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User talk:Shervinafshar

~ MosheZadka (Talk) 20:50, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

license: Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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User talk:130.111.98.241

~ MosheZadka (Talk) 21:05, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

Please stop creating articles with no (or only one) quotation thrown in, no proper introduction or any semblance of real work. I have filled some of your pages with quotes, but it's really not that hard to find quotes. Please do the work yourself before creating these pages - or just add them to the list of requested pages, rather than creating empty pages. These kind of things do not help Wikiquote become a better resource for quotations, they only create more work for the regular editors who must check new additions, and delete or properly tag them. At the very least, please attempt to follow the formatting guidelines and properly categorize. Thanks ~ UDScott 20:41, 13 December 2005 (UTC) thank you

Please stop. If you continue to add meaningless pages, you will be blocked from editing Wikiquote. ~ UDScott 20:56, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

allright take it easy i need mentorship ADHD. sorry ud really man i'am chilling.

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User talk:Jadwiga

Thanks for contributing interwiki links. I would appreciate it if you marked edits which only add interwiki links as "minor". Thanks ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 21:59, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

Hej! Boję się otworzyć konserwę ;D Meteor2017 00:33, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Tutaj jej nie mam... co najwyżesz mogę zmiotką Meteor2017 00:46, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

 * A chcesz po łapach tą zmiotką??? ;-) Meteor2017 23:15, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

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Wikiquote talk:Useful links

VFDA input box
I sure would like to either: The first either squishes the other links into multiple lines or requires its own line, lengthening the page. I haven't figure any decent approach yet to the second, as the page title should be accurately descriptive and in the correct namespace. (One blessing with the upcoming changes to VFDA is that both transclusions and internal links can drop the belabored prefix, using only "/" before the subpage titles.) Any ideas? ~ Jeff Q (talk) 22:13, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 1) Expand the box to allow more than just a cursory check on the name that one pastes after the "Wikiquote/Votes for deletion archive/" text; or
 * 2) Shorten that darned prefix!

 * I've managed to make it pretty wide without squishing on my computer. Let me know how it looks on yours :) ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 22:28, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

 * I forgot to mention my guideline for width — around 800 pixels for a full pane, which allows for a left sidebar for things like bookmarks on a 1024x768 display with both the browser window and the page panes maximized. It's obviously quite variable depending on how people configure their browsers and what kind of displays they use. On mine, the new inputbox squeezes the "Deletions" and "Modifications" links into two lines. On the other, perhaps it's not so bad. Since the inputbox style (at least in Monobook on my browser) takes up about 2.5 bullet-text lines' worth of space, moving it to its own line would take more vertical space for the "Major changes" section. I suspect there's no better (practical) solution than what you have now. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 03:40, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

 * One last idea would be to remove it: if it ever makes its way into WQ:VFD, I think the link to "Deletions" is enough: and on VFD, we can give it its own line with characters as far as the eye can see :) ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 04:55, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

Page move from Useful shortcuts to Useful links
I'm considering moving this page to Useful links (if the link is blue then it already happened). My reason is that the pagename is too much like Shortcuts and is potentially confusing. Users who are used to the original pagename will not be inconvenienced as there will be a redirect from the original. I don't see a lot of activity here (talk:Useful shortcuts) so I don't know if this is on anyone's watchlist. I'm posting this at the VP in case there is opposition. --hydnjo talk 00:29, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

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Dr. Dolittle 2

Dr. Dolittle 2 is the 2001 sequel to the 1998 film. This time around, Dr. Dolittle has become an international celebrity because of his ability to talk to animals, and must save the life of a circus bear.

 * Written by Larry Levin. Directed by Steve Carr.

Dolittle Is Back.

Archie

 * I am the Alpha Bear! Grrr! Grrr! Bears say "grrr", right?
 * (Singing) Her name was Lola. She was a show bear. She'd like to dance with me.

Lucky

 * Go, doctor. Go, doctor.

Dialogue

 * Steve Irwin: I am here with Dr. Dolittle, who can actually talk with animals. We're here about to capture this alligator right behind us. The trick to capturing this guy is to put your arms around his neck...
 * Alligator: Hey Dolittle, see what I'm doing, I'm allowing Steve to think I don't know he's back there. Wait 'till he tries to grab me, turn on himn and Bob's your uncle bite his arm off! [laughs]
 * [Steve is still talking to camera]
 * Irwin: I'm gonna have to get my arm around his neck and handle his -
 * John: [having heard the alligator] Steve, I think he knows we're over -
 * Irwin: [shushes Dolittle] Quiet, I don't wanna spoil the element of surprise...NOW! [Snapping noise] Crikey! Me arm! [Belching sound]

 * Monkey: Those teenagers, doc, they can drive a man to drink!
 * John: Hey, what are you drinking?
 * Monkey: Gatorade.
 * John: Oh really? Give it to me. [takes water pouch and smells drink] Gatorade make wine, now? Huh?
 * [Monkey, in a drunken state, sticks his tongue out]
 * John: You better slow down.

 * John: [Finds Charisse's report card] What's this?
 * Charisse: Dad, that's private!
 * John: I can see why it's private. It's an embarrassment. It says you got two C's and a D on here! No cellphone for a week.
 * Charisse: Oh, and what am I supposed to do without my cellphone?!
 * John: Here's some stamps. Learn to write a letter or something.

 * [John grabs two rats who popped out of Charisse's birthday cake.]
 * Rat 1: Hey, watch the fur! Watch the fur, buddy! We're trying to do something nice for your daughter.
 * Rat 2: A couple of cute little kitties pop out, you go, "Oh, how cute!"
 * Dolittle: [Hanging them over the edge of a window] But you're not. You are not a couple of cute little kitties.
 * Rat 1: Yes we are.
 * Dolittle: You are two disgusting rats...
 * Rat 1: No we're not.
 * Dolittle: ...that just ruined the birthday cake.
 * Rat 1: Oh, so you wanna get personal now. Well, do you know what "rats" spelled backwards is, mister? It's "star!"
 * Rat 2: That's right! I'm the star, buddy!
 * Dolittle: Oh really, is that right? Well, do you know what "ha" spelled backwards is?
 * Rat 1: Uh, no, I don't have any--
 * [John drops them, screaming as they fall.]
 * Dolittle: Exactly!
 * [The two rats land safely in a garbage dump.]

 * [Dr. Dolittle meets a Pacific Western bear named Ava and makes a proposition]
 * Dr. Dolittle: Hi. Hello. My name is John.
 * Ava: I'm Ava.
 * Dolittle: Hi, Ava. That's a pretty name. Nice to meet you.
 * Ava: Hi.
 * Dolittle: A quick question, Ava. How would you like to meet the man of your dreams?
 * Ava: You're real cute, but I don't go interspecies.
 * Dolittle: No, I'm not talking about me. I shouldn't have said man. I should've said bear. What do you think of that big hunk of bear over there?
 * Ava: I don't think I see him. Is he standing behind that dork?
 * Dolittle: No, he is...Let me explain what's going on. A logging company's gonna tear down the whole forest. And the only thing that can stop them is if I can get two Pacific Western bears together. You're a Pacific Western bear, so is he. If you two made little Pacific Western bears, then... You see where I'm going?
 * Ava: Yeah. [walks away] Look, no offense, but I don't talk to bear pimps.

 * [During Archie's detention, as John and Charisse visit him.]
 * Archie: Looks like I wasn't meant to be loved.
 * Charisse: Everyone's meant to be loved.
 * John: Yes, everyone's meant to- [caught by surprise at Charisse's newfound ability] Charisse!

 * John: Alright, Archie. I'm not playing anymore. You come out here right now, you big coward!
 * Archie: Uh, excuse me, who are you calling a coward?
 * John: You. I'm calling you a coward. You're a big coward for quitting like this!
 * Archie: Well, it's hard.
 * John: You wanna know what "hard" is, Archie? My wife is mad at me, my daughter's mad at me, and I'm spending my vacation with a pizza boy, who greets me by saying "Hey yo, Dr. D, what's up?" Now, I'm standing here listening to a big, furry baby cryin', telling me he wants to quit, 'cause it's too hard!
 * Archie: Well, Ava laughed at me!
 * John: (mocking Archie) "Oh, boo-hoo! Ava laughed at me! I love her, and I need her, and she laughed at me!" You know somethin', you don't even deserve Ava! Why should Ava have to spend her life with a (pokes him) coward like you?
 * Archie: Hey. Don't poke the bear, buddy.
 * John: Oh, I didn't poke a bear, because if I poked a bear, a bear would be mauling me. So, I dunno what I poked, but it sure ain't no bear! (pokes him again)
 * Archie: Hey, I'm warning you!
 * John: (pokes him again) Yeah, and I'm POKING you!
 * Archie: Hey, stop it!
 * John: (pokes him three times) All right, poke poke poke!
 * Archie: All right, that's it!! (pushes John over the edge, he falls off and lands his back in the mud.)
 * John: Archie, that hurt.
 * Archie: Whoa, that felt good. Bear-like.
 * John: Hey, Archie, you know what? You're beyond my help! You just take your back to the circus!
 * Archie: A bear? Whoo-hoo! I'm a bear! I'm the alpha bear! Rawr! RAAWWRRR! Uh, bears say "grr," right?

 * Archie: Uh-oh. Uh-oh!
 * John: What do you mean "uh-oh?"
 * Archie: Ice cream's acting up.
 * John: What ice cream?
 * Archie: After Sonny took Ava, I got depressed, and went on a bender. And on the second gallon, I realize, that I'm in love with Ava, and this ice cream called "Cherry Garcia". [belches]
 * John: Hey, don't you dare throw up on me!
 * Archie: (groans) That's not where it's gonna come out! (groans)
 * John: Wait, wait, wait, hold on! If you have to do that, then sit on the toilet!

Cast

 * Eddie Murphy - Dr. John Dolittle
 * Raven-Symoné - Charisse Dolittle
 * Jeffrey Jones - Joe Potter
 * Kevin Pollack - Riley
 * Kristen Wilson - Lisa Dolittle
 * Kyla Pratt - Maya Dolittle
 * Lil Zane - Eric (Charisse's Boyfriend)
 * Steve Irwin - Himself

Animal voice talent

 * Steve Zahn - Archie
 * Norm Macdonald - Lucky (uncredited)
 * Lisa Kudrow - Ava
 * Mike Epps - Sonny
 * Jacob Vargas - Pepito
 * Michael Rapaport - Joey
 * Phil Proctor - Drunk Monkey
 * Isaac Hayes - Possum
 * Andy Dick - Mr. "Lennie" Weasel
 * John Witherspoon (actor) - Old Prison Bear
 * Cedric the Entertainer - Young Prison Bear
 * Jamie Kennedy - Dog #1
 * David Cross - Dog #2
 * David DeLuise - Fish #1
 * Reni Santoni - Rat #1
 * John Leguizamo - Rat #2 (uncredited)
 * Arnold Schwarzenegger - White Wolf (uncredited)
 * Kevin Pollak - Alligator
 * Mandy Moore - Girl Bear Cub
 * Frankie Muniz - Boy Bear Cub
 * Michael McKean - Bird
 * Tom Kenny - Male Tortoise

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Talk:Lexx

Cleanup
I have started adding the cleanup tag to articles which are about TV shows and do not follow the standard formatting -- an especially popular way to violate that is to follow movie-like formatting. I believe (and I may be wrong, in which case I will stop) there is consensus that the movie-like formatting is a bad idea for TV shows, especially with regards to its effects on verifiability and accuracy. Thanks ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 04:48, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

 * Moshe, you raise an interesting point. We should probably have some guidance on creating new TV show articles besides just the template. I suspect most people who do so don't already have a vast collection of episode-sorted quotes to add (like we both appear to have had). Many simply grab quotes from IMDb, I suspect, and IMDb quotes have absolutely no order to them nor episode tagging. For this article, I've moved all the existing quotes (editing into dialog format) to the "Unknown episode" section, added the season headers, and removed the cleanup tag. I've also added the complete list of episode headers, but commented them out because they would make a stub article especially ugly, with far too much structure for far too little content. I'm open to suggestions for alternatives. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 07:48, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

 * A new Cleanup tag was added in August 2007, i.e. almost two years after Jeffq's efforts. I'll see what needs to be done (and what I can do) to make this article adhere to current standards. Karin Spaink 16:50, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

=Copyright= I have taken out the copyright warning (which had been attached since August 2007), after I did quite some pruning, esp. of some episodes from season 3. They were more transcripts than quotes. Now, the amount and the length of the quotes fall well within fair use. Apart from the copyright matter: quotes are supposed to deliver insight, entertainment or food for thought, and are not collected to narrate the story. Karin Spaink 19:27, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
 * You have the right idea, but the article still exceeds the limits on quotations so I am reinstating the checkcopyright tag. Note that the first season consisted of long format TV movies but subsequent seasons used a 1 hour serial format (45 minute runtime). ~ Ningauble 16:11, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

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User talk:216.232.174.177

--Aphaia 04:53, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

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Wikiquote talk:Featured article

Featured article?
(originally posted to WQ:VP)

How about adding a "featured article" feature to the front page, which would get changed every, say, week? It would allow us to showcase the best articles with the perfectly formatted quotes, the well researched source lists and so on so that there will be good examples to follow. ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 1 July 2005 03:36 (UTC)
 * Good point, but for our size, not a week but a month or a fortnight will be better. And before that, we need to make a pool of FAs.
 * Perhaps it is currently suitable for us not to create a systematically FA with vote, but more casual page for "favorite articles": the page everyone can submit their favorite articles with a short line recommendation. --Aphaia 1 July 2005 16:34 (UTC)

Does anyone else have an opinion, either for or against? This idea seems to be languishing :( ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 6 July 2005 11:57 (UTC)

 * All of Aphaia's reply is good; I would only add that the "pool" of articles could possibly include both "outside" ideas (like "picture of the day") and also "inside" ideas (like submissions of people of their favorite article). However, how would this featured article be guarenteed to relate to the "quote" theme of Wikiquote? (You might have to limit yourself to articles of people who are quoted in Wiki.) A good idea, but it must be worth the time spent.--GordonWattsDotCom 6 July 2005 12:05 (UTC)

 * I fear I may have not explained my idea well -- I meant a wikiquote article (that is, a collection of quotes). E.g., one month Buffy the Vampire Slayer could be FA, the next month Love and the next month Albert Einstein. This will allow wikiquote contributors to showcase what they consider to be their best world to people who open the main page. ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 6 July 2005 12:26 (UTC)

 * Oh; Since we have plenty of article, then getting some when needed should be no problem. Either users can submit suggestions, or, if none do one week (or month, depending), then we can let a computer randomly pick an article. I think it might be helpful and not too difficult if you know the right edit code.--GordonWattsDotCom 6 July 2005 12:51 (UTC)

Here is a small sample of what I thought a featured article would look like. Imagine this on the Main page somewhere. Naturally, the actual content will be read in by a month-dependent link, and there will be voting on articles. I feel that at the first stage, we can feature an article for a month at a time. I have chosen Dune as a sample, though I am not at all convinced I would even vote for it. Any feedback on this idea would be appreciated. ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 13:48, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

Here is how it might look scrunched up against QotD:

To further explain -- the first line has the date, and a short introduction (hopefully copied from the introduction in the article -- a featured article should have good intro, and Dune is not ideal), and the second line has a quotation from the work, to give a quick taste. ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 13:52, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

Although that will probably work, it does need a less jolting color scheme. The rest of the site is rather reserved as far as color goes, that would create a sore spot. To make it look neater. I wonder if its possible to match the hieght to that of the QOTD box. --Datasage 02:40, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

 * I've tried to conform to a lighter colour scheme. Thanks for your input! If the only thing that's left to decide is exact looks, and there is general consensus that this is a good idea, there is more work to be done anyway -- deciding on a voting scheme, putting an archive together, etc. ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 03:46, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

 * I also think that it's a good idea, hard to imagine why anyone would disagree... Your sample is cool imho. The only thing that bothers me is the word "article". I still think that the word "entry" is somewhat better, but neither are very good. I couldn't come up with a better word. This feature idea rules out the word "content", because "featured content" sounds terrible, and "featured collection" also sounds lame. It's weird that on wiktionary they still use the work "article", as opposed to "entry". iddo999 04:58, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

I am working on Featured article. I will soon move this discussion into its talk page. ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 17:28, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

Any update on this?
Just wonderin'. JPxG (talk) 08:58, 20 June 2021 (UTC)

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User talk:212.100.250.215

~ MosheZadka (Talk) 05:56, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

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User talk:146.85.196.98

~ MosheZadka (Talk) 05:58, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

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User talk:213.137.125.228

--Aphaia 06:05, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

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User talk:Rogerd

--Aphaia 06:37, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:Boiler Room (film)

someone rollback the history on this shit, it's been vandalized! -- zuzu (11/16/2005)

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User talk:Filthychimp~enwikiquote

Thanks for your care for accuracy in quotes from Penny Arcade. ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 08:20, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

Your account will be renamed
Hello,

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

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Filthychimp. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Filthychimp~enwikiquote that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:23, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 05:47, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

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User:MosheZadka/Thoughts

I've been on wikiquote for a while. I've created quite a few pages, edited many, deleted more than I wanted to. I've thought a lot about how wikiquote works.

 * Who are our competitors? Even Bartlett's (our classic competitor) and certainly all quotation sites, use a database schema on the order of (Quote, Origin, Keywords) [This is unnormalized SQL, deal] [Yes, it's possible to have paper databases. We call them "indices".]
 * Contrast: Wikipedia's competitors are basically long reams of text, with fairly little meta-data. Just the category system makes Wikipedia better than Britannica in the organizational respect. Wikibook's competitors are also long reams of text. They have even less organization, on average.

So it seems Wikiquote uses a fairly different style than its competitors.

 * Advantages:
 * Freedom: With just wide community approval (or even without, in experimental stages) we can add notes, note types, formatting options. We used this to invent the Sourced/Attributed/Misattributed dichotomy, to add to it "Quotes about" (while we still debate the correct heading) and so on.

 * Disadvantages:
 * Organization is a manual issue.

How can we keep the advantages and make the disadvantages less hurtful? Adopting standard formatting. This is why I've been pushing for heavy-handed standardization. The goal is to make it possible to write a program which will do something like:
 * Read all pages: remove stub notices, ignore pages with other types of maintenance tags.
 * Use a heuristic to figure out what the page style is: hopefully, the heuristic will be able to use just the category system. [This is why categories are important to me.]
 * Parse a page into individual quotations. [The formatting must be standard enough for a dumb program.]
 * Spit out whatever we want it to: fortune file, SQL dumps, XML dumps etc.
 * For example, it might be nice to spit out "fortune file with all quotes from people or books, with added quotation marks and attribution, but only those which are sourced." Or fortune file with "All quotes from TV episodes which have less than 4 lines of dialogue."

Wikiquote is not at a level at which this is possible, but it is close. I think it would be nice to bring it closer.

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User talk:Hubert22

~ MosheZadka (Talk) 08:50, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

George Monck
I have added a "" template to the article George Monck, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but it may not satisfy Wikiquote's criteria for inclusion, for the reasons given in the deletion notice (see also "What Wikiquote is not" and Wikiquote's deletion policy). You may contest the proposed deletion by removing the  notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page. Also, please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Votes for deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. ~ UDScott 15:36, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

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Amir Peretz

Amir Peretz (Hebrew: עָמִיר פֶּרֶץ; born March 9, 1952) is the chairman of the Israel Labour Party.

Quotes

 * אם לא תהיה ברירה, נכריז מלחמה נגד המליונרים במדינת ישראל. הקרקע כל כך בוערת, שעשירי הארץ לא יתפלאו אם יגיעו קבוצות שפשוט יעלו על הבתים שלהם, ויגרשו אותם מהבית, או שהבנות שלהם כבר לא יוכלו להסתובב בחוץ. כל אחד יצטרך להקים משטרה פרטית. כשיתחילו המאבקים, שמבהירים את העובדה שאי אפשר להמשיך במצב שבו יש קבוצות שצוברות הון ומתעשרות באופן אגדי, ואחרים שנשארים כל כך מאחור, שאף אחד לא ישלה את עצמו שהבית שלו והחצר שלו מחוץ למשחק
 * Translation: If there is no choice, we will declare war on the millionaires in Israel. The ground is burning to such an extent, that the rich people of the land should not be surprised if certain groups would arrive and just climb on their houses and expel them from their homes, or if their daughters could no longer walk outside. Each one would have to establish a private police force. When the struggles begin, illustrating the fact that we cannot continue in this condition where there are groups that accumulate wealth and get rich in a legendary fashion, while others are left so far behind, no one should fool himself into thinking that his house and yard are out of the game.
 * Source: Interview by Orna Kadosh in Maariv, May 12, 2000
 * The targeted assassination policy is a correct one. It is inconceivable that terrorists could operate freely without the ground quaking under their feet.
 * Source: TV interview by Menashe Raz, Oded Shachar and Maya Bengal, on Channel 1, October 16, 2005.
 * At the first stages of negotiations, we will not release prisoners with blood on their hands. However, as part of a final agreement, I do not rule out this option. Offering hope for a better future is more important than grieving the past.
 * Source: TV interview by Menashe Raz, Oded Shachar and Maya Bengal, on Channel 1, October 16, 2005.
 * צריך לדאוג שלא יהיו פה פעולות ראווה ולא ענישה קולקטיווית, אבל הלגיטימציה שתהיה לי להילחם בטרור תהיה גדולה יותר מאשר של כל מועמד אחר
 * Translation: We have to ensure that there are no showcase operations here, or collective punishment, but I will have greater legitimatization for fighting terrorism than any other candidate.
 * Source: Interview by Ari Shavit in Haaretz, March 3, 2006

Attributed

 * When my mother delivered me, she didn't have milk, and I was breastfed by an Arab woman. Maybe that had an effect on my leftist views.
 * If a labor leader of national scale is arrested by the police, I will call a general strike.
 * צריך להפסיק עם הדיבורים שאם נבנה עוד מפעלים, נצטרך לקנות פחות שניים שלושה אף-16. זה ממש לא שם. צריך קודם כל לקבוע את היעדים. בוא נקבע מה היעד, אני בטוח שנמצא לזה מקורות. ואם, לא תהיה בררה, ושאלת האף-16 תעמוד מול ערך האדם, אני אכריע לטובת האדם, ולא לטובת האף-16
 * We should stop using the argument that if we build more factories here, we will have to buy two or three less F-16s. That's really not the case. First, it is needed to set the goals. Let's set the goal, and I'm certain that we will find resources for it. And if, there is no choice, and the question of the F-16 will stand opposed to human dignity, I will decide in favor of the human being, and not in favor of the F-16.

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User talk:82.133.46.34

Hi. I have deleted the James Randall page you created, because it had just three random exclamations, one of them pertaining to wikiquote. Please note that Wikiquote is NOT a place for quotes by non-notable people. Thank you for your understanding. ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 13:05, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

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User talk:210.214.160.181

Deliberate vandalism can result in IP addresses being blocked from editing. ~ Kalki 13:18, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

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Bruce Willis

Walter Bruce Willis (born 19 March 1955) is an American retired actor.

Quotes

 * You can't undo the past but you can certainly not repeat it.
 * US Magazine. Issue 249.

 * I'm staggered by the question of what it's like to be a multimillionaire. I always have to remind myself that I am.
 * RS. Issue 858/859.

 * This is the war on terrorism; it's worth fighting for.
 * Bruce Willis during a visit to the 101st Airborne Division in northern Iraq, September 25, 2003.

 * I wanted to sign up and fight with you guys, but they told me I was too old.
 * Bruce Willis during a visit to the 101st Airborne Division in northern Iraq, September 25, 2003.

 * If you catch him, just give me four seconds with Saddam Hussein.
 * Bruce Willis during a visit to the 101st Airborne Division in northern Iraq, September 25, 2003.

 * This is the same fight the US fought 60 years ago
 * Referring to the War on Terror. On Rita Cosby’s Sunday MSNBC program, November 14, 2005.

 * The terrorists today are much the same as those we fought in WW II.
 * On Rita Cosby’s Sunday MSNBC program, November 14, 2005.

 * I'm sick of answering this fucking question. I'm a Republican only as far as I want a smaller government, I want less government intrusion. I want them to stop shitting on my money and your money and tax dollars that we give 50 percent of... every year. I want them to be fiscally responsible and I want these goddamn lobbyists out of Washington. Do that and I'll say I'm a Republican... I hate the government, OK? I'm apolitical. Write that down. I'm not a Republican.
 * Quoted by reporters at a promotional event for the film 16 Blocks in early 2006

 * If you take one out or change one law, then why wouldn’t they take all your rights away from you?
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Kim Jong-il

Kim Jong-il (16 February 1941 – 17 December 2011) was the supreme leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea from 1994 until his death, holding the offices of Chairman of the National Defense Commission, Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army, and General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea.

1970s

 * Independence is an attribute of man, the social being; it should not be viewed as the development to perfection of a natural, biological attribute of living matter. This is, in essence, an evolutionary viewpoint. Of course, we do not deny evolutionism itself. Science has long established the fact that man is a product of ages of evolution. Man is a product of evolution, but not his independence. Independence is a social product. Independence is an attribute given to man by society, not nature; it is not a natural gift, but has been formed and developed socially and historically.
 * "On some questions in understanding the Juche philosophy", speech delivered to theoretical propagandists of the Party, April 2, 1974

 * Nothing is impossible for a man with a strong will. The possible is in store only for a man who loves the future. There is no word "impossible" in the Korean language.
 * "Unification of the fatherland is an act of supreme patriotism" (1970s), quoted in Kim Jong Il Handbook (2011) by International Business Publications USA

1980s

 * All exploiting classes, after all, constitute a reaction against history; they are the target of revolution.
 * On the Juche Idea, treatise submitted to the National Seminar on the Juche Idea held to mark the 70th birthday of the Great Leader Comrade Kim II Sung (31 March 1982)

 * The core in the Juche outlook on the revolution is loyalty to the party and the leader. The cause of socialism and communism is started by the leader and is carried out under the guidance of the party and the leader.
 * On the Juche Idea

 * It's all a lie. They're just pretending to praise me.
 * Remark to kidnapped South Korean director Shin Sang-ok (7 March 1983); quoted in Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader

 * In their day, Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Stalin represented the aspirations and demands of the exploited working masses, and the cause of socialism was inseparably linked with their names.
 * "Let us advance under the banner of Marxism-Leninism and the Juche Idea" (3 May 1983)

 * The physical life of an individual person is limited, but the life of the masses united as an independent social-political organism is immortal.… Only when an individual becomes a member of this community can he acquire the immortal social-political life.
 * "Theory of the Immortal Social-Political Body" (1986)

1990s

 * Glory to the heroic soldiers of the Korean People's Army!
 * Military review on the 60th anniversary of the KPA (25 April 1992), the only occasion of Kim's voice being broadcast in the DPRK

 * Calling socialism, under which the popular masses are the masters of everything, "totalitarianism" is, ultimately, a preposterous lie which identifies the most progressive idea that reflects the demands of the popular masses with the reactionary idea of fascist rulers.
 * "Abuses of socialism are intolerable," article in Central Committee magazine Kulloja (March 1, 1993)

 * Whenever such practices as failing to carry out the Party's ideas and policies unconditionally, abusing one's authority, acting bureaucratically, enjoying privileges and being corrupt are revealed among cadres, we should nip them in the bud through ideological struggle. Those who fail to remould themselves in a revolutionary way through an ideological struggle should be sent to labour-intensive fields to be trained through labour.
 * "Let us further consolidate the position of the socialist revolution through effective party work," speech to the Central Committee (January 1, 1994), in Selected Works vol. 13

 * The "human rights" advertised by the imperialists are privileges of the rich, privileges to do anything on the strength of money. The imperialists do not recognize the right of unemployed people to work, or the right of orphans or people without support to eat and survive, for instance, as human rights. As they do not grant working people elementary rights to existence and as they pursue anti-popular policies and policies of racial and national discrimination and colonialism, the imperialists have no right to speak about human rights. The imperialists are the most heinous enemy of human rights.
 * "Socialism is a Science," article in Rodong Sinmun (1 November 1994), also in Selected Works vol. 13

 * Karl Marx made a great contribution to the liberation cause of mankind, and because of his immortal exploits his name is still enshrined in the hearts of the working class and peoples of all countries.
 * Rodong Sinmun (25 December 1995) "Respecting the forerunners of the revolution is a noble moral obligation of revolutionaries," also in Selected Works vol. 14

 * Our country is suffering from the lack of food. We don't have rice for the military. Our country is in a state of anarchy because of the dysfunctional food rationing system. The administration department is responsible for this mess, as well as the Party officials. The Party's Central Committee members have failed their duty in generating a revolutionary spirit, diminishing the Party's effectiveness. We must solve the food problem according to socialist principles, and we must not rely on individuals. If we let the people solve the problem on their own, only merchants and markets will prosper. Then, selfishness will rule our society and destroy our system of true equality.
 * Reported speech at Kim Il Sung University in December 1996, as quoted in Exit Emperor Kim Jong-il (2012) by John H. Cha and K. J. Sohn. Domestic collections of Kim's works do not confirm the speech or the wording, but an April 1996 speech to the Central Committee began with similar observations, and a "state of anarchy" arising from privatization in former socialist countries was a theme in earlier works. See Selected Works vol. 14

 * Whenever they [the Jagang people] saw my car passing by, they would run towards it cheering and shedding tears. This feeling cannot be manufactured or bought with money. It is a phenomenon that can be witnessed only in our country, where the Party and the people are united single-heartedly.
 * "Let us bring about about a fresh turn in economic work and the people's standard of living by following the example of Jagang Province," collected remarks during field guidance visits to Jagang (1998), in Selected Works vol. 14

 * The US imperialists … are resorting to every conceivable scheme to stifle us. They are not only bringing political pressure and military threats to bear on us but also imposing economic sanctions. This is why our Party and people have had to undergo the Arduous March and suffer hardships.
 * "Let us bring about about a fresh turn…"

2000s

 * I am the object of criticism around the world. But I think that since I am being discussed, then I am on the right track.
 * Conversation with Konstantin Pulikovsky (Summer 2001), quoted in his book Orient Express
 * Variant: I know I'm an object of criticism in the world, but if I am being talked about, I must be doing the right things.
 * Behnke, Alison. Kim Jong Il's North Korea

 * It is not communists but imperialists who oppose nationalism and place obstacles in the way of the independent development of nations at present.… The manoeuvres of the US imperialists for "globalization" and "integration" are aimed at turning the world into what they call a "free" and "democratic" world styled after the United States, and thus bringing all countries and nations under their domination and subordination.
 * "On Having a Correct Understanding of Nationalism," Talks to senior officials of the Central Committee (February 2002), in Selected Works vol. 15

 * Korea and Japan are geographically close countries, and they had maintained relations from olden times exchanging visits with each other. But in the past century discord and confrontation has brought the relations between the two countries to an extremely abnormal state. The abnormal relations continuing between them are, in every respect, harmful to either of them. Normalizing the relations between the two countries and developing good-neighbourly relations accords with the aspirations and interests of the peoples of the two countries, and it is an urgent demand of the times.
 * Remarks to Kyodo News Service before a visit from Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi (September 14, 2002), in Selected Works vol. 15

 * Our Party’s Songun-based revolutionary leadership, Songun-based politics, is a revolutionary mode of leadership and socialist mode of politics that gives top priority to military affairs, and defends the country, the revolution and socialism and dynamically pushes ahead with overall socialist construction by dint of the revolutionary mettle and combat capabilities of the People’s Army.
 * "The Songun-based revolutionary line is a great revolutionary line of our era and an ever-victorious banner of our revolution", address to the senior officials of the Central Committee of the Worker's Party (29 January 2003), in Selected Works vol. 15

 * I'm an Internet expert too. It's all right to wire the industrial zone only, but there are many problems if other regions of the North are wired.

 * Although the Great Leader told us that we have to let the people eat rice with meat soup, wear silk clothes and live in a tiled roof house, we have not accomplished his will.… We have already reached the status of a strong country in the military field, let alone politics and ideology, but there are still quite a number of things lacking in people's lives. I am trying to implement his will by solving these problems.
 * Rodung Sinmun (9 January 2010)

2010s

 * To make the whole Korean peninsula nuclear-free was the behest of the great President Kim Il-sung, and it is the consistent stand of the government of our Republic. The nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula arose as a result of the United States constantly threatening the sovereignty and security of our people. Sovereignty is the lifeline of a country and nation. We have possessed nuclear deterrent to protect our sovereignty from the blatant nuclear threat of the United States and its increasingly hostile policy.
 * Response to questions from Russia's ITAR-TASS news agency (13 October 2011)

 * It is my greatest wish to enable our people to live with nothing to envy at the earliest possible date, and it is my greatest pleasure to work energetically, sharing my joys and sorrows with our people, on the road of translating my wish into reality.
 * Response to questions from Russia's ITAR-TASS news agency (13 October 2011)

Quotes about Kim Jong-il

 * Kim [Il-sung] wanted his system to last, and his place in history to be assured. Since the fate of Stalin (and later of Mao) showed that he could not entrust those goals to the Party, he turned to his own family. His son, born in the Soviet Union in 1942, returned to Korea to complete his schooling and graduate from Kim Il Sung University. He rose rapidly in the Party hierarchy and was put in charge of propaganda in 1972. The Sixth Party Congress of 1980 ratified the choice of Kim's son as his successor. Kim Jong Il entered the Party Secretariat, the Central Committee, the Politburo and the Military Commission. For the first time, a Communist state was being turned into a hereditary monarchy.
 * Clive Foss, The Tyrants: 2500 Years of Absolute Power and Corruption (2006) p. 150

 * [T]he fervor and single-mindedness of this deification probably have no precedent in history. It's not like Duvalier or Assad passing the torch to the son and heir. It surpasses anything I have read about the Roman or Babylonian or even Pharaonic excesses. An estimated $2.68 billion was spent on ceremonies and monuments in the aftermath of Kim Il Sung's death. The concept is not that his son is his successor, but that his son is his reincarnation. North Korea has an equivalent of Mount Fuji—a mountain sacred to all Koreans. It's called Mount Paekdu, a beautiful peak with a deep blue lake, on the Chinese border. Here, according to the new mythology, Kim Jong Il was born on February 16, 1942. His birth was attended by a double rainbow and by songs of praise (in human voice) uttered by the local birds. In fact, in February 1942 his father and mother were hiding under Stalin's protection in the dank Russian city of Khabarovsk, but as with all miraculous births it's considered best not to allow the facts to get in the way of a good story.
 * Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays (2004)

 * Kim Il Sung remains venerated, and due to the luck of dying in time, has a remarkably good reputation in death. The opposite is very much the case with his unfortunate son, Kim Jong Il, who inherited power in 1994 and reigned for 17 turbulent years, till 2011.
 * Andrei Lankov, "Kim Jong Un’s popularity, explained: Despite purges, third generation of Kim rule maintains approval" (27 September 2015), NK News

 * You pushed away the severe storm. You made us believe, Comrade Kim Jong-il. We cannot live without you. Our country cannot exist without you!
 * North Korean song, ""

 * When General Kim Jong Il shouts to the mountains / Lightning strikes and valleys shatter! … With General Kim Jong Il's wondrous strategy / Enemy lines collapse and our foes wail! … Under General Kim Jong Il's amazing leadership / Korea goes forth and Juche goes forth!
 * North Korean military anthem, "Thunder Over Jong Il Peak"

 * Chukjibeop! Chukjibeop! The Dear General uses it! … Once the Great Leader also used chukjibeop. Today the Dear General does it for him.
 * North Korean popular song, "The Dear General Uses Chukjibeop [Distance-Shrinking Magic]"

 * He kills our people, arrests people who are against his administration. He produces drugs. It's a national industry. He kidnaps other people from South Korea, or other democratic countries. He is doing all sorts of bad things, like the devil. Do not trust him, never, ever.
 * Kim Duk Hong, former Korean Workers Party Central Committee worker, in PBS Frontline: Kim's Nuclear Gamble (companion web site)

 * When it comes to the orchestration of terror, Kim Jong-il is a natural born genius.
 * Kim Duk Hong quoted in BBC News (21 July 2003) "Inside the mind of Kim Jong-il"
 * North Korea's Kim Jong-il is often portrayed as crazy or as a clown. In reality, although he is certainly eccentric, he is a clever politician who carefully follows world affairs and chooses his tactics accordingly. Most of the coverage given Kim Jong-il in the mainstream media deals with his nuclear ambitions and his threats to build weapons of mass destruction. But domestically he runs the most tightly controlled society in the world. While Kim Jong-il himself might watch satellite television news, most North Koreans have absolutely no access to information about the outside world. The normal kinds of political rights and civil liberties that are squashed to one degree or another by other dictators are simply non-existent in North Korea.
 * David Wallechinsky, Tyrants: The World's 20 Worst Living Dictators (2006), p. 2

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Passions

Passions (1999–2008) was an American soap opera. It aired weekdays on NBC.

Hank Bennett
[Hank is shocked to hear Luis speak nice things about Sheridan]
 * Hank: "Are you sure there wasn't a pod next to your bed this morning?"

 * Sheridan: "I just ran into him in the locker room... he had just gotten out of the shower."
 * Hank: "Oh..."
 * Sheridan: "It was an accident... I was just looking for some sugar."
 * Hank: "Did you find it?"

Jessica Bennett

 * You can't give up on Charity, Miguel. Would Leonardo give up on Kate? Would Ross give up on Rachel? Would Bo give up on Hope?

Kay Bennett

 * [Kay has second thoughts about being good] Miguel is going to be mine no matter what I have to do! Charity, be damned! As God as my witness, I'll never be good again!

Noah Bennett

 * Esme? What kind of name is that?  Forgot who I was talking to.  To someone named Fancy, Esme actually sounds kind of normal.

Sam Bennett

 * Is Ethan really my son? I'm not going to rest until I know for sure. Maybe there's a clue on the Internet.

Alistair Crane

 * It's a sad day in America when the Cranes can't subvert government policy.
 * [Luis and Sam have again accused Alistair of a crime with no proof] You'll have to excuse me. I've heard all of this empty huffing and puffing before.

Fancy Crane

 * [to Alistair] Grampy! (repeated line)
 * [to Ivy] Hi, Mummy! I'm home!
 * It's hard getting a license when you're underage. Plus, I kept forgetting that the states have speed limits.  In parts of Europe they don't, you know.
 * [Fancy comes to a realization after Alistair's marriage to Theresa] Oh, my God. You're my step-grandmother!"
 * [Noah insults Fancy] Oh, go suck an egg.
 * [Noah suggests that it would kill Fancy if he were to sleep with Esme] Yes! No!  Of course not, you arrogant boar.  I couldn't care less who you sleep with, as long as it's not me.
 * [to Esme] If you're expecting anything more from Romeo here, I wouldn't get your hopes up. He was just telling me he's not a gigolo.
 * 'Escort', 'friend', 'tour guide' - they're all euphemisms for 'gigolo', Noah.
 * [disgusted by Esme's attitude towards Noah] This is sick! You're taking advantage of a poor schlub who has to help pay his father's mortgage and has to find even more money to help pay his whacked-out sister's therapy fees.
 * [Esme can't seem to remember Noah's name] It's Noah! Remember?  The ark?  All the animals?
 * [Noah insults Fancy] You're a jerkface.

 * Fancy: There's got to be some way I can get [Noah and me] some money.
 * Liz: Most people work for it.
 * Fancy: Yeah, but that takes too long unless you can start at the top somewhere.

Fox Crane

 * Rebecca: "I was under the impression that you didn't like your mommy very much."
 * Fox: "Maybe so, but I don't want her to frozen stiff like Jack Nicholson in The Shining."
 * - March 2003

 * Julian: "You are no son of mine!"
 * Fox: "Well, given this family's history, I wouldn't be surprised if you're right."

 * Gwen: "What are you going to do? Just sit here drinking like a playboy?"
 * Fox: "I have to keep my strength up.  Grandfather promised me women!"
 * - March 2005

Julian Crane

 * Oh my God! I think it's the remains of Grace's tomato soup cake!

 * Ivy: "You know, there is an old Chinese proverb that says, 'Man who talks with fake Chinese accent, man with something to hide.'"
 * Julian: "There's another Chinese proverb that says 'Wife like you can go to HELL'."

 * Julian: "Theresa looked delectable today!"
 * Ethan: Really?  I didn't notice."
 * Julian: "You should check into that new laser eye surgery."

 * Sheridan: "Beth is our half-sister."
 * Julian: "Come again?"
 * Luis: "Beth is Alistair's daughter."
 * Julian: "You mean Alistair and Edna Wallace...?"
 * Eve: "Oh, my God."
 * Julian: "That smelly old crone?"
 * Sam: "Happened a long time ago. You know, evidently, Edna was quite a dish in the day."
 * Julian: "Well, she's past her expiration date now."
 * - June 2005

 * I'm paying you to represent the woman I love, not my wife.
 * [prepares to leave Ethan's ICU room] Theresa, why don't you come with me? You don't belong here.

Sheridan Crane

 * Luis: "Why do you have to be such a smart-ass?"
 * Sheridan: "When I'm around you, someone has to be smart.

 * [Chris has just shot the hitman] [to James] Sorry, sweetheart, the bad man's in heaven now.

Reese Durkee

 * Not even the Internet can save us now!

Hecuba

 * [to Timmy] Do you remind yourself of anyone? I'll give you a hint.  He was made of wood by a weirdo named Gepetto.

Gwen Hotchkiss

 * What do I have to do to get you to admit what's going on here, Ethan? Walk in on you and Theresa in bed making love? What's she going to tell me then, huh? That she was just fluffing your pillows and just happened to slip underneath you?
 * Theresa, a marriage - I mean, a real marriage, between a man and a woman, isn't about one person's needs. It's about doing selfless sacrifices for one another, no matter how hard it is.

Tabitha Lenox

 * Lucy Ricardo caused less havoc when she was smuggling cheese back from Europe!
 * What on Earth has you guzzling Martimmies at this time of day - and out of a shaker no less?
 * Blast that interfering next door neighbor of mine, Grace Bennett!
 * I've had enough of the Don King routine, Timmy. Do something with your hair.
 * Oh the mortals these days! Using their Internet, email, cell phones, and text messaging, whatever the hell that is...

Luis Lopez-Fitzgerald

 * Sheridan: "Aren't you freezing out here without your coat on?"
 * Luis: "I was just gonna go out and chop some fire wood... It's one of two things you can do in this kinda weather to keep warm."
 * Sheridan: "What's the other?"
 * Luis: "Oh... it's a guy joke."

Miguel Lopez-Fitzgerald

 * [Miguel is exasperated by the fact that Charity keeps seeing her "doomed" future in her tea leaves]
 * Miguel: "Why don't you switch to tea bags from now on?"

 * Eve: "Is Charity having premonitions again?"
 * Miguel: "No, it's worse.  She broke up with me."

Pilar Lopez-Fitzgerald

 * Pilar: "...And you, Martin, you better start honoring your commitment to me and to our family and to our children, or I swear, I will chop off what you can't seem to control!"
 * Martin: "I've never heard you talk this way."
 * Pilar: "Because I'm not the little - desperate housewife that you abandoned any more. I've learned to stand up for myself. I'm not going to settle with you in my bed while your heart lays with Katherine. Get over her! Get over her once and for all. And never take her side over mine again.
 * - 2005

Theresa Lopez-Fitzgerald

 * I've lost the only man worth dieting for!
 * [to Whitney] What do you think? If you allow yourself to have feelings for some guy, your arm will just fall off and you'll never play tennis again?

Rebecca Osborn

 * Seeing you like that, Pilar, reminds me of an old TV show. "The Jeffersons." You're moving on up!"
 * Theresa is just like that little pink bunny, she keeps lying and lying and lying."
 * [about Edna Wallace] Oh, my God! Alistair rode that old Jalopy? Oh! And people say I'm depraved.

 * Sam: "Now, I've heard enough of you ladies yelling at each other."
 * Rebecca: "Theresa's no lady, she's a tramp."

 * Julian: "This is all Theresa's fault!"
 * Rebecca: "Why?  What did she do?  Hide your Viagra?"

Simone Russell

 * [about Chad] Isn't he just the tastiest thing you ever saw in your life?
 * [Kay informs Simone that her "chest exercises" have paid off] Get real, girl. There's a lot more than exercises in that bra.

TC Russell

 * Irma, I don't know where the hell you get these crazy accusations about Eve - that she had a baby with another man. Maybe it's because you're watching those crazy soap operas... the one that comes on after Days of Our Lives, but that's totally unbelievable!

Liz Sanbourne

 * You know what they say about denial: it's not just a river in Egypt.

Grace Standish

 * Ivy: "You were always so good in the kitchen. I wish I'd taken Home Ec in school."
 * Grace: "You were probably too busy cramming for "How to Be a Bitch 101:.
 * Ivy: "You know, Grace, you're usually so passive I'd forgotten that you had any wit."
 * Grace: "I wouldn't worry about it, because I hear that memory loss is quite common in menopausal women."

Timmy (deceased)

 * [Timmy speaks to a sleeping Charity] Timmy would lay down his life for you... if Timmy had a life to lay down.
 * So Charity's like Princess Leia and Luke Skywalker combined?

 * Tabitha: "So, you told Julian that I'm a witch."
 * Timmy: "Timmy didn't mean to say anything bad."

Tabitha: "Yes, I tried, Timmy, but I failed! I failed! It's results that count. Oh. I never thought I'd see the day where I have to leave Harmony with my tail between my legs." Timmy: "You have a tail?"

Beth Wallace

 * Beth: "Okay, okay, okay... I'm calm. And I am calmly asking you. How are we supposed to get Sheridan off the grounds without being seen?"
 * Charlie: "Very carefully."
 * Beth: "Of course. Very carefully. Why didn't I think of that? Very carefully!"

Edna Wallace

 * [about Beth] "Strike her down now, God! Lightning bolts 'til she's good and crispy!

Ethan Winthrop

 * [to Sheridan] "Studies I've seen say the number one reason marriages are successful is because the two people involved have a lot in common. You have a lot. Luis is common.

Ivy Winthrop

 * [Julian attempts to seduce Ivy]
 * Julian: "I have wondered... how you could go so long without a man."
 * Ivy: "With a man like you?  It's easy."

 * Julian: "I'm in no mood to play "Let's Provoke Julian" today.
 * Ivy: "Pity.  It's my favorite game!"

 * What's up, Julian? It wouldn't have anything to do with, let's see, a mysterious bird statue?
 * Well, we all remember where the bloody corpse dream got the family the last time.
 * Let me out! I have a bride to bludgeon to death.

 * Rebecca: "Ivy, Didn't you wear that last year?"
 * Ivy: "Yes, I did. And what are you, Rebecca, some large, yellow bird's date?"
 * - December 2003

 * [Miguel bursts into the Bennetts' house, where Ivy is having a drink]
 * Miguel: "Ms. Winthrop... where did that crazy fog come from?  I mean, it's like pea soup!  There were all these bats flying around my head..."
 * Ivy: "Bats?  Oh, Miguel, you shouldn't drink the cheap stuff."

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 * "The hands can't hit what the eyes can't see. Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee! [shouts] Rumble, young man, rumble!"
 * "I'm king of the world! I'm pretty!  I'm a bad man!  I shook up the world!"
 * "I'm so pretty"
 * "Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up."
 * "I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was. "
 * "I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on."
 * "It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am."
 * "Superman don't need no seat belt."
 * "Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wild Life."
 * "No Vietcong ever called me nigger."
 * "I'm so fast that i turned the light switch off in my room and was in bed before it was dark."
 * "I'm so mean I make medicine sick."

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im so fast I can run through a hurricane without getting wet

Someone want in and put 'he has parkinsons' on the quotes article, this page was messed up like one of Ali's (LEGEND) opponents faces after a fight with him lol anyway its fixed how--194.72.105.222 13:13, 19 December 2006 (UTC) This message was Left by McNoddy.(don,t Know why it wouldn't let me sign?) do you need to create a new account if your going to contribute to wikiquote?

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 * A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing.

 * Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

 * All I want now is to be a nice, clean gentleman. I've proved my point. Now I'm going to set an example for all the nice boys and girls. I'm through talking.

 * Be loud, be pretty and keep their black-hatin' asses in their chairs.

 * Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.

 * Cassius Clay is a slave name. I didn't choose it, and I didn't want it. I am Muhammad Ali, a free name — it means beloved of God — and I insist people use it when speaking to me and of me.

 * Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them: A desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.

 * Don't count the days, make the days count.

 * Eat your words! Eat your words! I am the greatest.

 * Fifteen referees. I want fifteen referees to be at this fight because there ain't no one man who can keep up with the pace I'm gonna set except me. There's not a man alive who can whup me. I'm too fast. I'm too smart. I'm too pretty. I should be a postage stamp. That's the only way I'll ever get licked.

 * Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. Your hands can't hit what your eyes can't see, rumble young man, rumble!

 * Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

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 * God gave me this illness to remind me that I'm not number One; He is.

 * Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.

 * He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

He must fall in eight, to prove that I am great. He wanted to go to heaven, so I took him in seven. If he'd be in a word of fix, I cut it to six. If he keeps talkin' jive, he will fall in five. If he makes me sore, I'll get him in round four, like before, with Archie moore, on the floor. If that don't do, we'll get him in two. If he runs, we can get him in one. If he don't wanna fight, he should keep his ugly self at home that night.
 * He will be mine, in round nine, and I ain't lyin'.
 * Before his fight against the aging champion Archie Moore.

 * Hell no, I aint gonna go. On the war in vietnam I sing this song, I aint got no quarrel with them Viet Cong. Clean out my cell, and take my tail to jail without bail, cause better to be in jail fed, than in vietnam dead.
 * Ali on the war in Vietnam, which he refused.

When I got to Africa I had one helluva rumble. I had to beat Tarzan's behind first, for claiming to be the king of the jungle. For this fight I wrestled with alligators. I tussled with a whale. I've done handcuff lightining and put thunder in jail. You know I'm bad I had murdered a rock. I injured a stone. And I hospitalised a brick. I'm so bad I make medicine sick. I'm so fast man I can run through a hurricane and don't get wet. When George Foreman meets me, he'll pay his bets. I can drunk a drink of water and kill a dead tree, wait 'till you see Muhammad Ali.
 * Last night I had a dream.
 * On his pre-fight in Zaire to George Foreman.

 * Henry Cooper is nothing to me, if that bum goes over the fifth round I won't return to the United States for 30 days, and that's final.

If he wanna go to heaven, I'll get'em in seven. He'll be worth of a fix, if a I cut him to six. If he keeps talking jive he'll go in five. If he keeps talking about me I'll get him in three. If that don't do he'll fall in two. If you run, you'll go in one. And if you don't wanna fight, is better keep home that night.
 * Then he may be great but he will leave in eight.
 * Pre-fight with Sonny Liston

 * You tell to your camera, your TV-man, your radio-man and you right there and the whole world. If Sonny Liston whups me I'll kiss his feet in the ring I'll crawl out of the ring on my knees, I'll tell'em he is the greatest and get the first jet to get out of the country.
 * Prediction on is first bout against Sonny Liston

 * Why doesn't he retire? He's too old
 * on Archie Moore

 * If you like to lose your money be a fool and bet on Sonny.

 * I am America. I am the part you won't recognize, but get used to me. Black, confident, cocky — my name, not yours. My religion, not yours. My goals, my own. Get used to me.

 * I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own.

 * I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

 * I am tired of talking.

 * I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.

 * I don't always know what I'm talking about, but I know I'm right.

 * I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

 * I hated every minute of training, but I said, "Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion."

 * I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.

 * I say it again, and I said it before. Archie Moore will fall in round four.
 * Before his fight against Archie Moore.

 * I say get an education. Become an electrician, a mechanic, a doctor, a lawyer — anything but a fighter. In this trade, it's the managers that make the money and last the longest.

 * I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.

 * If Doug Jones upset me, I will retire.
 * Prior to his 1963 match with Doug Jones.

 * If I had lower IQ, I could enjoy your interview.
 * In an exchange with CBS broadcaster Howard Cosell

 * I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.
 * Prior to a boxing match with Floyd Patterson

 * I'm a Muslim. I've been a Muslim for 20 years. . . . You know me. I'm a boxer. I've been called the greatest. People recognize me for being a boxer and a man of truth. I wouldn't be here representing Islam if it were terrorist. . . . I think all people should know the truth, come to recognize the truth. Islam is peace.

 * I'm gonna put him flat on his back, so he will start acting black. Cause when he was the champion, he didn't do as he should, he tries to force himself into an all-white neighbour hood.
 * About Floyd Patterson

 * I'm gonna have to be killed before I lose, and I ain't going to die easy.

 * I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.

 * I'm the best. I just haven't played yet.
 * When asked about his Golf game

 * I'm the most recognized and loved man that ever lived 'cause there weren't no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn't know about them.

 * If my fans think I can do everything I say I can do, then they're crazier than I am.

 * If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

 * If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize.

 * It's gonna be a a killa, a chilla, and a thrilla when I get that gorilla in Manila.

 * It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.

 * It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believe in myself.

 * It's not bragging if you can back it up.
 * Actually the statement " It ain't bragging if you can back it" up was first used by Dizzy Dean in 1934 based on the number of games he would win.

 * Joe comes out smokin', and I gonna be jokin'. I be packin' and pokin', pouring water on his smokin'. This might shock and amaze ya, but I will destroy Joe Frazier. Some people say you better watch Joe Frazier, he is always strong I said tell them to try BAN ROLL-ON(That's a deoderant you know)
 * About Joe Frazier before their first fight (March 1971)

 * Life is a gamble. You can get hurt. But people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents. People die everyday. Same with fighters, some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just dont let yourself believe it will happen to you.

 * My face is so pretty, you don't see a scar, which proves I'm the king of the ring by far.
 * Ali about himself.

 * My toughest fight was with my first wife.

 * Old age is just a record of one's whole life.

 * Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

 * People don't realize what they had till it's gone. Like President Kennedy — nobody like him. Like The Beatles, there will never be anything like them. Like my man, Elvis Presley — I was the Elvis of boxing.

 * People say, I miss my prediction, cause the fight went ten rounds. First I said Jones in four, then I said Jones in six. Six & four is what???.
 * Response to a reporter who asked him about the Jones fight and his prediction.

 * Pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.

 * Prejudice comes from being in the dark; sunlight disinfects it.

 * Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams — they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do — they all contain truths.

 * Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
 * Variant: The service you do for others is the rent you pay for the time you spend on earth.

 * Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.

 * Sonny's trainer told him at the beginning of the seventh round, he says: "Sonny, son get up the bell is about to ring. Sonny says: My mother didn't raise no fool I'm gonna stay on this stool.
 * About his first defeat of Sonny Liston.
 * Related quote: Liston says: This time am I a bigger fool? I flat on my back, instead of the stool.
 * After knocking Liston out in the first round of their rematch (25 May 1965).

 * Superman don't need no seat belt.
 * Comment to a flight attendant, who replied: "Superman don't need no airplane, either."

 * The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses — behind the lines, in the gym and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

 * The man who has no imagination has no wings.

Im truly the most, and all this time he is been cheasin' a ghost. There are two things, are hard to hit and see, that's a spokie ghost and Muhammad Ali.
 * This time Norton will see.
 * Before his second match with Ken Norton.

 * To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you're not, pretend you are.

 * To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.

 * Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

 * We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.

 * When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

 * Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

 * You can go to Japan, China, all the European, African, Arabia, and South American countries, and man, they know me. I can't name a nation where they don't know me.

 * When you're as great as I am, it's hard to be humble.
 * Variant: It's hard to be humble when you're as great as I am.

 * [About racism] '"If I said here comes Mr. Ching Chong you'd picture china-man; if I said here comes Mr. Khrushchev you look for Russian; if I said here comes Mr. Goldberg, you picture Jew; if I say here comes Mr. Vaiklau you look for Indian; if I say here comes Mr.Castro you look for Cuban; here comes Mr. La Bomba, Mr. Kanyatta, you look for Africa and a black man. Now what's your last name?"'
 * As quote from his one of his speeches

 * "Archie has been living off the fat of the land. I'm here to give him his pension plan. Folks, don't block the gate, don't close the door. For you may all go home, after round four."-Before his scheduled professional boxing match with Archie Moore.

 * Also this one is popular in the Russian sources: "Russia scares me – people in the buses look as if they were being taken to the electric chair." Ain92 (talk) 18:40, 3 October 2014 (UTC)

exhibition fight with Alvin ("Blue") Moon
"Ali throw a left, Ali throws a right. Alvin's goin' up, He's goin' out of sight. Alvin just became The world's first black satellite."

---Tim Dare, Sydney, Australia, October 14, 2010. tsd333@bigpond.com Tel +61 2 9398 8254; mob. 0435 081 658.

article inconsistency
the article is contridicting itself and repeating itself on many occasions, at one point it states the same quote 3 times and later says its debunked by snopes.

We gotta have a better source for Ali's "thank god my granddaddy got on that boat" quote than Dinesh D'Souza. For one, he's no particular expert on Ali. Further, D'Souza has a history of dishonest reporting.

 * Please remember to sign your comments with four tildes. There is now a source for the alleged "Grandpappies caught the boat" quote - Dick Sadler (not Ali) in Newsweek, 23 September 1974 - but I'm not sure the citation details given here are quite correct. That issue of Newsweek is available online at the Internet Archive. The article is simply called "It Takes Salongo" (not "A Heap of Salongo") and is on pp. 50-51 of the magazine (not p. 72). Muzilon (talk) 03:39, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

Add Superman Quote
I watched an episode othe 1950s TV show The Adventures of Superman, and found one of the characters mentioned Muhammad Ali. Considering Cassius Clay didn't become known as Muhammad Ali until years after that episode aired, it's not likely a reference to the boxer. Still, I think it's interesting. The fifth season episode is "The Tomb of Zaharan" by David Chantler. It is spoken by the character Abdu Ben Bey (note that the character names were not spelled in the episode, so I'm going by pronunciation). It appears at 12.35 on the DVD I watched. The quote is, "And over there's the mosque of Muhammad Ali." I would add it here just for the weird connection--especially considering the episode was about someone coming from the past to the present, and there was the 1978 comic book of "Superman vs. Muhammad Ali." I'll add the quote if there's no objection. Alden Loveshade (talk) 19:41, 6 May 2018 (UTC)

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Harold Pinter

Harold Pinter (10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008) was a British playwright, actor and theatre director. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2005.

Quotes

 * Sandinistas are a democratically elected government which originally led a popular revolution to overthrow a dictatorship based on slavery. ... US foreign policy could be best defined as follows: kiss my arse or I'll kick your head in. It is as simple and as crude as that. It can hardly be said to be a complicated foreign policy. What is interesting about it is that it is so incredibly successful. It possesses the structures of disinformation, use of rhetoric, distortion of language, which are very persuasive, but are actually a pack of lies. It is very successful propaganda. They have the money, they have the technology, they have all the means to get away with it, and they do. I find the ignorance in this country, Britain, and certainly the US, really quite deep. It is not only the Republican Party and government in the US which are responsible for this state of affairs, but I see the Democrats as only differing by degrees. While they say "no more military aid to the Contras"… they are still referring to an innate and deeply embedded assumption that they are talking about a Marxist-Leninist totalitarian dictatorship; gangsters, thugs, instructed from Moscow.
 * Quoted in an interview, conducted by Andrew Graham-Yooll, South Magazine (May 1988)
 * I suggest that US foreign policy can still be defined as "kiss my ass or I'll kick your head in." But of course it doesn't put it like that. It talks of "low intensity conflict..." What all this adds up to is a disease at the very centre of language, so that language becomes a permanent masquerade, a tapestry of lies.
 * "Oh, Superman", broadcast for Opinion, Channel 4, 31 May 1990; Various Voices: Prose, Poetry, Politics 1948-2005, rev. ed. (1998; London: Faber and Faber, 2005) 198-99.
 * Praise the Lord for all good things. We blew their balls into shards of dust, Into shards of fucking dust. We did it. Now I want you to come over here and kiss me on the mouth.
 * From "American Football" (1991), quoted on 329 of Michael Billington's official authorized biography, Harold Pinter, rev. ed. of The Life and Work of Harold Pinter (1996; Faber and Faber, 2007).
 * In Cuba I have always understood harsh treatment of dissenting voices as stemming from a "siege situation" imposed upon it from outside. And I believe that to a certain extent that is true.
 * "Caribbean Cold War", Red Pepper (May 1996).
 * I believe his arrest and detention by the international criminal tribunal is unconstitutional, and goes against Yugoslav and international law. They have no right to try him.
 * On the arrest of Slobodan Milošević, as quoted by Fiachra Gibbons, in "Free Milosevic, says Pinter", The Guardian (26 July 2001).
 * The atrocity in New York was predictable and inevitable. It was an act of retaliation against constant and systematic manifestations of state terrorism on the part of the United States over many years, in all parts of the world. I believe that it will do this not only to take control of Iraqi oil, but also because the American administration is now a blood-thirsty wild animal.
 * Referring to the 9/11 attacks, in "The American administration is a bloodthirsty wild animal", The Telegraph (12 November 2002), published version of speech made upon accepting an honorary doctorate from University of Turin in 2002.
 * The U.S. is really beyond reason now. It is beyond our imagining to know what they are going to do next and what they are prepared to do. There is only one comparison: Nazi Germany... Nazi Germany wanted total domination of Europe and they nearly did it. The U.S. wants total domination of the world and is about to consolidate that... Blair sees himself as a representative of moral rectitude. He is actually a mass murderer. But we forget that — we are as much victims of delusions as Americans are.
 * Speech at the National Theatre in London made on 10 June 2003, as quoted by Angelique Chrisafis and Imogen Tilden, in "Pinter Blasts 'Nazi America' and 'deluded idiot' Blair", The Guardian (11 June 2003).
 * The government of the US has no moral authority to elect itself as the judge over human rights in Cuba, where there has not been a single case of disappearance, torture or extra-judicial execution since 1959, and where despite the economic blockade, there are levels of health, education and culture that are internationally recognised.
 * Harold Pinter, et al. "Letters: Human Rights and Cuba", The Guardian (26 Mar. 2005). Pinter was a signatory.
 * I tend to believe that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth.
 * Pinter on Pinter in The Observer (1980)
 * I saw Len Hutton in his prime, Another time, another time.
 * Poem A Cricket Poem, quoted in Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 2009, p. 1604

Writing for the Theatre (1962)

 * Speech made by Harold Pinter to the National Student Drama Festival, in Bristol in 1962.
 * Rpt. as "Introduction: Writing for the Theatre", on 9–16 of Complete Works: One (New York: Grove Press [Black Cat Ed.], 1977). ISBN 0802140882. Rpt. by Grove/Atlantic, Inc. in 1994. ISBN 0802150969. ISBN 9780802150967. Also rpt. as "Writing for the Theatre" on 20–26 of Various Voices: Prose, Poetry, Politics: 1948—2005, rev. ed. (1998; London: Faber and Faber, 2005). ISBN 0571230091. ISBN 9780571230099. (Ellipses in the version published in Various Voices omit quotation listed first below, which is featured on the home page of Pinter's official Website, HaroldPinter.org, and also quoted in his 2005 Nobel Lecture [see next sec.]. Beginning with quoting these words that he says he wrote "in 1958", he adds the following qualification: "I believe that these assertions still make sense and do still apply to the exploration of reality through art. So as a writer I stand by them but as a citizen I cannot. As a citizen I must ask: What is true? What is false?")

 * There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false. (11)
 * So often, below the word spoken, is the thing known and unspoken. My characters tell me so much and no more, with reference to their experience, their aspirations, their motives, their history. Between my lack of biographical data about them and the ambiguity of what they say lies a territory which is not only worthy of exploration but which it is compulsory to explore. (13)
 * The speech we hear is an indication of that which we don't hear. It is a necessary avoidance, a violent, sly, and anguished or mocking smoke screen which keeps the other in its true place. When true silence falls we are left with echo but are nearer nakedness. One way of looking at speech is to say that it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness. (14)
 * We have heard many times that tired, grimy phrase: 'Failure of communication...' and this phrase has been fixed to my work quite consistently. I believe the contrary. I think that we communicate only too well, in our silence, in what is unsaid, and that what takes place is a continual evasion, desperate rear-guard attempts to keep ourselves to ourselves. Communication is too alarming. To enter into someone else's life is too frightening. To disclose the poverty within us is too fearsome a possibility. (15)
 * Each play was, for me, 'a different kind of failure.' And that fact, I suppose, sent me on to write the next one. (15)

Art, Truth & Politics (2005)

 * Nobel lecture (7 December 2005)

 * "But the real truth is that there never is any such thing as one truth to be found in dramatic art. There are many. These truths challenge each other, recoil from each other, reflect each other, ignore each other, tease each other, are blind to each other. Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost."
 * It's a strange moment, the moment of creating characters who up to that moment have had no existence. What follows is fitful, uncertain, even hallucinatory, although sometimes it can be an unstoppable avalanche. The author's position is an odd one. In a sense he is not welcomed by his characters. They resist him, they are not easy to live with.
 * A writer's life is a highly vulnerable, almost naked activity. We don't have to weep about that. The writer makes his choice and is stuck with it. But it is true to say that you are open to all the winds, some of them icy indeed. You are out on your own, out on a limb. You find no shelter, no protection — unless you lie — in which case of course you have constructed your own protection and, it could be argued, become a politician.
 * The invasion of Iraq was a bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute contempt for the concept of international law. The invasion was an arbitrary military action inspired by a series of lies upon lies and gross manipulation of the media and therefore of the public; an act intended to consolidate American military and economic control of the Middle East masquerading — as a last resort — all other justifications having failed to justify themselves — as liberation.
 * When we look into a mirror we think the image that confronts us is accurate. But move a millimetre and the image changes. We are actually looking at a never-ending range of reflections. But sometimes a writer has to smash the mirror — for it is on the other side of that mirror that the truth stares at us. I believe that despite the enormous odds which exist, unflinching, unswerving, fierce intellectual determination, as citizens, to define the real truth of our lives and our societies is a crucial obligation which devolves upon us all. It is in fact mandatory. If such a determination is not embodied in our political vision we have no hope of restoring what is so nearly lost to us — the dignity of man.
 * The crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but very few people have actually talked about them. You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good. It’s a brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis.
 * Language is actually employed to keep thought at bay. The words ‘the American people’ provide a truly voluptuous cushion of reassurance. You don’t need to think. Just lie back on the cushion. The cushion may be suffocating your intelligence and your critical faculties but it’s very comfortable.

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 * In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech last year, laureate Harold Pinter said 'a writer's life is a highly vulnerable, almost naked activity. We don't have to weep about that. But it is true to say that you are open to all the winds, some of them icy indeed.'
 * Nadine Gordimer "Faith, Reason and War" (2006)

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