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Collectivism

Collectivism is an outlook stressing the priority of group goals over individual goals and the importance of cohesion within social groups. Collectivism is a basic cultural element that exists as the opposite of individualism, which is any philosophic, political, religious, economic, or social outlook which emphasizes the interdependence of every human being. Collectivists usually focus on community, society, or nation.

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 * Until now, neither the distinction between “worthy, since durable” and “vain, since transient,” nor the unbridgeable abyss separating the two, has disappeared for a moment from reflections on human happiness. Nonentity, the demeaning and humiliating insignificance of the individual bodily presence in the world by comparison with the unperturbed eternity of the world itself, has haunted philosophers (and non-philosophers, during their brief spells of falling into and staying in a philosophical mood) for more than two millennia. In the Middle Ages it was raised to the rank of the highest purpose and supreme concern of mortals, and deployed to promote spiritual values over the pleasures of the flesh—as well as to explain (and, hopefully argue away) the pain and misery of the brief earthly existence as a necessary and therefore welcome prelude to the endless bliss of the afterlife. It returned with the advent of the modern era in a new garb: that of the futility of individual interests and concerns, shown to be abominably short-lived, fleeting and vagrant when juxtaposed with the interests of “the social whole”—the nation, the state, the cause.
 * Zygmunt Bauman, The Art of Life (Cambridge: 2008), p. 31

 * A powerful case for that refurbished, secularized response to individual mortality was constructed and extensively argued by Émile Durkheim, one of the founders of modern sociology. He strove to insert and settle “society” in the place vacated by God and by Nature viewed as God’s creation or embodiment—and thereby to claim for the nascent nation-state that right to articulate, pronounce and enforce moral commandments and command the supreme loyalties of its subjects; the right previously reserved for the Lord of the Universe and His anointed earthly lieutenants.
 * Zygmunt Bauman, The Art of Life (Cambridge: 2008), p. 32

 * Men are grown mechanical in head and in heart, as well as in hand. They have lost faith in individual endeavour, and in natural force, of any kind. Not for internal perfection, but for external combinations and arrangements, for institutions, constitutions, for Mechanism of one sort or other, do they hope and struggle. Their whole efforts, attachments, opinions, turn on mechanism, and are of a mechanical character.
 * Thomas Carlyle, Signs of the Times (1829)

 * They corrupt the morals of young girls and destroy posters of Che! What do they think? That this is a bourgeois liberal regime? NO! There is nothing liberal in us! We are collectivists! We are communists! There will be no Prague Spring here!
 * Fidel Castro, as quoted in Exposing the Real Che Guevara: And the Useful Idiots Who Idolize Him (August 2008), by Humberto Fontova

 * The unity of the manipulated collective consists in the negation of each individual and in the scorn poured on the type of society which could make people into individuals.
 * Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, Dialectic of Enlightenment, E. Jephcott, trans., p. 9

 * If there is any sense in deploring the growth of corporate and collective art forms such as the film and the press, it is surely in relation to the previous individualist technologies that these new forms corrode.
 * Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (1964), p. 258

 * We have to rid the individual of unworthy work if we are to set free the better parts of him, and only collectivism can do that.
 * Sir Leo Chiozza Money, The Triumph of Nationalization (1920), p. 177

 * It cannot be said too often — at any rate, it is not being said nearly often enough — that collectivism is not inherently democratic, but, on the contrary, gives to a tyrannical minority such powers as the Spanish Inquisitors never dreamt of.
 * George Orwell, in a review of The Road to Serfdom (1944)

 * The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.
 * Pope John Paul II, Centesimus Annus (1991)

 * The collectivization of labor during recent centuries has now been duplicated by the collectivization of thought. Industrialization collectivized labor by forcing workers to gather in large units and to specialize and simplify the functions of each worker. Similarly, the rise of the intellectual factory, the modern university, which has been indentured to the service of industry and even more so to that of technology, forces a concentration and a specialization of thought. The search for human truth has become the search for productively useful knowledge. ... Thinker is servant to thought, thought is servant to product, product is servant to consumer, and the consumer is enslaved by beliefs and thoughts that are either traditional or are produced mechanically by the demands of an abstract system purged of all human will.
 * R. E. Puhek, “The Collectivization of Thought”

 * Racism is simply an ugly form of collectivism, the mindset that views humans strictly as members of groups rather than individuals. Racists believe that all individuals who share superficial physical characteristics are alike: as collectivists, racists think only in terms of groups. By encouraging Americans to adopt a group mentality, the advocates of so-called "diversity" actually perpetuate racism. Their obsession with racial group identity is inherently racist.
 * Ron Paul, in Government and Racism (16 April 2007)

 * Totalitarianism is collectivism. Collectivism means the subjugation of the individual to a group — whether to a race, class or state does not matter. Collectivism holds that man must be chained to collective action and collective thought for the sake of what is called "the common good." Throughout history, no tyrant ever rose to power except on the claim of representing "the common good." Napoleon "served the common good" of France. Hitler is "serving the common good" of Germany. Horrors which no man would dare consider for his own selfish sake are perpetrated with a clear conscience by "altruists" who justify themselves by — the common good.
 * Ayn Rand, in "The Only Path to Tommorow" in Readers Digest (January 1944), pp. 88-90

 * Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to a man's genetic lineage — the notion that a man's intellectual and characterological traits are produced and transmitted by his internal body chemistry. Which means, in practice, that a man is to be judged, not by his own character and actions, but by the characters and actions of a collective of ancestors.
 * Ayn Rand, in "Racism" in The Obectivist (1962), also in The Ayn Rand Lexicon : Objectivism from A to Z (1988)

 * The hard evidence of totalitarian rule has caused in mankind an uprising of the intellect and will. Whether it is the growth of the new schools of economics in America or England or the appearance of the so-called new philosophers in France, there is one unifying thread running through the intellectual work of these groups — rejection of the arbitrary power of the state, the refusal to subordinate the rights of the individual to the superstate, the realization that collectivism stifles all the best human impulses.
 * Ronald Reagan, in an Address to the British Parliament (8 June 1982)
 * Both the Soviet and the Nazi political economies relied upon collectives that controlled social groups and extracted their resources. The collective farm, the instrument of Stalin’ s great transformation of the Soviet countryside from 1930, was used by German occupation authorities from 1941. In the occupied Polish, Lithuanian, Latvian, and Soviet cities the Germans added a new collective: the ghetto. The urban Jewish ghettos, although originally meant as resettlement points, became zones for the extraction of Jewish property and Jewish labor. Their nominal Jewish authorities of the Judenrat could usually be relied upon to raise “contributions” and organize labor brigades. Both the ghettos and the collective farms were administered by local people. Both the Nazi and the Soviet systems built large systems of concentration camps. Hitler would have used the Soviet camps for Jews and other ostensible enemies if he could have, but Germany never conquered enough of the Soviet Union to make that possible.
 * Timothy D. Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (2010)

 * Individualism is the self-affirmation of the individual self as individual self without regard to its participation in its world. As such it is the opposite of collectivism, the self affirmation of the self as part of a larger whole without regard to its character as an individual self.
 * Paul Tillich, The Courage To Be (1952), p. 113

 * The intelligence is defeated as soon as the expression of one's thoughts is preceded, explicitly or implicitly, by the little word 'we'. And when the light of the intelligence grows dim, it is not very long before the love of good becomes lost.
 * Simone Weil, The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind (1949), p. 26

 * The trees act not as individuals, but somehow as a collective. Exactly how they do this, we don’t yet know. But what we see is the power of unity.
 * Robin Wall Kimmerer Braiding Sweetgrass (2013)

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Common good

In philosophy, economics, and political science, the common good (also commonwealth, general welfare, or public benefit) refers to either what is shared and beneficial for all or most members of a given community, or alternatively, what is achieved by citizenship, collective action, and active participation in the realm of politics and public service. Early conceptions of the common good were set out by Ancient Greek philosophers, including Aristotle and Plato.

Quotes

 * Unity, peace and security will come through the recognition—intelligently assessed—of the evils which have led to the present world situation, and then through the taking of those wise, compassionate and understanding steps which will lead to the establishing of right human relations, to the substitution of cooperation for the present competitive system, and by the education of the masses in every land as to the nature of true goodwill and its hitherto unused potency.
 * Alice Bailey, Problems Of Humanity(1944)

 * What at this moment appears to prevent world unity... ? The answer is not hard to find and involves all nations: nationalism, capitalism, competition, blind stupid greed. The mass of men need arousing to see that good comes to all men alike and not just to a few privileged groups, and to learn also that "hatred ceases not by hatred but that hatred ceases by love". This love is not a sentiment, but practical goodwill, expressing itself through individuals, in communities and among nations.
 * Alice Bailey, Problems Of Humanity (1944)

 * The world economic council (or whatever body represents the resources of the world) must free itself from fraudulent politics, capitalistic influence and its devious scheming; it must set the resources of the earth free for the use of humanity. This will be a lengthy task but it will be possible when world need is better appreciated. An enlightened public opinion will make the decisions of the economic council practical and possible. Sharing and cooperation must be taught instead of greed and competition.
 * Alice Bailey, Problems Of Humanity, Chapter VI - The Problem of International Unity (1944)

 * Most important on the bearings of their life and the peace of their commonwealths, is their universal agreement in the existence of a merciful beneficent Diety, and of a future world to the duration of which a century or two are moments too brief to waste upon thoughts of fame and power and avarice; while with that agreement is combined another—viz., since they can know nothing as to the nature of that Diety beyond the fact of His supreme goodness, nor of that future world beyond the fact of its felicitous existence, so their reason forbids all angry disputes on insoluble questions. Thus they secure for that state in the bowels of the earth what no community ever secured under the light of the stars—all the blessings and consolations of a religion without any of the evils and calamities which are engendered by strife between one religion and another. (Chapter XXVI)
 * Edward Bulwer-Lytton in  The Coming Race, (1871)

 * Many of you are well enough off that … the tax cuts may have helped you. We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.
 * Hillary Clinton, Speech at Democratic Fundraiser, June 2004

 * You are sure to encounter a certain kind of person who flies into a frenzy at the mere mention of the Masters. Such people are ready to put their trust in any shameless stock market speculation, they are ready to believe in any swindle, but for them the idea of the Common Good is inadmissible.  340.
 * Morya, Leaves of Morya’s Garden II, Illumination, (1925)

 * Spock: The needs of the many, outweigh...
 * Kirk: The needs of the few.
 * Spock: Or the one.
 * Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan written by Jack B. Sowards and Nicholas Meyer

 * Throughout history, no tyrant ever rose to power except on the claim of representing ``the common good.´´ Napoleon ``served the common good´´ of France. Hitler is ``serving the common good´´ of Germany. Horrors which no man would dare consider for his own selfish sake are perpetrated with a clear conscience by ``altruists´´ who justify themselves by-the common good.
 * Ayn Rand, Rand, Ayn. The Only Path to Tommorow, Readers Digest, January 1944, pp. 88-90

 * The common good before the individual good. (Gemeinnutz geht vor Eigennutz)
 * The National Socialist Program, Adolf Hitler proclaimed his party's program on February 24, 1920 in Munich, Germany. Nazi Ideology Before 1933: A Documentation, Barbara Miller Lane, Leila J. Rupp, introduction and translation, Manchester University Press (1978) p. 43.
 * Konrad Heider translated this line as “The good of the state before the good of the individual” in his A History of National Socialism, (1935) p. 17.

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Sue Grafton

Sue Taylor Grafton (April 24, 1940 - December 28, 2017) was an American author of detective novels.

Quotes

 * Except for cases that clearly involve a homicidal maniac, the police like to believe murders are committed by those we know and love, and most of the time they're right--a chilling thought when you sit down to dinner with a family of five. All those potential killers passing their plates.
 * Kinsey Millhone
 * "A" Is for Alibi (1982)

 * Sometimes the hardest part of my job is the incessant reminder of the fact we’re all trying so assiduously to ignore: we are here temporarily … life is only ours on loan.
 * Kinsey Millhone, referring to her continual investigations of murders.
 * "K" Is for Killer (1994)

 * No one with a happy childhood ever amounts to much in this world. They are so well adjusted, they never are driven to achieve anything.
 * New York Times, p. C10 (August 4, 1994)

 * I don’t want her to have a cat because she’ll end up talking baby talk to the cat. That’s the way it is, and how can a P.I. do that?
 * On why Kinsey Millhone, the private-investigator heroine of her popular series of mystery novels, will never have a cat.
 * New York Times, p. C10 (August 4, 1994)

 * Our family histories are like fairy tales we're told from a very early age. In the tale, we're cast as hero or victim, as the infant rescued or abandoned, discounted or deified. From this we form an image of ourselves and our relationship to the world. Often it's a story we act out over and over again, trying to make the ending come out right instead of the way it did.
 * A Conversation with Sue Grafton (1996)

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Eva Gabor

Eva Gabor (11 February 1919 – 4 July 1995) was a Hungarian-born American actress, most famous for her role as Lisa Douglas on Green Acres.

Quotes

 * I believe in loyalty. When a woman reaches a certain age she likes, she should stick with it.
 * As quoted in Funny Ladies : The Best Humor from America's Funniest Women (2001) by Bill Adler, p. 18

 * What's the use of having a gorgeous outfit if you are not happy?
 * The Joan Rivers Show (June 25, 1990)

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Sleepless in Seattle

Sleepless in Seattle is a 1993 American romantic-comedy film about a recently widowed man's son who calls a radio talk-show in an attempt to find his father a partner.
 * Directed by Nora Ephron. Written by Nora Ephron, David S. Ward, and Jeff Arch.

What if someone you never met, someone you never saw, someone you never knew was the only someone for you?(taglines)

Sam Baldwin

 * Mommy got sick. And it happened just like that. There was nothing anybody could do. It isn't fair. There's no reason. But if we start asking why, we'll go crazy.
 * Move on. Right. That's what I'm going to do. In a few months, I'll be fine, I'll just grow a new heart.
 * Look, we had a tough time at first, but we're dealing with it. Jonah and I will get along fine again...as soon as I break his radio.
 * Jonah, listen to me. You don't know Victoria. I hardly know her myself. She is a fat mystery to me. She tosses her hair a lot. Why does she do this? I have no idea. Is it a twitch? Does she need a haircut? Should she use a barrette to keep her hair out of her face? These are things I'm willing to get to the bottom of. And that is why... I am DATING her. That's all I'm doing. I'm not living with her. I'm not marrying her. Can you appreciate the difference? This is what single people do. They try other people on and see how they fit. But everybody's an adjustment. Nobody's perfect. There's no such thing as a perfect... [Annie walks in. Sam sees her for the first time, loses his train of thought, and stops talking]

Annie Reed

 * Destiny is something we've invented because we can't stand the fact that everything that happens is accidental.

Jonah Baldwin

 * Shut up, shut up?! Mom never said shut up to me! Mom never yelled at me!

Becky

 * Verbal ability is a highly overrated thing in a guy, and it's our pathetic need for it that gets us into so much trouble.

Walter

 * Look, Annie... I love you. But let's leave that out of this. I don't want to be someone that you're settling for. I don't want to be someone that anyone settles for. Marriage is hard enough without bringing such low expectations into it, isn't it?

Dialogue

 * Co-Worker: It's easier to be killed by a terrorist than it is to find a husband over the age of 40!
 * Annie: That statistic is not true!
 * Becky: That's right it's not true, but it feels true.

 * Barbara: I was in Atlantic City with my family. Cliff was a waiter. He wasn't even supposed to work that night, and suppose he hadn't? He asked me to take a midnight walk on the Steel Pier.  I've probably told you this a million times, but I don't care.  And then he held my hand.  At one point I looked down and I couldn't tell which fingers were his and which were mine.  And I knew.
 * Annie Reed: What?
 * Barbara: You know.
 * Annie Reed: What?
 * Barbara: Magic. It was magic.
 * Annie Reed: Magic.
 * Barbara: I knew we would be together forever, and that everything would be wonderful, just the way you feel about Walter. Walter. It's quite a formal name, isn't it?

 * Jonah Baldwin: [about Dr. Marcia Fieldstone] Talk to her, dad. She's a doctor.
 * Sam Baldwin: Of what? Her first name could be Doctor.

 * Dr. Marcia Fieldstone: People who truly loved once are far more likely to love again. Sam, do you think there's someone out there you could love as much as your wife?
 * Sam Baldwin: Well, Dr. Marcia Fieldstone, that's hard to imagine.
 * Dr. Marcia Fieldstone: What are you going to do?
 * Sam Baldwin: Well, I'm gonna get out of bed every morning... breathe in and out all day long. Then, after a while I won't have to remind myself to get out of bed every morning and breathe in and out... and, then after a while, I won't have to think about how I had it great and perfect for a while.
 * Dr. Marcia Fieldstone: Tell me what was so special about your wife?
 * Sam Baldwin: Well, how long is your program? Well, it was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together... and I knew it. I knew it the very first time I touched her. It was like coming home... only to no home I'd ever known... I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew. It was like... magic.

 * Annie Reed: [about An Affair to Remember] Now that was when people KNEW how to be in love. They knew it! Time, distance... nothing could separate them because they knew. It was right. It was real. It was...
 * Becky: A movie! That's your problem! You don't want to be in love. You want to be in love in a movie.

 * Sam Baldwin: I'd much rather just see somebody I like, and get a feeling about them, and ask them if they want to have a drink.
 * Jonah Baldwin: Or a slice of pizza --
 * Sam Baldwin: Not dinner. Not necessarily on the first date because halfway through dinner you could be really sorry you asked them to dinner. Whereas if it's just a drink, if you like them you can always ask them for dinner but if not, you can just say, "Well, that was great," and then you go home. If you see what I mean. [beat] I wonder if it still works this way.
 * Jonah Baldwin: It doesn't. They ask you.
 * Sam Baldwin: I'm starting to notice that.

 * Jay: That's what I'm trying to tell you, what women are looking for: pecs and a cute butt.
 * Sam Baldwin: You mean like, "He has the cutest butt"?
 * Jay: Yeah.
 * Sam Baldwin: Where did I hear that recently?
 * Jay: Everywhere. You can't even turn on the news nowadays without hearing about how some babe thought some guy's butt was cute. Who the first woman to say this was, I don't know, but somehow it caught on.
 * Sam Baldwin: So how's my butt?
 * [Jay stops walking, examines Sam's backside]
 * Jay: Not bad.
 * Sam Baldwin: Really?
 * Jay: Yeah.
 * Sam Baldwin: Is it cute, though?
 * Jay: I don't know. Are we grading on a curve?

 * Jonah Baldwin: If you get a new wife, I guess you'll get to have sex with her, huh?
 * Sam Baldwin: I certainly hope so.
 * Jonah Baldwin: Will she scratch up your back?
 * Sam Baldwin: [shocked] What?
 * Jonah Baldwin: In the movies, women are always scratching up the men's back and screaming and stuff when they're having sex.
 * Sam Baldwin: How do you know all this?
 * Jonah Baldwin: Jessica's got cable.
 * Sam Baldwin: Oh.

 * Sam Baldwin: [about Annie] She wants to meet me at the top of the Empire State Building. On Valentine's Day.
 * Suzy: It's like that movie.
 * Sam Baldwin: What movie?
 * Suzy: An Affair To Remember. Did you ever see it? Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr. She's gonna meet him at the top of the Empire State Building... only she got hit by a taxi. And he waited and waited. And it was raining, I think. And then... she's too proud to tell him... that she's, uh... [starts to cry] crippled. And he's too proud to find out why she doesn't come. But he comes to see her anyway. I forget why, but, oh... Oh, it's so amazing when he comes to see her because... [crying more] he doesn't even notice that she doesn't get up to say hello. And he's very bitter. And you think that he's just gonna walk out the door... and never know why she's just lying there, you know, on the couch... with this blanket over her shriveled little legs. [sobbing]
 * Jonah Baldwin: Are you all right?
 * Greg: She's fine.
 * Suzy: Suddenly he goes, "I already sold the painting." And he like goes to the bedroom... and he looks and he comes out and he looks at her and he kind of just... They know and then they hug. And it's so... [trails off crying]
 * Sam Baldwin: Well I'm not looking for a mail-order bride! I just want somebody I can have a decent conversation with over dinner. Without it falling down into weepy tears over some movie!
 * Greg: She's, as you just saw, very emotional.
 * Sam Baldwin: Although I cried at the end of The Dirty Dozen.
 * Greg: Who didn't?
 * Sam Baldwin: Jim Brown was throwing these hand grenades down these airshafts. And Richard Jaeckel and Lee Marvin [Begins to cry] were sitting on top of this armored personnel carrier, dressed up like Nazis...
 * Greg: [Crying too] Stop, stop!
 * Sam Baldwin: And Trini Lopez...
 * Greg: Yes, Trini Lopez!
 * Sam Baldwin: He busted his neck while they were parachuting down behind the Nazi lines...
 * Greg: Stop.
 * Sam Baldwin: And Richard Jaeckel - at the beginning he had on this shiny helmet...
 * Greg: [Crying harder] Please no more. Oh God! I loved that movie.

 * Jonah Baldwin: He's not sane enough to judge anything. Now he's kissing her on the lips. She's a ho! My dad's been captured by a ho! What am I going to do?
 * Dr. Marcia Fieldstone: Jonah, calm down. Tomorrow, when you're sitting down to breakfast, tell him how you feel. It's not good to keep your feelings inside you.
 * ''[Jonah hangs up, then screams]

 * Sam Baldwin: I'm leaving first thing in the morning, but I'm only gonna be gone one night. Clarisse is gonna be here. So, you'll be able to see plenty of Geraldo and Nightmare on Elm Street, 12 I will never know.
 * Jonah Baldwin: Are you going with her?
 * Sam Baldwin: I'm going with Victoria. Yes.
 * [Jonah heads to his room]
 * Sam Baldwin: Don't try anything tricky, understand?
 * ''[Jonah slams his door]
 * Jonah Baldwin: [walks to Jonah's room] Don't go rolling in poison ivy as soon as I leave the house. You lock yourself in a closet or do anything, make sure you'll need stitches. If your finger falls off, it's staying off. No one's gonna pack it on ice and take you to the hospital, so you can be a breakthrough in laser surgery. Is this about that woman in Baltimore?
 * Jonah Baldwin: Annie.
 * [Sam leaves the room and closes the door]
 * Jonah Baldwin: I don't care what you do!
 * Sam Baldwin: Good! Fine! I'll tell you what I'm doing this weekend, I'm getting laid. It's the 1990's and nobody's getting laid. I'm the only man in America who's getting laid this weekend and I haven't been laid that much. Six girls in college, maybe seven. [sees Jonah standing in the doorway] How long have you been standing there?
 * Jonah Baldwin: Forever.
 * Sam Baldwin: What did you just hear me say?
 * Jonah Baldwin: Six girls in college, maybe seven.
 * Sam Baldwin: Seven... EIGHT! Mary Kelly.
 * Jonah Baldwin: [holds Annie's letter] This is the one I like!
 * Sam Baldwin: Jonah, the fact is, you're not gonna like any woman, because that isn't your mother.
 * Jonah Baldwin: How do you know?! What's wrong with Annie?!
 * Sam Baldwin: Oh, Jonah, shut up!
 * Jonah Baldwin: Shut up? Shut up?! Mom never said "shut up" to me! Mom never yelled at me!
 * Sam Baldwin: This conversation is finished.
 * Jonah Baldwin: Why can't we go to New York?
 * Sam Baldwin: There is no way that we're going on a plane to meet some woman who could be a crazy, sick lunatic! Didn't you see Fatal Attraction?
 * Jonah Baldwin: You wouldn't let me!
 * Sam Baldwin: Well I saw it and it scared the shit out of me! It scared the shit out of every man in America!
 * Jonah Baldwin: I'm not leaving until you say "yes".
 * [Sam closes his bedroom door on Jonah]
 * Jonah Baldwin: I hate you, I hate you, I hate you!
 * Sam Baldwin: That's good, you'll have a lot to tell Oprah how your Dad destroyed your life because he had to go off for a weekend special at the Holiday Inn!

Taglines

 * What if someone you never met, someone you never saw, someone you never knew was the only someone for you?

Cast

 * Tom Hanks - Sam Baldwin
 * Meg Ryan - Annie Reed
 * Bill Pullman - Walter
 * Ross Malinger - Jonah Baldwin
 * Rosie O'Donnell - Becky
 * Gaby Hoffmann - Jessica
 * Victor Garber - Greg
 * Rita Wilson - Suzy
 * Barbara Garrick - Victoria
 * Carey Lowell - Maggie Baldwin
 * David Hyde Pierce - Dennis Reed
 * Dana Ivey - Claire Bennett
 * Rob Reiner - Jay
 * Kevin O'Morrison - Cliff Reed
 * Caroline Aaron as Dr. Marcia Fieldstone

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Eleanor Holmes Norton

Eleanor Holmes Norton (born June 13, 1937) is a member of the United States House of Representatives but is not a full voting member. She is a Delegate to Congress representing the District of Columbia, a position which carries more limited voting powers compared to full House members.

Quotes

 * Congressman David Dreier: Will the gentlewoman yield? Norton: I will not yield, sir! The District of Columbia has spent two hundred and six years yielding!
 * During a speech before the U.S. Congress, April 19, 2007

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Blake Lewis

Blake Colin Lewis (born July 21, 1981) is an American singer and beatboxer. He was the runner-up on the sixth season of American Idol.

On music

 * Some say silence is golden, I choose noise.

In interviews

 * I get scared because I regard women as the most beautiful creatures in the world.

 * I'm kind of a ninja.

 * Now I'm 'Blake Lewis' to the world, but I will always still be Bshorty from Bothell...I've never looked at it like a competition so I think I've won regardless. I won when I got to the top ten; I've already reached my goal.

 * I've tried to stay true to myself this whole entire time, and I think I've represented myself as creatively as I could with what I got on the show.

 * [Singing] Steve Jobs, send me a brand-new Mac...

Dialogues

 * Lewis: Oh, man. I bite my tongue a lot and I never really listen to him [Simon Cowell].
 * Larry King: You didn't listen to him?
 * Lewis: Yeah. Well, I think him and I are a lot alike. I think we are both shameless and tactless.

 * King: You've got a clean-cut image. Why the tattoos?
 * Lewis: I love art. I love good art. I'm getting my whole...
 * King: Why not put it on canvas?
 * Lewis: Because I can't draw.

On American Idol

 * The song's about coming together as one in an ideal world. And we might not be able to accomplish that, but tonight we can start by making it a better place.
 * Commenting on his take of Imagine by John Lennon in the Inspirational week in his pre-performance clip on April 24, 2007.

 * If you don't take risks in life, you'll never see anything new.
 * Commenting on his take of You Give Love a Bad Name by Bon Jovi in the Bon Jovi-themed week in his pre-performance clip on May 1, 2007.

Dialogues

 * Lewis: I represent Seattle, the Emerald City.
 * Simon Cowell: So, why don't you think you've been discovered then?
 * Lewis: 'Cause I live in Seattle. I don't live in L.A..
 * Responding to Simon Cowell, one of the judges of American Idol, in his audition in Seattle on September 19, 2006.

 * Ryan Seacrest: If they were to make a movie about your life, what would the title be? Who would play your part?
 * Lewis: That's tough! But, it has to be Jim Carrey. And I...
 * Seacrest: 'Cause you're tall?
 * Lewis: (sarcastically) Yes, 'cause I'm tall and gangly...and it'd be called "Organized Chaos".
 * Responding to a viewer question before performing This Love by Maroon 5 on May 15, 2007.

 * Seacrest: Do you really like big butts?
 * Lewis: I can't lie.
 * Responding with the reference of the lyrics of the song "Baby Got Back" to Ryan Seacrest, the host of American Idol on May 15, 2007, after the showing of a clip of Lewis performing with Sir Mix-a-Lot in the home-visiting concert in Seattle and shaking his hips on-stage..

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Damian Spinelli

Damian Spinelli is a fictional character on ABC's daytime drama General Hospital. He has been played by Bradford Anderson since November 13, 2006, on contract since June 2007, and will also be one of the characters in the summer 2007 run of General Hospital: Night Shift.

Quotes

 * [at the wedding of Lucky Spencer and Elizabeth Webber, March 23, 2007]
 * Priest: Why do you think these two should not be joined?
 * [Seeing that Lulu is about to object to the marriage, Spinelli quickly jumps in.]
 * Spinelli [stumbling] : Marriage is out-dated. It's a primitive remnant of a pre-computer age. Y'know, like, 'With this ring until death do us part'? I mean, they're arcane, archaic phrases with no real meaning. I mean, are they internet-compatible?  I mean, y'know you could still be using dial-up, and she could be a high-speed chick. Are their servers in-synch??
 * Lesley Webber: Who are you?
 * Lulu Spencer [reluctantly] : He's my boyfriend.
 * Spinelli [plesantly surprised] : Really?
 * Lucky Spencer: Grandma, what'd you put in the punch?

 * [conversation with Jason Morgan, March 29, 2007]
 * Spinelli: Stone Cold! I am in desperate need of your wisdom. I am at Def Con 4! Check that, Def Con 5 . . .  Tell me how to make fair Lulu fall in love with me? . . . You are wise in all things Stone Cold, you are.  You taught me to escape armed desperados, and to placate Mr. Corinthos Sir.  And when it comes to affairs of the heart, look, not only have you managed to win Samantha's undying love, but you also managed to seduce the loyal Elizabeth away from her husband!
 * Morgan: That's it, this conversation is done now.
 * Spinelli: Look, I'm not passing judgment! I'm just saying, I'm merely pointing out that you have these two, paragons, completely devoted to you. And then you throw Valkyrie Carly in the mix, and, you are a chick magnet, as they say.  I mean, you're a true triple-threat.
 * Morgan: What does any of this have to do with you and Lulu?
 * Spinelli: You possess the secret. Okay? I mean, you can wield your power over a woman's heart, her body, her soul? Y'know like, who else would I go to for wisdom vis-a-vis the Blonde One? I mean, dude, c'mon, please, just if you give me just a little something, about, give me the secret to your mojo.
 * Morgan: I've got to get out of here.
 * Spinelli: No, mentor of mine, please. Look, I have a confession. Look, okay, I may rule cyberspace.  But in reality, well, The Jackal struggles.  You know, I mean, this may come as a surprise to you, but there are some people that don't take me seriously. There may even be some who mock me behind my back.  So, please, just please, just give me something, anything, anything to make Fair Lulu take me seriously.
 * Morgan: Listen.
 * Spinelli: Okay. (waits for more) What, that's it?
 * Morgan: Yeah, that's it.  Listen to Lulu.  Women like to talk a lot.  They want a guy who's going to listen.  Now you may not understand what she's trying to say half the time, but that does not matter.  It's the simple act of listening that counts.
 * Spinelli: Wow, that is so zen. Deepest gratitudes, Stone Cold. (Spinelli tries to hug Morgan)
 * Morgan: What, what'd I say about touching me??
 * Spinelli: Alright. Deepest gratitudes. And when Fair Lulu is mine, I will remember your kindness.

 * [After a one night stand with Jolene]

 * Spinelli: Sex is better than orange soda.

{after finding Georgie dead in the park and calling 911" "Someone beautiful has died!"

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Eva Mendes

Eva de la Caridad Méndez (born March 5, 1974), known professionally as Eva Mendes, is an American actress, model and businesswoman.

Quotes

 * I wanted to go into art history. Acting fell into my lap when a neighbor took pictures of me and showed them to an agent.

 * I don't believe in the institution of marriage, for me. If you love somebody and have a commitment that is strong and spiritual, then I just don't think a piece of paper makes any difference. I'm part of that whole school of thought that says when homosexuals can get married, maybe I'll start opening my mind to it.

 * I love animals, but I hadn’t had a pet since I was a kid. I recently got a dog and he’s not only made me a happier girl—he’s made me much more sympathetic to animal rights. I look at my beautiful dog and think, “Of course I’d never eat him or skin him for his fur, so why would I be okay with eating a cow or wearing a cheetah?” It’s just not right. It’s a contradiction. … I don’t think you can force people to change their attitudes, but you can help to educate them and to lead by example. … There are way too many amazing faux fur options out there for people to still be wearing real fur. I want people to know that there are options; that killing a poor animal and wearing it isn’t cool. But respecting all life forms is cool. Very cool.

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Giovanni Boccaccio

Giovanni Boccaccio (16 June 1313 – 21 December 1375) was a Florentine poet and story-writer who helped to initiate the humanist movement. His most famous work is The Decameron, a collection of 100 novelle or tales.

Quotes

 * Se medesimi esaltando con parole da fare per istomacaggine le pietre saltar del muro e fuggirsi.
 * They boosted themselves with such nauseating self-praise as to make the stones jump out of the walls and flee.
 * Il Corbaccio (c. 1355), "The Labyrinth of Love" (tr. Normand Cartier)

The Decameron (c. 1350)

 * Unless otherwise stated, translations are from The Decameron, trans. G. H. McWilliam (Penguin, 1972), ISBN 0140449302

 * Non come uomini, ma quasi come bestie, morieno.
 * Dying more like animals than human beings.
 * First Day, Introduction

 * Natural ragione è di ciascuno che ci nasce, la sua vita, quanto può, aiutare e conservare e difendere.
 * Every person born into this world has a natural right to sustain, preserve, and defend his own life to the best of his ability.
 * First Day, Introduction

 * Peccato celato e mezzo perdonato.
 * A sin that's hidden is half forgiven.
 * First Day, Introduction
 * J. M. Rigg's translation: Sin that is hidden is half forgiven.

 * Le cose mal fatte e di gran tempo passate son più agevoli a riprendere che ad emendare.
 * Wrongs committed in the distant past are far easier to condemn than to rectify.
 * Second Day, Fifth Story

 * Bocca baciata non perde ventura, anzi rinnuova come fa la luna.
 * A kissed mouth doesn't lose its freshness, for like the moon it always renews itself.
 * Second Day, Seventh Story

 * Lo ingannatore rimane a pié dello ingannato.
 * The deceived has the better of the deceiver.
 * Second Day, Ninth Story (tr. J. M. Rigg)

 * Io ho inteso che un gallo basta assai bene a diece galline, ma che diece uomini posson male o con fatica una femina sodisfare.
 * I have always been given to understand…that whereas a single cock is quite sufficient for ten hens, ten men are hard put to satisfy one woman.
 * Third Day, First Story

 * La gente è più acconcia a credere il male che il bene.
 * People are more inclined to believe in bad intentions than in good ones.
 * Third Day, Sixth Story

 * Fate quello che noi diciamo e non quello che noi facciamo.
 * Do as we say, not as we do.
 * Third Day, Seventh Story

 * Sola la miseria è senza invidia nelle cose presenti.
 * In the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy.
 * Fourth Day, Introduction

Può fare il male e non è creduto.''
 * ''Chi è reo e buono è tenuto
 * He who is wicked and held to be good, can cheat because no one imagines he would.
 * Fourth Day, Second Story

 * Come la copia delle cose genera fastidio, cosl l'esser le desiderate negate moltiplica l'appetito.
 * While superfluity engenders disgust, appetite is but whetted when fruit is forbidden.
 * Fourth Day, Third Story (tr. J. M. Rigg)

 * Una boccuccia piccolina, le cui labbra parevan due rubinetti.
 * A sweet little mouth with lips like rubies.
 * Fourth Day, Conclusion

 * E poco appresso levatasi la luna, e 'l tempo essendo chiarissimo, [egli] vegghiava.
 * Shortly afterwards the moon rose with a very clear sky, and [he] kept watch.
 * Fifth Day, Third Story (tr. J. M. Rigg)

 * Se egli fu lieto assai, la letizia della giovane non fu minore.
 * And if his own joy knew no bounds, the girl was no less delighted on seeing him.
 * Fifth Day, Third Story

 * Uno amore...a lieto fin pervenuto, in una novelletta assai piccola intendo di raccontarvi.
 * I propose to tell you a very brief tale about a love which...ran a smooth course to its happy conclusion.
 * Fifth Day, Fourth Story

 * Ci cacciano in cucina a dir delle favole colla gatta.
 * They banish us to the kitchen, there to tell stories to the cat.
 * Fifth Day, Tenth Story (tr. J. M. Rigg)

 * Essere la natura de' motti cotale, che essi come la pecora morde deono cosi mordere l'uditore, e non come 'l cane: percio che, se come cane mordesse il motto, non sarebbe motto, ma villania.
 * The nature of wit is such that its bite must be like that of a sheep rather than a dog, for if it were to bite the listener like a dog, it would no longer be wit but abuse.
 * Sixth Day, Third Story

 * Sempre non può l' uomo un cibo, ma talvolta desidera di variare.
 * It frequently happens that people grow tired of always eating the same food, and desire a change of diet.
 * Seventh Day, Sixth Story

 * Per lo primo colpo non cade la quercia.
 * An oak is not felled by a single blow of the axe.
 * Seventh Day, Ninth Story (tr. J. M. Rigg)

 * Ogni giusto re primo servatore dee essere delle leggi fatte da lui.
 * A just king must be the first to observe those laws that he has himself prescribed.
 * Seventh Day, Tenth Story

 * Le forze della penna sono troppo maggiori che coloro non estimano che quelle con conoscimento provato non hanno.
 * The power of the pen is far greater than those people suppose who have not proved it by experience.
 * Eighth Day, Seventh Story

 * Chi mal ti vuol, mal ti sogna.
 * Who means ill, dreams ill.
 * Ninth Day, Seventh Story (tr. J. M. Rigg)

 * Leggiadre donne, infra molte bianche colombe aggiugne più di bellezza uno nero corvo, che non farebbe un candido cigno.
 * Charming ladies, the beauty of a flock of white doves is better enhanced by a black crow than by a pure white swan.
 * Ninth Day, Tenth Story

Quotes about Boccaccio

 * There are few works which have had an equal influence on literature with the Decameron of Boccaccio. Even in England its effects were powerful. From it Chaucer adopted the notion of the frame in which he has enclosed his tales, and the general manner of his stories, while in some instances, as we have seen, he has merely versified the novels of the Italian. In 1566, William Paynter printed many of Boccaccio's stories in English, in his work called the Palace of Pleasure. The first translation contained sixty novels, and it was soon followed by another volume, comprehending thirty-four additional tales. These are the pages of which Shakespeare made so much use. From Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, we learn that one of the great amusements of our ancestors was reading Boccaccio aloud, an entertainment of which the effects were speedily visible in the literature of the country. The first English translation, however, of the whole Decameron, did not appear till 1620. In France, Boccaccio found early and illustrious imitators. In his own country he brought his native tongue to perfection, and gave stability to a mode of composition, which before his time had only existed in a rude state in Italy; be collected the current tales of the age, which he decorated with new circumstances, and delivered in a style which has no parallel for elegance, naivete, and grace. Hence his popularity was unbounded, and his imitators more numerous than those of any author recorded in the annals of literature.
 * John Colin Dunlop, The History of Fiction, 2nd edition (1816), Vol. II, p. 352

title: Giovanni Boccaccio


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Lucille Ball

Lucille Désirée Ball (August 6, 1911 – April 26, 1989) was an American comedian, actress and star of the sitcoms I Love Lucy, The Lucy Show and Here's Lucy and charter member of the Television Hall of Fame.

Quotes

 * Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.
 * Quoted in Eleanor Harris, The Real Story of Lucille Ball, ch. 1 (1954)

 * You see much more of your children once they leave home.
 * Quoted in Carolyn Warner, The Last Word, ch. 16 (1992)

Love, Lucy (1996)

 * Written during the 1960's, published 1996

 * I don't suppose that hard work, discipline, and a perfectionist attitude toward my work did me any harm. They are a big part of my makeup today, as any of my co-workers will tell you. And when life seemed unbearable, I learned to live in my imagination, and to step inside other people's skins- indispensable abilities for an actress.
 * pp. 9-10

 * People with happy childhoods never overdo; they don't strive or exert themselves. They're moderate, pleasant, well liked, and good citizens. Society needs them. But the tremendous drive and dedication necessary to succeed in any field- not only show business- often seems to be rooted in a disturbed childhood. I wasn't an unloved or an unwanted child, but I was moved around a lot, and then death and cruel circumstances brought many painful separations.
 * p. 21

 * Here's what I advise any young struggling actress today: The important thing is to develop as a woman first, and a performer second. You wouldn't prostitute yourself to get a part, not if you're in the right mind. You won't be happy, whatever you do, unless you're comfortable with your own conscience.
 * p. 42

 * Russell Markert, Lela Rogers, Ed Sedgwick - these were but a few of the experienced theater people who generously gave me a boost. I have a theory about the assists we get in life. Only rarely can we repay those people who helped us, but we can pass that help along to others. That's why, in 1958, I reactivated Lela's theater workshop with two dozen talented kids trying to get started in show business.
 * p. 79

 * My ideal of womanhood has always been the pioneer woman who fought and worked at her husband's side. She bore the children, kept the home fires burning; she was the hub of the family, the planner and the dreamer.
 * p. 113

 * This was the heyday of the movies; it was hard to keep a level head and one's sense of values. MGM made over-worked, spoiled idols out of Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, and Elizabeth Taylor; it wasn't the kids' fault, nor the studio's, it was the System. I too was on the spoiling list for a while, but I didn't go along with it.
 * p. 137

 * I closed my eyes, put blinders on, and ignored what was too painful to think about. I tried to view my troubles less seriously, and worry less. I tried to curb my temper. Things said in embarrassment and anger are seldom the truth, but are said to hurt and wound the other person. Once said, they can never be taken back.
 * p. 141

 * For there's a lot of masochism in the acting profession. We're willing to take a lot of punishment, but the minute we hit a little bit of success we are liable to run from it. We're frightened of it and develop all kinds of phobias as a consequence. Outsiders who don't understand think we have a chip on our shoulder, but it's not that at all. We're so used to failure, to being hurt and rebuffed, that we can easily come unhinged by success.
 * p. 197

 * When you're too mad and too rattled to see straight, you're bound to make mistakes. You can't go on and on for years being miserable about a situation and not have it change you. You get so you can't stand yourself.
 * p. 212

 * Children internalize their parents' unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily.
 * p. 235

title: Lucille Ball


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Julie Kavner

Julie Deborah Kavner (born September 7, 1950) is an Emmy Award-winning American actress known for her improvisational skills. The voice of Marge Simpson on the animated television series The Simpsons, Kavner has also appeared in live-action roles in six Woody Allen films. In 1992, she starred in This Is My Life.

Quotes

 * I’m very, very private; I don’t enjoy talking about myself to strangers...Particularly strangers with tapes going.
 * Julie Kavner: a Private Person in Many Roles Los Angeles Times (June 15, 1989)

 * I feel that you reach a certain age and then things start to jell. My sense of self is stronger. I'm getting bolder in my old age. After I hit forty, you couldn't mess around with me so much anymore.
 * Julie Kavner: a Private Person in Many Roles Los Angeles Times (June 15, 1989)

"'Darling! Listen to Me'"
The New York Times (January 26, 1992)
 * I was brought up not to be selfish or self-centered. So if you play somebody who isn't so lovable, you can play that person and no one will turn on you.
 * [W]hat I do is not mimicry or an impersonation, but more of an assimilation
 * As an actor you can't approach the character with that kind of awareness or it plays as 'I hate myself.' Dottie thought she had a right to her life and that was tricky to play.
 * [W]hen I was a kid and I would get upset when people laughed at me when I didn't mean to be funny. I would always hear: 'We're not laughing at you. We're laughing with you.' But I would say, 'I'm not laughing.'
 * Don't ask me about Beverly Hills High School. Everybody hated it. I hated it. Hated it. Hated it. Hated it.

title: Julie Kavner


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Doris Day

Doris Day (3 April 1922 – 13 May 2019) was an American actor, singer, and animal welfare advocate.

Quotes

 * The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
 * As quoted in Doris Day : Her Own Story (1975) as told to A. E. Hotchner

 * I’ve been through everything. I always said I was like those round-bottomed circus dolls — you know, those dolls you could push down and they’d come back up? I’ve always been like that. I’ve always said, "No matter what happens, if I get pushed down, I’m going to come right back up."
 * "People Who Matter: An Interview with Doris Day" by Cameron Woo and Nellie McKay in The Bark, Issue 34, (January - February 2006)

Misattributed

 * Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.
 * Though she is quoted as saying this in a 1996 interview, she is also quoted as saying it is a maxim which she follows as a Christian Scientist; it comes from the Christian Science Hymnal, Hymn 249, "O, when we see God's mercy" by Vivian Burnett: "Our gratitude is riches, complaint is poverty."

title: Doris Day


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Martha Raye

Martha Raye (August 27, 1916 – October 19, 1994) was an American comic actress and singer.

Quotes

 * Ask any girl what she'd rather be than beautiful, and she'll say more beautiful.
 * Quoted in Susan Horowitz: "Queens of comedy: Lucille Ball, Phyllis Diller, Carol Burnett, Joan Rivers" p. 128
 * One paper says I'm Catholic and the other says I'm Jewish. I guess that's fitting because as a Methodist I'm meant to be undetermined some of the time.
 * Quoted in Jane Maddern Pittrone: Take It from the Big Mouth: The Life of Martha Raye, p. 216
 * I am a Republican because I believe in the constitution, strength in national defense, limited government, individual freedom, and personal responsibility as the concrete foundation for American government. They reinforce the resolve that the United States is the greatest country in the world and we can all be eternally grateful to our founding fathers for the beautiful legacy they left us today.
 * Quoted in Jane Maddern Pittrone: Take It from the Big Mouth: The Life of Martha Raye, p. 220

title: Martha Raye


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Elayne Boosler

Elayne Boosler (born August 18, 1952) is an American comedian.

Quotes

 * People lose their senses at the beach 'cause the sun beats down too hard. They say things that just don't gel, you know. Well, you've heard this a lot: "Pick up a shell - oh, you can hear the ocean!" You could pick up a bicycle and hear the ocean - you're at the beach. Put the shell down, you'll hear the ocean twice as loud.
 * Reported in Cader Books, That's Really Funny!: Over 1,000 More Great Jokes from Today's Hottest Comedians (2000), p. 164.

title: Elayne Boosler


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Kathleen Turner

Mary Kathleen Turner (born June 19, 1954) is an Academy Award-nominated American actress.

Quotes

 * Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise.
 * As quoted in The Routledge Dictionary of Quotations (1987) by Robert Andrews, p. 241
 * Also quoted in The Observer London UK newspaper (28 December 1986)

title: Kathleen Turner


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Jamie Lee Curtis

Jamie Lee Curtis (born November 22, 1958) is an American film actress and a successful writer of books for children. She has won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, a Golden Globe twice and has received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.

Quotes

 * People get real comfortable with their features. Nobody gets comfortable with their hair. Hair trauma. It's the universal thing.
 * Quoted in Funny Ladies: The Best Humor from America's Funniest Women by Bill Adler p. 36

 * “The greatest gift to give to the people you love the most is your recovery.”

 *

 * I don't think any woman wants to be known for being beautiful or busty. I think you want to be known for who you are.

 *

 * Exchange the words ‘have to’ with ‘get to.’ Exchange the word ‘can’t’ with ‘unwilling.’

 *

 * "“Getting older makes you more alive,” "

 *

 * I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comfortable sense of who we are. We look at our parents and learn and grow and move on. We change.

 *

 * And it felt really good to be needed. And to be trusted. And to be special.

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 * “We are all born worthy.  Worthy of love, worthy of success.”

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 * Aging is human evolution in its pure form. Death, taxes and aging .... We are ALL going to age and soften and mellow and transition.

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 * The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people.

 *

 * I don't think any woman wants to be known for being beautiful or busty. I think you want to be known for who you are.

 *

title: Jamie Lee Curtis


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Teri Garr

Terry Ann "Teri" Garr (born December 11, 1944) is an American actress and comedian.

Quotes

 * I don't want to say I'm envious of any other woman's body. It's a bad myth to perpetuate. Women have enough trouble liking themselves.
 * Quoted in Bill Adler Funny Ladies: The Best Humor from America's Funniest Women (Kansas City: Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2001), p. 37.

title: Teri Garr


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Meg Whitman

Margaret C. Whitman (born August 4, 1956) became the President and CEO of Hewlett Packard in September 2011. She was President and CEO of the online marketplace eBay from 1998 to 2007.

Quotes

 * Silicon Valley is 130 miles from Sacramento, but it might as well be a million miles away given how it operates.
 * The Economist, 2nd October 2010, p. 78

 * A monkey could drive this train.
 * Said about running eBay in its early days, quoted in the New York Times, "EBay Bids on a New Path to Growth", February 6, 2011

 * Kenya is well-positioned to be an African leader in information technology, telecommunications, and mobile banking and is open to partnering with the United States.
 * Said about Kenya technology scene, quoted in the Citizen Digital, "", September 25, 2022

title: Meg Whitman


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Wikiquote talk:Requests for adminship/Archive 3

Length of discussions
see Requests_for_adminship Kalki suggested this should run 2 weeks. Aphaia has suggested that how long to run it should be discussed here, so I'm starting a thread. I already expressed that I am not sure I see why this needs to run longer, it seems to set a bad precedent perhaps. ++Lar: t/c 16:41, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I've been discussing this RFB with Poetlister, JeffQ, Aphaia. My thinking is that it is better for Poetlister for all concerns to be addressed so her 'cratship will be uncontroversial. If some of the established members of the Community want a longer discussion, then I think we need to listen to their concerns to understand why. Process is alway less important than getting the best outcome. FloNight♥♥♥ 17:22, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I agree with FloNight that it is probably better if whatever concerns still exist are completely run to ground before this discussion is ended. I have reserved judgment myself to allow some of this to occur. While I am not inclined to oppose Poetlister, I wanted to at least wait until these side investigations were completed. In the end, what difference does it make if it takes a bit longer in what I see as a special case? I would rather that everyone is satisfied before granting such a role. Again, I do not have anything against Poetlister, and in fact see her as a solid admin based on her work this past year, but I would rather that everyone is sure before we conclude this matter. ~ UDScott 18:42, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Two weeks is fine by me (and perfectly reasonable). Perhaps it should be the standard for all RfBs on Wikiquote. Time flies. BD2412 T 19:25, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

It's very simple. With an AfD, we have a week. If an admin cannot determine a consensus, he/she may extend it by a week. We should have the same rule for RfAs and RfBs. Anyway, I doubt that we will have another RfB in the near future.--Cato 21:15, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I suggested 2 weeks as a mild precaution, because Bureaucrat tools are not so frequently required as admin tools, potentially far more dangerous, and with an awareness that it is sometimes easy for even many of the more active editors to sometimes miss the fact that there is even a nomination in progress for several days. I am less inclined to oppose the nomination than previously, now that there have been some strong assurances of confidence given by a steward, but I still would wish the matter to be more clearly resolved. There were not only accusations but actions taken at Wikipedia, and though where the greatest fault lies cannot be clearly known from the facts available to us, I could not have been comfortable in granting Poetlister bureaucrat status without past issues being addressed more extensively than they initially were. If in the end there are no stronger objections or concerns other than those I believe entirely valid and appropriate to have raised, I might support the nomination, though I continue to feel there is no pressing need to rush to a decision. ~ Kalki 22:23, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I concur with BD2412. It is fine to me, specially if the community is going to support. RFA for one week at least, RFB for two weeks at least. It sounds me a good precaution. Not only for this case, but for all the future cases. For possible extension procedure, I would give more time and thought before expressing my idea. --Aphaia 06:31, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

BTW, I didn't notice that there was anything said here about nominations for CheckUser status. For the record, it appears that across the Wikimedia projects, CU-granting discussions are open-ended to give the communities sufficient time to collect the necessary minimum participation levels (regardless of the balance between support and opposition). This is also important because there must always be a minimum of two CUs on a project, if they have any CUs, to allow them to check each other's work. Therefore, it's important to allow the project enough time to replace any CUs that are cutting back or resigning (as is happening here and now). Some projects can take many weeks to accumulate enough input from the community on these crucial questions. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 18:42, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I agree to set it open-ended, but at the same time for the balance of other types of requests, I think it reasonable to set a minimum length of review. It must be at least one week long. I prefer to keep it open at least two weeks, since CU results may have greater impacts than b'crat access (the former touch directly private information and cannot be reversed). Also, if we set it open-ended, we need to determine who to close the request (a normal admin is okay? The requesters themselves are okay? etc). --Aphaia 12:16, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

 * I've gotten some input offline that this discussion might be perceived as changing the rules in the middle of a discussion. That's not the intent. Rather, we are discussing how to identify existing practices and accomodate situations that don't necessarily fit into them. I pointed out above that existing Wikimedia practice seems to be for CU-granting discussions not to have a predefined closure date. We have no maximum-time policy on any discussions that I'm aware of except for WQ:VFD (and even that is more by implication than any formal decision to make it a maximum). It should be obvious to anyone familiar with CheckUser discussions that, outside of en:WP, a one- or even two-week limit would be inadequate, so following general practice is wise.

 * Aphaia's suggestion that any admin can close a CU-rights discussion is merely codifying our existing practice. Cbrown1023, an admin who does not have bureaucrat or other privileged status, closed both Aphaia and my candidacies. I would suggest that allowing the nominator to close the discussion would be generally reasonable, since we must have at least 25 votes for a positive conclusion anyway. But I would oppose allowing a self-nominator to close a discussion. This is not saying anything against Cato, our current CU candidate, but is rather based on growing concerns of the appearance of conflicts of interest. (I'll be darned if I can remember where these concerns have been expressed, though. I must be getting senile. Can anyone provide a link?)

 * As for a minimum discussion time, if we figure that the greater responsibility of a bureaucrat makes a two-week minimum wise, then we could hardly make it less for a CheckUser, who has special restrictions and powers that are sensitive enough to require Foundation approval. However, this is not our current practice, so we can't really set this for Cato's discussion. Frankly, I was somewhat bothered when our ever-helpful Cbrown1023 closed my discussion only 86 minutes after I'd achieved 25 votes. In the future, I'd like to have a minimum.

 * Based on existing practice, however, I've just closed Cato's candidacy as "community approved". I've also made a bit more of a formal statement with useful links to help guide future CU-closers, since CU candidacies are and probably will remain infrequent. I suggest that once Cato gets CU authority, we note that in the discussion for completeness. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 17:12, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Minor? revision
I made two changes on "instruction". I think it goes along the discussion on the above, so expect it is okay. Please review my edits and give your feedback, if any. --Aphaia 01:23, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I made a few corrections of style and grammar. I also removed the words "In principle"; we require admins to have e-mails.-- Poetlister  20:07, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for refining. I agree on your additions as well as removal of "in principle". --Aphaia 23:46, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Procedures for debates on Checkuser status
I propose the following rules:

 * 1) The vote shall remain open for seven full days, or for 24 hours after the 25th support vote has been cast, whichever is longer.
 * 2) The vote may then be declared closed by any administrator, except for the candidate [and the proposer, if not a self-nom?]
 * 3) No notice shall be placed on Meta Requests for Permissions until the vote is closed.
 * 4) The notice may be placed by the candidate, the proposer, the closer or a bureaucrat.

Do we need some closure mechanism? If there is no opposition but the votes are just coming in slowly, we should leave the debate open for as long as it takes to get the necessary 25 votes. However, what do we do if it is clear that there is too much opposition for the candidacy to succeed? I suggest that a bureaucrat be allowed to close as a fail after at least 14 days.--Cato 11:51, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for bringing it up. Generally fine to me.

 * To 2. I reminded me we have no restriction now for checkuser candidates. Even if it is redundant, can we like say "only admins or retired admins without dispute may apply"?
 * To 3. Restriction on the proposer looks like a good idea.
 * To 4. Hmm RFP says nothing, but its another section (about removal of access) says "a trusted person from that wiki should provide a link here to the discussion" ... so do we need to restrict the person as proposed? I think we can safely say here ".... the closer or an admin" as well as closer clause.

Thoughts? --Aphaia 04:27, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

 * Hmmm Closure. I agree a b'crat can say to close it, but doubt if we need 14 days. You reminded me another possible case ... both oppositions and supports come slowly. The policy says "consensus (at least 70%-80%) ". So in some cases "after 24 hours after the 25th vote come" may be equal to say it fails.
 * We need to regulate when and how we declare a request fails perhaps? One problem is that we set no such a condition for regular sysop access request either yet ... --Aphaia 04:40, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

 * I want to be more logic-driven than case-driven here if possible. Several of us made or supported arguments to keep a bureaucrat nomination open for 2 weeks during Poetlister's candidacy. I believe that was half because we (or maybe just I) had vainly hoped to have a speedy and positive resolution to the effort to clear her on Wikipedia (although I'm not yet aware of a resolution, which may be more my failure to finish my own follow-up than any reflection on her). But from a logical point of view, we should either ratify two weeks as a good idea, or decide it's not necessary and apologize to her for dropping it into the middle of her b'crat candidacy.

 * If we decide on a 2-week minimum for b'crat discussions, then any more serious rights assignments would seem to warrant a similar period. I wouldn't have thought this would be an issue for CU, but I was surprised that it took us less than two weeks to accumulate 25 votes for each of our three discussions thus far. I've said elsewhere that I'm not very happy that some of our votes — in all three CU discussions — came from folks who have done little work on Wikiquote. Even though most (all?) of those relative outsiders have been experienced Wikimedians, it's my understanding that it's the hosting community that is expected to support or reject CU candidates. If we're going to formalize CU discussions, perhaps we need to examine this more closely. Or perhaps the community will continue to accept a handful of votes from these relative outsiders (which so far has been good for the candidates, but could be bad for anyone who might be respected in our community but have strong opposition from other communities). Either way, I want it acknowledged that this is how we've been getting our minimums to date.

 * To those who might object to changing conditions, I would point out that this is a natural evolution of practice and policy, so long as we get a credible consensus from the community. Our newer admins received more solid support than our oldest ones in part because there are many more active editors now than in the earlier days. I would agree, though, that we should be more careful about appearing to change the rules during any active candidacies. At the same time, I would want us not to feel that we couldn't address gaps in practice or policy when they arise during a discussion, as this is our typical way to deal with problems as they come up. Both Poetlister (in her b'crat self-nomination) and Cato (in his CU self-nomination) have had reason to object to some of this on-the-fly policy refining, so we owe it to them and to future candidates to try to be more careful about serving real policy needs without seeming to throw extra hurdles in anyone's path.

 * Having said that general stuff, my specific responses to Cato's proposed rules are:
 * As I said above, I believe our minimum span for CU should be at least what it is for bureaucrat discussions, but I see no reason to have more than a 2-week minimum. My main concern is that we don't give an opposing admin an excuse to close a discussion too early for lack of votes (although this is purely theoretical at this point). I'd be happy to have discussions open for a month or two if we needed that to get enough community participation on this critical right.
 * If we believe we need admins to close VfDs (as I do, primarily to have community-trusted people to handle this responsibility and take the heat for any problems), we should have this requirement for rights-granting discussions as well, and definitely for CU candidacies. I prefer not to allow the candidate to seem too eager by closing their own discussion, whether it's a self-nomination or not. (They can always close it by withdrawing, of course, but it just seems to me to be wise to allow one of the 25+ supporters, or even an opposer, to close a discussion that ratifies community support.) Just as with VfDs, I'd prefer that the nominator not close the discussion unless the consensus is clear. So far, this hasn't remotely been an issue, but again, I want logic and prudence as much as experience to inform our policies.
 * I think it's advisable to hold off notifying the stewards at RFP until we have a formal closure. This is not mandated in the instructions at Meta, but it just seems prudent.
 * I agree that there should be a link to the closed discussion, but I see no reason why the candidate can't do that themselves after the discussion was closed by someone else. I believe Cato acted within policy and in good faith by his posting before a formal close, so if we take care of any appearance of haste or conflict of interest in the closure, we should have no need to have someone else do this step. (Meta seems to have no problem with anyone else doing it, either, but since the candidate must notify the Foundation of their identity and confirm they've done this on Meta, they should not be prevented from doing both in a single post.)

 * I wrote these detailed comments because I'll be offline most of the next two weeks, and I'm hoping that all this will adequately represent my opinions in the face of future discussion I can't participate in. I hope many others will chime in on this important discussion so we can work toward a solid consensus. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 07:04, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

 * I'm not sure that we need any restrictions on candidates. If a non-admin stands and the community decided to trust him, why shouldn't they?  I read somewhere that there is a wiki with a checkuser who isn't an admin, but I can't find it now.--Yehudi 12:45, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
 * There is such a wiki, Commons (Gmaxwell).  Cbrown1023   talk   02:19, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
 * He was an admin when he was made a checkuser.  Majorly  (talk) 00:07, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Requests for adminship/RyanCross
Just a reminder to bureaucrats that my RfA (above) is supposed to be closed today (or several hours ago). — RyanCross (talk ) 23:09, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Oh yes. I realize that all three active bureaucrats have !voted, but since the consensus is rather obvious, I expect those bureaucrats to ignore all rules and close the RfA, keeping a neutral point of view while doing so. Unless, of course, closes it, so we don't have to worry, but s/he hasn't edited in over a month. — RyanCross  (talk ) 23:13, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

Same goes for Requests for bureaucratship/RyanCross if any bureaucrats are around... it's overdue by several hours. — RyanCross (talk ) 23:24, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
 * ✅ by, thanks Kalki! Cirt (talk) 11:33, 1 June 2009 (UTC)


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User:R d the savior~enwikiquote

this is a strange site. But pretty cool.

I won't be doing a whole lot of editing, mostly looking around and finding some great quotes.

I have another Wiki account over at Wikipedia, and you can find it Here I also have a page at Uncyclopedia Here

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The initial lead section of this article was copied from Eleanor Holmes Norton and adapated for Wikiquote. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 01:50, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

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