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Quotation of the day for May 25, 2013

2013-05-25T01:10:00.000-04:00

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Quotation of the Day for May 25, 2013

"Now I become an activist to help the rest of the kids that are missing," he said. "So if you need anybody to be with you 100 percent beside you, come to me -- I'm the man. Thank you."

- Felix DeJesus, as quoted in the Plain Dealer. DeJesus's daughter Gina was freed in early May after nine years in captivity in a Cleveland house.

[http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2013/05/watch_streaming_video_as_gina.html]

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Quotation of the day for May 24, 2013

2013-05-24T01:10:00.000-04:00

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Quotation of the Day for May 24, 2013

This is the end
Beautiful friend
This is the end
My only friend, the end
Of our elaborate plans, the end
Of everything that stands, the end
No safety or surprise, the end
I'll never look into your eyes...again

- Jim Morrison, from his song The End, recorded by his band The Doors. Ray Manzarek, the band's keyboardist, died May 20, 2013. [The submitter notes: Ray Manzarek, RIP]

Submitted by: Dana Weeks
May 20, 2013

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Quotation of the day for May 23, 2013

2013-05-23T01:10:00.000-04:00

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Quotation of the Day for May 23, 2013

"You cannot change all the details of Plato's story and still claim to have Plato's story. That is like saying the legendary King Arthur is 'really' Cleopatra; all you have to do is to change Cleopatra's sex, nationality, period, temperament, moral character, and other details, and the resemblance becomes obvious."

- L. Sprague de Camp in his book Lost Continents.

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May 16, 2013

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Quotation of the day for May 22, 2013

2013-05-22T01:10:00.000-04:00

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Quotation of the Day for May 22, 2013

"I always, always, always show up on time. When my camera crew arrives in the lobby for call time, I'm already there. That comes from years of working as a dishwasher, as a cook, as a chef - working as part of a team and understanding that if you can't show the respect to your co-workers and employers of at least showing up on time, then there is no need to investigate what else is good or bad about you. It's always the thing I looked for in my employees. It spoke of character and that's something you can't teach people. Skills you can teach, technique you can teach, but not character."

- Anthony Bourdain, celebrity chef and TV host.

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Quotation of the day for May 21, 2013

2013-05-21T01:10:00.000-04:00

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Quotation of the Day for May 21, 2013

"We know where you are. We know where you've been. We can more or less know what you're thinking about."

- Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google, quoted in The Atlantic.

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May 16, 2013

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Quotation of the day for May 20, 2013

2013-05-20T01:10:00.000-04:00

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"This is a place where you're supposed to sip Scotch quietly and make sure that you don't cause too much ruckus."

- Mike Duffy, journalist, on the Canadian Senate, speaking to journalist Peter Gzowski in 1985. Duffy later became a Conservative Senator and is now embroiled in a scandal over his large and dubious expense claims.

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May 19, 2013

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Quotation of the day for May 19, 2013

2013-05-19T01:10:00.000-04:00

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Quotation of the Day for May 19, 2013

"I guess I try to medicate my terrors by throwing myself into impossible tasks."

- Baz Luhrmann, director, on filming The Great Gatsby. Quoted in "An Orgiastic 'Gatsby'? Of Course." An interview with Charles McGrath, New York Times, May 5, 2013

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May 14, 2013

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Quotation of the day for May 18, 2013

2013-05-18T01:10:00.000-04:00

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Quotation of the Day for May 18, 2013

"Cyber-utopians ambitiously set out to build a new and improved United Nations, only to end up with a digital Cirque du Soleil."

- Evgeny Morozov, from his book The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom.

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May 13, 2013

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Quotation of the day for May 17, 2013

2013-05-17T01:10:00.000-04:00

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"The most obnoxious person at the theatre, after the woman with the crying baby, is the man who wants his neighbors to understand that he appreciates the play."

- Willa Cather

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May 13, 2013

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Quotation of the day for May 16, 2013

2013-05-16T01:10:00.000-04:00

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Quotation of the Day for May 16, 2013

"There is a historical inevitability to all this, of course. The market economy means that your choices will be dictated by corporate forces and the tastes of the mass market: you may love family-run shoe stores and funky diners, but the body republic has cast its dollar vote with big box malls and national food chains, so thatâs what you will get. And the crowd has also chosen the automatic."

- Peter Cheney, automotive writer, on car-makers moving away from manual transmissions.

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May 10, 2013

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Quotation of the day for May 15, 2013

2013-05-15T01:10:00.000-04:00

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Quotation of the Day for May 15, 2013

.When I think about kids watching a TV show like American Idol or The Voice, then they think, .Oh, OK, that.s how you become a musician, you stand in line for eight fucking hours with 800 people at a convention center and. then you sing your heart out for someone and then they tell you it.s not fuckin. good enough.. Can you imagine?. he implores. .It.s destroying the next generation of musicians! Musicians should go to a yard sale and buy and old fucking drum set and get in their garage and just suck. And get their friends to come in and they.ll suck, too. And then they.ll fucking start playing and they.ll have the best time they.ve ever had in their lives and then all of a sudden they.ll become Nirvana. Because that.s exactly what happened with Nirvana. Just a bunch of guys that had some shitty old instruments and they got together and started playing some noisy-ass shit, and they became the biggest band in the world. That can happen again! You don.t need a fucking computer or the internet or The Voice or American Idol.. . Dave Grohl (via blacktooth100)

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May 4, 2013

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Quotation of the day for May 14, 2013

2013-05-14T01:10:00.000-04:00

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"I hope I'm not going to shock anybody here, but the Chinese know how to make iPads. They have managed to exfiltrate that information from the U.S."

- Marcus Ranum, from his keynote address to the 2013 EDUCAUSE Security Professionals Conference.

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Quotation of the day for May 13, 2013

2013-05-13T01:10:00.000-04:00

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Quotation of the Day for May 13, 2013

"Under the sun the couple presented smiles to the world, under the moon they were lost in thought: and so they had quietly passed the years."

- Natsume Soseki, from The Gate.

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Quotation of the day for May 12, 2013

2013-05-12T01:10:00.000-04:00

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Quotation of the Day for May 12, 2013

"The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness."

- Honoré de Balzac

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May 9, 2013

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Quotation of the day for May 11, 2013

2013-05-11T01:10:00.000-04:00

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Quotation of the Day for May 11, 2013

"Whatever quite that means, there is no doubt that almost any doctor today presented with a detailed description would say that it was the intake of a functional alcoholic. The best answer to that might be that Churchill did, after all, win the war, and the nonsmoking teetotaling vegetarian Adolf Hitler lost it."

- Geoffrey Wheatcroft, on Winston Churchill.

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Quotation of the day for May 10, 2013

2013-05-10T01:10:00.000-04:00

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Quotation of the Day for May 10, 2013

"Here is a book that everyone has forgotten, but it is immortal. It is in the O.E.D."

- Katherine Connor Martin, head of U.S. dictionaries for Oxford University Press, on a 1852 book called "Meanderings of Memory". The book was the source for forty-nine words in the Oxford English Dictionary, but no copy is known to exist. The OED has issued a public appeal to locate a copy.

[http://public.oed.com/appeals/meanderings-of-memory]

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May 9, 2013

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Quotation of the day for May 9, 2013

2013-05-09T01:10:00.000-04:00

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Quotation of the Day for May 9, 2013

"There's no such thing as ethical oil. There's only dirty oil and dirtier oil."

- Al Gore, former U.S. vice-president, in response to an interviewer asking whether Alberta oil was more ethical because it came from a democratic nation with a commitment to human rights.

[http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/no-such-thing-as-ethical-oil-al-gore-tells-toronto-audience/article11777256/]

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May 8, 2013

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Quotation of the day for May 8, 2013

2013-05-08T01:10:00.000-04:00

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Quotation of the Day for May 8, 2013

"Villains are goal-oriented, while princesses are content with a puffball dress and Ken doll beau. Villains don't put virginal love on a pedestal. One could even argue that villains provide an opportunity to teach your children about making the right choices. (For example, don't be covetous/kill Dalmatians. Also, chill out if you don't get invited to a party! That was Maleficent's chief issue, which I'll admit is a tad superficial, although I'll argue that there's way more going on beneath the surface. And DRAGONS.)

"Princesses are only princesses because of who their parents are or the man they marry. Villains don't get it that easy. Villains shape their own lives."

- Katie J.M. Baker, from the article "Screw Princesses -- Disney villans are the real role models."

[http://jezebel.com/screw-princesses-disney-villains-are-the-real-role-m-476307885]

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Apr. 27, 2013

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Quotation of the day for May 7, 2013

2013-05-07T01:10:00.000-04:00

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Quotation of the Day for May 7, 2013

"The most consistent and ultimately damaging failure of political journalism in America has its roots in the clubby/cocktail personal relationships that inevitably develop between politicians and journalists--in Washington or anywhere else where they meet on a day-to-day basis. When professional antagonists become after-hours drinking buddies, they are not likely to turn each other in."

- Hunter S. Thompson, from Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72.

[The submitter notes: submitted in honor of this past weekend's White House Correspondents' Dinner.]

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Apr. 28, 2013

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Quotation of the day for May 6, 2013

2013-05-06T01:10:00.000-04:00

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Quotation of the Day for May 6, 2013

You know? I don't believe there's such a thing as TV.
I mean - They just keep showing you
The same pictures over and over.
And when they talk they just make sounds
That more or less synch up
With their lips.
That's what I think!

- Laurie Anderson, from her song Language Is A Virus.

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May 1, 2013

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Quotation of the day for May 4, 2013

2013-05-04T01:10:00.000-04:00

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"I think the world is a better place if we believe Bigfoot is out there."

- Morgan Matthews, director of the documentary Shooting Bigfoot, when asked by journalist Carol Off if he believes Bigfoot exists.

[http://www.cbc.ca/asithappens/episode/2013/05/01/wednesday-autism-parent-sasquatch-doc-jamestown-cannibals/]

[http://www.hotdocs.ca/film/title/shooting_bigfoot]

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May 2, 2013

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Quotation of the day for May 3, 2013

2013-05-03T01:10:00.000-04:00

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Quotation of the Day for May 3, 2013

"Before the dawn of delicate feelings for goalkeepers, it was possible to caress the divine cruelties of my opponents, returning a knee to the kidney with an elbow that released a stream of coruscating crimson. Now, the only paltry magic to hope for is a hat trick from my teammates, or sadder, a vanished puck, the dull seconds dragging by as I or another mummified toreador gropes the blunt crevices of pads and plastic in search of the fat disc. I barely dare to imagine a high stick that might empty the bench, blue and orange sails billowing on a sea of white, players lunging to cross and recross the scarred ice."

- Andrea Pitzer, from Nabokov Wins One for the Islanders. Pitzer, author of The Secret Life of Vladimir Nabokov, wrote the piece about New York Islanders goalkeeper Evgeni Nabokov.

[http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/nabokov-wins-one-for-the-islanders]

[http://www.cbc.ca/player/Radio/As+It+Happens/ID/2382739358/]

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Quotation of the day for May 2, 2013

2013-05-02T01:10:00.000-04:00

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Quotation of the Day for May 2, 2013

"I think that we're going through an adolescence in America when it comes to race. You know, it's like we're almost grown up. You have these little moments as a country where it's like, 'Wow things are getting better.' And then you have one where it's like, 'Wow, no they're not.'"

- Brad Paisley, singer-songwriter, in an interview.

[http://music-mix.ew.com/2013/04/08/brad-paisley-ll-cool-j-accidental-racist/]

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Quotation of the day for May 1, 2013

2013-05-01T10:35:00.000-04:00

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Quotation of the Day for May 1, 2013

I need a progressive woman;
I need an awfully liberal woman.
Ain't no reactionary baby
Can ease my revolutionary mind.

- Woody Guthrie, from his song My Revolutionary Mind.

[Happy May Day! - eds.]

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Apr. 30, 2013

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Quotation of the day for April 30, 2013

2013-04-30T01:10:00.000-04:00

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Quotation of the Day for April 30, 2013

"The anomalos is the repressed part of a rule which ensures that the rule does not work."

- Christian Bök, in Pataphysics: The Poetics of an Imaginary Science.

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