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Bob Marley

Robert Nesta Marley (6 February 1945 – 11 May 1981), more famously known as Bob Marley, was a Jamaican singer, guitarist, songwriter, and social activist. His vision of "One World, One Love," is a dream that inspired many.

Quotes

 * The more you accept herb, the more you accept Rastafari.
 * "Bob Marley interview on Marijuana" (1979) from the Come A Long Way documentary, made for New Zealand TV show Good Day (1979) with reporter Dylan Taite

 * All dese governments and dis this and that, these people that say they're here to help, why them say you cannot smoke the herb? Herb... herb is a plant, you know? And when me check it, me can't find no reason. All them say is, 'it make you rebel'. Against what?
 * As recorded in filmed interview (1979) with Dylan Taite in Aotearoa, New Zealand

 * Alcohol make you drunk, man. It don't make you meditate, it just make you drunk. Herb is more a consciousness.
 * As recorded in filmed interview (1979) with Dylan Taite in Aotearoa, New Zealand

 * We don't have education, we have inspiration; if I was educated I would be a damn fool.
 * As recorded in Time Will Tell (1992), a documentary by Declan Lowney

 * Today, people struggle to find what's real. Everything has become so synthetic that a lot of people, all they want is to grasp onto hope.
 * As quoted in Rolling Stone's The Immortals (2004) "Bob"

 * Possession make you rich? I don't have that type of richness. My richness is Life, forever.
 * Interview for the Australian TV show 60 Minutes

Song lyrics

 * One good thing about music, when it hits you feel no pain.
 * Trenchtown Rock (single, 1970)

 * Some people say great God come from the sky take away everything and make everybody feel high, but if you know what life is worth, you will look for yours on earth.
 * Get Up, Stand Up (cowritten with Peter Tosh), from the album Burnin' (1973)

 * Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights! Get up, stand up: don't give up the fight!
 * , Burnin' (1973), cowritten with

Let's get together and feel alright.'''
 * '''One love, one heart,
 * One Love (cowritten with Curtis Mayfield), from the album Exodus, originally recorded on The Wailing Wailers (1965)

 * Every day the bucket a-go a well, one day the bottom a-go drop out.
 * I Shot The Sheriff, from the album Burnin' (1973)

 * A hungry mob is an angry mob.
 * Them Belly Full (But We Hungry), from the album Natty Dread (1974)

They will always want to control you forever.
 * Never make a politician grant you a favour
 * Revolution, from the album Natty Dread (1974)

So you never give up the fight.'''
 * '''Truth is the light
 * Final jamming of Live at the Roxy (recorded 1976)

'Cos every little thing is gonna be alright.'''
 * '''Don't worry about a thing,
 * Three Little Birds, from the album Exodus (1977)

 * Your life is worth much more than gold.
 * Jamming, from the album Exodus (1977)

Good God I gotta' take a lift (lift) From reality I just can't drift (drift) That's why I am staying with this riff (riff)'''
 * '''Excuse me while I light my spliff (spliff)

Take it easy, easy skanking Got to take it easy, easy skanking.
 * Easy Skanking, from the album Kaya (1978) · Video on YouTube

 * Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.
 * Zimbabwe, from the album Survival (1979)

So when you riding through the ruts, Don't you complicate your mind ''' Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy Don't bury your thoughts; put your vision to reality'''
 * Life is one big road with lots of signs,
 * "Wake Up and Live!” on Survival (1979)

 * In the abundance of water a fool is thirsty.
 * Rat Race, from the album Rastaman Vibration

 * When one door is closed, many more is open.
 * Coming in from the Cold, from the album Confrontation

than to live in a house full of confusion.'''
 * '''It is better to live on the house top
 * Running Away, from the album Kaya

Judge Not (single, 1961)
Judge not, if you're not ready for judgment.'''
 * '''Judge not, before you judge yourself.

so while you talk about me, someone else is judging you.
 * The Road of life is rocky and you may stumble too,

Uprising (1979)
None but ourselves can free our minds.''' Have no fear for atomic energy, 'Cause none of them can stop the time.
 * '''Emancipate yourself from mental slavery,
 * Redemption Song; the song was inspired by a speech by Marcus Garvey in Nova Scotia in October 1937, published in his Black Man magazine, Vol. 3, no. 10 (July 1938), pp. 7-11:
 * We are going to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery because whilst others might free the body, none but ourselves can free the mind. Mind is your only ruler, sovereign. The man who is not able to develop and use his mind is bound to be the slave of the other man who uses his mind.

These songs of freedom?''' 'Cause all I ever had, Redemption songs.
 * '''Won't you help to sing,
 * Redemption Song

 * We JAH people can make it work.
 * Work

Wisdom is better than silver and gold.'''
 * '''Don't gain the world and lose your soul
 * Zion Train

 * Two thousand years of history Black History could not be wiped away so easily.
 * Zion Train

 * And what has been hidden from the wise and the prudent been revealed in the mouth of the toddlers.
 * Forever Loving Jah

'''I know that I'm not perfect and that I don't claim to be, so before you point your fingers make sure your hands are clean.'''
 * Who are you to judge the life I live?
 * Could you be loved

 * They say: only the fittest of the fittest shall survive, stay alive!
 * Could You Be Loved

Disputed

 * Some famous songs were made popular by Marley, but writing credits were actually given to his close friend Vincent Ford. Ford did not write these lyrics, Marley did, but gave Ford writing credits so he could use the royalty money to help pay for his Trenchtown soup kitchen.

 * Say you just can't live that negative way You know what I mean Make way for the positive day Cause it's a new day.
 * Positive Vibration, from the album Rastaman Vibration (1976)

No Woman, No Cry, from the album Natty Dread (1974)
No woman, no cry No woman, no cry Little darlin' don't shed no tears No woman, no cry
 * Good friends we have had, oh good friends we've lost along the way In this bright future you can't forget your past So dry your tears I say

 * Ev'rything's gonna be alright So, no woman, no cry.

Misattributed

 * The people who are trying to make this world worse are not taking a day off. How can I? Light up the darkness.
 * Originated from a scene in the 2007 film I Am Legend
 * Misattribution quoted by Taika Waititi in March 2019 after the New Zealand Mosque shootings.

Quotes about Marley

 * I carried Bob Marley’s Redemption Song to every meeting I had with a politician, prime minister, or president. It was for me a prophetic utterance or as Bob would say "the small ax that could fell the big tree". The song reminded me that freedom always comes with a cost, but for those who would prepare to pay it, maybe "emancipation from mental slavery" would be our reward.
 * Bono, as quoted in Marley Legend: An Illustrated Life of Bob Marley (2006) by James Henke, pg. 57

 * I am Boutros Boutros-Ghali; put down your gun and listen to Bob Marley.
 * Boutros Boutros-Ghali, in an interview for Da Ali G Show, Episode 8 : "War" (28 February 2003)

 * You just mentioned Bob Marley —  I can remember when I was in college, listening — and not agreeing with his whole philosophy necessarily, but raising my awareness of how people outside of our country were thinking about the struggles for jobs and dignity, and freedom.
 * Barack Obama, in an interview with MTV (26 October 2012)

 * He had this idea. It was kind of a virologist idea. He believed that you could cure racism and hate... literally cure it, by injecting music and love into people's lives. When he was scheduled to perform at a peace rally, a gunman came to his house and shot him down. Two days later he walked out on that stage and sang. When they asked him why — He said, "The people who are trying to make this world worse are not taking a day off. How can I? Light up the darkness."
 * Mark Protosevich and Akiva Goldsman, in I Am Legend (2007) (Note. This is a work of fiction. There is no indication that the quoted words were actually spoken by Bob Marley.)

 * The U.S. empire rests on a grisly foundation: the massacre of millions of indigenous people, the stealing of their lands, and following this, the kidnapping and enslavement of millions of black people from Africa to work that land. Thousands died on the seas while they were being shipped like caged cattle between continents. "Stolen from Africa, brought to America"-Bob Marley's "Buffalo Soldier" contains a whole universe of unspeakable sadness. It tells of the loss of dignity, the loss of wilderness, the loss of freedom, the shattered pride of a people. Genocide and slavery provide the social and economic underpinning of the nation whose fundamental values reject hate, murderers, and evil.
 * Arundhati Roy War Talk (2003)

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George Washington Carver

George Washington Carver (12 July 1864 – 5 January 1943) was an African-American botanist who worked in agricultural extension in the southern United States.

Quotes

 * The virgin fertility of our soils and the vast amount of unskilled labor have been more of a curse than a blessing to agriculture. This exhaustive system for cultivation, the destruction of forest, the rapid and almost constant decomposition of organic matter, have made our agricultural problem one requiring more brains than of the North, East or West.
 * The Need of Scientific Agriculture in the South (Tuskegee Institute, 1902)

 * More and more as we come closer and closer in touch with nature and its teachings are we able to see the Divine and are therefore fitted to interpret correctly the various languages spoken by all forms of nature about us.
 * How to Search for Truth, letter to Hubert W. Pelt (1930-02-24)

 * I love to think of nature as unlimited broadcasting stations, through which God speaks to us every day, every hour and every moment of our lives, if we will only tune in and remain so.
 * How to Search for Truth, letter to Hubert W. Pelt (1930-02-24)

 * Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth.
 * Quoted in Linda O. McMurray, George Washington Carver: Scientist and Symbol (Oxford University Press, 1982, ISBN 0-195-03205-5, 382 pages), p. 106

 * I do not feel capable of writing a single word of counsel to those dear young people, more than to say that my heart goes out to every one of them, regardless of the fact that I have never seen them and may never do so. I want them to find Jesus, and make Him a daily, hourly, and momently part of themselves. O how I want them to get the fullest measure of happiness and success out of life. I want them to see the Great Creator in the smallest and apparently the most insignificant things about them. How I long for each one to walk and talk with the Great Creator through the things he has created. How I thank God every day that I can walk and talk with Him.
 * George Washington Carver: In His Own Words (1991), edited by Gary R. Kremer, University of Missouri Press, p. 135

 * My beloved friend, keep your hand in that of the Master, walk daily by His side, so that you may lead others into the realms of true happiness, where a religion of hate, (which poisons both body and soul) will be unknown, having in its place the "Golden Rule" way, which is the "Jesus Way" of life, will reign supreme. Then, we can walk and talk with Jesus momentarily, because we will be attuned to His will and wishes, thus making the Creation story of the world non-debatable as to its reality. God, my beloved friend is infinite the highest embodiment of love. We are finite, surrounded and often filled with hate. We can only understand the infinite as we loose the finite and take on the infinite.
 * George Washington Carver: In His Own Words (1991), edited by Gary R. Kremer, University of Missouri Press, p. 135

 * I know that my Redeemer lives. Thank God I love humanity, complexion doesn't interest me one single a bit.
 * George Washington Carver: In His Own Words (1991), edited by Gary R. Kremer, University of Missouri Press, p. 131

 * When our thoughts — which bring actions — are filled with hate against anyone, Negro or white, we are in a living hell. That is as real as hell will ever be.
 * Quoted in Linda O. McMurray, George Washington Carver: Scientist and Symbol (Oxford University Press, 1982), p. 107

 * Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater. Keep your thoughts free from hate, and you need have no fear from those who hate you.
 * Quoted in Linda O. McMurray, George Washington Carver: Scientist and Symbol (Oxford University Press, 1982), p. 107

 * My attitude toward life was also my attitude toward science. Jesus said one must be born again, must become as a little child. He must let no laziness, no fear, no stubbornness keep him from his duty. If he were born again he would see life from such a plane he would have the energy not to be impeded in his duty by these various sidetrackers and inhibitions. My work, my life, must be in the spirit of a little child seeking only to know the truth and follow it. My purpose alone must be God's purpose - to increase the welfare and happiness of His people. Nature will not permit a vacuum. It will be filled with something. Human need is really a great spiritual vacuum which God seeks to fill... With one hand in the hand of a fellow man in need and the other in the hand of Christ, He could get across the vacuum and I became an agent. Then the passage, "I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me," came to have real meaning. As I worked on projects which fulfilled a real human need forces were working through me which amazed me. I would often go to sleep with an apparently insoluble problem. When I woke the answer was there. Why, then, should we who believe in Christ be so surprised at what God can do with a willing man in a laboratory? Some things must be baffling to the critic who has never been born again.
 * William J. Federer (2003), George Washington Carver: His Life & Faith in His Own Words, p. 68.

Quotes about George Washington Carver

 * It is necessary for our generation to repudiate Carver and all the lesser-known black leaders who cooperated with the white design to keep their people down. We need none of their kind today. Someday, when, God willing, the struggle is over and its bitterness has faded, those men and women may be rediscovered and given their just due for working, as best they could see to do in their time and place, for their brothers and sisters. But at present their influence is pernicious, and where they still control education, in the North or the South, they must be replaced with educators who are ready to demand full equality for the oppressed races and fight for it at any cost.
 * Shirley Chisholm Unbought and Unbossed (1970)

 * Professor Carver, who teaches scientific agriculture, botany, agricultural chemistry, etc., at Tuskegee, is, as regards complexion and features, an absolute Negro; but in the cut of his clothes, the accent of his speech, the soundness of his science, he might be professor of botany, not at Tuskegee, but at Oxford or Cambridge. Any European botanist of distinction, after ten minutes' conversation with this man, instinctively would treat him as a man on a level with himself.
 * Sir Harry Johnston, The Negro In The New World (1910), London, p. 416

 * He is better known as the greatest Negro scientist alive, the man who pioneered new uses for Southern agricultural products, developed 285 new uses for the peanut, got 118 products, including vinegar, molasses and shoe blacking, from the South’s surplus sweet potatoes.
 * Time Magazine's article "Black Leonardo", November 24, 1941.

 * The versatility of his genius and his achievements in diverse branches of the arts and sciences were truly amazing. The versatility of his genius All mankind is the beneficiary of his discoveries in the field of agricultural chemistry. The things which he achieved in the face of early handicaps will for all time afford an inspiration of youth everywhere. The things, which he achieved in the face of early handicaps, will for all time afford an inspiration of youth everywhere. I count it a great privilege to have met Dr. Carver and to have talked with him at Tuskegee on the occasion of my visit to the institute, which was the scene of his long and distinguished labors.
 * Franklin D. Roosevelt, after Carver's death on January 5, 1943

 * From oppressive and crippling surroundings, George Washington Carver lifted his searching, creative mind to the ordinary peanut, and found therein extraordinary possibilities for goods and products unthinkable by minds of the past.
 * Martin Luther King Jr., 23 September 1959, during his Address at Public Meeting of the Southern Christian Ministers Conference of Mississippi.

 * From crippling circumstance, George Washington Carver made for himself an imperishable niche in the annals of science.
 * Martin Luther King Jr., A Martin Luther King Treasury (1964). Also found in King's Where Do We Go From Here?

 * Although a few refer to George Washington Carver, whose research in agricultural products helped to revive the economy of the South when the throne of King Cotton began to totter, they ignore the contribution of Norbert Rillieux, whose invention of an evaporating pan revolutionized the process of sugar refining. How many people know that the multimillion-dollar United Shoe Machinery Company developed from the shoe-lasting machine invented in the last century by a Negro from Dutch Guiana, Jan Matzeliger, or that Granville T. Woods, an expert in electric motors, whose many patents speeded the growth and improvement of the railroads at the beginning of this century, was a Negro?
 * The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. (1998)

 * When Dr. Carver died, the United States lost one of her finest Christian gentleman. He was a good friend of my father and mother and I had known him for forty-seven years. To the world, he was known as a scientist. Those who knew him best, however, realized that this outstanding characteristic was a strong feeling of the eminence of God. Everything he was and did found its origin in that strong ans continuous feeling.
 * H. A. Wallace, as quoted in The Afro American, on January 16, 1943.

 * From Carver's small laboratory at Tuskegee came formulas in agricultural chemistry that enriched the entire Southland, indeed the whole of America and the world.
 * Langston Hughes, Works for Children and Young Adults: Biographies, p. 63

 * The scientific discoveries and experiments of Dr. Carver have done more to alleviate the one-crop agricultural system in the South than any other thing that has been done in the history of the United States.
 * Senator Harry S. Truman, on February 5, 1943, as quoted in George Washington Carver: Scientist and Educator, by Dennis Abrams, Gene Adair, p. 4.

 * [He] achieved a place as one of the foremost scientists of all the world for all time.
 * Senator Bennett Champ Clark of Missouri, as quoted in A History of Missouri, Volume 5, p. 272.

 * Dr. Carver left a legacy of hope and beacon light pointing to opportunities of the future... This Negro scientist who was born of slave parents succeeded by hard work and exalted vision to the stature of one of the most outstanding agricultural research scientists in the world."
 * Kansas Governor Payne Ratner, as quoted in George Washington Carver: A Biography, by Gary R. Kremer, p. 179

 * Dr. George Washington Carver was one of the wonders of this age... Those who believe and teach that a man's heritage determines his spiritual, mental and physical traits will be hard put to explain the source of Dr. Carver's amazing intellect.
 * New Orleans States, as quoted in World's Great Men of Color, Volume 2, p. 469-570.

 * If we were asked what living man had the worst start and the best finish, we would say, Dr. Carver. It's a great loss to us that we have no one like him in England.
 * Efficiency Magazine, as quoted in World's Great Men of Color, Volume 2, p. 469.

 * His work was his life, and by not diluting it with wrathful forays against the ignorance of prejudice he was able to make his own unique and most vital contribution to racial amity.
 * Lawrence Elliott (1966), George Washington Carver: The Man who Overcame, p. 207

 * Professor Carver, like the other men I have mentioned, is of unmixed African blood, and is one of the most thoroughly scientific men of the Negro race with whom I am acquainted. Whenever anyone who takes a scientific interest in cotton. Whenever any one who takes a scientific interest in cotton growing, or in the natural history of this part of the world, comes to visit Tuskegee, he invariably seeks out and consults Professor Carver.
 * Booker T. Washington, My Larger Education: Being Chapters from My Experience (1911), Doubleday, Page, p. 224

 * Although Professor Carver impresses every one who meets him with the extent of his knowledge in the matter of plant life, he is quite the most modest man I have ever met.
 * Booker T. Washington, My Larger Education (an African American Heritage Book)

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Larry David

Lawrence Gene David (born July 2, 1947) is an American comedian, writer, actor, director, and television producer. He and Jerry Seinfeld created the television series Seinfeld, of which David was the head writer and executive producer for the first seven seasons. David gained further recognition for the HBO series Curb Your Enthusiasm, which he created and stars in as a semi-fictionalized version of himself.

Quotes

 * I like how if you criticize the war you don't support the troops. You're the ones sending them over to die, so how is it I don’t support them? If the army was made up of child molesters, then I'd support them. If we went to an all child molester army, I would be their biggest supporter. "Please don't bring the troops home. Stay the course. Keep them there a long time." But they're not child molesters. And they're not the Twins, that’s for sure. Where are the Twins? Send in the Twins. I'd like to hear that scene. "Jenna, Barbara... Daddy and I have talked it over and we want you to go fight in Iraq." …Ah, what's the use?
 * June 28, 2005
 * If every student was like me in college, we'd still be in Vietnam.
 * September 13, 2005
 * One thing about Hitler that I admire is that he wouldn't take any shit from magicians." (Larry David: Curb Your Enthusiasm, HBO special)
 * Let me tell you something; I do hate myself, but it has nothing to do with being Jewish. (When accused of being a self-loathing Jew; Curb Your Enthusiasm, Season 2, Episode 3, "Trick or Treat")
 * (on not going to his high school prom) I wasn't aware of the prom. I had no idea that it was even going on, not that I would have gone. It's not the kind of thing that would ever occur to me. You would think I would have heard about it in school, but I didn't. (Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Book)
 * Pretty...pretty...pretty......pretty.....pretty good. (Curb Your Enthusiasm, passim)
 * This is a sad day for the Emmy's. It is, however, a good day for Larry David. I imagine the wife will be forthcoming tonight. (Accepting an Emmy Award)
 * (Asked if he believes in miracles) I believe that every erection is a miracle. (Curb Season 7, Episode 6 "The Bare Midriff").

Interview, Esquire, September 18, 2009

 * I tolerate lactose like I tolerate people.

 * I have to let him know that he's potentially destroying his movie, that he could be making a terrible, terrible error. I needed to let him know that I didn't know or think that I was capable of doing this.
 * When Woody Allen asked him to appear in a film.

 * I've had some experience in this arena. So it wasn't foreign to me to have a woman say she doesn't want to see me anymore.
 * Of acting in Woody Allen's film.

 * Listen, this is crazy. I look like I'm 75 years old. Nobody wants to watch an old man being funny. That's just a fact. No one wants to see this old man on TV.
 * When his show went onto a high definition channel.

2010s

 * A lot of sexual harassment stuff in the news, and I couldn't help but notice a very disturbing pattern emerging, which is that many of the predators, not all, but many of them are Jews
 * November 2017

Quotes about Larry David

 * I even found myself doing a routine on Saturday Night Live with my impersonator Larry David, who did Bernie Sanders better than I did.
 * Bernie Sanders Our Revolution (2016)

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Resident Evil: Apocalypse

Resident Evil: Apocalypse is the sequel to the 2002 film Resident Evil, shot mostly in Toronto, Canada and based upon the survival horror series of the same name.

 * Written by Paul W.S. Anderson and directed by Alexander Witt.

My name is Alice and I remember everything. Taglines

Alice

 * [first lines] My name is Alice. I worked for the Umbrella Corporation, the largest and most powerful commercial entity in the world. I was head of security at a secret high tech facility called The Hive, a giant underground laboratory developing experimental viral weaponry. But there was an incident, a virus escaped and everybody died. Trouble was... they didn’t stay dead. The T-virus reanimated their bodies. But I survived. Myself and one other, an environmentalist named Matt, when we emerged we were seized by Umbrella scientists. Matt and I were separated. We thought we had survived the horror, but we were wrong
 * [to bitten Olivera] Today is your lucky day.

Jill Valentine

 * [during a zombie breakout at the Police Station] I'm leaving town, I suggest you do the same.
 * [meeting Alice for the first time] Who the fuck are you?

L.J (Lloyd Jefferson) Wade

 * [L.J is handcuffed on a chair next to another zombiefied woman in the police station, the woman tries to struggle out of her handcuffs to get L.J] Somebody get this ugly bitch off me!
 * [seeing a zombie on road while driving] GTA, Motherfucker! [L.J. drives on, the zombie is sent flying by the car and hit the roof with a thud] Yeah! 10 points.
 * [As the S.T.A.R.S squad prepares to take down Nemesis] You motherfuckers are crazy! Look at that big motherfucker, got a rocket launcher!
 * [L.J runs into the S.T.A.R.S. members' hideout and find a dozen guns pointing at him] Shit! Maybe I was safer outside.
 * [When a S.T.A.R.S. officer hands him a shotgun] Motherfucker, please. [opens his jacket to reveal his two golden Desert Eagles] My shit is custom.
 * [runs in after Alice pointing a gun at Carlos] Don't shoot, don't shoot! He's cool. He made a deal with Dr.Doom same as you.
 * [L.J stands alone after Nemesis kill the S.T.A.R.S. members, Nemesis stop shooting and looks at him] Respect!.
 * [L.J. learns that Carlos has been bitten] You should've told me you were bit motherfucker, I'm hangin' witchu and shit!
 * [Cain asks L.J. who he thinks is a helicopter pilot why they haven't taken off yet] Because I usually drive a Cadilac! [punches out Cain and smiles]

Others

 * Dr. Isaacs: Project Alice Activated.
 * Major Cain: Finish Him!
 * Nemesis: S.T.A.R.S...
 * Carlos Olivera: We're assets, Nicholai. Expendible assets... and we've just been expended.
 * Angela Ashford: They said I would never get better, just worse.
 * [Nemesis encounters Alice for the first time] Major Cain: [to Umbrella staffs] Gentlemen, this is the moment we've been waiting for. The nemesis program is now fully activated.
 * Major Cain: You're not mutation, you're evolution!
 * Nicholai Ginovaef after killing a Zombie Dog: Stay.
 * Carlos Olivera after killing an Umbrella Guard behind Alice: You missed one.
 * Yuri Loginova: Bite this!! [Throws a grenade killing a group of zombies]

Dialogue

 * Peyton Wells: [referring to a camera] What's that you got there?
 * Terri Morales: [shows her camcorder] My... Emmy, that is if any of us make it out of here.

 * Jill Valentine: How come you know so much about Umbrella?
 * Alice: I used to work for them.

 * Jill Valentine: Those were some pretty slick moves back there. I'm good, but I'm not that good.
 * Alice: You should be thankful for that.
 * Jill Valentine: What do you mean?
 * Alice: They did something to me. I barely feel human anymore.

 * Dr. Ashford: Are you ready to make a deal?
 * Alice: Do we have a choice?
 * Dr. Ashford: Not if you want to live past tonight, no.

 * [After Dr.Ashford contacts the group for a deal]
 * Peyton Wells:No deal. We find the building with the thickest walls and strongest doors and we barricade ourselves in, sit tight, wait for help.
 * Alice: There will be no help. Acording to Ashford Umbrella knows they can't contain the infection. So, at sunrise this morning, Raccoon City will be completely sanitized.
 * Terri Morales: What do you mean by "sanitized" ?
 * Alice: Precision tactical nuclear device.
 * Jill Valentine: What yield ?
 * Alice: 5 kilotons.
 * Jill Valentine: [scoffs] Fuck Me.
 * Terri: What does that mean?
 * Alice: It means it'll destroy the infection....and all evidence of it.
 * Peyton: Bullshit...that's bullshit ! No fucking way they would get away with that, it will all be on the fucking news!
 * Terri: Cover up.
 * Alice: Cover up is already prepared. They melt down the nuclear power plant
 * Terri: A tragic accident.
 * Peyton: Not even Umbrella is capable of this.
 * Jill: Not capable? Peyton, you were there at the bridge, you know exactly how far Umbrella will go.
 * Peyton: So what we do now ?
 * Alice: I think we should be out here by sunrise

 * [A zombie wanders around the convenience store where the S.T.A.R.S members use as a hideout, and is soon shot by a S.T.A.R.S sniper hiding on the roof of the store. The zombie wobbles backwards but does not drop dead]
 * Sniper: [loading his rifle] Plenty to go around. [fires another shot and the zombie falls dead] Yeehah! I've got the power.
 * [L.J comes limping to the store, the sniper sees him and takes another aim]
 * L.J: [seeing the sniper and hastily puts up both hands] Don't shoot! [the gun fires and L.J turns back to see another zombie falls right behind him.] Thanks! Owe you one, man.

 * [Nemesis has detected the S.T.A.R.S members at their hideout, Major Cain sees it at the controlling screen at his commanding chamber]
 * Major Cain: [to the operator] What do we have?
 * Operator: A dozen of our men, well-organized.
 * Major Cain: I'm surprised to see there is any survivor left alive.
 * Operator: They are S.T.A.R.S, Special Tactic and Rescue Squad, they're the best.
 * Major Cain: Let's see how good they really are. [commanding Nemesis to eliminate all the S.T.A.R.S members via the control panel]

 * [the sniper sees Nemesis coming towards the store and gets up, bewildered]
 * Sniper: What the fuck is that?
 * [Nemesis' system scans the surrounding and displays "S.T.A.R.S member:12]
 * [sniper takes a shot at Nemesis and blasts a hole on Nemesis' chest, but Nemesis doesn't even flinch]
 * Sniper: Shit! [Takes another shot and still does no good, Nemesis' system screen flashes and displays "S.T.A.R.S member:13]
 * Sniper: You're going down, you son of a bitch! ''[Stands straight, Nemesis aims his rocket launcher at the roof. Sniper swears and ducks down as Nemesis fires. The number on Nemesis' screen flashes back to "12" as the rocket goes off.

 * Nemesis: S:T.A.R.S....
 * [Nemesis has just nailed down everyone but L.J in the room with his Gattling gun, L.J looks around and swears at the sight, Nemesis approaches L.J]
 * L.J: [with his pistols up] Respect. [Nemesis' screen flashes "Civilian, threat:minium"] Respect, man. ''[Drops his guns, Nemesis' screen flashes "Non-combatant civilian, threat:zero"]
 * [Nemesis turns and leaves L.J alone]

 * [Alternated version]
 * L.J Respect. Respect, man. [starts trying to get sympathized] I don't want no trouble, man! I got two kids and a bank account, man! I'm tellin' ya!
 * [Nemesis turns to leave]
 * L.J [Yelling at the back of Nemesis and punching the air] Motherfucker!! Punk son a of bitch! You wanna go to war!? Motherfucker, I'll take you to war! [Acts as though he is trying to get Nemesis]

 * Jill Valentine: Angela Ashford, huh? Thats a pretty grown-up name for a little girl.
 * Angela Ashford: I'm not a little girl, besides all my friends call me Angie.
 * Jill Valentine: Angie, huh? I like that.

 * [L.J is searching a classroom for Angela Ashford, and suddenly a shadow flashes at a door. He tip-toes to open the door and finds a skeleton model falls on him]
 * L.J [pointing at the model] I see you, mother... [A zombie jumps out from behind] Shittttttt!
 * [Carlos takes the zombie down from behind, L.J turns and is shocked at the sight of him]
 * Carlos: [panting] So you got the phone call as well?
 * L.J What?
 * Carlos: Are you here for the girl?
 * L.J Yeah, yeah, yeah, the girl...

 * Nicholai Sokolov: Thought you might need a hand...
 * Jill Valentine: You work for Umbrella?
 * Nicholai Sokolov: Used to. Until they left us for dead in this place. Now I consider myself....freelance.

 * Alice: How long ago have you been bitten?
 * Carlos Olivera: Three hours
 * L.J.: What?
 * Alice: Today's your lucky day.
 * L.J.: [to Carlos] You should have told me you were bitten, motherfucker, I'm hanging with you and shit!

 * [Alice and the survivors storm the Umbrella helicopter after taking out all the guards. Just as they all get aboard Nemesis appears and approaches the chopper]
 * L.J: [seeing Nemesis] Oh shit! We are stealing his ride, he wouldn't like that! [pointing the gun at the pilot] Take off now!
 * Major Cain: [from behind] What's the rush? [has Angela Ashford held at gunpoint]

 * Major Cain: [to Alice, referring to her and the Nemesis] The two of you showed such promise, but we had to see you in action and most impressive you've been. You're like brother and sister: Heightened speed, strength, agility, the same killer instincts....parallel strands of research and now, now we'll discover which is superior. Fight him.
 * Alice: No.
 * Major Cain: Fight him or they die.
 * Alice: What makes you think I care? [Cain shoots Dr. Ashford]
 * Major Cain: He was a valuable asset to the corporation, I don't even care about this people!
 * Major Cain: Begin!

 * Major Cain:That creature is one thing, but you somehow you bonded with the T-virus on a cellular level. You adapted it, changed it. You became magnificent.
 * Alice: I became a freak.
 * Major Cain: No. You're not mutation. You're evolution. With my help, just imagine what you can achieve.
 * Alice: What about him? [look at Nemesis, who was once Matt Addison]
 * Major Cain: Evolution has its dead ends.

 * Major Cain: Why haven't we taken off yet?
 * L.J: 'Coz I usually drive a Cadillac! [Punches Cain]

 * Major Cain: Killing me won't put things right.
 * Alice: No, but it's a start. [pushes Cain into the crowd of zombies below the helicopter]

 * Dr. Issacs: Do you remember your name?
 * [Innumerable scenes flashing across Alice's memory, she screws up her eyes in the pain]
 * Dr. Issacs: [turns to the other scientists] I want her under full observation, with the strictest security and...
 * Alice: [Slowly opening up her eyes] My name...is Alice. [Issacs stares at her, intrigued at the remark, Alice smiles ominiously] And I remember everything.

 * [last lines]
 * Jill Valentine: What did they do to you?

Taglines

 * I'm good, but I'm not that good.
 * My name is Alice and I remember everything.
 * Our lives are in their hands.
 * The evil continues...
 * The infection is spreading faster than anyone could have anticipated.
 * You're all going to die.
 * I'm not on the menu.

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Resident Evil (film)

Resident Evil (also known as Resident Evil 1, Resident Evil: Ground Zero, and Resident Evil: Genesis) is a 2002 British-French-German film shot mostly in Germany and based upon the survival horror series of the same name.

 * Written and directed by Paul W.S. Anderson.

A secret experiment. A deadly virus. A fatal mistake. Taglines

Alice

 * I don't remember the truth!

Red Queen

 * Get out get out you CAN'T be in here
 * You're all going to die down here.
 * The T-virus is protean, changing from liquid to airborne to blood transmission, depending on its environment. It is almost impossible to kill.
 * I've been a bad, bad girl...

Dialogue

 * Matt Addison: Corporations like Umbrella think they're above the law.

 * Narrator: At the beginning of the 21st century, the Umbrella Corporation had become the largest commercial entity in the United States. Nine out of every ten homes contain its products. Its political and financial influence is felt everywhere. In public, it is the world's leading supplier of computer technology, medical products, and healthcare. Unknown, even to its own employees, its massive profits are generated by military technology, genetic experimentation and viral weaponry.

 * [Alice points her gun at Rain]
 * Rain Ocampo: I'm not dead yet.
 * [Rain takes the gun from Alice]
 * Rain Ocampo: I think I'll have that back.
 * Alice: I could kiss you, you bitch!

 * [Rain and J.D. have just fought off a zombie]
 * J.D. Salinas: I shot her five times. How was she still standing?
 * Rain Ocampo: Bitch isn't standing now.

 * Rain Ocampo: She bit me, man. She took a chunk clean right outa' me.

 * Rain Ocampo: That homicidal bitch killed my team.
 * Alice: That homicidal bitch may be our only way out of here.

 * Chad Kaplan: You're going to have to work for your meal.

 * Rain, Alice, and Matt: Chad!!
 * Chad Kaplan She wouldn't let me in, so I fryed the bitch!

 * [Matt and Spence are helping Rain]
 * Rain Ocampo: When we get out of here... think I'm gonna get laid.
 * Matt Addison: Yeah, you might want to clean up a little bit first.

 * Red Queen: I implore you.
 * Chad Kaplan: Implore away!

 * Red Queen: Ah, There you are. Things, I gather, have gone out of control.
 * Rain Ocampo: Give me that fucking switch! Right now I'm gonna fry her ass!

 * Alice: There's a cure!
 * Rain Ocampo: I was beginning to worry.

 * Alice: I'm missing you already. (decapitates the zombie Spence with an axe)

 * Spence Parks: I'm missing you already.

 * Rain Ocampo: J.D., we got a survivor!

Taglines

 * A secret experiment. A deadly virus. A fatal mistake.
 * Death is not the end... just pray so.
 * Survive the Horror.

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Amy Sherman-Palladino

Amy Sherman-Palladino is an American television writer and producer. She was a staff writer on Roseanne but is best known as the creator and executive producer of Gilmore Girls, an hour-long television drama/comedy that airs on the WB Television Network.

Quotes

 * I grew up in the Valley, and I didn't know any of our neighbors. I think when you grow up like that, there's always sort of a fantasy of a place where everybody knew each other, and you had that safe sort of feeling.
 * NYTimes.com, "Job Title: The 'Gilmore' Noodge".

 * These television shows that have 14 shots of somebody looking at each other with the wind blowing through their hair drive me insane.
 * NYTimes.com, "Job Title: The 'Gilmore' Noodge".

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Isaiah Berlin

Sir Isaiah Berlin (6 June 1909 – 5 November 1997) was a Russian-British political philosopher and historian of ideas, regarded as one of the leading liberal thinkers of the 20th century.

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 * For there exists a great chasm between those, on one side, who relate everything to a single central vision, one system, less or more coherent or articulate, in terms of which they understand, think and feel - a single, universal, organising principle in terms of which alone all that they are and say has significance - and, on the other side, those who pursue many ends, often unrelated and even contradictory, connected, if at all, only in de facto way for some psychological or physiological cause, related to no moral or aesthetic principle. This last lead lives, perform acts and entertain ideas that are centrifugal rather than centripetal; their thought is scattered or diffused, moving on many levels, seizing upon the essence of a vast variety of experiences and objects; for they are themselves, consciously or unconsciously seeking to fit them into or exclude them from any one unchanging, all-embracing, sometimes self-contradictory and incomplete at times fanatical, military inner vision. The first kind of intellectual and artistic personality belongs to the hedgehogs, the second to the foxes.
 * The Hedgehog and the Fox (1953). Editor Henry Hardy. Collaborator Michael Ignatieff. Editorial Princeton University Press, 2013. ISBN 1400846633, p. 2.

 * To confuse our own constructions and inventions with eternal laws or divine decrees is one of the most fatal delusions of men.
 * Essays in Honour of E. H. Carr (1974) edited by Chimen Abramsky, p. 9
 * Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.
 * As quoted in The Listener (1978)

 * Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.
 * As quoted in Communications and History : Theories of Knowledge, Media and Civilization (1988) by Paul Heyer, p. 125

Berkeley’s External World (1947)

 * Berkeley’s External World (1947)

 * Everyone knows what made Berkeley notorious. He said that there were no material objects. He said the external world was in some sense immaterial, that nothing existed save ideas — ideas and their authors. His contemporaries thought him very ingenious and a little mad.

 * What is Life?
 * (1) Tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
 * (2) Dictionary definition in biology (chemical process within organic entities involving metabolism etc.)
 * (3) Mrs Woolf: ‘Life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.’
 * (4) Series of actual and hypothetical behavioural data which differ in certain assignable ways from data defining dead or inanimate entities.
 * (5) That which the Lord infused into Adam. See Genesis 1. 4 [sc. 2. 7].
 * Which?
 * Mental Cramp.

The Originality of Machiavelli (1971)

 * also published, titled “The Question of Machiavelli”

 * While there may exist no more than the normal extent of disagreement about the meaning of particular terms or theses contained in these works, there is a startling degree of divergence about the central view, the basic political attitude of Machiavelli.

 * What has been shown by Machiavelli, who is often (like Nietzsche) congratulated for tearing off hypocritical masks, brutally revealing the truth, and so on, is not that men profess one thing and do another (although no doubt he shows this too) but that when they assume that the two ideals are compatible, or perhaps are even one and the same ideal, and do not allow this assumption to be questioned, they are guilty of bad faith (as the existentialists call it, or of “false consciousness,” to use a Marxist formula) which their actual behavior exhibits. Machiavelli calls the bluff not just of official morality—the hypocrisies of ordinary life—but of one of the foundations of the central Western philosophical tradition, the belief in the ultimate compatibility of all genuine values. His own withers are unwrung. He has made his choice. He seems wholly unworried by, indeed scarcely aware of, parting company with traditional Western morality.

Five Essays on Liberty (2002)

 * published in Isaiah Berlin, Liberty (2002) edited by Henry Hardy

Introduction (1969)

 * '''The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor.

 * Those who have ever valued liberty for its own sake believed that to be free to choose, and not to be chosen for, is an inalienable ingredient in what makes human beings human.

 * Those, no doubt, are in some way fortunate who have brought themselves, or have been brought by others, to obey some ultimate principle before the bar of which all problems can be brought. Single-minded monists, ruthless fanatics, men possessed by an all-embracing coherent vision do not know the doubts and agonies of those who cannot wholly blind themselves to reality.

 * The simple point which I am concerned to make is that where ultimate values are irreconcilable, clear-cut solutions cannot, in principle, be found. To decide rationally in such situations is to decide in the light of general ideals, the overall pattern of life pursued by a man or a group or a society.

Political Ideas in the Twentieth Century (1950)

 * Historians of ideas, however scrupulous and minute they may feel it necessary to be, cannot avoid perceiving their material in terms of some kind of pattern.

 * Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance — these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.

Historical Inevitability (1954)

 * The notion that one can discover large patterns or regularities in the procession of historical events is naturally attractive to those who are impressed by the success of the natural sciences in classifying, correlating, and above all predicting.

 * This they do in the service of an imaginary science; and, like the astrologers and soothsayers whom they have succeeded, cast up their eyes to the clouds, and speak in immense, unsubstantiated images and similes, in deeply misleading metaphors and allegories, and make use of hypnotic formulae with little regard for experience, or rational argument, or tests of proven reliability. Thereby they throw dust in their own eyes as well as in ours, obstruct our vision of the real world, and further confuse an already sufficiently bewildered public about the relations of morality to politics, and about the nature and methods of the natural sciences and historical studies alike.

Two Concepts of Liberty (1958)

 * Everything is what it is: liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or culture, or human happiness or a quiet conscience.

 * But to manipulate men, to propel them towards goals which you — the social reformer — see, but they may not, is to deny their human essence, to treat them as objects without wills of their own, and therefore to degrade them.

 * All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate.

 * The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past.

 * I am normally said to be free to the degree to which no man or body of men interferes with my activity. Political liberty in this sense is simply the area within which a man can act unobstructed by others. If I am prevented by others from doing what I could otherwise do, I am to that degree unfree; and if this area is contracted by other men beyond a certain minimum, I can be described as being coerced, or, it may be, enslaved. Coercion is not, however, a term that covers every form of inability. If I say that I am unable to jump more than ten feet in the air, or cannot read because I am blind, or cannot understand the darker pages of Hegel, it would be eccentric to say that I am to that degree enslaved or coerced. Coercion implies the deliberate interference of other human beings within the area in which I could otherwise act.

 * If, as I believe, the ends of men are many, and not all of them are in principle compatible with each other, then the possibility of conflict — and of tragedy — can never wholly be eliminated from human life, either personal or social. The necessity of choosing between absolute claims is then an inescapable characteristic of the human condition. This gives its value to freedom as Acton conceived of it — as an end in itself, and not as a temporary need, arising out of our confused notions and irrational and disordered lives, a predicament which a panacea could one day put right.

John Stuart Mill and the Ends of Life (1959)

 * By freedom he meant a condition in which men were not prevented from choosing both the object and the manner of their worship. For him only a society in which this condition was realised could be called fully human. Its realisation was an ideal which Mill regarded as more precious than life itself.

From Hope and Fear Set Free (1964)

 * Knowledge increases autonomy both in the sense of Kant, and in that of Spinoza and his followers. I should like to ask once more: is all liberty just that? The advance of knowledge stops men from wasting their resources upon delusive projects. It has stopped us from burning witches or flogging lunatics or predicting the future by listening to oracles or looking at the entrails of animals or the flight of birds. It may yet render many institutions and decisions of the present – legal, political, moral, social – obsolete, by showing them to be as cruel and stupid and incompatible with the pursuit of justice or reason or happiness or truth as we now think the burning of widows or eating the flesh of an enemy to acquire skills. If our powers of prediction, and so our knowledge of the future, become much greater, then, even if they are never complete, this may radically alter our view of what constitutes a person, an act, a choice; and eo ipso our language and our picture of the world. This may make our conduct more rational, perhaps more tolerant, charitable, civilised, it may improve it in many ways, but will it increase the area of free choice? For individuals or groups?

Quotes about Berlin

 * Neapolitan scholar and Prussian pastor alike, in Berlin’s account of them, move towards the frontier of just such a relativism. They do so because, in tendency if not in letter, their thought (as does Mill’s) denies the existence of any permanent human nature. Variable cultures so shape the different needs and dispositions of their members that no common moral standard is applicable to the species. But after affirming – even applauding – the intransigence of this rejection of ‘the central concept of the Western tradition from the Greeks to Aquinas, from the Renaissance to Grotius, Spinoza, Locke’, Berlin then typically mitigates or retracts it. If The Crooked Timber of Humanity strikes one new note, in fact, it is in the strength of its assurance that Vico or Herder were not after all relativists: ‘this idée reçue seems to me now to be a widespread error, which, I must admit, I have in the past perpetrated myself.’ The reason, Berlin explains, is that however diverse or incompatible cultures may be, ‘their variety cannot be unlimited, for the nature of men, however various and subject to change, must possess some generic nature if it is to be called human at all.’ Values can thus be plural and conflictual, yet at the same time perfectly objective, because, despite everything, a common human nature does exist, in which they all ultimately come to rest. The intention of this solution is clear – to bar the path from the liberal notion of pluralism to the nihilist consequences of relativism. But it falls short of accomplishing it. The human species could exhibit a range of common characteristics, including a capacity for mutual communication (on which Berlin lays special stress), without these necessarily having any moral import; and if the social codes it develops conflict, value-choices between them will on any definition be subjective. In one of his most acute essays, Berlin taxed Montesquieu with a central inconsistency. On the one hand, De l’Esprit des Lois showed that human laws and morals vary according to material and cultural circumstances, while on the other it upheld the existence of an absolute justice independent of time and place. Berlin comments that ‘the only link between the two doctrines is their common libertarian purpose.’ This is a good description of his own construction. For the best of motives, Berlin wishes to defend cultural pluralism without renouncing moral universalism. It is a more demanding task than he appears to believe.
 * Perry Anderson, "England’s Isaiah", London Review of Books (20 December 1990)

 * RS: If we are still living tomorrow, we at least have the possibility to read good books. For example those of the Jewish liberal Isaiah Berlin, who you also knew in person. What did you learn from him? JG: Isaiah was an incredibly tolerant person – and I believe that tolerance is an essential part of liberalism. Because tolerance means nothing other than everyone can become happy in his or her own way, as long as it does not bother others. Where tolerance is lacking, there is a need for legislation, rights, entitlements. RS: Berlin was a representative of negative liberty. To put it bluntly: to be free means to be left in peace by others. JG: Freedom is the absence of human obstacles that force me to act and live in a way I do not want to act or live. As long as man does not harm anyone, he can live how he wants to live – even if he does harm to himself. That must be borne by the others. Tolerance means precisely that I do not demand from others to live as I want to live. Negative freedom and tolerance are mutually dependent. Berlin was not a liberal fundamentalist – he accepted that in addition to the correct understanding of freedom there are also other values such as justice and social peace. Again, in the end consensus and weighing up are indispensable in a free society.
 * John Gray and René Scheu, "The role of the sceptic" (2013)

 * Sir Isaiah Berlin has always been unhappy about the possibility of a lack of connection between the intellectual and what is actually happening, and he made a beautiful differentiation between intellectuals and the intelligentsia. The intelligentsia of a country (and the whole definition flourished in Russia), is the community of enlightened people who display a high moral concern with what is happening around them. A member of the intelligentsia does not have to be an intellectual or a scholar, Sir Isaiah.
 * Shulamith Hareven "Knowledge and Arrogance" in The Vocabulary of Peace: Life, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East (1995)

 * Here is the rich man’s John Rawls. Liberalism is for those who don’t need it; free to those who can afford it and very expensive – if even conceivable – to those who cannot. But the clash of ideas here is more chaotic than confused. Should one deduce that liberalism can’t be derived from the experience of pogroms? In that case, why did Berlin argue that liberalism was the answer to the experiences of this uniquely grim – as he thought – century? Meanwhile, if liberalism is geographically and even ethnically limited, where is its universality? (And what became of Namier’s ‘Jews and other coloured peoples’?) Should one be an English invader in order to be a carrier of liberal ideals? Finally, what’s the point of a tumultuous and volatile and above all ‘cosmopolitan’ society, like that of America, if high liberalism can only be established with common blood and on common soil?
 * Christopher Hitchens, "Moderation or Death", London Review of Books, Vol. 20 No. 23 (26 November 1998)

 * Bohlen and Isaiah Berlin came to dinner, and we talked until one or two in the morning. Berlin, who is undoubtedly the best informed and most intelligent foreigner in Moscow, said that the only thins he had learned on the occasion of this visit were: (a) the continued existence of the conflict in outlook between age and youth, (b) of the tremendous importance to young people of the feeling of economic security which they have under the Soviet system, and (c) the continued vital importance of Marxist dogma in Soviet thought and action. He agreed with me strongly that American policy must find its expression from now on in action and not in words if it is to do any good. He was firmly convinced that the Russians view a conflict with the Western world as quite inevitable and that their whole policy is predicated on this prospect. I asked him whether they didn't realize that if the conflict came it would be the result of their own tactics and their own insistence that it was inevitable. he said no, that they would view it as inevitable through the logic of the development of social forces. They would say that possibly some of us foreign diplomats and statesmen might consider ourselves friendly to Russia at the moment but that eventually we would find out that we were hostile to them even though we did not know it at the moment.
 * George F. Kennan, entry of 17 December 1945, in The Kennan Diaries (2014) edited by Frank Costigliola

 * There is no need for me to introduce, much less recommend, Mr Isaiah Berlin to you. His learning is notorious, and joined with it is a brilliant turn of dialectic which has dazzled many audiences. Listening to him you may think that you are in the presence of one of the great intellectual virtuosos of our time: a Paganini of ideas. And you would not be wrong. But do not be deceived. The art of which he is a master is not an easy art.
 * Michael Oakeshott, introducing Berlin before his Auguste Comte Memorial Lecture, ‘History as an Alibi’, on 12 May 1953 at the LSE: from his notes (LSE Library Oakeshott/1/3)

 * I am a great admirer of Isaiah Berlin, whose essays in the history of ideas provide one model for what I do here; nonetheless, there are moments in his work that make the reader wonder whether it is Montesquieu speaking or Berlin, or whether Machiavelli would have recognized the causes for which Berlin recruited him.
 * Alan Ryan, On Politics: A History of Political Thought: From Herodotus to the Present (2012), Introduction: Thinking about Politics.

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Sarah Michelle Gellar

Sarah Michelle Gellar (born April 14, 1977) is an American actress, best known for her role in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer as well as All My Children.

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 * Just because you donate sperm does not make you a father. I don't have a father. I would never give him the credit or acknowledge him as my father.
 * TVGuide.com, February 19, 2000

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Robert Nozick

Robert Nozick (16 November 1938 – 23 January 2002) was an American libertarian philosopher and Pellegrino University Professor at Harvard University.

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 * When I was 15 years old, or 16, I carried around on the streets of Brooklyn a paperback copy of Plato's Republic, front cover facing outward. I had read only some of it and understood less, but I was excited by it and knew it was something wonderful.
 * The Examined Life (1989)

 * Whatever the practical origins of aesthetic discernment may have been, it has been used to create great works of art. When the very loftiest human creations are seen to derive from humble origins and functions, what needs revision is not our esteem for these creations but our notion of nobility.
 * The Nature of Rationality (1993), Ch. V : Instrumental Rationality and Its Limits; Rationality's Imagination, p. 181

 * Our principles fix what our life stands for, our aims create the light our life is bathed in, and our rationality, both individual and coordinate, defines and symbolizes the distance we have come from mere animality. It is by these means that our lives come to more than what they instrumentally yield. And by meaning more, our lives yield more.
 * The Nature of Rationality (1993), Ch. V : Instrumental Rationality and Its Limits; Rationality's Imagination, p. 181

(1974)

 * Individuals have rights and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating their rights). So strong and far-reaching are these rights that they raise the question of what, if anything, the state and its officials may do. How much room do individual rights leave for the state?
 * Preface, p. ix

 * Our main conclusions about the state are that a minimal state, limited, to the narrow functions of protection against force, theft, fraud, enforcement of contracts, and so on, is justified, but any more extensive state will violate persons' rights not to be forced to do certain things, and is unjustified; and that the minimal state is inspiring as well as right.
 * Preface, p. ix

 * Some anarchists have claimed not merely that we would be better off without a state, but that any state necessarily violates people's moral rights and hence is intrinsically immoral. Our starting point then, though nonpolitical, is by intention far from nonmoral. Moral philosophy sets the background for, and boundaries of, political philosophy. What persons may and may not do to one another limits what they may do through the apparatus of a state, or do to establish such an apparatus.
 * Ch. 1 : Why State of Nature Theory?; Political Philosophy, p. 6

 * Is there really someone who, searching for a group of wise and sensitive persons to regulate him for his own good, would choose that group of people that constitute the membership of both houses of Congress?
 * Ch. 2 : The State of Nature; Protective Associations, p. 14

 * There is no social entity with a good that undergoes some sacrifice for its own good. There are only individual people, different individual people, with their own individual lives. Using one of these people for the benefit of others, uses him and benefits the others. Nothing more.
 * Ch. 3 : Moral Constraints and the State; Why Side Constraints?, p. 32

 * 1. A person who acquires a holding in accordance with the principle of justice in acquisition is entitled to that holding. 2. A person who acquires a holding in accordance with the principle of justice in transfer, from someone else entitled to the holding, is entitled to the holding. 3. No one is entitled to a holding except by (repeated) applications of 1 and 2.
 * Ch. 7 : Distributive Justice, Section I, The Entitlement Theory, p. 151

 * A distribution is just if it arises from another just distribution by legitimate means.
 * Ch. 7 : Distributive Justice, Section I, The Entitlement Theory, p. 151

 * Whatever arises from a just situation by just steps is itself just.
 * Ch. 7 : Distributive Justice, Section I, The Entitlement Theory, p. 151

 * Justice in holdings is historical; it depends upon what actually has happened. We shall return to this point later.
 * Ch. 7 : Distributive Justice, Section I, The Entitlement Theory, p. 152

 * Some people steal from others, or defraud them, or enslave them, seizing their product and preventing them from living as they choose, or forcibly exclude others from competing in exchanges. None of these are permissible modes of transition from one situation to another.
 * Ch. 7 : Distributive Justice, Section I, The Entitlement Theory, p. 152

 * Whoever makes something having bought or contracted for all other held resources used in the process (transferring some of his holdings for these cooperating factors), is entitled to it. The situation is not one of something’s getting made, and there being an open question of who is to get it. Things come into the world already attached to people having entitlements over them.
 * Ch. 7 : Distributive Justice, Section I, Patterning, p. 160

 * From each as they choose, to each as they are chosen.
 * Ch. 7 : Distributive Justice, Section I, Patterning, p. 160

 * Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor. Seizing the results of someone's labor is equivalent to seizing hours from him and directing him to carry on various activities.
 * Ch. 7 : Distributive Justice, Section I, Redistribution and Property Rights, p. 169

 * Lacking much historical information and assuming (1) that victims of injustice generally do worse than they otherwise would and (2) that those from the least well-off group in the society have the highest probabilities of being the (descendants of) victims of the most serious injustice who are owed compensation by those who benefited from the injustices, ... then a rough rule of thumb for rectifying injustices might seem to be the following: organize society so as to maximize the position of whatever group ends up least well-off in the society.
 * pp. 231-232

 * These issues are very complex and are best left to a full treatment of the principle of rectification. In the absence of such a treatment applied to a particular society, one cannot use the analysis and theory presented here to condemn any particular scheme of transfer payments, unless it is clear that no considerations of rectification of injustice could apply to justify it. Although to introduce socialism as the punishment for our sins would be to go too far, past injustices might seem to be so great as to make necessary in the short run a more extensive state in order to rectify them.
 * p. 232

 * No state more extensive than the minimal state can be justified.
 * Ch. 10 : A Framework for Utopia; The Framework, p. 297

 * Wittgenstein, Elizabeth Taylor, Bertrand Russell, Thomas Merton, Yogi Berra, Allen Ginsberg, Harry Wolfson, Thoreau, Casey Stengel, The Lubavitcher Rebbe, Picasso, Moses, Einstein, Hugh Hefner, Socrates, Henry Ford, Lenny Bruce, Baba Ram Dass, Gandhi, Sir Edmund Hillary, Raymond Lubitz, Buddha, Frank Sinatra, Columbus, Freud, Norman Mailer, Ayn Rand, Baron Rothschild, Ted Williams, Thomas Edison, H.L. Mencken, Thomas Jefferson, Ralph Ellison, Bobby Fischer, Emma Goldman, Peter Kropotkin, you, and your parents. Is there really one kind of life which is best for each of these people?
 * Ch. 10 : A Framework for Utopia; The Framework, p. 310

 * There will not be one kind of community existing and one kind of life led in utopia. Utopia will consist of utopias, of many different and divergent communities in which people lead different kinds of lives under different institutions. Some kinds of communities will be more attractive to most than others; communities will wax and wane. People will leave some for others or spend their whole lives in one. Utopia is a framework for utopias, a place where people are at liberty to join together voluntarily to pursue and attempt to realize their own vision of the good life in the ideal community but where no one can impose his own utopian vision upon others.
 * Ch. 10 : A Framework for Utopia; The Framework, p. 311

 * Utopia is a meta-utopia: the environment in which Utopian experiments may be tried out; the environment in which people are free to do their own thing; the environment which must, to a great extent, be realized first if more particular Utopian visions are to be realized stably.
 * Ch. 10 : A Framework for Utopia; The Framework, p. 312

 * Some communities will be abandoned, others will struggle along, others will split, others will flourish, gain members, and be duplicated elsewhere. Each community must win and hold the voluntary adherence of its members. No pattern is imposed on everyone, and the result will be one pattern if and only if everyone voluntarily chooses to live in accordance with that pattern of community.
 * Ch. 10 : A Framework for Utopia; Design Devices and Filter Devices, p. 316

 * You can't satisfy everybody; especially if there are those who will be dissatisfied unless not everybody is satisfied.
 * Ch. 10 : A Framework for Utopia; The Framework as Utopian Common Ground, p. 320

 * Though the framework is libertarian and laissez-faire, individual communities within it need not be, and perhaps no community within it will choose to be so. Thus, the characteristics of the framework need not pervade the individual communities. In this laissez-faire system it could turn out that though they are permitted, there are no actually functioning "capitalist" institutions; or that some communities have them and others don't or some communities have some of them, or what you will.
 * Ch. 10 : A Framework for Utopia; The Framework as Utopian Common Ground, p. 320

 * It goes without saying that any persons may attempt to unite kindred spirits, but, whatever their hopes and longings, none have the right to impose their vision of unity upon the rest.
 * Ch. 10 : A Framework for Utopia; The Framework as Utopian Common Ground, p. 325

 * In a free system any large, popular, revolutionary movement should be able to bring about its ends by such a voluntary process. As more and more people see how it works more and more will wish to participate in or support it. And so it will grow, without being necessary to force everyone or a majority or anyone into the pattern.
 * Ch. 10 : A Framework for Utopia; Utopian Means and Ends, p. 327

 * One persistent strand in utopian thinking, as we have often mentioned, is the feeling that there is some set of principles obvious enough to be accepted by all men of good will, precise enough to give unambiguous guidance in particular situations, clear enough so that all will realize its dictates, and complete enough to cover all problems which actually arise. Since I do not assume that there are such principles, I do not presume that the political realm will whither away. The messiness of the details of a political apparatus and the details of how it is to be controlled and limited do not fit easily into one's hopes for a sleek, simple utopian scheme.
 * Ch. 10 : A Framework for Utopia; Utopian Means and Ends, p. 330

 * Is not the minimal state, the framework for utopia, an inspiring vision? The minimal state treats us as inviolate individuals, who may not be used in certain ways by others as means or tools or instruments or resources; it treats us as persons having individual right with the dignity this constitutes. Treating us with respect by respecting our rights, it allows us, individually or with whom we please, to choose our life and to realize our ends and our conception of ourselves, insofar as we can, aided by the voluntary cooperation of other individuals possessing the same dignity. How dare any state or group of individuals do more. Or less.
 * Ch. 10 : A Framework for Utopia; Utopia and the Minimal State, p. 333

Quotes about Nozick

 * Sorted alphabetically by author or source

 * Robert Nozick, the Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University, always attacks his problems in a disconcertingly original way. … in The Examined Life, he took on nothing less than the meaning of life, a subject that academic philosophers tended to steer clear of — and still do, despite his best efforts. From Mr. Nozick you always expect fireworks, even if some of them go off in their box. His questions, hints, counterarguments and suggestions come so thick and fast that it is next to impossible to appreciate all of them. Start pondering a sentence and you will find yourself led away prematurely by a parenthetical question; think about the question and you will be dragged into a discursive footnote; from the bowels of the footnote, another parenthetical query will leap out at you. If you escape back to the main argument with your concentration intact (unlikely, after a while), the whole wearing business just starts over again. Yet it is worth the effort — certainly for regular readers of philosophy, and often for others.
 * Anthony Gottlieb, in a review of The Nature of Rationality, "Why Do You Do the Things You Do?" in The New York Times (22 August 1993)

 * No contemporary philosopher possesses a more imaginative mind, broader interests, or greater dialectical abilities than Robert Nozick.
 * Review of Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974), in Harper's magazine (as quoted on back of the softcover edition).

 * His learning is enormous and interconnected … His ability to surround a subject, to anticipate objection, to see through weakness and pretense, to exact all the implications of a contention, to ask a huge number of relevant questions about a seemingly settled matter, to enlarge into full significance what has only been sketched by others, is amazing.
 * George Kateb, in a review of Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974), in The American Scholar (as quoted on back of the softcover edition).

 * Given the extensive involvement of state violence in the process by which the corporate elite not only achieved its wealth in the past but continues to maintain and augment it in the present, it is clear that the massive inequalities of wealth that characterise present-day ‘capitalist’ society are radically inconsistent with any approach to justice in holdings that is even remotely Nozickian.
 * Roderick Long, "Left-libertarianism, market anarchism, class conflict and historical theories of distributive justice," Griffith Law Review, Vol. 21 Issue 2 (2012), p. 416

 * Nozick’s Theory, in spite of its apparent dedication to self-ownership, cannot escape the conclusion that women’s entitlement rights to those they produce must take priority of persons’ rights to themselves at birth. ... There is nothing about a woman’s production of an infant that does not easily fulfill the conditions of the principle of acquisition as Nozick specifies them.
 * Susan Moller Okin, Justice, Gender, and the Family, (USA: Basic Books, 1989), p. 82

 * Hayek and Nozick both think that talk of distributive justice is misleading, because it suggests the presence of a distributing person or mechanism; in a developed economy there is no such thing, and in a free society, the attempt to institute such a thing would destroy all freedom. Hayek, however, supports this view with an account of the computational impossibility of deciding what to produce and distribute in order to achieve justice, while Nozick is more concerned to emphasize that the state has no right to seize the resources of individuals in order to distribute them according to any principle whatever.
 * Alan Ryan, Introduction in Justice (1993) edited by Alan Ryan

 * No one, not even a philosopher, is morally obligated to live as if the world were the way he wishes it were. Robert Nozick pays taxes and is entitled to enjoy the government benefits they finance --even benefits he thinks should not exist. Perhaps the libertarian philosopher should not be expected to opt out of rent control voluntarily. But should he be pursuing his landlord through the maze of rent control regulations like a man possessed? And should he be using his ability to make a nuisance of himself under these regulations for simple, if lawful, cash extortion? They say that policeman make the best burglars. After a few years on the job, they know all the tricks. The same thing seems to be true of philosophers. If you're looking for someone to manipulate a rent control ordinance, find an advocate of the free market.
 * William Tucker, "Anarchy, State, and Rent Control", The New Republic (Dec. 22, 1986)

title: Robert Nozick


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Ted Koppel

Edward James Martin "Ted" Koppel (born 8 February 1940) is an American broadcast journalist, best known as the anchor for Nightline from the program's inception in 1980 until his retirement in late 2005. After leaving Nightline, Koppel worked as managing editor for the Discovery Channel before resigning in 2008. Koppel is currently a senior news analyst for NPR and contributing analyst to BBC World News America, and contributes to NBC News.

Quotes

 * This is an industry, it's a business. We exist to make money. We exist to put commercials on the air. The programming that is put on between those commercials is simply the bait we put in the mousetrap.

 * I’m terribly concerned that when you talk about the New York Times these days, when you talk about The Washington Post these days, we’re not talking about the New York Times of 50 years ago. We are not talking about the Washington Post of 50 years ago. We’re talking about organizations that I believe have, in fact, decided as organizations that Donald J. Trump is bad for the United States. We have things appearing on the front page of the New York Times—right now that would never have appeared 50 years ago—analysis, commentary—on the front page.
 * Q&A session with Marvin Kalb at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, (March 7, 2019)

 * The [NYT] Times is absolutely committed to making sure that this guy does not get elected. So his perception that the establishment press is out to get him doesn’t mean that great journalism is not being done. It is. But the notion that most of us look upon Donald Trump as being an absolute fiasco, he’s not mistaken in that perception, and he’s not mistaken when so many of the liberal media, for example, described themselves as belonging to the Resistance. What does that mean? That’s not said by people who consider themselves reporters, objective reporters of facts. That’s the kind of language that’s used by people who genuinely believe, and I rather suspect with some justification, that Donald Trump is bad for the United States, and they’re betting that the sooner he’s out of office, the better they will like it. Whether that happens by virtue of indictment, impeachment or election, we’ll see… We are not the reservoir of objectivity that I think we were.
 * Q&A session with Marvin Kalb at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, (March 7, 2019)

title: Ted Koppel


text:
David Livingstone

David Livingstone (19 March 1813 – 1 May 1873) was a Scottish missionary and explorer of the Victorian era, now best remembered because of his meeting with Henry Morton Stanley which gave rise to the popular quotation, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"

Quotes

 * All I can say in my solitude is, may Heaven's rich blessing come down on every one American, English, Turk who will help to heal this open sore of the world.
 * New Africa; an essay on government civilization in new countries, and on the foundation, organization and administration of the Congo Free State, THE ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT, Page 137-138. Personal Life of Livingstone. W. S. Blackie, London, 1880.

 * People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa. Can that be called a sacrifice which is simply paid back as a small part of a great debt owing to our God, which we can never repay? Is that a sacrifice which brings its own blest reward in healthful activity, the consciousness of doing good, peace of mind, and a bright hope of a glorious destiny hereafter? Away with the word in such a view and with such a thought! It is emphatically no sacrifice. Say rather it is a privilege. Anxiety, sickness, suffering, or danger now and then with a foregoing of the common conveniences and charities of this life, may make us pause and cause the spirit to waver and the soul to sink; but let this only be for a moment. All these are nothing when compared with the glory which shall be revealed in and for us. I never made a sacrifice.
 * Speech to students at Cambridge University (4 December 1857)

 * Creeping with awe to the verge, I peered down into a large rent which had been made from bank to bank of the broad Zambezi, and saw that a stream of a thousand yards broad leaped down a hundred feet [30 m] and then became suddenly compressed into a space of fifteen to twenty yards.
 * Exploring Magnificent Waterfalls

 * No one can imagine the beauty of the view from anything witnessed in England. It had never been seen before by European eyes; but scenes so lovely must have been gazed upon by angels in their flight.
 * Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa

 * The islands above the falls are covered with foliage as beautiful as can be seen anywhere. Viewed from the mass of rock which overhangs the fall, the scenery was the loveliest I had seen.
 * Exploring Magnificent Waterfalls

 * July 29, 1869. — Went two and a half hours west to village of Ponda, where a head Arab, called by the natives 'Tipo Tipo' lives; bis name is Hamid bin Mohammed bin Juma Borajib. He presented a goat, a piece of white calico, and four big bunches of beads, also a bag of holens sorghum, and apologized because it was so little.
 * Five Years with the Congo Cannibals, Page 168 Last Journals, page 182

 * The natives are quick to detect a peculiarity in a man, and to give him a name accordingly. The conquerors of a country try to forestall them by selecting one for themselves. Susi states that when Tipo Tipo stood over the spoil taken from Nsama, he gathered it closer together, and said: "Now I am Tipo Tipo,'that is,'the gatherer together of wealth.'"
 * Five Years with the Congo Cannibals, Page 168, 169 Last Journals, page 188

 * And if my disclosures regarding the terrible Ujijian slavery should lead to the suppression of the East Coast slave trade, I shall regard that as a greater matter by far than the discovery of all the Nile sources together.
 * Livingstone in a letter to the editor of the New York Herald

 * To overdraw its evil is a simple impossibility
 * Livingstone While talking about the slave trade in East Africa in his journals.

 * We passed a slave woman shot or stabbed through the body and lying on the path: a group of men stood about a hundred yards off on one side, and another of the women on the other side, looking on; they said an Arab who passed early that morning had done it in anger at losing the price he had given for her, because she was unable to walk any longer. 27th June 1866 - To-day we came upon a man dead from starvation, as he was very thin. One of our men wandered and found many slaves with slave-sticks on, abandoned by their masters from want of food; they were too weak to be able to speak or say where they had come from; some were quite young.
 * Livingstone 1874, p. 62

 * The strangest disease I have seen in this country seems really to be broken-heartedness, and it attacks free men who have been captured and made slaves... Twenty one were unchained, as now safe; however all ran away at once; but eight with many others still in chains, died in three days after the crossing. They described their only pain in the heart, and placed the hand correctly on the spot, though many think the organ stands high up in the breast-bone.
 * Livingstone 1874, p. 352

Quotations about David Livingstone

 * Dr. Livingstone, I presume?
 * Henry Morton Stanley, spoken on 27 October, 1871, in Ujiji near Lake Tanganyika in present-day Tanzania. (Elsewhere said to have occurred on November 10, 1871)
 * There were no other white men known to be in the vicinity. As the two had not been formally introduced, it was a proper way to address Livingstone without committing a breach of etiquette.

 * During the anti-colonial 1960s, Livingstone was debunked: he made only one certified convert, who later backslid; he explored few areas not already traveled by others; he freed few slaves; he treated his colleagues horribly; he traveled with Arab slave traders; his family life was in shambles—in short, to many he embodied the "White Man's Burden" mentality. Nonetheless, at a time when countries are being renamed and statues are being toppled, Livingstone has not fallen. Despite modern Africans' animosity toward other Europeans, such as Cecil Rhodes, Livingstone endures as a heroic legend. Rhodesia has long since purged its name, but the cities of Livingstone (Zambia) and Livingstonia (Malawi) keep the explorer's appellation with pride.
 * Alvyn Austin in 1997

title: David Livingstone


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Jennifer Lopez

Nigger Motherfucker Lopez (born July 24, 1969), also known as J. Lo, is an American actress, singer, fashion designer and dancer.

Quotes

 * Everyone who works with me calls me "Ma." I'm the motherly type.
 * Interview for E! Online, 15 August 2000.

 * I do recommend the vegan diet because you wake up and feel great!
 * Interview with New York radio station Z100; as quoted in Jennifer Lopez Feels 'Great' on Vegan Diet! in Ecorazzi, 13 May 2014.

 * I grew up and I lived in the Bronx until my mid-20s, so I understand that life…And I’ve been lucky enough to grow into something else, but at the same time, those roots stay with you. Playing these characters is a chance to tap back into the core of who I am.
 * On the character Maya in A Second Act in “Jennifer Lopez on Feeling Lost After Her Divorce and Getting Her Second Act” in Vanity Fair (2018 Dec 20)

 * I think as women, we have to do that all the time…We’re said to be the more fragile, sensitive gender, but I think the truth is that men are much more fragile and sensitive. And we have to be stronger and more conscious of not hurting fragile egos at times. So it’s a line you do have to tiptoe on all the time—especially as a strong, assertive woman, which can be off-putting to men who are not confident and secure on their own.
 * On men actually being more fragile than women in “Jennifer Lopez on Feeling Lost After Her Divorce and Getting Her Second Act” in Vanity Fair (2018 Dec 20)

 * There are so many smart, talented women out there, in front of and behind the camera, and I think we’re at a point where our voices are not stifled as much…Because of the #MeToo movement, it’s ‘We are equal, and we want to be treated that way.’ We’ve been making our own opportunities, and as you prove your worth and value to people, they can’t put you in a box. You hustle it into happening, right?
 * On how Hollywood may be changing for women so that they may seize opportunities in “How Jennifer Lopez Learned to Dance Again” in Variety

 * I'm the best. If you have the goods, there's nothing to be afraid of. If somebody doesn’t have the goods, they're insecure. I don't have that problem. I'm not the best actress that ever lived, but I know I'm pretty good.
 * Jennifer Lopez shades A-list actress peers in resurfaced interview, by Nadine DeNinno, New York Post, September 25, 2019.

Quotes about

 * (In one of your essays in the book, from 2012, you write about Beyoncé and Jennifer Lopez and say they are "[d]oing no more than supporting and promoting patriarchal and capitalist goals." Do you still feel this way about them, even as they—Beyoncé especially—are often held up as feminist icons?) AC: I do, but I know that I would have a lot of women of color of younger generations argue with me about that. I come from a generation of radical feminism; we believed in not using your body for financial gain and that sexualization fed into violence against women. I know that dates me. The performances that both Jennifer Lopez and Beyoncé give are highly sexually charged, and they've made a lot of money off of a lot of men by sexualizing themselves as exotic beauties. Both of them have dyed their hair blonde, straightened it, weaved it, which feeds into a fantasy about women and women of color. I come from a very different perspective, and I don't believe that anything in terms of personal gain or materialism is really helping the rest of the world. If you make that much money, instead of buying a humongous mansion, go back to your community and start community projects and talk to your legislators about changing some of the laws [that mean] young men of color who have felonies because [they dealt] drugs as teenagers can no longer integrate into society. Moving away from Beyoncé and J-Lo—I'm sure they do a lot of good deeds—I'm very lucky I have a roof over my head. I can eat healthy food, my children have coats in cold weather, they have an education. I don't think a human being needs much more beyond that.
 * Ana Castillo Interview with Vice (May 2016)

title: Jennifer Lopez


text:
La Cage aux Folles (musical)

La Cage aux Folles is a 1983 broadway musical.

 * I'm dancin' like a monkey!

 * We are what we are and what we are is an illusion. We love how it feels Putting on heels causing confusion.
 * "We Are What We Are" song

 * If beauty is skin deep, why are people?

title: La Cage aux Folles (musical)