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Top Chef

Top Chef (2006–2020) was an American reality competition show airing on the Bravo cable television network in which chefs compete against each other in weekly challenges. They are judged by a panel of professional chefs and other notables from the food and wine industry with one or more contestants eliminated each week. The winning chef receives $100,000 in seed money to encourage his or her culinary career, is featured in Food & Wine magazine, and appears at the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen, Colorado.

Who Deserves To Be Here [1.1]

 * Cynthia: [to Stephen] How are you doing, Brian?
 * Stephen: Stephen?

 * Andrea: [of her Elimination Challenge dish] It looked like a bomb exploded on my plate.

 * Ken: [of the other chefs judging his food] I don't care whether the other chefs express their opinions about my food. If the food is good, say it's good. If the food is crap, flip the plate.

 * Lee Anne: Stephen is a sommelier so he's a professional bullshitter.

 * Andrea: I'm bringing something to the competition that other people aren't bringing, you know, it's the ability to move your bowels with vegetables.

 * Cynthia: What the fuck did I come over here for?

 * Ken: [to Tom Colicchio] I speak my mind, that's the way I am.

 * Ken: C'mon guys! Allez! Allez!

Food of Love [1.2]

 * Miguel: I love you dawg!
 * Stephen: [chuckling] Schmuck.

 * Andrea: [of Miguel's reaction to guest judge Madame S] Miguel, of course, was like 'Aw, she's so hot!' And I'm like, Miguel, you have to get out of the house a little more.

 * RuPaul: [referring to Andrea's dessert] Now is this low-cal?
 * Andrea: Yes, there's no butter, there's no saturated fat.
 * RuPaul: Everything is organic?
 * Andrea: Everything is organic, right down to the chocolate.
 * RuPaul: [tasting her dessert] Needs butter.

 * RuPaul: Aren't all desserts really sexy? I mean, have you ever seen a fat person eat a cream puff? I mean, that's like watching somebody having sex.

 * Tom Colicchio: Are those condoms hanging out of your pocket?
 * Miguel: Oh yeah, absolutely Chef. I always go to the kitchen protected.

 * Andrea: [referring to the QuickFire Challenge] Everybody starts digging in and there are all these chefs like chop-chop-chop-chop-chop-chop suey all over the place, and I'm looking at this basket of fruit and I'm like, I just really want to put the basket of fruit exactly as it is on the table.

 * Miguel: [to Madame S] I would love to serve you.

 * Andrea: [naming her dish] Creamy Balls and Crunchy Nuts.

Nasty Delights [1.3]

 * Lisa: [frustrated by some of the more elitist chefs' ideas] You don't get complicated and sophisticated when you're cooking food for kids!

 * Stephen: [referring to his Teammate in the Elimination Challenge] Candice I find to be the weakest in the whole competition. It's a bit hard for me to come down to her level. I mean, I'd love to bring her up to my level but that's just not really possible.

 * Stephen: [referring to Candice] If you can't stand the heat in the kitchen, you know, it's probably best to remove yourself.

 * 'Tom Colicchio: [as he is checking on the Red Team]'' Do kids like yogurt?
 * Lisa: They like blue yogurt.

 * Tiffani: You know I wasn't going to go like, do the monkfish nugget interpretive dance for the kids.

 * Tom Colicchio: [referring to Tiffani's attitude] There is one thing that we do in the restaurant business, and that is make people happy. And I don't care how you do that, that's what you do.

 * Brian: [telling the chefs he has been sent home] Elvis has left the building.

 * Candice: [to Stephen] Obviously you're a tool and a douche bag!

Food on the Fly [1.4]

 * Tiffani: [referring to Stephen's presentation of his dish] There's an element of condescension when he explains his dish, that you can't possibly understand all the things that are in this dish.

 * Tiffani: [while shopping at the gas station] Think we should buy some Rolaids for the judges?
 * Dave: Yeah, that's for sure.

 * Andrea: [referring to the Gas Station Challenge] I really encourage people to eat food that doesn't have a lot of chemicals in it. My clients are going to pass out and die… [laughs]

 * Tom Colicchio: [referring to Andrea's nutritious entree] I'm feeling healthier already.

 * Tiffani: [during victory interview] I am the Kenmore Microwave Queen.

 * Tom Colicchio: [to the bottom three contestants] If I could really get rid of two of you I probably would, um, matter of fact, all three.

 * Gail Simmons: Stephen looked at us like we were crazy! His Japanese infused, confused tamale?
 * Tom Colicchio: He's just getting over-creative, and it's just getting in the way. I think he gets too wrapped up in the dogma of cooking.

Blind Confusion [1.5]

 * Harold: [about being paired with Lisa for an Elimination Challenge] I feel so confident working with her, so comfortable, I'm predicting victory tomorrow.

 * Lee Anne: Stephen, you gotta sell it!
 * Stephen: I'm trying. I don't think this is our target market!

 * Lisa: Somewhere in the recesses of my mind it's occurring to me that perhaps we didn't think it through, serving seared tuna in the Mission District.

 * Miguel: [Referring to Andrea before the Judges' Table convenes] My friend has immunity here, and I'm up on the chopping block but I feel great and I know she saved me today, so I'm feeling really confident.

 * Harold: [Going to the Judges' Table with the second group] I knew we were in trouble at this point cause, I mean, first group that goes in gets handshakes, kisses, and champagne and the second group goes in and it's usually a bloodbath.

 * Andrea: [to protect her teammate Miguel] If I did something to destroy his chances of staying, um, then I would like to give him my immunity.

 * Mike Yakura: [to Miguel at the Judges' Table] If you have these skills and you want to win this just go like 'Hell no, I'm doing this, I'm taking this cart over, I'm going to drive. If I'm going to go down in a burning plane I'm going to be at the wheel.'

Restaurant Wars [1.7]

 * Miguel: Chunk LeFunk has left the building. Thank you.

 * Stephen: I could've got the food out on time if I wasn't at the table explaining about where Rueda is in location to Rioja.

 * Stephen: The other team's concept is totally a style that I would never engage in, you know it was very warming, welcoming, very comfortable.

 * Katie Lee Joel: So the winning chef will be going to Cannes, and somebody else will be getting canned.

 * Tiffani: I wanted to help decorate the room – it's something I enjoy doing, and it feeds who I am – but I was happy to sort of have Dave out of the kitchen.

 * Tiffani: If Dave gets in a bad head space, it's over, but it could have been much worse, we could have had Stephen.

 * Harold: [to Tom Colicchio] Does that mean we're partners now?

 * Lee Anne: [of working with Stephen and Miguel] I got put on the team with the big thinker and the no thinker.

 * Dave: [to Tiffani] I'm not your bitch, bitch!

Wedding Bell Blues [1.8]

 * Tom Colicchio: This is going to sound harsh; I've had better from a take-out place in New York.

 * Guest: The salmon was USELESS! …I was all of a sudden in a bad convention – it might as well have been boiled chicken.

 * Stephen: I needed to talk to some of the members of the hotel, and making sure that the EXECUTION – the foremost important part of this whole entire event – was intact.

 * Stephen: A chef's responsibility is to delegate. He is a leader, he is a manager in the kitchen; no one took that role. No one, except for myself.

 * Stephen: This wedding cake had no potential whatsoever. I did not want to attach my name – even if I were to help – because, you know, mediocrity is not my game and I just didn't want to have anything to do with it.

 * Harold: Stephen definitely deserved to go home. I could have backed him up, but he called Lee Anne out. There was no way I was gonna let Lee Anne go out like that.

 * Harold: Who caters a wedding out of a Supermarket?! That's unheard of. That's ridiculous! You have specialty purveyors that you go to… that specialize.

 * Harold: [about the wedding cake] It's why God created Betty Crocker.

 * Stephen: Now that my role in this competition has finally come to an end I'm going to be a restaurateur, and that is my goal in life. I will probably influence the industry and raise the bar to a level of excellence that I don't think has been achieved yet to date in this country.

Napa's Finest [1.9]

 * Harold: When I saw the truffles in with the wine, I thought, "This is why I got involved in this competition. This is why I'm here."

 * Tiffani: Dave's food is never really all that refined.

 * Tiffani: My food is so great, and I don't get the sense that – unless something drastic happens – I'm going home.

Finale (2) [1.12]

 * Lorraine Bracco: I'm not needing to lick my plate.. and that makes me very sad.

 * Dave: [on being one of Tiffani's sous chefs] Helping someone who I just have little or no respect for.. drinking is the only way I can make it through. Lorraine, thanks for the wine.

Into the Fire [2.1]

 * Suyai: I was just psyched when the flame went up, and I was, like, awesome! I was just, 'Oh, flambé.'

 * Betty: [to Harold after a good review] I love you!

 * Tom Colicchio: [After Suyai has told him how poorly she's doing] Do you think it's a good idea to sort of tip your hand right now, and let me know this?

 * Elia: [about American Cheese] It's just this funky product that... shouldn't exist.

 * Carlos: [after Tom Colicchio made a negative remark about his dish] It may not have been my crowning achievement, but I didn't think it was crap on a plate.

Eastern Promise [2.2]

 * Michael: I'm, like, so out of my league.

 * Elia: I Love Fish!

 * Betty: [to Tom Colicchio] I'm the bar wench.

Food for the People [2.3]

 * Cliff: [referring to his QuickFire dish] I'm staring this ice cream down like it owes me money.

Less is More [2.4]

 * Marisa: Pastry is a science, you put something into it that has a different molecular structure it's gonna react differently.

 * Tom Colicchio: No one's going home tonight... but believe me, we're gonna be watching you really closely from here on out. Consider yourselves on probation!

Social Service [2.5]

 * Marcel: Frank asked me, 'Do you want to be my partner?' It was kind of like being asked to go on prom with somebody that you’re not totally interested in, but for fear of not having anybody else to go to prom with, you’re like, 'okay.'

 * Tom Colicchio: These are about choices. Someone's gotta say, 'Hey, that looks like Pepto-Bismol! We can't serve that. Let's fix it. Let's fix the problem.'

 * Elia: [after being told her kidneys taste too much of kidney] Is this woman for real? I'm supposed to make kidney taste like olives, with a sauce?

 * Betty: Marcel went for that pig's blood. Kinda looks like a vampire, don't you think?

 * Joseph Ojeda: [about the basil in the pomegranate drink] It's not very sexy to be plucking out greens out of your mouth while you're in a dinner date.

Thanksgiving [2.6]

 * Anthony Bourdain: [On Michael] It's like Betty Crocker and Charles Manson had a love child, and he's cooking for me.

 * Anthony Bourdain: [on Michael's dishes] That was so perverse, so inappropriate, I'm almost beginning to respect him.

 * Anthony Bourdain: What kind of crack house are you running here?

 * Anthony Bourdain: [about Marcel] Gastro Boy has balls!

 * Carlos: [after being dismissed from the competition] I'm going to go home and have a margarita.

 * Anthony Bourdain: Looking forward to smashing the hopes and dreams and ambitions…

 * Michael: [on guest judge Anthony Bourdain] Personally, I totally look up to the guy. He's not scared to tell someone their food sucks. Just hope he doesn't tell me I suck.

 * Betty: [discussing soup Elia will make] I think mushroom would be lovely with what we're serving, but this is your dish.
 * Elia: I truly do not care anymore.
 * Betty: Well, then, make Cheez Whiz.

 * Carlos: [after being asked why it took him four hours to prepare his salad] If you're saying that I sat on my butt --

 * Carlos: I came here for my Top Chef diploma, and I may not graduate, but I definitely got an education.

The Raw and the Cooked [2.7]

 * Michael: [of the QuickFire Challenge] I don't eat raw food, so I'm like, 'What the hell am I gonna do?'

 * Cliff: [at the Judges' Table] There's no way I'm going home.

 * Marcel: I'm stoked; it's my first win. Not to mention the fact that I was totally proud of my dish today. My performance could not have been any more soigné.

 * Frank: Mike is definitely a hack. I don't think Mike could cook his way out of a paper bag, unless it had french fries with it.

 * Michael: I'm getting to the end, where like I'm plating up, and Frank's working next to me, and he's humping some gorilla on his prep table or something, you know. Shaking everything. It's like a freaking 7.0 earthquake. I hope Frank goes home.

 * Frank: I've been on a roll lately. I've been in the top three the last four shots. For the past eight, ten years, I've been the best at my field, and I'm fully relying on my abilities to take me over the top.

 * Sam: I feel like I have a great chance at the title. People know that I'm a force. And um, and a team leader, ya know, and I think I have a great shot.

Holiday Spirit [2.8]

 * Sam: The team nominates me team captain. If your team wins, you're the man. If your team loses, you're… history.

Seven [2.9]

 * Marcel: [In response to Ilan's attack on his "flavorless" gelee] And have you ever tried, like, that brand of juice, R.W. Knudsen's? It's 100% fruit juice, which is what I made my gelee from, which has, like, so much flavor! I mean, check your palettes, get 'em tested.

 * Ilan: You know what's really funny Marcel, the first day I got here I've been wanting to smack you across the face. Why don't you fucking go to a new school, learn some shit, go to France, go to Spain, go travel, go relax, go learn how to use some fucking salt, paprika, come back to me, you know, come to New York, maybe I'll show you how to cook a little bit. I'll show you how to grill something. But until then shut the fuck up, keep making your foams and go cry in a corner!

 * Betty: [referring to Marcel's QuickFire dish] Why does he have a foam on every fucking thing he makes?!

 * Ted Allen: [referring to Betty's QuickFire dish] I also felt that your presentation was really, uh kind of a mess. It looked like something you raked up– not to be unkind, but…
 * Betty: Well you are!

 * Marcel: Mike switches Envy for Lust with me, and I thought, "He just, like, gave away a gold mine."

 * Ilan: Because Gluttony is a Sin so closely related to food, if I can't get this one right, then I should go home right now.

 * Elia: [scandalized by Marcel's flirtation with one of the guests] Did you just pour chocolate in that woman's mouth?!

 * Tom Colicchio: [speaking to the bottom three chefs] Our challenge today was, I thought, a very interesting one. You all had to choose one of the Seven Deadly Sins, and create a dish you thought best represented that sin. Unfortunately, each one of you committed a culinary sin.

 * Debi Mazar: [referring to the foam on Marcel's dessert] I think it looks like cat spit. But you know, I just feel like the dish was prepared by somebody who hasn't had as much sex as he really needs to, to make a dish feel like you really wanna fuck.

 * Tom: [startled by the high quality of Michael's dish] Our Michael did this? …I mean, what the Hell?! He should get his tooth pulled every day!

Unhappy Customers [2.10]

 * Marcel: Everybody loves meat on a stick!

 * Sam: I went to culinary school, my parents spent tons of money… and I came out with a deep love of mayonnaise.

 * Michael: I love mayo, man. I'll eat it right out of the can.

 * Marcel: [from his rap session on the roof] It's taken every ounce that I've got not to pop you in the face cause you're all a disgrace to the human race....

 * Elia: Where's Marcel?
 * Michael: Crying.
 * Sam: I think he's on the roof. He's trying to jump.

 * Ilan: [trying to talk Elia into selling out her teammate Marcel] If you guys go up to the loser's block, then you just blame everything on Marcel.
 * Elia: I don't wanna be in that Judges' Table for negative comment ever again, ever!

Sense and Sensuality [2.11]

 * Padma: [at the Judges' Table after hearing about Cliff's "prank" and subsequent dismissal] I'd like to talk about something a little less depressing now.
 * Marcel: Talk about the food, or something...
 * Padma: Yeah, let's talk about the food because actually, you idiots, the food yesterday was really, really good!

Finale (2) [2.13]

 * Ilan: [during soliloquy, in reference to Marcel's sea urchin sting] I would love to pee on Marcel

 * Betty: [while prepping for Ilan] Marcel, do you want me to toast it with nothing on it fo–
 * Ilan: [interrupting in an outraged tone] What did you just call me?!
 * Betty: Oh my God, I should be shot!

 * Betty: [to Ilan, as they leave the Farmer's Market] You want to hold my melon?

4 Star All Star [3.1]

 * Sara M.: [referring to Sam from season 2] He's kinda cute.
 * Ted: Kinda?

First Impressions [3.2]

 * Hung: I've been labeled a CPA for about a year now: Certified Professional Asshole! [laughs] That's me!

 * Padma: What is the greater crime, though, leaving something off the plate...
 * Tom: ...or Clay's dish?

 * CJ: Tom and Padma walks in and I was just like, "Sweet little tyke in a manger, what is happening here?!"

 * Tom: [about Clay's amusé] This is almost more like a first course, not so much an amusé...I guess I have a big mouth, but I don't know if it's THIS big!

 * Clay: When you looked at my fucking apple, were you like, "That dude's fucked!" Be honest, you're not going to hurt my feelings. [laughs] That dude's fucked! Hell, I'm from Mississippi, pick it up and eat that son of a bitch! That's the way I see it!

 * CJ: [about Anthony Bourdain] He's not afraid to eat a brain out of a live monkey.

 * Howie: In your book, though, there's a little, you know, part that says about Ecuadorian line cooks, I believe? Ecuadorian?
 * Anthony Bourdain: Oh, that's unfair, dude!
 * Howie: Wait, wait a minute! And what does it say? Its says, "You can yell at this person and this person and they'll give it to you when it's wrong". But these particular people, they'll give it to you when it's right!
 * Anthony Bourdain: You son of a bitch!
 * Gail: Oh, you're in trouble!

Sunny Delights [3.3]

 * Sandee: How's it going, CJ?
 * CJ: I love how low everything is, my back feels fantastic, and the sun is beating down on my face.

 * Howie: [in response to Joey's attack] You want to know what, I want to run home and be a fucking man about it, and you want to fucking bitch like a little girl, okay, like you've done all day. This guy copied your shit. This guy should've lost! And then what do you do? You go, "Oh yeah, Howie!" What the fuck! You look out for your own ass! So don't tell me I'm not a fucking man!

 * Hung: I looked around the kitchen, and I just saw some slummy dishes!

Family Favorites [3.4]

 * Hung: Yeah, simple, but my monkey could do that.

Cooking by Numbers [3.5]

 * Jamie Walker: You're very tall.
 * CJ: Thank you very much, I'm flattered you noticed.

Latin Lunch [3.6]

 * Tom: [to Hung] You have amazing knife skills; just be very careful with your knife, because you almost cut Casey. Please be careful.

 * Tom: Is this the dish that you think should send you home?
 * Lia: No.
 * Tom: [pauses] Hmm. Okay.

Watch What Happens [3.7]

 * Ted: Are any of the rest of you dating?
 * Clay: Me and Sandee.
 * Ted: Outstanding!
 * Sandee: Wrong gender, dude.

 * Andy Cohen: Clay, do you want to defend your amusé?
 * Clay: Not at all. [laughs]

 * Andy Cohen: [reading a viewer question] "Ilan, do you think anyone was cast for their looks more than their cooking ability, like Sam, Cliff, or Camille?"
 * Ilan: Yeah, I can only judge from my season.
 * Andy Cohen: And?
 * Ilan: And, yeah, absolutely. I think Frank was always a prime example. [everybody laughs]

 * Micah: [about her comment on American comfort food] I was simply describing it, just as I would say, "Indian people put chutney with their curry!"
 * Padma: We don't, by the way, but... [laughs]
 * Ilan: You totally fucked it up now!
 * Gail: Now you've ostracized all of us!

Freezer Burn [3.8]

 * Tre: How's Sara treating you?
 * Brian: Slow as shit.

 * CJ: [about Hung's performance in the Quickfire] He came off as a freaking douche.

Guilty Pleasures [3.9]

 * Ted: Note to chefs: if you want to make people happy, give them bacon.

 * Dale: Hung went all over the place. He wanted to go for seven different textures and he really made white chocolate cauliflower foam.  And I think that's all I'll say about that.

 * Howie: Sweet Cream and berries...if it ain't broke, y'know, don't fix it.

 * Sara M.: Casey and Sara were a little upset because cleavage was showing, and...I really didn't give a shit.

 * CJ: They've got Hung, one of the loudest people I've ever met in my life, and Brian, one of the most annoying people I've ever met in my life.

 * Brian: I'm real scared for my buddy CJ over there! [laughs]

 * Dale: I can just feel the anger in the entire group just like, "You've got to be kidding me. I hate you so much right now, but I want to be you right now!"

Restaurant Wars [3.10]

 * CJ: Oh, big time.

Second Helping [3.11]

 * Hung: Right. Chicken time!

 * Dale: [about Hung's performance in the Quickfire] He destroys those chickens. And even Tom's standing there, like "You've got to be kidding me!"

 * Dale: The other team kinda seemed like the Dream Team, and we're like, the Bad News Bears. And the fact that we kicked their ass really has us going.

Chef Overboard [3.12]

 * Howie: Do I look like I care about fashion? This is from Target. This whole outfit.

 * Brian: [about Hung's crazy Smurf-inspired dish] I have no idea what this guy's on.. but I want some!

 * Michael Schwartz: [about Hung's crazy Smurf-inspired dish] What the fuck is that? That's some crazy shit.

 * Sara: Esteban is this new hip and upcoming designer from Miami. A lot of fashionistas.. you know.. [holds up index finger] skinny.

 * Hung: I love fashion.  I like to wear clothes that fit me, not clothes that look like a box.

 * Hung: I love eating, I grew up eating.

Snacks on a Plane [3.13]

 * CJ: If there was another Spice Girl, it would be Crepe Spice.

 * Dale: Everyone loves a fried egg sandwich. And in my world, everything is breakfast.

 * Anthony Bourdain: [about CJ's dish] They were cleaning Bob Marley's house and found this in the closet.

Manhattan Project [3.14]

 * Dale: I think right now, Casey's the one to beat...and it is killing Hung!

 * Hung: [about the criteria for the Elimination Challenge] Score for me!

 * Dale: Where's Casey? Oh, there she is. I'm like, "Mom? MOM?"

Finale: Part 1 [3.15]

 * Dale: Before I started this competition, I had one of the top 20 restaurants in the country in my hands. It closed because the owner retired.  And literally, I had my dream job.  It slipped through my fingers, and I fell apart.  Before the first Quickfire here, I hadn't cooked in a year and a half.  I entered this competition to find myself again.  I have been reborn.  I have found my flavor.  And I think today's Elimination challenge dish was a definite difference from what I have shown in this competition before.  And now I'm a chef again.

 * Hung: What the hell do cowboys and cowgirls eat?! Baked beans, baked beans, and baked beans?

 * Dale: I really don't know that much about cowboys. I mean, I've slept with a few, but...[laughs]...that's about it.

 * Brian: This is my "Honkey-Tonk-Whiskey-River-Drunken Elk Shank."

 * Tom: You know, there's two...(Gail and Padma force his hand off his chin)...sorry.

Later
 * Tom: One of them is...(Gail and Padma force his hand off his chin again) You don't gotta hit me!

Finale: Part 2 [3.16]

 * Dale: [about Todd English, his assigned sous chef] I know you have more restaurants than you can count, but chop my garlic now.

 * Dale: [to his lobsters] Hi, you guys!

 * Rocco: [to Hung] Are you sweating in your food, by any chance?

 * Hung: It's funny, because on one of Anthony Bourdain's blogs, he said that he would like to see a cook-off between you and I!
 * Rocco: I'll tell you what, here's what we're gonna do: we'll open a restaurant together. This way, Anthony will never know which one's the better cook.
 * Hung: Yeah. [They laugh]

 * Casey: Why are these plates so small?!?

 * Hung: For third course, I'm thinking, "What's more Asian than duck?" [laughs]

 * Todd English: [about Hung's duck course] This is 3-star Michelin in my book.

 * Casey: I did remind them over the break that I was kicking their ass for a while!

 * Tom: Casey, you've been a fierce competitor this entire competition. Tonight's menu just never came together for you, but we know you're a great chef, and I know when I'm in Dallas where I can go to get a good meal. Dale, we are just so delighted that you found your inner chef. The culinary world is definitely stronger having you cooking in it. You put together a fabulous meal with great flavors, and you're cooking with a ton of confidence. Thank you. Hung, you've proven throughout this entire competition that you're a great technician, but in this challenge, you married it with passion. Again, you put together a fabulous meal, and we really enjoyed seeing you in the food. But as you know, there can only be one Top Chef.

Reunion [3.17]

 * Dale: Beauty's only a light switch away.

 * Andy Cohen: Who here thinks they have a shot at Fan Favorite?
 * [Hung raises his hand; he and everybody else laughs]
 * Tom: My friend, you have, no shot, I think!
 * Hung: [still laughing] Zero! Zero!
 * Tom: None! [laughs]

 * Andy Cohen: [reading a viewer question] "I noticed that CJ seemed real excited when Padma woke him up. What's up with CJ and Padma?"
 * CJ: Well, it's not, like, how the dream normally goes, but the wakeup was fine! [everyone laughs]
 * Sandee: That was a challenge I definitely missed. [everyone laughs harder]

 Before the slideshow
 * Andy Cohen: On the other side of the coin, Casey, there's a rumor out there about the frightening implications of becoming close friends with you. Let's take a look.

After the slideshow
 * Howie: That was tough!
 * Ted: Yeah, you guys might want to scoot back a little bit.
 * Andy Cohen: Casey, are you the black widow of Top Chef 3?
 * Sandee: I was her roommate! [everyone laughs even harder] First kiss of death, right here! Thanks, Casey. Love ya, babe.

 * Dale: [about his montage] I've always wanted a montage.

 * Gail: Don't be a hater!

 * Andy Cohen: Was the decision between a Top Chef logo and a heart with Howie's name on it?
 * Joey: Nah, that's going on the other leg.

 * Andy Cohen: Jack wants to know, "Which challenge was your favorite?" Clay?
 * Clay: Me? [The room bursts with laughter]
 * Howie: So wrong. That is so wrong!
 * Clay: Now, hold on a minute! Does Jack really ask this or do you?

Anything You Can Cook, I Can Cook Better [4.1]

 * Tom: What bugs me is, how do you come here and compete and not know what a piccata is? And he didn't know that and I still don't think he knows.
 * Anthony Bourdain: I really find it worrying that I had absolutely no idea what was coming out of his mouth.
 * Rocco DiSpirito: Let's just say it wasn't just his gnocchi that were dense.
 * Tom: [trying not to laugh] That's just mean!

 * Erik: [on his souffle] It rose, but then I dumped a bunch of tortillas and stuff on top of it that made it drop.
 * Anthony Bourdain: I gotta say, you were clearly way out of your comfort zone and scrambling around for some way out of a bad situation right out of the gate. But the last thing a souffle needs is more weight on top.  Tough, tough, tough..
 * Erik: [shrugging] I made glorified nachos. I'm not proud of it.

Zoo Food [4.2]

 * Wylie Dufresne: [to Mark] Nice sideburns.

 * Mark: I read the diet of the vulture, and it's not boots and road tires. Turns out that they eat little fish, rabbits, and lamb.. which is very similar to my diet.

 * Gail: It looked like something a bear would produce, not eat.

Block Party [4.3]

 * Andrew: Can you guys smell it?
 * Erik: What?
 * Andrew: Success!

 * Ted: Aww, little girl dropped her s'more!
 * Padma: I dropped it on your shoe.
 * Ted: You dropped it on my shoe? You're gonna get the bill for that!

Film Food [4.4]

 * Padma: [before introducing Daniel Boulud] If you guys don't know who he is, you should just leave the kitchen now.

 * Daniel Boulud: Of course, I have two young chef here who has previously work in my restaurant before, Richard and Ryan. And that will not affect the work of anyone else, be reassured for that.

 * Lisa: I wanted to do a cucumber where you run your knife across it and you rotate the cucumber so that you have like a thin.. almost like a wrapper. And then I look over and Dale is doing the exact same thing, and just whizzing through them like soft butter.  So I decide, maybe not.

 * Andrew: Is anybody else's hand shaking?

 * Padma: Your challenge is to create a dinner where each course is inspired by your favorite movie.
 * Antonia: I love movies, I'm a total movie buff. This is an opportunity to be really creative.
 * Ryan: I start thinking, I have seen 2 movies in 3 years, so.. great.

 * Ryan: [talking head] I draw knives, and I get Mark. This guy's fucking.. New Zealand, New England.. where the hell is Mark from?  We're not going to have anything in common!
 * Mark: Why don't we just put down a bunch of movies?
 * Ryan: Yep, so what are your movies? I love Dumb and Dumber.  I think it's funny as shit.
 * Mark: To Kill A Mockingbird.
 * Ryan: Right, old school..
 * Mark: Crazy Bad..
 * Ryan: Crazy Bad? What's that?
 * Ryan: [talking head] "Like, what movies do you watch?" And he starts naming this stuff, and all I hear is "blaaaah blaaaah blahhhh."
 * Mark: [talking head] He has not seen Once Were Warriors or Mad Max or Bad Boy Bubby.
 * Ryan: What about the Christmas movie?
 * Mark: Which one?
 * Ryan: Oh, oh, oh.. What's the one with the kid that gets shot with a B.B. in his eye and they go get Asian food instead? You know what I'm talking about?  He takes the glass light for his mom's Christmas, and he puts it in the window..
 * Mark: I don't know.
 * Ryan: And they go and have Chinese food and have duck instead of normal turkey because the turkey got fucked up? It's a normal Christmas movie.
 * Mark: Do you know what it is? I don't know.
 * Ryan: It's a Christmas fucking movie..
 * Mark: Yeah, what's it called?
 * Ryan: And they sit down at the table.. [goes to Spike and Manuel] What's that Christmas movie, you guys?  "You got your eye shot out.."
 * Manuel: A Christmas Story.
 * Ryan: A Christmas Story. Got it.  Duck.
 * Mark: [talking head] A Christmas Story is something that, you know, all the families, everybody's seen it. It's, um.. it's.. I believe it's a comedy.

 * Andrew: I have no doubt in my mind that the people that will be eating this food will culinarily crap in their pants when they see what we have for them.

 * Mark: First-of-the-season cranberries. Awesome!  You know, that's Christmastime right there, isn't it?

 * Richard: Kind of a play on the Fizzy Lifting Drink: a pear and a celery soda. We have been working on trying to get the guests to float.  And if you do float, I believe burping is the way to get down from the ceiling.

The Elements [4.5]

 * Mark: We walk into the kitchen and it's huge. Huge!  You could probably fit the Yankee Stadium in their kitchen, I think.

 * [putting the duck legs in the oven]
 * Jen: Nice legs.
 * Ryan: Thank you.

 * Richard: Don't know if he's just got a good poker face, or the Richard Blais charm has just worn off on Tom Colicchio.

Tailgating [4.6]

 * Ryan: I'm not a big sports fan.  Do I look like a sports fan?  No, I'm not.  I feel that I'm metrosexual or whatever the hell you want to call it.  I spend my money on good clothes, I like to go out and dance..

 * Mark: We've been given the choice of two grills. One is gas-operated, one is charcoal.  I'm the only one that had the testicular fortitude to pick a real charcoal grill.  This is how I cook on a barbecue.

 * Antonia: [about Spike and Mark in the tub] I don’t know what those crazy boys are doing. Honestly, this is like a cheap porno.

 * Mark: A few people go for shrimp straight off the bat. And I thought, they're really taking my gig.  How can I throw the [shrimp on the barbie] when they're already doing it?  Fucked up, isn't it?  [laughs]

 * Gail: So what do you have for us today?
 * Andrew: [in a high-pitched voice] What do I have for you today? Oh my God!

 [At Judges' Table]
 * Tom: [to Ryan]. I'm not quite sure why you chose a dessert, and also a dessert I would never think it a million years to see at a tailgate party.
 * Ryan: I wanted to have a whole dining experience at my table. And that's where I was hitting. I wanted to be able to say "Okay, so somebody doesn't eat chicken, but, wow there's a dessert. And you know, doing a dessert, I don't think was too left-field.
 * Gail: I don't think a dessert is left-field. I just think poached pear with [crème fraîche]and huckleberry sauce was a bit left-field. I just think there would've been more options that would've been more appropriate.
 * Ryan: Personally, I wanted to cook the way that I think I would personally like to see at a tailgate. I don't eat heavy. I don't eat ribs. And I thought of these people and said "Cool, I'm gonna serve chicken. Instead of serving something on a bun, I'm gonna do it in the application of a salad form."
 * Gail: The bread salad that I got was almost all bread. And I guess I was expecting for it to be sort of moist and found it really dry.
 * Ryan: I dissected a tailgate party and the caliber of people that I'm cooking with, and I'm looking at them, and I'm like "I have to do something different." You know, the people that came up, everyone was super sweet at this event. Ladies coming up for recipes, and "How did you make this?" and "Why would you do that, and this and that." and "Wow, pea stew on top, finishing a chicken." "This is quite interesting. We love it." And bringing in, I hate to use the word "California flair-"
 * Tom: But, this challenge was not about that. This challenge was about simple food, to the masses, in the form of a tailgate.
 * Ryan: Yeah, totally fair.

Season 1

 * Tom Colicchio - Head Judge
 * Katie Lee Joel - Host
 * Gail Simmons - Judge
 * Harold Dieterle
 * Tiffani Faison
 * Dave Martin
 * Lee Anne Wong
 * Stephen Asprinio
 * Miguel Morales
 * Andrea Beaman
 * Lisa Parks
 * Candice Kumai
 * Brian Hill
 * Cynthia Sestito
 * Kenneth Lee

Season 2

 * Tom Colicchio - Head Judge
 * Padma Lakshmi - Host/Judge
 * Gail Simmons - Judge
 * Elia L. Aboumrad
 * Cliff Crooks
 * Ilan Hall
 * Sam Talbot
 * Marcel Vigneron
 * Suyai Steinhauer
 * Otto Borsich
 * Emily Sprissler
 * Marisa Churchill
 * Josie Smith-Malave
 * Carlos Fernandez
 * Frank Terzoli
 * Mia Gaines-Alt
 * Betty Fraser
 * Michael Midgley

Season 3

 * Tom Colicchio - Head Judge
 * Padma Lakshmi - Host/Judge
 * Gail Simmons - Judge
 * Hung Huynh
 * Dale Levitsky
 * Casey Thompson
 * Brian Malarkey
 * Sara Mair
 * Chris Jacobsen
 * Howie Kleinberg
 * Tre Wilcox
 * Sara Nguyen
 * Joey Paulino
 * Lia Bardeen
 * Camille Becerra
 * Micah Edelstein
 * Sandee Birdsong
 * Clay Bowen

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Talk:Percy Bysshe Shelley

I was always under the impression that it was just called "Ozymandias," not "Ozymandias of Egypt." No?

Why exactly are the quotes by Salt featured? His wishful thinking that Shelley was somehow rediscovering god are disproved within the very poems he cites as evidence (e.g. Hellas, which Holmes recognised as "one of the most sophisticated and historically mature statements of Shelley's atheism"). If we feature Salt we may as well quote all the 19th and 20th century reactionaries who disguised their distaste for his politics as literary criticisms. 82.69.106.43 21:23, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
 * The second quote by Salt concludes with "There is no warrant whatever in his writings for the strange pretension that, had he lived longer, his objections to Christianity might in some way have been overcome." This sounds opposite to his allegedly believing in "wishful thinking that Shelley was somehow rediscovering god." - InvisibleSun 22:02, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

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 * Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

 * When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.
 * Also, and more plausibly, attributed to Penny Ward Moser

 * The real difference between Byron and Shelley is this: those who understand and love them rejoice that Byron died at thirty-six, because if he had lived he would have become a reactionary bourgeois; they grieve that Shelley died at twenty-nine, because he was essentially a revolutionist and he would always have been one of the advanced guard of socialism.
 * Karl Marx.

 * The more I see the more I doubt whether people ever really make aesthetic judgements at all. Everything is judged on political grounds which are then given an aesthetic disguise. When, for instance, Eliot can't see anything good in Shelley or anything bad in Kipling, the real underlying reason must be that one is a radical and the other a conservative, of sorts.
 * George Orwell.

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Henry Taylor

Sir Henry Taylor KCMG (18 October 1800 – 27 March 1886) was an English civil servant, author and dramatist.

Philip van Artevelde (1834)

 * I have not skill From such a sharp and waspish word as "No" To pluck the sting.
 * Act I, sc. 1. (no; this is from scene 2)

 * Such souls, Whose sudden visitations daze the world, Vanish like lightning, but they leave behind A voice that in the distance far away Wakens the slumbering ages.
 * Act I, sc. 5.

 * We figure to ourselves The thing we like; and then we build it up, As chance will have it, on the rock or sand,— For thought is tired of wandering o’er the world, And homebound Fancy runs her bark ashore.
 * Act I, sc. 5.

 * He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend. Eternity mourns that. ’Tis an ill cure For life’s worst ills, to have no time to feel them. Where sorrow ’s held intrusive and turned out, There wisdom will not enter, nor true power, Nor aught that dignifies humanity.
 * Act I, sc. 5.

 * An unreflected light did never yet Dazzle the vision feminine.
 * Act I, sc. 5.

 * The world knows nothing of its greatest men.
 * Act I, sc. 5.

 * His food Was glory, which was poison to his mind And peril to his body.
 * Act I, sc. 5.

 * Such souls, Whose sudden visitations daze the world, Vanish like lighting, but they leave behind A voice that in the distance far away Wakens the slumbering ages.
 * Act I, sc. 7.

The Statesman (1836)

 * In our judgment of men, we are to beware of giving any great importance to occasional acts. By acts of occasional virtue weak men endeavour to redeem themselves in their own estimation, vain men to exalt themselves in that of mankind.
 * Ch. 3. p. 20

 * Shy and proud men … are more liable than any others to fall into the hands of parasites and creatures of low character. For in the intimacies which are formed by shy men, they do not choose, but are chosen.
 * Ch. 4. p. 27

 * Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others.
 * Ch. 9. p. 63

 * Many magnify in words the importance of public duties, but few appreciate them in feeling; and that, not so much for want of feeling, as for want of carrying it out to whatever results the understanding reaches.
 * Ch. 9. p. 64

 * Climbing the bole of the tree, a man clings with all his arms and legs, and lays hold of every knob and sliver. When he mounts amongst the branches, it should be with a more easy alacrity. A man will often be apt at the one operation, yet awkward at the other. Nor is it, indeed, common to meet with a man of such a character as can be carried from a low condition of life through successive ascents, with an aptitude for every condition into which he passes; and thus it is that men who rise well will often stand infirmly. But for want of due consideration being given to the nature of men and circumstances, it is a usual thing to hear, not only regret but surprise expressed, when a man who has attained an elevated position in life exhibits in that position those very defects of character through which he is there.
 * Ch. 14. p. 91

 * Considering the temptations under which politicians are placed, of changing their opinions, or rather their professions of opinion, from motives of self interest, the world will not give them credit for motives of honest conviction, unless when the change shall be to their manifest loss and disadvantage.
 * Ch. 17. p. 121

 * To flesh your friend’s curiosity, and then endeavour to leave him with a hûc usque, is exposing your faculty of reticence to an unnecessary trial.
 * Ch. 18. p. 130

 * Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets; for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say.
 * Ch. 18. p. 131

 * Where there are large powers with little ambition (which will happen sometimes, though seldom) nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes; for she has given the machinery without the vis motrix.
 * Ch. 19. p. 132

 * The pretext for indecisiveness is commonly mature deliberation; but in reality indecisive men occupy themselves less in deliberation than others; for to him who fears to decide, deliberation (which has a foretaste of that fear) soon becomes intolerably irksome, and the mind escapes from the anxiety of it into alien themes.
 * Ch. 21. p. 144

 * Good nature and kindness towards those with whom they come in personal contact, at the expense of public interests, that is of those whom they never see, is the besetting sin of public men.
 * Ch. 23. p. 176

 * The hope, and not the fact, of advancement, is the spur to industry.
 * Ch. 23. p. 187

 * There are few things more important in the business of the state, than that the results of inquiry and research should be realised by those who have had the conduct of it.
 * Ch. 25. p. 198

 * Few things will occasion a statesman so much embarrassment as a prevailing opinion that he will yield that to importunity which he ought to proffer to less forward parties upon juster grounds, and that whether he grants or refuses no harm can be done by asking.
 * Ch. 29. p. 219

 * In a statesman’s transactions there are many things which cannot be communicated otherwise than by manner without inconvenient commitment or controversy; and that will be the most serviceable manner which can be expressive or inexpressive at pleasure, and be used as a dark lantern to his meanings.
 * Ch. 31. p. 235

 * It has been said of compliments, that men are most flattered by having the merits attributed to them which they least possess; but as it is only by liars that such compliments can be proffered, so it is only with fools that they can find a favourable acceptation.
 * Ch. 31 p. 236

 * For no syren did ever so charm the ear of the listener, as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the syren.
 * Ch. 31. p. 239

 * The craving for office with which statesmen are so often reproached is, perhaps, in the more active of them, quite as much a craving for business as for emolument or power; and their unseasonable love of business grows out of their forfeiture of the love of leisure. Rarely as well as fortunately endowed by nature is that man who can love one or the other according to his occasions.
 * Ch. 33. p. 254

Notes from Life (1853)

 * The philosophy which affects to teach us a contempt of money does not run very deep; for, indeed, it ought to be still more clear to the philosopher than it is to ordinary men, that there are few things in the world of greater importance.
 * Money.

 * He who gives only what he would as readily throw away gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice.
 * Money.

 * When you give, therefore, take to yourself no credit for generosity, unless you deny yourself something in order that you may give.
 * Money.

 * Prodigality is indeed the vice of a weak nature, as avarice is of a strong one; it comes of a weak craving for those blandishments of the world which are easily to be had for money, and which, when obtained, are as much worse than worthless as a harlot's love is worse than none.
 * Money.

 * The art of living easily as to money, is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.
 * Money.

 * Wisdom is corrupted by ambition, even when the quality of the ambition is intellectual. For ambition, even of this quality, is but a form of self-love…
 * Wisdom.

 * Fear, indeed, is the mother of foresight…
 * Wisdom.

 * Of all the uses of adversity which are sweet, none are sweeter than those which grow out of disappointed love…
 * The Ways of the Rich and Great.

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David Irving

David John Cawdell Irving (born 24 March 1938) is a British writer and Holocaust denier who specialises in the military history of World War II. He is the author of numerous books, including The Destruction of Dresden (1963), Hitler's War (1977), Churchill's War (1987), and Goebbels — Mastermind of the Third Reich (1996).

Quotes

 * I don't think there was any overall Reich policy to kill the Jews. If there was, they would have been killed and there would not be now so many millions of survivors. And believe me, I am glad for every survivor that there was.
 * In 1988, as cited in "David Irving", Southern Poverty Law Center (undated)

 * Until the end of this tragic century there will always be incorrigible historians, statesmen, and publicists who are content to believe, or have no economically viable alternative but to believe, that the Nazis used "gas chambers" at Auschwitz to kill human beings. But it is now up to them to explain to me as an intelligent and critical student of modern history why there is no significant trace of any cyanide compound in the building which they have always identified as the former gas chambers.
 * In 1989, as cited in "David Irving", Southern Poverty Law Center (undated)
 * By the end of the 1980s, Irving had endorsed the pseudo-scientific Leuchter report.

 * When I get to Australia in January I know what is going to happen. They are going to wheel out all the so-called eyewitnesses. One in particular, Mrs. Altman, I've clashed with once or twice. She is very convincing. They can be very convincing. Because they have to do it so often over the years. They've had a free run. We're going to meet because she has that tattoo. I am going to say, "You have that tattoo, we all have the utmost sympathy for you. But how much money have you made on it! In the last 45 years! Can I estimate! Quarter of a million! Half million! Certainly not less. That's how much you've made from the German taxpayers and the American taxpayers." Ladies and gentlemen, you're paying $3 billion a year to the State of Israel. Compensation to people like Mrs. Altman. She'll say, "Why not, I suffered." I'll say you didn't. You survived. By definition you didn't suffer. Not half as much as those who died.... They suffered. You didn't. You're the one making the money. Explain to me this. Why have you people made all the money, but Australian soldiers who suffered for five years in Japanese prison camps haven't got a bent nickel out of it!
 * Speech in Portland, OR. September 18, 1996

 * I deny that millions died in the gas chambers because of the logistical problems for a start.
 * The defendants will find it very hard to prove it was a Third Reich decision and an Adolf Hitler decision. There were multiple shootings but it was not pursuant to any programme.
 * "Gas chamber claims impossible, says Irving", The Guardian (13 January 2000).
 * Statements during the David Irving v Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt libel trial, which Irving lost.

 * What you're saying is 'Has a historian the right to offend?' and the answer is very definitely, yes.
 * The Nazis quite clearly killed millions of Jews...
 * The interesting questions are what did Hitler know, did Himmler conceal it, did he keep it from Hitler, where was the killing done, was it Auschwitz, was it the Reinhard camps and that's what people are frightened to research, because they go to prison for it.
 * Interview with John Humphrys on the Today programme (23 December 2006)

 * I am not anti-coloured, take it from me; nothing pleases me more than when I arrive at an airport, or a station, or a seaport, and I see a coloured family there — the black father, the black wife and the black children… When I see these families arriving at the airport I am happy, and when I see them leaving at London airport I am happy. But if there is one thing that gets up my nose, I must admit, it is this — the way… the thing is when I am down in Torquay and I switch on my television and I see one of them reading our news to us. It is our news and they’re reading it to me. If I was a chauvinist I would say I object even to seeing women reading our news to us. But now we have women reading our news to us. If they could perhaps have their own news which they were reading to us, I suppose [laughter], it would be very interesting. For the time being, for a transitional period I'd be prepared to accept that the BBC should have a dinner-jacketed gentleman reading the important news to us, following by a lady reading all the less important news, followed by Trevor McDonald giving us all the latest news about the muggings and the drug busts…
 * David Irving's Talk to the Clarendon Club

Not Jewish or Sectarian. I have no plans to marry-an Ape or Rastafarian.
 * I am a Baby Aryan,
 * Poem quoted by the counsel for the defendants in the libel trial, as cited in "Irving taught his nine-month-old daughter racist ditty, libel trial told". The Guardian (3 February 2000).
 * The quote originates from Irving's diaries (1994) and was apparently sung to his infant daughter

Quotes about Irving

 * A man for whom Hitler is something of a hero and almost everything of an innocent, and for whom Auschwitz is a Jewish deception.
 * The Times on David Irving, quoted in Deborah Lipstadt, Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory (1993), p. 180.

 * Mr. Irving's constant references to archives, diaries and letters, and the overwhelming amount of detail in his work, suggest objectivity. In fact they put a screen behind which a very different agenda is transacted… Mr. Irving is a great obfuscator ... Distortions affect every important aspect of this book to the point of obfuscation… It is unfortunate that Mr Irving wastes his extraordinary talents as a researcher and writer on trivializing the greatest crimes in German history, on manipulating historical sources and on highlighting the theatrics of the Nazi era.
 * Peter Hoffmann, quoted in Richard J. Evans, Telling Lies about Hitler, London: Verso (2002), p. 17.

 * Irving does have a rounded and developed theory of Fascism, which is to say that he has studied it a lot and thinks it’s had a bum rap. He’s even been quoted as calling himself a “mild Fascist” or “a moderate Fascist”—oxymoronic if true.
 * David Irving is not just a Fascist historian. He is also a great historian of Fascism.
 * Christopher Hitchens, "Hitler’s Ghost", Vanity Fair (2 June 1996), Online

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William F. Buckley Jr.

' (November 24 1925 - February 27 2008) was an American author, conservative journalist, who founded the conservative political magazine ' in 1955 and hosted the television show Firing Line'' from 1966 until 1999.

1950s

 * [National Review] stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it.
 * "Our Mission Statement" National Review (November 19, 1955).

 * The largest cultural menace in America is the conformity of the intellectual cliques which, in education as well as the arts, are out to impose upon the nation their modish fads and fallacies, and have nearly succeeded in doing so. In this cultural issue, we are, without reservations, on the side of excellence (rather than "newness") and of honest intellectual combat (rather than conformity).
 * "Our Mission Statement" in National Review (November 19, 1955).

 * One must recently have lived on or close to a college campus to have a vivid intimation of what has happened. It is there that we see how a number of energetic social innovators, plugging their grand designs, succeeded over the years in capturing the liberal intellectual imagination. And since ideas rule the world, the ideologues, having won over the intellectual class, simply walked in and started to run things. Run just about everything. There never was an age of conformity quite like this one, or a camaraderie quite like the Liberals'.
 * "Publisher's Statement" in the first issue of National Review (November 19, 1955)].

 * Radical conservatives in this country have an interesting time of it, for when they are not being suppressed or mutilated by Liberals, they are being ignored or humiliated by a great many of those of the well-fed Right, whose ignorance and amorality have never been exaggerated for the same reason that one cannot exaggerate infinity. There are, thank Heaven, the exceptions. There are those of generous impulse and a sincere desire to encourage a responsible dissent from the Liberal orthodoxy. And there are those who recognize that when all is said and done, the market place depends for a license to operate freely on the men who issue licenses — on the politicians. They recognize, therefore, that efficient getting and spending is itself impossible except in an atmosphere that encourages efficient getting and spending. And back of all political institutions there are moral and philosophical concepts, implicit or defined. Our political economy and our high-energy industry run on large, general principles, on ideas — not by day-to-day guess work, expedients and improvisations. Ideas have to go into exchange to become or remain operative; and the medium of such exchange is the printed word.
 * "Publisher's Statement", in the first issue of National Review (November 19, 1955).

 * The central question that emerges—and it is not a parliamentary question or a question that is answered by merely consulting a catalog of the rights of American citizens, born Equal—is whether the White community in the South is entitled to take such measures as are necessary to prevail, politically and culturally, in areas in which it does not predominate numerically? The sobering answer is Yes—the White community is so entitled because, for the time being, it is the advanced race. National Review believes that the South's premises are correct. If the majority wills what is socially atavistic, then to thwart the majority may be, though undemocratic, enlightened. It is more important for any community, anywhere in the world, to affirm and live by civilized standards, than to bow to the demands of the numerical majority. Sometimes it becomes impossible to assert the will of a minority, in which case it must give way; and the society will regress; sometimes the numerical minority cannot prevail except by violence: then it must determine whether the prevalence of its will is worth the terrible price of violence.
 * Editorial, National Review (August 24, 1957).

 * I will not cede more power to the state. I will not willingly cede more power to anyone, not to the state, not to General Motors, not to the CIO. I will hoard my power like a miser, resisting every effort to drain it away from me. I will then use my power, as I see fit. I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth. That is a program of sorts, is it not? It is certainly program enough to keep conservatives busy, and liberals at bay. And the nation free.
 * Up from Liberalism (1959).

 * Though liberals do a great deal of talking about hearing other points of view, it sometimes shocks them to learn that there are other points of view.
 * Up from Liberalism (1959); also quoted in The American Dissent : A Decade of Modern Conservatism (1966) by Jeffrey Peter Hart, p. 171
 * Variants:
 * Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.
 * As quoted in The Nastiest Things Ever Said about Democrats (2006) by Martin Higgins, p. 93
 * Liberals do a great deal of talking about hearing other points of view, but it sometimes shocks them to learn that there are other points of view.
 * early National Review editorial as quoted in his obituary in The Times of London (28 February 2008).

1960s

 * The superstition that the hounds of truth will rout the vermin of error seems, like a fragment of Victorian lace, quaint, but too brittle to be lifted out of the showcase.
 * National Review (January 16, 1962).

 * I am obliged to confess I should sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University.
 * Listen the to actual quoted words: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nf_bu-kBr4
 * 1963 statement, as quoted in The Quote Verifier : Who Said What, Where, and When (2006) by Ralph Keyes, p. 82
 * Variant: I would rather be governed by the first two thousand people in the Boston telephone directory than by the two thousand people on the faculty of Harvard University.
 * Meet the Press (1965), as quoted in The Quote Verifier : Who Said What, Where, and When (2006) by Ralph Keyes, p. 82
 * The numbers cited in paraphrases of this quote often vary from 100 to 2000.
 * Unsourced variant: I would rather be governed by the first 2000 names in the Boston phone book than by the 2000 members of the faculty of Harvard University.

 * Now listen, you queer, stop calling me a crypto-Nazi, or I'll nail you in the goddamn face and you'll stay plastered.
 * Responding to Gore Vidal during a debate over the 1968 Democratic National Committee riots on ABC News - YouTube video

 * We are so concerned to flatter the majority that we lose sight of how very often it is necessary, in order to preserve freedom for the minority, let alone for the individual, to face that majority down.
 * The Jeweler’s Eye, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons (1968) p. 68

1970–1989

 * It is safe to say that if the Communists took over the Sahara Desert tomorrow, two things would happen. First, nothing. And second, with their centralized approach to the market, there would be a shortage of sand.
 * “Buckley Heard By Tulane Unit”, John Roberts, Times-Picayune (New Orleans, Louisiana), (April 22, 1971) p. 22

 * Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.
 * As quoted in The Cynic's Lexicon : A Dictionary of Amoral Advice (1984) by Jonathon Green, p. 34.

1990s

 * The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.
 * Windfall : The End of the Affair (1992).

The War On Drugs Is Lost (1995)

 * Address to the New York Bar Association (Summer 1995); published in "The War On Drugs Is Lost" National Review Vol. 48, No. 2 (12 February 1996)]

This is perhaps the moment to note that the pharmaceutical cost of cocaine and heroin is approximately 2 per cent of the street price of those drugs. Since a cocaine addict can spend as much as $1,000 per week to sustain his habit, he would need to come up with that $1,000. The approximate fencing cost of stolen goods is 80 per cent, so that to come up with $1,000 can require stealing $5,000 worth of jewels, cars, whatever. We can see that at free-market rates, $20 per week would provide the addict with the cocaine which, in this wartime drug situation, requires of him $1,000.
 * More people die every year as a result of the war against drugs than die from what we call, generically, overdosing. These fatalities include, perhaps most prominently, drug merchants who compete for commercial territory, but include also people who are robbed and killed by those desperate for money to buy the drug to which they have become addicted.

 * Treatment is not now available for almost half of those who would benefit from it. Yet we are willing to build more and more jails in which to isolate drug users even though at one-seventh the cost of building and maintaining jail space and pursuing, detaining, and prosecuting the drug user, we could subsidize commensurately effective medical care and psychological treatment.

 * The cost of the drug war is many times more painful, in all its manifestations, than would be the licensing of drugs combined with intensive education of non-users and intensive education designed to warn those who experiment with drugs.

 * Those who suffer from the abuse of drugs have themselves to blame for it. This does not mean that society is absolved from active concern for their plight. It does mean that their plight is subordinate to the plight of those citizens who do not experiment with drugs but whose life, liberty, and property are substantially affected by the illegalization of the drugs sought after by the minority.

 * It is outrageous to live in a society whose laws tolerate sending young people to life in prison because they grew, or distributed, a dozen ounces of marijuana. I would hope that the good offices of your vital profession would mobilize at least to protest such excesses of wartime zeal, the legal equivalent of a My Lai massacre. And perhaps proceed to recommend the legalization of the sale of most drugs, except to minors.

2000s

 * I've always subconsciously looked out for the total Christian and when I found him he turned out to be a non-practicing Jew.
 * Let Us Talk of Many Things : The Collected Speeches (2000) ISBN-13: 978-0761525516
 * Referring to Richard M. Clurman (1924 - 1996), a journalist, editor and administrator best known for his long association with Time magazine.

 * They are men and women who tend to believe that the human being is perfectible and social progress predictable, and that the instrument for effecting the two is reason; that truths are transitory and empirically determined; that equality is desirable and attainable through the action of state power; that social and individual differences, if they are not rational, are objectionable, and should be scientifically eliminated; that all people and societies strive to organize themselves upon a rationalist and scientific paradigm.
 * A definition of what he meant when referring to "liberals" in Up from Liberalism (1959); as quoted in "An American original: appreciating Bill Buckley" by George Shadroui (2003).

 * I am, I fully grant, a phenomenon, but not because of any speed in composition. I asked myself the other day, "Who else, on so many issues, has been so right so much of the time?" I couldn't think of anyone.
 * "On Writing Speedily", first published in The New York Times Book Review (1986); republished in Miles Gone By : A Literary Autobiography (2004), p. 405.

The laws concerning marijuana aren't exactly indefensible, because practically nothing is, and the thunderers who tell us to stay the course can always find one man or woman who, having taken marijuana, moved on to severe mental disorder. But that argument, to quote myself, is on the order of saying that every rapist began by masturbating. General rules based on individual victims are unwise. And although there is a perfectly respectable case against using marijuana, the penalties imposed on those who reject that case, or who give way to weakness of resolution, are very difficult to defend.
 * Conservatives pride themselves on resisting change, which is as it should be. But intelligent deference to tradition and stability can evolve into intellectual sloth and moral fanaticism, as when conservatives simply decline to look up from dogma because the effort to raise their heads and reconsider is too great.
 * "Free Weeds" National Review (June 29, 2004).

 * Oh yes, I won’t cavil on that point. The magazine has been everything the speakers tonight have so kindly said it was–is. It is preposterous to suppose that this is so because of my chancellorship. How gifted do you need to be to publish Whittaker Chambers and Russell Kirk, James Burnham and Keith Mano? But, yes, the journal needed to function. Somehow the staff and the writers had to be paid–if an editorial note is reserved for me in the encyclopedias, it will appear under the heading “Alchemy.” But the deficits were met, mostly, by our readers: by you. And, yes, we did as much as anybody with the exception of–Himself–to shepherd into the White House the man I am confident will emerge as the principal political figure of the second half of the 20th century, and he will be cherished, in the nursery tales told in future generations, as the American president who showed the same innocent audacity as the little boy who insisted that the emperor wasn’t wearing any clothes, back when he said, at a critical moment in history, that the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was an evil empire. It is my judgment that those words acted as a kind of harmonic resolution to the three frantic volumes of Solzhenitsyn. The Gulag Archipelago told us everything we needed to know about the pathology of Soviet Communism. We were missing only the galvanizing summation; and we got it from President Reagan: and I think that the countdown for Communism began then.
 * "Retirement" National Review (June 30, 2004)

 * Skepticism about life and nature is most often expressed by those who take it for granted that belief is an indulgence of the superstitious — indeed their opiate, to quote a historical cosmologist most profoundly dead. Granted, that to look up at the stars comes close to compelling disbelief — how can such a chance arrangement be other than an elaboration — near infinite — of natural impulses? Yes, on the other hand, who is to say that the arrangement of the stars is more easily traceable to nature, than to nature's molder? What is the greater miracle: the raising of the dead man in Lazarus, or the mere existence of the man who died and of the witnesses who swore to his revival?
 * "How Is It Possible to Believe in God?" on NPR Morning Edition (May 23, 2005).

 * When in 1951 I was inducted into the CIA as a deep cover agent, the procedures for disguising my affiliation and my work were unsmilingly comprehensive. It was three months before I was formally permitted to inform my wife what the real reason was for going to Mexico City to live. If, a year later, I had been apprehended, dosed with sodium pentothal, and forced to give out the names of everyone I knew in the CIA, I could have come up with exactly one name, that of my immediate boss (, as it happened). In the passage of time one can indulge in idle talk on spook life. In 1980 I found myself seated next to the former president of Mexico at a ski-area restaurant. What, he asked amiably, had I done when I lived in Mexico? "I tried to undermine your regime, Mr. President." He thought this amusing, and that is all that it was, under the aspect of the heavens. We have noticed that Valerie Plame Wilson has lived in Washington since 1997. Where she was before that is not disclosed by research facilities at my disposal. But even if she was safe in Washington when the identity of her employer was given out, it does not mean that her outing was without consequence. We do not know what dealings she might have been engaging in which are now interrupted or even made impossible. ... In my case, it was 15 years after reentry into the secular world before my secret career in Mexico was blown, harming no one except perhaps some who might have been put off by my deception.
 * "Who Did What?" in National Review (November 1, 2005).

 * One can't doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed. ... Our mission has failed because Iraqi animosities have proved uncontainable by an invading army of 130,000 Americans. The great human reserves that call for civil life haven't proved strong enough. No doubt they are latently there, but they have not been able to contend against the ice men who move about in the shadows with bombs and grenades and pistols. The Iraqis we hear about are first indignant, and then infuriated, that Americans aren't on the scene to protect them and to punish the aggressors. And so they join the clothing merchant who says that everything is the fault of the Americans.
 * "It Didn't Work" in National Review (February 24, 2006).

 * If you had a European prime minister who experienced what we've experienced it would be expected that he would retire or resign.
 * On the Iraq war situation, as quoted at "Buckley: Bush Not A True Conservative" CBS News, (July 22, 2006).

 * I think Mr. Bush faces a singular problem best defined, I think, as the absence of effective conservative ideology — with the result that he ended up being very extravagant in domestic spending, extremely tolerant of excesses by Congress, and in respect of foreign policy, incapable of bringing together such forces as apparently were necessary to conclude the Iraq challenge. There will be no legacy for Mr. Bush. I don't believe his successor would re-enunciate the words he used in his second inaugural address because they were too ambitious. So therefore I think his legacy is indecipherable.
 * As quoted at "Buckley: Bush Not A True Conservative" at CBS News, (July 22, 2006).

 * Government can't do anything for you except in proportion as it can do something to you.
 * As quoted in "Broken Government: Where the right went wrong," CNN (November 3, 2006).

 * It was rumored, in 1946, that the hangman in Nuremberg adjusted the nooses of some of the condemned to magnify the pain of suffocation. Such sadism was not called for then and is not called for now. But if fornication is wrong, there is no denying that it can bring pleasure. The death of Saddam Hussein at rope's end brings a pleasure that is undeniable, and absolutely chaste in its provenance.
 * "Spare Thoughts on Saddam" National Review (December 29, 2006).

 * I get satisfaction of three kinds. One is creating something, one is being paid for it and one is the feeling that I haven’t just been sitting on my ass all afternoon.
 * As quoted in The Book of Positive Quotations (2007) by John Cook.

 * Everything I do and say and the way I do and say it annoys me.
 * As quoted in "William F. Buckley Jr., Rapier Wit Of the Right" The Washington Post (February 28, 2008).

 * Demand a recount.
 * Response when asked what he would do if he actually won the 1965 election for Mayor of New York, as quoted in "Conrad Black on William F. Buckley Jr." National Post (February 27, 2008).

Misattributed

 * Marijuana never kicks down your door in the middle of the night. Marijuana never locks up sick and dying people, does not suppress medical research, does not peek in bedroom windows. Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.
 * P. J. O'Rourke, as quoted in Busted : Stone Cowboys, Narco-lords, and Washington's War on Drugs (2002) edited by Mike Gray.

 * They told me if I voted for Goldwater, he would get us into a war in Vietnam. Well, I voted for Goldwater and that's what happened.
 * This appears to be a variant of a widely disseminated Republican joke with no published attribution of its authorship to Buckley.
 * Variant: They told me if I voted for Goldwater in 1964, that we'd have more war and higher prices. Well, I did, and we do.
 * , as quoted in The Condition of Republicanism (1968) by Nick Thimmesch, p. 65
 * They told me if I voted for Goldwater we'd be at war in Vietnam in six months — and I did and we were.
 * Anonymous voter, as quoted in It All Comes Back to Me Now : Character Portraits from the "Golden Apple" (2001) by William O'Shaughnessy, p. 85
 * Buckley did say this on the Firing Line episode "Vietnam: Pull Out? Stay In? Escalate?" According to the transcript here, he says "...if someone told me that if I voted for Goldwater, we would escalate the war, I did and we have."

Quotes about William F. Buckley, Jr.

 * In alphabetical order of author or source.

 * The idea to make New York City a state, in case you didn't know, is not original with me. There's been a long struggle for more "home rule," which, although it hasn't focused on statehood, has sought to get us more control over taxes, services and decision-making. Statehood was first proposed by the Mayor of New York in 1861; it was later advocated by such people as William Randolph Hearst and by William F. Buckley in his campaign for Mayor in 1965...
 * Bella Abzug Bella!: Ms. Abzug Goes to Washington (1972)

 * William F. Buckley Jr. was one of the great personalities of the United States of the last 50 years. He was the same in private as in public: urbane, humorous and always cordial. ... His humanity and gentlemanliness and unfailing courtesy, as well as his wit and erudition, enabled him to take positions that affronted the liberal conventional wisdom without attracting the venomous antagonism of its leaders. His close friends included such contrary spirits as John Kenneth Galbraith, Mario Cuomo and some of the Kennedys and Rockefellers.
 * in "Conrad Black on William F. Buckley Jr." in National Post (27 February 2008).

 * William F. Buckley was more than a journalist or commentator. He was the indisputable leader of the conservative movement that laid the groundwork for the Reagan Revolution. Every Republican owes him a debt of gratitude for his tireless efforts on behalf of our party and nation.
 * , in "Blunt Statement on Passing of William F. Buckley, Jr." in Fox/Business News (27 February 2008).

 * "The central question that emerges," the National Review's founding editor, William F. Buckley, Jr., wrote in 1957, amid congressional debate over the first Civil Rights of the modern era, "is whether the white community in the South is entitled to take such measures as are necessary to prevail, politically and culturally, in areas which it does not predominate numerically? The sobering answer is yes-the white community is so entitled because, for the time being, it is the advanced race." He continued: "It is more important for any community, anywhere in the world, to affirm and live by civilized standards, than to bow to the demands of the numerical majority." It was a strikingly blunt defense of Jim Crow and affirmation of white supremacy from the father of the conservative movement. Later, when key civil rights questions had been settled by law, Buckley would essentially renounce these views, praising the movement and criticizing race-baiting demagogues like George C. Wallace. Still, his initial impulse-to give white political minorities a veto not just over policy but over democracy itself-reflected a tendency that would express itself again and again in the conservative politics he ushered into the mainstream, emerging when political, cultural, and demographic change threatened a narrow, exclusionary vision of American democracy.
 * Jamelle Bouie, The 1619 Project (2019)

 * We learned from our parents to prefer the good man to the brilliant man. It is a sacred humanity in people we respect. Our compassion is earned in the quality of the human condition. People are surprised to realize that we, princelings of Dame Fortune, as they feel us to be, tread the same hard interior landscape. And it may be this that comes through, that fascinates, because we do not presume, "Come, let us lead you," but, instead, petition, "Come, our philosophy is your way, the human way, and it is you who will and must lead yourselves…"
 * Fergus Reid Buckley, his younger brother, as quoted by George Shadroui in "An American original: appreciating Bill Buckley" Intellectual Conservative (2003).

 * America has lost one of its finest writers and thinkers. Bill Buckley was one of the great founders of the modern conservative movement. He brought conservative thought into the political mainstream, and helped lay the intellectual foundation for America's victory in the Cold War and for the conservative movement that continues to this day.
 * George W. Bush, in an official "Statement by the President on Death of William F. Buckley" (February 27, 2008).

 * Jeffrey Hart suggested that Buckley was torn between his patrician roots and the populist temper of the movement he championed. An echt Burkean with a snob’s disdain for the contemporary Republican Party, Hart hinted at a road not taken, in which a Buckley-led conservative intelligentsia might have labored to infiltrate and convert the liberal-leaning Eastern Establishment, rather than making common cause with Sunbelt populists, Reagan Democrats and other faintly embarrassing constituencies. But it’s doubtful Buckley himself harbored such fantasies. From the beginning of his career, he seemed to grasp that any successful right-of-center politics in America would be populist, or it wouldn’t be at all. In post-New Deal America, with the welfare state firmly entrenched and the governing class squarely in the statist corner, conservatism’s obvious constituency was middle-class and put-upon, and its obvious purpose was to defend its constituents’ folkways and pocketbooks against sophisticates and social engineers. The establishment was solidly liberal, so the right needed to be anti-establishment; the alternative was the sidelines, or the fever swamps. The previous generation of conservative thinkers had chosen alienation, resentment, paranoia. Buckley chose populism — and with it, relevance.
 * Ross Douthat, "Essay: When Buckley Met Reagan", New York Times (January 16, 2009).

 * William F. Buckley, Jr. once made the famous pronouncement that he would rather be ruled by the first 2,000 names in the Boston phonebook than by the combined faculties of Harvard and MIT. Now that we are ruled by the combined faculties of Harvard and MIT, you can see what he meant.
 * , "How the Intellectuals Took Over (And What to Do About It)", Commentary (March 1, 1997).

 * Had there been no Buckley, there would likely have been no Reagan administration, no Morning in America, no “Tear down this wall,” and no Cold War triumph for liberty and the West. It may sometimes be confusing, what with all the intramural squabbling among libertarian conservatives, neoconservatives, paleoconservatives, and the like, to know exactly what “conservatism” stands for these days. But Buckley more than anyone made clear that there are things it would not stand for.
 * Jeff Jacoby, in "The architect of modern conservatism" The Boston Globe (February 27, 2008).

 * Bill was responsible for rejecting the and the other kooks who passed off anti-Semitism or some such as conservatism. ... Without Bill — if he had decided to become an academic or a businessman or something else — without him, there probably would be no respectable conservative movement in this country.
 * , as quoted in "William F. Buckley Jr. Is Dead at 82" The New York Times (February 27, 2008).

 * He was really a quintessential leader of the conservative movement not just in New York but in the nation. There are no other Bill Buckleys now on the scene. On a personal level he was a very warm and kind individual.
 * Mike Long, New York Conservative Party Chairman, as quoted in "NY Conservatives Remember Buckley" Daily News (New York, February 28, 2008).

 * Even if you disagreed sharply with his positions, which were delivered in his slightly nasal tones, you knew that you had to do your homework before you took him on in any kind of debate. He was a font of wisdom, and he knew how to wield the language like a knight's sword.
 * Marshall Loeb, in "Bill Buckley, liberals' favorite conservative" in MarketWatch (February 27, 2008).

 * No other actor on earth can project simultaneous hints that he is in the act of playing Commodore of the Yacht Club, Joseph Goebbels, Robert Mitchum, Maverick, Savonarola, the nice prep-school kid from next door, and the snows of yesteryear.
 * Norman Mailer, Harper's magazine (1967), as quoted in "William F. Buckley Jr., Rapier Wit Of the Right" The Washington Post (February 28, 2008).

 * You didn’t just part the Red Sea — you rolled it back, dried it up and left exposed, for all the world to see, the naked desert that is statism. And then, as if that weren’t enough, you gave the world something different, something in its weariness it desperately needed, the sound of laughter and the sight of the rich, green uplands of freedom.
 * Ronald Reagan, in an address at the National Review’s 30th anniversary (1985) as quoted in "William F. Buckley Jr. Is Dead at 82" in The New York Times (27 February 2008).

 * Where Coolidge's conservatism had led him to oppose police unions, the new right saw them as comrades. In New York City in 1965, in the midst of a quixotic run for mayor, famed National Review editor William E Buckley Jr praised the "restraint" of state troopers beating civil rights marchers an Selma, to a crowd of 5,600 cheering and clapping policemen who gave the conservative intellectual a "standing ovation." In Buckley's view, the troopers in Selma were standing for a world of "order and values," which in a certain sense was true. It was an explicitly racist order built on explicitly racist values, and the politics of policing allowed Buckley, and by extension the conservative movement, to defend that order and those values in the name of public safety rather than white supremacy.
 * Adam Serwer, The Cruelty is the Point (2021)

 * Buckley was conservative before conservative was cool. He was brilliant, Ivy League, handsome and very, very, VERY articulate. And he was, well, so very self confident. All of his talent and style combined to rebirth the moribund conservative movement in this country. From his founding of the National Review to the day he stepped down from moderating his signature talk show, “Firing Line.” It is fair to say that Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and Newt Gingrich all owe their place in American history to the man who once famously wrote that he didn’t know anyone smarter than himself. ... In a way, it’s sad that people like Rush Limbaugh and Michael Savage are today’s mouthpieces for conservatism. What a far leap they are from the quick witted and smart Buckley. I think it’s fair to say that even Buckley’s ideological enemies admired him and respected him. That’s because Buckley was not a hate monger; he was a serious-minded person who made reasoned and rational arguments for his cause. No apologies to Limbaugh, Savage or their listeners and adherents — they are no substitute for Buckley’s class and intellectualism.
 * Ward Sloane in "Good night, Mr. Buckley" CBS News (February 27, 2008).

 * Before there was Ronald Reagan there was Barry Goldwater, and before there was Barry, there was National Review, and before there was National Review there was Bill Buckley with a spark in his mind.
 * George Will, as quoted in the The Times of London obituary (February 28, 2008).

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Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:21, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 05:46, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

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User talk:Im.a.lumberjack

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title: User talk:Im.a.lumberjack


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User talk:Crimetape

Welcome
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title: User talk:Crimetape


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User talk:The happy philosopher~enwikiquote

Welcome
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Your account will be renamed
Hello,

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

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

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

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:36, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 05:59, 19 April 2015 (UTC)


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User talk:C0pernicus

Welcome
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title: User talk:C0pernicus