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Gillian Anderson

Gillian Leigh Anderson (born 9 August 1968) is an American-British film, television and theatre actress, activist and writer. Her credits include the roles of FBI Special Agent Dana Scully in The X-Files, Lily Bart in Terence Davies' film The House of Mirth, Lady Dedlock in the successful BBC production of Charles Dickens' Bleak House, and DSI Stella Gibson in the BBC crime drama television series The Fall.

1990s

 * People have been willing to accept that the government is lying to us, but [are now also] more willing to accept the concept of aliens and other life forms. There's just a slew of stuff out there right now. It's been people's closet belief system, and now it's coming out of the closet.
 * Kate O'Hare, Tribune Media Services (December 2, 1994) "The Voice of Reason Speaks on FOX's 'X-Files'", St. Louis Post-Dispatch, p. 10F.

 * There are huge differences in the way male and female actors are perceived. Women have to be a certain size, in order to get good roles. The only successful, larger-than-average female actor I can think of is Kathy Bates. And once women reach a certain age, they can only expect one or two good roles per year, whereas male actors can continue working regularly well into their forties. Then there are the types of roles available to women. We're constantly depicted as sidekicks, ingenues, and hangers-on, rarely as independent and capable individuals. And the enormous, huge discrepancies in pay....the amounts that some male actors make are astronomically obscene. Women in Hollywood are constantly shown that there's a difference between them and men, and that that's okay. But it's not okay.
 * On inequality in Hollywood — reported in Lynne Melcombe, BC Woman "Supernatural SuXXess" (October, 1995)

 * Something happened when I got pregnant, and I'm not able to listen to that kind of music as much. I feel like I'm going nuts when I listen to it. I used to listen to Dead Kennedys, Circle Jerks, PiL, Butthole Surfers. But today, I can't. I love Alanis Morissette, Emmylou Harris' latest album, and all sorts of jazz and blues. If I want to hear something heavy duty, I'll put on the Foo Fighters or a good rocking Rolling Stones song. But that's as intense as I've got.
 * David Wild, Rolling Stone "X-Files Undercover" (May 16, 1996)

 * I wouldn't say I'm normal, but I'm relatively stable. When I think of normalcy I think of mediocrity and mediocrity scares the fuck out of me.
 * Joel Achenbach, Allure "Planet Hollywood Harriet Winslow" (December, 1997)

 * I didn't really think too much about the fact that it was about aliens. I was intrigued by that aspect of it, but I was more intrigued by the relationship between Mulder and Scully, and how intelligent this woman was, and that she would stand up in the face of his intelligence and feel comfortable with him.
 * On her first impressions of The X-Files — reported in Betsy Pickle (June 19, 1998) "Scully's strength is Anderson's inspiration", The Knoxville News-Sentinel, p. T11.

 * I will not tolerate not being heard as a result of excess testosterone.
 * Details "Details Magazine Interview" (June 1998)

 * Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears.
 * Excerpt from the foreword in Girl Boss: Running the Show Like the Big Chicks, by Stacy Kravetz (1999)

 * Another miraculous result of playing Scully has been all the incredible young women I have been blessed to meet along the way--women who have shared that they have received strength from Scully, that because of Scully's strength they have been afraid but done it anyway. These have been women from all walks of life: women from low-income neighborhoods who have persevered despite all odds to study hard and pursue their dreams, enabling them to enter into better schools and work environments; women who have illness and physical challenges who have gotten better and stronger because they believe they can. I truly believe that we can overcome any hurdle that lies before us and create the life we want to live. I have seen it happen time and time again.
 * Excerpt from the foreword in Girl Boss: Running the Show Like the Big Chicks, by Stacy Kravetz (1999)

 * My whole belief system is that our paths are drawn for us. I believe in reincarnation. I believe we're here to learn and grow. We choose how we come into this life based on what it is we have to learn. Some people have harder lessons than others.
 * Movieline Magazine "Gillian of the Spirits" (January, 1999)

2000s

 * Sometimes, I genuinely enjoy having conversations with journalists; enjoying the few moments of intimacy with a stranger is fascinating to me. But once in a while that backfires and you're suddenly reading something that has a bent on it that you didn't feel was in the least bit a part of the conversation that you thought you were having. Then you get overly protective and say very little and then you come out of the hole again.
 * The Observer staff (October 1, 2000 ) "Review: Interview: The truth is out here: X-files star Gillian Anderson has rejected the lure of Hollywood for the austere style of cult British director Terence Davies. What is she thinking of...", The Observer.

 * When I was younger I think I showed off and I fed off the attention. And to a certain degree that has been satiated in this job, just in doing what I do. I think it's enough that I don't need to then push it.
 * Grace Bradberry (October 21, 2000) "Playing with fire - Interview", The Times, p. Times Magazine 32.

 * There is this view that if you are not tormented you cannot be vital and creative. I would like to think that is not true.
 * Jasper Gerard (July 1, 2001) "Scully knows what it's like to be an alien - Interview", The Sunday Times, p. News Review 5.

 * Having been Scully for such a long time, I have to prove myself in other roles.
 * Ric House (July 6, 2001) "New 'X-Files' season will be Anderson's last", The Spokesman-Review, p. D2.

 * Directing was a transformative experience for me, one that I really enjoyed.
 * Wales on Sunday staff (December 2, 2001) "Wales on Sunday: stargazing", Wales on Sunday.

 * You know, the last time I was on [the show], we were talking about colonics and this is a little step up.
 * To Letterman, after they lengthily kissed during the Late Night with David Letterman — "Gillian Anderson Kisses Letterman" (May 10, 2002)

 * If I chose to have a nanny, I'd be able to pay to have a nanny - a lot of women don't have that opportunity. I don't feel like I'm a working single mom, because I have that option that a lot of people don't have.
 * Alasdair Ferguson (June 7, 2002) "As The X-Files ends, I realise how much", The Express.

 * I always felt I wasn't completely American and I wasn't completely British: there was a feeling of having my feet in both places.
 * Tony Barrell (September 18, 2005) "Agent Scullery - Interview", The Sunday Times, p. Sunday Times Magazine 46.

 * I also respond very strongly to characters I have not done before... something I can really sink my teeth into, and what's scary, and what terrifies me, because that's where I need to go.
 * Toady "Nothing 'Bleak' about PBS for Gillian Anderson" (January 18, 2006)

 * In England, I get offered films. I don't get offers in America. People don't know what to do with me in America. And I've disappeared.
 * Associated Press (January 20, 2006) "American tragedy", Chicago Tribune RedEye Edition, Chicago Tribune, p. 52.

 * I try, in my life, to follow my heart. I know what it feels like to do things that are soul-decaying. A large aspect of life in Hollywood, in a stereotypic way, I find unbelievably soul-decaying. And I choose, albeit frustratingly to other people in my life, not to expose myself too much to too much of that.
 * Hal Boedeker (January 21, 2006) "Agent of Change - Gillian Anderson, who found fulfilling work in England after `The X-Files,' returns to TV in a PBS miniseries", The Orlando Sentinel, p. E1.

 * When I finished the series, I wasn't going to do television again. I never wanted to do television to begin with, and I was so exhausted by the process that I was wary of being in front of the camera again.
 * On finishing her work in the series The X-Files — reported in Steve Hedgpeth (January 22, 2006) "Gillian Anderson : TV or not TV", The Star-Ledger, p. 3.

 * I became an actor because it was the only thing I could do. I didn't have any friends, I didn't fit in. But when I started acting everything in my life shifted and I felt happy.
 * Steve Pratt (April 14, 2007) "Straight talking", The Northern Echo, p. 18.

 * I would never point a finger at anyone and say, 'They lived their life badly.' I take it as it comes and deal with each situation as it arrives.
 * Garth Pearce (April 29, 2007) "The plot to slow me down - Interview", The Sunday Times, p. InGear 3.

 * By moving to London I removed myself from the madness of the entertainment industry. I love the city and the culture, and it was an opportunity to bring my children up in a more sane environment.
 * John Hiscock (July 25, 2008) "Mulder and Scully: the truth is here Anderson on Duchovny David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, stars of the new 'X-Files' movie, talk to Will Lawrence and John Hiscock about their on-screen chemistry", The Daily Telegraph.

2010s

 * Dear Gillian, You are completely and utterly self obsessed. If you spent a quarter of your time thinking about others instead of how much you hate your thighs, your level of contentment and self worth would expand exponentially. One thing I learned way too late in the game for my own good was that you can effectively increase your self esteem by doing estimable things. Therefore I have signed you up to build homes for the homeless during your entire summer vacation. Your Christmas will be spent serving food at a battered women’s shelter and Easter is designated to reading stories to children in the pediatric cancer ward. Four months out of 16years dedicated to human beings other than yourself, you have gotten off easy. Oh and honey expand your horizons; your world is a bigger oyster than your low self-esteem wants you to believe. Love yourself; think of others and be grateful. I love you, I believe in you, and I look forward to respecting you.  Me. You. Us  P.S. Follow your dreams, not your boyfriends.
 * Anderson's letter to her teenage self — from Dear Me: More Letters To My Sixteen-Year-Old Self, edited by Joseph Galliano. (June 19, 2011)

 * London is my favourite city in the world. Flying in last night, I felt I was really coming home, and that's unique. It's the only place I actually miss when I'm not here. London appeals to many aspects of me - it just feels like where I belong.
 * Clarke Hayes The Spectator Blog "Switching off the spotlight" (October 14, 2011)

 * I've been asked whether I feel more like a Brit than an American and I don't know what the answer to that question is. I know that I feel that London is home and I'm very happy with that as my home. I love London as a city and I feel very comfortable there. In terms of identity, I'm still a bit baffled.
 * BlogTalkRadio "Milling About with Gillian Anderson" (May 24, 2013)

 * If was a refugee forced to flee my home the most important thing I would take with me would be my brother's Buddhist prayer beads. He passed away a year and a half ago aged 30. Even in the darkest days before he died he never once complained. His faith and practice kept him in a state of grace until the end. May I never complain.
 * United Nations Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) "What Would You Take? #1family" (June 30, 2013)

 * You look just like that Mulder on X Factor.
 * When asked what the best thing a London cabbie said to her — Evening Standard "Gillian Anderson's My London" (September 20, 2013)

 * I would masturbate in a red speedo.
 * When asked what would she do if she and David Duchovny switched bodies for a week — Reddit "Gillian Anderson here. I've brought David Duchovny with me. Ask us anything, we'll answer almost everything." (October 12, 2013)

 * We got a lot of letters all the time, and I was told quite frequently by girls who were going into the medical world or the science world or the FBI world or other worlds that I reigned, that they were pursuing those pursuits because of the character of Scully. And I said, 'Yay!'
 * Anderson tells that she has long been aware of "The Scully Effect" and the influence her character had on young women — reported in Jennifer Vineyard Vulture.com "Nearly Everything The X-Files’ David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson Said This Weekend" (October 14, 2013)

 * I had started to become interested in the punk scene and started to dress differently than a lot of the kids in Grand Rapids, Michigan were dressing. And I got my nose pierced and I started to shave my head and dye my hair and wear a lot of black. And so I looked like somebody that might be arrested... I was a bit of a class clown, usually the one that people would get to do the things that they were afraid to get in trouble for... On graduation night, I was arrested... I had a boyfriend at the time who was a couple centuries older than I was and I'd convinced him that we should go and glue the locks of the school so that people couldn't get in the morning. And lo and behold, they had a security guard because it was graduation night and they were concerned that idiots like me might try and do something like that.
 * On her teenage punk years and being arrested on graduation night — NPR "Gillian Anderson On 'The Fall' And Getting Arrested In High School" (December 7, 2013)

 * Get out of the house. Find other human beings to communicate with. Read a book. Do yoga. Meditate. Be of service. That is one of the biggest single most things to get one out of oneself, is being of service to people who are less fortunate than ourselves.
 * When asked for a motivational advice — Reddit "The Reigning Queen of TV" here. Also known as "mom." Gillian Anderson here, AMA." (March 13, 2014)

 * I have feminist bones and when I hear things or see people react to women in certain ways I have very little tolerance.
 * Celia Walden Glamour "I have a healthy appreciation of Ryan Gosling" (August, 2014)

 * Above anything else, stay true to yourself. Whether that means for you that you like to have blue hair, or you don't like to drink, or you are attracted to the same sex, or you want to remove yourself from Facebook, or you've got 3 different kids from 3 different dads but you know you're a really good mom, or you cry for a week because your turtle died. Whatever your truth is, stay true to yourself. But be a good person while you're at it.
 * When asked what advice would she give young feminist — Reddit "Sunday morning with Gillian Anderson. Grab a cup of coffee and A Vision of Fire. AMA." (October 12, 2014)

 * We shot the first five seasons up in Vancouver, so we were protected from the public mania, and the industry mania, for the most part. I was first exposed to it when I became pregnant in the first season, and I quickly learned the power of the machine; then again when I was trying to negotiate my salary to be closer to equal to what David [Duchovny] was making, rather than a quarter. Yes, it's been an ongoing education, but it continues to astound me.
 * On the wage gap and how The X-Files helped her understand the entertainment industry — Hunger TV "One From The Archives: The Interview: Gillian Anderson" (October 19, 2014)

 * At the beginning [of The X-Files] the pay disparity was massive. But that happens all the time in Hollywood. It's, 'Do this for me, I'll get you a job.' All the stuff in the papers today about people in entertainment who have abused their position... it's built into our society. It's easy to miss and it's easy to get used to it. There are things that are intolerable in today's world, in terms of the perception of women. Whether they're vamps or vixens, the expectation that, if a woman is wearing a short skirt, she's 'asking for it.'
 * About the wage gap in Hollywood and sexism — Red Online "Life Is Short, Follow your Heart" (November 10, 2014)

 * I am an actively heterosexual woman who celebrates however people want to express their sexuality.
 * On having liberal approach about sex — Evening Standard "Gillian Anderson: Self destruction is my default mode" (December 2, 2014)

 * I don't think I'd be very good at what you'd call an ordinary job. I think I might be an artist, mixed media. And that is still something I'm interested in pursuing at some point, but I have this fear of taking my eye off the ball, and get distracted from that acting thing.
 * The Guardian "Gillian Anderson webchat – as it happened" (February 6, 2015)

 * We were in a small Republican town. There were only six punks there. We were weird. It's not like London.
 * On her teenage punk years in Grand Rapids — The Guardian "Gillian Anderson on therapy, rebellion and 'being weird'" (February 8, 2015)

 * I was a confident fuck-up. I did drugs, and I went to concerts, and I snuck out of the house and I did all that stuff that rebellious teenagers do.
 * The Guardian "Gillian Anderson on therapy, rebellion and 'being weird'" (February 8, 2015)

 * To me a relationship is about loving another human being; their gender is irrelevant.
 * The Telegraph "Gillian Anderson: It's time somebody was brave enough to ask me out" (March 24, 2015)

 * Peace of mind, right mind, right action.
 * When asked about the meaning of her tattoos — Newsweek "'X-Files' Behind Her, Gillian Anderson Is a Believer" (May 14, 2015)

 * I don't necessarily consider myself to be an icon, but I do consider myself to be a feminist.
 * When asked if she considered herself to be a feminist icon – given the many strong female characters she portrayed — "Dallas Comic Con - May 2015 - The X Files - Gillian Anderson" (May 31, 2015)

 * I've always been a believer. I've been a believer in many different realms of alternate reality, the human capacity to move out of different planes of reality. It's something that has been with me since I was a child.
 * Time Inc. "8 Questions With Gillian Anderson" (December 21, 2015)

 * I like women a lot and I champion them. I tell people when they are beautiful, I tell other actresses when I think their work is amazing... So I think women feel relatively comfortable in my presence. Also, because I'm not perfect, you know? I've got flabby thighs, I'm aging and I'm 5ft 3in. I talk about my failing in contemporary society in terms of gyms or food or whatever. I think there's a polite appreciation that I'm honest.
 * On being appreciated by women — Net-a-Porter "Gillian Anderson on finding Scully again and her chemistry with David Duchovny" (January 14, 2016)

 * I sometimes don't enjoy it at all, and sometimes it feels like... breath.
 * About acting — Larry King Now "Gillian Anderson on ‘The X-Files’ Reboot, All-White Oscar Noms, & (Not) Kissing Jamie Dornan" (January 15, 2016)

 * Young women have more choices to make today about what to be. One of those choices is activist.
 * Global Goals United Nations (March 23, 2016)

 * I'm damaged in many ways. And yet a lot of what my fight is about is pushing through that to live a meaningful, sane existence and make a difference and play to my strengths.
 * WSJ "Gillian Anderson: Reviving Blanche DuBois in Brooklyn" (April 29, 2016)

A Vision of Fire (2014)

 * All page numbers are from the hardcover first edition, published by Simon & Schuster (Simon 451), ISBN 978-1-4767-7652-1, first printing
 * Co-written with Jeff Rovin

 * I cannot abide red tape. It never strangles bad ideas, only good ones.
 * Chapter 2 (p. 14)

 * “How do you have a child without being terrified all the time?” “Well, that’s the big secret to parenting, Ben,” Caitlin whispered. “You are terrified all the time. You get used to it. It becomes part of the background. Except for the times when it stabs you through the heart.” He gazed at her a moment, then looked down at his menu. “That was probably the worst sales pitch ever for having kids,” he said.
 * Chapter 6 (pp. 49-50)

 * The United States ambassador’s proposal for a demilitarized zone between the nations had been met with derision in India, whose pundits pointed out that Pakistan could not even establish a de-terrorized zone within it own borders.
 * Chapter 8 (p. 65)

 * If irony were clean water, this would be a paradise.
 * Chapter 12 (p. 95)

 * “Do you think I am ill? Mentally?” “Not at all. I believe you had a reaction to something—” “Like an allergy? Peanuts? We don’t have food allergies in Haiti,” she said with disgust. “We cannot afford to.”
 * Chapter 13 (p. 106)

 * Is that the ultimate paradox of life, she wondered, that the universe should become less clear with age?
 * Chapter 15 (p. 121)

 * Every fictional character is based on someone. My English teacher told us that.
 * Chapter 22 (p. 180)

 * But “everyone knew” were words of death in scientific research.
 * Chapter 24 (p. 202)

A Dream of Ice (2015)

 * All page numbers are from the hardcover first edition, published by Simon & Schuster (Simon 451), ISBN 978-1-4767-7655-2, first printing
 * Co-written with Jeff Rovin

 * Predawn has always been undervalued as a witching hour, she thought. Midnight, in prose and poem, had gotten all the glory. At this hour, though, people had to gather their lonely, enervated willpower and make the first choices of the day. For that you needed raw courage.
 * Chapter 1 (p. 3)

 * The universe doesn’t editorialize.
 * Chapter 1 (p. 4)

 * Familiarity helped to construct subterfuge.
 * Chapter 8 (p. 86)

 * “So,” Adrienne said. “You’re one of those.” “One of what?” Flora said, not turning her head. “One of those people who has a single success and takes that as a mandate to do anything you want.”
 * Chapter 16 (p. 175)

 * “I thought we had the conversation about my being uninterested in your opinions,” Flora said.
 * Chapter 16 (p. 175)

 * Flora chose that moment to selectively not hear.
 * Chapter 16 (p. 177)

 * “Dr. Davies, why are you obsessed with these?” “A scholar’s interest in the inexplicable.” “No,” Adrienne said. “A scholar would be publishing articles about these in journals, and asking every scientist and researcher she could contact for help with studying them.” Flora ignored her. “You’re keeping secrets,” Adrienne said. Again, she made no reply.
 * Chapter 16 (p. 181)

 * An archaeology group that hadn’t publicized one of the greatest finds in the history of the field was probably not to be trusted.
 * Chapter 20 (pp. 218-219)

 * It’s a fair bargain. Some trust, some distrust, in the end win win.
 * Chapter 22 (p. 252)

Quotes about Gillian Anderson

 * Arranged alphabetically by author

 * She's a beautiful actress and a beautiful person. We bonded in the abandoned mental institution we were filming in together.
 * Lauren Ambrose — TV Insider, The X-Files Episode 5: Just How Real Was Mulder's Magical 'Trip'? (February 15, 2016)

 * I ADORE Gillian. She's smart and strong and fascinating. What a talent.
 * Hayley Atwell — 'Agent Carter' Star Hayley Atwell Conducts Impromptu Twitter AMA, Says She Wants To Be In 'Doctor Who' (August 14, 2015)

 * Gillian Anderson is greatest actress of her generation.
 * Roseanne Barr — Roseanne Barr's official Twitter (May 28, 2015)

 * Every time Gillian Anderson appears on the television, my wife looks at me like I'm mentally cheating on her.
 * Susan Calman, on her admiration for Anderson — Diva "The Second Mrs Calman" (July, 2015)

 * She arrived as a surprise guest, and was charming and funny and utterly wonderful. On seeing her, I was as cool as you might expect, if by being cool means standing at the sides of the stage, unable to move my limbs in her direction. The many nights I'd spent with Agent Scully in my 20s, imaging our imaginary life together, left me flushed and embarrassment.
 * Susan Calman, on meeting Anderson on a comedy show for Comic Relief — Diva "The Second Mrs Calman" (July, 2015)

 * She has become like a proper feminist icon. There are so many straight women having girl crushes. You're turning Britain lezzy!
 * Alan Carr, on Anderson and her character in The Fall, Stella Gibson — "Alan Carr: Chatty Man #13.10" (November 14, 2014)

 * I had to fight for Gillian. Not because of her youth or relative inexperience, but because she didn't fit the network's or the studio's idea of the prime-time tootsie. She didn't have the usual assets they thought of in a TV man-woman relationship.
 * Chris Carter, on the casting of Anderson in The X-Files — reported in Justine Elias, The New York Times (October 1, 1996) "Ground Zero To 'X-Files' - Anderson Makes Rapid Rise To Become FOX Hit's 'It' Girl", Daily News of Los Angeles, p. L3.

 * Gillian Anderson is one of a kind. She's lovely. She's a fantastic mother. A steadfast friend. More beautiful today than she's ever been. And a natural actor who was born to her art.
 * Chris Carter — Reddit, "I am Chris Carter, creator of The X-Files, Millennium, The Lone Gunmen, Harsh Realm, and The After. AMA!" (February 27, 2014)

 * I gaze at her perfect skin, unable to suspend my disbelief. One of the more unnerving things about Anderson is that no photographer has ever done her justice; in the flesh, she is 10 times more exquisite than on the page – today, as I now point out, being no exception.
 * Rachel Cooke "Gillian Anderson: 'Nothing is lacking in my life. I don't sit on bar stools, pining'" The Observer (London, January 3, 2016)

 * One of the reasons why I thought she is the best actress of her generation is because she is incredibly focused, understated, truthful, detailed, intelligent, with an underpinning of emotion that she chooses, for the most part, to keep in check.
 * Allan Cubitt, about Anderson and the similarities between her and her character, Stella Gibson — reported in Kara Howland, TV Goodness "The Fall’s Gillian Anderson, Jamie Dornan and EP/Creator Allan Cubitt Talk Character, Season 2 and Beyond" (January 14, 2015)

 * I didn't want her to look kind of perfect, but one of the things about Gillian is that she always kind of looks stunning, just because she's got such an interesting face. There's such an intelligence going on in her acting, I think, your eye is drawn to her.
 * Allan Cubitt – creator of The Fall – on Anderson and her portrayal of DSI Stella Gibson — reported in Mandi Bierly, Yahoo! "'The Fall' Postmortem: Creator Allan Cubitt's Deep Dive Into Season 2" (February 18, 2015)

 * My secret crush of a famous person that people will actually have heard of? I'm quite conventional. I really love Gillian Anderson. Like, ever since she was Scully and I wasn't even out then. It always surprised me but now I know. I love Gillian Anderson. I like red heads so I quite like Susan Sarandon and Helen Mirren. But Gillian Anderson -- totally, totally love that.
 * Ruth Davidson — "Who is Ruth Davidson's secret crush? (Hint: It's not Murdo Fraser)" (May 2, 2016)

 * I think she's got a wonderful stillness in her performances, so that she never seems to be acting particularly. She just brought a terrific sense of tragedy to this part, a woman who has spent her life being so contained, with almost no ability to express herself.
 * Andrew Davies, on Anderson's performance as Lady Dedlock in PBS' Bleak House — reported in Bridget Byrne, Associated Press (January 22, 2006) "Gillian Anderson Finds Nothing Alien About Playing British In 'Bleak House'", The Press of Atlantic City, p. H6.

 * She's so remarkable. She's not one of those actors who just does her usual thing every time. She's completely different in everything she does – she even has a different voice in every role.
 * Andrew Davies, on Anderson and her various performances — BBC, "War and Peace – Press Pack" (December 4, 2015)

 * I was looking for someone who had that kind of period look; I wanted the film to look like Singer Sargent portraits and I saw her extraordinary face and that kind of luminosity that one associated with Greer Garson in the late 40s. I just thought... she'll never meet me; she'll never say yes.
 * Terence Davies – director of The House of Mirth — The Guardian "An old-fashioned Gill" (June 11, 1999)

 * She's a fantastic amazing actress. That’s so evident in her work; in everything she has done – I think especially in The Fall, but she's so fun as well... For my money, she's really sweet and funny and easy and has really giggly childish side to her that comes out often on set. She's great and I can't say enough of good things about her. She's brilliant.
 * Jamie Dornan — Gold Derby, "Jamie Dornan says playing a killer in The Fall 'is tough, but I love it'" (May 28, 2015)

 * I think she gets better and better and she's more and more beautiful every year. And she's just... she's a dream.
 * Jamie Dornan — SAG-AFTRA Foundation, "Conversations with Jamie Dornan of THE FALL" (November 4, 2016)

 * ...Gillian Anderson, the best co-star anybody could have.
 * David Duchovny, during The 54th Golden Globe Awards (January 19, 1997)

 * Gillian has beautiful eyes. Her eyes anchor me to the scene. They're big and they're blue and they're wet.
 * David Duchovny — reported in Joel Achenbach Allure "Planet Hollywood Harriet Winslow" (December, 1997)

 * Gillian's a really hard working actress. I can tell you that much. A lot of times when I give up on a scene, she stays in there. She never doesn't try to do it as well as she can. That can be pretty inspiring. And infuriating.
 * David Duchovny — reported in Cindy Pearlman (November 8, 1998) "X-Files - The Truth Is Out There", Post-Tribune, p. D1.

 * Gillian is every bit as hot, and hotter. It's somewhat shocking.
 * David Duchovny — Reddit, "Gillian Anderson here. I've brought David Duchovny with me. Ask us anything, we'll answer almost everything." (October 12, 2013)

 * There's a recognition, an animal recognition, of meeting your match. Stanley is not going to give up and neither is Blanche. That’s what’s exciting about what Gillian has done is empower Blanche. Her performance is very strong – she's a warrior – a glamorous warrior.
 * Ben Foster, on Anderson's portrayal of Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire — Young Vic "Inside: A Streetcar Named Desire p. 56" (September 2, 2014)

 * [She's] one the of the most elegant and savage performers I've worked with. We're boxing each other off the stage every night, with love.
 * Ben Foster, on Anderson's portrayal of Blanche — The New York Times, "Foster Brings His Beast Mode to 'A Streetcar Named Desire'" (April 29, 2016)

 * There is such a clever quality to Gillian's performance where she's balancing so much in terms of tone that she goes from these very serious pontificating scenes about the nature of what they’re doing to virtually a broader comedy of sorts.
 * Bryan Fuller — reported in Jonathan Hatfull, SciFiNow "Hannibal Season 3 is James Bond and Hammer Horror" (June 3, 2015)

 * What self-respecting gay man doesn't want to be Gillian Anderson?
 * Bryan Fuller — Bryan Fuller's official Twitter (June 4, 2015)

 * I think that’s the fun of playing with such an iconic actress like Gillian Anderson who really expands to fill the vessel of whatever role she’s inhabiting. Working with her has been such a joy: A, I love her as a human being and find her to be such a bright spark of light, and B, it’s a ball to throw some absolutely ridiculous dialogue her way and see how it spins off the edge of her bat. If you are watching the show and you see a particularly bloated piece of dialogue, chances are it’s a direct quote from one of the Thomas Harris books that I’ve fetishized over in the process of making the show, and there are some doozies where I'm like, 'this is such a great line — I want to make it dialogue but it’s so over the top... I’ll give it to Gillian!' So that’s a joy.
 * Bryan Fuller, on Anderson and her portrayal of Dr. Bedelia Du Maurier on Hannibal — reported in Laura Prudom, Variety "'Hannibal' Showrunner Bryan Fuller Says Season 3 is the 'Series I've Always Wanted To Make'" (June 4, 2015)

 * Just saw Gillian Anderson in A Streetcar Named Desire at St Ann's warehouse. She was remarkable, powerful, funny, tragic.
 * Neil Gaiman — Neil Gaiman's Official Twitter (May 11, 2016)

 * I mean I was OBSESSED with The X-Files and I wanted to marry... She was the one person who I was like, 'We're gonna get married. One of these days, she and I will finally meet and this will finally happen.' So last night I was just sitting next to her like, [whispers] 'It's Gillian Anderson, oh my God.' I don't even know what I said or how I answered the questions; I was just looking at her like, 'She's so beautiful.'
 * Dave Grohl, on his infatuation with Anderson and meeting her on The One Show — Music-News.com "Dave Grohl wanted X-Files wedding" (November 13, 2014)

 * Just finished watching the utterly compelling series The Fall on Netflix. What an amazing and beautiful actress. That's Gillian Anderson of course. I knew she was amazing when she was in Bleak House, but she gets better and better.
 * Eric Idle — Eric Idle's official Twitter - part 1 Eric Idle's official Twitter - part 2 (March 31, 2015)

 * G-Money, as I call her.
 * Mindy Kaling — 21 Moments from Mindy Kaling's AMA That Prove She's the Best Friend You've Always Wanted (November 11, 2015)

 * Who wouldn't be infatuated by Gillian Anderson?! Gillian Anderson could play a rabbit and I would be totally be infatuated by her.
 * Sir Ben Kingsley — InterviewSTUFF, "Sir Ben Kingsley: Robot Overlords Interview" (March 19, 2015)

 * You are our most censored guest ever... But it was my fault; I asked you what was your favorite curse word and you continued to use it like 48 times.
 * Jay Leno, during The Tonight Show — "Gillian Anderson on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno - part 1" (July 22, 2013)

 * I thought Gillian Anderson was amazing in The House of Mirth, also adapted from a Wharton novel. She should certainly have been nominated for an Oscar. Will you put that in, please? Every now and then I think there is huge injustice in our business.
 * Miriam Margolyes — reported in Liz Hoggard, The Independent (November 23, 2002)

 * I'm in awe of Gillian's work of late, all of the stuff that she’s done. Oh my god, The Fall, she’s amazing in that! It's just always great to see a great actor, so that's exciting right there. And Duchovny is everybody’s favorite puppy dog.
 * Michael McKean — reported in Anna Silman, Salon Michael McKean: "'Better Call Saul' is about 'the American escape hatch instead of the American dream'" (April 6, 2015)

 * I knew I was gay when I would stay up and watch Saturday Night Live, put on a wifebeater and lift weights. Also, I'd masturbate to Gillian Anderson in The X-Files... That's when my mom found out.
 * Kate McKinnon — TV.com, "The Big Gay Sketch Show #1.1" (April 24, 2007)

 * Outstanding. Fantastic. She's a stunning living legend.
 * Mads Mikkelsen, when asked what it’s like working with Gillian Anderson — Hannibal NBC official Twitter (February 28, 2014)

 * She's a fantastic wonderful actress and she's an extremely funny person as well. So we had some good fun quality time together.
 * Mads Mikkelsen — reported in Jonathan Hatfull, SciFiNow "Hannibal Season 3 is James Bond and Hammer Horror" (June 3, 2015)

 * I have to say something about Gillian Anderson before we go on. Have you seen her in The Fall? This is just an amazing actress, just an amazing actress. I just have to throw that in there. So she's had to sort of transcend Scully, I think, and she has.
 * Kate Mulgrew — Nerdette Podcast, "Kate Mulgrew, from Star Trek captain to kitchen overlord" (May 7, 2015)

 * Being with Gillian was like going to a surprise party. Gillian had an eight-line part in a French farce but turned it into a star role just by the attitude she brought to it. She has an incandescence.
 * Ric Murphy, Anderson's former teacher at the DePaul University's Goodman Theater School — reported in Tom Gliatto People "X-Ellence" (October 09, 1995)

 * Honestly, Gillian Anderson as the next James Bond would be the greatest thing of all time.
 * Kumail Nanjiani — Kumail Nanjiani's official Twitter (May 23, 2016)

 * "You've got to go for it, and once she had her confidence, it was as though there was nothing she could not do. To this day, she is one of the most remarkable performers I have had the privilege of working with, and I would work with her again in a second."
 * David Nutter — The Vancouver Sun (April. 1998)

 * Gillian's a lot of fun, very intelligent, has great ideas and creates a lovely atmosphere on set.
 * Archie Panjabi — Digital spy, "Exclusive: Archie Panjabi confirms she won't be appearing in The Fall's third series - but can't wait to watch it" (June 8, 2016)

 * Just like Mitch Pileggi, I too had a crush on you.
 * Robert Patrick, confessing his infatuation with Anderson — FlipOn.TV, "Calgary Expo 2013: X-Files" (April 28, 2013)

 * Skinner had a huge, huge, huge crush on Scully and that's why he was so pissed off at Mulder all the time, because he knew he didn’t have a chance and it was always there. And it was so easy; just looking at you. Because I had a crush on you! I ended up marrying her photo-double, so here you go. That's all I'm going to say about that.
 * Mitch Pileggi, confessing his infatuation with Anderson — FlipOn.TV, "Calgary Expo 2013: X-Files" (April 28, 2013)

 * When I did The X-Files I didn't have a lot to do with her, except when I was lying there dead. But she was so sweet; she welcomed me to the set, she thanked me for being a part of the show. An Amazing woman. I think she also broke boundaries, because on television she wasn’t this tall statuesque blonde that you would expected that the network would cast. They cast this really interesting, beautiful, nonetheless but interesting, intelligent woman. And I think she changed the way people perceived women on television, because she broke the mold. She wasn't what you expected and she ended being probably one of the most beautiful. So I have huge admiration for her.
 * Amanda Tapping — "Amanda Tapping about Gillian Anderson" (2010)

 * I was very lucky to see the brilliant Gillian Anderson as Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire at the Young Vic in London the other night. She is just exceptional... what a power house.
 * KT Tunstall — KT Tunstall's official Facebook page (September 11, 2014)

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Pamela Anderson

Pamela "Pam" Denise Anderson (born 1 July 1967) is a Canadian television actress, model, and producer.

Quotes

 * Sexuality is an expression of our spirituality. Sex makes you get real.
 * Playboy, July 1992.

 * I love doing what I do, but I don't like seeing the finished product.

 * When I did TV shows and movies, the studios did demographic research. They were shocked to find that my audience isn't just men who are too drunk to turn off the TV after football. It's women, too. I don't know exactly why, other than that I've tried to remain true to myself for all these years. I have gone through a lot, and I've been open about it. Maybe they look at me and can see how you can grow up, have children, continue to be sexy, get married and divorced and, though you grew up poor, live the American dream. I'm very blessed. I'm happy for it all.
 * Playboy, May 2004.

 * I thought of a great way to celebrate my Finnish heritage at home. I'm going to look into opening a chain of strip clubs, and I'll call them Lapland!!!
 * The London Paper, Wednesday 27 June 2007, p. 21.

 * What's going on outside? It was really nice - all the fans out there with big signs.
 * The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, January 8, 2008, referring to the writers strike picket line outside the studio.

 * My breasts have had a brilliant career. I've just tagged along for the ride.
 * .

About Anderson

 * [The "decade" reference is to the 1990s] In case anyone is still on the fence about how toxic it was for women in the public eye in that decade, Anderson’s story lays it bare. Here’s an early exchange between young Anderson and an interviewer on NBC: "I’ve never sat across from an interview subject before and said, 'May we talk briefly about your breasts?'" Here's Larry King: "Have you ever had work done?" Anderson: "Why, yes, these are implants." King: "Oh, they are?" Anderson laughs: a mix of exasperation and embarrassment. King, aggressive: "Are they, or aren’t they?" Anderson, sighing: "Yes, they are."
 * Try as I might – in person and follow-up emails – I cannot get Anderson to condemn Hugh Hefner as a dirty old pervert: one who played a founding role in the industrialisation of "glamour" model exploitation. Anderson is loyal to a fault. She views Playboy as an academy of sorts.
 * From an interview by Charlotte Edwardes in "'If I’d had a therapist, do you think any of this would have happened?': Pamela Anderson on being chewed up and spat out by fame" The Guardian (21 January 2023)

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 * Sorry, I took another look and noticed you deleted a dupe. I changed back to your version. Thanks again, and I apologise for troubling you. ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 04:41, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

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Pierre Bourgault

Pierre Bourgault (January 23, 1934 - June 15, 2003) was a politician and essayist in Quebec, Canada, and a public speaker who advocated Quebec independence.

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 * Not a single one, not a single one among us, in 200 years, has won a battle... and this is what it is to be colonized! When we have but martyrs! How can we have aspirations!? How can we have the will to fight!?
 * Rassemblement pour l'indépendance nationale speech.

 * Homogenization sterilizes. It's the sum of cultures and languages that makes humanity
 * L'homogénéisation stérilise. C'est la somme des cultures et des langues qui fait l'humanité.
 * La Culture. Écrits polémiques. Lanctôt Éditeur, 1996 p.130, tome 2

 * If, as is believed by many Canadians, Canada can not exist without Quebec, then it simply does not deserve to exist.
 * ''Si, comme le croient plusieurs Canadiens, le Canada ne peut exister sans le Québec, alors il ne mérite tout simplement pas d'exister.
 * La Colère. Écrits polémiques. Lanctôt Éditeur, 1996 p.257, tome 3

 * It is almost normal to be racist, but it is criminal to remain one.
 * ''Il est presque normal d'être raciste, mais il est criminel de le demeurer.
 * La Culture. Écrits polémiques. Lanctôt Éditeur, 1996 p.297, tome 2

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Category talk:Royalty

From the former "Category talk:Royals") Wouldn't ("Royal") that be better named "Royalty"? ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 10:05, 10 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Or "Royal people". Anyway it makes much more a sense than this. --Aphaia 10:10, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

 * 1. A person of royal rank or lineage.
 * 2. Monarchs and their families considered as a group.
 * These are the definitions of Royalty. Can you move it please? ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 10:13, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

I modified your proposal a bit; make the noun plural. --Aphaia 10:18, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

 * "Royalty" is a group noun (same for plural and singular)..."royalties" is money one gets from licensing. I think "Royalty" is better. ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 10:19, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

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Persons of royal rank or lineage: royal consorts, both female and male, princes and princesses.

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Penny Lernoux

Penny Lernoux (January 6, 1940 – October 9, 1989) was an American journalist for National Catholic Reporter and The Nation.

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 * Although the mass of the people accepted the white man's God, either under physical duress or because he seemed more powerful than their own Gods, they never assimilated the ideas of Christianity.
 * Cry of The People (1977).

 * And many of the people who buy or found banks have had no experience in banking at all. If they can learn it, so can we.
 * In Banks We Trust (1984).

 * In contrast, traditional Catholic churches serve vast numbers of people who have little or nothing in common, and they are often impersonal supermarkets for the sacraments.
 * The Fundamentalist Surge in Latin America; The Christian Century, January 20, 1988; p. 51.

 * At stake are two different visions of faith, the Church of Caesar, powerful and rich; and the Church of Christ - loving, poor and spiritually rich.
 * People of God (1989).

 * Opus Dei is an efficient machine run to achieve world power.
 * People of God (1989).

 * And the Third World will continue to beckon to the First, reminding it of the Galilean vision of Christian solidarity.
 * People of God (1989).

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John Paton Davies, Jr.

John P. Davies (6 April 1908 – 23 December 1999) was an American diplomat and Medal of Freedom recipient. He was one of the China Hands whose careers in the Foreign Service were destroyed by McCarthyism.

Quotes

 * I recommended that we establish contact with [the Chinese communists]. We had established contact through a military mission there but that we did not ... we should not withdraw recognition from Chiang Kai-shek at that time, but we should recognize the inevitability of the loss, Chiang's loss to Mao, and that therefore we should, establish relations of the type that I described that we had with warlords, with the communists, and that we have, say, a consulate there, so that there was a political contact in addition to the military. That, of course, did not go down.
 * Source: interview

Quotes about John P. Davies

 * I have known a great number of men.... I have known none who seemed more the whole man, none more finished a civilized product in all a man should be – in modesty and thoughtfulness, in resourcefulness and steady strength of character.
 * Eric Sevareid, speaking of Davies. source

 * The crime he did commit was that of practical, complicated, and nuanced thought. Though an ardent anti-communist, he also knew that Chiang's regime was bankrupt and that eventually America would have to deal with Mao if it wanted power over him.
 * Roger Rosenblatt. source

 * Going back to Davies, at the time after the war that Davies was a member of the policy staff of the State Department, he had advised (this was under Dulles), that certain actions be taken, certain policies be pursued, which seemed alien to the simon-pure Communist haters.
 * Ralph Block. source

 * ... for Davies and Service, it was the end of two brilliant careers. For the country they served, it would have even darker implications because they were the best of an era, and the Foreign Service does not produce that many men of rare excellence.
 * David Halberstam, The Best and the Brightest source

 * [Davies] was one of the finest observers of oriental countries that we ever had.
 * George F. Kennan. source

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User talk:Tualha

--Aphaia 13:29, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Hi, thanks for the welcome. (I probably won't be around much, I mostly work on WP.) Cheers, Tualha 21:49, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

I have reformatted John P. Davies. Please take a look at it, and thanks for your work on the article. ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 13:31, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:Rainer Maria Rilke

"The only journey is the one within" is commonly attributed to Rilke. Did he write or say any such thing?

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 * No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
 * 'Letter To His Wife'.
 * I found a not-very-close-match, which conceivably could be an alternate translation from what I presume to be the original German, in a letter to Clara, his wife, dated 24 June 1907:
 * "Works of art are indeed always products of having-been-in-danger, of having-gone-to-the-very-end in an experience, to where no man can go further." This is from letter #157 in Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, Vol I (1892–1910), p. 185, published in 1945 and translated by Jane Bannard Greene and M. D. Herter Norton.
 * Here is a fuller context: "Works of art are indeed always products of having-been-in-danger, of having-gone-to-the-very-end in an experience, to where no man can go further. The further one goes, the more one's own, the more personal, the more unique an experience becomes, and the work of art, finally, is the necessary, irrepressible, most valid possible expression of this uniqueness....  Herein lies the tremendous help of the work of art for the life of the person who must make it: that it is his rallying of strength; the knot in the rosary at which his life speaks a prayer, the ever-recurrent proof of his unity and trueness, but directed only toward himself and to the outer world working anonymously, unnamed, as necessity only, as reality, existence." --Hughh (talk) 02:14, 8 June 2017 (UTC)

Original German unknown

 * When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise and imposes a rhythm upon everything in me that is bewildered and confused.
 * 'To Clara Rilke' (Hotel Florence, Viareggio presso Pisa; March 27, 1903) from letter #42 in Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, Vol I (1892–1910), p. 94, published in 1945 and translated by Jane Bannard Greene and M. D. Herter Norton.
 * Quoted in Elementary episode Nobody Lives Forever (season 06, episode 09).

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Talk:Rita Rudner

"Have children" quote
"Have children while your parents are still young enough to take care of them." is commonly attributed to Rudner. Seems her style. Is it hers? (Added by User:203.51.102.143)
 * In the "Rita Rudner" TV show of the 90s, 2nd episode, she says: "I know I want to have children while my parents are still young enough to take care of them". 85.75.0.207 16:40, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Cereal/puppy chow quote
I've removed the following unsourced quote:

 * Once I finally had children I thought I was doing such a great job. Then one morning I looked down at the dog bowl on the floor to see it full of my two-year-old son’s cereal, milk, and a spoon. I then looked at the breakfast table to see my son curiously tasting his breakfast. The bad news is the dog almost choked on the spoon. The good news is, now I save a fortune on groceries because I feed my son puppy chow.

I do so because it is apparently being used to claim plagiarism by another author, as quoted at KarenQuinn.net: "Kibbles and Kids". Although it does sound like something Rita Rudner might have said, a preliminary search on the web revealed nothing resembling anything like this even attributed to Rudner, let alone properly sourced. I plan to check some books and DVDs to see if I can find it. (Okay, so it's also an excuse to indulge in some comedy entertainment, too. Who said Wikiquote has to be all work? ☺) In the meantime, it would help if the editor who added this could cite a reliable source for the quote, if they have one. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 18:48, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

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 * According to a new survey, women say they feel more comfortable undressing in front of men than they do undressing in front of other women. They say that women are too judgmental, where, of course, men are just grateful.

 * Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love...I'd stepped in it a few times. [HBO: "Born to be Mild"]

 * I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine.

 * I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

 * I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.

 * I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso.

 * I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.

 * [about her talk show] I'm just like Dr. Phil, except I have hair and I don't help anybody.

 * In Hollywood, a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk. [HBO: "Born to be Mild"]

 * Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke?

 * Money is the root of all jewelry.

 * Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.

 * My boyfriend and I broke up. He wanted to get married and I didn't want him to.

 * My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head. [HBO: "Born to be Mild"]

 * My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.

 * Never play peekaboo with a child on a long plane trip. There's no end to the game. Finally I grabbed him by the bib and said, "Look, it's always gonna be me!"

 * [advice to a woman who can't decide between 2 men] Remember, Humphrey Bogart was not the first choice for Casablanca; Ronald Reagan was. So maybe if Ronnie had taken the part, Humprey Bogart could have been president. And maybe if you date this guy, you could be president too!

 * Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

 * The first thing that hits on you in New York is the driver of an unlicenced taxicab.

 * When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always.

 * When I meet a man I ask myself, 'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'
 * Variant: Whenever I date a guy [in Hollywood], I think, "Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?" [HBO: "Born to be Mild"]

 * When I was a kid I had two friends, and they were imaginary, and they would only play with each other. [HBO: "Born to be Mild"]

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Eric Shipton

Eric Shipton (1 August 1907 – 28 March 1977) was an English Himalayan explorer and climber.

Quotes

 * He is lucky who, in the full tide of life, has experienced a measure of the active environment he most desires. In these days of upheaval and violent change, when the basic values of to-day are the vain and shattered dreams of to-morrow, there is much to be said for a philosophy which aims at living a full life while the opportunity offers. There are few treasures of more lasting worth than the experience of a way of life that is in itself wholly satisfying. Such, after all, are the only possessions of which no fate, no cosmic catastrophe can deprive us; nothing can alter the fact if for one moment in eternity we have really lived.
 * Shipton, in Upon That Mountain, 1943
 * Only an easy scramble remained and we were there, on the hitherto untrodden summit of Nelion.
 * Eric Shipton made the first ascent of Nelion and the second ascent of Batian in 1929.
 * ...and I longed to return to the peak to explore some of the many ridges and faces which as yet had never been attempted. I now realise how lucky I was to have had this extraordinary peak virtually to myself;...
 * ...and I longed to return to the peak to explore some of the many ridges and faces which as yet had never been attempted. I now realise how lucky I was to have had this extraordinary peak virtually to myself;...
 * Few mountains have such a superb array of ridges and faces.
 * After that I was infused with a pleasant sense of abandon. Our rope was not long enough for us to abseil down the red step, and the idea of climbing down it without support from above was not to be contemplated; therefore we just had to reach the summit.
 * Shipton was climbing with the novice Bill Tillman on the first ascent of the difficult West Ridge Route up Batian.
 * Shipton was climbing with the novice Bill Tillman on the first ascent of the difficult West Ridge Route up Batian.
 * Shipton was climbing with the novice Bill Tillman on the first ascent of the difficult West Ridge Route up Batian.

About Eric Shipton

 * (To Eric Shipton) who had contributed a great deal to the achievement.
 * John Hunt toasting Shipton at Everest Base Camp in 1953.

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Jackie Robinson

Jack Roosevelt Robinson (31 January 1919 – 24 October 1972) was an American professional baseball player who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the modern era. Robinson broke the baseball color line when he started at first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947. When the Dodgers signed Robinson, they heralded the end of racial segregation in professional baseball that had relegated black players to the Negro leagues since the 1880s.

During his 10-year MLB career, Robinson won the inaugural Rookie of the Year Award in 1947, was an All-Star for six consecutive seasons from 1949 through 1954, and won the National League Most Valuable Player Award in 1949—the first black player so honored. Robinson played in six World Series and contributed to the Dodgers' 1955 World Series championship.

Quotes

 * The kid was great. He was the difference. The Yankees certainly didn't miss Joe DiMaggio out there in center field today—and won't as long as that guy's around.
 * On Mickey Mantle's role in the then just-concluded, as quoted in "Mantle Follows Ruth, DiMaggio; Dodgers Agree—Mickey Beat Them" by Oscar Fraley (UP), The Pittsburgh Press (October 8, 1952)

 * I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me. All I ask is that you respect me as a human being. I am not ashamed of my dark skin. You and every other white American should understand that we believe our color is an asset. Your dislike of my aggressiveness has no effect on me. I'm after something much more important than your favor or disfavor. You should at least respect me as a man who stands up for what he believes in. I am not an . I am in this fight to stay.
 * Responding, circa 1954, to an umpire who had known him 8 years before, and, somewhat taken aback at finding his old acquaintance much less ready to turn the other cheek, said "I liked you much better when you were less aggressive"; as quoted in Baseball Has Done It (1964) by Robinson, pp. 9-10

 * The role of the manager is overrated, anyhow. Look at Stengel. When he was with the Yankees, loaded with material, he was a winner. When he moved over to the Mets, he finished last. They voted Casey the greatest living manager. That's a lot of bull—a joke. The only thing a manager has to do is relate to the players. Who did Casey ever relate to? Nobody but himself.
 * As quoted in "Jackie Robinson Calls Stengel Overrated Pilot: Attacks Managerial Color Line On Clinic Faculty Discrimination Alleged" by the Associated Press, in The Washington Post (October 25, 1969)

 * A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
 * I Never Had It Made (1972) by Robinson, as told to Alfred Duckett; excerpted in "Why 'I Never Had It Made': Jackie Robinson's Own Story," Newsday (November 5, 1972)
 * I cannot stand and sing the anthem. I cannot salute the flag. I know that I am a black man in a white world.
 * I Never Had It Made (1972) by Robinson, as told to Alfred Duckett; excerpted in "Why 'I Never Had It Made': Jackie Robinson's Own Story," Newsday (November 5, 1972)

 * My dear Mr. President: I was sitting in the audience at the Summit Meeting of Negro Leaders yesterday when you said we must have patience. On hearing you say this, I felt like standing up and saying, "Oh no! Not again. " I respectfully remind you sir, that we have been the most patient of all people. When you said we must have self-respect, I wondered how we could have self-respect and remain patient considering the treatment accorded us through the years. 17 million Negroes cannot do as you suggest and wait for the hearts of men to change. We want to enjoy now the rights that we feel we are entitled to as Americans. This we cannot do unless we pursue aggressively goals which all other Americans achieved over 150 years ago. As the chief executive of our nation, I respectfully suggest that you unwittingly crush the spirit of freedom in Negroes by constantly urging forbearance and give hope to those pro-segregation leaders like Governor Faubus who would take from us even those freedoms we now enjoy. Your own experience with Governor Faubus is proof enough that forbearance and not eventual integration is the goal the pro-segregation leaders seek. In my view, an unequivocal statement backed up by action such as you demonstrated you could take last fall in dealing with Governor Faubus if it became necessary, would let it be known that America is determined to provide -- in the near future for Negroes -- the freedoms we are entitled to under the constitution, Respectfully yours, Jackie Robinson
 * May 13 1958 to Dwight D. Eisenhower, anthologized in Letters of Note edited by Shaun Usher (2013)

Quotes about Robinson

 * This is a particularly good year to campaign against the evils of bigotry, prejudice, and race hatred because we have witnessed the defeat of enemies who tried to found a mastery of the world upon such cruel and fallacious policy.
 * On the coming arrival of Jackie Robinson into the minor leagues, in "Brotherhood Week" in The New York Times (17 February 1988)

 * I do not care if the guy is yellow or black, or if he has stripes like a zebra. I'm the manager of this team, and I say he plays. What's more, I say he can make us all rich. And if any of you cannot use the money, I will see that you are all traded.
 * Leo Durocher, as quoted in Out of the Shadows : African American Baseball from the Cuban Giants to Jackie Robinson (2005) by Morgan Freedmon

 * Today we must balance the tears of sorrow with the tears of joy. Mix the bitter with the sweet in death and life. Jackie as a figure in history was a rock in the water, creating concentric circles and ripples of new possibility. He was medicine. He was immunized by God from catching the diseases that he fought. The Lord's arms of protection enabled him to go through dangers seen and unseen, and he had the capacity to wear glory with grace. Jackie's body was a temple of God. An instrument of peace. We would watch him disappear into nothingness and stand back as spectators, and watch the suffering from afar. The mercy of God intercepted this process Tuesday and permitted him to steal away home, where referees are out of place, and only the supreme judge of the universe speaks...Jackie, as a figure in history, was a rock in the water, hitting concentric circles and ripples of new possibility...He didn't integrate baseball for himself. He infiltrated baseball for all of us, seeking and looking for more oxygen for black survival, and looking for new possibility. His feet on the baseball diamond made it more than a sport, a narrative of achievement more than a game. For many of us ... it was a gift of new expectations...He helped us to ascend from misery, to hope, on the muscles of his arms and the meaning of his life.
 * Jackie Robinson's eulogy delivered by Jesse Jackson, http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/p_robij5.shtml, full version anthologized in Remembrances and Celebrations edited by Jill Werman Harris (2000)

 * When things look dark, void, and altogether hopeless to the colored youth of America..., when they need an inspiring thought that should urge them onward to the road of achievement despite forbidding obstacles, they will only need to read of and reflect upon the remarkable career of Jackie Robinson.
 * From the Kansas City Call, http://www.nyyfans.com/article.php?sid=746, quoted in Ken Burns' 1994 documentary Baseball

 * You can hate a man for many reasons, his color isn't one of them.
 * (1947) Jackie Robinson's fellow Dodger and friend, on being asked by reporters why he openly put his arm around Robinson's shoulder when Robinson was viciously heckled by fans (whether this happened at all has been disputed; the where and the when of the event are impossible to know anymore), http://espn.go.com/blog/playbook/fandom/post/_/id/20917/did-reese-really-embrace-robinson-in-47

 * For me as a kid, growing up minutes from Ebbets Field, the Dodgers weren't a team-they were a way of life. Gil Hodges, Pee Wee Reese, Don Newcombe, Duke Snider, and Jackie Robinson were not only our heroes; they were part of our family.
 * Bernie Sanders, Where We Go from Here (2018)

 * Jackie Robinson is the best I've seen. Robinson is the perfect blend of ball player. He has creativeness [sic] and imagination. Every move he makes from the minute he steps onto the field is designed to beat the other club. He's constantly asking himself, at bat or on the bases, "what can I do to beat the other guy?" That's the kind of ball player that wins pennants.
 * , as quoted by in "Dumb Ball Players Don't Win; Robinson Perfect, Says Czar," Asbury Park Evening Press (July 3, 1955)

 * I didn't know baseball from ping pong. But the point was that he had broken in. I grew inches that day. I puffed out my chest.
 * Desmond Tutu, recalling the moment when, as a young boy, he picked up a copy of Ebony and learned that Robinson had broken baseball's color line; as quoted in "Desmond Mpilo Tutu: Life for South Africa," The Philadelphia Tribune (17 January 1986)

 * No other player on this club with the possible exception of Bruce Edwards has done more to put the Dodgers up in the race than Robinson has. He is everything Branch Rickey said he was when he came up from Montreal.
 * Robinson's teammate, as quoted in "Dixie Lauds Jackie", The Daily Worker (September 16, 1947). Walker had originally asked Branch Rickey to be traded, upon hearing in spring that Robinson was going to be brought up to the Major Leagues for the 1947 season.

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The Bourne Identity (2002 film)

The Bourne Identity is a 2002 film starring Matt Damon about an amnesia victim discovering clues to his identity that seem to indicate he is an assassin.

 * Directed by Doug Liman. Screenplay by Tony Gilroy and William Blake Herron. Based on the novel by Robert Ludlum.

Matt Damon is Jason Bourne

Jason Bourne

 * I can tell you the license plate numbers of all six cars outside. I can tell you that our waitress is left-handed and the guy sitting up at the counter weighs two hundred and fifteen pounds and knows how to handle himself. I know the best place to look for a gun is the cab of the gray truck outside, and at this altitude, I can run flat out for a half mile before my hands start shaking. Now why would I know that? How can I know that and not know who I am?
 * I swear to God, if I even feel somebody behind me, there is no measure to how fast and how hard I will bring this fight to your doorstep!
 * to Conklin
 * No it's not coming back goddammit that's the point! I've been going through all of this... all of this shit for two days.

Marie Kreutz

 * (Jason is repeatedly pressing the buzzer for his apartment) I guess you're not home.
 * Nobody does the right thing.
 * You have ID? (to Bourne at end of film)

Conklin

 * I don't like her. I want to go deep.
 * I can't help Jason, unless I know what the problem is!
 * You're US government property! You're a malfunctioning thirty million dollar weapon!
 * You chose the boat as the goddamn strike point!

Other

 * Nykwana Wombosi: If you are going to kill me, kill me dead!
 * The Professor: Look at this. Look at what they make you give.

Dialogue

 * Giancarlo [ship's doctor]: What's this? You tied these knots? So it starts to come back, eh?
 * Bourne: No, it doesn't start to come back. The knots, like everything else, I just found the rope and I did it. The same way I can, I can read, I can write. I can add, subtract, I can make coffee, I can shuffle cards, I can set up a chessboard.

 * Ward Abbott: I was recalling a conversation we had some time ago, talking about Treadstone. I seem to remember Nykwana Wombosi's name might have come up.
 * Conklin: I'm not sure what we're talking about.
 * Abbott: Someone tried to take him out. Tried, and failed. Was this Treadstone?
 * Conklin: You're asking me a direct question?
 * Abbott: Yes.
 * Conklin: I thought you were never gonna do that.
 * Abbott: What happened?
 * Conklin: Well…we, uh, lost communication with our man.
 * Abbott: This was almost two weeks ago.
 * Conklin: We've been working 'round the clock, the whole unit. We've been sleeping down there. Believe me, we're doing everything we can.
 * Abbott: And you don't let me know this?
 * Conklin: You never wanted to before.
 * Abbott: You never made a mistake before.

 * Marie: With you, you'll probably just forget about me if I stayed here.
 * Bourne: How could I forget about you? You're the only person I know.

 * [during a car chase through the streets of Paris]
 * Bourne: So…
 * Marie: What?
 * Bourne: We've got a bump coming up.
 * [drives their Mini down a flight of stairs]

 * Abbott: Well, so far, you've given me nothing but a trail of collateral damage from Zurich to Paris. I don't think I could do much worse.
 * Conklin: Well, why don't you go upstairs and book a conference room? Maybe you can talk him to death.

 * [last lines; Bourne enters a small shop on a Greek island]
 * Bourne: This your store?
 * Marie: Yeah.
 * Bourne: It's nice. A little hard to find, but...
 * Bourne: Think I can rent a scooter?
 * Marie: You have ID?
 * Bourne: (Bourne smiles) Not really.

Taglines

 * Matt Damon is Jason Bourne
 * He never asked to be Bourne.
 * He was the perfect weapon until he became the target.
 * Bourne to survive
 * On June 14, danger is Bourne.
 * Danger is Bourne.
 * Who Am I?
 * Who is Jason Bourne?

Major cast

 * Matt Damon - Jason Bourne
 * Franka Potente - Marie Kreutz
 * Chris Cooper - Alexander Conklin
 * Brian Cox - Ward Abbott
 * Clive Owen - The Professor
 * Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje - Nykwana Wombosi
 * Gabriel Mann - Danny Zorn
 * Julia Stiles - Nicki Parsons

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User talk:172.208.126.194

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User talk:Warrior-Poet

Thanks for the addition of quotes on O Brother, Where Art Thou?. I have reformatted them to be consistent with the rest of the page. In addition, I have replaced your "cleaned up" version of "g***m" with "goddamn". Part of wikiquote's mission is to contain accurate quotations, and so it uses profanity when the source uses profanity. Thanks ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 03:34, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

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Mulholland Falls

Mulholland Falls (1996) is a noir film, set in the 1940s, about a special team of ruthless Los Angeles police called the "Hat Squad", whose leader finds himself involved in a mysterious death linked to the head of the Atomic Energy Commission.

Max Hoover

 * This isn't America, Jack. This is L.A.

 * [Repeated line to Coolidge.] Is that what your psychiatrist told you?

 * [After beating FBI Special Agent McCafferty senseless…] See? That's federal property. This isn't. This is L.A. This is my town. Out here you're a trespasser. Out here I can pick you up, burn your house, fuck your wife, and kill your dog. And the only thing that'll protect you is if I can't find you. And I already found you.

General Timms

 * You're much more intelligent than you appear to be, Lieutenant. Must be a big advantage in your field. In my field, everyone was always so desperate to seem cleverer than they were.

Dialogue

 * Hoover: Jack Flynn?
 * Jack Flynn: [hands him money] Here ya go buddy, buy yourself a good time. [turning away] They'll let anybody in here.
 * Hoover: [throwing bills down] Mr. Flynn, I'm Maxwell Hoover. I'm with the Los Angeles Police Department.
 * Jack Flynn: Oh, that means I get change back.

 * Hoover: Let me tell ya how it goes, Ellery. Ya meet somebody. Maybe they're a little off-center, but they tell ya the truth, and ya like 'em — ya like 'em for that. And one thing leads to another, and ya end up in bed. Now that's weak, Ellery.
 * Coolidge: Max…
 * Hoover: Now listen to me! Nobody gets hurt. Now, you go home, and you see your wife, and you're feelin' bad. Ya wanna unload it, ya wanna get it off your chest. So you tell 'er. And now she's hurt. Now that's weak, too, Elleroy. But it's also cruel. It's just goddam cruel.
 * [Hoover turns from Coolidge, but turns back again.]
 * Hoover: Take a— here, here's something for ya. Here's something that doesn't cost ya twenty-five bucks an hour. You carry your own water, Ellery. Ya understand? Carry your own water.

 * General Timms: These tiny particles of matter, which are so small that no one's ever seen them - never - they contain enough energy to blow up this house, an entire city, every person on Earth. Now that is inconceivable.
 * Hoover: General, I really don't think much about those things. I'd probably see too much.
 * General Timms: What do you see?
 * Hoover: People dead before their time.
 * General Timms: That's the history of the world, Lieutenant. Some people die before their time so that others can live; it's the cornerstone of civilization, uh… war, religion, democracy… a hundred die so that a thousand may live.
 * Hoover: Well, General, I take 'em one at a time.

 * Hall: What'd Timms have to say?
 * Hoover: He said the cornerstone of civilization was human sacrifice.

 * Coolidge: [trying to thread a projector] Damn it! I can't get my finger in there. It won't fit.
 * Esther: Try your dick.

 * Hoover: How come you got a hot dog in your mouth while you're threading the projector? Why do you eat while you're working? Why do you eat all the time?
 * Coolidge: It's all psychological, Max. I eat so I don't think about food.
 * Hoover: Oh... so you eat so you don't think about food.
 * Coolidge: Yeah.
 * Hoover: I don't want to butt into your business, but this psychiatrist, the guy you're going to, I think he's in worse shape than you are.

Cast

 * Nick Nolte — Police Lieutenant Max Hoover
 * Melanie Griffith — Katherine Hoover
 * Chazz Palminteri — Ellery Coolidge
 * Michael Madsen — Eddie Hall
 * Chris Penn — Arthur Relyea
 * Treat Williams — Colonel Nathan Fitzgerald
 * Jennifer Connelly — Allison Pond
 * Daniel Baldwin — FBI Agent McCafferty
 * Andrew McCarthy — Jimmy Fields
 * John Malkovich — General Thomas Timms
 * Kyle Chandler — The Captain
 * William L. Petersen — Jack Flynn
 * Aaron Neville — Nite Spot Singer
 * Rob Lowe — Flynn's associate
 * Bruce Dern — LAPD Chief Bill Parker
 * Louise Fletcher — Esther

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User talk:Calton

~ MosheZadka (Talk) 08:46, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

Fort Collins, CO
Say, genius, you DO realize that Caller ID works internationally? Also, telephone speakers have volume limitation. --Calton 11:12, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
 * I have no idea what you're talking about.--Primetime 17:34, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Uh huh. 970-221-XXXX. Right on my screen. --Calton 03:49, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
 * That's not my phone number.--Primetime 04:50, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

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Wikiquote:Templates/TV shows

Show Title (startyear–endyear) followed by a brief explanation of the show's premise and notable facts about it. Don't go overboard, though; those wanting more information can always follow the Wikipedia link provided in the first sentence. In this and other commentary locations one can optionally provide pertinent links to other locations within Wikiquote, Wikipedia, or other Wikimedia projects.

Episode Name [n.m]

 * [This is an explanatory note; it gives some context, using a full English sentence.]
 * Character: This is the first time I show up in this episode.
 * Minor Character Without a Wikipedia Page: I'm here, too.
 * Character: Second time I show up, I don't need a link to Wikipedia.
 * Unnamed Character: My attribution uses a brief description with title-casing.

 * Character: This works well for a long monologue, about life, the universe and everything, too.

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 * Character: In this episode, my first appearance again calls for a Wikipedia link.

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Lawrence Summers

Lawrence Henry "Larry" Summers (born November 30, 1954) is an American economist, former Vice President of Development Economics and Chief Economist of the World Bank (1991–93), senior U.S. Treasury Department official throughout President Clinton's administration (ultimately Treasury Secretary, 1999–2001), and former director of the National Economic Council for President Obama (2009–2010). He is a former president of Harvard University (2001–2006), where he is currently a professor and director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.

1980s

 * The country will not have to pay the piper. Through a combination of sound policy actions and a great deal of good luck we are well on our way to a soft landing and a period of growth and price stability.
 * Lawrence Summers in: David Warsh (April 20, 1986) "Stockman's Timing Was Never Worse", Boston Globe, p. A1.

 * The things you hear now about European unemployment -- that there are structural problems, that real wages have failed to adjust, that there are inflationary fears -- are the same things that were said during the early 1930. It is well established that government spending began to pull Germany out of its slump in 1935. There is no known reason why spending for peace can't do as well at getting the economy going as spending for war.
 * Lawrence Summers in: David Warsh (April 27, 1986) "It Did Happen Here, Too", Boston Globe, p. A1.

 * Takeovers wouldn't cause the stock market to rise unless there is an upward reassessment of earnings (potential). People are more optimistic and confident about the future.
 * Lawrence Summers in: Glenn Pascall (August 16, 1987) "Raiding Can Be Seen As Wake-Up Call For Corporate America", The Seattle Times, p. B4.

1990s
I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest-wage country is impeccable and we should face up to that. . . . I’ve always thought that countries in Africa are vastly under polluted; their air quality is probably vastly inefficiently low compared to Los Angeles. . . . Just between you and me, shouldn’t the World Bank be encouraging more migration of the dirty indus- tries to the Least Developed Countries? —Lawrence Summers, confidential World Bank memo, December 12, 1991

 * Things take longer to happen than you think they will and then they happen faster than you think they will.
 * Lawrence Summers in: David Warsh (February 11, 1992) "Avoiding Weimar Russia", Boston Globe, p. 37, Section: Business.

 * No free country will ever again have anything like the 90 percent tax rates that we had in this country. Past a certain point, high marginal tax rates are, indeed, terribly destructive.
 * David Wessel, The Wall Street Journal (April 5, 1998) "Rich now pay more in taxes", Mobile Register, p. F1.

 * Where countries have been able to carry through on their reform commitments -- as in Korea, Thailand and the Philippines -- results are starting to come in the form of lower interest rates, new investment and increased growth.
 * David Ignatius (April 12, 1999) "Clinton's Capitulation on China", The Washington Post, p. A23.

 * The situation in a number of countries reminds one that it's still a risky world out there in the emerging markets.
 * Michael M. Phillips, The Wall Street Journal (April 16, 1999) "Global Economic Crisis In Its Last Days", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, p. C-1.

2000s

 * We must recognise that in an integrated world, trade cannot be divorced from other concerns. We need to promote free trade and serious global efforts with respect to common problems even as we support every nation's right to chart its own course.
 * Statement made at World Economic Forum — reported in Muihoong (February 1, 2000) "China trade vote a key test, says Summers", The Straits Times, p. 9.

 * I deeply regret the impact of my comments and apologise for not having weighed them more carefully … I was wrong to have spoken in a way that has resulted in an unintended signal of discouragement to talented girls and women.
 * Apology letter addressed to Harvard University community, posted on his website — reported in Reuters (January 26, 2005) "Summers Regrets", The Australian, p. 032.

 * I know that there is one additional thing that I've learned and that is that what Harvard does and says has an enormous resonance that goes beyond Zip code 02138.
 * Philip Kennicott (April 15, 2005) "The Man in The Ivory Tower - Harvard's Lawrence Summers Is a Study in Controversy" The Washington Post, p. C1.

 * With uncertainty in oil markets, a buildup of speculative pressures and the large U.S. current account deficit, there is a real possibility that Paulson's crisis-management skills will be tested.
 * David Ignatius (May 31, 2006) "Watching the Yellow Flags", The Washington Post, p. A19.

 * ...it’s important to remember how fortunate we are as a country to have a currency and a bond market that is seen in every way as a source of strength and it’s a huge responsibility for us to keep it that way.
 * Tom Braithwaite (April 9, 2009) "Summers sees end to ‘sense of free-fall’", Financial Times

Quotes about

 * Summers’s outlook on economic policy can be summarized by the remark that he gave me some years ago: “If I had your views on economics, I would find another profession.” He meant that if free markets usually worked well and the government ought usually to stay out, then he would find economics to be an uninteresting occupation. Fortunately for Summers, he has always believed in the potential benefits from governmental activism, although the strength of this belief may have diminished over time.
 * Robert Barro, Nothing is Sacred (2002), p. 33

 * Bill Clinton and his two treasury secretary enablers, Robert Rubin and Larry Summers, instituted a system of unregulated capitalism that has resulted in financial anarchy. This anarchic form of capitalism, where everything, including human beings and the natural world, is a commodity to exploit until exhaustion or collapse, is justified by identity politics. It is sold as “enlightened liberalism” as opposed to the old pro-union class politics that saw the Democrats heed the voices of the working class. Financial anarchy and short-term plunder have destroyed long-term financial and political stability. It has also pushed the human species, along with most other species, closer and closer towards extinction.
 * Chris Hedges, Papering Over the Rot. Scheerpost, February 1, 2021

 * I vote to banish Larry Summers. Not from the planet. That wouldn't be nice. Just from public life. The criticisms of President Obama's chief economic adviser are well known. He's too close to Wall Street. And he's a frightful bully, of both people and countries. Still, we're told we shouldn't care about such minor infractions. Why? Because Summers is brilliant, and the world needs his big brain. And this brings us to a central and often overlooked cause of the global financial crisis: Brain Bubbles. This is the process wherein the intelligence of an inarguably intelligent person is inflated and valued beyond all reason, creating a dangerous accumulation of unhedged risk. Larry Summers is the biggest Brain Bubble we've got.
 * Naomi Klein "Why We Should Banish Larry Summers From Public Life" (April 19, 2009)

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