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Talk:Ruhollah Khomeini

quotes about Khomeini were grossly slanted
The quotes about Khomeini were grossly slanted. Either change the composition to reflect all viewpoints on the man and the revolution or do not bother with the section. I have removed the entire section until this reflects a Neutral Point of View
 * (29 May 2005)

 * I'd like to add that the current Wikiquotes attributed to Khomeini distort him as a thinker. I understand this is not a dictionary entry, and it seems from the edit history that some of the infamously outrageous quotes may have been removed, however, I still find it conspicuous the way most of these quotes are mainly shock material or other tidbits out of context. I can not see how they could serve as anything else but anti-Khomeini missiles or shallow sit com soundbites. It's like taking the widespread Nietzsche quote "Thou goest to woman? Do not forget thy whip." as a representative sample of Nietzsche's thought. I can understand it in a lowest common denominator context (f.ex. sit com), but it doesn't serve any purpose on a site like this. Of course the amusing/shocking quotes might well be included as a cherry on top after the individual's thought in general has been covered, but the existing Khomeini Wikiquotes show his general thought has not received any respect whatsoever. Therefore it would be quite an improvement if someone well versed in Khomeini's ideas could provide more relevant samples of his thought. By not selecting many representative quotes of his thought a shadow is cast even on the encyclopedic Wiki project by reasons of association. --85.76.231.249 07:26, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Unfairly...
The quotes are so unfairly. most of them are quoted when Iraq backed by western governots attacked Iran at 1981 ... and therefore those are speaking about war only. Some of quotes all lie compeletely.

It needs a full refresh to be fairly. Imam-Khomeini is a popular man till now and when it name comes most of people bless him for his blithe and kindness. If you want say a typical message from Imam khomeini evreyone know it in Iran you can replace " THE BALANCE (of decision)IS PEOPLE's VOTES " ... This is written everywhere in Iran.

It seems the article managed by ( Mujahedin Khalq ) Terrorism known group in all of the world. http://www.google.com/Top/Society/Issues/Terrorism/Terrorist_Organizations/MEK_-_Mujahedin-e_Khalq_Organization/

 * a youth borned 1981 - from Iran [1 December 2005]

Valid material regularly being removed from this article
I have recently been restoring deleted material: if disputed or spurious quotations are being circulated, it is in the interests of accuracy to rebuke them for what they are, not pretend that they do not exist. Other material has been removed that has been provided with clear citations and dated sources, apparently because it does not have a POV people would like to publicize. ~ Rumour 19:32, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Contextual aproach to what Ruhollah_Khomeini has said
Would you please answer me how a reader can understand the meaning of the speeches correctly, when there isn't any explanation about Ruhollah_Khomeini's life? If you don't have any information, I'll help you with it.
 * His father -who was a clergiman- had been killed, a mounts days after he was born by a local ruler. When he was teen the first world war happened. Although Iran declared impartiality Russia and U.K. occupied Iran and he looked at the raid of Russian army to his city. When he was 40, the second world war happened. Although Iran declared impartiality Russia ,U.K. and U.S. occupied Iran again and exiled the king of Iran -Reza Shah. When he was 52, Dr.Mosaddeq -prime minister of Iran- nationalized petroleum industry and dispossessed Anglo-Iranian Oil Company of it. But as American confessed few years ago, they supported a coup and Dr. mosaddeq was deposed. Therefore Khomeini understood if Muslims and Iranians wanted to become independent, they should fight and acquire it. So because of his situation, he focused on the part of islam which is looked harsh to a nonMuslim. I should add his harshness was against enemies of Iranian and Muslims like Saddam and Isreal. He was very temperate and kind with people and ore than a million of iranians came to his funeral.you can see these image, if you doubt.

For more information about Iran's contemporary I show you some text from weekipedia:

1-"During World War I the country was occupied by British and Russian forces but was essentially neutral. In 1919, Britain attempted to establish a protectorate in Iran, aided by the Soviet Union's withdrawal in 1921." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Iran

2-"During World War I, Britain had ignored protests from the Qajar rulers and stationed troops in the province of Khuzestan. During World War II, Britain again wished to station troops in Khuzestan.Reza Shah protested against this challenge to central government authority. Britain interpreted this refusal as favoring Nazi Germany. Fearing that Reza Shah was about to align his petroleum-rich country with Nazi Germany during World War II, the United Kingdom and the USSR occupied Iran and forced Reza Shah to abdicate in favour of his son (see also Persian Corridor)." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reza_Shah

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Corridor

3-"The government of Britain had grown increasingly distressed over Mossadegh's policies and were especially bitter over the loss of their control on the Iranian oil industry. Despite Mossadegh's repeated attempts to negotiate a reasonable settlement with them they refused outright the same terms, and later total control over Iranian oil..." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Mossadegh

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ajax

Sa.vakilian, A postgraduate student in Communication and Mass Media Study

The Image description
The previous image description ..."WHY DO YOU mOLLAH'S ONLY SPEAK OF MERCY AND LOVE? wHY DO YOU NOT QUOTE THE PASSAGES ABOUT KILLING?."... is obviously irrelevant to the image. I replaced it with the simple description.."Iranian Flag".

A word of caution about western sources
The best sources about Khomeini are not written in English, since the man neither spoke nore wrote in English.

That should be abundantly obvious.

So the best sources are probably not available to most of the English speaking world.

(I'm surprised that this page even uses them, given that his recorded and written speeches are probably obtainable from Iranian government sources, if anyone was willing to make an effort to get them.)

Unfortunately, this has led to some opportunism on the part of people in the West who tout themselves as experts on the Middle East and Iran.

On the other hand, little genuine information comes out of Iran, since the Iranians who have been closest to Khomeini, have essentially no communication with the West.

Readers should be cautious about accepting, for example, Time magazine's quote alleging that Khomeini said "There is no fun in Islam".

This is not a correctly sourced quote.

It should include Time Magazine's source for that quote. In which speech? Where is a record of it, so that we can verify that this is genuine?

If there isn't any, then what is the quote even doing here? --Johan77 23:21, 28 February 2007 (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 and precise source for any quote on this list please move it to Ruhollah Khomeini. --Antiquary 18:35, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

 * America is the great Satan, the wounded snake.
 * He later declared that he meant the U.S. government.

 * As long as the Shah’s satanic power prevails, not a single true representative of the people can possibly be elected

 * If one permits an infidel to continue in his role as a corrupter of the earth, his moral suffering will be all the worse. If one kills the infidel, and this stops him from perpetrating his misdeeds, his death will be a blessing to him.

 * [Peter Jennings:] What do you feel? [Khomeini:] Nothing!
 * When asked by a reporter what he felt entering Iran after years of exile, and a returning as its new ruler.

 * The author of the Satanic Verses book, which is against Islam, the Prophet and the Qu'ran, and all those involved in its publication who were aware of its content, are sentenced to death. I ask all Muslims to execute them wherever they find them.

 * The crimes committed here foul the name and holiness of Jesus Christ in the eyes of the Iranian people.
 * This quote needs context as well as sourcing.

 * If the Shah is not destroyed, you shall become slaves of pagans. Foreigners shall take your womenfolk; they shall plunder all your natural wealth and put the Muslim community to eternal shame.

 * The Shah is saying that he is granting liberty to the people. Hear me, you pompous toad! Who are you to grant freedom? It is Allah who grants freedom...It is Islam which grants freedom.

 * It was worse than taking poison.
 * On ending the war with Iraq after the Iran/Iraq war of 1980-88.

 * Islam is not a dull religion limited to the relation between man and his God, Islam is a political religion. Its politics are mixed up with its other rules and worship, and as the governments have political dimensions, Islam also has other political dimensions.
 * From a recorded lecture in Najaf during his exile there.

 * A man who has both knowledge and virtue is happy both here and in the Hereafter!

 * A corrupt learned person corrupts the world.

 * Familiarize the people with the truth of Islam so that the young generation may not think that the men of religion in the mosques of Qum and al-Najaf believe in the separation of church from state, that they study nothing other than menstruation and childbirth and that they have nothing to do with politics.

 * Let the illiterate all rise to learn and all literate brothers and sisters rise to teach!

 * Man needs knowledge as well as education to the end of his life. No man can do without them.
 * Let's change machine guns with pens.
 * We shall eradicate illiteracy in best possible manner.

 * Defending the mustazafin [the meek, the oppressed, the deprived, etc] is the way of Islam! In pursuit of the grand Islam, we support all oppressed peoples.

 * Enforce justice, do not justice only for others, seek it for yourselves as well. Justice is justice and cruelty and crime are cruelty and crime regardless of the source.

 * In Islam, the legislative power and competence to establish laws belong exclusively to God Almighty.

 * Islam does not favour unbridled, oppressive capitalism which deprives the masses. Rather, Islam condemns such practices severely in Quran and Tradition and regards it against social justice. Nor is Islam in accord with regimes like communism, Marxist-Leninism which oppose private ownership and favor common ownership.

 * Serve the oppressed, the needy and the slum-dwellers for they are our benefactors!

 * The Iranians want justice, liberty and independence and believe they can achieve them only by the light of Islam and its laws.

 * We must try to purge this nation of the culture of palace residency.

 * God knows that I ask no rights, privileges, immunities or prerogatives for mysell If I err, I am ready for the consequences. I hope Khomeini will never deviate from the straight path of Islam which is to fight the oppressive powers.

 * I am a brother to the people of Iran and regard myself as a servant and soldier of them.

 * I would rather be called servant than leader. Leadership is not the issue, service is topical. Islam has made it incumbent on us to serve.

 * I need no financial aid. I fight the Shah with a pen and a sheet of paper and, if I needed help, my nation will help me.

 * A child's first school is the mother's lap.

 * From the viewpoint of human rights, there is no difference between men and women because both are human and women can decide about their own destinies just like men.

 * In our age women have proved that in a fight they march by the side of men or ahead of them.

 * Men ascend to high Heavens from the lap of the women.

 * I observe a wonderous change in the community of women, far beyond that of men.

 * Iranian women have a larger part than men in this Movement and Revolution.

 * Not only Shiism does not exclude women from the arena of social life, rather, it places women in their lofty human station.

 * You brave, dear sisters insured victory for Islam, shoulder-to-shoulder with men.

Sayings of Imam Khomeini

 * This section was originally added in the "sourced" section, but does not appear to be an actual published work.

 * "by the bank of Kowthar (A stream in heaven), with lips parched by thirst, By the side of the Beloved (God) with heart afire by longing!"

 * Mindfulness of God, migrating from oneself to God - (which is the greatest migration)-, migration from ego to truth, and from this world to the Invisible, have all fortified you..

 * Evidently, adoration, worship and sanctification of God requires Knowledge and awareness of His Most Exalted Station, Attributes of His beauty and grandeur, Without due knowledge and awareness ,it cannot be fulfilled..

 * Neglecting God tarnishes the heart more, gives the ego and devil domination over man and daily increases corruption. Recitation and remembrance of imparts serenity to the heart, burnishes it and makes it a mirror reflecting the Beloved. It purges and purifies the soul and saves the man from the boils of ego.

 * the universe in God's presence, do not sin in His presence. Do not quarrel over false and mortal things in His presence. Work for God's sake and advance.

 * Great God's praise and salaam to Hazrat Esau (Jesus) son of Mary, the Spirit of God and His Grand Messenger who revived the dead and awakened the slumbering ones. God's praise and salaam to his noble mother, Maryam (Mary) who, by divine breath, gave such a great child to those who thirst for God's mercy.

 * The comprehensiveness and all-inclusiveness of Islam is such that anyone who understands it admits it is beyond the limits of the human mind and cannot be the product of the power of human science and intellect.

 * Islam is dearer than what we imagine.

 * The school of Islam is the school of purification and refinement.

 * Man may conceal things from all mortal eyes but everyting about us is preserved with God and He reverts to us all our deeds.

 * Invoke Almighty God for, God willing, it will solve all difficulties.

 * All of our divine duties are blessings of God but we think they are obligations.

 * Islam adjusts material matters in such a way that they merge with d:affairs.

 * Islam has said everything, but the difficulty rests with the Muslims.

 * The day danger to Islam is deemed imminent we must all make sacrifices.

 * The woman is the tor of mankind.

 * Men ascend to high havens from the lap of the women.

 * God knows that I ask no rights, privileges, immunities or prerogatives for myself. If I err, I am ready for the consequences

 * If ever I see it is expedient to Islam that I say something, I'll say it and it up without fear of anything. Thanks God, I've not felt fear so far. T they were taking me away, it was they who were afraid and i pacified it

 * Any Muslim who has accepted the principles and decrees of Islam and in whose conduct and behavior an exact Shiite discipline is observable, is a member of the Hizbullah. The Quran and Islam have set forth the mandate and all the decrees concerning this Party or Hizb. This Party is something other than the ordinary parties.

 * We should not worry defeat, we should worry failure to perform our duties.

 * Ashura is the day of general mourning by the oppressed nation; it is - the epic day, - the rebirth of Islam and the Muslims

 * Behave in such a way that when you depart for God's Threshold you may be able to hold your head up.

 * Know that faith is one of the spiritual excellences that very few are aware of its light essence. Even the faithful are not aware of the radiance of their faith and the blessings it bears for them at the threshold of God as long as they are bound to this world and abide in the darkness of Nature.

 * I cannot admit that a man without moral standards may act for the people.

 * Try to enhance morality among this nation. It is by morality that you can preserve your independence and attain to stages of excellence.

 * Patience and forebearance ease the burden of misfortunes on man, facilitate the difficulties and strengthen the will and resolution.

 * The greater a purpose the greater the pains to attain to it, one must be tolerant.

 * Whenever one says "I", be sure his "I" is evil.

 * Know that the wicked quality of self-conceit emerges from self-love.

 * One cannot be selfworshiping and God worshiping at the same time.

 * No fault is greater than not understanding one's own fault and ignoring it and though one is a collection of faults, himself yet be concerned with the faults of others.

 * Why should complexes of the heart mislead men and carnal passions put aside all things and observe only the faults?

 * Do not ever become disappointed in your affairs for all things do not become rectified at once and major works are carried out little by little.

 * Despair is of the army of Satan and hopefulness is that of God. Be always hopeful.

 * Moral values are the permanent values.

 * When objectives are superb, the toils to reach them must be ignored.

 * Fear nothing, when God is with you, all things are with you.

 * We trust in God and fear nothing.

 * He who has God with him fears nothing save His Might.

 * From the beginning of the creation to the present there have always been two parties, one divine, the other Satanic and each has had separate outcome

 * Islam's predestined circumstances are also predestined for all Muslims.

 * It is incumbent on all, regardless of where we work and serve, to preserve Islamic standards before all services.

 * Islam is set against all paganism, at present, not you or I. you and I do not count.

 * The major problem of the Muslims is their separation from Islam an Quran

 * This man (meaning imam Ali) is the manifestation of all fairness and justice, he is the wonder of the universe and from the Beginning to Eternity, no man except His Holiness the Prophet (SAW) can match him in excellence.

 * Morals, Celestial Manifestations, Divine manifestations, manifestation of celestial kingdom, of worldly elegance, all are compounded in this Being ( hazrat Fatima Zahra, daughter of the prophet).

 * The revolution of Iranian people is the starting point for the grand revolution of Islamic world under the banner of His Holliness Hojjat ( proof, title of the 12th Imam now in occultation, expected to reappear)

 * The Tragic event that befell Amirulmumenin ( a title of Imam Ali ) and Islam is greater than that which befell the Seyyed-al-Shohada ( a title of Imam Hosein).

 * The prophets did not succeed in carrying out their missions and Almighty God will send someone (12Th. Infallible Imam) to implement them at the end of time.

 * You must remember that all of us have another day, (the Last Day), do not doubt this! We have a day of reckoning before us. Everything will be considered and calculated on that day, man himself should give an account of his doings. On that day, pens, hands, eyes, all come and testify. We have such a day!

 * In this world the intercession of the pre-emptors becomes manifest by their guidaflce in the Hereafter, the essence of guidance is intercession per se. If your portion of guidance is nil, you shall receive no intercession; to the extent you receive guidance, you'll receive intercession.

 * Cultivate your egos, purge them. This world has a definite end for all of us, for me sooner, then for you.

____________________________________________________________

I AGREE WITH THE FOLLOWING

The quotes about Khomeini were grossly slanted. Either change the composition to reflect all viewpoints on the man and the revolution or do not bother with the section. I have removed the entire section until this reflects a Neutral Point of View

 * I'd like to add that the current Wikiquotes attributed to Khomeini distort him as a thinker. I understand this is not a dictionary entry, and it seems from the edit history that some of the infamously outrageous quotes may have been removed, however, I still find it conspicuous the way most of these quotes are mainly shock material or other tidbits out of context. I can not see how they could serve as anything else but anti-Khomeini missiles or shallow sit com soundbites. It's like taking the widespread Nietzsche quote "Thou goest to woman? Do not forget thy whip." as a representative sample of Nietzsche's thought. I can understand it in a lowest common denominator context (f.ex. sit com), but it doesn't serve any purpose on a site like this. Of course the amusing/shocking quotes might well be included as a cherry on top after the individual's thought in general has been covered, but the existing Khomeini Wikiquotes show his general thought has not received any respect whatsoever. Therefore it would be quite an improvement if someone well versed in Khomeini's ideas could provide more relevant samples of his thought. By not selecting many representative quotes of his thought a shadow is cast even on the encyclopedic Wiki project by reasons of association. --85.76.231.249 07:26, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

User Smitty.i.am's additions
A user by the name of Smitty.i.am has again added quotations from a book that doesn't exist. Please note that there is no book by Khomeini entitled "Islam is not a religion for pacifists".

As a way of getting around this fact, Smitty.i.am is sourcing Taheri and Rubin, which in turn source the non-existant book "Islam is not a religion for pacifists" by Khomeini.

Please stop attacking wikiquote in this way. Do not quote non-existent or incredible (meaning not-credible) sources.

207.188.69.26 21:21, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

Non-Existant Sources
I am removing the quotes sourced to Taheri and Rubin for the following reason. First, both quotations source a book by Khomeini entitled "Islam is not a religion for pacifists". No such book seems to exists. Searching the internet for this book brings up nothing but Taheri or Rubin. This is despite the fact that everyone of Khomeini's books seem to be posted online. I attempted to search for a Farsi translation of the name in the hope of finding an untranslated version, only to find out that the word "pacifist" does not exist in Farsi. The closest thing to it is "sol joo" which literally means "one who searches for peace".

Then I looked up the author, Taheri. He is a former editor in chief of a very pro-Shah publication during the Shah's time, within Iran's highly controlled media. His Wikipedia page has a whole section entitled "alleged fabrications".

He has claimed that the Iranian government has introduced the Nazi practice of forcing Jews to wear yellow arm-bands. Turned out to be a lie spread by Taheri which made its way into the press. Newspapers were forced to redact the claim after it was proven untrue.

He has apparently claimed that Jesse Jackson had made comments in support of the Islamic government in Iran while speaking at a conference. Turns out Jesse Jackson was not even at the mentioned conference.

Apparently in the past Taheri had claimed that Khomeini had published a book on how to correctly have sex with animals. The title of the book he cites cannot be found.

It just goes on and on and on.

I think most reasonable people would agree that Khomeini was a pretty monstrous historical character but please, when using second hand accounts, lets only use credible sources.

People like Taheri and Rubin who in their books cite imaginary books are not considered "credible" using by definition of the word

207.188.69.26 19:38, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

 * There seems to be an essay of 1942, not a book, which has been translated as "Islam is not a religion for pacifists" and has been translated as quoted in other works. To quote it here is appropriate. People often choose to emphasize different things about different people and ideas, and part of our task as beings with limited perceptions is to take in as broad and diverse a body of evidence and testimony as we can, and to not be any more hasty than necessary in making assessments based upon very limited evidence or testimony, nor seeking to have the capacities of others to examine what seems to be valid testimony or evidence unjustly or unfairly impaired in any way, even if it does not favor such causes or assessments as we do . ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 22:35, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

 * This does not seem to match the cited sources. Rubin, cites Taheri.  Taheri (who is a very sketchy character - he was former head of Iranian broacasting during the Shah and has a section on wikipedia about apparent lies he has told) cited what he calls is a "book" entitled "Islam is not a religion for pacifists".  Taheri's book also has other quotes from Khomeini where Taheri claims Khomeini recommended men to have sexual relations with animals.  He cites a another non-existant Khomeini book where he claims Khomeini writes "A man can have sex with animals such as sheep, cows, camels and so on. However he should kill the animal after he has his orgasm. He should not sell the meat to the people in his own village, however selling the meat to the next door village should be fine." By including the first quote but not including the quote about having sex with animals, editors seem to be trying to lend credibility to the controvercial Taheri.  In any event, I won't remove the mentioned quotes.  I will just move them to an "Attributed" section (which is where they belong in any event). Poyani 19:59, 7 July 2011 (UTC)

 * The second book is, according to Taheri, entitled "Sex with Children and Animals". It is picked up by a whole slew of racist and Islamophobic websites which are promoting the claim that such a book exists. Taheri also presents quotations where he claims Khomeini (in the same book) advocated men to have sexual relations with their daughters. It is all extremely sketchy. Poyani 20:02, 7 July 2011 (UTC)

Taheri Quotes Unacceptable
I have noted this issue before. Quotes attributed to Khomeini by Taheri are widely discredited. Iran experts have noted that they are "out of character" for Khomeini and either "do not occur in the books sourced" or are "sourced to books that do not exist".

See http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2007/11/is_iran_suicidal_or_deterrable http://motherjones.com/mojo/2007/11/amir-taheri-story http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=6df3e493-f350-4b53-bc16-53262b49a4f7

When Taheri was confronted with these criticisms he responded that "As much as being accurate is important, in the end it's important to side with what's right. What's wrong is siding with the terrorists." He is not a reliable source and should not be treated as such by Wikimedia. Poyani 20:57, 27 October 2011 (UTC)

 * I have moved the quotes you had removed to a "Disputed" section, if further evidence can be provided that these particular quotes are not translations of authentic statements, they could be placed within a "Misattributed" section, such as exists on many pages for attributed quotes shown to be almost certainly false. ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 21:51, 27 October 2011 (UTC)

 * Who are the so called "Iran-Experts" that you mention?

 * The wikicode for creating such sections is:

Deleted quotes
Article History is full of deleted quotes not sure if this has been checked. Examples:

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Levels of quoting accuracy

 * 1) Quote with no attribution or source.
 * 2) * Includes all "Anonymous" quotes unless attribution to "Anonymous" is from a reliable source.
 * 3) Quote with attribution, but no source.
 * 4) Quote with attribution, but unreliable source.
 * 5) Quote with attribution and a reliable source, but not verified.
 * 6) Quote attributed, reliably sourced, and verified to match the source.

At the start of 2007, I estimate that over 90% of quotes currently in Wikiquote are at no higher a level than "2", and an unconscionable number are at "1".

Arguments about quote pithiness

 * Only funny in context.
 * [From Terminator 2: Judgment Day.]
 * John Connor: Jesus! You were gonna kill that guy!
 * The Terminator: Of course. I'm a Terminator.
 * What's funny is how nonchalant Ah-nold was in nearly blowing away a bystander, and how we were led to forget his essential dangerousness. It's lost in the plain text of the quote.

 * Great moment, but only if you can see it.
 * [From Veronica Mars episode "Kanes and Abel's".]
 * [Veronica is leaving the office of sleazy P.I. Vinnie Vanlowe.]
 * Veronica: And... you have a little something on your face.
 * [Vinnie leans toward her. She reaches up, rips off his fake moustache, and exits.]
 * Vinnie: That is not cool!

Arguments about POV

 * Quotes that can support opposite sides.
 * [From folk singer Tom Morgan's "The John T. Scopes Trial (The Old Religion's Better After All)".]
 * You may find a new belief
 * It will only bring you grief
 * For a house that's built on sand is sure to fall.
 * Argued that evolution was a "new belief", and "that the old religion's better after all". But equally (and possibly more) plausible to argue that religion is built on sand — the famously unreliable nature of recorded history and superstitious beliefs — rather than scientific evidence that can be tested repeatedly by anyone, anytime.

Statistics

 * over 4,500 WQ usernames created between 2005-09-07 and 2006-04-21
 * 9,322 WQ usernames as of 02:36, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Quote-based observations

 * Evidence of decline of thinking in America, from The Tonight Show, 29 June 2006
 * Jay Leno: You must love the Rush Limbaugh Viagra story.
 * Robin Williams: First of all, it seems, like, a little redundant for him to take Viagra you know? [silence] The fact that he takes it, he gets taller. You know, it's a wonderful— [finally some laughter] I mean, why, what do you need, right… it's a hard thing, when he's a big prick already—
 * [Now, laughs and applause.]
 * Leno: Ho!
 * Note that the first punch line ("a little redundant") was completely missed by all, the second ("he gets taller") only fitfully appreciated, and the third required an explicit use of the phrase "big prick" for most people to get the joke. No wonder MST3K went over the heads of so many people.

Useful websites

 * Critical Thinking on the Web (thanks, Versageek!)

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Pretty Woman

Pretty Woman is a 1990 film about a man in a legal but hurtful business who needs an escort for some social events, and hires a beautiful prostitute he meets... only to fall in love.
 * Directed by Garry Marshall. Written by J.F. Lawton.

She walked off the street, into his life and stole his heart.

Edward Lewis

 * You and I are such similar creatures, Vivian. We both screw people for money.
 * Impossible relationships. My special gift is impossible relationships.
 * People's reaction to opera the first time they hear it is extreme. They either love it or they hate it. If they love it, they will always love it. If they don't, they may learn to appreciate it, but it will never become part of their soul.

Vivian Ward

 * [to Edward] In case I forget to tell you later, I had a really good time tonight.
 * I want the fairy tale.
 * Honey, I've got a runner in my pantyhose. I'm not wearing pantyhose.
 * People always do what you tell them to do? ...I guess so.
 * The first guy I've ever loved was a total nothing. The second was worse. My mom called me a bum magnet. There was a bum in a fifty mile radius, I was completely attracted to him.
 * The bad things are easier to believe. Haven't you noticed that?!
 * You'll buy a snap dog and we'll cop a squat under a tree or somewhere.
 * I appreciate the whole seduction thing you've got going on here, but let me give you a tip: I'm a sure thing.
 * I think you have a lot of special gifts, Edward.
 * Baby, I'm gonna treat you so nice, you're never gonna wanna let me go.
 * People put you down enough, you start to believe it.

Kit De Luca

 * Yo, Viv, babe. Would ya come down here? The Sphincter Police won't let me through.
 * Fifty bucks, Grandpa. For seventy-five, the wife can watch.
 * Those are two very specific examples of crackheads.
 * A name... you want a name... the pressure of a name... I got it! Cinde-fucking-rella!

Others

 * Philip Stuckey: [about Morse] He mortgaged everything he owns, right down to his underwear, to secure a loan from the bank.
 * Magician at party: No matter what they say, it's all about money. So let's imagine, ladies, that you're a savings and loan officer. Watch - one, two, three; see, you've got it all, and we've got nothing. You've got all four, take a look.
 * Happy Man: Welcome to Hollywood! What's your dream? Everybody comes here; this is Hollywood, land of dreams. Some dreams come true, some don't; but keep on dreamin' - this is Hollywood. Always time to dream, so keep on dreamin'.

Dialogue

 * Edward: When you and I were dating, did you speak to my secretary more than you spoke to me?
 * Susan: She was one of my bridesmaids.

 * Vivian: Wait a minute — that's a Lotus Esprit!
 * Kit: No, that's rent. You should go for him. You look hot tonight. Don't take less than a hundred. Call me when you're through… Take care of you.
 * Vivian: Take care of you.

 * Vivian: Hey, sugar, you lookin' for a date?
 * Edward: No, I want to find Beverly Hills. Can you give me directions?
 * Vivian: Sure. For five bucks.
 * Edward: That's Ridiculous.
 * Vivian: Price just went up to ten.
 * Edward: You can't charge me for directions!
 * Vivian: I can do anything I want to, Baby; I ain't lost.

 * Edward: I hadn't exactly planned this.
 * Vivian: Do you plan everything?
 * Edward: Always.
 * Vivian: Yeah me too! I'm actually, no I'm not a planner. I would say I'm a kinda fly by the seat of your pants gal, you know moment to moment. Yeah that's me, that's...yeah.

 * Edward: I guess this is not the greatest time to be a hooker, is it?
 * Vivian: Look, I use condoms always. I get checked out once a month at the free clinic. Not only am I better in the sack than an amateur, I am probably safer.
 * Edward: I like that; that's very good. You should have that printed on your business card.
 * Vivian: If you're makin' fun of me, I don't like it.
 * Edward: [laughs] No, I'm not making fun of you. No, I don't. I'm not. I wouldn't offend you. I'm sorry. What's your name?
 * Vivian: What do you want it to be?

 * Vivian: Man, this baby must corner like it's on rails!
 * Edward: Beg your pardon?
 * Vivian: Well, doesn't it blow your mind? This is only four cylinders!

 * Edward: Tell me, what kind of… what kind of money you girls make these days? Ballpark.
 * Vivian: Can't take less than a hundred dollars.
 * Edward: Hundred dollars a night?
 * Vivian: For an hour.
 * Edward: An hour? You make a hundred dollars an hour and you got a safety pin holding your boot up? You gotta be joking.
 * Vivian: I never joke about money.
 * Edward: Neither do I.
 * [He turns to her.]
 * Edward: Hundred dollars an hour. Pretty stiff.
 * [She reaches over into his lap.]
 * Vivian: Well, no… but it's got potential.

 * Vivian: What is your name?
 * Edward: Edward.
 * Vivian: Edward? That's my favorite name in the whole world!
 * Edward: [mock seriously] No!

 * [A well-dressed couple observe Edward and the scantily-clad Vivian as an elevator arrives.]
 * Vivian: Well, color me happy! There's a sofa in here for two!
 * [The man moves to enter, but his wife stops him. A chagrined Edward turns to the couple.]
 * Edward: First time in an elevator.
 * Woman: Ah.
 * [Edward enters. The woman turns to her husband.]
 * Woman: Close your mouth, dear.

 * Vivian: Wow! Great view! I bet you can see all the way to the ocean from out here.
 * Edward: I'll take your word for it. I don't go out there.
 * Vivian: Why don't you go out there?
 * Edward: I'm afraid of heights.
 * Vivian: You are? So how come you rented the penthouse?
 * Edward: It's the best. I looked all around for penthouses on the first floor, but I can't find one.

 * Vivian: Well, now that you got me here, what are you going to do with me?
 * Edward: You wanna know something? I don't have a clue.
 * Vivian: You know, you could pay me. That's one way to, maybe, break the ice.

 * [Vivian hops up onto Edward's desk in a sultry pose.]
 * Edward: You're on my fax.
 * Vivian: Well, that's one I haven't been on before.

 * [Vivian pulls a fistful of condoms from her purse.]
 * Vivian: Pick one. I got red, I got green, I got yellow… I'm out of purple, but I do have one Gold Circle coin left… the condom of champions, the one and only… nothin' is gettin' through this sucker. Whaddya say, hmm?
 * Edward: A buffet of safety.
 * Vivian: I'm a safety girl.

 * Vivian: So Edward, are you in town on, uh, business or pleasure?
 * Edward: Business, I think.
 * Vivian: Business, you think. Well… let me guess. That would make you… a lawyer.
 * Edward: A lawyer?
 * Vivian: Umm-hmm.
 * Edward: What makes you think I'm a lawyer?
 * Vivian: You've got that, um… sharp, useless look about you.

 * Vivian: Listen, I… I appreciate this whole seduction scene you've got goin', but let me give you a tip — I'm a sure thing, okay? So… I'm on an hourly rate. Could we just move it along?
 * Edward: Somehow, I'm sensing that this time problem is a major issue with you. Why don't we just get through that right now.
 * Vivian: Great! Let's get started.
 * Edward: How much for the entire night?
 * Vivian: Stay here? [small laugh] You couldn't afford it.
 * Edward: Try me.
 * Vivian: 300 dollars.
 * Edward: Done. Thank you. Now we can relax.
 * [A flummoxed Vivian gets up.]
 * Vivian: Are you sure you want me to stay for the entire night? I mean, I could just pop ya good and be on my way.
 * Edward: To tell you the truth, I don't feel like being alone tonight.
 * Vivian: Why, is it your birthday, or something?
 * Edward: No.
 * Vivian: I mean, I have been the party at a couple of birthdays.
 * Edward: Hmpf. I bet you have.

 * Edward: Oh, by the way, Phil — about your car…
 * Philip Stuckey: Oh God. What?
 * Edward: It corners like it's on rails.
 * Philip Stuckey: What?! What does that mean? Edward… Edward…
 * [Grinning, Edward hangs up.]

 * Vivian: [after Edward catches her singing along to "Kiss" by Prince in the tub] Don't you just love Prince?
 * Edward: More than life itself.

 * [Fumbling with his tie, Edward tells Vivian about his business.]
 * Vivian: You don't actually have a billion dollars, huh?
 * Edward: No. I get some of it from banks, investors… it's not an easy thing to do.
 * Vivian: And you don't make anything…
 * Edward: No.
 * Vivian: … and you don't build anything.
 * Edward: No.
 * Vivian: So whadda ya do with the companies once you buy 'em?
 * Edward: I sell them.
 * [Viv reaches for his tie.]
 * Vivian: Here, let me do that. You sell them.
 * Edward: Well, I… don't sell the whole company, I break it up into pieces, and then I sell that off, it's worth more than the whole.
 * Vivian: So, it's sort of like, um… stealing cars and selling 'em for parts, right?
 * Edward: [sighs exasperatedly] Yeah, sort of. But legal.

 * Edward: I will pay you to be at my beck and call.
 * Vivian: Look, I'd love to be your beck-and-call girl, but…

 * Edward: Any questions?
 * Vivian: Can I call you Eddie?
 * Edward: Not if you expect me to answer.
 * Vivian: I would have stayed for two thousand.
 * Edward: I would have paid four. I'll see ya tonight.
 * Vivian: Baby, I'm gonna treat you so nice, you're never gonna wanna let me go.
 * Edward: Three thousand, for six days, and Vivian, I will let you go.

 * Vivian: I called and called! Where were you last night?
 * Kit: Ma?

 * Thompson: Now, Mr. Lewis, however, is a very special customer, and we like to think of our special customers as friends. Now, as a customer, we would expect Mr. Lewis to sign in any additional guests, but as a friend, we're willing to overlook it. Now, I'm assuming that you're a… [long pause] … relative?
 * Vivian: [meekly] Yes.
 * Thompson: I thought so. Then you must be his…
 * [Thompson gives Vivian an expectant nod. Another long pause.]
 * Vivian: Niece?
 * Thompson: Of course. Naturally, when Mr. Lewis leaves, I won't see you in this hotel again. I assume you have no other uncles here?

 * Bridget: Now, I'm sure we're gonna find something here that your uncle would love.
 * Vivian: Bridg? He's not really my uncle.
 * Bridget: They never are, dear.

 * Vivian: Hello!
 * Edward: Never, ever pick up the phone.
 * Vivian: Then why're you calling me?

 * Vivian: All right. I'll meet you in the lobby, but only 'cause you're payin' me to.
 * Edward: Well, thank you very much.
 * [He hangs up the phone and turns to the receptionist.]
 * Edward: Get her back for me, please.

 * Vivian: 'Lo?
 * Edward: I told you not to pick up the phone.
 * Vivian: Then stop callin me.
 * [Edward snickers and hangs up.]
 * Vivian: [grinning] Sick.

 * Thompson: I have a message for you, sir.
 * Edward: From who?
 * Thompson: Ah, from your niece, sir.
 * Edward: My what?
 * Thompson: The young lady who's staying in your room, sir.
 * Edward: Oh. Hmm. I think we both know that she's not my niece.
 * Thompson: Of course.
 * Edward: The reason I know that, is that I am an only child.

 * Vivian: You're late.
 * Edward: You're stunning.
 * Vivian: [grinning] You're forgiven.

 * [Vivian accidentally launches an escargot, which is deftly caught by the mâitre-d.]
 * Vivian: Slippery little suckers.
 * Mâitre-D: It happens all the time.

 * Vivian: Let's watch old movies all night… we'll just veg out in front of the TV.
 * Edward: "Veg out"?
 * Vivian: Yeah. Be still like vegetables. Lay like broccoli.
 * Edward: Look, I'll tell ya what. I'll be back. We'll do broccoli tomorrow.

 * Vivian: The stores are not nice to people — I don't like it.
 * Edward: Stores are never nice to people. They're nice to credit cards.

 * Edward: You see this young lady over here?
 * Hollister: Yes.
 * Edward: Do you have anything in this shop as beautiful as she is?
 * Hollister: Oh, yes.
 * [Edward gives Hollister a look.]
 * Hollister: Oh, no! No, no! No. I'm saying we have many things as beautiful as she… would want them to be! [babbling] That's the point I was getting at. And I think we can all agree with that. That's why, when you came in here, you knew from the first—
 * Edward: You know what we're gonna need here? We're going to need a few more people helping us out. I'll tell you why. We are going to be spending an obscene amount of money in here. So we're going to need a lot more help sucking up to us, 'cause that's what we really like.
 * Hollister: Ohhhh!
 * Edward: You understand that.
 * Hollister: Sir, if I may say so, you're in the right store, and the right city, for that matter!

 * Hollister: Exactly how obscene an amount of money were you talking about? Just… profane, or really offensive?
 * Edward: Really offensive.
 * Hollister: [to himself] I like him so much.

 * Hollister: Mr. Lewis? How's it going so far?
 * Edward: Pretty well, I think. I think we need some major sucking up.
 * Hollister: Very well, sir. You're… not only handsome, but a powerful man. I could see the second you walked in here, you were someone to reckon with…
 * Edward: Hollister.
 * Hollister: Yes, sir?
 * Edward: Not me. Her.

 * [Vivian, smartly dressed with black hat, cream dress with buttons, white gloves and carrying many bags, stops in at yesterday's clothing store.]
 * Vivian: Do you remember me?
 * Salesperson: No, I'm sorry.
 * Vivian: I was in here yesterday. You wouldn't wait on me?
 * Salesperson: Oh.
 * Vivian: You work on commission, right?
 * Salesperson: Ah, yes.
 * Vivian: Big mistake. Big. Huge! [turns away] I have to go shopping now!

 * Edward: I was very angry with him. It cost me ten thousand dollars in therapy to say that sentence: "I was very angry him." I do it very well, don't I? I'll say it again: I was very angry with him. "Hello, my name is Mr. Lewis, I am very angry with my father."
 * Vivian: I would've been angry at the ten thousand dollars.

 * Vivian: Did I mention… my leg is 44 inches from hip to toe, so basically, we're talkin' about…
 * [She wraps her legs around Edward.]
 * Vivian: … 88 inches of therapy… wrapped around you, for the bargain price of…
 * Edward and Vivian: [in unison] … three thousand dollars!

 * Gretchen: Edward's our most eligible bachelor. Everybody is trying to land him.
 * Vivian: Well, I'm not trying to land him. I'm just using him for sex.

 * Elizabeth Stuckey: [about Vivian] She's sweet, Edward! Wherever did you find her?
 * Edward: 976-BABE.

 * Vivian: People put you down enough, you start to believe it.
 * Edward: I think you… are a very bright, very special woman.
 * Vivian: The bad stuff is easier to believe. You ever notice that?

 * Matron: Did you enjoy the opera, dear?
 * Vivian: Oh, it was so good, I almost peed my pants!
 * [Vivian walks off.]
 * Matron: Wha—?
 * Edward: She said she liked it better than The Pirates of Penzance.

 * [Edward offers Vivian a condo, car, and a shopping allowance.]
 * Vivian: What else? You going to leave some money by the bed when you pass through town?
 * Edward: Vivian, it really wouldn't be like that.
 * Vivian: How would it be?
 * Edward: Well, for one thing, it would get you off the streets.
 * Vivian: That's just geography.
 * Edward: Vivian, what is it you want? What do you see happening between us?
 * Vivian: I don't know. When I was a little girl, my mama used to lock me in the attic when I was bad, which was pretty often. And I would… I would pretend I was a princess, trapped in the tower by a wicked queen. And then suddenly, this knight, on a white horse, with these colors flying, would come charging up and draw his sword… and I would wave, and he would climb up the tower, and rescue me. But never in all the time… that I had this dream… did the knight say to me, "Come on, baby, I'll put you up in a great condo."

 * Edward: I've never treated you like a prostitute.
 * [He walks away.]
 * Vivian: You just did.

 * Kit: Maybe you guys could, like, um… you know, get a house together, and like, buy some diamonds, and a horse — I don't know. Anyway… it could work! It happens!
 * Vivian: When does it happen, Kit?

 * Vivian: I just wanna know who it works out for. You give me one example of somebody that we know that it happened for.
 * [They start talking over each other.]
 * Kit: Name someone? You want me to name someone?
 * Vivian: Yeah, you know a person that it's worked for.
 * Kit: You want me to, like, give you a name, or something?
 * Vivian: Yeah, I'd like a name.
 * Kit: Oh, God, the pressure of a name… Cinde-fucking-rella!

 * Edward: So what happened after he climbed up the tower and rescued her?
 * Vivian: She rescues him right back.

Major cast

 * Richard Gere — Edward Lewis
 * Julia Roberts — Vivian Ward
 * Ralph Bellamy — James Morse (final film role)
 * Jason Alexander — Philip Stuckey
 * Laura San Giacomo — Kit De Luca
 * Alex Hyde-White — David Morse
 * Amy Yasbeck — Elizabeth Stuckey
 * Elinor Donahue — Bridget
 * Hector Elizondo — Hotel Manager Barney Thompson
 * Larry Miller — Mr. Hollister

title: Pretty Woman


text:
Rocky (film)

Rocky is a 1976 film about a small-time Philadelphia boxer who gets a supremely rare chance to fight the world heavyweight champion in a bout in which he strives to go the distance for his self-respect.
 * Directed by John G. Avildsen. Written by Sylvester Stallone.

His whole life was a million-to-one shot.

Rocky Balboa

 * I just want to say hi to my girlfriend, OK? Yo, Adrian! It's me, Rocky.
 * Note: bolded portion is ranked #80 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

Dialogue

 * [Rocky and Adrian go out]
 * Rocky: Listen, I don't want no turkey anyway, ya know.
 * Adrian: But it was Thanksgiving.
 * Rocky: It was what?
 * Adrian: It was Thanksgiving.
 * Rocky: Yeah, to you. But to me, it's Thursday, right?

 * [Apollo and his team are brainstorming about his next opponent for the New Year's Day match]
 * Apollo: What do you think about Billy Snow?
 * Jergens: Fouls.
 * Apollo: How 'bout Big Chuck Smith? Yeah.
 * Duke: Nah. He's too old and dull. [points out] Hey, Bobby Judd. He's a good boy.
 * Apollo: No, I don't feel any heat from that name.
 * Jergens: Joe Zach's a good prospect. [approaches Apollo] Exactly what are you looking for, Apollo?
 * Apollo: [shows Jergens somebody in a local fight book] This is what I'm looking for. 'The Italian Stallion.'
 * Jergens: Rocky Balboa? Never heard of him.
 * Apollo: Look, it's the name, man. 'The Italian Stallion.' The media'll eat it up. Now who discovered America? An Italian, right? What would be better than to get it on with one of his descendants?
 * Duke: He's a southpaw. I don't want you messing around with southpaws. They do everything backwards.
 * Apollo: Southpaw, nothin'. I'll drop him in three. [visualizes title] "Apollo Creed Meets the Italian Stallion". [laughs]... Sounds like a damn monster movie.

 * Jergens: Balboa, George Jergens. Take a chair please. Mr. Balboa.
 * Rocky: Call me Rocky sir.
 * Jergens: Tell me Rocky, you've got any representation of a manager?
 * Rocky: No just me.
 * Jergens: Rocky I've got a proposition I'd like to make to you.
 * Rocky: Sparring?
 * Jergens: I beg your pardon?
 * Rocky: Well, I'm interested. I know you're looking for sparring partners and I just want to say I'm very available you know.
 * Jergens: I'm sure you are.
 * Rocky: Absolutely. Sparring with the champ would be an honor and you know what, Mr. Jergens?
 * Jergens: What?
 * Rocky: I wouldn't take no cheap shots either. I'd be a really good sparring partner.
 * Jergens: You don't understand me, Rocky. My proposition is this. Would you be interested in fighting Apollo Creed for the World Heavyweight Championship?
 * Rocky: No.
 * Jergens: Listen Rocky, Apollo's seen you fight. He likes you and he wants to fight you.
 * Rocky: It's just that you see I fight in clubs you know. I'm really a ham-and-egger and this guy's the best. It wouldn't be such a good fight. Thank you very much though, I appreciate it.
 * Jergens: Rocky, do you believe that America is the land of opportunity?
 * Rocky: Yes.
 * Jergens: Apollo Creed does. He's going to prove it to the whole world by giving an unknown a shot at the title and that unknown is you. He picked you, Rocky. Rocky it's the chance of a lifetime. You can't pass it by. What do you say?

 * Reporter: Why did you agree to fight a man who has virtually no chance of winning?
 * Apollo: Look, if history proves one thing, American history proves that everybody's got a chance to win. Didn't you guys ever hear of Valley Forge or Bunker Hill?

 * Mickey: I'm here to warn ya, that ya gotta be very careful about this shot that you got at the title. Because, like the Bible sez, you ain't gonna get a second chance...Well, what ya need is a manager. A manager, listen to me. I know, because I've been in this racket for 50 years...I've seen it all, all of it. Ya know what I've done?...I have done it all...[He holds a bare lightbulb in front of his face] I've got 21 stitches over this left eye. I've got 34 stitches over this eye. Do ya know that I had my nose busted 17 times?...[He glances at Rocky's poster of Rocky Marciano] Ya kinda remind me of the Rock, ya know that?...Ya move like him, ya got heart like he did...I got all this knowledge, I got it up here now, I wanna give it to you...I wanna take care of ya, I wanna make sure that all this shit that happened to me doesn't happen to you...Ya can't buy what I'm gonna give ya. I've got pain and I've got experience.
 * Rocky: Well, I've got pain and I've got experience too.
 * Mickey: Listen kid
 * Rocky: Hey, Mick.
 * Mickey: What?
 * Rocky: I needed your help about ten years ago, right? Ten years ago?
 * Mickey: Right.
 * Rocky: Ten years ago, ya never helped me none. You didn't care.
 * Mickey: Well, if you wanted help... I say, if you wanted help, why didn't you ask? Why didn't you just ask me, kid?
 * Rocky: Look, I asked, but you never heard nothin'
 * Mickey: Well I, uh, I know I, I'm 76 years old. and uh well, where the hell is... [walks out because Rocky wouldn't even entertain him]
 * Rocky: [as Mickey is revealed to be just outside the room but eventually leaves] Took you long enough to get here. Took you ten years to come to my house. Huh, what's the matter? You don't like my house? Does my house stink? That's right it stinks! I didn't ask no favours from you! Don't slum around me! Talking about your prime. What about my prime Mick!? Least you had a prime! I didn't have no prime, I didn't have nothin'. Leg's are goin', everythin's goin'. Nobody's gettin' no nothin'. Guy comes up, offers me a fight. Big deal, you wanna fight the fight? Yeah I'll fight the big fight. I'm gonna go and fight that big fight and you know what's going to happen to me? I'm gonna get that! [punches mattress] I'm gonna get that! [punches mattress] And you wanna be ringside and see it? Do ya? You wanna help me out? Huh!? Do you wanna see me get my face kicked in!? Leg's ain't workin'. Nothin's workin'. They go "Go on fight the champ". Yeah I'll fight him. Get my face kicked in. And you come around here, you wanna move in here with me? Come on in it's a nice house! Real nice! Come on in and move! It stinks! This whole place stinks. You wanna help me out? Well help me out! Come on help me out, I'm standing here!

 * Paulie: [about Adrian] What's the story? What's happenin'? Ya really like her?
 * Rocky: Sure, I like her.
 * Paulie: I don't see it. What's the attraction?
 * Rocky: I don't know. Fills gaps, I guess.
 * Paulie: What's 'gaps'?
 * Rocky: I dunno, gaps. She's got gaps, I got gaps. Together, we fill gaps. I dunno.
 * Paulie: You ballin' her?
 * Rocky: [irritated] Hey! Hey, ya don't talk dirty about your sister.
 * Paulie: Ya screwin' my sister?
 * Rocky: Ya see. That's why I can't connect ya with Gazzo...because you got a big mouth. You just talk too much.

 * Duke: (Watching Rocky punch meat on the TV) Hey, Apollo. You better come see this.
 * Apollo: (Carelessly) What is it?
 * Duke: This guy, the one you want to fight, he looks serious.
 * Apollo: Yeah, yeah. (Not even looking at the TV) I'm serious, too.

 * [Rocky is standing alone in the ring at the empty Philadelphia Spectrum, looking at the poster of himself]
 * Rocky: Mr. Jergens, the poster's wrong.
 * Jergens: What do ya mean?
 * Rocky: Well, I'm wearin' white pants with a red stripe.
 * Jergens: It doesn't really matter, does it? I'm sure you're gonna give us a great show. Try to get some rest, kid.

 * [In Rocky's corner after Round 1]
 * Mickey: Your nose is broken.
 * Rocky: How does it look?
 * Mickey: Ah, it's an improvement.

 * [The final bell has rung, ending the 15th round and the fight]
 * Apollo: Ain't gonna be no rematch. Ain't gonna be no rematch.
 * Rocky: Don't want one.

Cast

 * Sylvester Stallone - Rocky Balboa
 * Talia Shire - Adrian Pennino
 * Burt Young - Paulie Pennino
 * Carl Weathers - Apollo Creed
 * Burgess Meredith - Mickey Goldmill
 * Thayer David - George Jergens
 * Joe Spinell - Tony Gazzo

title: Rocky (film)


text:
Nothing to Lose

Nothing to Lose is a 1997 comedy film starring Martin Lawrence and Tim Robbins. The film was directed by Steve Oedekerk who also wrote the film and made a cameo appearance as a lip-synching security guard in the film.
 * Directed and written by Steve Oedekerk.

One has no job, the other has no life. Together, they have everything to gain and Nothing to Lose

Terence/"T"

 * Alright man, you win, is that what you want to hear you win. (Nick starts slapping himself) What the fuck? Hey man, you ain't one of them desert slashers, are you? Cut a person's body up and leave it out in the desert in little tiny pieces and shit, huh? Oh, shit! We are in the fuckin' desert! I'm in the car with a psycho freaky Jason hack-killer motherfucker! Please don't kill me, freaky Jason. I said, please don't kill me, freaky Jason! (Nick just looks at him) I done fucked around and caught a ride with the wrong white boy!

Dialogue

 * T: Welcome to hell, beyotch! Car keys, wallet, now! (no response) You hear what I said? Alright, now you listen and you listen good. This a gun. Alright? Don't be fuckin' around with no gun, white boy. (still no response) Helen Keller, I'm talkin' to you! (imitating a deaf person) I know you hear what the fuck I'm sayin' to you!
 * Nick Beam: (smiles) Boy, did you pick the wrong guy on the wrong day.

 * T: So why you out of here?
 * Nick: Why do you care?
 * T: I'm curious. I'm a student of human nature.
 * Nick: You're a freak of human nature.
 * T: That's all right. I forgive you. It's clear you have woman problems.
 * Nick: You're way off base.
 * T: Oh, I'm off base?
 * Nick: Yeah, WAY off base.
 * T: She mess around on you?
 * Nick: Look, even if I wanted to talk about it - which I don't - it wouldn't be with you.
 * T: You give her some nastiness? I know you gave her some serious nastiness.
 * Nick: Just forget it.
 * T: What about him? You fuck him up? You whoop his ass? I bet you hit that motherfucker with a bat, didn't you? Kling! Bah! Fucked his ass up, didn't you? Wait a minute! You capped him! You capped that motherfucker, that's why you're out here in the desert, ain't ya?
 * Nick: Look, I didn't shoot him. I didn't say anything to my wife, I just left.
 * T: What you mean, you just left.
 * Nick: I just left, okay, I saw them doing... you know, and I... walked away.
 * T: What a pussy. no wonder your woman is sneaking behind your back, man. You know what your problem is, you don't have the respect of you're woman man. That's what it is. Me? I got all that. I come home, my dinner's on the table. BAM! "I don't wanna hear shit, woman." And when I want lovin', when I'm in the mood, I get that too.
 * Nick: You're so full of shit! What would you have done?
 * T: Man, I'd have gone back into that house, and pulled a Terminator on the front door, boom boom boom! Who the fuck you think you're playin' with woman! Who do you think I am, some fruity pie? I ain't no fruity pie, I'm... (T picks up Nick's card) I'm Nick Beam. that's what I tell you, I'm Nick Beam. And Nick Beam ain't putting up with that bullshit! She be cryin' you know, 'Oh Nick, please take me back, please, it was only one time'. I'm gonna "one time" your ass! Nick Beam is the m aster of his fate, the ruler of his destiny. So if you want to cry on someone's shoulder, why don't you cry on Super Dick! As for Nick Beam, I'm fit, lit, and I damn sure ain't takin' no shit. So you...can get the FUCK...OUT! (pauses) That's what I'd have told the bitch. (T points the eggs with fork) That's what I told the bitch.
 * (T eats the eggs with a fork). (Nick stares at him for a second than he lunges over the table and chokes him)

 * [Nick's driver side mirror is shot by the owner of the convenience store wielding a shot gun. While driving, he is furious with T for getting them into a lot of trouble with the law in robbing the owner.]
 * Nick: Why? Why?! WHY!!!
 * T: I didn't have any money, man!
 * Nick: Oh you had money.
 * T: No, that $5 I gave the lady was it.
 * [They scream as the owner continues shooting them with his shot gun and following them in his truck.]
 * Nick: Oh great, Buford's come to kill us.
 * [The owner continues laughing as he pursues Nick and T in his truck]
 * T: Persistent hillbilly motherfucker.
 * Nick:[furious] He has every right to be. You robbed him! At gunpoint! You DICK!
 * T: Hey, you were the one who threw the wallet out the fuckin' window. Smart!
 * [Sees a cop car in front of them]
 * Nick: GREAT!!!!

 * Nick: That's not the point, it's beetle-headed! It's only a matter of time before you do get caught!
 * T: What, is beetle-headed?
 * Nick: It's a synonym for stupid.
 * T: Oh, well here's a synonym for procreation: fuck you!

 * T: It's easy for you to point the finger when you're sitting on your rich ass in the big fuckin' house!
 * Nick: I'm not rich.
 * T: Oh, yeah? How big's your TV?
 * Nick: What?
 * T: I say, how big is your tv?
 * Nick: 50 inch.
 * T: (laughs) Get in the car, man.
 * Nick: Oh please, let's not make this a social issue. The point is, that even if you wanted to rob a place, there are smarter ways to do it.
 * T: Enlighten me.
 * Nick: A mask! Wear a mask! You see, the police have this thing called a line-up, and when somebody recognizes you, YOU GO TO JAIL! Or, how about this for a novel idea: case the place first? Find out if there's a security camera or a hidden alarm. Then again, why even rob a convenience store? How much money could you possibly get? Two, three hundred dollars? Then what? You're set for two days! Wow!
 * T: What do you know, Lanky?
 * Nick: I know you go for the big score. One robbery, you're set.

 * T: News flash, Big Slim: people with big money, they protect it!
 * Nick: So you do a little research. Take Quality Design Group, where I work. My boss keeps a ton of cash in his vault, and at night there's only two guards and a personal security system. In this case, I even happen to know the code! But even if I didn't, I...!
 * [He trails off, getting an idea.]
 * T: What? I got a booger in my nose?
 * Nick: (imitating P.B.) "Diversify! You can't trust banks, Nick! The entire system could crumble at any second!" That bastard's so heavily leveraged it would wipe him out.
 * T: Wait, am I reading you right? Mr. High-and-Mighty's gonna rob his boss? (to the landscape) You hear that, gila monsters? Old Nick Beam here's gonna rob his boss! I say, do you hear that, gila monsters?!
 * [Nick raises his arms to imaginary applause.]
 * T: You know what, Nick? Your wife really messed your head up bad, man.

 * T: You know, this is an all right camera for a regular eight.
 * Nick: It's the best on the market.
 * T: Let me explain something to you. If you ain't got digital, you ain't got shit. This has only got one CCD chip. Broadcast has three, Nick. Don't look at me like that. What, are you surprised I know shit?
 * Nick: The guy that sold me that camera just set up our computer network.
 * T: Windows NT?
 * Nick: No, just Windows.
 * T: Man, get out of here with that shit.
 * Nick: Look, here's a nutty idea. If you actually know something about this stuff, why not use that knowledge and get a job?
 * T: Take a good look at me. I'm not exactly the corporate colour.
 * Nick: That's ridiculous. If you wanted a job, you could have one.
 * T: There's a spider on your head.
 * Nick: What?
 * T: There's a spider on your head.
 * Nick: Look, I'm sorry, I'm not up on all this jive talkin', home boy lingo, what's that supposed to mean? "There's a spider on your head"?
 * T: It means there's a spider on your motherfuckin' head, man!
 * Nick: Well get it off! Get it off! Get it off!
 * T: I ain't touchin' that shit!

 * Rig: Are you aware there's only two kinds of people on the whole planet? There are killers, and then there's everybody else. I'm a killer, Nick! Yes, yes, yes, yes! What are you, Nick?
 * Nick Beam: (racks shotgun) I'm married. (fires)

Cast

 * Martin Lawrence as Terrance Paul Davidson
 * Tim Robbins as Nick Beam
 * John C. McGinley as Davis "Rig" Lanlow
 * Giancarlo Esposito as Charlie Dunt
 * Kelly Preston as Ann Beam
 * Michael McKean as Phillip "P.B." Barrow
 * Rebecca Gayheart as Danielle

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Peter Cook

Peter Edward Cook (17 November 1937 – 9 January 1995) was an English satirist, writer and comedian who is commonly regarded as the father of the British satire boom of the 1960s. He has frequently been referred to by modern British comedians as their greatest inspiration. He first came to notice in the revue Beyond the Fringe.
 * See also:
 * Bedazzled (1967 film)
 * Bedazzled (2000 film)

Quotes

 * You know, I go to the theatre to be entertained... I don’t want to see plays about rape, sodomy and drug addiction... I can get all that at home.
 * Caption to a cartoon drawn by Roger Law, published in The Observer (8 July 1962)

 * 1. Total domination of the world by 1958. 2. Domination of the astral spheres quite soon too. 3. The finding of lovely ladies for Spotty Muldoon within the foreseeable future. 4. GETTING A NUCLEAR ARM to deter with. 5. The bodily removal from this planet of C. P. Snow and Alan Freeman and their replacement with fine TREES. 6. Stopping the GOVERNMENT from crawling up our pipes and listening to all we say. 7. Training BEES for uses against foreign powers, and so on. 8. Elimination of spindly insects and encouragement of lovely little newts who dance about and are happy. 9. E. L. Wisty for GOD.
 * Aims in the Manifesto of The World Domination League by E. L. Wisty and Spotty Muldoon (1965)

 * I drift very easily into becoming E. L. Wisty. I’ve always felt very closely identified with that sort of personality. He is a completely lost creature, he never works, never moves, has no background and suspects everybody is peering at him and trying to get his secrets out of him. I've never met the man; he came out of me. I’d feel a lot easier if I’d met him and imitated him, as a matter of fact.
 * As quoted in Daily Express (7 February 1967), and in Tragically I Was an Only Twin : The Complete Peter Cook (2002) by William Cook, p. 58

 * I am blind, but I am able to read thanks to a wonderful new system known as broil. I'm sorry, I'll just feel that again.
 * "Blind", in Derek and Clive (Live) (1976)

 * I may have done some other things as good but I am sure none better. I haven't matured, progressed, grown, become deeper, wiser, or funnier. But then, I never thought I would.
 * Reflecting on Beyond the Fringe for the book The Complete Beyond The Fringe (1987)

E. L. Wisty

 * A role Cook played throughout his career, originally named "Mr. Boylett" in his college years, and then "Mr Arthur Grole" in his Beyond the Fringe years, he eventually named him E. L. Wisty for his appearances on On the Braden Beat in 1964.

 * If there's one thing I can't bear, it's when hundreds of old men come creeping in through the window in the middle of the night and throw all manner of garbage over me. I can't bear that.
 * "The World Domination League" (1964)

 * I'd vote for any party that would say "I won't allow people to throw garbage all over me." But none of the parties seem to be particularly interested. That's why I formed the World Domination League. It's a wonderful league, the World Domination League. The aims, as published in the manifesto, are total domination of the world by 1958. That's what we're planning to do. We've had to revise it. We're hoping to bring a new manifesto out with a more realistic target.
 * "The World Domination League" (1964)

 * We shall move about in people's rooms and say, "Excuse me, we are the World Domination League. May we dominate you?" Then, if they say "Get out," of course we give up. Well, you have to give up if you're told to get out.
 * "The World Domination League" (1964)

 * Hitler was a very peculiar person wasn't he? He was another dominator you know — Hitler. And he was a wonderful ballroom dancer. Not many people know that. … Of course Mrs Hitler was a charming woman, wasn't she? She's still alive, you know. I saw her down the Edgware Road only the other day. She'd just popped into the chemist's to buy something, and I saw her sign the cheque "Mrs Hitler" so I knew it was she. I tried to go up and talk to her, but she slipped away into the crowd. I was hoping she'd be able to come to the next meeting of the World Domination League. Not many people do.
 * "The World Domination League" (1964)

 * I've had some wonderful ideas for getting the dominating going. I've got some extremely subtle advertising slogans that should get the public behind us. Things like "Vote for EL Wisty and lovely nude ladies will come and dance with you." It's a complete lie, of course, but you can't afford to be too scrupulous if you're going to dominate the world.
 * "The World Domination League" (1964)

 * I've always wanted to be part of the royal family because there are great advantages to being royal. If you're royal, whatever you do is very interesting. Whatever you do, people are very interested in it. Even if you do something very boring, people are still interested in it. If a royal person does something extremely boring, people say, "Oh, isn't it interesting that he's doing something extremely boring." If I do something extremely boring, people say, "Oh how extremely boring" — its not so good.
 * "Royalty" (1964)

 * We've all got royal blood in our veins, you know. It's the best place for it in my view. We've all got a little bit of royal blood in our veins, we're all in line for the succession, and if nineteen million, four hundred thousand, two hundred and eight people die, I'll be king tomorrow. It's not very likely but its a nice thought and helps keep you going.
 * "Royalty" (1964)

 * I've always wanted to be an expert on tadpoles. I've always fancied being a tadpole expert. It's a wonderful life if you become an experty tadpoleous, as they are known in the trade. You get invited to all the smart parties and social gatherings.
 * "The Tadpole Expert" (1964)

 * I saw an advertisement the other day for the secret of life. It said "The secret of life can be yours for twenty-five shillings. Sent to Secret of Life Institute, Willesden." So I wrote away, seemed a good bargain, secret of life, twenty-five shillings. And I got a letter back saying, "If you think you can get the secret of life for twenty-five shillings, you don't deserve to have it. Send fifty shillings for the secret of life."
 * "Are You Spotty?" (1964)

 * If I did become Minister of Nudism, I'd be allowed to be on television every evening around nine thirty. I'd come on and say "Good evening. This is the Minister of Nudism. Take off your clothes and begin to dance about."
 * "Peace Through Nudism" (1964)

 * Poor old Spotty Muldoon. He thought of splitting the atom the other day. If only he could have had the idea about thirty years ago, he'd have made a bloody fortune.
 * "The Man Who Invented The Wheel" (1964)

 * I've been reading a very interesting book recently. It's called The Universe and All That Surrounds It by T J Bleendreeble. It's an extremely good book about it. It's about seventy pages long, so it's fairly comprehensive about the whole thing and it's fairly interesting. Bleendreeble specialises in the universe. He doesn't branch out much beyond that. But he's quite interested in this limited field.
 * "Food For Thought" (1964)

 * If a dog starts biting you, you can't kick it up the throat like it deserves. People always say "Oh dear, poor little dog, he was only trying to be friendly. That's the way he tries to be friendly, sniffing at your ankles and biting you, you cruel, wicked man."
 * "Man's Best Friend" (1964)

Beyond the Fringe (1960 - 1966)

 * I could have been a Judge, but I never had the Latin for the judgin'. I never had it, so I'd had it, as far as being a judge was concerned... I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal.
 * "Sitting on the Bench" (1961)

 * I've always been after the trappings of great luxury. But all I've got hold of are the trappings of great poverty. I've got hold of the wrong load of trappings, and a rotten load they are too, ones I could have very well done without.
 * "Sitting on the Bench" (1961)

 * I would like to like to make one thing clear at the very outset and that is, when you speak of a train robbery, this involved no loss of train, merely what I like to call the contents of the train, which were pilfered. We haven't lost a train since 1946, I believe it was — the year of the great snows when we mislaid a small one.
 * "The Great Train Robbery" (1964)

 * We believe this to be the work of thieves, and I'll tell you why. The whole pattern is very reminiscent of past robberies where we have found thieves to be involved. The tell-tale loss of property — that's one of the signs we look for.
 * "The Great Train Robbery" (1964)

 * The leg division, Mr Spiggot. You are deficient in it to the tune of one. Your right leg, I like. I like your right leg, it's a lovely leg for the role. That's what I said when I saw it come in. I said, "that's a lovely leg for the role". I've got nothing against your right leg. The trouble is — neither have you. You fall down on your left.
 * "One Leg Too Few" (1964), involving a one-legged man auditioning for the role of Tarzan.

Not Only... But Also (1965 - 1970)

 * Well, it's always very difficult to say what prompts anybody to do anything, let alone getting underwater and teaching ravens to fly. But I think it probably all dates back to a very early age, when I was quite a young fellow. My mother, Lady Beryl Streeb-Greebling, you know, the wonderful dancer — 107 tomorrow and still dancing — she came up to me in the conservatory — I was pruning some walnuts — and she said "Arthur" — I wasn't Sir Arthur in those days — she said "Arthur, if you don't get underwater and start teaching ravens to fly, I'll smash your stupid face off," and I think it was this that sort of first started my interest in the whole business of getting them underwater.
 * "Ravens" (1965)

 * The thing that makes you know that Vernon Ward is a good painter is if you look at his ducks, you can see the eyes follow you around the room.
 * "At The Art Gallery" (1965)

 * Cook: I had the same bloody trouble about two nights ago. I come in, about half past eleven at night. I come in, I get into bed, you see, feeling quite sleepy. I could feel the lids of me eyes beginning to droop, you see — a bit of droop in the eyes. I was about to drop off when suddenly — tap, tap, tap at the bloody window pane. I looked out. You know who it was?
 * Dudley Moore: Who?
 * Cook: Bloody Greta Garbo. Bloody Greta Garbo, stark naked save for a shortie nightie, hanging on to the window sill, and I could see her knuckles all white, saying "Peter, Peter". You know how those bloody Swedes go on.
 * "Film Stars" (1965)

Bedazzled (1967)

 * Though the entire screenplay is credited to Cook, lines quoted here are only those where he is speaking as "George Spiggott" (The Devil).
 * Though the entire screenplay is credited to Cook, lines quoted here are only those where he is speaking as "George Spiggott" (The Devil).

 * You realize that suicide's a criminal offense — In less enlightened times they'd have hung you for it.

 * What terrible sins I have working for me. I suppose it's the wages.

 * It's the standard contract. Gives you seven wishes in accordance with the mystic rules of life. Seven Days of the Week, Seven Deadly Sins, Seven Seas, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers...

 * Now, then, what'd you like to be first? Prime Minister? Oh, no — I've made that deal already.

 * There was a time when I used to get lots of ideas... I thought up the Seven Deadly Sins in one afternoon. The only thing I've come up with recently is advertising.

 * Job was what you'd technically describe as a loony.

 * In the words of Marcel Proust — and this applies to any woman in the world — if you can stay up and listen with a fair degree of attention to whatever garbage, no matter how stupid it is that they're coming out with, till ten minutes past four in the morning... you're in.

 * And the magic word: Julie Andrews!

 * Tell God not to go away. I'll be back in a minute.

 * I've done a good deed. I gave that little twit his soul back. Wasn't that generous?

 * All right, you great git, you've asked for it. I'll cover the world in Tastee-Freez and Wimpy Burgers. I'll fill it with concrete runways, motorways, aircraft, television, automobiles, advertising, plastic flowers, frozen food and supersonic bangs. I'll make it so noisy and disgusting that even you'll be ashamed of yourself! No wonder you've so few friends; you're unbelievable!
 * To God.

Dialog with Stanley Moon (Dudley Moore) :

 * Stanley Moon: You're a nutcase! You're a bleedin' nutcase!
 * George Spiggott: They said the same of Jesus Christ, Freud, and Galileo.
 * Stanley Moon: They said it of a lot of nutcases too!
 * George Spiggott: You're not as stupid as you look are you, Mr. Moon?

 * Stanley Moon: I thought you were called Lucifer.
 * George Spiggott: I know. "The Bringer of the Light" it used to be. Sounded a bit poofy to me.

 * George Spiggott: Everything I've ever told you has been a lie. Including that.
 * Stanley Moon: Including what?
 * George Spiggott: That everything I've ever told has been a lie. That's not true.
 * Stanley Moon: I don't know what to believe.
 * George Spiggott: Not me, Stanley, believe me!

 * Stanley Moon: Apart from the way He moves, what's God really like? I mean, what colour is He?
 * George Spiggott: He's all colours of the rainbow, many-hued.
 * Stanley Moon: But He is English, isn't He?
 * George Spiggott: Oh yes. Very upper class.

The Secret Policeman's Ball (1979)

 * In "Entirely A Matter For You", a parody of Judge Cantley's summing up in the Jeremy Thorpe trial

 * You will probably have noticed that three of the defendants have very wisely chosen to exercise their inalienable right not to go into the witness box to answer a lot of impertinent questions. I will merely say that you are not to infer from this anything other than that they consider the evidence against them so flimsy that it was scarcely worth their while to rise from their seats and waste their breath denying these ludicrous charges...

 * You are now to retire, as indeed should I, carefully to consider your verdict of "Not Guilty".

The Princess Bride (1987)

 * As the "Impressive Clergyman"

 * Mawwage. Mawwage is what bwings us togethew today. Mawwage, that bwessed awwangement, that dweam within a dweam.

 * And wuv, twue wuv, wiww fowwow you fowevah —

 * Have you the wing?

Quotes about Cook

 * The funniest man who ever drew breath.
 * Stephen Fry

 * Being British in this part of the century meant living in the country that had Peter Cook in it. There are wits and there are clowns in comedy, I suppose. Peter was a wit, it goes without saying, but he was funny in an almost supernatural way that has never been matched by anyone I've met or even heard about. It wasn't to do with facial expression or epigrammatic wit, or cattiness or rant or anger or technique: he had funniness in the same way that beautiful people have beauty or dancers have line and grace. He had an ability to make people gasp and gasp and gasp for breath like landed fish.
 * Stephen Fry

 * I'll leave with a story whose victim, Sir David Frost, won't mind it being told, because he tells it himself. David Frost rang Peter Cook up some years ago. "Peter, I'm having a little dinner party on behalf of Prince Andrew and his new bride-to-be Sarah Ferguson. I know they'd love to meet you, big fans; Be super if you could make it: Wednesday the twelfth." "Hang on... I'll just check my diary." Pause and rummaging and leafing through diary noises. And then Peter said "Oh dear. I find I'm watching television that night."
 * Stephen Fry

 * It is a sad fact that when people are really enjoying themselves and laughing immoderately, they can afterwards remember very little of the conversation, very few of the jokes. There was the famous occasion when Peter addressed a group of revellers at a lunch celebrating 25 years of Private Eye. Almost everyone who was there, myself included, will tell you it was the funniest, most brilliant speech they had ever heard. But ask us to recall the jokes and there will be a complete blank. Peter's funniest performances were generally of this impromptu, unscripted variety.
 * Richard Ingrams in The Observer (19 December 2004)

 * He got used early to the adulation of a wide public and eventually decided that he could do without it; long before the end, fame had to chase him far harder than he chased it. But among his fellow practitioners his lustre was undimmed, unequalled. and unchallenged. … Just as the astronauts riding up on their rockets all worshipped Chuck Yeager, the jet pilot who never joined them in space because he flew too well with wings, so the media millionaires all knew that Cook was the unsurpassable precursor who had done it all before they did, and done it better.
 * Clive James, in an online tribute.

 * He wasn't just a genius, he had the genius's impatience with the whole idea of doing something again. He reinvented an art form, exhausted its possibilities, and just left it. There is always something frightening about that degree of inventiveness... He didn't lose his powers. He just lost interest in proving that he possessed them.
 * Clive James

 * Peter never had any regrets in his life. I never heard him voice any regrets.  He didn't regret the fact that he lost his early facility, he didn't regret the fact that he lost his looks, which he did quite spectacularly, he didn't regret the fact that Dudley had gone on to fame and fortune in Hollywood. The only regret he regularly voiced was that, at the house we all shared in Fairfield, Connecticut in 1963, he'd saved David Frost from drowning.
 * Alan Bennett, in a documentary, Some Interesting Facts About Peter Cook

 * The first time I saw Peter what made the impression was the visual content of what he and Dudley Moore were doing. It was Not Only, But Also..., and Pete and Dud were dressed up as nuns and were bouncing up and down on a trampoline. I rolled off my seat. I thought I'd ever seen anything so hilarious or so surreal or so... well... beautiful. I spent the next four or five years trying to emulate that sort of visual surprise.
 * Terry Jones

 * I realised what everyone else had been talking about: the brilliance of Peter's humour. It was brilliant and it was luminous. And it was... easy. Not easy for you and me to come to... but easy for him. It just rolled out of him... almost as if he didn't need to think about it.
 * Terry Jones

 * I remember being moved to tears when Peter said: "I know I was funny but I know I won't improve, I won't get any better". I was lucky to be around when he was at his peak. Verbally he was the most witty man that I have ever come across and strangely inventive.
 * Dudley Moore

 * I didn't know dirty words could be done that artfully.
 * Mike Myers, quoted in "Peter Cook the funniest" in The Age (3 January 2005)

 * He's one of those people who is completely and utterly irreplaceable. One of the things he did was to form the basis of what one would call the new comedy of the 1960s and 1970s. His achievement is absolutely extraordinary.
 * Michael Palin

 * Obviously, he was the first — he was the Governor. Right from the start with those very precocious sketches for the Cambridge Footlights and through Beyond the Fringe, he was an exceptional talent... Every 10 years or so you always get a new generation of comedians but they all acknowledge their debt to Peter.
 * Ned Sherrin

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Nayla Moawad

Nayla Moawad (born 3 July 1940) is a Lebanese politician. A member of the National Assembly, she is best known as the widow of former President René Moawad

Quotes

 * In countries like ours, women enter politics in mourning clothes.
 * Cited in: "Lebanese politics 'not a male affair only' " at Mail&Gardian, 25 May 2005.
 * A reference to the way many female politicians are the widows of male politicians who have been assassinated.

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Johnnie Cochran

Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr. (2 October 1937 – 29 March 2005) was a famed American defense attorney best known for his role in the "Dream Team" of legal defense for O. J. Simpson during his highly publicized murder trial.

Quotes

 * I work not only for the O.J.s, but also the No Js.
 * In reference to many low income clients he represented.

1990s

 * If it doesn't fit, you must acquit.
 * Enthymeme uttered during the O.J. Simpson trial.

Quotes about Cochran

 * You could kill your wife and there's no such thing as 25 to life as long as you've got the cash to pay for Cochran.
 * Good Charlotte, "Lifestyles of the Rich and the Famous" (2002), The Young and the Hopeless.

 * I loved him as a good Christian man; I look at Johnnie as a great Christian. I knew him as that. He was a great guy.
 * O.J. Simpson, in a CNN interview.

 * 'She got more niggas off than Cochran.'
 * Kanye West - "On Sight" (2013), "Yeezus".

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Hannibal (disambiguation)

Hannibal may refer to:
 * People
 * Hannibal Barca – a Carthaginian general during the second punic war.
 * Films
 * Hannibal – the sequel to Silence of the Lambs made into a movie in 2001.

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Henry Clay

Henry Clay (12 April 1777 – 29 June 1852) was a leading American statesman and orator who served in both the House of Representatives and Senate. Known as "The Great Compromiser" and "The Great Pacifier" for his ability to bring others to agreement, he was the founder and leader of the Whig Party and a leading advocate of programs for modernizing the economy, especially tariffs to protect industry, a national bank and internal improvements to promote canals, ports and railroads.

Quotes

 * How often are we forced to charge fortune with partiality towards the unjust!
 * Letter (4 December 1801), as quoted in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (2002)

 * I have no commiseration for princes. My sympathies are reserved for the great mass of mankind ….
 * Speech on the Line of the Perdido, Senate (25 December 1810)

 * Whether we assert our rights by sea, or attempt their maintenance by land—whithersoever we turn ourselves, this phantom incessantly pursues us. Already has it had too much influence on the councils of the nation.
 * Speech on the Line of the Perdido, Senate (25 December 1810)

 * It consists in the genius of the nation, which is prone to peace; in that desire to arrange, by friendly negotiation, our disputes with all nations…. But a new state of things has arisen: negotiation has become hopeless. The power with whom it was to be conducted, if not annihilated, is in the situation that precludes it; and the subject-matter of it is in danger of being snatched forever from our power. Longer delay would be construed into a dereliction of our right, and would amount to a treachery to ourselves.
 * Speech on the Line of the Perdido, Senate (25 December 1810)

 * I am not, sir, in favor of cherishing the passion of conquest. I am permitted … to indulge the hope of seeing, ere long, the new United States, (if you will allow me the expression,) embracing not only the old ….
 * Speech on the Line of the Perdido, Senate (25 December 1810)

 * What is the nature of this government? It is emphatically federal, vested with an aggregate of special powers for general purposes, conceded by existing sovereignties, who have themselves retained what is not so conceded. It is said that there are cases in which it must act on implied powers. This is not controverted, but the implication must be necessary, and obviously flow from enumerated power with which it is allied.
 * Speech in the Senate on the National Bank Charter (11 February 1811)

 * In all cases where incidental powers are acted upon, the principal and incidental ought to be congenial with each other, and partake of a common nature. The incidental power ought to be strictly subordinate and limited to the end proposed to be obtained by the specified power. In other words, under the name of accomplishing one object which is specified, the power implied ought not to be made to embrace other objects, which are not specified in the constitution.
 * Speech in the Senate on the National Bank Charter (11 February 1811)

 * The great advantage of our system of government over all others, is, that we have a written constitution, defining its limits, and prescribing its authorities; and that, however, for a time, faction may convulse the nation, and passion and party prejudice sway its functionaries, the season of reflection will recur, when calmly retracing their deeds, all aberrations from fundamental principle will be corrected.
 * Speech in the Senate on the National Bank Charter (11 February 1811)

 * If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.
 * Speech on the Increase of the Navy, House of Representatives (22 January 1812)

 * Sir, if you wish to avoid foreign commerce; give up all your prosperity. It is the thing protected, not the instrument of protection, that involves you in war. Commerce engenders collision, collision war, and war, the argument supposes, leads to despotism. Would the councils of that statesman be deemed who would recommend that the nation should be unarmed—that in the art of war, the material spirit, and martial exercises, should be prohibited—…—and that the great body of the people should be taught that the national happiness was to be found in perpetual peace alone? No, sir.
 * Speech on the Increase of the Navy, House of Representatives (22 January 1812)

 * Impart additional strength to our happy Union. Diversified as are the interests of its various parts, how admirably do they harmonize and blend together! We have only to make a proper use of the bounties spread before us, to render us prosperous and powerful.
 * Speech on the Increase of the Navy, House of Representatives (22 January 1812)

 * The gentleman cannot have forgotten his own sentiment, uttered even on the floor of this House, "Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must."
 * Speech on the New Army Bill, House of Representatives, (8 January 1813), paraphrasing Josiah Quincy III's "amicably if they can, violently if they must"; The Life and Speeches of the Hon. Henry Clay, vol. I (1857), ed. Daniel Mallory

 * An oppressed people are authorized, whenever they can, to rise and break their fetters.
 * Speech on the Emancipation of South America, House of Representatives (24 March 1818); The Life and Speeches of the Hon. Henry Clay, vol. I (1857), ed. Daniel Mallory

 * All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty.
 * Speech on the Emancipation of South America, House of Representatives (24 March 1818); The Life and Speeches of the Hon. Henry Clay, vol. I (1857), ed. Daniel Mallory

 * Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.
 * Speech at the public dinner at Fowler's Garden, Lexington, Kentucky, May 16, 1829, printed in Niles' Weekly Register, Vol. 36 (1829), at p. 399

 * The arts of power and its minions are the same in all countries and in all ages. It marks its victim; denounces it; and excites the public odium and the public hatred, to conceal its own abuses and encroachments.
 * Speech, Senate (14 March 1834)

 * Precedents deliberately established by wise men are entitled to great weight. They are evidence of truth, but only evidence...But a solitary precedent...which has never been reexamined, cannot be conclusive.
 * Speech, Senate (18 February 1835)

 * Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.
 * Reported in The Clay Code, or Text-Book of Eloquence, a Collection of Axioms, Apothegms, Sentiments … Gathered from the Public Speeches of Henry Clay, ed. G. Vandenhoff (1844), p. 93

 * We have had good and bad Presidents, and it is a consoling reflection that the American Nation possesses such elements of prosperity that the bad Presidents cannot destroy it, and have been able to do no more than slightly to retard the public's advancement.
 * Letter to David Mundell (12 October 1848) in which Clay reflects upon his failure to win the Presidency.

 * In the little affairs of human life, whether social or national, I have found that courtesies, kindness, and small attentions are often received with more grateful feelings than those of a more substantial character. We often appreciate more the picayunes than the double eagles, in the currency of social and human life.
 * Speech in Support of Receiving Father Theobald Mathew, Irish Patriot, in the Senate Chambers (December 20, 1849), as printed in The Congressional Globe, December 1849, p. 51.
 * [later reported as] The courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest to the grateful and appreciating heart . It is the picayune compliments which are the most appreciating ; far more than the double ones which we sometimes pay.
 * Quoted in William Mathews,Getting on in the World; or Hints on Success in Life(1872).

 * My friends are not worth the powder and shot it would take to kill them!... If there were two Henry Clays, one of them would make the other President of the United States!... It is a diabolical intrigue, I know now, which has betrayed me. I am the most unfortunate man in the history of parties: always run by my friends when sure to be defeated, and now betrayed for a nomination when I, or any one, would be sure of an election.
 * Upon hearing (in December 1839) that he had been rejected in favor of William Henry Harrison as the Whig Party nominee for President in the election of 1840; as quoted by Henry A. Wise, who claimed to have heard it firsthand, in Seven Decades of the Union (1872), ch. VI.

 * The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity—unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity.
 * Speech, Senate (29 January 1850)

 * It is totally unnecessary for the gentleman to remind me of my coming from a slaveholding state. I know whence I came, and I know my duty, and I am ready to submit to any responsibility which belongs to me as a senator from a slaveholding state. I have heard something said on this and a former occasion about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance. I owe allegiance to two sovereignty, and only two: one is the sovereignty of this Union, and the other is the sovereignty of the state of Kentucky. My allegiance is to this Union and to my state; but if gentlemen suppose they can exact from me an acknowledgement of allegiance to any ideal or future contemplated confederacy of the South, I here declare that I owe no allegiance to it; nor will I, for one, come under any such allegiance if I can avoid it.
 * Speech in the US Senate (14 February 1850), in response to a speech by Senator Henry S. Foote of Mississippi, who had "lectured" Clay on the allegiance which he owed to the South as a senator from a Southern state; published in The Life, Correspondence, and Speeches of Henry Clay, Vol. 3 (1857); edited by Calvin Colton

 * I would rather be right than be President.
 * Speech, Senate (1850), referring to the Compromise Measures

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