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# Carlos Almaraz

Carlos Almaraz (October 5, 1941–December 11, 1989) was a Mexican-American artist.

## Quotes

* …there was the portrait of John the Baptist draped in furs, with a long furry beard, long hair, bushy eyebrows, and so covered in hair. Well, to a child of I must have been, I'm like four or five now, and this would have been one of our return trips because to a child of that age, it could very easy look like a gorilla. And one of the reasons I mention this story is that, for me, my first impression of art was both horrifying and absolutely magical, because I really believed that was a gorilla…
** On, during his childhood, mistaking a portrait of John the Baptist for a primate in “Oral history interview with Carlos Almaraz, 1986 February 6-1987 January 29” (Smithsonian Archive of the Arts)
* …I think Disney personifies some of the American ideals in art and in culture in total, because what he was trying to do and specifically with Fantasia. And it was the spirit of the thirties, I believe; it was the post-Depression period, where people were trying to think popular art, art that was consumable by the masses high art that could be put in a tin or another form, a package…
** On being influenced by Disney productions in “Oral history interview with Carlos Almaraz, 1986 February 6-1987 January 29” (Smithsonian Archive of the Arts)
* At some point in our lives, each of us realizes how really finite we are. For me this realization has been a driving force in my creativity and in my life in general. I paint with a new abandonment almost trying to deny the fact that I too will someday pass on and the only thing remaining will be the images that I leave behind.
** On mortality driving his creative energies (as quoted in [https://www.lacma.org/carlos-almaraz-other-voices “Other Voices: Reflections on Almaraz's Legacy”)
# Carlos Alvarado Quesada

Carlos Andrés Alvarado Quesada (born 14 January 1980) is a Costa Rican politician who currently serves as the 48th and current President of Costa Rica since 8 May 2018.

## Quotes

* There are wide areas of cooperation opportunities that both friendly countries can benefit from to enhance their logistical facilities, air transport, tourism sector, increase the volume of import and export exchange, taking advantage of Costa Rica's location near the Panama Canal and Sharjah's, which enjoys a unique geographic location in the Middle East.
** Carlos Alvarado Quesada (2021) cited in "Sharjah Chamber receives high-profile Costa Rican delegation led by President Carlos" on VOA, 8 December 2021.
# Carlos Aníbal Altamirano Argüello

Carlos Aníbal Altamirano Argüello (13 March 1942 – 25 September 2015) was an Ecuadorian prelate of the Catholic Church who served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Quito and as the bishop of the Diocese of Azogues.

## Quotes

* Don't be fooled and distracted by the things that steer you away from your faith.
** Ecuadorian Catholics Gather To Honor Virgin of El Rocío (24 June 2015 ) Catholic New York
# Carlo Rubbia

Carlo Rubbia OMRI (born on 31 March 1934) is an Italian particle physicist and inventor who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1984 with Simon van der Meer for work leading to the discovery of the W and Z particles at CERN.

## Quotes

* The more you observe nature, the more you perceive that there is tremendous organization in all things. It is an intelligence so great that just by observing natural phenomena I come to the conclusion that a Creator exists.
** Note: The Brazilian magazine Veja asked Carlo Rubbia, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics, “Do you believe in God?
** Source: Evolution Is Not a Fact, Awake! magazine, 1998, 8/8.
* If we count the galaxies of the world or we show existence of elementary particles, in an analogous way we probably cannot have evidence for God. But, as a research scientist, I am deeply impressed by the order and the beauty that I find in the cosmos, as well as inside the material things. And as an observer of nature, I cannot help thinking that a greater order exists. The idea that all this is the result of randomness or purely statistical diversity is for me completely unacceptable. There is an Intelligence at a higher level, beyond the existence of the universe itself.
** C. Rubbia, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, märz 1993. As quoted in If science exists, this means that there's a Logic, fame physicist said (April 4, 2017)

### The Temptation to Believe

La tentazione del credere, Rizzoli, Milano 1987
* Nature is constructed in such a way that there is no doubt that it cannot be so constructed by casuality. The more one studies the phenomena of nature, the more deeply one becomes convinced of this. There are natural laws of an incredible depth and beauty. One cannot think that all of this can be reduced to an accumulation of molecules.
* The scientist, in particular, fundamentally recognises the existence of a transcendent law, something that is outside and immanent to the natural mechanism. He recognises that this 'something' is the cause, that pulls the strings of the system. It is a 'something' that escapes us.
* The more you look into it, the more you realise that it has nothing to do with casuality.
* Since we all think that our being human is something that puts us above all other living beings on earth, we must also necessarily think that we were made in the image of something even more important than ourselves.
* What is most impressive about the question [of who we are and where we are going] is its universality. It is common to all.
# Carlos Agostinho do Rosário

Carlos Agostinho do Rosário (born 26 October 1954) is a Mozambican politician who currently serves as the Prime Minister of Mozambique since 17 January 2015.

## Quotes

* In banking on technical and professional training, we want young people to be able to respond to the needs and demands of the labor market, and to generate more job opportunities and income for their fellow citizens", he said.
** Carlos Agostinho do Rosário (2021) cited in: "Mozambique: Tourism Institute Must Be 'Increasingly Creative'" in All Africa, 1 April 2021.
* The permanent secretary is a fundamental tool in the country's public administration system, as he bears the mission to coordinate and manage, at technical and operational levels, the financial and administrative processes, human resources and assets of the ministry.
** Carlos Agostinho do Rosário (2021) cited in: "Mozambique: PM Swears Into Office New Permanent Secretaries" in All Africa, 5 May 2021.
* We are convinced that success for the transformation of food systems requires involvement, coordination and interconnectivity among different state and non-state stakeholders at domestic and international level.
** Carlos Agostinho do Rosário (2021) cited in: "Mozambique Seeks to Build Resilient Food Security" in All Africa, 2 July 2021.
# Carlos Amigo Vallejo

Carlos Amigo Vallejo (23 August 1934 – 27 April 2022) was a Spanish prelate of the Catholic Church who served as archbishop of the Archdiocese of Tanger and the Archdiocese of Seville.

## Quotes

* It's not about doing new things but about being genuinely faithful to what the essence of the Christian faithful is. Some think that the renewal will bring about new things or something like that. Instead, the renewal will help us to cleanse ourselves a bit, so that the face of Jesus Christ will shine in our face, because this is what it means to be a Christian.
** Cardinal Carlos Amigo Vallejo: I Have Wept Within Upon Reading Such Admirable Things (1 July 2013) Zenit
# Brendan Rodgers

Brendan Rodgers (born 26 January 1973) is a Northern Irish professional football manager and former player who is manager of Scottish Premiership club Celtic.

## Quotes

* It's brilliant how well they have done and it's a great effort by all of the players. I met with Matt in pre-season and understood what was a huge task for them but they have had a brilliant season, and now they head into the last game with the title in their hands - which is all you could ever want. We had the chance to work with them here at Melwood and you could see the professionalism. They wanted to do it right and all the staff were brilliant, and very importantly the quality was very good on the day as well. I'm delighted for them. We've tried to make sure we have drawn everyone into the one-club mentality this season. I said to Matt no matter how they do on Sunday, we are very proud of them. The work he's done, his staff and the players, they have been brilliant and they have been right up there at the top of the league all season. It's a game that if you win it, the memories can live with you for a lifetime, and they can go and celebrate then rightly so - so we are hoping they can do that on Sunday. We are all very proud of their achievements and what they have done this season. It has been a great effort and the biggest message is: It's in your hands so go and do what you have done all season and play for the win. If you do that, the quality and determination will come through and let's hope on Sunday night we are all celebrating the title by the women.
** Brendan Rodgers on Liverpool Football Club, the Women’s First Team and his managerial counterpart Matt Beard, during his time as Men’s First Team Manager in 2013, in the build up to the game where Liverpool would win their first of two Women's Super League titles. Rodgers: My pride in the Ladies team. Liverpool Football Club Official (26 September 2013).
# Brennus

Brennus (ca. 391 BC) (or Brennos) was a chieftain of the Senones. He defeated the Romans at the Battle of the Allia (18 July 390 BC). In 387 BC he led an army of Cisalpine Gauls in their attack on Rome and captured most of the city, holding it for several months. Brennus's sack of Rome was the only time the city was occupied by a non-Roman army before the fall of the city to the Goths in 410 AD.

## Quotes

* Vae Victis!
** Latin: Woe to the Defeated
** See Livy v. 33-49; Plutarch, Camillus, 17, 22, 28; Polybius i. 6, ii. 18; Dion. Halic. xiii. 7
** Variant translation: Down with the defeated!
** His statement to the conquered Romans following the capture of Rome (circa 390 BC), as quoted in Livy Ab urbe condita, bk. 5, ch. 48, section 9 (reference taken from 1997's Chambers Dictionary of Quotations, p. 187).
# Brendan Gill

Brendan Gill (4 October 1914 – 27 December 1997) wrote for The New Yorker for more than 60 years. He also contributed film criticism for Film Comment and wrote a popular book about his time at the New Yorker magazine.

## Quotes

* In the later nineteenth century, the tops of skycrapers often took the shape of domes, surmounted by jaunty gilded lanterns; later came ziggurats, mausoleums, Alexandrian lighthouses, miniatures Parthenons. These charming follies contained neither royal corpses nor effigies of gods and goddesses; rather they contained large wooden tanks filled with water.
** 1982, quoted in Laura Rosen Top of the City: New York's hidden rooftop world (1990) foreword, also quoted in Dictionary of Quotations, p. 355 (2005)
* He stared the assorted meannesses and failed promises of American life straight in the face, and they stared back.
** 1990, On Walker Evan's photographs for James Agee's book on the destitute South. A New York Life, also quoted in Dictionary of Quotations, p. 355 (2005)
"not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious"

## See also

* The New Yorker
* Film Comment
# Brendan Michael O'Brien

Brendan Michael O'Brien (28 September 1943 –) is a Canadian prelate of the Catholic Church.

## Quotes

* I hope that the CCCB will continue to reach out to the rest of the world; it would be my hope that the conference will continue to have both a missionary spirit as well as a concern for the peace and well-being of our brothers and sisters elsewhere. This international outreach of the conference is a way of showing our solidarity with our brother bishops, many of whom minister under very difficult circumstances.
** New President of Canadian Episcopate on Key Concerns (13 November 2003) Zenit
# Brendan Fraser

Brendan James Fraser (born December 3, 1968) is a Canadian-American actor.

## Quotes

* I wanted to play Rick. I was missing it. I’ve been waiting for the call from the studio since then. I love it. You get to do so much fun stuff, as an actor. You get to go to great places. They strap you into harnesses and throw you around. You have to look like you really know how to take care of business and beat people up, when you’re actually really a wimp. They’re great fun movies. There’s real appeal. Every kid or pinstripe executive in an elevator asks me, “When’s the next Mummy movie?” I’m like, “I wanna know the same thing!
** Brendan Fraser Interview – The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (July 31, 2008)

## External links

* Official Site
# Brendan Meyer

Brendan Meyer (October 2, 1994–) is a Canadian actor.

## Quotes

* I’m always just surprised by how quickly you’re able to form bonds with people and get to know people. I feel like when you’re put together to work on some kind of project you really become this quick family with the cast and the crew while you’re shooting. The times that I’ve been able to work on something for a long period of time I think what’s always surprised me is that secondary component, where obviously you get the work and being on set and the acting, but the other side that’s sort of fulfilling and interesting is how many different people you get to be exposed to and get to know really well. Some of them you stay friends with forever, some of them you never really see again. And some of them you only see every now and then. But in that moment you really get to have that intense experience together.
** Interview: Actor Brendan Meyer (January 14, 2019)

## External links

* Official website
# Brenna O'Brien

Brenna O'Brien (March 9, 1991–) is a Canadian actress and artist.

## Quotes

* I love being a bully on TV, people on set, they're scared of you at that point and you can really go over the top. If I'm just a regular girl I can just be myself, but if I'm being stuck up or a bully it's fun.
** BRENNA O'BRIEN on Urban Rush
* I think they had a difficult time casting Sue because it was so vague and also so specific, which is kind of the curse of having a character that you love but also having no idea how someone could execute it.
** Cast Members Recall First Auditions As ABC Sitcom Heads To Hallmark Channel (February 25, 2014)

## External links

* Official website
# Andrei Linde

Andrei Dmitrievich Linde (Андре́й Дми́триевич Ли́нде; born March 2, 1948) is a Russian-American theoretical physicist, known as a pioneer of inflationary cosmology.

## Quotes

* Many scientists are still ashamed of using the anthropic principle. Just as the friends of Harry Potter were afraid of using the name 'Voldemort', the opponents of the anthropic principle often say that they do not want to use the 'A' in their research.
** (2007). Chapter 8. "The inflationary multiverse". In: Bernard Carr (ed.), Universe or Multiverse? (pp. 127-150). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9781107050990.010 (quote from p. 128)
* The best available explanation of the observed uniformity of the universe is provided by inflation. However, as soon as this mechanism was proposed, it was realized that inflation, while explaining why our part of the world is so uniform, does not predict that this uniformity must extend to the whole universe ...
** (2015). Chapter 6. "Inflationary cosmology after Planck ". In: Cédric Deffayet, Patrick Peter, Benjamin Wandelt, Matías Zaldarriaga, Leticia F. Cugliandolo (eds.), Post-Planck Cosmology: Lecture Notes of the Les Houches Summer School: Volume 100, July 2013 (pp. 230–316). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198728856.003.0006 (quote from 247)
* The theory of the inflationary multiverse changes the way we think about our place in the world. According to its most popular version, our world may consist of infinitely many exponentially large parts, exhibiting different sets of low-energy laws of physics. Since these parts are extremely large, the interior of each of them behaves as if it were a separate universe, practically unaffected by the rest of the world. This picture, combined with the theory of eternal inflation and anthropic considerations, may help to solve many difficult problems of modern physics, including the cosmological constant problem.
** (2017) "A brief history of the multiverse". Reports on Progress in Physics 80 (2). DOI:10.1088/1361-6633/aa50e4.
* Why is our universe so homogeneous? Why is it not exactly homogeneous? Why is it isotropic (same in all directions)? Why all of its parts started expanding simultaneously? Why is if flat (Ω = 1)? Why is it so large? Answered by inflation
** (June 2, 2017, recorded at the World Science Festival in New York City) (February 17, 2021)"WSU master Class: Universe or Multiverse? with Andre Linde". World Science U, YouTube. (quote at 3:04 of 1:02:58 in video)
* ... We live for a while in some state which is called false vacuum ... there is no preferable coordinate system ... there is no preferable choice of time ...
** (May 14, 2023)"Andrei Linde: Inflation, Multiverse, and all that, from Mr. Eternal Inflation". The Origins Podcast, YouTube. (quote at 1:19:18 of 3:00:31)

## External links

Encyclopedic article on Andrei Linde on Wikipedia
# Andreas Vesalius

Andreas Vesalius (31 December 1514 – 15 October 1564) was a 16th century Flemish Renaissance physician and anatomist who published a massive groundbreaking textbook of human anatomy, entitled De humani corporis fabrica (On the Fabric of the Human Body).

## Quotes
### De Fabrica

* I strive that in public dissection the students do as much as possible.
** O'Malley, p. 144
* By not first explaining the bones, anatomists delay the inexperienced student and, because of the difficulty of the subject, deter him from a very worthy examination of the works of God.
** O'Malley, p. 150
* Passing over the other arts in silence, I shall speak briefly of that which concerns the health of mankind; indeed, of all the arts the genius of man has discovered it is by far the most beneficial and of prime necessity, although difficult and laborious.
** O'Malley, p. 317
* In our age nothing has been so degraded and then wholly restored as anatomy.
** O'Mally, p. 320
* I have done my best to this single end, to aid as many as possible in a very recondite as well as laborious matter, and truly and completely to describe the structure of the human body which is formed not of ten or twelve parts-- as it may seem to the spectator-- but of some thousands of different parts.
** O'Mally, p. 323
* ...but also perhaps you sometimes delight in consideration of the most perfectly constructed of all creatures, and take delight in considering the temporary lodging and instrument of the immortal soul, a dwelling that in many respects corresponds to the universe and for that reason was called the little universe [microcosmos] by the ancients.
** O'Malley, p. 324

### Letter on the China Root

* I am not accustomed to saying anything with certainty after only one or two observations.
** O'Malley, p. 201
* I could have done nothing more worthwhile than to give a new description of the whole human body, of which nobody understood the anatomy, while Galen, despite his extensive writings, has offered very little on the subject.
** O'Malley, p. 222

## Sources

O'Malley, Charles Donald (1964). Andreas Vesalius of Brussels 1514-1564. University of California Press.
# Andreas Weber (writer)

Andreas Weber (born 4 November 1967) is a German biologist, biosemiotician, philosopher and journalist.

## Quotes

* It is actually by experience of our teleology – our wish to exist further on as a subject, not our imputation of purposes on objects – that teleology becomes a real rather than an intellectual principle... before being scientists we are first living beings, and as such we have the evidence of intrinsic teleology in us. And, in observing other creatures struggling to continue their existence – starting from simple bacteria that actively swim away from a chemical repellent – we can, by our own evidence, understand teleology as the governing force of the realm of the living. Theories about the living can only be conceived from the fragile and concerned perspective of the living itself.
** Andreas Weber and Francisco Varela 2002. "Life after Kant: Natural purposes and the autopoietic foundations of individuality". Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 2, 97–125. p. 110; as cited in: Evan Thompson, "Life and mind: From autopoiesis to neurophenomenology. A tribute to Francisco Varela." Phenomenology and the cognitive Sciences 3.4 (2004): 381-398.
# Andrei Codrescu

Andrei Codrescu (born December 20, 1946, in Sibiu, Romania) is a Jewish Romanian-American poet, novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and commentator for National Public Radio.

## Quotes

* The Modernist’s command was Pound’s “Make it New.” The postmodern imperative is “Get it Used.” The more used the better.
** “The Shipwreck of Dada and Surrealism,” The Disappearance of the Outside: A Manifesto for Escape (1990).
* Unchecked, the tourist will climb over the fence and come right into your house to take pictures of you in your habitat. Cities mindful of tourists have built elaborate “tourist traps” which, luckily, work. Tourists are kept confined to these, and few escape. There is, of course, the type known as the “intrepid tourist.” This one has to be watched carefully or he can become most annoying. Little wonder these are so often the target of terrorists. If there is an aspect of benign terror about the tourist, there is also a great deal of tourist in the terrorist. Terrorists travel with only one thing in mind, just like the tourist, and the specifics of places escape them both. Terrorists travel for the purpose of shooting unsuspecting foreigners, just as tourists travel for the purpose of shooting them with a camera.
** “The Tourist,” Raised by Puppets (1990).
* The language of the game is interesting. You can think of the pauses as caesuras, breaks between the lines. As a poem the game is composed of a number of short lines representing the pitches. The number of lines per batter form a stanza. Then there is a space. Sometimes the stanzas become breathless, rushing full paragraphs that build rapidly on each other until the poem-inning explodes. The poem lives for this sudden blossoming out of prosodic regularity. Should someone make a computer analysis of baseball prosody, I believe that they would come up with something close to the prosody of some great American lyrical epic, Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, let’s say, or Doc Williams’s Patterson.... The game is definitely an epic … formed of many lyrical moments dependent on silences for their effectiveness. An unfolding story punctuated by brief emotional swellings.
** “A Kind of Love,” The Muse Is Always Half-Dressed (1993).
* There is undoubtedly something religious about it: everyone believes that they are special, that they are chosen, that they have a special relation with fate. Here is the test: you turn over card after card to see in which way that is true. If you can defy the odds, you may be saved. And when you are cleaned out, the last penny gone, you are enlightened at last, free perhaps, exhilarated like an ascetic by the falling away of the material world.
** “Dice,” Zombification: Stories from National Public Radio (1994).
* Only the poor can create art.
** From a public forum held at the Los Angeles Public Library, 28 April 2010.

## External links

* Andrei Codrescu's webpage