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Tin Cup

Tin Cup is a 1996 film about a washed-up golf pro working at a driving range who tries to qualify for the US Open in order to win the heart of his successful rival's girlfriend.
 * Directed by Ron Shelton. Written by John Norville and Ron Shelton.

Golf pro. Love amateur.

Roy McAvoy

 * [to Molly] "Fuck." "Shit." These are highly technical golf terms; You're using them on your first lesson. This is promising.
 * Does my inner child need a spanking?
 * [to Boone, who doesn't want to wager against Roy's car] That's because you think of it as transportation, Boone. Think of it as bragging rights. Think of yourself sitting around the bar, crowing to your cronies about the Cadillac you won from me. They'll forget all about the Winnebago you lost to me.
 * [to Molly] I'm going to qualify for the U.S. Open and kick your boyfriend's ass. Whatever you think of me, you should know he hates old people, children, and dogs.
 * Way I'm swinging today, nothing bugs me except insufficient applause.
 * You know someone once said that golf and sex are the only two things you don't have to be good at to enjoy.
 * Well, what the hell? You ride her until she bucks you or don't ride at all.
 * Such a pure feeling is a well struck golf shot.

Dr. Molly Griswold

 * I can always tell when someone's lying to himself. But I am quite susceptible and frequently wrong when that person lies to me!
 * Why do men always insist on measuring their dicks?
 * I find him... mildly attractive when he's obnoxious and arrogant like this.

Romeo Posar

 * Look, boss, I only got one rule. And that's never bet money that you don't have on a dog race with an ex-girlfriend who happens to be a stripper.
 * [to Roy] You won't listen to me, will you? Even when I'm trying to help you, man. After all these years you think I'm full of shit?
 * [to Roy] You're a head case. You always have been, always will be.

Others

 * Clint: [about Molly] How can such a pretty girl have such an ugly swing.
 * Earl: [about Roy] The word normal and him don't often collide in the same sentence.
 * David Simms: Can you people not see that I'm busy? I'm working. This is my office. Do I come to your office and ask for an autograph? I don't think so. Jesus. What an ugly dog.
 * TV Director: Another driving range pro, it's all we needed. It's heroes that I need. Not obscure driving range pros.
 * Jim Nantz: Unbelievable. McAvoy has done it. You just saw the greatest round in U.S. Open history. The all-time lowest round in a major doesn't belong to a Jack Nicklaus or an Arnold Palmer, Hogan, Nelson or Snead. It's been shot by the most improbable artist of all. Roy McAvoy has his signature on golf's all-time masterpiece round.
 * Doreen: [to Molly] You're not one of those women who tries to fix men, I hope. I mean, men cannot be fixed, and especially him.

Dialogue

 * Roy: Any of you shitheads ever get bored? You ever get bored? 'Cause I got a riddle. Takes about 2 ounces of brains to figure it out. Anybody think they got a brain with 2 ounces of brains in it?
 * Romeo: There's a rumor Earl does.
 * Roy: For chrissakes, fellas, come on, a little self-confidence from the players' gallery. We ain't talkin long division.

 * Molly: I take it you're a feminist.
 * Roy: I've been called many things, never been saddled with that one.
 * Molly: You might try being saddled sometime. Smell of leather, sting of a whip.
 * Roy: I'm just a humble golf pro, can I help you?

 * Roy: First thing you must learn is this game ain't about hitting a little ball in some yonder hole. It's about inner demons, self-doubt, human frailty and overcoming that shit. What kind of doctor did you say you were?
 * Molly: Psychologist. A neo-Jungian, post-modern Freudian, holistic secularist.
 * Roy: Okay.
 * Molly: I mean, inner demons, human frailty, that's my life's work.

 * Roy: "What Is The Golf Swing," by Roy McAvoy? Well, I tend to think of the golf swing as a poem.
 * Romeo: Ooh, he's doing that poetry thing again.
 * Roy: The critical opening phrase of this poem will always be the grip. The hands unite to form a single unit by the simple overlap of the little finger.
 * Molly: Right.
 * Roy: Lowly and slowly, the clubhead is led back, pulled into position not by the hands, but by the body, which turns away from the target, shifting weight to the right side without shifting balance. Tempo is everything; perfection unobtainable as the body coils down at the top of the swing. There's a slight hesitation. A little nod to the gods...
 * Molly: A, a nod to the gods?
 * Roy: Yeah, to the gods. That he is fallible. That perfection is unobtainable. And now the weight begins shifting back to the left pulled by the powers inside the earth, it's alive, this swing! A living sculpture and down through contact, always down, striking the ball crisply, with character. A tuning fork goes off in your loins. Such a pure feeling is the well-struck golf shot. And then the follow through to finish. Always on line. The reverse C of the Golden Bear! The steel workers' power and brawn of Carl Sandburg's Arnold Palmer!
 * Romeo: Ohh, he's doing that Arnold Palmer thing.
 * Roy: And then the unfinished symphony of Roy McAvoy.
 * Molly: What's unfinished?
 * Roy: Well, I have a short follow-through. It has an unfinished look...
 * Molly: Why?
 * Roy: Well, some say it's the easiest way to play in the winds of west Texas...some say it's because I never finish anything in my life. You can decide. But the point is...every finishing position is unique. That's what the golf swing's about. It's about gaining control of your life and...letting go at the same time.
 * Molly: Jeez Louise.
 * Roy: There's only one other acceptable theory about how to hit the ball.
 * Molly: Oh, boy, well, I'm afraid to ask. What is it?
 * Roy: Grip it and rip it.

 * Roy: Waggle it and let the big dog eat.
 * Molly: What big dog?
 * Roy: The driver, the #1-wood.
 * Molly: Oh this is metal.
 * Roy: Woods are metal, the driver's known as the big dog. I'm just saying let him loose, let it rip, let the big dog eat.

Molly takes a swing and crashes the club into the ground
 * Molly: You know, this is without a doubt the stupidest, silliest...most idiotic, grotesquely masquerading game ever invented.
 * Roy: Yes ma'am and that's why I love it. Now if you hit one good shot, just one, and that tuning fork rings in your loins and you can't wait to get back...and do it again.

 * Molly: Can I ask you a question? If you're such a legendary striker of the golf ball, as everyone says...why are you, at your age, out here in the middle of nowhere...operating a barely-solvent establishment, ducking the I.R.S...collecting a few pathetic dollars to buy your next sixpack when you're capable of so much more?
 * Roy: Perhaps I'm chock-full of inner demons.
 * Molly: No. You're chock-full of bullshit.

 * Roy: Thirteen years on the tour an' you're still a pussy.
 * Simms: Thirteen years on the driving range and you still think this game is about your testosterone count.

 * Roy: You know why I still hit that shot?
 * Romeo: Cuz that's the only way you could beat Dave Simms.
 * Roy: No.
 * Romeo: 'Cause it was that look in your face...
 * Roy: I hit it again because that shot was a defining moment, and when a defining moment comes along, you define the moment or the moment defines you. I did not shrink from the challenge, I rose to it. If I had it to do all over again, I'd still hit that shot.

 * Romeo: 1981 Fort Washington Golf Club, Fresno, California- Ring a bell? Final round of the Tour qualifing school?  Tried to hit that same impossible cut 3-wood into the wind from a hilly lie- 5 in a row out of bounds.  Until you finaly pulled it off and tapped it in for a crowd-pleasing 13... when a 12 would have got you on the Tour.  Now that was a defining moment. And the definition was "shit."
 * Roy: Greatness courts failure, Romeo.
 * Romeo: You may be right boss, but you know what? Sometimes par is good enough to win.

 * Molly: Mr. McAvoy, I can appreciate that you have a fairly laid-back, relaxed lifestyle--but I have hours to keep.
 * Roy: All right. A former paramour once ascribed my fluid sense of time to being born under the sign of Pisces. Something about floating through the universe.
 * Molly: You amuse me, Roy. But I'm the only woman in America born after World War II who thinks astrology's a crock of shit.

 * Romeo: You know what I think? She's got you by the huevos.
 * Roy: Your job is to teach me patience and humility. Don't advise me on love-life. Not all my thinking occurs below the belt. I stand for a few things besides my next romantic interlude.
 * Romeo: You'll have no trouble telling her you can't teach her until after the Open.
 * Roy: That'd make an issue out of something that's not an issue. Besides, I'm focused. I am! This is my quest! This is my stand for the guys who've had their fill of soulless robots like David Simms.
 * Romeo: Well, He may be a soulless robot, but he's a rich, happy, soulless robot... with a beautiful doctor-lady girlfriend. Besides, how's getting in the Open going to change what she thinks about you?
 * Roy: Well, it'll show her that I'm not who she thinks I am.
 * Romeo: But you are who she thinks you are!

 * Roy: Here I am, ready to charge forth in pursuit of my destiny and I can't get time off work to do it.
 * Romeo: I'm no expert here, but it seems to me that the pursuit of destiny isn't something you need to get off a $10 per hour job to do.
 * Roy: Well, I'm stuck, and I'm buried. I need help, and I need advice. I need counseling, I need a... I need a shrink.
 * Romeo: You don't know no shrinks.
 * Roy: I know one!
 * Romeo: No-ooo, no no no. Not the doctor lady.
 * Roy: Why not?
 * Romeo: You can't ask for advice about the woman you're trying to hose FROM the woman you're trying to hose!
 * Roy: Why not?

 * Molly: Roy, Roy... why are you here?
 * Roy: Therapy.
 * Molly: You've come for therapy? Okay, look, Roy, you know, you really need to make an appointment. Because I have a client in a half an hour.
 * Roy: That's enough time. Thirty minutes? Hell, I'm not THAT fucked up.

 * Roy: Okay, so how do I do it? Therapy, I mean, I mean, wh-- how do I start doing it?
 * Molly: Ooo-kay, Roy. Well, in parlance you might understand, just kick back and let the big dog eat.
 * Roy: Suppose there's this guy, and he's standing on the shore of a big wide river, and the... river's full of all manner of disaster, you know, piranhas, alligators, eddies, currents, shit like that nobody'll even go down there to dip a toe. And on the other side of the river's a million bucks, and on this side of the river is a rowboat.
 * Molly: Mm-hmm?
 * Roy: I guess my question's this: What would possess the guy standing on the shore to swim for it?
 * Molly: He is an idiot.
 * Roy: No, see, he's a helluva swimmer. His problem's more like why does he always have to rise to the challenge?
 * Molly: He is a juvenile idiot.
 * Roy: You don't understand what I mean by the river.
 * Molly: Roy, we're talking about you, and what you like to call your inner demons -- that human frailty you like to blather about -- not some mythopoetic metaphor you come up with in a feeble and transparent effort to do yourself credit.
 * Roy: You mean you're going to make me feel lousy?
 * Molly: No.
 * Roy: I came here to feel better. I mean, what kind of therapy is...
 * Molly: Roy, Roy, Roy, you don't have any inner demons. What you have is inner crapola, inner debris... garbage... loose wires, [laughs] horseshit in staggering amounts.
 * Roy: I'm not some just jerk driving range pro who drinks too much booze, eats too few vegetables, okay?

 * Molly: All you have to do is walk up to this, this woman, wherever she is, look her in the eye -- look at me, Roy -- just look her in the eyes, that's right, let down your guard, and don't try to be cool or smooth or whatever; just be honest and take a risk. And you know what, whatever happens, if you act from the heart, you can't make a mistake.
 * Roy: Dr. Griswold...
 * Molly: Yes?
 * Roy: I think I'm in love with you.
 * Molly: What?
 * Roy: From the moment I first saw you, I knew I was through with bar girls and... strippers and motorcycle chicks, and... when we first started talking I was smitten with you, and I'm smitten with you more every day I think about you, and the fact that you know I'm full of crapola only makes you more attractive to me. Usually I can bullshit people, but I can't bullshit you, and in addition you got, you got great legs, and most women I'm thinking about how to get in their pants from day one, but with you I'm just I'm just thinking about how to get into your heart. Stunned?
 * Molly: So...
 * Roy: So what about dinner and we can talk about us and if we have a future and how to drop that horse's ass boyfriend of yours.

 * Molly: You've got a beautiful swing.
 * Roy: I'm a beautiful guy.
 * Molly: Look, Roy, I came to apologize, okay?
 * Roy: For what?
 * Molly: You did what I said and I poured cold water over your efforts. I didn't get it. I'm a terrible shrink, probably. Should've stayed in real estate, shit, actually, I should have never left Ohio for that cowboy in Amarillo, but... Have you ever been to Amarillo?
 * Roy: Cowboy?
 * Molly: Yeah. It's not as romantic when you're actually with one, trust me. So, the oil man in Dallas or Houston, I don't know where he was from. Anyway, he looked great. After that, I went to the Gulf and ended up in trailer sales. Then condos in Corpus Christi. The bottom, just, boom, fell right out of the market so I needed a new gig.
 * Roy: A new gig?
 * Molly: Yeah, therapy. I took all the classes. I'm legitimate. Legal. Certified. Fuck! I'm certifiable. I'm really sorry.
 * Roy: Oh, boy.

 * Roy: Parred the backside with a 7-iron.
 * Simms: Why?
 * Molly: Yeah, that's exactly right. That's the question, "Why?"
 * Romeo: Because he broke his other clubs. Snapped them in two.
 * Simms: Jesus.
 * Roy: Not all of them. Romeo broke two.
 * Simms: I'm on your side here. We go way back. I hope you qualify for the Open. But if you do, you better play with control or you'll get slaughtered. Good players shoot an 80 in the Open. You see it means you just can't go for it.

 * Earl: You the man, Roy. You are definitely the man.
 * Clint: The man needs a ride home.

 * Roy: Look, I love Earl, okay, but... I need you.
 * Romeo: You don't love me?
 * Roy: Yeah, yeah, I-I love you too, goddammit.
 * Romeo: Well, as much as Earl?
 * Roy: I don't know! I mean, when I was with Earl, I was thinking of you... Yes, uh, as much as Earl. More than Earl. More than Earl.
 * Romeo: Am I special?
 * Roy: Well, if you can remove the sexual overtones and add a golf theme, then Romeo, I am your Juliet.
 * Romeo: In that case, Julieta, I am your caddy.

 * Roy: A lost and desperate soul stands before you. I assume I have the confidentiality of the doctor/client privilege in regard to this outfit?
 * Molly: Of course. What happened?
 * Roy: I got the shanks.
 * Molly: Are you taking penicillin?
 * Roy: There's a glitch in my swing.
 * Molly: That's Romeo's department.
 * Roy: He thinks it's your department. Says it's a head thing.

 * Roy: Listen to me...you're with the wrong guy. I'm the right guy. You know how he said my face was screwed up tighter than a drum, well I know that it's because I've been crazy about you.  From the moment you came here, when you were wearing all this stupid shit.  And the whole damn thing has both inspired me to get here and also caused me to get the shanks, which could humilate me in front of a billion zillion people in a game I used to know how to play pretty good.  (smiles) Such is life. (pauses) Dump that phony bastard you're with and come to the Open in my corner, okay?  Tell me...tell me you're not just like at least moderately attracted to me.
 * Molly: You have moments.
 * Roy: Yeah, well you tell me which ones are my moments and I'll try and duplicate them.

 * Roy: "Not tonight" means maybe some other night?
 * Molly: No, I didn't mean it that like that.
 * Roy: Maybe consciously you didn't mean it that way, but how about unconsciously? Come on, you're the expert... did you mean it unconsciously?
 * Molly: Roy, unconsciously, I have no idea what I'm talking about.
 * Roy: Well, I feel we're making progress...
 * Molly: Well, I do too. I have no idea what it's progress towards, though. None.

 * Molly: There's no such thing as semi-platonic.
 * Roy: Well there ought to be.

 * Roy: You're the Mexican Mac O'Grady. Figure out why I'm shanking...I'm catching it on the hosel? Moving my head? I'm laying it off?
 * Romeo: That, too.
 * Roy: I'm pronating.
 * Romeo: When you're not supinating.
 * Roy: I'm clearing too early, too late. My swing feels like an unfolding chair!
 * Romeo: Put your change in your left pocket. Go on, do it. Now, tie your left shoe in a double knot.
 * Roy: Tie my left shoe?
 * Romeo: Right now, do it! Turn the hat backwards. Turn your hat around. Do it, Roy! Take this tee and stick it behind your left ear.
 * Roy: I look like a fool!
 * Romeo: What do you think you look like shooting chili peppers up Lee Janzen's ass? Do it now or I'm going to quit. I swear to God I'll quit. Good. Take this ball and hit it up the fairway.
 * [Roy hits the ball straight]
 * Romeo: You're ready.
 * Roy: How'd I do that?
 * Romeo: Because you're not thinking about shanking or Molly. You're not thinking. You're looking like a fool, hitting the ball pure and simple...
 * Roy: Fuck you.
 * Romeo: Fuck me, huh? Well, you're cured.
 * Roy: That's it?
 * Romeo: That's it. Your brain was getting in the way.
 * Roy: That's hardly ever been the case.
 * Romeo: No shit, Sherlock.

 * Romeo: You're humble now, homes.
 * Roy: I was hungover.
 * Romeo: Maybe that was a coaching mistake.
 * Roy: Yeah, maybe it was. Thanks, amigo.

 * Roy: Keep shooting pars, asshole!
 * Simms: I'll take 18 of them, all day long!
 * Roy: Do it and I'll own you.

 * Molly: I've got money from the bet. Let's go somewhere fancy and celebrate.
 * Roy: There's nothing to celebrate. Besides, these are my people. I'm a Waffle House guy. Got to stay in touch with that.

 * Roy: This is for Venturi who thinks I should lay up.
 * Romeo: What does he know? He only won this tournament before you were born.

 * Roy: You don't think I can knock it on from there?
 * Commentator: Let's just say it's a low-percentage shot.
 * Roy: Well, so am I! I mean, look at me, all right, what I'm wearing. I mean, I'm playing for Rio Grande Short-Haul Trucking, Briggs and Brown Sanitation, First State Bank of Salome, Woody's Smokehouse... You think a... you think a guy like me bothers to worry about the percentages?

 * Roy: It won't always be like this, you know.
 * Molly: What?
 * Roy: With me surrounded by all these guys, snoring... stripper ex-girlfriend laying across from us... caddy sleeping next to her. It won't always be like this.
 * Molly: Yes, it will.

 * Molly: Doreen, how did he get the name Tin Cup?
 * Doreen: Oh, he was the catcher on the high school baseball team. The star pitcher had a big-league curve... not all of his pitches hit Roy in the mitt, ouch. The team thought Tin Cup was a whole lot better than Clank.

 * Roy: This is everything, ain't it? This is the choice it comes down to -- this is our immortality.
 * Romeo: You don't need to be thinking immortality -- you need to be thinking hit the 7 iron!

 * Doreen: No, no, no. This is what always happens. He's going for it.
 * Molly: Go for it!
 * Doreen: Molly, get a grip. He only needs par to tie. Tell him to lay up.
 * Molly: Go for it, Roy! Just knock it on!
 * Doreen: This is why we broke up. He always went for it.
 * Molly: My problem is, I've never been with a man who went for it.
 * Doreen: Honey, he's your guy.

 * Roy: I nutted that thing. I mean, I nutted it.
 * Romeo: I know. You put a hell of a move on it.
 * Roy: Little gust from the gods cost me.
 * Romeo: We'll take our drop, tie, and win the playoff.
 * Roy: I can make that shot!
 * Romeo: I know! But not now!
 * Roy: Now! I'm playing it from right here, now.

 * Romeo: This is the last ball in the bag. This gets wet, we're disqualified.
 * Roy: I can make it across.
 * Romeo: Then do it. Quit fucking around.
 * Doreen: He's crazy.
 * Molly: Oh, God. He's right. You're right, Roy! Just knock it on! Let her rip!
 * Doreen: You're losing it.
 * Molly: I have lost it. But so has he. He's crazy.
 * Doreen: So are you.

 * Roy: I didn't come here to play for second.
 * Romeo: Simms'll always be second. I'll meet you at the Winnebago! I'll fire up the blender!
 * Roy: I just gave away the U.S. Open.

 * Molly: That was incredible! That was the shot of the tournament!
 * Roy: I just gave away the U.S. Open.
 * Molly: It doesn't matter.
 * Roy: One time in my life I know the safe play to hit and I still...Shit, I still can't make myself do it.
 * Molly: It doesn't matter.
 * Roy: My whole career, my whole life on the line...I just made a 12 on the last hole of the Open!
 * Molly: You sure did. It was the greatest 12 of all time. No one's going to remember the Open 10 years from now, who won...but they'll remember your 12! My, God, Roy, it was...Well, it's immortal! I am so proud of you!

 * Roy: When was the last time you took a risk?
 * Molly: Well, I'm with you, Roy. I'm with you.

Cast

 * Kevin Costner - Roy 'Tin Cup' McAvoy
 * Rene Russo - Dr. Molly Griswold
 * Don Johnson - David Simms
 * Cheech Marin - Romeo Posar
 * Linda Hart - Doreen
 * Dennis Burkley - Earl
 * Rex Linn - Dewey
 * Lou Myers - Clint
 * Richard Lineback - Curt
 * George Perez - Jose
 * Mickey Jones - Turk
 * Michael Milhoan - Boone

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Benny Hinn

Benny Hinn (born Tofik Benedictus Hinn on 3 December 1952) is a Pentecostal pastor and televangelist. His ministry consists of faith healing and prophecy.

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 * The Spirit tells me - Fidel Castro will die - in the 90's. Oooh my! Some will try to kill him and they will not succeed. But there will come a change in his physical health, and he will not stay in power, and Cuba will be visited of God.
 * The Spirit of God tells me an earthquake will hit the East Coast of America and destroy much in the '90s. Not one place will be safe from earthquakes in the '90s. These who have not known earthquakes will know it. People, I feel the Spirit all over me!
 * The Spirit of God tells me an earthquake will hit the East Coast of America and destroy much in the '90s. Not one place will be safe from earthquakes in the '90s. These who have not known earthquakes will know it. People, I feel the Spirit all over me!

 * We may have two years before the Rapture. Can I be blunt with you? I don't know if we have two years left. I'm going to prove to you from the Word tonight, that we have less than two years, unless the Lord changes his mind.
 * November 9, 1990 Praise-a-Thon Trinity Broadcasting

 * But here's first what I see for Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN). You're going to have people raised from the dead watching this network. You're going to have people raised from the dead watching TBN. Programs -- just plain programs -- programs that haven't done much when it comes to supernatural manifestations -- teaching programs!
 * Source attributes audio clip of this statement to an October 19, 1999 broadcast of "Praise The Lord", Trinity Broadcasting Network.

 * Jesus is coming again within the next two years.
 * July 1997, fund-raising telethon on TBN

 * I don't need gold in heaven, I gotta have it now.

 * God the Father is a person separate from the Holy Ghost. Totally separate. ...Do you know that the Holy Spirit has a soul and a body separate from that of Jesus and the Father? ...God the Father then is a triune being within Himself. He's a person, He has a soul. ...A soul is an intellect. ...God thinks ...separate from the Son and separate from the Holy Ghost. ...God the Father is a separate individual from the Son and the Holy Ghost, who is a triune being who walks in a spirit body and He has hair...has eyes...has a mouth...has hands.
 * Orlando Christian Centre, October 13 1990

 * Adam was a super being when God created him...he had dominion over the fowls of the air which means he used to fly...well of course how could you have dominion over the birds and not be able to do what they do. Adam flew into space, with one thought he would be on the moon.

 * Jesus Christ will appear with me on the platform...
 * April 2, 2000 on Trinity Broadcasting Network, Hinn claimed Jesus will appear with him at a fellowship in Nairobi, Kenya in 2000. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUHpiRyUsVM

 * The reason people lose their healing, is because they begin questioning if God really did it.

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 * "In his sermons and books, Hinn has portrayed his childhood as that of a social outcast, handicapped by a severe stutter, who was nonetheless a stellar student. But when G. Richard Fisher and M. Kurt Goedelman, two journalists who write for Personal Freedom Outreach, looked into Hinn's youth, they found that both claims were untrue: nobody remembered Hinn stuttering, and he had dropped out of high school after the 11th grade."
 * Illustration by 4G² Issue #191, January/February 2004
 * "Hinn claims to have preached at an all-girls Catholic school in Jerusalem in 1976 and "every single girl in that school got saved, including all the nuns." Since there's only one Catholic girls school in Jerusalem, Schmidt's Girls College, it was a fairly easy matter to question all the nuns who were there in 1976, as well as Father Dusind, who has overseen all religious instruction since 1955. The result? "This is nonsense, real nonsense," Dusind told Fisher and Goedelman. "It never happened and could not happen because a Charismatic healer or Protestant preacher would never ever be let in to talk to the girls."
 * Illustration by 4G² Issue #191, January/February 2004
 * "The heavyweight boxer Evander Holyfield, banned from boxing because of a heart condition, went to a Benny Hinn crusade in Philadelphia, had Hinn lay hands on him, and gave Hinn a check for $265,000 after he was told he was healed. In fact, he passed his next examination by the boxing commission, but later his doctors said he never had a heart condition in the first place – he had been misdiagnosed."
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6 word story: "With bloody hands, I say good-bye." - Frank Miller

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 * Referring to Batman's character in Dark Knight Strikes Again at the Wondercon, San Francisco (12 Feb 2006)

 * I figured Daredevil must be Catholic because only a Catholic could be both an attorney and a vigilante.

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Ehud Olmert

Ehud Olmert (born September 30, 1945) is an Israeli politician and lawyer. He served as Prime Minister of Israel from 2006 to 2009 and before that as a cabinet minister from 1988 to 1992 and from 2003 to 2006. Between his first and second stints as a cabinet member, he served as mayor of Jerusalem from 1993 to 2003.

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 * The formula for the parameters of a unilateral solution are: To maximize the number of Jews; to minimize the number of Palestinians; not to withdraw to the 1967 border and not to divide Jerusalem.
 *

 * We are approaching the point where more and more Palestinians will say: we have been won over. We agree with [National Union leader Avigdor] Liberman. There is no room for two states between the Jordan and the sea. All that we want is the right to vote. The day they do that, is the day we lose everything. Even when they carry out terror, it is very difficult for us to persuade the world of the justice of our cause. We see this on a daily basis. All the more so when there is only one demand: an equal right to vote. The thought that the struggle against us will be headed by liberal Jewish organizations who shouldered the burden of the struggle against apartheid in South Africa scares me.
 *

 * Had I believed that there is a real chance of reaching an agreement, I would have recommended making an effort. But that is not the case. The choice we will be facing will be between less than a Geneva Accord—which means a return to the 1967 border, the crushing of Jerusalem, and a struggle to our last breath to ward off the international pressure to absorb hundreds of thousands of refugees into the shrinking State of Israel—and a comprehensive unilateral move, and I stress the word comprehensive. Through such a move we will define our borders, which under no circumstances will be identical to the Green Line and will include Jerusalem as a united city under our sovereignty.
 *

 * For thousands of years, we Jews have been nourished and sustained by a yearning for our historic land. I, like many others, was raised with a deep conviction that the day would never come when we would have to relinquish parts of the land of our forefathers. I believed and to this day still believe in our people's eternal and historic right to this entire land.
 *

 * The day will come when the two-state solution collapses and we face a South African-style struggle for equal voting rights. As soon as that happens, the state of Israel is finished. The Jewish organizations, which were our power base in America, will be the first to come out against us, because they will say they cannot support a state that does not support democracy and equal voting rights for all its residents.
 * Financial Times (30 NOV 2007)

 * When we saw that the Secretary of State, for reasons we did not really understand, wanted to vote in favor of the U.N. resolution... I looked for President Bush and they told me he was in Philadelphia making a speech, I said, 'I don't care. I have to talk to him now'. They got him off the podium, brought him to another room and I spoke to him. I told him, 'You can't vote in favor of this resolution.' He said, 'Listen, I don't know about it, I didn't see it, I'm not familiar with the phrasing.' [I said to him] 'I'm familiar with it. You can't vote in favor.' He gave an order to the Secretary of State and she did not vote in favor of it -- a resolution she cooked up, phrased, organized and maneuvered for. She was left pretty shamed and abstained on a resolution she arranged.
 * Reuters (13 Jan 2009)

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/Inarticulate Athletes

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The result was: delete. —LrdChaos (talk) 03:29, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Inarticulate Athletes
This page, rather than being about some formal group, appears to simply be a list of quotes from sports figures in which they made some goof. —LrdChaos (talk) 15:07, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Vote closed. Result: delete (four votes to delete, none to keep). —LrdChaos (talk) 03:26, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Delete. —LrdChaos (talk) 15:07, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment: I was also tempted to nominate this page for deletion, but I suppose one could compare this to the page we have for Incorrect predictions, where a set of quotes is gathered under a common theme. Of course one could also debate whether all of these quotes render their speaker as "inarticulate." I will reserve judgement until I see some more thoughts by others. ~ UDScott 15:14, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I think this differs from Incorrect predictions in a rather significant way: that page contains quotes which turned out to be incorrect predictions, while this one is just quotes from athletes who the creator happens to feel are "inarticulate". A more appropriate title for the content might something like "Goofs by athletes", but I still don't think that I'd support it. Any of those people who should happen to already have a WQ page could have their quote moved to their, but this isn't good material for starting new pages for the people. —LrdChaos (talk) 15:27, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. I'm certainly not equating this page with Incorrect predictions, I was just trying to find some other page that supported a theme. In the end, I think I agree with the discussion here; hence my vote. ~ UDScott 15:25, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Comment: In Britain, these sort of comments are known as Colemanballs. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 15:34, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. If these people are notable and the quotes can be sourced, an appropriate place would be on their own pages.  This could be considered a legitimate theme, but it strikes me as being hopelessly POV.  121a0012 01:34, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. Concur with 121a0012. "Inarticulate" is impossible to define neutrally. Besides, athletes aren't exactly known for their (verbal) articulation, anyway, so where could one draw the line reasonably? And how would we know whether it's inarticulation or malapropisms, possibly intentional? Yogi Berra is famous for the latter, as are non-sports figures like William Archibald Spooner, Doodles Weaver, Norm Crosby, and many others. (I thought I might suggest a category to collect such famous mis-speakers, but I see that even Wikipedia doesn't seem to have one.) ~ Jeff Q (talk) 07:48, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. - InvisibleSun 19:42, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/The Rich List

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The Rich List
No quotes, and unlikely to be any for a while, as the show doesn't premiere until November 1. User:Fys initially tagged this for speedy deletion, but it doesn't meet the criteria. —LrdChaos (talk) 19:08, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Vote closed. Result: delete (five votes to delete, no dissent). —LrdChaos (talk) 03:27, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Delete. —LrdChaos (talk) 19:08, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. 121a0012 01:35, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. I thought it might be pointless to delete an article less than a week before its subject airs, but then I noticed that this show is so obscure it doesn't even have an IMDb entry yet. I suspect LrdChaos is right about a long wait for quotes, and I'd like to discourage editors from creating quoteless articles for future works — a Wikiquote version of cybersquatting, uselessly claiming article creation. (It's bad enough when the subjects exist and the editors can't be bothered to add the very thing the article exists for.) ~ Jeff Q (talk) 07:55, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. ~ UDScott 15:25, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. - InvisibleSun 19:42, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/Category:1996 films

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Category:1996 films
This category appears to have been created to hold the newly-created Broken Arrow page. I've updated that page to use the existing Category:1990s films, and this is unnecessary. —LrdChaos (talk) 19:09, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
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 * Delete. —LrdChaos (talk) 19:09, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. 121a0012 01:35, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. Same argument as in Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/Category:1964 films. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 08:00, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
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Pessimism

Pessimism is a state of mind that views life and its aspects from a negative perspective, especially in regard to future events. It is the opposite of optimism.

Quotes

 * I can't be a pessimist because I'm alive.
 * James Baldwin, "The Negro and the American Promise"

 * —Blessed are they who expect the worst, for they shall get it!
 * John Brunner, Quicksand (1967), Chapter 24

 * If you expect the worst from a person, you can't ever be disappointed. Only the disappointed resort to violence. The pessimist, which is another way of saying the Augustinian, takes a sort of gloomy pleasure in observing the depths to which human behaviour can sink. The more sin he sees, the more his belief in Original Sin is confirmed. Everyone likes to have his deepest convictions confirmed; that is one of the most abiding of human satisfactions.
 * Anthony Burgess, in The Wanting Seed, p. 11 (1962)

 * Whatever pretended pessimists in search of notoriety may say, most people are naturally kind, at heart.
 * James Branch Cabell, in The Cream of the Jest (1917)

 * Creeds matter very little. ... The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. So I elect for neither label.
 * James Branch Cabell, in The Silver Stallion : A Comedy of Redemption (1926)

 * I am so often accused of gloominess and melancholy. And I think I'm probably the most cheerful man around. I don't consider myself a pessimist at all. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel completely soaked to the skin. … I think those descriptions of me are quite inappropriate to the gravity of the predicament that faces us all. I've always been free from hope. It's never been one of my great solaces. I feel that more and more we're invited to make ourselves strong and cheerful. .... I think that it was Ben Jonson who said, I have studied all the theologies and all the philosophies, but cheerfulness keeps breaking through.
 * Leonard Cohen, as quoted in "The Joking Troubadour of Gloom" in The Daily Telegraph (26 April 1993)

 * I believe that there is a moral government; and that God reigns. I am no pessimist; I give thanks to the good Lord, and also to the good men through whom He has worked.
 * Frederick Douglass, Speech at Tremont Temple (September 1890)

 * Man, at least when educated, is a pessimist. He believes it safer not to reflect on his achievements; Jove is known to strike such people down.
 * John Kenneth Galbraith, The Age of Uncertainty (1977)

 * The literature doesn't show that positive thinking helps (sports) performance; what the literature shows is that negative thinking hurts performance.
 * Dr. Colleen Hacker, Journal of Excellence Issue 4 page 14

 * To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is. A pessimistic attitude can never create the calm and serene smile which blossoms on the lips of Bodhisattvas and all those who obtain the way.
 * Thích Nhất Hạnh, The Miracle of Mindfulness (1999)

 * Don't ever become a pessimist … a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.
 * Robert A. Heinlein, in Time Enough for Love (1973)

 * My life was without past or future; death, the pessimist would say, "a consummation devoutly to be wished." But a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living. Night fled before the day of thought, and love and joy and hope came up in a passion of obedience to knowledge. Can anyone who has escaped such captivity, who has felt the thrill and glory of freedom, be a pessimist?
 * Helen Keller, Optimism (1903)

 * If it be true that optimism compels the world forward, and pessimism retards it, then it is dangerous to propagate a pessimistic philosophy.
 * Helen Keller, Optimism (1903)

 * Let pessimism once take hold of the mind, and life is all topsy-turvy, all vanity and vexation of spirit. There is no cure for individual or social disorder, except in forgetfulness and annihilation. "Let us eat, drink and be merry," says the pessimist, "for to-morrow we die." If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone.
 * Helen Keller, Optimism (1903)

 * No pessimist ever won an audience commensurately wide with his genius.
 * Helen Keller, Optimism (1903)

 * Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it, while every pessimist would keep the world at a standstill. The consequence of pessimism in the life of a nation is the same as in the life of the individual. Pessimism kills the instinct that urges men to struggle against poverty, ignorance and crime, and dries up all the fountains of joy in the world.
 * Helen Keller, Optimism (1903)

 * Immune to the blandishments of religions, countries, families, and everything else that puts both average and above-average citizens in the limelight, pessimists are sideliners in both history and the media. Without a belief in gods or ghosts, unmotivated by a comprehensive delusion, they could never plant a bomb, plan a revolution, or shed blood for a cause.
 * Thomas Ligotti, in The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror

it's the light of an oncoming train.
 * if we see a light at the end of the tunnel,
 * Robert Lowell, in "Since 1939." Day by Day. (1977)

 * The kind of facile optimism that a figure such as Boris Johnson exudes is... a way of avoiding the issues, of pretending that we can resolve our problems by not thinking deeply about them, but by simply asserting “we can do it”. There is something equally objectionable about unthinking pessimism. About the insistence that a social problem is so beyond control that we cannot avoid catastrophe or so deeply rooted that it cannot be dug out... This, as much as climate change or racism, is an issue to confront. Otherwise, despair about challenging such problems will become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
 * Kenan Malik Want to change the world? Then you’d better give up on self-defeating pessimism The Guardian  (7 November 2021)

 * Optimists and pessimists die the same way. They just live differently. I prefer to live as an optimist.
 * Shimon Peres, As quoted in Serving "60 Years to Life", Newsweek Europe (12 December 2005)

 * ...but first there is a certain experience we must be careful to avoid... we must not become misologues, as people become misanthropes. There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse. Misology and misanthropy arise in the same way. Misanthropy comes when a man without knowledge or skill has placed great trust in someone and believes him to be altogether truthful, sound and trustworthy; then, a short time afterwards he finds him to be wicked and unreliable, and then this happens in another case; when one has frequently had that experience, especially with those whom one believed to be one's closest friends, then, in the end, after many blows, one comes to hate all men and to believe that no one is sound in any way at all...This is a shameful state of affairs... and obviously due to an attempt to have human relations without any skill in human affairs.
 * Plato, Phaedo 89d–e

 * This is a pleasant surprise, Archie. I would not have believed it. That of course is the advantage of being a pessimist; a pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.
 * Rex Stout, in lines for Nero Wolfe, in Fer-de-Lance (1934)

 * Once you have identified with some form of negativity, you do not want to let go, and on a deeply unconscious level, you do not want positive change. It would threaten your identity as a depressed, angry, or hard-done-by person. You will then ignore, deny or sabotage the positive in your life. This is a common phenomenon. It is also insane.
 * Eckhart Tolle in The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment (1997)  p. 119

 * All inner resistance is experienced as negativity in one form or another. All negativity is resistance. In this context, the two words are almost synonymous. Negativity ranges from irritation or impatience to fierce anger, from a depressed mood or sullen resentment to suicidal despair. Sometimes the resistance triggers the emotional pain-body, in which case even a minor situation may produce intense negativity, such as anger, depression, or deep grief. The ego believes that through negativity it can manipulate reality and get what it wants. It believes that through it, it can attract a desirable condition or dissolve an undesirable one.
 * Eckhart Tolle in The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment (1997)  p. 119

 * Negativity is totally unnatural. It is a psychic pollutant, and there is a deep link between the poisoning and destruction of nature and the vast negativity that has accumulated in the collective human psyche. No other life form on the planet knows negativity, only humans, just as no other life form violates and poisons the Earth that sustains it. Have you ever seen an unhappy flower or a stressed oak tree? Have you come across a depressed dolphin, a frog that has a problem with self-esteem, a cat that cannot relax, or a bird that carries hatred and resentment? The only animals that may occasionally experience something akin to negativity or show signs of neurotic behavior are those that live in close contact with humans and so link into the human mind and its insanity.
 * Eckhart Tolle in The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment (1997)  p. 119

 * Occasionally... two ducks will get into a fight - sometimes for no apparent reason, or because one duck has strayed into another's private space. The fight usually lasts only for a few seconds, and then the ducks separate, swim off in opposite directions, and vigorously flap their wings a few times. They then continue to swim on peacefully as if the fight had never happened. When I observed that for the first time, I suddenly realized that by flapping their wings they were releasing surplus energy, thus preventing it from becoming trapped in their body and turning into negativity. This is natural wisdom, and it is easy for them because they do not have a mind that keeps the past alive unnecessarily and then builds an identity around it.
 * Eckhart Tolle in The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment (1997)  p. 120

 * When you have reached a certain degree of presence, you don't need negativity anymore to tell you what is needed in your life situation. But as long as negativity is there, use it. Use it as a kind of signal that reminds you to be more present... you stop it from arising by being fully present.
 * Eckhart Tolle in The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment (1997)  p. 120

 * As long as I breathe I hope. As long as I breathe I shall fight for the future, that radiant future, in which man, strong and beautiful, will become master of the drifting stream of his history and will direct it towards the boundless horizons of beauty, joy and happiness!
 * Leon Trotsky,  "On Optimism and Pessimism, on the Twentieth Century, and on Many Other Things" (1901), as quoted in The Prophet Armed : Trotsky, 1879-1921 (2003) by Isaac Deutscher, p. 45

 * Maslow's psychology, firmly based upon Freud and Watson, simply points out that the optimistic side of the picture has been overlooked; the deterministic laws of our 'lower nature' hold sway in their won field; but there are other laws. Man's freedom is a reality — a reality that makes a difference to his physical, as well as his mental health. When Frankl's prisoners ceased to believe in the possibility of freedom, they grew sick and died. On the other hand, when they saw that Dachau had no chimney, standing out all night in the rain seemed no great hardship; they laughed and joked. The conclusion needs to be stated in letters ten feet high. In order to realise his possibilities, man must believe in an open future; he must have a vision of something worth doing. And this will not be possible until all the determinism and pessimism that we have inherited from the 19th century — and which has infected every department of our culture, from poetry to atomic physics — has been dismissed as fallacious and illogical. Twentieth century science, philosophy, politics, literature — even music — has been constructed upon a weltanschauung that leaves half of human nature out of account.
 * Colin Wilson in New Pathways In Psychology: Maslow and the Post-Freudian Revolution, p 219-220 (1972)

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