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 * Chamber music—a conversation between friends.
 * Catherine Drinker Bowen

 * Listen kid, take my advice, never hate a song that has sold a half million copies!
 * Irving Berlin speaking to Cole Porter.

 * Had I learned to fiddle, I should have done nothing else.
 * Samuel Johnson

 * If an opera cannot be played by an organ-grinder, it is not going to achieve immortality.
 * Thomas Beecham

 * Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
 * Kin Hubbard

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Thomas Friedman

Thomas Lauren Friedman (born July 20, 1953) is an American journalist and columnist who joined The New York Times in 1981.

Quotes

 * Only if you give the Palestinians something to lose is there a hope that they will agree to moderate their demands.… I believe that as soon as Ahmed has a seat in the bus, he will limit his demands.
 * The New York Times (10 December 1986).

 * Sooner or later, Mr. Bush argued, sanctions would force Mr. Hussein's generals to bring him down, and then Washington would have the best of all worlds: an iron-fisted Iraqi junta without Saddam Hussein.

 * Like it or not, we are at war with the Serbian nation (the Serbs certainly think so), and the stakes have to be very clear: Every week you ravage Kosovo is another decade we will set your country back by pulverizing you. You want 1950? We can do 1950. You want 1389? We can do 1389 too.
 * "Foreign Affairs; Stop the Music", The New York Times (April 23, 1999).

 * No two countries that both have a McDonald's have ever fought a war against each other.... The question raised by the McDonald's example is whether there is a tip-over point at which a country, by integrating with the global economy, opening itself up to foreign investment and empowering its consumers, permanently restricts its capacity for troublemaking and promotes gradual democratization and widening peace.

 * The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist. McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the designer of the F-15. And the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley's technologies to flourish is called the US Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps.

 * China's going to have a free press.... Oh, China's leaders don't know it yet, but they are being pushed straight in that direction.

 * The historical debate is over. The answer is free-market capitalism. Other systems may be able to distribute and divide income more efficiently and equitably, but none can generate income to distribute as efficiently as free-market capitalism.

 * The Golden Straitjacket is the defining political-economic garment of this globalization era.... The tighter you wear it, the more gold it produces.

 * After two years of traveling almost exclusively to Western Europe and the Middle East, Poland feels like a geopolitical spa. I visited here for just three days and got two years of anti-American bruises massaged out of me. Get this: people here actually tell you they like America—without whispering. What has gotten into these people? Have all their subscriptions to Le Monde Diplomatique expired? Haven't they gotten the word from Berlin and Paris? No, they haven't. In fact, Poland is the antidote to European anti-Americanism. Poland is to France what Advil is to a pain in the neck. Or as Michael Mandelbaum, the Johns Hopkins foreign affairs specialist, remarked after visiting Poland: "Poland is the most pro-American country in the world—including the United States."

 * We need to send the message that anyone who orders suicide bombings against Americans, or protects those who do, commits suicide himself. And U.S. marines will search every cave in Afghanistan to make that principle stick. You order, you die—absolutely, positively, you die.

 * Reading Europe's press, it is really reassuring to see how warmly Europeans have embraced President Bush's formulation that an "axis of evil" threatens world peace. There's only one small problem. President Bush thinks the axis of evil is Iran, Iraq and North Korea, and the Europeans think it's Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney and Condi Rice.

 * You win the presidency by connecting with the American people's gut insecurities and aspirations. You win with a concept. The concept I'd argue for is "neoliberalism." More Americans today are natural neolibs, than neocons. Neoliberals believe in a muscular foreign policy and a credible defense budget, but also a prudent fiscal policy that balances taxes, deficit reduction and government services.

 * We needed to go over there, basically, and take out a very big stick right in the heart of that world and burst that bubble.… What they [Muslims] needed to see was American boys and girls going house to house from Basra to Baghdad and basically saying "Which part of this sentence don't you understand? You don't think we care about our open society? You think this bubble fantasy, we're just going to let it grow? Well, suck on this!" That, Charlie, is what this war was about. We could have hit Saudi Arabia! It was part of that bubble. We could have hit Pakistan. We hit Iraq because we could.
 * Interview with Charlie Rose, May 30, 2003.

 * Now we've entered Globalization 3.0, and it is shrinking the world from size small to a size tiny.

 * I was speaking out in Minnesota—my hometown, in fact—and a guy stood up in the audience, said, "Mr. Friedman, is there any free trade agreement you’d oppose?" I said, "No, absolutely not." I said, "You know what, sir? I wrote a column supporting the CAFTA, the Caribbean Free Trade initiative. I didn’t even know what was in it. I just knew two words: free trade."
 * Meet the Press (23 July 2006), referring to the Central American Free Trade Agreement.

 * The first rule of holes is when you’re in one, stop digging. When you’re in three, bring a lot of shovels.

 * One-party autocracy certainly has its drawbacks. But when it is led by a reasonably enlightened group of people, as China is today, it can also have great advantages. That one party can just impose the politically difficult but critically important policies needed to move a society forward in the 21st century.

 * The only engine big enough to impact Mother Nature is Father Greed.

 * Israel should really reflect on what's going on in Egypt. It does not want to be the Hosni Mubarak of the peace process.
 * Meet The Press, January 30, 2011.

 * You really do have to wonder whether a few years from now we’ll look back at the first decade of the 21st century—when food prices spiked, energy prices soared, world population surged, tornados plowed through cities, floods and droughts set records, populations were displaced and governments were threatened by the confluence of it all—and ask ourselves: What were we thinking? How did we not panic when the evidence was so obvious that we’d crossed some growth/climate/natural resource/population redlines all at once?

"The next … months" in Iraq

 * The next six months in Iraq—which will determine the prospects for democracy-building there—are the most important six months in U.S. foreign policy in a long, long time.

 * What I absolutely don't understand is just at the moment when we finally have a UN-approved Iraqi-caretaker government made up of—I know a lot of these guys—reasonably decent people and more than reasonably decent people, everyone wants to declare it's over. I don't get it. It might be over in a week, it might be over in a month, it might be over in six months, but what's the rush? Can we let this play out, please?
 * Fresh Air, June 3, 2004

 * What we're gonna find out, Bob, in the next six to nine months is whether we have liberated a country or uncorked a civil war.
 * Face the Nation, October 3, 2004

 * Improv time is over. This is crunch time. Iraq will be won or lost in the next few months. But it won't be won with high rhetoric. It will be won on the ground in a war over the last mile.

 * That will become clear in the next few months as we see just what kind of minority the Sunnis in Iraq intend to be. If they come around, a decent outcome in Iraq is still possible, and we should stay to help build it. If they won't, then we are wasting our time. We should arm the Shiites and Kurds and leave the Sunnis of Iraq to reap the wind.

 * I think we're in the end-game now…. I think we're in a six-month window here where it's going to become very clear and this is all going to pre-empt, I think, the next congressional election—that's my own feeling—let alone the presidential one.
 * Meet the Press, September 25, 2005

 * The only thing I am certain of is that in the wake of this election, Iraq will be what Iraqis make of it—and the next six months will tell us a lot. I remain guardedly hopeful.

 * We've teed up this situation for Iraqis, and I think the next six months really are going to determine whether this country is going to collapse into three parts or more or whether it's going to come together.
 * Face the Nation, December 18, 2005

 * We're at the beginning of, I think, the decisive, I would say, six months in Iraq, OK, because I feel like this election—you know, I felt from the beginning Iraq was going to be ultimately, Charlie, what Iraqis make of it.
 * Charlie Rose, December 20, 2005

 * I think that we're going to know after six to nine months whether this project has any chance of succeeding. In which case, I think the American people as a whole will want to play it out or whether it really is a fool's errand.
 * The Oprah Winfrey Show, January 23, 2006

 * I think we're in the end game there, in the next three to six months, Bob. We've got for the first time an Iraqi government elected on the basis of an Iraqi constitution. Either they're going to produce the kind of inclusive consensual government that we aspire to in the near term, in which case America will stick with it, or they're not, in which case I think the bottom's going to fall out.
 * Unidentified CBS program (January 31, 2006), quoted in American Armageddon (2008) by Craig Unger.

 * I think we are in the end game. The next six to nine months are going to tell whether we can produce a decent outcome in Iraq.
 * Today, March 2, 2006

 * Can Iraqis get this government together? If they do, I think the American public will continue to want to support the effort there to try to produce a decent, stable Iraq. But if they don't, then I think the bottom is going to fall out of public support here for the whole Iraq endeavor. So one way or another, I think we're in the end game in the sense it's going to be decided in the next weeks or months whether there's an Iraq there worth investing in. And that is something only Iraqis can tell us.
 * CNN Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer, April 23, 2006

 * Well, I think that we're going to find out, Chris, in the next year to six months—probably sooner—whether a decent outcome is possible there, and I think we're going to have to just let this play out.
 * Hardball with Chris Matthews, May 11, 2006

Quotes about Friedman

 * He won two Pulitzer prizes. He won for balanced and informed coverage. You may have noticed that it was announced on April Fools' Day, which was not by accident. For years the guy has been covering up for Israel, falsifying facts. When the Israeli press comes out with headlines saying "Arafat Calls for Negotiations, Peres Refuses", as they did in December of 1986, Tom Friedman will choose that occasion to write one of his many articles saying that Peace Now is losing credibility because there is no counterpart in the Arab World.
 * Noam Chomsky as quoted in

 * One might ask what the reaction would be if a prominent journalist urged South Africans to "give Sambo a seat in the bus," or proposed that Jews be granted something to lose, because "if you give Hymie a seat in the bus, he may limit his demands." Promotion to chief diplomatic correspondent, perhaps?

 * "green growth" advocates such as Thomas Friedman tell us that the process of developing new green technologies and installing green infrastructure can provide a huge economic boost, sending GDP soaring and generating the wealth needed to "make America healthier, richer, more innovative, more productive, and more secure."
 * Naomi Klein On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal (2019)

 * "My heart is with the greens," Thomas Friedman wrote in the New York Times. "But my head says you can't transform our energy system and our social/economic one at scale all at once. We have to prioritize energy/climate. Because for the environment, later will be too late. Later is officially over." This assumes that the social/economic components of the Green New Deal are weighing it down. In fact, they are precisely what is lifting it up.
 * Naomi Klein On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal (2019)

 * Energy independence is nice, but you need a planet to be energy independent on. Mysteriously enough, this seems to be a particularly hard point for smart people to grasp. Even in the wake of the disastrous Senate non-vote, the Nature Conservancy's climate expert told New York Times columnist Tom Friedman, "We have to take climate change out of the atmosphere, bring it down to earth, and show how it matters in people's everyday lives." Translation: ordinary average people can't possibly recognize the real stakes here, so let's put it in language they can understand, which is about their most immediate interests. It's both untrue, as I'll show below, and incredibly patronizing. It is, however, exactly what we've been doing for a decade and, clearly, It Does Not Work.
 * Bill McKibben article in The Global Warming Reader (2012)

 * how do you control the oil? Nobody puts it more any than the New York Timer columnist Thomas Friedman. In an article called "Craziness Pays," he says the US has to make clear to Iraq and U.S. allies that...America will use force, without negotiation, hesitation, or UN approval." His advice was well taken. In the wars against Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as in the almost daily humiliation the U.S. government heaps on the UN. In his book on globalization, The Lexus and the Olive Tree, Friedman says, "The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist. McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas.... And the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley's technologies to flourish is called the U.S. Army, Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps."
 * Arundhati Roy War Talk (2003)

 * Thomas Friedman does not get [metaphors] right even by accident. It's not that he occasionally screws up and fails to make his metaphors and images agree. It's that he always screws it up. He has an anti-ear, and it's absolutely infallible; he is a Joyce or a Flaubert in reverse, incapable of rendering even the smallest details without genius. The difference between Friedman and an ordinary bad writer is that an ordinary bad writer will, say, call some businessman a shark and have him say some tired, uninspired piece of dialogue; Friedman will have him spout it.
 * Matt Taibbi, review of The World Is Flat, April 20, 2005

 * Israel is now waging a war against civilians, pure and simple, although you will never hear it put that way in the United States. This is a racist war and, in its strategy and tactics, a colonial one as well. People are being killed and made to suffer disproportionately because they are not Jews. What an irony! Yet CNN never refers to “occupied” territories (always rather to “violence in Israel,” as if the main battlefields were the concert halls and cafés of Tel Aviv and not in fact the ghettos and besieged refugee camps of Palestine that have already been surrounded by no less than 150 illegal Israeli settlements). For the past ten years, the great fraud of Oslo was foisted on the world by the United States, with hardly an awareness that only 18 percent of the West Bank was given up, and 60 percent of Gaza. No one knows geography, and it’s better not to know, since the reality on the ground is so astonishing, considering the verbal hoopla and self-congratulation. And that pseudo-pundit—the insufferably conceited Thomas Friedman—still has the gall to say that “Arab TV” shows one-sided pictures, as if “Arab TV” should be showing things from Israel’s point of view the way CNN does, with “Mideast violence” the catchall word for the ethnic cleansing that Israel is wreaking on the Palestinians in their ghettos and camps. Has Friedman (or CNN, for that matter) ever tried to point out the difference between an attacking army fighting a colonial war on the territory of the people it has occupied for thirty-five years, and the people defending against that butchery? Of course not, for indeed why should Friedman ever bother to say honestly that there is no Palestinian occupation, there are no Palestinian F-16s, no Apache helicopters, no gunboats, no Merkava tanks, in short, no Palestinian occupation of Israel. So much for Friedman’s credentials as an honest commentator and reporter, who has utterly failed in unadorned terms both to explain the U.S. view and to understand the Arab and Palestinian cause. Can he not see that he and his writings are part of the problem, that in their maundering selfjustifications and their dishonesty, showing no sign of the self-criticism he keeps hectoringly expecting of others, he actually aggravates the ignorance and the misperceptions rather than reducing them? Poor journalist and educator, he.
 * Edward Said, "What Price Oslo?" (2002), published in From Oslo to Iraq and the Road Map (2004)

 * There is something more severe than the problem with Thomas Friedman, which can be generalized to represent someone causing action while being completely unaccountable for his words.

 * Today putative liberal and mustachioed wonker Thomas Friedman (New York Times, 6/3/15) did what he does best: take something vaguely topical and use it as a hook to promote whatever topic he and his billionaire friends want to propagandize that week.

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George Fox

George Fox (July 1624 – 13 January 1691) was an English Dissenter, who was a founder of the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as the Quakers or Friends. The son of a Leicestershire weaver, he lived in times of social upheaval and war. He rebelled against the religious and political authorities by proposing an unusual, uncompromising approach to the Christian faith. He travelled throughout Britain as a dissenting preacher, performing hundreds of healings, and often being persecuted by the disapproving authorities.

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 * Be patterns, be examples in all countries, places, islands, nations wherever you come; that your carriage and life may preach among all sorts of people, and to them; then you will come to walk cheerfully over the world, answering that of God in everyone; whereby in them you may be a blessing, and make the witness of God in them to bless you.
 * Statement of 1656, from The Works of George Fox (1831)

 * But as I had forsaken the priests, so I left the separate preachers also, and those esteemed the most experienced people; for I saw there was none among them all that could speak to my condition. And when all my hopes in them and in all men were gone, so that I had nothing outwardly to help me, nor could tell what to do, then, oh, then, I heard a voice which said, "There is one, even Christ Jesus, that can speak to thy condition"; and when I heard it my heart did leap for joy. Then the Lord let me see why there was none upon the earth that could speak to my condition, namely, that I might give Him all the glory; for all are concluded under sin, and shut up in unbelief as I had been, that Jesus Christ might have the pre-eminence who enlightens, and gives grace, and faith, and power. Thus when God doth work, who shall let [hinder] it? and this I knew experimentally [through experience].
 * Quaker Faith and Practice, Britain Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends

 * '''The Lord showed me, so that I did see clearly, that he did not dwell in these temples which men had commanded and set up, but in people's hearts … his people were his temple, and he dwelt in them.
 * Journal (1694)

 * I told [the Commonwealth Commissioners] I lived in the virtue of that life and power that took away the occasion of all wars... I told them I was come into the covenant of peace which was before wars and strife were.
 * Statement of 1651, quoted in Quaker Faith and Practice, Britain Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends

 * I was moved of the Lord to write a paper to the Protector, Oliver Cromwell; wherein I did, in the presence of the Lord God, declare that I denied the wearing or drawing of a carnal sword, or any other outward weapon, against him or any man; and that I was sent of God to stand a witness against all violence, and against the works of darkness; and to turn people from darkness to light; and to bring them from the causes of war and fighting, to the peaceable gospel. When I had written what the Lord had given me to write, I set my name to it, and gave it to Captain Drury to hand to Oliver Cromwell, which he did.
 * Autobiography of George Fox (1694)

l spoke much to him of Truth, and much discourse I had with him about religion; wherein he carried himself very moderately. But he said we quarrelled with priests, whom he called ministers. I told him I did not quarrel with them, but that they quarrelled with me and my friends. "But," said I, "if we own the prophets, Christ, and the apostles, we cannot hold up such teachers, prophets, and shepherds, as the prophets, Christ, and the apostles declared against; but we must declare against them by the same power and Spirit." Then I showed him that the prophets, Christ, and the apostles declared freely, and against them that did not declare freely; such as preached for filthy lucre, and divined for money, and preached for hire, and were covetous and greedy, that could never have enough; and that they that have the same spirit that Christ, and the prophets, and the apostles had, could not but declare against all such now, as they did then. '''As I spoke, he several times said, it was very good, and it was truth. I told him that all Christendom (so called) had the Scriptures, but they wanted the power and Spirit that those had who gave forth the Scriptures; and that was the reason they were not in fellowship with the Son, nor with the Father, nor with the Scriptures, nor one with another.''' Many more words I had with him; but people coming in, I drew a little back. '''As I was turning, he caught me by the hand, and with tears in his eyes said, "Come again to my house; for if thou and I were but an hour of a day together, we should be nearer one to the other"; adding that he wished me no more ill than he did to his own soul. I told him if he did he wronged his own soul; and admonished him to hearken to God's voice, that he might stand in his counsel, and obey it; and if he did so, that would keep him from hardness of heart; but if he did not hear God's voice, his heart would be hardened. He said it was true.''' Then I went out; and when Captain Drury came out after me he told me the Lord Protector had said I was at liberty, and might go whither I would. Then I was brought into a great hall, where the Protector's gentlemen were to dine. I asked them what they brought me thither for. They said it was by the Protector's order, that I might dine with them. I bid them let the Protector know that I would not eat of his bread, nor drink of his drink. When he heard this he said, "Now I see there is a people risen that I cannot win with gifts or honours, offices or places; but all other sects and people I can." It was told him again that we had forsaken our own possessions; and were not like to look for such things from him.
 * When I came in I was moved to say, "Peace be in this house"; and I exhorted him to keep in the fear of God, that he might receive wisdom from Him, that by it he might be directed, and order all things under his hand to God's glory.
 * On his meeting with Oliver Cromwell, in Autobiography of George Fox (1694)

 * Why should any man have power over any other man's faith, seeing Christ Himself is the author of it?
 * Quoted in "Memoir of George Fox", The Friends' Library: comprising journals, doctrinal treatises, and other writings of members of the Religious Society of Friends, edited by William Evans and Thomas Evans (1837) volume 1, page 76

Quotes about Fox

 * The House being informed, that Two Quakers, (that is to say) George Fox, and Rob. Gressingham, have lately made a great Disturbance at Harwich; and that the said George Fox, who pretends to be a Preacher, did lately, in his preaching there, speak Words much reflecting on the Government and Ministry, to the near causing of a Mutiny, and is now committed by the Mayor and Magistrates there; Ordered, That the said George Fox, and Robert Gressingham, be forthwith brought up in Custody: And that the Sheriff of the County of Essex do receive them, and give his Assistance for the conveying them up accordingly, and delivering them into the Charge of the Serjeant at Arms attending this House.
 * Order for the arrest of Fox and Robert Gressingham, in "Geo. Fox, &c" in House of Commons Journal, Volume 8, (21 May 1660)

 * There's a light that is shining in the heart of a man, it's the light that was shining when the world began. There's a light that is shining in the Turk and the Jew and a light that is shining, friend, in me and in you.
 * Sydney Carter, in "George Fox" a variant on his lyrics to "Lord of the Dance" dedicated to Fox

 * "With a book and a steeple, with a bell and a key they would bind it forever, but they can't," said he. "Oh, the book it will perish and the steeple will fall, but the light will be shining at the end of it all."
 * Sydney Carter, in "George Fox" a variant on his lyrics to "Lord of the Dance" dedicated to Fox

 * "If we give you a pistol, will you fight for the Lord?" "But you can't kill the Devil with a gun or a sword!" "Will you swear on the Bible?" "I will not!" said he, "For the truth is more holy than the book, to me."
 * Sydney Carter, in "George Fox" a variant on his lyrics to "Lord of the Dance" dedicated to Fox

 * There's an ocean of darkness and I drown in the night till I come through the darkness to the ocean of light, for the light is forever and the light it is free, "And I walk in the glory of the light," said he.
 * Sydney Carter, in "George Fox" a variant on his lyrics to "Lord of the Dance" dedicated to Fox

Cromwell knew what Fox meant, for two years earlier he had received a strange and disturbing missive in which he had read these words:
 * It was three hundred years ago, in October 1656, that George Fox had a memorable interview with Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England. It was one of the great moments of a great century, for here, face to face, were two of the most powerful personalities of the age, the one the military dictator of the British Isles at the pinnacle of his worldly power, the other a crude, rustic preacher who had just spent eight months in one of England's foulest prisons. They met in Whitehall, at the very heart of the British government. Fox bluntly took the Protector to task for persecuting Friends when he should have protected them. Then characteristically he set about trying to make a Quaker out of Cromwell, to turn him to "the light of Christ who had enlightened every man that cometh into the world." Cromwell was in an argumentative mood and took issue with Fox's theology, but Fox had no patience with his objections. "The power of God riz in me," he wrote, "and I was moved to bid him lay down his crown at the feet of Jesus."
 * God is my witness, by whom I am moved to give this forth for the Truth's sake, from him whom the world calls George Fox; who is the son of God who is sent to stand a witness against all violence and against all the works of darkness, and to turn people from the darkness to the light, and to bring them from the occasion of the war and from the occasion of the magistrate's sword...
 * The man who persisted in calling himself the "son of God"— he later acknowledged that he had many brothers — was demanding nothing less than that the military ruler of all England should forthwith disavow all violence and all coercion, make Christ's law of love the supreme law of the land, and substitute the mild dictates of the Sermon on the Mount for the Instrument of Government by which he ruled. In a word, Fox would have him make England a kind of pilot project for the Kingdom of Heaven. Fox was a revolutionary. He had no patience with the relativities and compromises of political life. His testimony was an uncompromising testimony for the radical Christian ethic of love and non-violence, and he would apply it in the arena of politics as in every other sphere of life. It is not recorded that Cromwell took his advice. Neither is it recorded that Fox ever receded an inch from his radical perfectionism.
 * Frederick B. Tolles, in his address "Quakerism and Politics" (9 November 1956)

 * “Perhaps the most remarkable incident in Modern History,” says Teufelsdrockh, “is not the Diet of Worms, still less the Battle of Austerlitz, Waterloo, Peterloo, or any other Battle; but an incident passed carelessly over by most Historians, and treated with some degree of ridicule by others: namely, George Fox’s making to himself a suit of Leather.
 * Thomas Carlyle, in Sartor Resartus (1836)

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Smedley Butler

Major General Smedley Darlington Butler (July 30, 1881 – June 21, 1940), nicknamed "Maverick Marine", was a senior United States Marine Corps officer who fought in the Philippine–American War, the Boxer Rebellion, the Mexican Revolution and World War I. During his 34-year career as a Marine, he participated in military actions in the Philippines, China, Central America, the Caribbean during the Banana Wars, and France in World War I. Butler was, at the time of his death, the most decorated Marine in U.S. history.

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 * War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.
 * From a speech (1933)

 * I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. If a nation comes over here to fight, then we'll fight. The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag.
 * From a speech (1933)

 * I wouldn't go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy investment of the bankers. There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket.
 * From a speech (1933)

 * My interest is, my one hobby is, maintaining a democracy. If you get these 500,000 soldiers advocating anything smelling of Fascism, I am going to get 500,000 more and lick the hell out of you, and we will have a real war right at home.
 * Reply to Gerald MacGuire, after being asked to organize WWI veterans (for military support) in a fascist-coup of FDR, as related by Butler in testimony before Congress, 1934. A reporter (a Butler confidant) testified MacGuire said, "We might go along with Roosevelt and then do with him what Mussolini did with the King of Italy." Which was, made him a figure-head.

 * I spent 33 years and 4 months In active service as a member of our country's most agile military force – the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from a second lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism. … Thus I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. … I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-12. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. … During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket. I was rewarded with honors, medals, promotion. Looking back on it, I feel I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three city districts. We Marines operated on three continents.
 * Common Sense, Vol. 4, No. 11 (November, 1935), p. 8. Quoted in 'I Might Have Given Al Capone a Few Hints', The New York Times, September 10, 1987.

War Is a Racket (1935)

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 * War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.

 * A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small "inside" group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.
 * In the World War a mere handful garnered the profits of the conflict. At least 21,000 new millionaires and billionaires were made in the United States during the World War. That many admitted their huge blood gains in their income tax returns. How many other war millionaires falsified their tax returns no one knows.
 * How many of these war millionaires shouldered a rifle? How many of them dug a trench? How many of them knew what it meant to go hungry in a rat-infested dugout? How many of them spent sleepless, frightened nights, ducking shells and shrapnel and machine gun bullets? How many of them parried the bayonet thrust of an enemy? How many of them were wounded or killed in battle?
 * Chapter one, p. 23.

 * Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly is exploited by the few -- the selfsame few who wrung dollars out of blood in the war. The general public shoulders the bill.
 * And what is this bill? This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations.
 * For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it. Now that I see the international war clouds gathering, as they are today, I must face it and speak out.
 * There are 40,000,000 men under arms in the world today, and our statesmen and diplomats have the temerity to say that war is not in the making. Hell's bells! Are these 40,000,000 men being trained to be dancers?
 * Chapter one, pp. 23-24.

 * But what does it profit the masses? What does it profit the men who are killed? What does it profit the men who are maimed? What does it profit their mothers and sisters, their wives and their sweethearts? What does it profit their children? What does it profit anyone except the very few to whom war means huge profits? Yes, and what does it profit the nation?
 * Chapter one, p. 26.

 * The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten, and sometimes twelve percent. But war-time profits -- ah! that is another matter -- twenty, sixty, one hundred, three hundred, and even eighteen hundred per cent -- the sky is the limit.
 * Of course, it isn't put that crudely in war time. It is dressed into speeches about patriotism, love of country, and "we must all put our shoulders to the wheel," but the profits jump and leap and skyrocket -- and are safely pocketed.
 * Chapter two, p. 27.

 * A few profit – and the many pay. But there is a way to stop it. You can't end it by disarmament conferences. You can't eliminate it by peace parleys at Geneva. Well-meaning but impractical groups can't wipe it out by resolutions. It can be smashed effectively only by taking the profit out of war.
 * Chapter four, p. 39.

 * [W]hat business is it of ours whether Russia or Germany or England or France or Italy or Austria live under democracies or monarchies? Whether they are Fascists or Communists? Our problem is to preserve our own democracy. And very little, if anything, has been accomplished to assure us that the World War was really the war to end all wars.
 * Yes, we have had disarmament conferences and limitations of arms conferences. They don't mean a thing. One has just failed; the results of another have been nullified. We send our professional soldiers and our sailors and our politicians and our diplomats to these conferences. And what happens?
 * The professional soldiers and sailors don't want to disarm. No admiral wants to be without a ship. No general wants to be without a command. Both mean men without jobs. They are not for disarmament. They cannot be for limitations of arms. And at all these conferences, lurking in the background but all-powerful, just the same, are the sinister agents of those who profit by war. They see to it that these conferences do not disarm or seriously limit armaments.
 * Chapter four, p. 44.

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Roger Federer

Roger Federer (born 8 August 1981) is a Swiss professional tennis player and former world No. 1 in men's singles as ranked by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). Federer has won 20 Grand Slam singles titles, the most in history for a male tennis player and has held the world No. 1 spot in the ATP rankings for a total of 302 weeks, including a record 237 consecutive weeks. After turning professional in 1998, he was continuously ranked in the top ten from October 2002 to November 2016.

Quotes

 * Today, I'm totally zen.
 * Brisbane International 2016

 * People sometimes miss it and sometimes they don't have it and they want it, and when they have it, they don't want it
 * On rivalries (while referring to his rivalry with Rafael Nadal (July 9, 2006)

 * Previously I always thought it was just tactical and technique, but every match has become almost mental and physical—I try to push myself to move well. I try to push myself not to get upset and stay positive, and that's what my biggest improvement is over all those years. Under pressure I can see things very clear.
 * Post match press conference after winning Dubai Open 2007.

 * All four of those are on grass, whereas I have to play some on a hard court!
 * Humorously explaining why it is more difficult for him to win all four grand slams in Tennis than it is for Tiger Woods to win in Golf.
 * It's just unreal, I'm shocked myself. I've played good matches here, but never really almost destroyed somebody.
 * After defeating Andy Roddick in the Australian Open 2007 semi-final.

 * It was just one of those days for him to forget and me to remember.
 * After defeating Andy Roddick in the Australian Open 2007 semi-final.

 * I would so like to be Lenny Kravitz.
 * Lenny Kravitz quote, first quote on the right

 * I never waited 27 years, because 27 years ago I was just born. My parents never told me, 'If you don't win Roland Garros we take you to the orphanage.'
 * When asked what it was like to wait 27 years to win the French Open. http://198.105.192.83/general/tennis/story?storyId=4760203

 * No no no, too late! Stop! Yeah, come on… I was allowed to challenge for like two seconds, the guy takes like ten… Every time! I can't allowed that stuff to happen! You have any rules in there or what ?! Stop showing me your hand, ok?! Don't tell me to be quite, ok?! When I wanna talk, I talk, all right?! I don't give a shit what he said, I just say he's waiting way too long…
 * Criticizing umpire during 2009 US Open heartbreaking final against Juan Martin del Potro, who took long before challenging a wide call. Scene on Youtube

 * Sometimes you're just happy playing. Some people, some media, unfortunately, don't understand that it's okay just to play tennis and enjoy it. They always think you have to win everything, it always needs to be a success story, and if it's not, obviously, what is the point? Maybe you have to go back and think, Why have I started playing tennis? Because I just like it.  It's actually sort of a dream hobby that became somewhat of a job.  Some people just don't get that, ever.
 * Tennis - ATP World Tour - Shanghai 2012 Thursday - Federer Recalls First Time At No. 1

 * I think you need inspiration, motivation from different angles to keep you going, because it isn’t that simple just to wake up every morning and go for another travel around the world, another practice, all these other things; another fitness workout, another stretch. It’s always nice, but you need to have some success and you need to have the right reasons why you’re doing it. I think I’ve always been able to do that and I really enjoy myself out on the court.
 * Tennis - ATP World Tour - London 2012 Final - Federer Inspired By Love For The Game

 * No, the other one was a night session too and I was wearing a white! No I'm not superstitious at all as you can see and… I try not to be… and because I try no to be, I guess I am… So it's really strange!
 * After defeating Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, quarter final of Australian Open 2013, when asked by Jim Courier if he was wearing a black tee-shirt for a night session as a superstitious man. Interview on Youtube

 * You gotta be careful about how you phrase that. You don't want to be rude to the other players, because you gotta face them; I don't have to face them. Yeah, I don't ask them stupid questions like that (laughing)...Um, I think there a lot of good players on the tour.
 * Press conference at the 2016 Australian Open after semi-final loss to Novak Djokovic, after reporter's suggestion that the victor's dominance may be greater than any other in history due to 'there being no great opponents in the future.'

 * Maybe, hopefully, one day you can tell me how it feels to win Montreal.
 * Runner-up speech to Alexander Zverev after his 2017 Montreal Masters 1000 defeat; Federer had won the Canadian Open in Toronto but never in Montreal.

 * We need a clown for this circus.
 * Describing a frequently miscalled match against Nick Kyrgios during changeover at the 2015 Mutua Madrid Open.

 * [...] I have a great deal of respect and admiration for the youth climate movement, and I am grateful to young climate activists for pushing us all to examine our behaviours and act on innovative solutions. We owe it to them and ourselves to listen. I appreciate reminders of my responsibility [...] and I’m committed to using this privileged position to dialogue on important issues with my sponsors.
 * "Roger Federer responds to climate crisis criticism from Greta Thunberg", The Guardian, 12 January 2020.

About Roger Federer

 * What do you want me to do?
 * Andy Murray shouted to his coaching team, after running out of idea against Federer at Wimbledon 2015
 * He hits shots that other guys don’t hit. You want to go over and give him a high five sometimes, but you can’t do that. You want to beat him but he’s fun to watch, too.
 * Sam Querrey was in awe after Federer flashed his racquet between his legs to lob him at Wimbledon 2015

 * Because he can cover so well to the forehand, it really allows him to stay at home in the backhand corner. That backhand corner gets smaller and smaller, sort of dares you to hit the forehand. There's a lot of times you do, and you're thinking that it's a good idea, then a second later you're going, 'Why did I do that?'
 * Andre Agassi post match interview at Australian Open 2005

 * I would suggest that his next opponents don't look to me for advice
 * Andre Agassi after being beaten in QF of Australian Open 2005

 * Roger can produce tennis shots that should be declared illegal
 * Tracy Austin

 * [Federer] ...is the most beautiful man to watch play tennis. The most beautiful I've ever seen play. His movement, combined with the artistry, his racquet, the look, he's got everything going.
 * John McEnroe, winner of 7 Grand Slams, while commentating on United State's Tennis Channel on June 1, 2012

 * We are witnessing history. This is the most dominant athlete on planet earth today.
 * Jim Courier, former world No.1, while commentating on Australia's Channel Seven in 2007
 * For me Roger is the greatest player ever who played the tennis game. It’s always good to see him play and win and we are going to see so much more of Federer in the future; he is going to win more grand slam tournaments.
 * Bjorn Borg, winner of 11 Grand Slams, after Federer won the 2009 French Open Final

 * It’s a combination of how many grand slams have you won, how many tournaments have you won, how many years you were number one, and he’s got all those combinations. The body of work is phenomenal and now he has got that French Open and I think he can just go on and sip Margaritas for the rest of his life.
 * Martina Navratilova, winner of 18 Grand Slams

 * What he’s done over the past five years has never, ever been done — and probably will never, ever happen again. Regardless if he won there or not, he goes down as the greatest ever. This just confirms it. Now that he has won in Paris, I think it just more solidifies his place in history as the greatest player that played the game, in my opinion. I’m a huge Laver fan, and he had a few years in there where he didn’t have an opportunity to win majors. But you can’t compare the eras. And in this era, the competition is much more fierce than Rod’s.
 * Pete Sampras, winner of 14 Grand Slams, after Federer winning 2009 French Open Final

 * His win today at the French Open, tying Pete Sampras’s record for major titles and the completion of a career grand slam firmly places him in a special place as the greatest player of all time. He has earned his place and he has proven he belongs. Roger is a champion for the ages.
 * Billie Jean King, winner of 39 Grand Slams, after Federer won the 2009 French Open Final

 * I never played anyone playing that fast. He doesn’t have any weaknesses at all. He really deserves to be called the best player of all time.
 * Robin Soderling, after losing the 2009 French Open Final to Federer

 * Roger Federer will undoubtedly become the greatest tennis player to have graced the sport if he wins the French Open. It ends the discussion of where he fits in the history of the game. If it wasn't for [four-time champion Rafael] Nadal, he probably would have won a handful of these things. So nobody would underestimate where he deserves to fit in this game. He's extraordinarily talented and talk about grace on court; watching him play is something special to see and if he does it tomorrow, he'll know what an accomplishment it was.
 * Andre Agassi, the day before Federer winning 2009 French Open Final

 * You guys are brutal. Absolutely brutal. The guy has only made two Grand Slam finals this year. I would love his bad year. I would love it.
 * Andy Roddick, to the press, on what he made of press' criticism for Federer's dip in form in 2008 that saw him slip to No. 2 in the world; US Open 2008- Day 7 quotes

 * For me, in my prime, I felt unbeatable. In Roger's days, he's unbeatable. It's really hard to put one guy over the other. Having said that, I think Roger is dominating the game much more than I ever did. I think he's going to go on and pass 14 and win 16, 17, 18 majors. I think he's going to break all records.
 * Pete Sampras, before playing his third exhibition match with Roger Federer, Macau, China, Nov. 23, 2007.

 * I had a taste of what the best is tonight and I think Roger has that extra gear. He has good volleys and he has this little backhand flick that honestly, I have never seen before... it’s something that I didn’t have. I am happy with my performance tonight. I hung in there right until the end.
 * Pete Sampras, after playing his second exhibition match with Roger Federer, Kuala Lumpur, Nov. 22, 2007.

 * If he is playing very good, I have to play unbelievable. If not, it’s impossible, especially if he’s playing with good confidence. When he’s 100 percent, he’s playing in another league. It’s impossible to stop him. I fight. I fight. I fight. Nothing to say. Just congratulate him.
 * Rafael Nadal, after losing to Federer in the Shanghai Masters Cup semifinal, Nov. 17, 2007.

 * In my opinion he's the best player ever. When you play tennis, playing Federer is kind of a dream because you can see he does everything you would love to do on the court.
 * Fabrice Santoro, played 20 of the 24 players to ever hold the No. 1 ranking.

 * He's the most gifted player that I've ever seen in my life. I've seen a lot of people play. I've seen the (Rod) Lavers; I played against some of the great players—the Samprases, Beckers, Connors', Borgs, you name it. This guy could be the greatest of all time. That, to me, says it all.
 * John McEnroe, winner of 7 Grand Slams.

 * Roger is just the greatest player of all time. He is the most beautiful player I’ve ever seen and I don’t ever get tired of watching him. Rod Laver is my idol, Pete Sampras is the greatest grass court player ever, but Roger is just the greatest player of all. I think we can all appreciate how incredible he is even more lately, because he’s shown a bit more emotion on court and he’s become a father so he seems a bit more human, more relatable. That makes what he’s doing seem even more amazing.
 * John McEnroe.
 * Federer is the best player in history, no other player has ever had such quality.
 * Rafael Nadal, after winning French Open 2006.

 * Yes, I really hit with him when he was 15, during a tournament in Basel, and I knew then he would be good, but not this good. If he stays healthy, it will actually be a miracle if he doesn't win more Grand Slams than Pete [Sampras]. The way he picks his shots is unbelievable. He is fast, he has a great volley, a great serve, great backhand, great everything. If I was his coach, what can I tell him? He is a magician with a racket. Even when he is playing badly, which is rarely, he can still do things with his racket nobody else can do.
 * Goran Ivanisevic on the question if Federer is destined to become the greatest player of all time.

 * Well, I think when I look at Roger, I mean, I'm a fan. I mean, I'm a fan of how he plays, what he's about, just the fact that I think he's a class—I don't know him personally, but seems like he's a class guy on and off the court. He's fun to watch. Just his athletic ability, what he's able to do on the run. I think he can and will break every tennis record out there.
 * Pete Sampras, winner of 14 Grand Slams.

 * I don't see anyone with a big enough weapon to hurt him. They're just staying back and Roger is able to dictate well enough. You just have to serve well and attack him.
 * Pete Sampras.

 * I really consider myself top 5 player in the world, which doesn't mean that I am close to Roger.
 * Ivan Ljubicic, at Indian Wells 2006.

 * Oh, I would be honoured to even be compared to Roger. He has such an unbelievable talent, and is capable of anything. Roger could be the greatest tennis player of all time.
 * Rod Laver, winner of 11 Grand Slams, considered by some the greatest player to ever play the game of tennis.

 * Roger's got too many shots, too much talent in one body. It's hardly fair that one person can do all this—his backhands, his forehands, volleys, serving, his court position. The way he moves around the court, you feel like he's barely touching the ground. That's the sign of a great champion.
 * Rod Laver, after 2007 Australian Open semifinal match.

 * The best way to beat him would be to hit him over the head with a racquet. Roger could win the Grand Slam if he keeps playing the way he is and, if he does that, it will equate to the two Grand Slams that I won because standards are much higher these days.
 * Rod Laver, speaking ahead of the 2007 Australian Open final against Fernando Gonzalez.

 * He's the best I've ever played against. There's nowhere to go. There's nothing to do except hit fairways, hit greens and make putts. Every shot has that sort of urgency on it. I've played a lot of them [other players], so many years; there's a safety zone, there's a place to get to, there's something to focus on, there's a way. Anything you try to do, he potentially has an answer for and it's just a function of when he starts pulling the triggers necessary to get you to change to that decision.
 * Andre Agassi, at US Open 2005.

 * He hits that short chip, moves you forward, moves you back. He uses your pace against you. If you take pace off, so that he can't use your pace, he can step around and hurt you with the forehand. Just the amount of options he has to get around any particular stage of the match where maybe something's out of sync is—seems to be endless. His success out there is just a mere reflection of all the things that he can do.
 * Andre Agassi, at US Open 2005.

 * There's probably not a department in his game that couldn't be considered the best in that department. You watch him play Hewitt and everybody marvels at Hewitt's speed, as well as myself. And you start to realize, `Is it possible Federer even moves better?' Then you watch him play Andy [Roddick], and you go, `Andy has a big forehand. Is it possible Federer's forehand is the best in the game?' You watch him at the net, you watch him serve-volley somebody that doesn't return so well and you put him up there with the best in every department. You see him play from the ground against those that play from the ground for a living, and argue he does it better than anybody.
 * Andre Agassi.

 * He's a real person. He's not an enigma. Off the court he's not trying to be somebody. If you met him at McDonald's and you didn't know who he was, you would have no idea that he's one of the best athletes in the world.
 * Andy Roddick, at Cincinnati 2005.

 * I think there's—he's the main guy and then there's probably four or five of us that are—I don't know. Maybe we need to do just a tag team effort or something, join forces, you know, like Power Rangers or something.
 * Andy Roddick, after losing to Roger Federer at the final of Cincinnati 2005.

 * [In the modern game], you're either a clay court specialist, a grass court specialist or a hard court specialist … or you're Roger Federer.
 * Jimmy Connors, winner of 8 Grand Slams.

 * He hasn't changed a bit. He hasn't been arrogant in the locker room. He never is. That's great to see someone that does it with class. He doesn't intentionally get in anyone's face. He doesn't put people down.
 * James Blake, at Cincinnati 2005.

 * He is on his way to becoming possibly the greatest of all time. But he's still human.
 * James Blake, before he faced Federer in the Quarterfinal at the US Open 2006.

 * He put tennis, the bar very high—very high. It's incredible what kind of game he can play.
 * Marat Safin, at Australian Open 2005.

 * I'd like to be in his shoes for one day to know what it feels like to play that way.
 * Mats Wilander, winner of 7 Grand Slams.

 * Roger Federer is the most talented tennis player I have ever seen. He has the capacity to become the greatest in history.
 * Nick Bollettieri.

 * Roger is a complete player. What he has, and it's not luck, is the ability to change his game slightly as to what his opponent's doing to him.
 * Jack Kramer, an all-time great of the game.

 * I thought Ellsworth Vines and Don Budge were pretty good. And Gonzalez and Hoad could play a bit, too, but I have never seen anyone play the game better than Federer. He serves well and has a great half-volley. I've never known anyone who can do as many things on a court as he can.
 * Jack Kramer

 * I'm not sure if he has any weakness in his repertoire.
 * Jonas Bjorkman, after losing in the semifinal of Wimbledon 2006 6-2, 6-0, 6-2.

 * Maybe Roger Federer will rescue tennis. He plays like we did in the past.
 * Ilie Nastase, first ever World No.1 when rankings were introduced in 1973.

 * He is capable of hitting shots which other players don't even think about trying. He has so many skills.
 * Ivan Lendl, on the 25 Birthday Party of Federer in Toronto.

 * Maybe I could win more championships and prize money if Federer was not in the same age with me, but you have to know that there is something money can not buy—that's playing against Federer.
 * Ivan Ljubicic.

 * He is the best man in the game, on and off the court, and he has a great personality. I enjoy so much having opportunities to compete against him.
 * Ivan Ljubicic.

 * I am so proud to have him around. It is very pity that I am not able to play with Pete Sampras, but it's okay; I can see Federer on the tour. I could tell my grandson someday that I have competed against the greatest player on the planet.
 * Ivan Ljubicic.

 * Today I was playing my best tennis, trying lots of different things, but nothing worked. When you're playing like that and he still comes up with all those great shots you really have to wonder if he's even from the same planet.
 * Novak Djokovic, after Davis Cup match.

 * Roger is like a good red wine, he's getting better with age...I think his big years will be when he is 26, 27, 28.
 * Tony Roche, former coach of Roger Federer.

 * Roger hasn't even started to use a lot of his game.
 * Tony Roche, former coach of Roger Federer.

 * Just about everything he does is pretty impressive. So, yeah, 50 titles at any age is impressive. 50 titles at 26 is incredible. 50 titles with 11 of them being Grand Slams, and I think now 14 being Masters Series, that's just phenomenal.
 * James Blake after their final in Cincinnati 2007, when Federer won his 50th title in the ATP circuit.

 * I can cry like Roger, it's just a shame I can't play like him.
 * Andy Murray, after losing to Federer in the Australian Open 2010's final.

 * No way I would be a journalist. You guys have tried to kill Roger - often. But he's always come back and proved you wrong. So one thing I would not do is make the mistake of saying Roger is dead.
 * Rafael Nadal, when asked what he would write about Federer's decline if he were a journalist.

 * I never can beat Roger, he’s too much for me… but the Senior Tour, I will beat him then! He’s the best of history and I’m very lucky to play the best player of the world.
 * David Ferrer, after losing to Federer in the 2014 Cincinnati Masters final.

 * The metaphysical explanation is that Roger Federer is one of those rare, preternatural athletes who appear to be exempt, at least in part, from certain physical laws.
 * David Foster Wallace, author in 2006 article in the New York Times titled Federer as Religious Experience

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The Outer Limits

The Outer Limits may refer to either:

 * The Outer Limits (1963 TV series) - (1963-1965) a sciencefiction anthology series, airing on ABC

 * The Outer Limits (1995 TV series) - (1995-2002) a revival of the original series, airing on Showtime and later the SciFi channel

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User:Jossifresco~enwikiquote

Visit my user page at Wikipedia.

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User:CatEllen~enwikiquote

Cat Ellen (born Christine Ellen McGlothlin, September 18, 1968) is a new user to Wikipedia, having become interested after listening to discussions of wikis by Leo Laporte (of Tech TV fame) on the largest talk radio station in Los Angeles, KFI AM 640. She has not yet contributed any new articles, or copyedited, but anticipates being a semi-active participant as time allows.

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Wikiquote talk:General disclaimer

''Ideas for editing the disclaimer can be placed on this page. The Disclaimer itself has been protected so that only sysops (administrators) can edit it.'' ~ Kalki 00:53, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I'm not an expert on wikiquote, but there is a typo where it talks about how if you don't live in the US wikiquote isn't responsible for how you "can't use this information in ANYWAY whatsoever (it should be any way)
 * This has now been corrected. ~ Kalki 00:14, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
 * This has now been corrected. ~ Kalki 00:14, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Russian interwiki
Please add. 80.92.3.94 01:17, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Polish interwiki
Please add. Thanks, --Teukros 17:11, 14 March 2010 (UTC)

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User:Eli the Bearded

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Dylan Thomas

Dylan Marlais Thomas (27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953) was a Welsh poet and writer.

Quotes

 * The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees Is my destroyer. And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose My youth is bent by the same wintry fever.
 * "The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower" (1934), st. 1

Where no sea runs, the waters of the heart Push in their tides'''; And, broken ghosts with glow-worms in their heads, The things of light File through the flesh where no flesh decks the bones.
 * '''Light breaks where no sun shines;
 * "Light Breaks Where No Sun Shines", st. 1 (1934), st. 1

From poles of skull and toe the windy blood Slides like a sea; Nor fenced, nor staked, the gushers of the sky Spout to the rod Divining in a smile the oil of tears.
 * Dawn breaks behind the eyes;
 * Light Breaks Where No Sun Shines, st. 1 (1934), st. 3

On tips of thought where thoughts smell in the rain; When logics die, The secret of the soil grows through the eye, And blood jumps in the sun; Above the waste allotments the dawn halts.
 * Light breaks on secret lots,
 * Light Breaks Where No Sun Shines, st. 1 (1934), st. 5

 * The hand that signed the paper felled a city; Five sovereign fingers taxed the breath, Doubled the globe of dead and halved a country; These five kings did a king to death.
 * "The Hand that Signed the Paper Felled a City", st. 1 (1936)

 * When all my five and country senses see, The fingers will forget green thumbs and mark How, through the halfmoon's vegetable eye, Husk of young stars and handfull zodiac, Love in the frost is pared and wintered by.
 * "When All My Five And Country Senses See" (1939)

 * They shall have stars at elbow and foot; Though they go mad they shall be sane, Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again; Though lovers be lost love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.
 * "And Death Shall Have No Dominion", st. 1 (1943)

 * After the first death, there is no other.
 * "A Refusal To Mourn The Death, By Fire, Of A Child In London", st. 4 (1946)

 * And I saw in the turning so clearly a child's Forgotten mornings when he walked with his mother Through the parables Of sunlight And the legends of the green chapels.
 * "Poem in October", st. 5 (1946)

 * Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
 * "Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night" (1952)

 * One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now, out of all sound except the distant speaking of the voices I sometimes hear a moment before sleep, that I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twelve or whether it snowed for twelve days and twelve nights when I was six.
 * "A Child's Christmas in Wales", from Quite Early One Morning (1954)

 * It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea. The houses are blind as moles (though moles see fine tonight in the snouting, velvet dingles) or blind as Captain Cat there in the muffled middle by the pump and the town clock, the shops in mourning, the Welfare Hall in widows' weeds. And all the people of the lulled and dumbfound town are sleeping now.
 * "Under Milk Wood" (1954)

 * I fell in love — that is the only expression I can think of — at once, and am still at the mercy of words, though sometimes now, knowing a little of their behavior very well, I think I can influence them slightly and have even learned to beat them now and then, which they appear to enjoy.
 * Poetic Manifesto, published in the Texas Quarterly (Winter 1961)

 * You can tear a poem apart to see what makes it technically tick... You're back with the mystery of having been moved by words. The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps in the works of the poem so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash, or thunder in. The joy and function of poetry is, and was, the celebration of man, which is also the celebration of God.
 * Poetic Manifesto

Fern Hill (1946)

 * Full text online

 * Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green, The night above the dingle starry, Time let me hail and climb Golden in the heydays of his eyes. And honoured among wagons I was prince of the apple towns.
 * St. 1

 * In the sun that is young once only, Time let me play and be Golden in the mercy of his means.
 * St. 2

 * And the sabbath rang slowly In the pebbles of the holy streams.
 * St. 2

 * And honoured among foxes and pheasants by the gay house Under the new made clouds and happy as the heart was long, In the sun born over and over, I ran my heedless ways.
 * St. 5

 * Time held me green and dying Though I sang in my chains like the sea.
 * St. 6

Misattributed

 * Swansea is the graveyard of ambition
 * Commonly attributed to Thomas, but scholars at Swansea University claim there is "no evidence that he ever wrote or spoke those words"
 * Ambition is critical
 * Written by David Hughes in 1992 and inscribed on Swansea railway station, commissioned by Swansea council. Misattributed to Thomas in a Plaid Cymru manifesto

Quotes about Thomas

 * Here in Israel, of course, every generation backs away from its parents. Rebels against the old. That has always been the case, and not here alone. Take, for example, Dylan Thomas, now largely ignored. You may be sure that in a few years some Yale professor will rediscover his genius.
 * Yehuda Amichai 1984 interview in We Are All Close: Conversations with Israeli Writers by Haim Chertok (1989)

 * in that way, I disagree with Dylan Thomas and what he said in his poem, "Do not go gentle into that good night..." When life is through with me, I want to say to it as you would say to a lover, or a friend, or a child: 'Goodbye! It's been a ball...truly. And thank you.'
 * 1974 interview in Conversations with Maya Angelou (1989)

 * It’s the place where poetry comes to die … That’s me.
 * Annie Clark, joking about her stage name "St. Vincent", being one she chose from the name of the hospital where Thomas spent his last hours of life, as quoted in "Friendly, and Just a Bit Creepy: St. Vincent Defies Categories" in The New York Times (7 May 2005)

 * Not only is pot way cooler than alcohol, it’s also non-toxic. Dylan Thomas could not have smoked himself to death.
 * Greta Gaines, in rhetoric for an end to Marijuana prohibition laws, in "Why Are No Women Celebrity Stoners Willing to Come Out of the Greenhouse?" (16 August 2012)

 * I think that poetry, in general, after a certain point in a poet's life, has to do with the acknowledgment of mortality. And even the most joyful poems have to do with, "Yes, let's not forget that life is brief." Once I started dealing with grief in poetry, I discovered that I had found my way to poetry. I think that so many young poets are only writing about the joy of love and that sort of thing and don't understand that the great poetry, like Dylan Thomas's "Do Not Go Gentle" and like Wordsworth's "Intimations" and "Tintern Abby," has all been a moment when the poet realizes that "this is my time to express what I have gathered in this brief life."
 * Judith Ortiz Cofer, interview (2000) in A Poet's Truth: Conversations with Latino/Latina Poets

title: Dylan Thomas


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Rent (musical)

Rent (1996) is a rock musical, with music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson based on Giacomo Puccini's classic opera La Bohème. One of the longest running shows on Broadway, Rent was the winner of the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Obie Award, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, four Tony Awards and three Drama Desk awards. A film adaptation of it was made in 2005. The broadway show had all events from the first act take place within a single night, while the movie version has it span over several days.

Tune Up 1, 2, and 3

 * Tune Up 1
 * (Mark) December 24th, 9:00PM, eastern standard time. From here on in, I shoot without a script. See if anything comes of it, instead of my old shit. First shot Roger, tuning the Fender guitar he hasn't played in a year.
 * (Roger) This won't tune!
 * (Mark) So we hear.
 * (Mark) He's just coming back from half a year of withdrawal.
 * (Roger) You talking to me?
 * (Mark) Not at all. Are you ready? Hold that focus steady, tell the folks at home what you're doing, Roger.
 * (Roger) I'm writing one great song before I
 * (Mark) The phone rings. (Roger) Saved! (Mark) We screen, zoom in on the answering machine.
 * Tune Up 2
 * (Mark) Tell the folks at home what you're doing, Roger.
 * (Roger) I'm writing one last song-
 * (Mark) The phone rings! (Roger) Yes! (Mark) We screen...
 * (Collins) Chestnuts roasting- (Mark and Roger) Collins! (Collins) I'm downstairs. (Mark) Hey! (Collins) Roger picked up the phone? (Mark) No it's me. (Collins) Throw down the keys. (Mark) A wild night is now preordained. (Collins) I may be detained.
 * (Mark) What? What do you mean detained?
 * (Benny) Hohoho! (Mark) Benny! (Roger and Mark) Shit! (Benny) Dudes on my way. (Roger and Mark) Great! Fuck! (Benny) I need the rent! (Mark) What rent? (Benny) This past year's rent which I let slide. (Mark) Let slide? You said we were golden! (Roger) When you bought the building, (Mark) When we were roommates? Remember? You lived here. (Benny) How could I forget? You, me, Collins, and Maureen. How is the drama queen? (Mark) She's performing tonight. (Benny and Mark trading off) I know. Still her production manager? Two days ago I was bumped. You still dating her? Last month I was dumped. (Roger) She's in love. (Benny) She got a new man? (Mark) Well, no. (Benny) What's his name? (Mark and Roger) Joanne. (Benny) Rent, my amigos, is due, or I will have to evict you. Be there in a few.
 * (Mark) The power blows!
 * Tune Up 3
 * (Mark spoken) Don't suppose you'd like to come see Maureen's show in the lot tonight, or come to dinner?
 * (Roger spoken) Zoom in on my empty wallet.
 * (Mark spoken) Touché. Take your AZT. (sung) Close on Roger, his girlfriend April left a note saying, "We've got AIDS," before slitting her wrists in the bathroom.

RENT

 * (Mark) How do you document real life when real life's getting more like fiction each day. Headline, breadlines, blow my mind and now this deadline: eviction or pay. Rent!
 * (Roger) How do you write a song when the chords sound wrong, though they once sounded right and rare? When the notes are sour where is the power you once had to ignite the air?
 * (Mark) And we're hungry and frozen. (Roger) Some life that we've chosen!
 * (Joanne) Have you eaten today? You won't throw up. You won't throw up! The digital delay didn't blow up exactly... there may have been one teeny, tiny spark. You're not calling Mark!
 * (Collins) How do you stay on your feet when on every street it's trick or treat, and tonight it's trick!
 * (Mark) Where is he? (Collins) Getting dizzy.
 * (All) How we gonna pay last year's rent?
 * (Mark) The music ignites the night with passion and fire. (Joanne) Maureen, I'm not a theater person! (Roger) The narration crackles and pops with incendiary wit.
 * (Mark) Zoom in as they burn the past to the ground, and feel the heat of the future's glow!
 * (All) How do you leave the past behind when it keeps finding ways to get to your heart? It reaches way down deep and tears you inside out 'til you're torn apart. Rent! How do you connect in an age where strangers, landlords, lovers, your own blood cells betray? What binds the fabric together when the raging, shifting winds of change keep ripping away?
 * (Benny) Draw a line in the sand and then make a stand! (Roger) Use your camera to spar! (Mark) Use your guitar!
 * (All) We're not gonna pay, we're not gonna pay, we're not gonna pay last year's rent. This year's Rent. Next year's rent. Rent, rent, rent, rent, rent. We're not gonna pay rent. 'Cause everything is rent!

You'll See

 * (Benny) Maureen is protesting losing her performance space—not my attitude.
 * (Roger) What happened to Benny, what happened to his heart? And the ideals he once pursued?
 * (Benny) And the owner of that lot next door has the right to do with it as he pleases.
 * (Collins) Happy birthday Jesus.
 * (Benny) The rent! (Mark) You're wasting your time. (Roger) We're broke. (Mark) And you broke your word. This is absurd!
 * (Benny) I'll forgo your rent and on paper guarantee that you can stay here for free, (spoken) if you do me one small favor.
 * (Mark spoken) What? (Benny spoken) Convince Maureen to cancel her protest. (Mark spoken) Why not just get an injunction or call the cops? (Benny spoken) I did and they're on standby.
 * (Benny) But my investors would rather I handle this quietly.
 * (Roger) You can't quietly wipe off a tent city then watch, "It's a Wonderful Life" on TV!
 * (Benny) You want to produce films and write songs? You need somewhere to do it. It's what we used to dream about! Think twice before you pooh-pooh it.
 * (Benny) You'll see boys. You'll see boys. You'll see, the beauty of a studio that lets us do our work and get paid. With condos on the top. Whose rent keeps open our shops. Just stop the protest and you'll have it made. You'll see... or you'll pack!
 * (Angel) That boy needs some Prozac. (Roger) Or heavy drugs. (Mark) Or group hugs.
 * (Collins) Which reminds me, we have a detour to make. Anyone who wants to can come along!
 * (Mark) First I've got a protest to save!
 * (Angel) Roger?
 * (Roger) I'm not much company you'll find.
 * (Mark) Behave!
 * (Angel) Just catch up later, he's just got other things on his mind. You'll see boys, you'll see boys.
 * (Collins) I like boys.
 * (Angel) Boys like me.
 * (All) We'll see.

Tango:Maureen

 * (Joanne) This is weird.
 * (Mark) It's weird.
 * (Joanne) Very weird.
 * (Mark) Fucking weird.
 * (Joanne) I'm so mad that I don't know what to do. Fighting with microphones, freezing down to my bones, and to top it all off, I'm with you.
 * (Mark) Feel like going insane, got a fire in your brain, and you're thinking of drinking gasoline?
 * (Joanne) As a matter of fact...
 * (Mark) Honey, I know this act. It's called "The Tango: Maureen."
 * (Mark) The Tango: Maureen—it's a dark, dizzy merry-go-round. As she keeps you dangling, (Joanne) You're wrong. (Mark) Your heart she is mangling. (Joanne) It's different with me.
 * (Mark) And you toss and you turn, 'cause her cold eyes can burn. Yet you yearn and you churn and rebound.
 * (Joanne) Did you swoon when she walked through the door? (Mark) Every time! So be cautious. (Joanne) Did she moon over other boys?(Mark) More than moon! (Joanne) I'm getting nauseous.
 * (Mark spoken)Where'd you learn to tango? (Joanne spoken)With the French Ambassador's daughter in her dorm room at Miss Porter's. And you?
 * (Mark spoken) With Nanette Himmelfarb, the rabbi's daughter, at the Scarsdale Jewish Community Center.
 * (Mark spoken)It's hard to do this backwards! (Joanne) You should try it in heels.
 * (Joanne) She cheated! (Mark) She cheated! (Joanne) Maureen cheated! (Mark) Fucking cheated!
 * (Joanne) I'm defeated; I should give up right now.
 * (Mark) Gotta look on the bright side with all of your might!
 * (Joanne) I'd fall for her still anyhow.
 * (Mark and Joanne) When your dancing her dance, you don't stand a chance; her grip of romance makes you fall.
 * (Mark) And you think, "Might as well... (Joanne) Dance a tango to hell!" (Mark) At least I'll have tangoed at all.

One Song Glory
(knock knock knock) The door...
 * (Roger)One song, Glory, One song, before I go, Glory, One song to leave behind. Find, One song, One last refrain, Glory, From the pretty boy front man, Who wasted opportunity, One song, he had the world at his feet, Glory, in the eyes of a young girl. A young girl. Find, glory, beyond the cheap colored lights. One song, before the sun sets. Glory, on another empty life, Time flies; time dies! Glory! One blaze of glory, One blaze of glory, Glory! Find glory in a song that rings true, Truth like a blazing fire, an eternal flame, Find one song, a song about love, Glory, from the soul of a young man, A young man, Find the one song, before the virus take hold, Glory, like a sunset, One song to redeem this, empty life. Time flies, and no need to endure anymore! Time dies!

Light My Candle

 * (Roger) What'd you forget?
 * (Mimi) Got a light?
 * (Roger) I know you, you're... you're shivering.
 * (Mimi) It's nothing; they turned off my heat, and I'm just a little weak on my feet. Would you light my candle? What are you staring at?
 * (Roger) Nothing. Your hair in the moonlight. Can you make it?
 * (Mimi) Just haven't eaten much today, at least the room's stopped spinning, anyway. What?
 * (Roger) Nothing. Your smile reminded me of... (Mimi) I always remind people of... who is she?
 * (Roger) She died. Her name was April.
 * Mimi: Would you light my candle?

 * Roger: Oh, the wax, it's... Mimi: Dripping! I like it between my - Roger: Fingers! I figured. Oh well, good night.

 * Mimi: They say I have the best ass below 14th Street. Is it true? Roger: What? Mimi: You're staring again. Roger: Oh no, I mean... you do, have a nice... I mean...

 * Roger: Cold hands. Mimi: Yours too. Big—like my father's. You wanna dance? Roger: With you? Mimi: No—with my father! Roger: I'm Roger. Mimi: They call me, they call me, Mimi.

Today 4 U

 * Gentlemen, our benefactor on this Christmas Eve, whose charity is only matched by talent, I believe. A new member of the Alphabet City Avant-Garde: Angel Dumott Schunard!
 * In the film version, this line is slightly altered to "Gentlemen, our benefactor on this Christmas Day, whose charity is only matched by talent, I must say..."

 * Angel: Today for you, tomorrow for me! Collins: And you should hear her beat! Mark: You earned this on the street?! Angel: It was my lucky day today on Avenue A, when a lady in a limousine drove my way. She said, "Darling, be a dear, haven't slept in a year, I need your help to make my neighbor's yappy dog disappear! This akita, Evita, just won't shut up! I believe if you play nonstop, that pup will breathe its very last high-strung breath! I'm certain that cur will bark itself to death!"

 * Angel: We agreed on a fee, a thousand-dollar guarantee, tax-free—and a bonus, if I trimmed her tree. Now who could foretell that it would go so well? But sure as I am here that dog is now in doggie hell! After an hour, Evita, in all her glory, on the window ledge of that 23rd story, like Thelma and Louise did when they got the blues, swan dove into the Courtyard of the Gracie Mews.

 * Angel: Then back on the street where I met my sweet, where he was moaning and groaning on the cold concrete, the nurse took him home for some mercurochrome, and I dressed his wounds and got him back on his feet.

Out Tonight
(Goes straight into Another Day)
 * (Mimi is the only singer the entire song) What's the time? Well it's gotta be close to midnight. My body's talking to me: says "time for danger."
 * Wanna put on a tight skirt and flirt with a stanger.
 * I've had a knack, from way back, of breaking the rules once I learn the game.
 * We don't need any money, I can always get in for free. You can get in too, if you get in with me.
 * Take me out tonight. Meow. HA!
 * When I get a wink for the doorman. Do you know how lucky you'll be? You're on line with a feline on Avenue B!
 * In the evening, I've got to roam. Can't sleep in the city of neon and chrome. Feels to damn much like home, where the Spanish babies cry. So let's find a bar so dark we forget where we are. From all the scars from the nevers and maybes. Die!
 * Don't forsake me. Out tonight!
 * I'll let you make me! Out tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight!

Another Day

 * (Roger) Who do you think you are? Barging in on me and my guitar. Little girl, hey! The door is that way! You better go you know the fires out anyway. Take your powder take your candle. You're a sweet whisper I just can't handle! And take your hair in the moonlight your brown eyes. Goodbye goodnight!
 * (Roger) I should tell you I should tell you. I should tell you I should tell you. I should tell you I should. No! Another time, another place. Our temperatures only rise. There'd be a long embrace. We'd do another dance it'd be another day. You want to prove me wrong? Come back another day. Another day!
 * (Mimi)There is no future, there is no past. I live this moment as my last.

 * (Mimi) Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.

 * (Mimi) No other road, no other way, no day but today.

 * (Mimi) I trust my soul. My only goal is just to be.

 * (Mimi) Give in to love, or live in fear.

 * (Roger) Excuse me if I'm off track, but if you're so wise, then tell me: Why do you need smack?

 * (Roger) Long ago, you might've lit up my heart. But the fire's dead, ain't never ever gonna start.

 * The heart may freeze, or it can burn. The pain will ease, if I can learn. There is no future, there is no past. I live this moment as my last. There's only us, there's only this. Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. No other road, no other way, no day but today.

 * There's only now, there's only here. Give in to love, or live in fear. No other path, no other way, no day but today.

 * Roger: The fire's out anyway. Group: No day but today. Roger: Take your powder, take your candle. Group: No day but today. Roger: Take your brown eyes, your pretty smile, your silhouette. Group: No day but today. Roger: Another time, another place, another rhyme, a warm embrace.

I'll Cover You Reprise

 * So with a thousand sweet kisses I'll cover you.

 * Oh lover, I'll cover you, ya ya ya ya ya ya, Oh lover, I'll cover you.

 * Five hundred, twenty-five thousand, six hundred minutes, five hundred, twenty-five thousand seasons of love.

I'll Cover You

 * I think they meant it when they said you can't buy love. Now I know you can rent it. A new lease, you are my love. On life.

 * I've longed to discover something as true as this is

 * Live in my house, I'll be your shelter, just pay me back with one thousand kisses. Be my lover, and I'll cover you.

 * When your heart has expired

 * You'll be my king and I'll be your castle. No you be my queen and I'll be your moat.

 * Open your door, I'll be your tenant. Don't got much baggage to lay at your feet. But sweet kisses I've got to spare, I'll be there and I'll cover you.

Over the Moon

 * The only way out is up. A leap of faith...

 * Last night I had a dream. I found myself in a desert called Cyberland. It was hot. My canteen had sprung a leak and I was thirsty. Out of the abyss walked a cow — Elsie. I asked if she had anything to drink. She said, "I'm forbidden to produce milk. In Cyberland, we only drink... Diet Coke."

 * I gotta get out of here! It's like I'm being tied to the hood of a yellow rental truck, being packed in with fertilizer and fuel oil, pushed over a cliff by a suicidal Mickey Mouse!

 * "MOO! Moo with me. Please, sir, could you give me a little moo?" (off-stage man) "MOO!" "Yes. YES! MOO WITH ME!! YES!!! YES, IT SOUNDS BEAUTIFUL!! LET ME HEAR YOU, NEW YORK CITY!! MOO WITH ME!!"

La Vie Bohème

 * They make fun, yet I am the one attempting to do some good. Or do you really want a neighborhood where people piss on your stoop every night? Bohemia, bohemia's a fallacy in your head. This is Calcutta; Bohemia is dead.

 * Dearly beloved, we gather here to say our goodbyes. Here she lies. No one knew her worth; the late great daughter of Mother Earth on these nights (this night in the Broadway play) when we celebrate the birth in that little town of Bethlehem. We raise our glass, you bet your ass to La Vie Boheme.

 * To days of inspiration, playing hooky, making something out of nothing, the need to express, to communicate. To going against the grain, going insane, going mad!

 * To riding your bikes miday past the three piece suits. To fruits to no absolutes to absolutes to choice to The Village Voice to any passing fad. To being an us for once. Instead of on them! La Vie Boheme!

 * To yoga, to yogurt, to rice and beans and cheese. To leather, to dildos, to curry vindaloo. To huevos rancheros, and Maya Angelou!

 * Emotion, devotion to causing a commotion. Creation, vacation... Mucho Masterbation.

 * Why Dorothy and Toto went over the rainbow to blow off Auntie Em!

 * Let he among us without sin be the first to condemn La Vie Bohème!

 * Bisexuals, trisexuals, Homo Sapiens, carcinogens, hallucinogens, men, Peewee Herman, German wine, turpentine, Gertrude Stein, Antonioni, Bertolucci, Kurosawa, Carmina Burana, to apathy to entropy to empathy, ecstacy, Vaclàv Havel, The Sex Pistols, 8BC, to no shame never playin' the fame game...to marijuana! To sodomy, it's between God and me, to S&M. La Vie Boheme.

 * TO DANCE! No way to make a living, masochism, pain, perfection, muscle spasms, chiropractors, short careers, eating disorders! FILM! Adventure, tedium, no family, boring locations, dark rooms, perfect faces, egos, money, Hollywood, and sleaze! MUSIC! Food of love, emotion, mathematics, isolation, rhythm, feeling, power, harmony, and heavy competition! ANARCHY! Revolution, justice screaming for solutions, voicing changes, risk and danger, making noise and making pleas!

 * To faggots, lezzies, dykes, cross dressers, too. To me, to me, to you and you and you, you, and you. To people living with, living with, living with, NOT DYING from disease!

 * Anyone out of the mainstream; is anyone in the mainstream? Anyone alive with a sex drive! Tear down the wall; aren't we all? The opposite of war isn't peace — it's creation.

 * Viva la vie boheme!

Happy New Year

 * I couldn't crack the love code, dear, 'till you made the lock of my heart explode- it's gonna be a happy new year.

 * Friendship is thicker than blood.

 * I was a Boy Scout once and a Brownie, until some brat got scared.

 * I think I should be laughing. Yet I forget. Forget how to begin. I'm feeling something inside. And yet I still I can't decide if I should hide or make a wide open grin.

 * Rope! You can hoist a line. To the fire escape. And tie off that... that bench. I can't take them as chums. Start hoisting, wench.

 * Last week, I wanted just to disappear. My life was dust. But now it just may be. A happy new year.

 * Bond. James Bond. And Pussy Galore. In person. Pussy! You came prepared.

 * Aha. Money penny. My martini. Will bad champagne do? Uh. That's shaken. Not stirred.

 * Where's everyone else? Playing Spiderman.

 * (Collins) You're drunk!
 * (Angel)  No I'm not!

 * (Mark) Maureen! Stop! This is NOT my bar mitzvah!

Take Me Or Leave Me

 * Take me for what I am, who I was meant to be and if you give a damn, take me baby or leave me.

 * A tiger in a cage can never see the sun. This diva needs her stage, baby, let's have fun!

 * No way, can I be what I'm not. But, hey, don't you want your girl hot?

 * 'Cause every night who's in your bed?

 * There will always be women in rubber flirting with me!

 * Kiss pookie.

 * So be wise, cause this girl satisfies. You got a prize that don't compromise — you're one lucky baby.

 * Joanne: Take me for what I am... Maureen: A control freak! Joanne: Who I was meant to be... Maureen: A snob yet overattentive! Joanne: And if you give a damn... Maureen: A lovable droll geek! Joanne: Take me baby, or leave me! Maureen: And anal retentive!

 * Women- what is it about them? Can't live with them or without them.

 * Guess I'm leaving — I'm gone.

Without You

 * The stars gleam, the poets dream, the eagles fly without you.

 * But I die without you.

 * But I know blue, only blue, lonely blue, within me blue.

 * The mind churns, the heart yearns, the tears dry without you.

 * Life goes on, but I'm gone 'cause I die without you.

Goodbye Love

 * You'll never share real love until you love yourself. I should know!

 * I'd be happy to die for a taste of what Angel had — someone to live for, unafraid to say "I love you"

 * Joanne: We used to have this fight each night! She never admit I existed! Mimi: He was the same way. He was always run away, hit the road, don't commit, you're full of shit!

 * You all said you'd be cool today, so please, for my sake! I can't believe he's gone; I can't believe you're going. I can't believe this family must die! Angel helped us believe in love. I can't believe you disagree! I can't believe this is goodbye.

These are all in a deleted scene:
 * Roger: Mark's got his work, they say Mark lives for his work and Mark's in love with his work. Mark hides in his work. Mark: From what? Roger: Facing your failure, facing your loneliness, facing the fact you live a lie. Yes you live a lie! Tell you why! You're always preaching not to be numb, but that's how you thrive. You pretend to create and observe when you really detach from being alive! Mark: Perhaps it's because I'm the one of us to survive! Roger: Poor baby!

 * You don't want baggage without lifetime guarantees. You don't want to watch me die.

 * I just came to say goodbye love. Goodbye love. Just came to say goodbye love. Goodbye. Just came to say goodbye love. Goodbye love. Goodbye love, hello disease.

What You Own
(Roger) Mimi! I see you I see it! I hear it I hear it my song!
 * (Mark) Don't breathe do deep. Don't think all day. Dive into work. Drive the other way that drip of hurt. That pint of shame, goes away just play the game.
 * (Mark) You're living in America. Leave your conscience at the tone. And when you're living in America at the end of the millennium. You're what you own.
 * (Roger) The film maker cannot see (Mark) And the song writer cannot hear (Roger) Yet I see Mimi everywhere (Mark) Angel's voice is in my ear.
 * (Roger) Just tighten those shoulder's *(Mark) Just clench your jaw till you frown. *(Roger and Mark) Just don't let go or you may frown.
 * (Mark and Roger) You're living in America at the end of the millennium- you're living in America, where it's like the twilight zone.
 * (Mark and Roger) What was it about that night? Connection in an isolating age. For once the shadows gave way to light. For once I didn't disengage.
 * (Mark starts) Angel I hear you I hear it. I see it! I see it my film

 * And when you're dying in America at the end of the millennium. You're not alone. I'm not alone.

Seasons of Love

 * How do you measure the life of a woman or man? In truth that she learned, or in times that he cried, in bridges he burned or the way that she died?

 * 525,600 minutes, 525,000 moments so dear. 525,600 minutes. How do you measure, measure a year?

 * Gospel solo during chorus: Love is a gift from up above. Share love, give love, spread love, measure, measure your life in love.

 * How do you measure a last year on Earth?

Seasons of Love B

 * In diapers, report cards, in spoked wheels, in speeding tickets. In contracts, dollars, in funerals in births, in 525,600 minutes, how do you figure a last year on earth? Figure in love, figure in love, figure in love, measure in love. Seasons of love.

Other Quotes

 * Maureen [eulogizing at Angel's funeral]: You always said how lucky we were that we were all friends. But it was us baby, who were the lucky ones.

 * No day but today.

 * Mimi [quoting what Angel said to a skinhead the first time Angel and Mimi met]: I'm more of a man than you'll ever be, and more of a woman than you'll ever get.

 * Mimi: Life's too short babe, time is flying, I'm looking for baggage that goes with mine.

 * Mark: There are times when we're dirt broke, hungry, and freezing, and I ask myself, why the hell am I still living here? And then they call and I remember.

 * Collins: Merry Christmas Bitches!

 * Give in to love or live in fear.

 * Forget regret or life is yours to miss.

 * Mark [eulogizing at Angel's funeral]: Then there was the time he walked up to this group of tourists and they were petrified because A) They were obviously lost, and B) Had probably never spoken to a drag queen before in their lives... and he... -she just offered to escort them out of Alphabet City, and then she let them take a picture with her and then she said she'd help them find the Circle Line.

 * Mimi [after a near-death experience]: I jumped over the moon! A leap of- MOOOOOO!

Dialogue

 * Mark: "Has she ever pouted her lips and called you pookie?" Joanne: "Never!" ...[phone rings, Joanne picks up] Joanne: "Pookie?" [whispers] "You've never called me Pookie.."
 * "Tango Maureen"

 * Collins: I think you should know that you just paid for the funeral of the person that killed your dog. Benny: I always hated that dog.

 * Collins: Bond, James Bond. Angel: And Pussy Galore, in person! Mimi: Pussy, you came prepared! Angel: I was a Boy Scout once... and a Brownie. Until some brat got scared! Collins: Aha, Moneypenny- my martini! Mimi: Will bad champagne do? Collins: Mmhmm Roger: That's shaken, not stirred! Collins: Pussy, the bolts. Angel: Just say the word. Mimi: 2 minutes left to execute our plan. Collins: Where's everyone else? Roger: Playing Spiderman! Mark: Ironic close-up tight on the phone machine's red light. Once the Boho boys are gone, the power mysteriously turns on.
 * "Happy New Year A"

 * Angel: Have compassion. Benny just lost his cat. Benny: My dog, but I appreciate that. Angel: My cat had a fall and I went through hell. Benny: Like losing a — How did you know she fell? Collins: Champagne? Benny: Don't mind if I do. To dogs! All but Benny: No Benny, to you!
 * "Happy New Year B"

 * Roger: You pretend to create and observe when you really detach from feeling alive. Mark: Perhaps it's because I'm the one of us to survive. Roger: Poor baby.
 * "Goodbye Love"

Angel:Boys like me!
 * Collins:I like boys!

title: Rent (musical)