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# Alex Rodriguez

Alexander Emmanuel Rodriguez (born July 27, 1975), nicknamed "A-Rod", is a Dominican-American former professional baseball shortstop and third baseman. He played 22 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Seattle Mariners, Texas Rangers, and New York Yankees. Rodriguez was one of the sport's most highly touted prospects and is considered one of the greatest baseball players of all time. Rodriguez amassed a .297 batting average, 696 home runs, over 2,000 runs batted in (RBI), over 2,000 runs scored, and over 3,000 hits. He is a 14-time All-Star and won three American League (AL) Most Valuable Player (MVP) Awards, ten Silver Slugger Awards, and two Gold Glove Awards. Rodríguez is the career record holder for grand slams with 25. He signed two of the most lucrative sports contracts in history, but he led a highly controversial career. He incurred criticism from the media for his behavior and use of illegal performance-enhancing drugs.

## Quotes

* Anyone can forget about talent, but if you're also a good person, your name will be remembered for a long time.
   * Dan LeBatard. "HEAVY HITTER: He May Not Look It. But Alex Rodriguez Has All The Power.". ESPN. Retrieved on 2009-05-10.
* Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it, you don't have a chance.
   * Wisdom for the Soul of Black Folk by Larry Chang, Gnosophia Publishers, Roderick Terry

## Quotes about Alex Rodriguez

* It is very tough for a ballplayer to get proud and to keep his dignity. There is not much difference between love and hate.
   * Ichiro Suzuki, Mariners outfielder, through a translator, on Alex Rodriguez being booed on his return to Seattle. April 17, 2001 .
* Alex is one person, and as it's been shown in New York, one person can't win a championship. He couldn't do it here. He can't do it there. You have to have a team, and you've got to have pitching.
   * Rangers owner Tom Hicks, December 24, 2006.
# Alex Trebek

George Alexander Trebek (July 22, 1940 – November 8, 2020), OC was an Emmy Award-winning Canadian-American television personality and game show host, best known as the host of the game show Jeopardy! from 1984 until his death in 2020.

## Quotes

* I'm curious about everything - even things that don't interest me.
** Jacobs, A.J. The Know-It-All, pg 102.
* What goes 0-300 in less than 2 seconds? Your mother on a scale.
** Justinson, C.H.L. Down and Dirty, pg 32.
* Don't tell me what you believe in. I'll observe how you behave and I will make my own determination.
** "What I've Learned: Alex Trebek", Esquire, March 2003.
* Don’t ask me who’s going to replace me because I have no say whatsoever, but I’m sure that if you give them the same love and attention and respect that you have shown me, then they will be a success and the show will continue being a success. And until we meet again, God bless you and goodbye.
** His prepared last words. From an ABC News interview, January 2020.
# Alex Usifo

Alex Usifo (born 16 April 1953) is a veteran Nigerian actor.

## Quotes

* Education is a necessity and knowledge is something you must keep seeking.
** INTERVIEW: Why I can’t play serious romantic roles in movies — Alex Usifo. 12 August 2017, Premium Times Newspaper.
* There is no role that is not challenging, because they all involve acting.
** My wife was shocked day she discovered I was an actor –Alex Usifo. 17 March 2018, The Sun Newspaper.
# Alex Miller (writer)

Alex Miller (born 1936) Australian novelist.

## Quotes
### The Ancestor Game (1992)

* 'The merging of different motif areas in her drawings and the transformation of spacial relationships into flat correspondences gathers towards a distortion of depicted reality and the dissolution of its phenomenal form.' I didn't try to reach the sense of this. I understood the point of it was to transpose the locus of authority from the works to the discussion of the works. The writer had assumed the role of validating authority for the images he discussed. In order to do this he had been required to transform what he saw with his eyes into ideologies that he could 'see' with his intellect.
** Page 18.
* It is human life you value isn't it? Not its worth. Just human life. As if it were gold and could be neither good nor bad nor worth more nor worth less but must always be worth the same no matter what. One human life is one human life to you. You are absurd! Like your democracy, which you imagine you got from the Greeks, who had slaves. One vote for each person. What a stupid idea! The worst in your eyes possess the same value as the best. You have no way of differentiating between them.
** Page 136.
* I have discovered motives, my own and everyone else's, to be impenetrable.
** Page 264.
# Alex Rider

Alexander "Alex" Rider is a fictional character from the novel series Alex Rider written by British author Anthony Horowitz.

## Sourced

* I'm sorry you were bullied at school, but lots of kids get bullied and they don't turn into psychopaths.
** Stormbreaker, Anthony Horowitz, 2000-09-04.
** Spoken to character Herod Sayle in the novel Stormbreaker
* If you want a round of applause, you'll have to take off the handcuffs.
** Point Blanc, Anthony Horowitz, 2001-09-03.
** Spoken to character Dr. Grief
* I thought you were going to kill me, not bore me to death!
** Point Blanc, Anthony Horowitz, 2001-09-03.
** Spoken to character Dr. Grief
* It looks like I sleighed him...
** Point Blanc, Anthony Horowitz, 2001-09-03.
** Spoken when Rider runs his sled into Dr. Grief's helicopter. It is a play on words, with "sleighed" also meaning "slayed" in the same context.
* Damian Cray to Rider: Do you know the most evil thing in the world? Rider to Cray: Is that including or not including you?
** Eagle Strike, Anthony Horowitz, 2003-09-04.
** Spoken in a conversation between characters Damian Cray and Alex Rider

## External links

* Official Website of Author Anthony Horowitz
* Official Website of Alex Rider
* Stormbreaker (Official Website)
* Point Blanc (Official Website)
* Eagle Strike (Official Website)
* Snakehead (Official Website)
# Alain LeRoy Locke

Alain LeRoy Locke (September 13, 1885 – June 9, 1954) was an American writer, philosopher, educator, and patron of the arts.

## Quotes about Alain LeRoy Locke

* His man-loving identity ... apparently derived from what appears to be a fusion of the Whitmanesque concept of "manly," "comradely" love with a Greek model of homosexuality in which an older man forms a "noble friendship" with a younger man. ... Locke displayed sexual interest in young men who were apparently not gay-identified. Several of his correspondents came to develop a positive identity as men-loving men. As one man wrote, his introduction to Locke's particular model of same-sex love, which usually occurred via Locke's suggestion of a canon of works that discuss the topic of male same-sex unions sympathetically, made him feel as though he had "awakened from a long sleep": "It opened a bright beautiful way for me, one that was natural and wholesome." Along with a man-loving identity, Locke introduced his correspondents to a specific gay discourse. Looking that the coded terms figuring prominently in this discourse, such as "spiritual affinity," "perfect friendship," and "stimulating camaraderie," it can be recognized that they denote honor, masculinity, and depth. Locke thus opened up to these same-sex-interested men a gay identity without regard for contemporary dominant views linking homosexuality to degeneracy, sickness, or gender inversion.
** A. B. Christa Schwarz, Gay Voices of the Harlem Renaissance (2003), p. 12
# Alain Paul Lebeaupin

Alain Paul Lebeaupin (2 March 1945 – 24 June 2021) was a French prelate of the Catholic Church who worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See.

## Quotes

* Our world is questioning our position and that is where we must be strong in belief, following the teaching of the church. Facing the difficult reality, the temptation will be, of course, to take the easy way.
** More effort needed to see that Church teaching on AIDS reaches the people: in 25 years African Bishops issue some 80 pastoral letters and statements on the question (26 June 2006) Fides News Agency
# Alakshmi

Alakshmi (Devanāgari: अलक्ष्मी) is the elder sister of Lakshmi and the Hindu goddess of misfortune. She is also the second wife of Kali, the male demon who is the reigning lord of the Kali Yuga.

## Quotes about Alakshmi

* Though in Bengal and Orissa, some say, Alakshmi is visualized as an owl seated beside Lakshmi, Alakshmi is a secret goddess, invisible to all. The only way to see her is to have Saraswati, goddess of knowledge and good sense by your side. But Lakshmi will never let Saraswati stay in the same house as her. She will go wherever there is Saraswati and kick her out, making room for Alakshmi. Why does she do that, one wonders. But then one is told that Lakshmi is a whimsical goddess, she does not like to stay in one place too long. By kicking Saraswati out and by getting Alakshmi in, she ensures there is a fight in the house and when there is a fight, wealth invariably moves out of a house.
** Devdutt Pattanaik in: The Rise of Alakshmi, Speaking Tree, The Times of India, 2 May 2010, Retrieved 7 September 2017

## See also

* Durukti, Alakshmi's co-wife
* Kali (demon), Alakshmi's husband
* Lakshmi, Alakshmi's younger sister
# Alain Faubert

Alain Faubert (4 April 1965–) is a Canadian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who currently serves as an Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Montreal.

## Quotes

* I will contribute who I am. I deeply believe in the beauty of the Church of Montreal, of its diversity, of its expressions, and of its culture. It is our mission to strive for reconciliation and peace. I believe that that's what the people need.
** Inside the Heart of a Bishop (April 27, 2016)
# Alain Mabanckou

Alain Mabanckou (born 24 February 1966) is a novelist, journalist, poet, and academic, a French citizen born in the Republic of the Congo, he is currently a Professor of Literature at UCLA.

## Quotes
### Black Bazar (2009

* Listen up, my boy, be realistic! Drop your sitting around and writing every day, there’s people much better at it, and those people, you see them on telly, they talk well, and when they talk there’s a subject, there’s a verb and there’s an object. They’re born for that, they’re raised in that, while us blacks, it’s not our thing, writing.
** pp. 13
* Éditions du Seuil, 2009
* He says that the African man was the first man on Earth and that the other races only came after. Therefore, all men are immigrants except African people who are right at home.
* A white guy who learns how to play tom-tom, it’s normal, it’s chic, it says
* I’m a man open to the other cultures of the world and I’m not racist at all.
* A Black man who plays the tam-tam, it sucks, it’s too much back to his roots, back to square one, back to his natural state, back to having the beat. It ain’t surprising that Europeans are interested in tom-tom that way. It is to understand how things went in our country when we had no other of communication.
* ....you’ve got to keep up appearances, as we say among the Society for Ambient People and Persons of Elegance, SAPPE, which, without wanting to be contentious, is an invention from back home, born in the Bacongo district of Brazzaville,towards the Total roundabout. We’re the ones who exported “Sappe” to Paris, and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise, because lately there are so many false prophets swarming these streets in the City of Light, to the point where it’s getting difficult to separate the wheat from the
** Making references to Le sap wears

## External links

* Black Bazar
# Annette Bening

Annette Carol Bening (born 29 May 1958) is an American actress. In a career spanning over four decades, she has received various accolades, including a BAFTA Award and two Golden Globes as well as nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award, two Tony Awards, and four Academy Awards.

## Quotes
### From interview with The Hollywood Reporter Actress Roundtable (2011)

* Creativity is really about excess. And when you want to make something there is a kind of obsession that has to come with it in a healthy way, in a way that is intoxicating, you are engulfed by something.
** THR Actress Roundtable 2011, at 23 Min 01 Sec
* Sometimes just wanting to do a good role, a great role, isn't a good enough reason to do it.
** THR Full Oscar Actress Roundtable 2017, at 9 Min 19 Sec
# Anne of Ingleside

Anne of Ingleside is a novel written by Lucy Maud Montgomery in 1939.

## Quotes

* There's really no fun in being sensible all the time, Diana.
** Ch. 1
* Don't grudge Anne Cordelia her fancies, Diana. I'm always sorry for children who don't spend a few years in fairyland.
** Ch. 2
* "Such a lovely day... made for us," said Diana. "I'm afraid it's a pet day though... there'll be rain tomorrow."
    "Never mind. We'll drink its beauty today, even if its sunshine is gone tomorrow. We'll enjoy each other's friendship today even if we are to be parted tomorrow. Look at those long, golden-green hills... those mist-blue valleys. They're ours, Diana... I don't care if that furthest hill is registered in Abner Sloan's name... it's ours today. There's a west wind blowing... I always feel adventurous when a west wind blows... and we're going to have a perfect ramble."
   * Ch. 2
* "Such a nice swishy petticoat," sighed Nan. "When I grow up will I have tafty petticoats like that, Mummy?"
    "I doubt if girls will be wearing petticoats at all by that time," said Dad. "I'll back water, Anne, and admit that dress is a stunner even if I didn't approve of the sequins. Now, don't try to vamp me, woman. I've paid you all the compliments I'm going to tonight. Remember what we read in the Medical Journal today... 'Life is nothing more than delicately balanced organic chemistry,' and let it make you humble and modest. Sequins, indeed! Taffeta petticoat, forsooth. We're nothing but 'a fortuitous concatenation of atoms.' The great Dr. Von Bemburg says so."
    "Don't quote that horrible Von Bemburg to me. He must have a bad case of chronic indigestion. He may be a concatenation of atoms, but I am not."
   * Ch. 25
* "Not even a husband's funeral could damp Clarice down long," said Agatha Drew. "There was nothing solid about her. Always dancing and singing."
    "I used to dance and sing... on the shore, where nobody heard me," said Myra Murray.
    "Ah, but you've grown wiser since then," said Agatha.
    "No-o-o, foolisher," said Myra Murray slowly. "Too foolish now to dance along the shore."
   * Ch. 32
* Of course it sounds very foolish. Dreams do sound so foolish when they are put into cold brutal words.
** Ch. 35
# Anne Tyler

Anne Phyllis Tyler (born October 25, 1941) is an American novelist, short story writer, and literary critic.

## Quotes

* I’m more in touch with my emotions and the visceral sensory from childhood than any other part of life. I don’t know if it helps with creativity, but I do know that when I talk to other writers they talk about their childhood in great detail.
** On still being connected to childhood memories in “Anne Tyler: 'Up close you’ll always see things to be optimistic about'” in The Guardian (2020 Apr 11)
* I am very comfortable writing as a man, and I think that’s because I had really good men in my life. They made me feel comfortable and I thought, ‘OK, they’re not so different from me…’
** On writing male characters in “Anne Tyler: 'Up close you’ll always see things to be optimistic about'” in The Guardian (2020 Apr 11)
* I know the world does not need another book from me, but I have nothing else to do with myself. I have no hobbies. So then I feel guilty when I say to my agent, ‘I seem to have another book ready if you want to take a look at it…’
** On her writing process in “Anne Tyler: 'Up close you’ll always see things to be optimistic about'” in The Guardian (2020 Apr 11)
* …‘I think I was a better writer when I was younger.’…I was more detailed, I took more time. It’s not as if I’m in a rush now, but I trust the reader more. I don’t feel like I have to say that much about the character’s inner feelings. But then as I read The Accidental Tourist I thought, ‘Well, it’s kind of nice to see all of Macon’s inner feelings there.’
** On how she compares her writings in in “Anne Tyler: 'Up close you’ll always see things to be optimistic about'” in The Guardian (2020 Apr 11)

## Quotes about Anne Tyler

* Toni Morrison, Kay Boyle, Philip Roth, Peter Matthiessen, Anne Tyler, and Rosellen Brown read an unknown manuscript and responded with those quotes and marks of approval that appear on book jackets. These were completely unsolicited and I still find it remarkable that these writers, overwhelmed with pleas and manuscripts, picked up Love Medicine and responded. There were a great number of people kind along the way. One hears much more about the egomania and posturing of writers than one does about the devotion that writers have for one another's work.
** 1993 interview in Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris edited by Allan Chavkin and Nancy Feyl Chavkin (1994)
# Anne Stevenson

Anne Katharine Stevenson (January 3, 1933 – September 14, 2020) was a British-American poet and writer and recipient of a Lannan Literary Award.

## Quotes

* Blackbirds are the cellos of the deep farms.
** Green Mountain, Black Mountain (1982)

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Anne Stevenson on Wikipedia
# Annette Baier

Annette Claire Baier (née Stoop; 11 October 1929 – 2 November 2012) was a New Zealand philosopher and Hume scholar, focused in particular on Hume's moral psychology. She was well known also for her contributions to feminist philosophy and to the philosophy of mind, where she was strongly influenced by her former colleague, Wilfrid Sellars.

## Quotes
### Knowing Our Place in the Animal World

    in Ethics and Animals, edited by Harlan B. Miller and William H. Williams (Clifton, NJ: Humana Press, 1983, ISBN 978-0-89603-053-4), pp. 61-77.
* One ground for suspicion of apparently sincere moral convictions is their link with some special interest of those who hold them. The questions cui bono and cui malo are appropriate questions to raise when we are searching for possible contaminants of conscience. Entrenched privilege, and fear of losing it, distorts one's moral sense.
** p. 63
* Animals themselves cannot plead their cause, and those who plead it for them have no obvious financial or other selfish interest in the issue, although many may have “vested” their emotions in it. When we turn to special gain from maintaining existing practices, special loss if they were to be changed, we find a large number of groups whose views might be discounted. Butchers, furriers, hunters, cattlemen, chicken farmers, scientific experimenters on animals would, unless compensated, all have to suffer significant personal loss if we were to change our practices. They cannot therefore be expected to see the moral issue without the distortion of special interest. The scientists might claim that in their case their own interest coincides with a universal human interest, but I think the butcher and the furrier could make a similar claim[.]
** pp. 63-64
* I think there is at least one moral theory of respectable lineage and good independent credentials that can accommodate such fairly minimal intuitions about us and animals. This is the theory Hume offers us. I do not consider Hume a forerunner of utilitarianism, and therefore what I shall go on to say in defense of Hume is not intended as a defense of any version of utilitarianism. I see Hume to be much closer to Aristotle than to Mill, to be offering us a theory about human virtues, not a theory about utility maximization and the duties that might involve.
** p. 68
* Animals can not disapprove, but they can complain and protest, at least until their vocal chords are cut to spare experimenters their protests.
** p. 73
* Hume describes (E, 235) as a “fancied monster” a man who has “no manner of concern to his fellow-creatures but to regard the happiness and misery of all sensible beings with greater indifference than even two contiguous shades of the same color” (ibid.). To limit one's concern to those sensible beings who are of one's own species is to be part-monster, but such monsters, alas, are not merely fancied ones.
** p. 75
# Arthur Osborne (writer)

Arthur Osborne (1906 – May 8, 1970) was an English writer on spirituality and mysticism, and an influential disciple and biographer of Ramana Maharshi.

## Quotes

* The recognition of Pure Being as one's Selfand the Self of the universe and of all beings is the supreme and ultimate truth, transcending all other levels of doctrine without denying their truth on their own plane. This is the doctrine of Advaita, non- Duality, taught by the ancient Rishis and pre-emmently by Shankaracharya. It is the simplest as well as the most profound, being the ultimate truth beyond all the complexities of cosmology.
** Osborne, Arthur The Collected Works of Ramana Maharshi. Quoted and attributed in Londhe, S. (2008). A tribute to Hinduism: Thoughts and wisdom spanning continents and time about India and her culture
# Arthur Murphy

Arthur Murphy (December 27, 1727 – June 18, 1805) was an Irish writer, known by the pseudonym, Charles Ranger.

## Quotes

* Thus far we run before the wind.
** The Apprentice: A Farce in Two Acts (1756), Act v. Sc. 1.
* Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth.
** The Apprentice: A Farce in Two Acts (1756).
* Above the vulgar flight of common souls.
** Zenobia (1768), Act v.
* Picked up his crumbs.
** The Upholsterer; or, What News? (1757-58), Act i.

## External links

* Life of Arthur Murphy
# Carolina Nairne

Carolina, Baroness Nairne (August 16, 1766 – October 26, 1845), also known as Lady Nairne, was a Scottish songwriter, born in the auld hoose of Gask, Perthshire.

## Quotes

* There's nae sorrow there, John, There's neither cauld nor care, John, The day is aye fair, In the land o' the leal.
** The Land o’ the Leal.
* Gude nicht, and joy be wi' you a'.
** Gude Nicht, etc. Sir Alexander Boswell composed a version of this song.
* Oh, we ’re a’ noddin’, nid, nid, noddin’; Oh, we ’re a’ noddin’ at our house at hame.
** We're a' Noddin'.
* A penniless lass wi' a lang pedigree.
** The Laird o' Cockpen.
* She's mad for refusing the Laird o' Cockpen.
** The Laird o' Cockpen.
# Caroline Dhavernas

Caroline Dhavernas (born 15 May 1978) is a Canadian actress, famous in the United States as "Jaye" from the short-lived television series Wonderfalls, and as "Dr. Alana Bloom" in the psychological horror drama Hannibal.

## Quotes

* People have told me it's like Touched by an Angel on acid. I think that's a good description.
** On Wonderfalls in "Caroline Dhavernas works magic" by Olivia Barker at USA Today (9 March 2004)
* Most reporters I've spoken with want very badly to understand what is happening to her, but the "why" is really very unimportant. That is just not the point of the show. The journey is how she will deal with this situation, and how it will change her life.
** About her character on Wonderfalls, in "'Wonderfalls' Spills Torrent of Wit" by John Crooks at Zap2it.com (2004)

## External links

* Profile at IMDb
# Caroline Giuliani

Caroline Giuliani (born 1989) is an American filmmaker, political activist, and writer. She is the daughter of Rudy Giuliani, the former Mayor of New York City. Giuliani has received national media attention for publicly disagreeing with and criticizing her Republican father's politics and political endorsements.

## Quotes

* Nothing I have experienced prepared me for the very public and relentless implosion of my father’s life,
** Rudy Giuliani’s Daughter: Trump Took My Dad From Me. Please Don’t Let Him Take Our Country Too (September 30, 2024)