it to be, plus or minus a random error reflecting the fact that he is not quite God.
 * Paul Krugman (2/06/97, Slate)

 * Greenspan doesn't get out of bed before examining the political consequences.
 * Michael Lewis (2/05/04, Bloomberg News)

 * I would not only reappoint Mr. Greenspan -- if Mr. Greenspan should happen to die, God forbid -- I would do like was did in the movie, 'Weekend at Bernie's.' I'd prop him up and put a pair of dark glasses on him and keep him as long as we could.
 * Then presidential candidate John McCain (1999)

 * The most devoted member of (Ayn Rand's) inner circle was Alan Greenspan, former head of the US Federal Reserve. Among the essays he wrote for Rand were those published in a book he co-edited with her called Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal. Here, starkly explained, you'll find the philosophy he brought into government. There is no need for the regulation of business—even builders or Big Pharma—he argued, as 'the "greed" of the businessman or, more appropriately, his profit-seeking … is the unexcelled protector of the consumer.' As for bankers, their need to win the trust of their clients guarantees that they will act with honour and integrity. Unregulated capitalism, he maintains, is a 'superlatively moral system.'
 * George Monbiot, Paul Ryan’s Biggest Influence: 10 Things You Should Know About the Lunatic Ayn Rand, Jan Frel, AlterNet, (11 April 2018)

 * I sometimes say that Alan Greenspan overdosed on Ayn Rand when he was young. He thought that if an axe murder happened in a free market it was probably all for the best.
 * Charlie Munger, (quote at 3:14:33 of 4:28:07)

 * [He is] one of the biggest political hacks we have in Washington.
 * Harry Reid, March 2005.

 * Greenspan's reaction with regard to the stock-market bubble has caused two more bubbles to grow: a real-estate bubble and a consumer-debt bubble... History will judge him one of the worst Central Bankers ever.
 * Jim Rogers (22 October 2002).

 * In my view, Alan Greenspan will go down in history as one of the worst chairmen of the Federal Reserve. Future textbooks will refer to Greenspan as an example of how not to run a central bank. In order to underline the bipartisan support that Wall Street has in Congress, during his time of leadership at the Fed he was hailed not only by Republicans but also by most Democrats as "the Maestro." This, despite his extremely conservative views, which called for, among other reactionary policies, the elimination of the minimum wage. In 2000, at a House Financial Services Committee hearing on bank mergers, I asked Greenspan, "Aren't you concerned that with such a growing concentration of wealth, if one of these huge institutions fails it will have a horrendous impact on the national and global economy?" Greenspan replied, "No, I'm not. I believe that the general growth in large institutions has occurred in the context of an underlying structure of markets in which many of the larger risks are dramatically-I should say, fully-hedged." Greenspan could not have been more wrong. Yet after leaving the Fed, he was hired to advise some of the biggest banks and wealthiest hedge fund managers in the world.
 * Bernie Sanders Our Revolution (2016)

 * Greenspan kept an eye on such fluctuations as the sale of vacuum cleaners in Cleveland to, as they say, " get a precise idea about where the economy is going," and of course he micromanaged us into chaos.
 * Nasim Taleb, Antifragile - Things That Gain from Disorder, p. 126.

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Bear Bryant

Paul William "Bear" Bryant (September 11, 1913 – January 26, 1983) was an American college football coach who was named National Coach of the Year three times; in 1961, 1971 and 1973. The national coach of the year award was subsequently named the Paul "Bear" Bryant Award in his honor. He was best known as the head coach of the University of Alabama football team. During his 25-year tenure as Alabama's head coach, he amassed six national championships and thirteen conference championships. Upon his retirement in 1982, he held the record for the most wins (323) as a head coach in collegiate football history. Bryant was the Head Coach of Sports Illustrated's NCAA Football All-Century Team. In February 1983, Bryant was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Quotes

 * Recruiting is the one thing I hate. I won't do it unless my coaches tell me I've just got to. The whole process is kind of undignified for me and the young man.

 * I don't guess anybody would think much of what Joe did nowadays, including myself. But he was supposed to be a leader, so he had to live by the rules. It was the hardest thing I ever had to do, and it was to the greatest athlete I ever coached.
 * Speaking about Joe Namath, the star quarterback, being benched for an infraction before the 1963 final regular-season game against Miami and the Sugar Bowl.
 * Speaking about Joe Namath, the star quarterback, being benched for an infraction before the 1963 final regular-season game against Miami and the Sugar Bowl.

 * There's a lot of blood, sweat and guts between dreams and success.

Quotes attributed to Bryant

 * Cunningham did more for integration in Alabama in 60 minutes than Martin Luther King Jr.
 * African-American Sam "Bam" Cunningham led University of Southern California's integrated football team to a lopsided victory against Alabama's segregated team in 1970. Bryant integrated Alabama's team the next year.
 * African-American Sam "Bam" Cunningham led University of Southern California's integrated football team to a lopsided victory against Alabama's segregated team in 1970. Bryant integrated Alabama's team the next year.

Quotes about Bryant

 * And he [Bryant] was a smart enough man to know that all kinds of great football players from Alabama, some of whom just happened to be black and were not able to play for him because of the prevailing prejudice, in many cases young men who were on their way to the pros, and he knew as well that he had the law of the nation on his side now if he wanted to play them, and that only local prejudice kept him from recruiting them, and most important of all, he was the one man in all of Alabama who could go ahead and recruit them, and stand up to George Wallace, and bring the culture along with him. And for 13 years, when he could have made a great difference, he did very little and did not really dissent from the biases of the region.
 * Comment by Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Halberstam about Bryant's participation in racial segregation while coaching University of Alabama's football team.

 * there ain't no difference between politics and football. Bear Bryant had a quota of five blacks on his team. In NFL, until 15 or 20 years ago, everyone said a black couldn't be quarterback. Now if he can win, he can be the quarterback. It's not an issue any more.
 * James Meredith Interview with Jackson Free Press (2008)

 * His nickname was Bear. Now imagine a guy that can carry the nickname Bear.
 * Comment by Joe Namath on ESPN Classic's SportsCentury series

 * In many ways, American sports embody the best in our national character -- dedication, teamwork, honor and friendship. Paul "Bear" Bryant embodied football. The winner of more games than any other coach in history, Bear Bryant was a true American hero. A hard but beloved taskmaster he pushed ordinary people to perform extraordinary feats. Patriotic to the core, devoted to his players and inspired by a winning spirit that never quit, Bear Bryant gave his country the gift of a legend. In making the impossible seem easy, he lived what we all strive to be. February 23, 1983
 * Ronald Reagan's remarks when awarding 1983 Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously to Bryant. 1983 Presidential Medal of Freedom site url accessed on 12-11-2008

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Hi. I like stuff. I hate that my username is capitalized. I wear a green hardhat at work.

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John Rogers

John Rogers is a writer and a producer. Among other things, he was involved in writing the screenplay for the film Catwoman.

Quotes

 * I would put my pilot out on the Internet in a heartbeat. Want five more? Come buy the boxed set.

 * There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.
 * In an "Ephemera" blog post
 * This also appears in Ch. 10 of The Value of Nothing (2010) by Raj Patel, who later acknowledged it was a borrowed joke in "Citation Alert!" (21 January 2010) at rajpatel.org.

 * This...is why screenwriting pays so well. They don't pay me to write. I'd write for free. They pay me NOT to punch people in the neck.

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Talk:Bear Bryant

 * BD2412 T 16:39, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

Clean up
I started the clean up, more to come. FloNight♥♥♥ 08:29, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Quote about national championships as awarded by grocery stores
I'm searching for the source of this Bear Bryant attributed quote:

 * "It was basically the same thing that the late Bear Bryant once said - that even if a local grocery store were to name Alabama as national champions, the Crimson Tide would count it."
 * The Gadsden Times, January 6th 2005

Any help appreciated PK-WIKI (talk) 17:17, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

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User:Streyeder

I am currently a resident of Auburn, Alabama and attend Auburn University. I am studying for my BS in both Wireless Electrical Engineering and Electrical Engineering. Originally I am from Orange Beach, Alabama and plan to advance an article on such in the near future.

Articles I've initiated:
 * Bear Bryant

Planned Future Articles:
 * University of Alabama

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On the Verge

On the Verge (or The Geography of Yearning) is a play written by Eric Overmeyer. It makes extensive use of esoteric language and pop culture references from the late nineteenth century to 1955. The cast consist of three lady explorers and eight diverse beings they encounter on their travels, which include different times as well as different locations. The aforementioned eight characters are played by a single actor.

Quotes
"Perhaps the imagination is on the verge of recovering its rights." -André Breton (paraphrased by Eric Overmyer)

Mary
"Before I began my travels in the uncharted reaches of the world, an avuncular colleague took me aside. 'I have heard your peregrinations are impelled, in part, by scientific curiosity,' he said. 'Allow me to offer you some sage counsel. Always take measurements, young lady. And always take them from the adult male.'  Sound advice."

"English is the vehicle, and its engine is Empire."

"The civilizing mission of Woman is to reduce the amount of masculinity in the world. Not add to it by wearing trousers. The wearing of trousers - by women - leads inexorably to riding astride a horse. Instead of the modest sidesaddle."

"Ladies, shall we whack the bush?" (recurring quote)

"Comparatively dry. As jungles go, this one is almost arid. Oh, I have waded through swamps for hours on end, emerging at last with a frill of leeches around my neck like an astrakhan collar."

"The bane of my many travels in the tropics is a bland, mucilagenous paste called manioc, made from the forlorn and despicable cassava, a tuber of dubious provenance. A vile concoction, manioc tastes, in the best of recipes, like the bottom of a budgie's cage - and is more suited for masonry than human consumption. Manioc is the quintessential  native chop, occuring circumglobularly in the tropics. For those with a taste for prussic acid, manioc may be just your cup of tea."

"When worn by a brawny warrior with nothing - but red paint - and a necklace of leopard tails - a calico blouse - is really quite - fetching"

"I haven't a thing to wear. I wish I could wash. Oh, what is life without a loofah!"

"There are two sorts of folks in the world. Those you eat with, and those you drink with. Cannibals you drink with."

"There is nothing so fascinating as fire."

"One evening near dusk, as we were negotiating the treacherous Black Quicksands of Baluchistan, I slipped off solid ground, and found myself sinking into infinite bog. Fortunately, my sturdy skirt ballooned around me, held its shape, and kept me buoyant until assistance arrived. A few moments later, I lost half a dozen porters in the blink of an eye. Sucked under the sand, like that! Fooop! Poor men weren't wearing skirts."

"I never got over being called 'Sir.'"

"Baby yeti may have yeti cronies. I think prudence dictates we move on."

"'Mysticism and Mesmerism in Madagascar' was a paper I delivered to the Ladies       and Taboo Society of Annapolis. it was a sensation. I followed that with 'Tribadism in the Tropics' - which caused quite a stir. Rubbed several spectators the wrong way."

"At dawn and dusk, the essence of the jungle increases a hundredfold. The air becomes heavy with perfume. It throbs with unseen presence. A savage tapestry of squawks, cries, and caws presses upon one with an almost palpable pressure. A cacophonous echolalia - snarling, sinister menace - as though the sound of the jungle itself could tear one limb from limb."

Fanny
"Whenever I must palaver with pasha or poobah I don this tonsorial getup. And lay out a formal tea. It never fails to impress."

"There's a question mark after it. It's a question."

"Men can be soooo trying."

"A petticoat is the only thing for punji sticks. A good stiff petticoat is worth its weight in gold. (snorts) Trousers in the tropics."

"I introduced croquet to the headhunters of the headwaters of the Putamayo. The sport of kings. They loved it. Simply adored the game. Of course, I insisted they use only regulation wooden balls. I would accept no substitutes. The rascals were always batting their latest trophies about. I was strict. They respected me for that."

"Abominable snowman was on the menu when I was last at the Explorer's Club. But I suspect it was yak. They pride themselves on their Native Chop. I always have something outlandish. Thinking about the Explorer's Club whets my appetite. We must stop for refreshment. On my last visit, we had bear chops, buffalo hump, glacé bees' knees, and armadillo knuckles. Which I for one never suspected armadillos had. Followed by muckleshoots, sweet and sour zebra, wolverine surprise, porcupine quills à la Louis quatorze, locust liqueur, and the celebrated moose mousse."

"Manifest Destiny and the American Way are not spheres."

(on cream cheese) "Not cream and not cheese, but it's thick and rich and comes in tins."

"I once encountered the Masai. I said: Wow! Wow! Wow! "

"I no savvy, as they say out west in Indian Territory."

"Have you ever had manioc fritters?"

"Yes, Mary, there are two sorts of people in the world. There are cannibals - and there are lunch."

"Your mother warned me you were hermetic."

"I am convinced that the modern craze for anthropology is actually a subterranean sexual inflammation, flimsily got up as scientific curiosity."

"The interjection of song lyrics into otherwise civilized conversation is strictly prohibited."

(on Richard Nixon) "You know, he rather resembles an orangutan in a dinner jacket."

"I don't know about all of you, but I do have a sudden craving. A burning desire. Intense, painful longing. (pause) For 'Cool Whip'."

Alexandra
"The film, it's called, captures the image. Like honey. Insects in amber. Silver nitrate. I have no way of printing the images. That requires a laboratory. Which would have meant porters."

"I have seen wonders in the Himalayas. Magic. Mystery. In Ladakh, it was a quotidian trick for the lamas to raise their body temperature by mere mental exertion. Sheer dint of will. They would sleep all night in snowbanks. At dawn, they would douse themselves in freezing streams. Then, ice-blue and on the verge of extinction, they would sit lotus and meditate ferociously. Instantly, steam would sizzle off them in clouds, rising past their furrowed brows. In an hour, their robes would be dry as toast - and neatly pressed."

"In the blue shadow of Crystal Mountain, I watched a Bon shaman wrap himself in his black cape, fold himself thrice, become a giant origami crow, flap flap flap his wings, rise into the sky, and fly across the saffron moon."

"In Lhasa, on the bone-white hill of the Potala, before the lunar congregation of Buddhist alchemists, I saw the Dalai Lama himself transmute great buckets of gold coins. Into yak butter."

"Trousers, ladies, are the future!"

"Fantastic! A jeweled jungle! I am extruded! I mean ecstatic. Not extruded."

"I am delicious! I mean delirious. Not delicious."

"Why can't a jungle be more like a park?"

"Mary, it is soggy. It is saturated. I have fungi growing on my corset stays."

"Fanny, you make the gorge rise."

"Funny word, native. Assuming he is a native. Everyone is a native of somewhere, when you think about it. So I guess he must a native at that. Where are you a native, Mary?"

"You cannot resist the future. It is futile! You must embrace it with all your heart."

Alphonse
(note: Alphonse speaks with a German accent, and his part is written phonetically)

"Geography iz deztiny, ladies!"

"I haf not der foggiest notion vich vay Alsace-Lorraine iz. Schtraight up in der air, vy not, eh?"

"No! No! No! No eat! No eat! No eat Alphonse! No eat Alphonse! I am varningk you! I am schtringy! No eat Alphonse! Aaaaaiiiieeeeeeeeeeee!"

"No vay, José. I'm from right here at home. Dat vas him. Alphonse. Der von I ate. His uniform, his accent. His syntax. Zide effects. Occupational hazard. Hoppens everytime I eat schomevon."

"I should schtick to date bread. Delicious."

"Ja! I am a Free Mason! (pause) Or, radder, that little rascal Alphonse vas a Free Mason. Egxcuze me, ladies, I am, at der moment, a little confuzed."

Grover
"I'm just your grizz-a-ly bearm Fanny. What a snore, Fanny. You'll keep the leopards away."

"Don't be cross."

"Don't speculate on the future."

Yeti
"WHHHUUUWHHHAAAASNARP!"

"RASSRASSRASS!"

"LLLLLLLLUUUUUUUURRRRRRAAAAAAAEEECCCCCKOOO!"

Gorge Troll
"What have we here but travelers three Comin' cross the bridge to rap with me In Xanadu said Ka-u-ba-la Khan Hey there sweet things what 's going on?"

"This ain't Swahili, I gotta confess You hearin' more if you talkin' less."

"Castigate the way I talk - I'll agitate the way you walk!"

"Baksheesh-kabob, baby."

Mr. Coffee
"Modern times, Fanny, modern times."

"If you venture on into the future, you'll eventually come across something called a Xerox."

"[Grover] hurled himself off the top of a grain silo. Part of a gentle rain of brokers who fell from heaven that autumn all over the country."

"Grover was speculating on the commodities market. Blue sky ventures. You know. Futures."

Gus
"See you later alligator!"

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The Truman Show

The Truman Show is a 1998 movie starring Jim Carrey. Truman Burbank lives a very normal life, he has a good job and a loving wife. That is until a studio light falls from the sky just outside his house, Truman begins to suspect something is amiss. Although nothing could ever prepare him for the truth: his life is a show watched by millions.

 * It was directed by Peter Weir, and written by Andrew Niccol.

On the air, unaware. Taglines

Truman Burbank

 * Good morning, and in case I don't see ya: Good afternoon, good evening, and good night!
 * You can't get any further away, before you start coming back.
 * The early bird gathers no moss! The rolling stone catches the worm!
 * Somebody help me, I'm being spontaneous!
 * [Sailing away in the artificially roughened winds and seas] Is that the best you can do? You're gonna have to kill me! [sings] What do ya do with a drunken sailor? What do ya do with a drunken sailor? What do ya do with a drunken sailor ear-lye in the mor-nin'!
 * [to Meryl who is threatening him with a kitchen utensil] What are you gonna do? Slice me, dice me or peel me? There are so many choices.
 * [after startling two control room directors by seemingly talking to them, then easing their concerns by seeming to revert back to his eccentricity, whilst they look at their notes temporarily] That one's for free.
 * You never had a camera in my head!
 * [watching himself in the mirror in the bathroom] I here by proclaim this planet as Trumania of the Burbank Galaxy!
 * [After credits at end of movie] ,"I knew this show was fake from the start, it was my incredible acting that fooled everyone"

Christof

 * We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented, it's as simple as that.
 * If his was more than just a vague ambition, if he [Truman] was absolutely determined to discover the truth, there's no way we could prevent him.
 * Cue the sun!
 * That's our hero shot.
 * "I've given Truman the chance to lead a normal life. The world, the place you live in is the sick place. Seahaven is the way the world should be."
 * I am the creator... of a television show
 * [Christof looks in a monitor & sees Truman sailing on the sea] Where you going, Truman?

Marlon

 * [Speaking as an actor on the show.] It's all true. It’s all real. Nothing here is fake. Nothing you see on this show is fake. It’s merely controlled.
 * That's a whole lot of world for one man.
 * [holding a beer can close to the camera] Now that's a beer.
 * [looking at a sunset with Truman] That's the big guy... Quite a paintbrush he's got.
 * [on the bridge with Truman, being fed scripted lines by the show's director] And the last thing I would ever do is lie to you, Truman.

Dialogue

 * Marlon: Where the hell's Fiji? Near Florida?
 * Truman: [Pointing to golf ball] See here?
 * Marlon: Yeah.
 * Truman: This is us...[guides finger halfway around ball]
 * Truman: and all the way around here... Fiji. You can't get any further away before you start coming back.

 * Sylvia: Look at what you've done to him!
 * Christof: I have given Truman the chance to lead a normal life. The world, the place you live in, is the sick place. Seahaven is the way the world should be.

 * Truman: It was Dad. I swear! Dressed like a homeless man. And you know what else was strange? A business man and a woman with a little dog came out of nowhere and forced him onto a bus.
 * Truman's Mother: Well! It's about time they cleaned up the trash downtown before we become just like the rest of the country.

 * Network Executive: For God's sake, Chris! The whole world is watching. We can't just let him die in front of a live audience!
 * Christof: He was born in front of a live audience.

 * Truman: Lauren, right? It's on your book.
 * Lauren: Lauren. Right. Right.
 * Truman: Well, I'm Truman.
 * Lauren: Yeah. I know. Look, Truman, I'm not allowed to talk to you. You know.
 * Truman: Yeah, well, I can understand, I'm a pretty dangerous character.

 * [Truman attempts to leave town and a convoy of cars pull in front to prevent his exit]
 * Truman: Blocked at every turn. Beautifully synchronized, don't you agree?
 * Meryl: You're blaming me for the traffic?
 * Truman: Should I?
 * Meryl: Truman, let's go home.
 * Truman: You're right. We could be stuck here for hours. It could be like this all the way to Atlantic City. Let's go back. I'm sorry. I don't know what got into me.
 * Meryl: Truman, can you slow down?
 * Truman: Yes, I can.
 * Meryl: Truman. Truman, that's our turnoff.
 * Truman: I changed my mind. What's New Orleans like this time of year? Mardi Gras, woooooo! Ha ha ha ha ha! Hoo hoo hoo! Whoooohoo! Look, Meryl! Same road, no cars. It's magic! Hahaha!
 * Meryl: You let me out, Truman. You're not right in the head! You want to destroy yourself, you do it on your own!
 * Truman: I think I'd like a little company.

 * Young Truman: I want to be an explorer, like the Great Magellan.
 * Teacher: [indicating a map of the world] Oh, you're too late! There's nothing left to explore!

 * [Meryl is describing a product]
 * Truman: Who are you talking to?

 * Truman: [to an unseen Christof] Who are you?
 * Christof: [voice-over] I am The Creator - of a television show that gives hope and joy and inspiration to millions.
 * Truman: Then who am I?
 * Christof: You're the star.
 * Truman: Was nothing real?
 * Christof: You were real. That's what made you so good to watch.

 * [Truman is missing]
 * Network Executive: [hanging up a phone call] The sponsors are threatening to rip up their contracts!
 * Christof: [pointing at the "Technical fault... Please stand by..." graphic] Why? We're getting higher ratings for this graphic than we've ever had on this show.

 * [last lines]
 * Security Guard 1: You want another slice?
 * Security Guard 2: No, I'm OK.
 * Security Guard 1: What else is on?
 * Security Guard 2: Yeah, let's see what else is on.
 * Security Guard 1: Where's the TV guide?
 * [credits roll]

Taglines

 * On the air, unaware!
 * The World Is Watching...
 * How's it going to end?
 * The World is a Stage!

Cast

 * Jim Carrey — Truman Burbank
 * Laura Linney — Meryl, Truman's "wife"
 * Ed Harris — Christof, the creator of the show
 * Noah Emmerich — Marlon
 * Natascha McElhone — Lauren/Sylvia
 * Holland Taylor — Truman's "mother"
 * Brian Delate — Truman's "father"
 * Blair Slater — Young Truman
 * Peter Krause — Lawrence, Truman's boss
 * Heidi Schanz — Vivien
 * Ron Taylor — Ron
 * Don Taylor — Don
 * Ted Raymond — Spencer
 * Paul Giamatti — Control room director
 * Adam Tomei — Control room director
 * Harry Shearer — Mike Michaelson

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Dracula: Dead and Loving It

Dracula: Dead and Loving It is a 1995 film that is a parody of the novel Dracula, by Bram Stoker, and the various screen versions of the novel, particularly the Universal Studios classic starring Bela Lugosi.
 * ''Directed by Mel Brooks and written by Mel Brooks, Rudy De Luca, and Steve Haberman.

Count Dracula

 * [a bat poops on the stairs] Children of the night... what a mess they make!
 * [waking up from a bad dream] Oh, it's night-time. I was having... a daymare.
 * [after rising from his coffin and hitting his head on a chandelier] I must move the coffin. [pause] Or the chandelier.
 * [his last line] Renfield, you asshole!
 * [in a dream, at a picnic] I'm drinking wine, and I'm eating chicken!
 * [embarrassed after hearing Renfield and Lucy screaming from outside] Renfield, you idiot.

Thomas Renfield

 * [upon seeing two voluptuous brides of Dracula - one rubbing a table seductively, the other rubbing the bedpost seductively] My God! What are you doing to the furniture?
 * Yesss... MASSSTER!
 * [as the vampire women are seducing Renfield] No, this is wrong. This is wrong! This is wrong, you hear me? Wrong! This is ... Wrong me! Wrong me! Wrong my brains out!
 * I didn't see anything! I didn't see anything [guard locks door] I saw everything! [cackles]
 * [upon hearing Dr. Seward's instruction to the guard: "Take him back to his cell and give him a you-know-what!"] No! No! Not another enema!

Others

 * Dr. Seward: Would an enema help?
 * Jonathan Harker: [watching Mina's reflection in a mirror as she's dancing with Dracula, where it looks like she's dancing alone] She's doing quite well without him, isn't she?
 * Nurse: [Upon seeing the unconscious medical students on the floor] Well done, doctor! Ten out of ten!
 * Jonathan Harker: Oh yes, my dear. The Opera is astonishing. The music is fraught with love, hate, sensuality, and unbridled passion... all the things in my life that I've managed to suppress.

Dialogue

 * Lady at Picnic: Surely sir
 * Man at Picnic: Some wine sir?
 * Dracula: I never drink... wine... oh, what the hell. Let me try it.

 * Dr. Seward: Allow me to introduce Professor Abraham Van Helsing. He's a doctor of rare diseases as well as a man of theology and philosophy.
 * Van Helsing: And gynecology.
 * Dr. Seward: Oh, I didn't know you have your hand in that, too.

 * [Count Dracula meets up with Van Helsing]
 * Dracula: Van Helsing... a name that is famous even in Translyvania.
 * Van Helsing: Count Dracula... are you by any chance descended from Vlad Tepeş, the first Dracula?
 * Dr. Seward: Tepeş?
 * Van Helsing: Yah, it means "the Impaler". He used to inflict unspeakable tortures on the peasants; cutting off their hands and feet, gouging out their eyes, and then impaling them on iron spikes.
 * [beat]
 * Dracula: They had it coming!

 * [Van Helsing telling Dr. Seward and Jonathan Harker of Lucy's prognosis]
 * Van Helsing: What we are dealing with here is... a VAMPIRE!
 * Dr. Seward: Vampire?
 * Jonathan Harker: Vampire? What are you saying?
 * Van Helsing: I'm saying, vampire!
 * Dr. Seward: But professor, modern sciences don't admit to such a fanciful creature!
 * Van Helsing: Modern sciences pish posh! She has lost a great deal of blood, ja?
 * Jonathan Harker: Ja...
 * Van Helsing: Well look! [walks to Lucy's bedside] where did all the blood go? Look at the sheets, the pillowcase, her nightgown! Do you see anything? How does your modern science explain zhat? Can you explain zhat? Can you explain zhat?
 * Dr. Seward: I can't explain zhat.
 * Jonathan Harker: I can't explain zhat.
 * Van Helsing: NO ONE CAN EXPLAIN ZHAT!

 * Jonathan Harker: [Entering Lucy's crypt and seeing her body] Oh, God... she's dead now.
 * Van Helsing: No, she's not!
 * Jonathan Harker: She's alive?
 * Van Helsing: She's Nosferatu!
 * Jonathan Harker: She's Italian?

 * Renfield: Yes, I'm schh-eduled to meet Count Dracula.
 * Villager #1: [horrified] Dracula!
 * Villager #2: [horrified] Dracula!
 * Villager #3: [horrified] Dracula!
 * Villager #4: ...Schh-eduled?

 * Dracula: Renfield, you were having a nightmare.
 * Renfield: A nightmare? But it was so real, so vivid. Two voluptuous women, heaving and grinding. How to describe it? [pause] Have you ever been to Paris?

 * [Renfield is having breakfast with Dr. Seward. He sees a bug on the table and eats it]
 * Dr. Seward: I was just telling Ma—what was that?
 * Renfield: Huh?
 * Dr. Seward: You just grabbed something from the table.
 * Renfield: I did not.
 * Dr. Seward: Yes you did, I saw you, you put it in your mouth. I think it was an insect.
 * Renfield: [thinks of an alibi] Oh, that was a raspberry.
 * Dr. Seward: Raspberry? We're not serving raspberries.
 * Renfield: Then it must have been a raisin. I guess it fell off the muffin. See? There's one missing.
 * [The two men laugh. Renfield sees a spider coming towards him, and he quickly eats it up]
 * Dr. Seward: How silly of me! It must have been my imagin—there, you did it again!
 * Renfield: Huh?
 * Dr. Seward: You just put a bug in your mouth. I think it was a spider!
 * Renfield: I did not.
 * Dr. Seward: Yes, you did.
 * Renfield: I did not.
 * Dr. Seward: Yes, you did.
 * Renfield: I did not.
 * Dr. Seward: [shouts] I tell you I saw you snatch a spider right out of the air and eat it!
 * Renfield: A spider?
 * [Swallows the spider in his mouth]
 * Renfield: How absurd!
 * [A grasshopper jumps onto the patio. He intentionally throws his fork]
 * Renfield: Oh! Dropped my fork! [gets on all fours and scrambles under the table for the insect]
 * Dr. Seward: Mr. Renfield, what are you doing down there? This is most unseemly!
 * Renfield: Fork found! [Comes back up] Sorry for the delay.
 * [The grasshopper's leg is sticking out of Renfield's mouth, and wriggling about]
 * Dr. Seward: My God, man! You're eating insects right from the ground!
 * Renfield: ...What makes you say that?
 * Dr. Seward: I can see one trying to get out of your mouth!
 * Renfield: Out of my mouth?
 * Dr. Seward: Yes, out of your mouth! Your very own mouth and it's wriggling about!
 * Renfield: Don't be ridiculous! Wriggling!
 * Dr. Seward: I'm not ridiculous at all! It's wriggling all over the place! The poor thing, it's fighting for its life!
 * [Renfield eyes the grasshopper's leg, which has fallen from his mouth and quickly scoops it up]
 * Renfield: I don't know what you're talking about. If you insist on ranting like this, I'm going to leave!
 * Dr. Seward: Me, ranting? You're the ranter!
 * [Renfield spots a fly]
 * Renfield: [to the fly] Hello, little darling!
 * [Grabs the air in attempt to catch the fly]
 * Renfield: Don't be afraid!
 * [Laughs in a strange tone]
 * Renfield: I won't hurt you! All I want is your life!
 * [Renfield does a body slam across Dr. Seward's lap, and knocks everything off the table. Renfield is soon grabbed by two asylum attendants.]
 * Dr. Seward: That's it! Put him in a straight jacket and give him an enema! Wait! Wait, wait... Give him the enema FIRST. THEN put him in a straitjacket.

 * Lucy Westenra: I know you've always wanted me, and I've always wanted you. Finally we can be together.
 * Jonathan Harker: But Lucy, I'm engaged to Mina... and you're dead.
 * Lucy Westenra: I'm not dead. I'm undead.
 * Jonathan Harker: Yes, well, I'm not unengaged.
 * Lucy Westenra: Jonathan, let me kiss you...let me show you the deep, raw, passion of unbridled sexual frenzy...
 * Jonathan Harker: But, Lucy! I'm British!
 * [Lucy opens her cleavage a little]
 * Lucy Westenra: So are these!
 * Jonathan Harker: Lucy!

 * Jonathan Harker: [having just been told to drive a stake into Lucy] Oh, this is horrid. Is there no other way?
 * Van Helsing: Well, we could cut off her head, stuff her mouth with garlic, and tear off her ears.
 * Jonathan Harker: ...Give me the stake. No. No, I can't... you do it.
 * Van Helsing: It must be done by one who loved her in life.
 * Jonathan Harker: I only liked her!
 * Van Helsing: Close enough!
 * [Jonathan is about to stake Lucy's heart]
 * Van Helsing: One, two—WAIT! [Van Helsing slinks back behind a pillar] NOW!
 * [Jonathan drives a stake into Lucy's heart and is subsequently hit by many gallons of blood]
 * Jonathan Harker: Oh... my... GOD! There's so much blood!
 * Van Helsing: She just ate!
 * Jonathan Harker: Ah! She-she's still moving!
 * Van Helsing: Hit her again!
 * Jonathan Harker: Oh no... I can't...
 * Van Helsing: How much blood can she have left?
 * [Jonathan hits the stake again and is hit with even more blood than last time]
 * Van Helsing: She's almost dead!
 * Jonathan Harker: She's dead enough. Oh! This is - this is ghastly!
 * Van Helsing: Yes, you're right. We should have put newspapers down!

 * [after staking Lucy, Jonathan is drenched in blood, while Van Helsing is spotless]
 * Dr. Van Helsing: I have been to many, many stakings. You have to know where to stand.

 * [Dracula is hypnotizing a valet at the theatre where Doctor Seward is enjoying an opera]
 * Dracula: You will tell Doctor Seward there is a message for him in the lobby... and you will remember nothing of what I tell you.
 * ''[The valet nods her head, opens the curtain to Seward's chambers, and stands there with her mouth open for a few moments, then closes the curtain]
 * Valet: [noticing Dracula standing there] Hello, can I help you sir?
 * Dracula: [mimicking her] Can I help you sir? [normally] What is the matter with you, why did you not tell him?
 * Valet: About what?
 * Dracula: About the message!
 * Valet: For whom?
 * Dracula: Never mind! I will tell him myself. And for your miserable performance, you will receive no tip!
 * Valet: No tip?
 * Dracula: Ah! That, you remember!

 * [Dracula picks up Jonathan by the throat]
 * Dracula: Arrogant mortal! You are in my world now, and you will never leave this attic alive! I will destroy you, and then I will possess she whom you love the most. And there is not a single thing in the world you can do to stop me!
 * [Dracula laughs. Jonathan pokes him in the eyes and Dracula drops Jonathan]
 * Dracula: Ow!

 * Dr. Seward: Give him an enema.
 * [Attendant looks taken aback.]
 * Attendant: An enema, sir?.
 * Dr. Seward: Yes, it'll give him a feeling of accomplishment.

 * [Dracula is outside Mina's room]
 * Dracula: [to the maid] Essie... Essie... Your eyelids are growing heavy. You will sleep... sleep.
 * [Essie nods off to sleep]
 * Dracula: Mina... Mina, open your eyes!
 * [She does]
 * Dracula: Arise, Mina.
 * [She does]
 * Dracula: Walk to the door.
 * [Mina opens a door, and goes inside]
 * Dracula: Mina... you are in the closet. Open the door, and come out.
 * [She does]
 * Dracula: Now walk to the terrace door. Watch out for the foot...
 * [Mina trips over the footstool]
 * Dracula: ...Stool. Stand up.
 * [Essie and Mina both rise]
 * Dracula: Not you. Sit!
 * [Mina sits]
 * Dracula: No, not you, you sit.
 * [Essie sits]
 * Dracula: You stand.
 * [Both stand]
 * Dracula: No! Sit!
 * [Both sit]
 * Dracula: No, you stand!
 * [Both stand]
 * Dracula: You walk to the terrace door, and you go back to sleep! Watch out!
 * [Essie and Mina bump into one another and fall to the floor. Dracula throws his arms up in frustration]
 * Dracula: Wait there I am coming, Turn off the lights so no one will see me coming
 * [Dracula enters the house and exits the house, carrying a body]
 * Dracula: [carrying Essie out instead of Mina] You will be my bride throughout eternity. We'll share the endless passion of immortal love.
 * Essie: Oh I can't wait!
 * Dracula: [stares at her in surprise] NOT YOU!
 * Dracula: [takes her back inside and throws her on the floor, and carries Mina out, speaking and walking very fast] You will be my bride throughout eternity, we'll share the endless passion of immortal love!

 * Martin: [throwing Renfield back into his cell] You'll stay here 'til you rot!
 * [locks door]
 * [Renfield starts sobbing and Martin comes in a second later]
 * Martin: Well, you're free to go!
 * Renfield: Free to go? Why? How?
 * Martin: Good behavior.
 * Renfield: But I've only been in here for a moment.
 * Martin: Well, for that moment, your behavior was very good.
 * Renfield: uh...
 * Martin: Let's go. [hurling Renfield out of his cell]

 * Dr. Seward: Your master is gone forever Mr. Renfield. You are your own man now.
 * Renfield: I am...?
 * Dr. Seward: Yes. No one can ever control you again.
 * Renfield: [straightening up, smiling] You're right!
 * Dr. Seward: Good. Come, Renfield!
 * Renfield: [hunching down again, walking after Dr. Seward] Yes, master...!

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 * Man: [increasingly crazily] Renfield, I can't take it. Can you take it? The lights, the crazy faces staring at me. I'm telling you the walls are closing in on me! I've got to get out of here!
 * Martin: Guard! Get back to work!

Cast

 * Leslie Nielsen - Count Dracula
 * Peter MacNicol - R.M. Renfield
 * Steven Weber - Jonathan Harker
 * Amy Yasbeck - Mina Murray
 * Mel Brooks - Dr. Abraham Van Helsing
 * Lysette Anthony - Lucy Westenra
 * Harvey Korman - Dr. Jack Seward

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Rats

Rats are various medium-sized, long-tailed rodents of the superfamily Muroidea. "True rats" are members of the genus Rattus, the most important of which to humans are the black rat, Rattus rattus, and the brown rat, Rattus norvegicus. Many members of other rodent genera and families are also referred to as rats, and share many characteristics with true rats.

Quotes

 * [city laws were] designed to penalize homeowners for failing to take steps to prevent and control rodents
 * Mayor Eric Adams, Fined For Rats on His Property, Takes on City Hall (William K. Rashbaum and Dana Rubinstein Dec. 6, 2022)

 * There are so many different roles that the rat plays in human life. When it is an object of admiration it is usually in, say, the show cage at an exhibition, or in a laboratory cage (where is has often been described as a hero/heroine or martyr to science). In the wild, or in the margins of human life, the rat is commonly loathed, the object of vermin control. Either way, one could say that it loses.
 * Rat by Jonathan Burt

 * Rats and mice are not generally regarded as pets, but as pests; they have few defenders. Yet the pain a rat or a mouse feels is every bit as real as that of any pet. In laboratories, they suffer, as anybody who has heard them moan, cry, whimper and even scream knows. The experimenters dissimulate about this by insisting that they are merely vocalising.
 * Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson and Susan McCarthy, When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals (London: Vintage, 1996. ISBN 0-09-947891-9, Conclusion, p. 217.

 * How now? a rat? Dead, for a ducat, dead!
 * William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act III, 4

authors: মোহাম্মদ জনি হোসেন

title: Rats


text:
Showgirls

Showgirls is a 1995 French-American erotic drama film about a "street-smart" drifter who ventures to Las Vegas and climbs the seedy hierarchy from stripper to showgirl.
 * Directed by Paul Verhoeven. Written by Joe Eszterhas.

Leave your inhibitions at the door. The show is about to begin. Taglines

Nomi Malone

 * [repeated line] It doesn't suck.

 * You can't touch me, but I can touch you. I'd really love to touch you.

Cristal Connors

 * You know the best advice I ever got? You're up there on stage, hopin' on a spot. If someone gets in your way, step on 'em. If you're the only one left standing there, they hire you. That's about it. Thank you and good night, ladies and gentlemen. Elvis has left the building.

 * Thank you and good night, ladies and gentlemen. Cristal has left the building.

 * There's always someone younger and hungrier coming down the stairs after you.

James Smith

 * You fuck 'em without fucking them! That's what you do! Well, it ain't right! You've got too much talent for it to be right!

 * I have a problem with pussy. I always have, and I'm always gonna.

Henrietta "Mama" Bazoom

 * Honey, you could never handle me with all these wrinkles of fat. Why, you'd never find the thing... I'd have to piss on you to give you a clue!

 * [singing] The Farmer in the Dell / The Farmer in the Dell / I had a cherry, once / And now it's shot to hell!

 * [singing] She's the yellow rose of Texas / She charges fifty bucks / She's the richest girl in Texas / And all she does is fuck!

 * She looks better than a ten-inch dick and you know it!

Other

 * Tony Moss: I'm Tony Moss. I produce this show. Some of you have probably heard that I'm a prick. I am a prick. I got one interest here, and that's the show. I don't care whether you live or die. I want to see you dance and I want to see you smile. I can't use you if you can't smile, I can't use you if you can't show, I can't use you if you can't sell.

 * Annie: They're going to see a smiling snatch if you don't fix this g-string!

 * Al Torres: It must be weird, not having anybody cum on you.

 * Marty Jacobsen: She's no butterfly, Tony. She's all pelvic thrust. I mean, she prowls... She's got it!

 * Mr. Karlman: We could have brought anyone into this show: Janet Jackson, Paula Abdul. Nomi Malone is what Las Vegas is all about! She's dazzling, she's exciting, and very, very sexy!

Dialogue

 * [first lines]
 * Jeff: Hop on in, pard!
 * Nomi Malone: Where you going?
 * Jeff: Vegas! Come on! This is your lucky day!

 * Jeff: What are you going to Vegas for? You gonna win?
 * Nomi Malone: I'm gonna dance!
 * Jeff: Like one of those private escort dancers?

 * Jeff: You gamble?
 * Nomi Malone: No.
 * Jeff: Well you gotta gamble if you're gonna win.
 * Nomi Malone: I'm gonna win.

 * Henrietta "Mama" Bazoom: Do you know what they call that useless piece of skin around a twat?
 * Crowd: What?!?
 * Henrietta "Mama" Bazoom: A WOMAN!

 * Molly Abrams: I haven't gotten laid in six months. My right hand's so tired I can barely thread a needle!
 * Nomi Malone: Then use the left one.
 * Molly Abrams: For threading a needle?

 * Tony Moss: Can you spell MGM backwards? I bet you can't.
 * Audition Dancer: M-G-M.
 * Tony: I'm impressed!

 * Al Torres: You're a fucking stripper, don't you get it?
 * Nomi Malone: I'm a dancer!
 * Al: If you're a dancer, than Henry here is the fuckin' Virgin Mary!
 * Henrietta "Mama" Bazoom: I got bigger tits than the fuckin' Virgin Mary and I got a bigger mouth too!

 * Cristal Connors: Where do you dance at, darlin'?
 * Nomi Malone: Um... at the Cheetah.
 * Cristal Connors: I don't know how good you are, darlin', and I don't know what it is you're good at, but if it's at the Cheetah, it's not dancing, I know that much.
 * Nomi Malone: You don't know shit!

 * Nomi Malone: Hi, my name is Heather.
 * Cristal Connors: Hey Nomi. I love your nails. We'd like you to have a private dance with both of us.
 * Nomi Malone: We don't do that. One at a time. No women.
 * Cristal Connors: A hundred dollars.
 * Nomi Malone: Sorry. That's the rules.
 * Cristal Connors: Two hundred. You just do Zack and I'll watch.
 * [Nomi shakes her head no]
 * Cristal Connors: Five hundred.

 * Tony Moss: One day she looks like Pollyanna, the next day she looks like... I don't know... Lolita, maybe.
 * [Nomi giggles]
 * Tony Moss: Nice dress.
 * Nomi Malone: Thanks. I bought it at "Ver-sayce".
 * [silence]
 * Nomi Malone: In the Forum?
 * Tony Moss: Oh, yeah, Ver-sayce. I love Ver-sayce.
 * Nomi Malone: Me, too!

 * Nomi Malone: I get a headache from champagne.
 * Cristal Connors: This isn't champagne. This... is HOLY WATER. I named myself after this holy water. Chrissie Lou Connors used to have dingy brown hair and little bitty tits. It's amazing what paint and a surgeon can do.
 * [they clink champagne glasses]
 * Cristal Connors: You have great tits. They're really beautiful.
 * Nomi Malone: Thank you.
 * Cristal Connors: I like nice tits. I always have, how about you?
 * Nomi Malone: I like having nice tits.
 * Cristal Connors: How do you like having 'em?
 * Nomi Malone: What do you mean?
 * Cristal Connors: You know what I mean.
 * Nomi Malone: I like having them in a nice dress, or a tight top.
 * Cristal Connors: Mmmm. You like to show em off.
 * Nomi Malone: I didn't like showing them off at the Cheetah.
 * Cristal Connors: Why not? I liked lookin' at 'em there. We ALL liked lookin' at 'em there!
 * Nomi Malone: It made me feel like a hooker.
 * Cristal Connors: You are a whore, darlin'!
 * Nomi Malone: No, I'm not!
 * Cristal Connors: We all are. We take the cash, we cash the check, we show them what they want to see!
 * Nomi Malone: Maybe you are a whore Cristal, but I'm not.
 * Cristal Connors: You and me? We're exactly alike.
 * Nomi Malone: I'll never be like you.

 * Cristal Connors: No one's gonna take my lead anyway, darlin', I haven't missed a show in eight years.
 * Tony Moss: But you're not getting any younger, "darling".
 * Cristal Connors: Eat me.

 * Nomi Malone: Hello? Anybody here?
 * Cristal Connors: Back here.
 * Nomi Malone: What are you doing here?
 * Cristal Connors: What am I doing here? [sniffs cocaine] I'm doin' some of the finest cocaine in the world, darlin'. You want some?
 * [Nomi shakes her head]
 * Nomi Malone: Mm-mmm.
 * Cristal Connors: It's great for the muscles. I told Marty I'd work on your turns with you, darlin', but I'm feelin' a little turned inside out myself today.
 * Nomi Malone: Cut the shit.
 * Cristal Connors: [smiling] OK. We got off on the wrong foot. Wanna start dancin' all over again?
 * Nomi Malone: Why?
 * Cristal Connors: Why not? Wanna go down to Spago, get somethin' to eat?
 * Nomi Malone: Where is it?
 * Cristal Connors: [sarcastically] Just down from Ver-sayce.
 * Nomi Malone: It's Versace.
 * Cristal Connors: Ohhhhh, yeah.
 * Nomi Malone: Yeah.

 * Nomi Malone: Don't they have brown rice and vegetables?
 * Cristal Connors: Do you like brown rice and vegetables?
 * Nomi Malone: Yeah.
 * Cristal Connors: You do?
 * Nomi Malone: Sort of.
 * Cristal Connors: Really?
 * Nomi Malone: It's worse than dog food.
 * [Cristal laughs]
 * Nomi Malone: It is!
 * Cristal Connors: I've had dog food.
 * Nomi Malone: You have?
 * Cristal Connors: Mmm-hmmm. Long time ago. Doggy Chow... I used to love Doggy Chow.
 * Nomi Malone: I used to love Doggy Chow, too!

 * Zack Carey: Are you afraid? Don't be.
 * Nomi Malone: I'm not. I liked it when you came. I liked your eyes.

 * Cristal Connors: You fucked her, didn't you?
 * Zack Carey: Does that piss you off because you're jealous, Cris? Or because I beat you to the punch?

 * Cristal Connors: You fuck him for the spot? Or you fuck him cause you wanted to? I say you did it for the spot.
 * Nomi Malone: Is that what you did, Cristal?
 * Cristal Connors: You don't want to piss me off darlin' now that we're friends.
 * Nomi Malone: Oh, no... You shouldn't get pissed off. Makes you look older.

 * Cristal Connors: You like my nails? Not as nice as yours.
 * Nomi Malone: Maybe I could help you with yours... If you like.
 * Cristal Connors: Why you'd do that for me?
 * Nomi Malone: What are friends for?
 * Cristal Connors: On second thought... I'm not so sure I want you to be doin' mine. I'm getting a little too old for that 'whorey' look.

 * Tony Moss: Cristal Connors is a star, Sam. You can't just replace her.
 * Phil Kewkirk: What if we could just bring somebody in while she's recuperating?
 * Tony Moss: She could be out for a year, Phil.
 * Zack Carey: Like who?
 * Phil Newkirk: Janet Jackson? Paula Abdul?
 * Zack Carey: Paula Abdul? In my show?
 * Mr. Karlman: I'm not going to pay those kind of salaries!
 * Zack Carey: Well, in that case, Mr. Karlman, we do what we do in Vegas.
 * Mr. Karlman: What?
 * Zack Carey: We gamble.

 * Nomi Malone: Where are the police?
 * Zack Carey: They're not here.
 * Nomi Malone: Why the fuck aren't they here?
 * Zack Carey: Because they're not coming!
 * [Nomi goes to a pay-phone]
 * Zack Carey: Don't do it... Polly.
 * [Nomi puts down the receiver]
 * Nomi Malone: How did you find out?
 * Zack Carey: You were busted for disturbing the peace at the Crave Club. The police took your fingerprints.
 * Nomi Malone: I don't have to listen to this.
 * Zack Carey: Yes you do! Polly-Ann Costello. Your father killed your mother and then killed himself. You ran away from a foster in Oakland, December 1990. Arrests: Denver, soliciting.
 * Nomi Malone: Stop it!
 * Zack Carey: San Jose, soliciting. Cheyenne, soliciting. Should I read you the rest of them? How about possession of crack cocaine? Assault with a deadly weapon. Tell me something. Why did you stop hooking? You had your future pretty well-mapped out of yourself.
 * Nomi Malone: I did what I have do.
 * Zack Carey: Just like you did with Cristal.
 * Nomi Malone: I'm not a whore.
 * Zack Carey: No, you're not. You're gonna be a big star. You're face is gonna be all up on billboards. You're gonna make a lot of money for the Stardust.
 * Nomi Malone: You're not gonna let him get away with this.
 * Zack Carey: Andrew Carver is at the Paradiso this year. He might be at the Riviera next year, or the Stardust the year after that. He's part of the team, so are you.
 * Nomi Malone: What about Molly?
 * Zack Carey: You like her, I'll make sure he gives her enough money. She can have a dress shop. Tell me something. What did you charge? Hooking.
 * Nomi Malone: Fifty. Hundred sometimes.
 * Zack Carey: You got low self-esteem baby, you're a fantastic fuck.
 * [after a long pause, Nomi spits in Zack's face]
 * Zack Carey: [as Nomi leaves] I was paying you a compliment!

 * Nomi Malone: I got my period.
 * James Smith: Yeah right.
 * Nomi Malone: Check.
 * [James puts his hand down Nomi's pants, realizes she does]

 * [last lines]
 * Jeff: So did you gamble?
 * [Nomi nods.]
 * Jeff: Did you win?
 * [Nomi nods again.]
 * Jeff: What'd you win?
 * Nomi Malone: Me.
 * Jeff: Oh, fuck! It's you!
 * Nomi Malone: I want my fucking suitcase... ASSHOLE!

Taglines

 * Leave your inhibitions at the door. The show is about to begin.
 * Beyond your wildest dreams. Beyond your wildest fantasies.
 * The most controversial movie of the year is here.
 * The side of Vegas you were never meant to see.

Cast

 * Elizabeth Berkley - Nomi Malone/Polly Ann Costello
 * Kyle MacLachlan - Zack Carey
 * Gina Gershon - Cristal Connors
 * Glenn Plummer - James Smith
 * Robert Davi - Al Torres
 * Alan Rachins - Tony Moss
 * Gina Ravera - Molly Abrams
 * Lin Tucci - Henrietta "Mama" Bazoom
 * Greg Travis - Phil Newkirk
 * Al Ruscio - Mr. Karlman
 * Patrick Bristow - Marty Jacobsen
 * William Shockley - Andrew Carver
 * Michelle Johnston - Gay Carpenter
 * Dewey Weber - Jeff
 * Rena Riffel - Penny / Hope
 * Melissa Williams - Julie
 * Ungela Brockman - Angie
 * Melinda Songer - Nicky
 * Bobbie Phillips - Dee
 * Carrie Ann Inaba - Goddess dancer

title: Showgirls


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~ MosheZadka (Talk) 29 June 2005 07:10 (UTC)

Hi. I have restored the cleanup notice to Showgirls that you removed. Please do not remove cleanup tags without cleaning up the article. Thanks ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 07:58, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

Re Showgirls quotations: Wonderfully campy! --71.250.235.199 13:39, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

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