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# Oliver!

Oliver! is a British musical written by Lionel Bart, based on Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. It was first produced in London's West End in 1960. It later ran on Broadway in 1963. The 1968 film version stars Mark Lester, Ron Moody and Oliver Reed.

## Songs

* Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard! While we're in the mood Cold jelly and custard! Pease pudding and saveloys, what next, is the question? Rich gentlemen have it, boys: In-di-gestion!
** From "Food Glorious Food"
* In this life, one thing counts In the bank, large amounts I'm afraid these don't grow on trees, You've got to pick-a-pocket or two. You've got to pick-a-pocket or two, boys, You've got to pick-a-pocket or two.
** From "You've Got to Pick a Pocket or Two"
* Would you climb a hill? - Anything Wear a daffodil? - Anything Leave me all your will? - Anything Even fight my Bill? - What fisticuffs?!
** From "I'd Do Anything" (Exchanges between Nancy and the Artful Dodger)
* As long as he needs me. Oh yes, he does need me. In spite of what you see, I'm sure that he needs me.
** From "As Long as He Needs Me"

## Dialogue

* Oliver Twist: Please sir, can I have some more?
* Fagin: Shut up and drink your gin!
* Noah Claypole: He's sitting on Oliver.
* Sowerberry: Quite right, we must all sit on Oliver.
# Melting pot

Melting pot is a metaphor for a heterogeneous society becoming more homogeneous.

## Quotes

* That focal point or fulcrum, that juncture where the mestiza stands, is where phenomena tend to collide. It is where the possibility of uniting all that is separate occurs. This assembly is not one where severed or separated pieces merely come together. Nor is it a balancing of opposing powers. In attempting to work out a synthesis, the self has added a third element which is greater than the sum of its severed parts. That third element is a new consciousness—a mestiza consciousness.
** Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987), p. 102
* They'd like to think I have melted in the pot. But I haven't. We haven't.
** Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987), p. 108
* The main emphasis was now shifted from "culture" to "civilization." This change was deplorable but almost necessary. Culture is personal and something rooted; civilization on the other hand is "international," interchangeable, and ambulant. There could be no melting pot, no Americanization on the basis of a new synthesis of Slovakian peasant dresses, Sicilian songs and Swedish folk dances. Only the jalopy, the overall, the ice-cream soda and the corner drugstore could serve as common denominators. In order to denationalize and to renationalize the "Bohunk," American society at large had to make its change from the emphasis on culture to the acclamation of depersonalized, collective, and common civilization. It was self-sacrifice for the native and often torture for the newcomer.
** Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, The Menace of the Herd (1943), p. 231
# Melody (1971 film)

Melody is a 1971 British film about two youngsters who declare to their parents that they want to get married as soon as possible.
    Directed by Waris Hussein. Written by Andrew Berkin and Alan Parker.

## Other

* Headmaster: If you're gallivanting off somewhere you can't be at school. If you can't be at school we can't teach you. And if we can't teach you, you'll end up a bunch of raving imbeciles like the generation above you.

## Dialogue

    Maureen: Do you kiss boys, Muriel?
    Muriel: Sometimes, if I like him enough.
    Melody: Aren't you frightened?
    Muriel: Oh, why should I be frightened? It's quite nice when you get used to it.
    Daniel: [about Melody] I've got to dance with her.
    Ornshaw: You're mad! What do you want to do that for? She'll only say "Buzz off!" or something. She's a bit stuck up that one. This whole girl-nonsense is rubbish. Girls are a load of snotty-nosed little so-and-so's.
    Ornshaw: Some people are winners and some people are losers.
    Daniel: Who says who's gonna be what?
    Ornshaw: Don't ask me, that's all done before we get on this earth. I mean, it's him up there. He says, "You, you're gonna be red-hot at the triple jump, and you, you're gonna be bloody useless!"
    [in the school office about to get "slippered"]
    Mr. Dicks: Now, why are you here, Ornshaw?
    Ornshaw: Because you invited me, sir.
    Mr. Dicks: And why did I invite you, Ornshaw?
    Ornshaw: Well, because I couldn't translate the Latin, sir.
    Mr. Dicks: Why, Ornshaw? Why?
    Ornshaw: Because it's a bloody silly out-of-date language do you mean, sir?
    Mr. Dicks: Two was it, Ornshaw... I think we'll make it four... [trying to hold his temper] ...And why do you think it's a... silly out-of-date language, Ornshaw?
    Ornshaw: Well, because I couldn't speak to a dead Roman even if I knew the bloody lingo, sir!
    Melody: [reading from a tombstone] "Fifty years' happiness." How long's fifty years?
    Daniel: A hundred and fifty school terms, not including holidays.
    Melody: Will you love me that long?
    Daniel: [nods] Mmm-hmmm.
    Melody: I don't think you will.
    Daniel: Of course. I've loved you a whole week already, haven't I?

## Taglines

* A tender love story for everyone who was ever twelve years old.
* They said they were too young to fall in love.
* Only 11 and Popping the Question Already! "Will you marry me Melody Perkins?"
* How Old is Old Enough...
* "I'll love you forever Melody - it's been a week already."
* Remember...The Fun-Filled Years Between Growing and Knowing

## Cast

* Tracy Hyde as Melody Perkins
* Mark Lester as Daniel Latimer
* Jack Wild as Ornshaw
* Sheila Steafel as Mrs. Latimer
* Keith Barron as Mr. Latimer
* Roy Kinnear as Mr. Perkins
* Hilda Barry as Grandma Perkins
* Peter Walton as Fensham
* Kay Skinner as Peggy
* William Vanderpuye as O'Leary
* Camille Davies as Muriel
* Craig Marriott as Dadds
* Billy Franks as Burgess
* Tim Wylton as Mr. Fellows
* June Jago as Miss Fairfax
* Ken Jones as Mr. Dicks

## External links

* Melody (1971 film) quotes at the Internet Movie Database
* Melody (1971 film) at Allmovie
# Meluhha

Meluḫḫa or Melukhkha (Sumerian: 𒈨𒈛𒄩𒆠 Me-luḫ-ḫaKI) is the Sumerian name of a prominent trading partner of Sumer during the Middle Bronze Age. Its identification remains an open question, but most scholars associate it with the Indus Valley civilisation.

## Quotes

* There are, however, concrete evidences, in texts of the Akkadian and neo-Sumerian dynasties, of Indian crafts- and business-people first visiting Mesopotamia and later living in it. “[A]n inscription of Sargon refer[s] to Meluhhan [probably Indian] ships docked at his capital, the city of Akkad … a late Sargonic tablet datable to ca. 2200 B.C… . mentions a man with an Akkadian name entitled ‘the holder’ … of a Meluhha ship … an Akkadian cylinder seal bears the inscription … ‘Su-ilisu, Meluhha interpreter.’ Taken together, the presence of Meluhhan ships, a ship-‘holder’, and an interpreter help to establish the physical contact, over sea-routes, of Meluhha with Mesopotamia in Akkadian times.” Inscriptions of Gudea of Lagash similarly note that “‘the Meluhhans came up (or down) from their country’ to supply wood and other raw materials for the construction of the main temple of Gudea’s capital.” In the Ur III or neo-Sumerian dynasty that followed the Akkadian, however, the texts “give us an entirely different view of the Meluhhans.” Now they do not seem to come from afar, as in the Akkadian period, but, “while recognized as a distinct ethnic group, their roles are intimately part of domestic Ur III society.” Though the “Meluhha village” that is referred to repeatedly over a half century “may originally have been founded as a commercial settlement or a mercantile enclave, all references to it unanimously imply that its role in Ur III society was little, if any, different from other Southern Mesopotamian villages of the day.” The records of Meluhhans indicate that by that time “most if not all of them had Sumerian names.” Families from Meluhha, it seems, had settled in the Meluhhan village permanently, rather than on brief mercantile visits. In at least one case it seems that “the man himself was two or more generations removed from immigration into Mesopotamia.” “Three hundred years after the earliest textually documented contact between Meluhha and Mesopotamia, the references to a distinctly foreign commercial people have been replaced by an ethnic component of Ur III society.” In short, “certain Meluhhans had undergone a process of acculturation into Mesopotamian society by Ur III times.” The texts attest to “a Meluhhan garden dedicated to a Sumerian goddess, and the paying of religious taxes to that goddess’ temple …”
** Thomas C. Mcevilley - The Shape of Ancient Thought_ Comparative Studies in Greek and Indian Philosophies (2001, Allworth Press) chapter 10 . quoting Simo Parpola, Asko Parpola, and Robert H. Brunswig Jr., “The Meluhha Village: Evidence of Acculturation of Harappan Traders in Late Third Millennium Mesopotamia,” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 20 (1977): 129–165.
# Melody

    For the Waris Hussein film, see Melody (1971 film).
A melody also tune, voice or line, is a linear succession of musical tones that the listener perceives as a single entity. In its most literal sense, a melody is a combination of pitch and rhythm, while more figuratively, the term can include successions of other musical elements such as tonal color.

## Quotes

* Melody is the golden thread running through the maze of tones by which the ear is guided and the heart reached.
** Anonymous
* Melody is a series of repeated rising and falling intervals, which are subdivided and given movement by rhythm; containing a latent harmony within itself and giving out a mood feeling; it can and does exist independently of accompanying parts as a form; in its performance the choice of pitch and of the instrument makes no difference to its essence.
** Ferruccio Busoni, also quoted in An Encyclopedia of Quotations about Music, p. 33
* Composers should write tunes the chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.
** Thomas Beecham, New York Times, 9 March 1961
* The heart of a melody can never be put down on paper.
** Pablo Casals, Conservations with Casals, 1956
* The melody is generally what the piece is about.
** Aaron Copland, also quoted in Encyclopedia of Quotations about Music, p. 33
* Harmony is music does not consist merely in the construction of concordant sounds, but in their mutual relations, their proper succession in what I should call their audible reflex.
** Eugène Delacroix, quoted in Encyclopedia of Quotations about Music, p. 34
* The greatest beauties of melody and harmony become faults and imperfections when they are not in their proper place.
** Christoph Willibald Gluck, quoted in Encyclopedia of Quotations about Music, p. 34
* A tune is always the same tune, whether it is sung loudly or softly, by a child or a man; whether it is played on a flute or on a trombone.
** Charles Darwin, The Expressions of the Emotions in Man and Animals, 1872
* A melody is a vocal or instrumental imitation using the sounds of a scale invented by art or inspired by nature, as you prefer; it imitates either physical noises or the accents of passion.
** Denis Diderot, Rameau's Nephew, 1762
* The continuity and diegetic function of almost all vocal melody draw us along the linear thread of the song's syntagmatic structure, producing a 'point of perspective' from which the otherwise disparate parts of the musical texture can be placed within a coherent 'image'.
** Middleton, Richard (1990/2002). Studying Popular Music, p. 264. Philadelphia: Open University Press. ISBN 0335152759.
* You who are sitting before me have the power to change my consciousness into painting, poem, melody or anything else!
** Suman Pokhrel, Between Rainbows and Melody

## External links

* Nat Shapiro: An Encyclopedia of Quotations about Music, Da Capo Press, New York, 1978
# Melody Anderson

Melody Anderson (December 3, 1955 –) is a Canadian social worker and public speaker specializing in the impact of addiction on families.

## Quotes

* We can escape and destroy evil through these shifts in our mindsets. As a therapist today, I can say that actually people do find freedom when they shift their mindsets away from hopelessness and powerlessness.
** Interview: Melody Anderson, Star Of MANIMAL (August 30, 2012)
* When you’re an actress you reach the subtext. You play all these different roles and as a therapist, which I am now, I specialise in family treatment of addiction and trauma and I’m also with clients where I have to take different kinds of presentations for each client. Everyone responds differently. A soft glove or a hard hand in a soft glove, so in a way with the adaptability there’s really not that much difference from acting.
** Interview: Melody Anderson, Star Of MANIMAL (August 30, 2012)
* You know when you’re starting out as an actor it’s like “just give me a job, as long as I can keep my clothes on I’m happy!”.
** Flash Gordon: Interview with Melody Anderson (05-08-2020)

## External links

* Official website
# Melonpool

Melonpool is a webcomic by Steve Troop.

## "Original Series"

* Mayberry Melonpool
    "To the time machine!"
    as Dr. McCoy: "I'm a doctor, not a fictional country town!"
* Ralph Zinobop
    "It smelled like democracy..."
    "Never send an android to do a Melotian's job."
* Ralphie Zinobop
    discussing Star Wars II: "Quick! Tell him about the clones!"
* Sam T. Dogg
    "There's nothing less conspicuous than six aliens pulling a 108-foot mallard out of a tarpit at the crack of dawn..."
* Conversations
    Jalea: "Eek! He's got a gun!"
    Roberta: "That's not a gun, that's the Dup-o-Matic!"
    Fauntelroy shoots them
    "Jaberta":: "...or the Fuse-o-Matic..."

## External links

* Melonpool on-line
# Melody Ehsani

Melody Ehsani (born March 27, 1980) is an American fashion designer based in Los Angeles.

## Quotes

* "I wanted to do something iconic and classic, but forward and today, so it was really created intentionally to have a fashionable element to it, but also a very practical athletic element to it as well".
* "I feel a lot of times that things are created for women aren’t actually practical. So I used a lot of inspiration from vintage jerseys including the ribbing and some of the wording and put it into a more modern look".
* "In terms of other inspirations, a lot comes from music, like Ms. Lauryn Hill, Big Daddy Kane….those kinds of things have always inspired me maybe more so than actual designers".
** SOCCER, GIRL POWER, AND HIP-HOP: AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH DESIGNER MELODY EHSANI by ZOE ZORKA ,AUGUST 20, 2019 Retrieved 14/11/2023
* "Part of the reason that I took on the Foot Locker role was because it was so much easier for me to come into a system that was already established, versus me having to literally build it from scratch".
* "I try to split up creative days and workdays. If I am designing something, then my entire day from start to end will just be designing".
* "I want to create something that will remind you of who you are, and why you're here — make it a little bit easier for you to move through the world, and feel supported or confident, whatever it is that you need".
** The streetwear icon talks about the daily rituals that give her sustainable creative strength by SUMEERA J.,Dec 1, 2021 Retrieved 14/11/2023
# Poverty in Uganda

Quotes about poverty in Uganda.

## Quotes

* While others make obtuse remarks about the state of our roads and some turn into anthropological visitors who come to ogle the condition of our people, we cannot stand by as a society and do nothing. We have an obligation to answer this difficult question of poverty and also do something about it. First, we need to understand poverty in a very basic way and how it is impacting our society.
** Samuel Sejjaaka, When our potholes, poverty become tourist attractions (February 29, 2020), Daily Monitor.

## See also

* Uganda

## External links

* OCLC WorldCat. Subject: Poverty - Uganda (bibliography)
# Landsberg am Lech proverbs

Landsberg am Lech is a Bavarian dialect spoken in the town of Landsberg am Lech in Bavaria in south-east Germany.

## A

* Auf Regen folget klare Zeit, Auf Leiden frohe Ewigkeit.
** English equivalent: After rain comes fair weather.
** von Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, Ida; von Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, Otto (1875). "251, Regen" (in German). Sprichwörter der germanischen und romanischen Sprachen. II. p. 140.

## N

* Nót hất kås Gsatz.
** English equivalent: Necessity has no law.
** von Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, Ida; von Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, Otto (1875). "191, Noth" (in German). Sprichwörter der germanischen und romanischen Sprachen. p. 105.

## See Also

* German proverbs
# Landfill

A landfill (also known as a dump) is a site for the disposal of waste materials by burial.

## Quotes

* A minority believes that it has the right to consume in a way which can never be universalized, since the planet could not even contain the waste products of such consumption.
** Pope Francis, Laudato si' : Care for Our Common Home, § 50
# Lane Nishikawa

Lane Nishikawa is a Japanese American actor, filmmaker, playwright and performance artist.

## Quotes

* I would always approach a show from the perspective of what I wanted to say historically, politically and socially. I examine the Asian American experience through my eyes and my perceptions. One thing I can tell you is that people who come to one of my shows, will leave the theater with a totally different perspective of the Asian American male…
** On shifting perspectives in “YuYu interview Lane Nishikawa” in San Diego YuYu (2007 Apr 3)
* Much of the time, we’re still looked at as foreigners, despite being here for four or five generations. This gives an overview of our experiences, how varied they are. Really, I want Asian Americans to look at ourselves, to be proud of our heritage. For non-Asians, I just want to inform. . . . Of course, I hope everybody is entertained along the way.
** On his one-man show I’m on a Mission From Buddha and artistry in “‘Mission’ Accomplished? Not Yet, but Closer: Theater: Lane Nishikawa, star of a one-man show about diversity, says mainstream representation of Asian Americans is better than it was.” in Los Angeles Times (1995 Apr 18)
* I try to get everybody to enter my world real quickly. I think the audience starts to see that it’s a person going through a struggle, (and) with each performance piece, the exchange just keeps growing.
** On his writing technique in “‘Mission’ Accomplished? Not Yet, but Closer: Theater: Lane Nishikawa, star of a one-man show about diversity, says mainstream representation of Asian Americans is better than it was.” in Los Angeles Times (1995 Apr 18)
* I never interviewed someone so that I could put his story in the film. There is no specific person that I had in mind when I was writing the script. It just seemed that when I was ready to put it together, my head was filled with so many stories and people that it just flowed out. I almost didn’t have to think, just feel.
** On his film Only The Brave in [http://www.discovernikkei.org/en/journal/2007/11/8/only-the-brave/ “
# Lang Lang

Lang Lang (Chinese: 郎朗; Pinyin: Láng Lǎng; born 14 June 1982) is a Chinese concert pianist who has performed with leading orchestras in Europe, the United States and his native China.

## Quotes

* I think classical music is a great, beautiful art as long as people recognize it. But first we need to calm down and listen to it with heart. In this technologically advanced time, too many things are drawing peoples' attention. Sometimes we need to slow down, look back and feel the beauty of art and life.
** huffingtonpost.com.
* I started lessons when I was three and a half. In the beginning I just played a little but, when I was five, I played my first recital, and from that point my parents had high hopes for me; especially my father.
** theguardian.com.
* I'd play the piano at 5am.
** theguardian.com
# Ochlocracy

Ochlocracy (Greek: οχλοκρατία; Latin: ochlocratia) is government by mob or a disorganized mass of people. Ochlocracy is also used as a pejorative term for democracy and more specifically, majoritarianism.

## Quotes

* Members of the oligarchy curry popularity with the mob (ὄχλος), as the Civic Guards at Larisa courted popularity with the mob because it elected them.
** Aristotle, Politics trans. by H. Rackham, Loeb Classical Library, BkV v 5; 1305b25-30; Vol 264 pp. 404-405.
* In putting no trust in the multitude (which is why they resort to the measure of stripping the people of arms, and why ill-treatment of the mob and its expulsion from the city and settlement in scattered places is common to both forms of government, both oligarchy and tyranny.
** Aristotle, Politics, trans. by H. Rackham, Loeb Classical Library, BkV viii 7; 1311a 10; Vol 264, pp. 442-443.
* Ochlocratia, such a state, as in which the rude and rusticall people moderate all thinges after their own luste.
** OED, 1584.
* We will not carry on any further our picture of the ochlocracy, in which all social union was entirely dissolved, and the state surrendered to the arbitrary will of a turbelent populace.
** Karl Otfried Müller, The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race 2nd ed. rev., John Murray, Albemarle Str. London, 1839. Vol II, pg 10.
* The commonest of the old charges against democracy was that it passed into ochlocracy.
** Amer. Commw., Bryce, III. v. xcv. 337. year: 1888. OED.
* Our motto must be: liberty, fraternity and inequality. Democracy must never degenerate into ochlocracy.
** Sir Charles Waldstein, Aristodemocracy, From the Great War back to Moses, Christ and Plato, An essay, Longmans, Green and Co., NY, 1917. p. 327.
* Ochlocracy, the dictatorship of the mob, is the goal toward which the development of the mass-democracy of Caesarism is leading.
** Hermann Rauschning, The Revolution of Nihilism, Alliance Book Corp., NY, 1939. pg 86.
* Ochlocracy never had brilliant advocates like monarchy, aristocracy, or socialism. There is nobody in the "democratic" camp who can be compared for brilliancy — I do not say orthodoxy in each case — to de Tocqueville, Marx, Maurras, de Reynold, Trotzky, Spengler, Proudhon, Plato, Bainville, Aristotle, Ortega, and St. Thomas. Democracy never had, and probably never will have, an appeal for the man of original genius.
** Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, The Menace of the Herd (1943), p. 105
* Ochlocracy (even more so than aristocracy) is based upon change and instability; ochlocracy is revolution in permanence.
** Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, The Menace of the Herd (1943), p. 109

## See also

* Conformity
* Democracy
* Herd mentality
* Leadership
* Masses
* Mob
* Tyranny
* Tyranny of the majority