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User talk:Yuumeko

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John Burgess

John Burgess (August 26, 1844 – January 13, 1931) was a pioneering American political scientist.

Quotes

 * It is difficult to see why the most advantageous political system, for the present, would not be a democratic state with an artistocratic government, provided only the artistocracy be that of real merit, and not of artificial qualities. If this be not the real principle of the republican form of government then I must confess that I do not know what its principle is.
 * John Burgess (1933). The Foundations of Political Science. (reprinted 1994) As cited in Ido Oren, "The Subjectivity of the 'Democratic' Peace," International Security, Vol. 20, No. 2.

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Talk:Questionable Content

See Talk:The Order of the Stick for a rough description for the guidelines I used here. I modified the guidelines there in two ways: Comments about formatting are welcome! ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 07:26, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 1) Use hundred-strip level-2 headers, with 10-strip level-3 headers
 * 2) Add strip-title to the strip's link (OOTS has no titles)

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User talk:XaViER~enwikiquote

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Talk:Björk

I'm 99.13% sure that the attributed quote:

"I have a secret code called 'Icelandic', so you will never know what's written here." Holding a notebook, during a television interview, possibly on US cable channel VH1

was actually from a program on Bravo. More details can I not unveil, as I have not the access to sources at hand. My apologies extended.

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 * Thanks for the warning. I found another image on commons, one under GFDL, and substituted it. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 10:19, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Unsourced
Wikiquote no longer allows unsourced quotations, and they are in process of being removed from our pages (see Wikiquote:Limits on quotations); but if you can provide a reliable, precise and verifiable source for any quote on this list please move it to Björk. --Antiquary 20:38, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
 * "Iceland to me is like a rock in a bowl of water. It may or may not float, sink, or bobble up and down, but it is unaware of its choices. It simply does what it will do."

 * "I think it's a mission thing. I think everybody's on a mission. I'm personally on a very, very sort of fast mission. I have to experience 900,000 things just to know that I've tried them all, you know?"

 * "I don't think the way to deal with the September 11th is to sit down and write a song about it. I think you have to sit down and write a song about something else. Because there are more things in the world than Bush and Bin Laden. Thank God!"

 * "This is triangles. I need it to be more squares, and then some circles."
 * Describing to a sound engineer the direction she wanted a song to take.

 * "I have a secret code called 'Icelandic', so you will never know what's written here."
 * Holding a notebook, during a television interview, on Canadian cable channel Bravo!

 * "Basically the story of Isobel is she was born in a forest by a spark and as she grew up she realized that the pebbles on the floor were actually skyscrapers and by the time she was a grownup woman and the skyscrapers had taken over the forest, she found herself in the city and she didn't like all the people there too much because they were a bit too clever for her, so she decided to send to the world all of these moths that she had trained, to go and fly all over the world and go inside windows of people's houses that were too clever, and they sit on their shoulder and remind them to stop being clever and to start to function by their instinct, and they do that by saying "na na na na na" to them and then they say "oh, sorry, I was being all clever there" and they start to function on instinct."
 * Explaining her song "Isobel" in an interview.

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User talk:195.10.5.6

Just making a note here that George Harrison is the author of "Here Comes the Sun" — which is why I reverted your changes. ~ Kalki 10:04, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

Humm, I'll check on the date of Nina's song. Off course covering songs can go either way. George covering Nina sounded more likely. I'll check!!

I checked and you seem to be right. Thanx for correcting.

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User:SylwiaS~enwikiquote

Hi, I am an English Wikipedia contributor. Please, go to my page on English Wiki. --SylwiaS 11:27, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

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User talk:212.219.116.130

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User:Author~enwikiquote

"Life is what happens when you are making other plans" John Lennon.

I guess this quote means a lot to me.

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User talk:212.95.166.162

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User talk:64.80.89.54

Hi. If you insist on writing long essays in comments in VFD, could you please do it in standard format? Also note that votes by anonymous users are discounted in VfD, and votes by newly-created users with few edits are counted less, as the desire is to assess the will of the community. Thanks ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 13:42, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

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User:Axezz~enwikiquote

 Love • List of literary works • List of proverbs

Quote of the day

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Our goals emerge as wee proceed!
Freely after Alfred Hitchcock I quote you into the beginning without end. Wanderer! Be welcome.

Axezz 13:45, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

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Zelig

Zelig is a 1983 film about a man who can alter his appearance to match any of the people around him.
 * Written and directed by Woody Allen.

Leonard Zelig

 * [to Dr. Eudora Fletcher] Oh . . . the pancakes!
 * I love baseball. You know, it doesn't have to mean anything. It's just very beautiful to watch.
 * [to Dr. Eudora Fletcher] I have an interesting case. I'm treating two sets of Siamese twins with split personalities. I'm getting paid by eight people.
 * [to Dr. Eudora Fletcher] I worked with Freud in Vienna. We broke over the concept of penis envy. Freud felt that it should be limited to women.
 * [to Dr. Eudora Fletcher] My brother beat me. My sister beat my brother. My father beat my sister, my brother, and me. My mother beat my father, my sister, my brother, and me. The neighbors beat our family. The family down the street beat the neighbors and our family.
 * But I've never flown before in my life, and it shows exactly what you can do, if you're a total psychotic!
 * I would like to apologize to everyone. I . . . I'm awfully sorry for, for marrying all those women. It just, I don't know, it just seemed like the thing to do. My deepest apology goes to the Trochman family in Detroit. I . . . I never delivered a baby before in my life, and I . . . I just thought that ice tongs was the way to do it. And to the, to the gentleman who's appendix I took out, I... I'm, I don't know what to say, if it's any consolation I... I may still have it somewhere around the house.
 * [to Dr. Eudora Fletcher, under hypnotism] I'm 12 years old. I run into the synagogue. I ask the rabbi the meaning of life. He tells me the meaning of life, but he tells it to me in Hebrew. I don't understand Hebrew. Then he wants to charge me $600 for Hebrew lessons.

Narrator

 * That Zelig could be responsible for the behavior of each of the personalities he assumed means dozens of lawsuits. He is sued for bigamy, adultery, automobile accidents, plagiarism, household damages, negligence, property damages, and performing unnecessary dental extractions.
 * The Ku Klux Klan, who saw Zelig as a Jew, that could turn himself into a Negro and a Chinaman, saw him as a triple threat.

Bruno Bettelheim

 * The question of whether Zelig was a psychotic or merely neurotic was a question that was endlessly discussed among his doctors. Now I myself felt his feelings were really not all that different from the normal, what one would call the well-adjusted, normal person, only carried to an extreme degree, to an extreme extent. I myself felt that one could really think of him as the ultimate conformist.

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TecBrat

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Please note that wikiquote is not the place to debate whether quotations make sense or not -- only if they are accurate and properly attribute. If you want to debate content, there are many forums on the internet where you can do so. Because of this, I have removed your remarks from Talk:Dan Quayle. Thanks ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 15:36, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

Typing dates
I saw your comment about your year error at Talk:Dan Quayle. Did you know that ending your talk-page postings with four tildes ( ~ ) automatically generates both your linked user ID and the current date? This avoids date typos, which, as you point out, are so very easy to make this time of year. Also handy are 3 tildes for just your user ID, and 5 tildes for just the date/time. Wikipedia also has some articles on making fancier auto-generated signatures (like mine. which adds a talk-page link), which I can dig up if you're interested. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 10:39, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

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User talk:164.117.144.16

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User talk:83.176.17.49

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User talk:DaveM

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Lawrence Nault - The Mountain Hermit

Lawrence Nault is a Canadian author and storyteller. Often working under the name "The Mountain Hermit" he works out of his home in the foothills of the Alberta Rocky Mountains. His children's books were first published in 2005 (Squirrel Tales), before his foray into political/economic fiction in Jubilee. After a prolonged hiatus, he returned, finding a niche in the eco-fiction and eco-fantasy genres. As of June 6, 2024 Lawrence has nine published books, including two young adult series (The MacIver Kids Adventure, The Draconim series), his original Animal Tales Series, and a speculative fiction novel (Inversion).

Attributed

 * The point of a story can penetrate far deeper than the point of any bullet.

Books

 * Squirrel Tales - ISBN 0-9733599-0-0, re-published under ISBN 978-09939636-3-6
 * Wolf Tales - ISBN 0-9733599-1-9, re-published under ISBN 978-09939636-4-3
 * Bear Tales - ISBN 0-9733599-2-7 re-published under ISBN 978-09939636-5-0
 * Loma - A MacIver Kids Adventure - ISBN 0-9733599-3-5, re-published under ISBN 978-09939636-6-7
 * Jubilee - ISBN 0-9684284-2-8,re-published as Leviticus 25: Jubilee ISBN 978-09939636-8-1
 * The Mountain Hermit's Animal Tales ISBN 978-09939636-2-9
 * Diversion- A MacIver Kids Adventure ISBN 978-17380681-3-5
 * Draconim Lacrima Mortis ISBN 978-17380681-0-4
 * Feeding The Fires ISBN 978-17380681-6-6
 * Inversion ISBN 978-17380681-9-7

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Broken News

Broken News (2005) was a BBC comedy television series shown in Autumn 2005. It acted as a parody of 24-hour news channels.

Tomato Flu

 * Andrew Farley: But the tablets were recalled by manufacturers, after it was discovered that they could cause violent seizures when taken in conjunction with water.

 * Anthony Markovitz: When you flush the toilet on an aeroplane, do you ever think about where it goes? I sure don't!

 * Natalie Gosling: Organisers of the London Marathon plan to ban runners from taking rest breaks in future marathons after many runners in this year's event were caught urinating, defecating and suffering heart attacks on camera.

 * Nick Burnham: [from the International Space Station] We have been informed that up to a third of our supplies contain Tomatoids, and we've already eaten half!
 * Deadly tomato flu in space?

 * Colin Kavanagh: [warning of the symptoms of Tomato Flu] If you experience any of the following symptoms, you would be advised to contact your doctor immediately: hot or cold sweats, hot or cold aches, sweaty acheyness, runny, sweaty or achey nose, dizziness, blinking, passing water, or - in the most extreme cases - death.

 * Richard Pritchard: A witty viewer texts in to say "This will only affect boys. Boys get the flu, girls get colds, so it stand to reason that only boys will die!" That's funny.

Missing Island

 * Colin Kavanagh: If the world was a 24-hour clock, just how close are we to the end of the world? According to the UN, we are at approximately 4 seconds to midnight. The US, meanwhile, have taken a more optimistic stance, saying that we are actually at 9 seconds to midnight. However, the WWF, who have traditionally been the most pessimistic of observers, claim that we are already at just one second to midnight.
 * ''Has global warming already gone too far?, asks PVS' Colin Kavanagh.

 * Richard Harbinger: One thing's for certain, things will get a lot worse before they get worse still.

 * Natalie Gosling: Manchester United have denied that starting other Manchester Uniteds in China, Japan, Australia, the US, Scotland, Wales and London would make the club any less unique or be in the least bit confusing.

 * Joe Reed: They say that children should be seen and not heard, but in this case, it should be sacked and not paid. If this is a taste of what's to come, let's hope he's burnt out and washed up by 10.
 * ''Film and Movie News' Joe Reed savages the latest offering by child star Calley Quinn.

 * Alecia: Over in Europe, scientists claim to have lost an island! Yep, you heard me right! They've lost an entire island, along with the scientific work station they had on it!
 * Anthony Markovitz: Keep drinking the wine, fellas!
 * IBS News's unique take on global warming

 * Reporter: Over this way, is Russia. Over that way is England, Iceland, Greenland, Canada and if you keep going you end up over there again. That's just how this place is.

Halfway There Day

 * Richard Pritchard: "Road to Nowhere". Reports today suggest that the M25, Britain's busiest road, could be scrapped because it doesn't actually go anywhere.

 * Kevin Peters: In motor racing today, Rubens Barrichello's suspected hamstring injury has been confirmed as a broken arm.

 * PVS Reporter: I asked a few of the bands who they expected to win.
 * Singer 1: Me!
 * Singer 2: Me!
 * Singer 3: Me!
 * Band 1: Us!
 * Band 2: Them.
 * PVS Reporter: So its still all to play for!
 * The MADI awards are back, without last years controversy.

 * Joe Reed: I thought I was going to vomit so hard, my liquified kidneys would be forced out of my nose.
 * A film review from Film and Movie News

 * Katie Tate: Here's a text message from a viewer: "I'm not a Nazi sympathiser, but why don't we ever sympathise with them".
 * Richard Pritchard: Another message says: "Your coverage of the war is anaemic and sentimentalised and doesn't fully convey the sheer horror of what went on. You should show more mutilated bodies and explosions."
 * Katie Tate: The next text reads: "Animals don't have wars. They just sit around all day, having a..."

[Cut to Report on Look Out East]

 * ESN News phone-in poll

 * Joe Allaway: The northern Tajikistan province of Gorno-Badakhstan has experienced no weather for over four months now.

Crime

 * Dan Evans: Hi, I'm Dan Evans, in London.
 *  Tom Mitchell: And I'm Tom Mitchell, in New York.
 * Michelle Wong: And I'm Michelle Wong, in Hong Kong.
 * Kyoko Ogura: And I'm Kyoko Ogura, in Tokyo.
 * Katerina Schultheiss: And I'm Katerina Schultheiss, in Berlin.
 * All: And you're watching World Money Today.
 * Johan Fleisher: With me, Johan Fleisher, in Geneva.
 * Francis Xavier-Menenses: And me, Francis Xavier-Menenses, in Buenos Aires.
 * Todd Todmore: And I'm Todd Todmore, in Johannesburg.
 * Brett MacKensie: And me, Brett MacKensie, in Sydney. G'day.
 * Dan Evans: And me, Dan Evans, in London.
 * ''The top business reporters from World Money Today leaving us in no doubt as to what we're watching.

 * Josh Cashman: So, how could she out-do that dress? Simple, no dress! But she made just flaw...it was a kiddie picture! The parents are all like "Total mental corruption". Just kidding! They're all "Lawsuit" and "Ker-ching", and "Chat Show!"! But, on a serious note, could this be the beginning of the end of society! I mean, can you imagine if Robin Williams turned up naked to his next premiere? Ugh! Would you wanna see that? I'd rather watch his movies!
 * A less-than-successful premiere altogether

 * Katie Tate: Here's a text message from a viewer: "I blame the breakdown of society on society."
 * Richard Pritchard: Here's another one: "Children these days sound too black. There's nothing wrong with it, it's just wrong".
 * Katie Tate: "Not all children are bad. Our daughter is the kindest person ever". That's from Mummy and Daddy in Newcastle.
 * ESN News phone-in poll

 * Joe Reed: He is more unpleasant than Hitler in a traffic jam.
 * Joe Reed doesn't seem to like popular director Dan Hunter much.

 * Josh Cashman: On the plus side, his hair would cover his body, but on the downside, you'd see his hairy body! Ahh!
 * Simon Kay: As Josh seems to have lost the ability to speak, we'll leave it there.

 * Will Parker: Donald Rumsfeld is very much his own man, and people here are talking about what he will not say as much as what he will say when he does turn up. He will probably not say what we expect him to say, because that's not his style, although of course, we'll know what he will say in a few moments' time, assuming that he hasn't actually said it already.

Later on in the report

Well, the speculation here in Washington has been at least as much to do with what Mr Rumsfeld isn't going to say as it has been about what he might or might not say, when he arrives any minute now behind me. We know, for instance, that he isn't going to say anything about what we originally thought he was going to talk about. But then I think we knew that already – that's just not his style. What I can tell you is that Mr Rumsfeld is a man in no mood to mince his words, whatever words he decides to choose to use or indeed not use, and of course we'll know that very shortly indeed.

High anticipation ahead of a a 'major' Rumsfeld speech.

Bolivian Crisis

 * Reporter: Due to a debate between librarians and PACT, the Producers Alliance for Cinema and Television, news channels cannot shoot new footage of libraries. These library pictures were shot months ago.

 * Katie Tate: Scott from Bolivia says that he thinks his country's nuclear program is a good thing. It will make other countries take them more seriously. He's in Sussex.

 * Presenter: All in all, Bolivia is the last place in the world you'd want a nuclear missile fired at you from.

Hijack

 * Amanda Panda: Everything is happening exactly as normal, giving the place a very surreal air.

 * Traffic Reporter: Some weather can be expected in severe parts of the country.

 * Joe Reed: This film is so bad you have to make up your own vocabulary to express its banality. It's schilt. It's chronofap. It's gukt.

 * ''Joe Reed seems to get angrier every episode.

 * Translation Voiceover: Coming to the UK must have been an electric shock, with the two cultures punching each other. Was it a head for your test?
 * Translation Voiceover: Now, let's talk in claustrophobia. Back then, racism was a word that didn't marzipan in your vocabulary.
 * Translation Voiceover: Flying jump tackles were considered bad application form.
 * Translation Voiceover: But for you, it was probably just like water off a swan's cock.

 * ''Guy Batson tries to interview the oldest living foreign player in British soccer.

 * Richard Harbinger: After 9/11, cockpit doors were strengthened greatly. Tests show that they can withstand high powered semtex and shoulder launched grenades. But, they were never tested against wooden planks, and this could be how terrorists got into the cockpit.
 * A crucial flaw reported by PVS news

 * Katie Tate: Still to come. A roundup of our reminders of all the news still to come so far. All that still to come.
 * Richard Pritchard: But first. Coming up.

 * Richard Pritchard: Here's a text message from a viewer: "Why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why? Why?". This message sums up many of your texts.
 * Katie Tate: "Why?". That's from John in Aberdeen
 * Richard Pritchard: "Why?". That's from...
 * A rather repetitive ESN News phone-in poll

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User talk:206.145.29.246

I've reverted your edit of the VFD page, but let me explain: if you are not signed in, any vote that is placed will be stricken. Your comments are welcome, but if you would like to place a vote, please register or sign in. UDScott 16:40, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

Denis Leary
I've restored the VFD tag on the Denis Leary page. Please do not remove it again. It must remain once it is placed there, until the voting period has ended. In all liklihood, now that quotes have been added, this page will not be deleted. But please let the voting process continue as it should, without you removing this tag. Thanks. UDScott 21:05, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

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User talk:88.107.80.76

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User talk:172.203.175.87

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User talk:198.169.169.32

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User talk:64.163.234.200

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Talk:Rita Mae Brown

I think the exact wording of the quote is

"It is not the function of the government to tell people who to love or how to love. The only people who are truly queer are those who cannot love."

Only "insane" with deterministic processes :-)
Of course, some processes are nondeterministic (i.e., they will not give the same result for the same input every time) and in their case repeating is not "insane". Otherwise many computational physicists would qualify as insane :-) See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nondeterministic_algorithm

Unsourced

 * A woman who will tell her age will tell anything.

 * About all you can do is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.

 * Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

 * Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.

 * I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong and compassionate.

 * I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

 * I don't want to die. I think death is a greatly overrated experience.

 * I think of birth as the search for a larger apartment.

 * If you can't raise consciousness, at least raise hell.

 * No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love... The only queer people in the world are those who don’t love anyone.
 * Seen on the back of a grocery receipt

 * One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

 * The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.

 * Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself. (As quoted in “The Portable curmudgeon” (1987) by Jon Winokur; Page 270.; The earliest source found for this quote is “Mother Jones – Volume 7″ (1982); Page 63, where it was quoted anonymously.)

 * When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.

Please verify by including the exact quote and passage from the actual book.
Has it been validated that this quote is actually in the book? Otherwise, it would be a clever way to gain attention since it is such a widely used quote (annoyingly so) attributed to so many famous people. Can it be confirmed if the author originated the quote or just used what she heard from Albert Einstein or someone else?

"Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results." Sudden Death (Bantam Books, New York, 1983), p. 68. Note: This same quote has also been variously attributed to Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein and an old Chinese proverb

Fred R. Shapiro attributes this to Brown unequivocally in The Yale Book of Quotations (Yale University Press, 2006, ISBN 0300107986), p. 109, but Ralph Keyes suggests in The Quote Verifier (Macmillan, 2006, ISBN 0312340044) , p. 98–99 that, although no earlier published occurrence is currently known, it may not have been original. I am highly skeptical of un-sourced attributions to people who are the frequent object of the second axiom of The Rules of Misquotation. While the general notion that it is foolish to reiterate the ineffectual is surely timeless, I see no reason to doubt that this particular wording is original to Brown. ~ Ningauble 16:33, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, this exact quote (without the first comma) appears on p. 68 of the cited edition. The immediately preceding context is "Unfortunately, Susan didn't remember what Jane Fulton once said," followed by the quote in quotation marks. (Fulton is a fictional character in the book.)

Some more background on the history of this quote: http://www.news.hypercrit.net/2012/11/13/einstein-on-misattribution-i-probably-didnt-say-that/

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Insanity should be defined as doing the same thing over and over again and getting different results.

According to who...???
In the Misattributed section the last statement says the quote about "the defnition of insanity..." appeared a a 365 day quotes calendar but doesn't provide who they attributed the quote to...! making it totally irrelevant, as well as highly suspect...! 24.2.244.79 14:41, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

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John le Carré

John le Carré is the pen-name of David John Moore Cornwell (19 October 1931 – 12 December 2020), who was a British writer of spy novels and a former spy himself.

 * See also: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Smiley's People

Quotes

 * Where I kick myself is where I think I actually contributed to the myth of the intelligence services being very good.
 * As quoted in Halliwell's Film Companion (1985) by Leslie Halliwell, p. 281

 * In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis, in every confrontation that has come my way, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know.
 * As quoted in "Master of the Secret World: John le Carré on Deception, Storytelling and American Hubris" by Andrew Ross, in Salon (21 October 1996), also in Conversations with John Le Carré (2004), edited by Matthew J. Broccoli and Judith S. Baughman, p. 139

 * Every writer wants to be believed. But every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.
 * As quoted in "Master of the Secret World: John le Carré on Deception, Storytelling and American Hubris" by Andrew Ross, in Salon (21 October 1996); also in Conversations with John le Carré (2004) edited by Matthew Joseph Bruccoli and Judith Baughman, p. 140

 * I use the furniture of espionage to amuse the reader, to make the reader listen to me, because most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage. I think what gives my works whatever universality they have is that they use the metaphysical secret world to describe some realities of the overt world.
 * As quoted in "Master of the Secret World: John le Carré on Deception, Storytelling and American Hubris" by Andrew Ross, in Salon (21 October 1996); also in Conversations with John le Carré (2004) edited by Matthew Joseph Bruccoli and Judith Baughman, p. 141

The reaction to 9/11 is beyond anything Osama bin Laden could have hoped for in his nastiest dreams. As in McCarthy times, the freedoms that have made America the envy of the world are being systematically eroded. The combination of compliant US media and vested corporate interests is once more ensuring that a debate that should be ringing out in every town square is confined to the loftier columns of the East Coast press.
 * America has entered one of its periods of historical madness, but this is the worst I can remember: worse than McCarthyism, worse than the Bay of Pigs and in the long term potentially more disastrous than the Vietnam War.
 * "The United States of America Has Gone Mad", The Times [UK] (15 January 2003) · John le Carré reading "The United States of America Has Gone Mad", Democracy Now!

The Spy Who Came In From the Cold (1963)

 * "This is a war," Leamas replied. "It's graphic and unpleasant because it's fought on a tiny scale, at close range; fought with a wastage of innocent life sometimes, I admit. But it's nothing, nothing at all beside other wars – the last or the next."

 * "Who do you think spies are: priests, saints and martyrs? They’re a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors, too, yes; pansies, sadists and drunkards, people who play cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten lives. Do you think they sit like monks in London balancing the rights and wrongs? I’d have killed Mundt if I could, I hate his guts; but not now. It so happens they need him. They need him so that the great moronic mass that you admire can sleep soundly in their beds at night. They need him for the safety of ordinary, crummy people like you and me". (p.231)

 * What the hell do you think spies are? Model philosophers measuring everything they do against the word of God or Karl Marx? They’re not. They’re just a bunch of seedy, squalid bastards like me, little men, drunkards, queers, henpecked husbands, civil servants, playing cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten little lives. Do you think they sit like monks in a cell, balancing right against wrong? (from a clip from the film adaptation of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, starring Richard Burton as Alec Leamas, an alcoholic cynical British spy)
 * Quoted in “The United States of America Has Gone Mad”: John le Carré on Iraq War, Israel & U.S. Militarism, Democracy Now! (25 December 2020)

The Honourable Schoolboy (1977)

 * A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.

The Constant Gardener (2001)

 * Tessa Quayle: Sir, I’ve just got one question. I just wondered: Whose map is Britain using when it completely ignores the United Nations and decides to invade Iraq? Or do you think it’s more diplomatic to bend the will of a superpower and politely take part in Vietnam the sequel? Justin Quayle: Well, I can’t speak for Sir Bernard.Tessa Quayle: Oh, I thought that’s why you were here.Justin Quayle: I mean, diplomats have to go where they’re sent.Tessa Quayle: So do Labradors.Justin Quayle: Ouch. Well, I think that, no, Sir Bernard would no doubt argue that when peaceful means are exhausted, then - Tessa Quayle: Exhausted? Mr. Quayle, they’re not exactly exhausted, are they? I mean, they’re just — they’re just — no, they are just lying in the way of the tanks. No, let’s face it: We’ve taken 60 years to build up this international organization called the United Nations, which is meant to avoid wars, and now we just blow it up because our car is running out of petrol.
 * Quoted in “The United States of America Has Gone Mad”: John le Carré on Iraq War, Israel & U.S. Militarism, Democracy Now! (25 December 2020)

 * [She] reports that [the company] recently donated fifty million dollars to a major U.S. teaching hospital, plus salaries and expenses for three top clinicians and six research assistants. Corruption of university Common Room affiliations is even easier: professorial chairs, biotech labs, research foundations, etc. 'Unbought scientific opinion is increasingly hard to find.'

"The United States of America Has Gone Mad", The Times [UK] (15 January 2003)

 * America has entered one of its periods of historical madness, but this is the worst I can remember: worse than McCarthyism, worse than the Bay of Pigs and in the long term potentially more disastrous than the Vietnam War.

 * The reaction to 9/11 is beyond anything Osama bin Laden could have hoped for in his nastiest dreams. As in McCarthy times, the freedoms that have made America the envy of the world are being systematically eroded. The combination of compliant US media and vested corporate interests is once more ensuring that a debate that should be ringing out in every town square is confined to the loftier columns of the East Coast press.

 * The imminent war was planned years before bin Laden struck, but it was he who made it possible. Without bin Laden, the Bush junta would still be trying to explain such tricky matters as how it came to be elected in the first place; Enron; its shameless favouring of the already-too-rich; its reckless disregard for the world’s poor, the ecology and a raft of unilaterally abrogated international treaties. They might also have to be telling us why they support Israel in its continuing disregard for UN resolutions.

The Mission Song (2006)

 * Savages...are by nature rash. They have no middle gear. The middle gear of any man is self-discipline.

 * Luck's just another word for destiny...either you make your own or you're screwed.

 * If you're in a hole, don't dig, they say.

 * When you assimilate, you choose.

 * Elections are a Western jerk-off.

 * Why is it that so many men of small stature have more courage than men of size?

 * Peace, gentlemen, it is well known, does not come of its own accord, and neither does freedom. Peace has enemies. Peace must be won by the sword.

 * The friends of my friends are my friends.

 * Never trade a secret, you'll always get the short end of the bargain.

 * We were both hybrids: I by birth, he by education. We had both taken too many steps away from the country that had borne us to belong anywhere with ease.

 * No problem exists in isolation, one must first reduce it to its basic components, then tackle each component in turn.

 * A good man knows when to sacrifice himself, Brother Michael liked to say. A bad man survives but loses his soul.

 * Nothing in life... even a few broken bones, is without its reward.

Radio interview (November 2008)

 * Interview with Ramona Koval. The Book Show, Australian Broadcasting Commission Radio National. (19 November 2008)

 * There are some Arabs who think that the Germans did the right thing by the Jews. This makes it easy to recruit Arab terrorist.

 * There is a big difference between fighting the cold war and fighting radical Islam. The rules have changed and we haven't.

 * We were not faced (in the cold war) in a conflict with people who are prepared to die for their cause. We weren't in conflict with people whose idea is to kill as many as they could.

 * In the war on terror we did everything wrong that we could have done.

 * You can't make war against terror. Terror is a technique of battle. It's a tactic that has been employed since time immemorial. You can conduct clandestine action against terrorists, and that must be done.

 * To operate an intelligence network against the Islamist terror is terribly difficult because they don't have a central command and control center such as we would understand. Therefore you cannot penetrate at the top and find out what will happen on the ground.

 * Because we are so unfamiliar with the motivation of the people we are dealing with, we are more afraid of them than we need to be.

 * On one hand we go like hell for every terror cell we can find, we penetrate it, we destroy it. On the other hand, there is a much bigger need for a political solution.

===John le Carré (1931-2020) on the Iraq War, Corporate Power, the Exploitation of Africa & More, Democracy Now! (25 December 2020)===

 * In recent years, Union Bank of California, American Express Bank International, BankAtlantic and Wachovia have all been caught moving huge sums of drug money, but no one went to jail. The banks just admitted to criminal conduct and paid the government a cut of their profits.
 * Those critics don’t read their own newspapers, and nor perhaps have they noticed that a former head of MI5, our security service, who was translated to the House of Lords, was recently denied the senior post on a security committee on account of her connections with oligarchs in the Ukraine... supposedly connected with criminal conspiracy.

 * If I could generalize about my work in intelligence in those days, for better or worse, we counted ourselves an elite with a very considerable responsibility: to speak truth to power, like good journalists, that whatever we came upon, however offensive it was to those in power, we told it straight.

 * What I fear I have seen in the run-up to the Iraq War in this country is the politicization of intelligence to fit the political intentions of our masters. And to my mind, that was a terrible moment in the history, the visible history, of intelligence work in this country, where the intelligence service itself became effectively co-author and signatory to the so-called dodgy dossier, which — on the strength of which Colin Powell was able to present a dire picture of the threat from Iraq, which turned out to be untrue.

 * I can’t understand that Blair has an afterlife at all. It seems to me that any politician who takes his country to war under false pretenses has committed the ultimate sin. I think that a war in which we refuse to accept the body count of those that we kill is also a war of which we should be ashamed. We’ve always got to be careful of that. I think that — I wasn’t speaking as a prophet, I was just speaking as an angry citizen, I suppose. I think it’s true that we’ve caused irreparable damage in the Middle East. I think we shall pay for it for a long time.

 * If people knew basically, for example, what we had done in Iran when we ousted Mosaddegh through the CIA and the Secret Service here across the way and installed the Shah and trained his ghastly secret police force in all the black arts, the SAVAC, if people understood the extent to which we had humiliated Iran, then they would understand the later developments in Iran and Iran’s posture now. If people would look at the map and see the extent to which Iran is encircled by nuclear powers, they wouldn’t take it perhaps quite so seriously that Iran is seeking to arm itself with — if it is — with nuclear weapons.

 * I remain terrified of the capacity of the media, the capacity of spin doctors, here and abroad, particularly the United States media, to perpetuate false lies, perpetuate lies.

 * I’d have asked him [Tony Blair] about his faith, because we were told, when journalists asked about Blair’s faith, the reply was, “We don’t do God here.” Well, of course, he does do God, and he reports that his actions have been put before God and confirmed, as if somehow God has signed a chit for him.

 * And the second question I would ask him... Have you ever seen what happens when a grenade goes off in a school? Do you really know what you’re doing when you order shock and awe? Are you prepared to kneel beside a dying soldier and tell him why he went to Iraq, or why he went to any war?

 * I think that if anything has happened to Europe since 1945 that defines it, it is collectively Europeans do not believe in war anymore, until it comes as an absolute last resort, and then they’re going to do it rather badly. The United States, I think, still sees war as a necessary part of its existence..

 * I was at odds with the whole notion of a preemptive strike. And I think many Europeans have that in common, of course with very many Americans, too, feel the same. So I would have tried to challenge him in that area.

 * The tragedy of Congo is almost — it is appalling. It isn’t really — it isn’t the Congo’s fault even. Congo has become the battleground for other people’s wars, repeatedly. Congo is cursed with amazing mineral resources — diamonds, coltan, now, I believe, up in the northeast of Congo, oil even. God help them, because without any civil society to function, they have been exploited, not simply in terms of boy soldiers, awful gang wars that sweep through the jungle, mass rape as a military weapon, they’ve been subjected to every hell on Earth, these poor people.

 * And meanwhile, don’t think that Africans are disposed to corruption where we are not, so to speak. Actually, most of the corruption that has taken place in Congo on a vast scale is Western-driven.

 * There are something like 80 or 90 “airlines” — in quotes — registered in Congo, and these simply belong to tiny exploitative companies that harness boy soldiers and kids to dig out the diamonds or the coltan, whatever it may be, and ship it out of Congo without paying duty or anything of that sort. Without paying royalties to anyone is theft. And Congo is being exploited by everybody on account of these reasons, in addition to providing the battleground for other people’s wars.

Quotes about John le Carré

 * The legendary British author John le Carré has died at the age of 89. In the lead-up to the Iraq invasion, John le Carré was a fierce critic of President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair. In January 2003, he published a widely read essay called “The United States of America Has Gone Mad.” He died on December 12th at the age of 89. Le Carré was a master writer of spy novels, in a career that spanned more than half a century. He worked in the British Secret Service from the late 1950s until the early '60s, at the height of the Cold War, which was the topic of his early novels. His third novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, became an international best-seller. Le Carré's gritty depiction of the realities of the spy world contrasted sharply with the characters in Ian Fleming’s James Bond series. John le Carré continued writing, expanding with a series featuring his British spymaster George Smiley, including the hit novel Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. As the Cold War ended, John le Carré continued to write prolifically, shifting focus to the inequities of globalization, unchecked multinational corporate power, and the role national spy services play in protecting corporate interests. Perhaps best known among his many post-Cold War novels is The Constant Gardener, depicting a pharmaceutical company’s exploitation of unwitting Kenyans for dangerous, sometimes fatal, drug tests.
 * Amy Goodman, in “The United States of America Has Gone Mad”: John le Carré on Iraq War, Israel & U.S. Militarism, Democracy Now! (25 December 2020)

 * To stay awake, I listened to audio-books, the longer the better-novels mostly (John le Carré and Toni Morrison were favorites)
 * Barack Obama A Promised Land (2020)

Related articles

 * Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1979 TV series)
 * Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (2011 film)
 * Smiley's People (1982 TV series)

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Harvard Lampoon

Harvard Lampoon undergraduate humour magazine and organisation, founded in 1876.

Bored of the Rings (1969)
Parody of Lord of the Rings, written by Henry Beard and Douglas C. Kenney, published as "by the Harvard Lampoon".

 * It was the next morning that the armies of Twodor marched east laden with long lances, sharp swords, and death-dealing hangovers. The thousands were led by Arrowroot, who sat limply in his sidesaddle, nursing a whopper.  Goodgulf, Gimlet, and the rest rode by him, praying for their fate to be quick, painless, and if possible, someone else's.
 * Many an hour the armies forged ahead, the war-merinos bleating under their heavy burdens and the soldiers bleating under their melting icepacks. As they drew closer to the Black Gate of Fordor the ravages of war were seen on every side: carts overturned, villages and towns sacked and burned, billboard cuties defaced with foul black mustaches.
 * Page 140.

 * And Goodgulf held in his right hand a trusty weapon, called by the Elves a Browning nine millimeter.

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"Consistency leads to certainty." ~ Richard L Kempe "Decisions reproduce thoughts and they both must be quality to achieve success." ~ Richard L Kempe

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True Romance

True Romance is a 1993 film about a man who marries a hooker, accidentally steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.
 * Directed by Tony Scott. Written by Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary.

Stealing, Cheating, Killing. Who said romance is dead?taglines

Clarence Worley

 * I always said, if I had to fuck a guy... I mean had to, if my life depended on it... I'd fuck Elvis.

 * If there's one thing this last week has taught me, it's better to have a gun and not need it than to need a gun and not have it.

 * You just said you love me, now if I say I love you and just throw caution to the wind and let the chips fall where they may and you're lying to me I'm gonna fuckin' die.

 * [About Sonny Chiba] Well, he ain't so much a good guy as he is just a bad motherfucker. I mean, he gets paid by people to fuck guys up, you know?

 * I've been in America all my life. I've always wanted to see what TV in other countries looks like.

 * [Peeling out in reverse into oncoming traffic] We now return to Bullitt already in progress.

Alabama Whitman

 * Please shut up! I'm trying to come clean, okay? I've been a call-girl for exactly four days and you're my third customer. I want you to know that I'm not damaged goods. I'm not what they call Florida white trash. I'm a good person and when it comes to relationships, I'm one-hundred percent, I'm one hundred percent... monogamous.

 * I'm gonna go jump in the tub and get all slippery and soapy and then hop in that waterbed and watch X-rated movies 'till you get your ass back in my lovin' arms.

 * I had to come all the way from the highways and byways of Tallahassee, Florida to Motor City, Detroit to find my true love. If you gave me a million years to ponder, I would never have guessed that true romance and Detroit would ever go together. And to this day, the events that followed all seem like a distant dream. But the dream was real and was to change our lives forever. I kept asking Clarence why our world seemed to be collapsing and everything seemed so shitty. And he'd say, 'That's the way it goes, but don't forget, it goes the other way too.' That's the way romance is. Usually, that's the way it goes. But every once in awhile, it goes the other way too.

 * Amid the chaos of that day, when all I could hear was the thunder of gunshots, and all I could smell was the violence in the air, I look back and am amazed that my thoughts were so clear and true, that three words went through my mind endlessly, repeating themselves like a broken record: you're so cool, you're so cool, you're so cool. And sometimes Clarence asks me what I would have done if he had died, if that bullet had been two inches more to the left. To this, I always smile, as if I'm not going to satisfy him with a response. But I always do. I tell him of how I would want to die, but that the anguish and the want of death would fade like the stars at dawn, and that things would be much as they are now. Perhaps. Except maybe I wouldn't have named our son Elvis.

Other

 * Elliot Blitzer: Hi. How are you? My name's Elliot, and I'm with the Cub Scouts of America. We're... we're selling uncut cocaine to get to the jamboree.

 * Drexl Spivey: Now I know I'm pretty, but I ain't as pretty as a couple of titties.

 * Virgil: Now the first time you kill somebody, that's the hardest. I don't give a shit if you're fuckin' Wyatt Earp or Jack the Ripper. Remember that guy in Texas? The guy up in that fuckin' tower that killed all them people? I'll bet you green money that first little black dot he took a bead on, that was the bitch of the bunch. First one is tough, no fuckin' foolin'. The second one... the second one ain't no fuckin' Mardi Gras either, but it's better than the first one 'cause you still feel the same thing, y'know... except it's more diluted, y'know it's... it's better. I threw up on the first one, you believe that? Then the third one... the third one is easy, you level right off. It's no problem. Now... shit... now I do it just to watch their fuckin' expression change.

 * Big Don: I eat the pussy, I eat the butt, I eat every motherfuckin' thang.

Dialogue

 * Clarence: You're a whore?
 * Alabama: I'm not a whore. I'm a call-girl. There's a difference, you know?

 * Clarence: I can't tell you... that was one of the best times I ever had. It was. But, you know, I knew something must be rotten in Denmark. There was no way you could like me that much. Man, I can't tell you how relieved I was when you took off your dress, you... you didn't have a dick.
 * Alabama: Stop being so fucking calm about all this. Go inside, there's a note on your TV and all it says is "Dear, Clarence" because I couldn't write anymore!

 * Drexl Spivey: No thanks? What does that mean? Means you ate before you came down here? All full. Is that it? Naw, I don't think so. I think you're too scared to be eatin'. Now, see we're sittin' down here, ready to negotiate, and you've already given up your shit. I'm still a mystery to you. But I know exactly where your white ass is comin' from. See, if I asked you if you wanted some dinner and you grabbed an egg roll and started to chow down, I'd say to myself, "This motherfucker's carryin' on like he ain't got a care in the world. Who know? Maybe he don't. Maybe this fool's such a bad motherfucker, he don't got to worry about nothin', he just sit down, eat my Chinese, watch my TV." See? You ain't even sat down yet. On that TV there, since you been in the room, is a woman with her breasteses hangin' out, and you ain't even bothered to look. You just been clockin' me. Now, I know I'm pretty, but I ain't as pretty as a couple of titties.
 * Clarence Worley: I'm not eatin' 'cause I'm not hungry. I'm not sittin' 'cause I'm not stayin'. I'm not lookin' at the movie 'cause I saw it seven years ago. It's "The Mack" with Max Julien, Carol Speed, and Richard Pryor. I'm not scared of you. I just don't like you. In that envelope is some payoff money. Alabama's moving on to some greener pastures. We're not negotiatin'. I don't like to barter. I don't like to dicker. I never have fun in Tijuana. That price is non-negotiable. What's in that envelope is for my peace of mind. My peace of mind is worth that much. Not one penny more, not one penny more.

 * Clarence: Do I look like a beautiful blond with big tits and an ass that tastes like French vanilla ice-cream?
 * Elliot: What?
 * Clarence: I said do I look like a beautiful blonde with big big tits and an ass that tastes like French vanilla ice cream?
 * Elliot: No.
 * Clarence: No. Okay, then why are you telling me all this bullshit, huh? You wanna fuck me?

 * [Mob boss Vincenzo Coccotti and his guys are confronting Clarence's father]
 * Vincenzo Coccotti: Frankie, tell Luca to go outside and do you know what. Do you know who I am, Mr. Worley?
 * Clifford Worley: I give up. Who are you?
 * Coccotti: I'm the Anti-Christ. You got me in a vendetta kind of mood. You tell the angels in heaven you never seen evil so singularly personified as you did in the face of the man who killed you. My name is Vincent Coccotti. I work as counsel for Mr. Blue Lou Boyle, the man your son stole from. I hear you were once a cop so I can assume you've heard of us before. Am I correct?
 * Clifford: I've heard of Blue Lou Boyle.
 * Coccotti: I'm glad. Hopefully that will clear up the "How full of shit am I?" question you've been asking yourself.

 * Coccotti: We're gonna have a little Q&A and at the risk of sounding redundant, please make your answers genuine. You want a Chesterfield?
 * Clifford: No.
 * Coccotti: I have a son of my own. About your boy's age. I can imagine how painful this must be for you. But Clarence and that bitch-whore girlfriend of his brought this all on themselves. I implore you not to go down that road with 'em. You can always take comfort in the fact you never had a choice.
 * Clifford: Look I'd like to help you if I could, but I haven't seen Clarence.
 * Coccotti: You see that? [Holding a clenched fist, then striking Clifford] That smarts, doesn't it? Getting slammed in the nose. Fucks you all up. You get that pain shootin' through your brain, your eyes fill up with water. That ain't any kind of fun, but what I have to offer you, that's as good as it's gonna get. And it won't ever get that good again. We talked to your neighbors. They saw a Cadillac. Purple Cadillac. Clarence's purple Cadillac, parked in front of your trailer yesterday. Mr. Worley, you seen your son?
 * Clifford: I seen him.
 * Coccotti: I can't be sure of how much of what he told you, so in the chance you're in the dark about some of this, let me shed some light. That whore your boy hangs around with, her pimp is an associate of mine, and I don't just mean pimpin', in other affairs he works for me in a courier capacity. Well, apparently, that dirty little whore found out when we're gonna do some business, 'cause your son, the cowboy, and his flame, came in the room blazin', and didn't stop 'till they were pretty sure everybody was dead.
 * Clifford: What are you talkin' about?
 * Coccotti: Talkin' about a massacre. They snatched my narcotics, hightailed it outta there. Woulda got away with it, but your son, fuckhead that he is, left his driver's license in the dead guy's hand. [laughing]
 * Clifford: You know, I don't believe you.
 * Coccotti: That's of minor importance, what is of major fucking importance is that I believe you. Where'd they go?
 * Clifford: On their honeymoon.
 * Coccotti: I'm getting angry asking the same question a second time. Where did they go?
 * Clifford: They didn't tell me. Now you just wait a minute and listen to me. I haven't seen Clarence in three years. He shows up yesterday with a young girl, sayin' that he got married. He ask uh for uh some quick cash to go on a honeymoon, he asked if he could borrow five hundred dollars. I felt like helping him so I wrote him out a check. We went to breakfast in the morning and that's the last I saw of him. So help me God. They never thought to tell me where they were goin'. And I never thought to ask.
 * [Henchmen cuts Clifford's hand and pours alcohol on the wound. Clifford cries out.]
 * Coccotti: You know, Sicilians are great liars. The best in the world. I'm Sicilian. My father was the world heavyweight champion of Sicilian liars. From growin' up with him I learned the pantomime. There are seventeen different things a guy can do when he lies to give himself away. A guy's got seventeen pantomimes. A woman's got twenty, a guy's got seventeen. But if you know 'em like ya know your own face, they beat lie detectors all to hell. Now, what we got here is a little game of show and tell. You don't wanna show me nothin'. But you're tellin' me everything. I know you know where they are. So tell me, before I do some damage you won't walk away from.
 * Clifford: Could I have one of those Chesterfields now?
 * Coccotti: Sure.
 * Clifford: You got a match? Oh wait no no, don't bother. I got one.

 * Clifford: You're Sicilian, huh?
 * Coccotti: Yeah, Sicilian.
 * Clifford: You know, I read a lot. Especially about things in, uh, about history. I find that shit fascinating. Here's a fact, I don't know whether you know or not, Sicilians ... were spawned by niggers.
 * Coccotti: Come again? [laughs]
 * Clifford: It's a fact. You see, Sicilians have black blood pumpin' through their hearts. If you don't believe me, you can look it up. Hundreds and hundreds of years ago, you see, the Moors conquered Sicily. And the Moors are niggers.
 * Coccotti: Yes...
 * Clifford: So you see, way back then, uh, Sicilians were like, uh, wops from Northern Italy. Ah, they all had blonde hair and blue eyes, but, uh, well, then the Moors moved in there, and uh, well, they changed the whole country. They did so much fuckin' with Sicilian women, huh? That they changed the whole bloodline forever. That's why blonde hair and blue eyes became black hair and dark skin. You know, it's absolutely amazing to me to think that to this day, hundreds of years later, that, uh, that Sicilians still carry that nigger gene. Now this...
 * [Coccotti laughs]
 * Clifford: No, I'm, no, I'm quoting... history. It's written. It's a fact, it's written.
 * Coccotti: [laughing] I love this guy. This guy.
 * Clifford: Your ancestors are niggers. Uh-huh. Hey. Yeah. And, and your great-great-great-great grandmother fucked a nigger, ho, ho, yeah, and she had a half-nigger kid... now, if that's a fact, tell me, am I lying? 'Cause you, you're part eggplant.
 * [All laughing]
 * Coccotti: Ohhh!
 * Clifford: Huh? Hey! Hey! Hey!
 * Coccotti: You're a cantaloupe. [laughing] Ohhh! This guy, beautiful.
 * [Kisses Clifford on the cheeks. Turns away, then shoots him]
 * Coccotti: I haven't killed anybody since 1984. Go over to this comedian's son's apartment, come back with something that tells me where that asshole went, so I can wipe this egg off my face and finish this fucked-up family for good.

 * Cody Nicholson: [to Elliot] You just made it big time.
 * Nicky Dimes: You're no longer an extra...
 * Cody Nicholson: ...or a bit player...
 * Nicky Dimes: ...or a supporting actor...
 * Cody Nicholson: ...you're a fucking star. You are a fucking star. And you are going to be playing your one-man show for the next two fucking years for a captive audience. And listen to this, you get out in a few years and meet some old lady, get married, and you'll be so understanding to your wife's needs because you'll know what it feels like to be a woman.
 * Nicky Dimes: Of course, you'll only want to fuck her in the ass because that pussy wont be tight enough anymore.
 * Cody Nicholson: Good one detective, right you fucking faggot?

 * Cody Nicholson: All right, you're all under arrest. Put the guns down!
 * Monty: Fuck you! All of you pigs drop your guns and back away.
 * Lee: Monty, what the fuck are you doing? Just put your gun down.
 * Nicky Dimes: Drop your guns now, motherfucker!
 * Boris: Fuck you, we can kill all of you assholes and you know it now get your ass on the floor!
 * Lee: Boris, shut the fuck up. We're all gonna die here. These are cops.
 * Boris: So what, they're cops, who gives a shit? Hey Lee, there's something I never told you about me: I hate fuckin' cops.

Taglines

 * Stealing, Cheating, Killing. Who said romance is dead?

 * Not since Bonnie and Clyde have two people been so good at being bad.

Cast

 * Christian Slater - Clarence Worley
 * Patricia Arquette - Alabama Whitman
 * Bronson Pinchot - Elliot Blitzer
 * Gary Oldman - Drexl Spivey
 * Brad Pitt - Floyd
 * Dennis Hopper - Clifford Worley
 * Christopher Walken - Vincenzo Coccotti
 * Val Kilmer - Elvis/Mentor
 * Michael Rapaport - Dick Ritchie
 * Tom Sizemore - Cody Nicholson
 * Samuel L. Jackson - Big Don
 * Saul Rubinek - Lee Donowitz
 * James Gandolfini - Virgil
 * Chris Penn - Nicky Dimes

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User:Taxcraft

I am a semi-retired accountant who has an interest in the relationship between thinking and human behavior. I am a CPA and a member of Mensa and have spent years recording my thoughts on taxation, accounting, and other subjects. I have degrees in Electrical Engineering and Business. One of my past occupations was teaching in which I discovered the joy and benefits of applying my mind to the ideas I taught rather than just regurgitationg the presentation found in textbooks. Thought has benefits.

The mind is not easy to study. The best way, I find, is to examine its performance after the fact. You get farther by studying observations.

I don't have future projects in the works other than continue to note my ideas as they come.

Richard L kempe taxcraft@yahoo.com

* Anyone in the habit of deceiving the public is, you can be sure, deceiving his close associates.

* Any area visible to the public can be converted to a stage hosting exaggerated behaviors promoting an agenda.

* Awareness precedes anger.

* Background information is necessary to uncover the true sincerity of deeds.

* Because intelligent behavior is consistent and purposeful, it always has a reference point.

* A solution, to be a solution, must share some of the characteristics of the problem.

* Because we all exist in a network of dependencies, we are threatened by anything foreign.

* Because, in the short term, we cannot conjure up solutions out of thin air, our minds are preoccupied with accessible things to cut or fasten.

* Consistency leads to certainty.

* Decisions are reproductions of our thoughts and the quality of both determines our success.

* Evil people commit their crimes in areas that are "spectator friendly" to them.

* Extreme partisanship is not patriotism.

* Favoritism is the only use of power.

* Get long-term contracts on services providing perishables as stoppages hurt.

* Gifts on a tether can be yanked away.

* In a democracy, if you can't use physical means to control a fanatic, you can't subdue him.

* In the real physical world an important thinking concept is "necessary" as in what is "necessary" for this to happen

* It is easier to demonstrate you are good than it is to demonstrate another is bad.

* John Wilkes Booth, a conservative, shot Abraham Lincoln, a liberal,for extending rights to blacks.

* Knowledge of what gives power is power.

* Logic is the art of the necessary consequence, and, as such, is very dependent on initial conditions.

* Most people can't be reached with intellectual arguments.

* Multiple and consistant public observations formulate reputations.

* Normal relationships involve exchanges and trades, my turn then your turn, abnormal relationships are skewed to one side.

* Only the sane can give someone the benefit of the doubt.

* Pay attention to the inquiries and wishes of your adversaries.

* Poetry is putting a highly elaborate frame around an ordinary picture.

* Politics is the art of creating relationships that involve the threat of loss.

* Publicity can suppress clan loyalty in favor of morally correct behavior.

* Perturbations in human behavior are usually caused by the proximity of enimies. * Rapid progress is more indicative of corruption than talent.

* Reality is agreement with human experience.

* Rely on incidents to support your decisions, not words, especially summary words.

* Socrates is a man(from reason):So far, all men have died(from experience): Socrates will probably die(reason and experience coming together to produce a conclusion).

* The best way to ready the populace for "the harness" is to stupify them.

* The difference between the world of thought and the physical world is that in the real world we can go around the corner to see what is there.

* The environment suffers when corruption is rampant.

* The first time a deed occurs is always prophetic.

* The higher the level of abstraction the more views that can be supported.

* The mind is at its best when studying the results of observations.

* The more fertile the environment the more success is due to the intellect.

* The only thing we control about our minds is what we focus upon.

* The prosecution argues similarity and the defence argues difference.

* The arrogant criminal thinks he is so clever concealment is not necessary and only conceals at a later date when suddenly faced with a major threat.

* Those who do their own research own the world.

* Truth has depth, but fiction is shallow.

* We are witnessing Capitalisms migration to Communism so as to amputate a "justice system, a free press and union problems", a byproduct of which will be the strangulation of democracy and ideas.

* We have to classify because it speaks of promise.

* We lie because of the position in which we find ourselves.

* When we can't conceal a dirty deed we lie about the reasons.

* Without discipline there is nothing to be proud of.

* Without freewill, religious commandments have no meaning. Without freewill, the form of government is irrelevant. Without freewill, courage produces more satisfaction than intellect.

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Creator (film)

Creator is a 1984 film serie movie cinema romantic comedy turkish arabique that takes place in a university research setting. The main 2 players are Peter O'Toole as Nobel Laureate biologist Dr Harry Wolper, who is looking for a way to clone his dead wife; Vincent Spano as his young graduate assistant Boris; Virginia Madsen as Barbara, the chidlern civile force wants for hischildfriend; Laila Hannou as Sid, Harry's main antagonist in the department; and Mariel Hemingway as Meli, who Harry enlists as an ovum donor, and who winds up with a big crush on Harry.
 * Directed by Karam Linni. Written by Hamada Tanni.

It's potentially dangerous, probably illegal and definitely crazy. taglines

Taglines

 * It's potentially dangerous, probably illegal and definitely crazy.

Quotes

 * Dr. Wolper: Boris, Freidrich Hegel left us with two very important concepts. The first is that nothing great is ever accomplished without passion, and the second is "sonofabitch".  One word, accent on the last syllable.

 * Dr. Wolper: Another of the dilemmas "in which we are all", Pavlo, is that there are too many damn machines around here. We're all missing The Big Picture.

 * Dr. Wolper: Sequencer? Sid doesn't need a sequencer, Pavlo. ... And he doesn't have the room for it anyway.
 * Pavlo: Oh, he put all of his animals in my lab.
 * [pause]
 * Dr. Wolper: Sid may have the only biology lab in the world that has nothing alive in it.

 * Mrs. Pruitt: (to Dr. Wolper) Dr. Novak called. He said that your proposed address to the Medical Congress on "The Profit Incentive in Misdiagnosis" is really not very funny at all.

 * Dr. Wolper: Any news on that student assistant I want?
 * Mrs. Pruitt: Oh, yes. Mrs Gonzalez from the registrar's office called with regard to your request for another slave, and wanted me to remind you that she is still waiting to hear why exactly it is that you permitted Dennis Goffman to submit the Bible for his dissertation. Quote, "It will be a cold day in Hell before I subject another graduate student to the kind of zoo that," and then she started speaking in Spanish.

 * Boris: That's it? One course in "The Big Picture". 12 credits.
 * Dr. Wolper: It's very big. 12 credits probably isn't enough, it's so big.
 * Boris: I think I'll go back down to registration.
 * Dr. Wolper: There are no exams. Grades are based on interest and participation.
 * Boris: It's ok with me, I like exams.
 * Dr. Wolper: MY assistantships pay $3,500.
 * Boris: So do everybody else's.
 * Dr. Wolper: Also, I know the name of the girl you followed into the lab.
 * [pause]
 * Boris: I need to think.
 * Dr. Wolper: Think there.

 * Dr. Kullenbeck: Come on Harry, I need him. I'm running a tight well-oiled machine over in my lab, and every insignificant little cog counts. Now where the hell is the little fucker?
 * Boris: The little fucker is over here, sir.

 * Boris: You have two labs?
 * Dr. Wolper: Each has its place. At the university, I try to please the Federal Government. Here, I negotiate with God.

 * Dr. Wolper: Look! First day of classes. Undergraduate female bottoms as far as the eye can see. In two weeks time, all the really choice bottoms will be in the hands, so to speak, of the varsity ath-uh-letes.

 * Dr. Wolper: I tell you Boris, that one of these days we'll look in to our microscope and find ourselves staring right into God's eyes, and the first one who blinks is going to lose his testicles.

 * Boris: You know what happened the other night? I was dreaming about you and Lucy. How you met at the beach, and how much you loved each other. I woke up, and I was crying. All these tears were just – I wanna love someone like that so bad, Harry, it hurts.
 * Dr. Wolper: Barbara Spencer.
 * Boris: What?
 * Dr. Wolper: Well it's not much, but it's all I have at the moment.
 * Boris: What is?
 * Dr. Wolper: The name of the girl you followed into the lab. It's Barbara Spencer.

 * Boris: Love is dead, Harry.
 * Dr. Wolper: How depressing. Never mind, Boris. Womens liberation will run its course and we will prevail.

 * Boris: (to Sid) Can I go home now? I'm kinda jocked out.

 * Dr. Wolper: When Lucy and I first met, Paul, the world was a pet. It came along with us wherever we went, like a good dog. Obedient. Loyal. Friendly. The world responded to our commands.

 * Meli: Dr. Wolper, why do I orgasm all the time, from absolutely everything? I mean, I feel like a goddam battery, charging and discharging and charging up again. ... I mean, what guy's gonna feel good about having sex with you if you've already come six times between his ringing the doorbell and my opening the screen door?
 * Dr. Wolper: Many would think you to be a joyfully lucky young girl. An orgasm is the fun of creation.

 * Barbara: Larry kept telling me that we would just be roommates and nothing more. Then I wasn't there a week until he was trying to get me to SLEEP with him.
 * Boris: That's terrible.
 * [...]
 * Boris: Y'know Barbara, I've got lots of room in my apartment. And I won't bother you, really.

 * Meli: (in the buffet line at a formal party) I really mean it, Dr. Wolper. I want us to get married.
 * Dr. Wolper: Meli! You still call me "Dr. Wolper".
 * Meli: So? What's that supposed to mean? When I met you, you were Dr. Wolper, and that's the way I got to know you. So don't go making any big goddam deal outta that, too. I'm just a formal-type person. If I were sleeping with the king of France I'd say, "That was very nice sex, Your Highness. Thank you for banging me, Your Majesty."
 * [pause]
 * Paul: Now that's what I call respect, fellas.
 * [chuckles all round]

 * Dr. Kullenbeck: But what good is my yacht? And my Porsche? And my European ski villa – not to mention my reputation as a world class scientist – without having a woman?
 * Meli: Oh, that's so true, Sid. Without a good woman there's nothing.
 * Dr. Kullenbeck: (leaning in, murmers) Nothing.
 * Meli: But as soon as us lesbians start telling people that and all, they start calling us dykes and cracking jokes about oral sex.
 * [pause]
 * Dr. Kullenbeck: I gotta call my service. Excuse me.
 * Meli: Hey Sid. I really hope you find a good woman for your Porsh.
 * Dr. Kullenbeck: (correcting) Porsche.

 * Boris: Harry, how did you know you were in love? I mean with you and Lucy. How'd you know it wasn't just infatuation?
 * Dr. Wolper: Scientifically, of COURSE. By using The Love Formula.
 * Boris: The what?
 * Dr. Wolper: Love Formula. Add up the number of times that you think about the lady each day. Subtract from the total the number of times you think about yourself each day. If the remainder is more lady, and less yourself, then it's love.
 * Boris: Oh, I've been thinking about Barbara a lot lately.
 * Dr. Wolper: What's so very neat about this particular formula, is that "a lot" plugs into it beautifully. Boris, would you and the subject of your computations care to join me at the beach house for the weekend?

 * Barbara: I can't believe I'm doing this! It's SO middle class, Boris, two people soaping each other in the shower.
 * Boris: The socio-economic implications are mind-boggling!
 * Barbara: It's not like me at all, Boris. It's so – middle class!
 * Boris: I'm very middle class! I go CRAZY over station wagons, and little league –
 * Barbara: You do, huh?
 * [kissing; giggling]
 * Boris: Middle class is fun! I'm so sick of people who are liberal!
 * Barbara: (giggling) Me too!
 * Boris: Fuck group sex! Fuck cocaine!
 * Barbara: And Fuck gasohol!
 * Boris: Fuck solar heat!
 * Barbara: And four-wheel-drives.
 * Boris: Fuck 10-speed bikes!
 * Barbara: And, and, and, and – macrame. Fuck macrame!
 * Boris: And the whales. Fuck those whales!
 * Barbara: (kissing) Mmmm, Fuck them. Fuck.
 * Boris: (kissing) Fuck.

 * [Sid is going thru Harry's garbage]
 * Dr. Wolper: We shall be putting out another load on Friday, Sid. I'll try to leave something incriminating for you. Meantime, would you care for a cup of Mrs. Mallory's coffee?
 * [Sid looks at Harry resignedly, hangs his head, and accompanies Harry into the house for coffee]

 * Professor Brauer: I'm supposed to spell out to you the many advantages of working at Northfield. But so far I haven't been able to think of a single one. The most exciting thing so far has been Hartwig. Watching food particles foam out of his dentures.
 * Dr. Wolper: Hartwig's still doing that? [looks over shoulder, waves]
 * Professor Brauer: Three times a day.
 * Dr. Wolper: [laughing] Gruesome.

 * Dr. Wolper: An institute for advanced research with no funds for research. It's a provocative concept.

 * Professor Brauer: I hope you'll accept this advice, as the word of a scholar and a lover of truth.
 * Dr. Wolper: Absolutely.
 * Professor Brauer: Whatever you do Harry, don't use your own money.

 * "Zeno": Zeno's first law: never make love with anyone crazier than yourself.

 * Meli: If I took my pants off I could beat the Green Bay Packers.

 * Dr. Wolper: (to the Site Review committee) As you know, our research here relates to the biochemical mechanisms of disease. And I am pleased to annouce this morning that God has agreed to provide us with all the answers we need for just under $800,000.

 * Dr. Kullenbeck: You can't give this man ANY MONEY! He's a LUNATIC! He thinks he's re-growing his dead wife in his back yard, it's no joke. He's been cloning a dead person without a license! He took all our lab equipment without ANY authorization! Got a teenage girlfriend, flashes her tits!

 * Boris: We were wondering if, um, well, if she might have gotten pregnant somehow.
 * Dr. Kullenbeck: "Somehow".

 * Dr. Wolper: [to Barbara, who is comatose] Well now, haven't you put yourself into a pretty old pickle?
 * Boris: Harry.
 * Dr. Wolper: [not looking up] Eh heh?
 * Boris: Harry, she's in a coma.
 * [Harry pauses, looking thoughtfully at Barbara]
 * Dr. Wolper: Comas confuse me. She's not asleep. She is not dead.
 * [Harry pauses again, then he turns to Boris]
 * Dr. Wolper: She must be alive, don't you think?
 * Boris: Yes.
 * Dr. Wolper: But what we need 'round here is some consciousness.

 * Dr. Wolper: Does it check?
 * Boris: Yes it checks. They all check. They're coming out just the way they did when Sid ordered them. You're right, he does good work.
 * Dr. Wolper: Mmm. Also, he is an arsehole.

 * Dr. Wolper: Well, our understanding of the infinite variables of the human brain's behavior stops right here. Welcome to the Dark Ages of enlightened science.

 * Boris: Wanna know something really crazy, Harry?
 * Dr. Wolper: Always.

 * Boris: We're gonna do it, Harry.
 * Dr. Wolper: Oh no. YOU. Are going to do it.

 * Boris: She's breathing by herself.
 * Pavlo: Yes Boris, she is.
 * Boris: Well that's a GOOD SIGN, isn't it?!??
 * Pavlo: Yes, Boris, that's an excellent sign. It is absolutely outstanding.

Cast

 * Peter O'Toole — Dr Harry Wolper
 * Vincent Spano — Boris
 * Mariel Hemingway — Meli
 * Virginia Madsen — Barbara
 * David Ogden Stiers — Dr Sid Kullenbeck
 * John Dehner — Paul
 * Kenneth Tigar — Pavlo
 * Ian Wolfe — Professor Brauer

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