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# Tiësto

Tiësto (born Tijs Verwest on January 17, 1969) is a Dutch DJ and producer.

## Sourced

* "The opportunity to perform my music for billions of people around the globe will be the greatest highlight of my life, I am honoured to be part of the biggest sports event in the world."
** Tiësto said about the ATHOC.
* "I integrate music from all over the world in my sets, harmony is what my music and life are built upon."
** Tiësto.

## Song Quotations

* "No more hellfires and please no more gunfire"
** "Dance4Life"

## About Tiësto

* "Bump techno by DJ Tiësto"
** Tiësto's name is mentioned in the lyrics of "Corona and Lime", a song by Shwayze
* "Girl I put you in a trance like Tiësto"
** Tiësto's name is mentioned in the lyrics of "XOXOXO", a song by Black Eyed Peas

## See also

* Tiësto
* Music
* List of people by name

## References

* ↑ Dutch Top DJ Tiësto to rock opening Olympics 2004 Greece this Friday at Kennisland. Kennisland.nl. Retrieved on 2008-04-17.
* ↑ WE8 Coca-Cola Campaign. Coca Cola. Retrieved on 2008-08-02.
* ↑ Corona and Lime lyrics. Metro Lyrics. Retrieved on 2008-08-02.
* ↑ XOXOXO lyrics. Metro Lyrics. Retrieved on 2011-10-18.

## External links

* Official website
* Tiësto on IMDb
Interviews
* Trance.nu interview
* MuchOnDemand Interview
* AskMen.com Interview
* IGN Interview
* DJVibe.com Interview
* DJ Ron Slomowicz interview
* Pete Kay and DJ Ron interview
# Charlotte Wessels

Johanna Charlotte Wessels (born 13 May 1987) is a Dutch singer-songwriter who was born in Zwolle, Netherlands. She is best known as the lead vocalist for the Dutch symphonic metal band Delain. She is also in the symphonic rock musical group called Phantasma.

## Quotes

* This heart is black like blood that has dried
** Here Come the Vultures, The Human Contradiction (2014)
* Here’s to the ghost We still seem to host How he’s becoming us Here come the vultures Here come the vultures Screaming down at us
** Here Come the Vultures, The Human Contradiction (2014)
* I once had an understanding that everything would go my way But now we’ve come too far along for me to hold on to my own beliefs.
** Here Come the Vultures, The Human Contradiction (2014)

## External links

* Charlotte Wessels Official Blog
* Authority control: WorldCat search
# Luís María Peralta

Don Luís María Peralta (1759 – August 26 1851) was a soldier in the Spanish Army who, after his service, received the large land grant of Rancho San Antonio, a 44,800 acre (181 km²) plot that encompassed most of the East Bay region of California.

## Quotes

* Plant your lands and reap; these be your best gold fields, for all must eat while they live.
** Archives Santa Cruz, MS., 107; quoted in Hubert Howe Bancroft, History of California, vol. VI (1890), ch. V, pp. 65-66
# Masha Gordon

Masha Gordon (born 13 February 1974) is a British businesswoman, explorer and mountain climber. Gordon spent 16 years working in finance and capital markets. She was managing director of Goldman Sachs and most recently led the emerging markets portfolio management team at PIMCO.

## Quotes

* One of the key things is to understand there are no limits to your knowledge (and) understanding what you can do.
* Very difficult thing to do. If you look at performance record of managers, being human hurts you and 80% of managers under-perform benchmark over short- and long-term period, it's tough game.
* I think you need to be able to focus on the secular, i.e. focus on big trends because there is so much noise that various issues bring that clearly influence the price movement in the near-term but ultimately doesn't shift the needle.
* But it's difficult, we are humans, that's why maybe machines at some point will be better at optimizing the information flow, optimizing for judgment and crowding of the market and may come up with better portfolios.
* It's having this trust in people around you; when you're thrown an opportunity - embracing it, though it may be really scary, because at the end of the day, you can do it - you have a toolbox being a professional. It's all about just breathing deeply and having allies, so having a team, you can never do stuff like that on your own
* It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
** Masha Gordon: The Explorer's Grand Slam & Conquering Personal Mountains, Founder Spirit, April 2023 by Jennifer
# Seraphim of Sarov

Saint Seraphim of Sarov (July 19, 1759 – January 2 (N.S. January 14), 1833), born Prokhor Moshnin (Прохор Мошнин), was a Russian Orthodox monk and starets who spent most of his life near Sarov, Russia. He was canonized as a saint of the Russian Orthodox Church in 1903.

## Quotes

* We cannot be too gentle, too kind. Shun even to appear harsh in your treatment of each other. Joy, radiant joy, streams from the face of one who gives and kindles joy in the heart of one who receives. All condemnation is from the devil. Never condemn each other, not even those whom you catch committing an evil deed. We condemn others only because we shun knowing ourselves. When we gaze at our own failings, we see such a morass of filth that nothing in another can equal it. That is why we turn away, and make much of the faults of others. Keep away from the spilling of speech. Instead of condemning others, strive to reach inner peace. Keep silent, refrain from judgement. This will raise you above the deadly arrows of slander, insult, outrage, and will shield your glowing hearts against the evil that creeps around.
* Acquire a peaceful spirit and then thousands of others around you will be saved.
** As quoted in The Inner Kingdom (2000) by Kallistos Ware, p. 133.
** Variant translations:
** Acquire a peaceful spirit, and then thousands around you will be saved.
*** As quoted in The Folly of Prayer : Practicing the Presence and Absence of God (2009) by Matt Woodley, p. 156.
** Acquire a peaceful spirit, and around you thousands will be saved.

## References

* ↑ Meadows, Mel (2010). A novel Uzzah. Lulu.com. p. 76. ISBN 9780557229918.
# Maria Yudina

Maria (Mariya) Veniaminovna Yudina (Russian: Мари́я Вениами́новна Ю́дина; 9 September [O.S. 28 August], 1899 – 19 November 1970) was a Soviet pianist.

## Quotes about Yudina
### Sviatoslav Richter, Notebooks and Conversations

* Maria Veniaminovna Yudina was a monstre sacré. I knew her, but only from afar – it has to be said that she was so odd that everyone avoided her. For her own part, she showed herself somewhat suspicious and critical of me. She said of me: ‘Richter? Hmm… As a pianist, he’s good for Rachmaninoff.’ From her lips, that wasn’t a compliment, even though she herself occasionally played Rachmaninoff. She had graduated from the Petrograd Conservatory in the early twenties, at the same time as Vladimir Sofronitsky – a giant of a man who played Schumann and Debussy magnificently and Scriabin like nobody else. By the end of her life Yudina was an outrageous figure, a sort of Clytemnestra, always dressed in black and wearing sneakers for her concerts. She was immensely talented and a keen advocate of the music of her own time: she played Stravinsky, whom she loved, Hindemith, Krenek and Bartók at a time when these composers were not only unknown in the Soviet Union but effectively banned. And when she played Romantic music, it was impressive – except that she didn’t play what was written. Liszt’s Weinen und Klagen was phenomenal, but Schubert’s B-flat major Sonata, while arresting as an interpretation, was the exact opposite of what it should have been, and I remember a performance of the Second Chopin Nocturne that was so heroic that it no longer sounded like a piano but a trumpet. It was no longer Schubert or Chopin, but Yudina.
* During the war she had given The Well-Tempered Clavier at a splendid concert, even if she polished off the contemplative Prelude in B-flat minor from Book Two at a constant fortissimo. At the end of the concert, Neuhaus, whom I was accompanying, went to congratulate her in her dressing-room. 'But, Maria Veniaminovna,' he asked her, 'why did you play the B-flat minor Prelude in such a dramatic way?' 'Because we are at war!' It was typical of Yudina. 'We’re at war!' She absolutely had to bring the war into Bach.
* She also used to wander around with a revolver, which she would show to all and sundry. It really was a bit much. She used to say: 'Hold this thing for me, but be careful, it’s loaded.’ One day she developed a crush on someone who didn’t return her advances. One can understand why; he must have been terrified of her. And so she challenged him to a duel. By the end of her concerts I always used to have a headache. She subjected her audiences to such a degree of intensity, an incredible intensity! And then there was her way of coming onstage; you had the impression she was walking through the rain. And she carried a crucifix and crossed herself before launching into the first note. I’ve nothing against this, but in Soviet Russia, at that time!… Of course, she cared for the poor, took them in and lived like a tramp herself. An eccentric woman and an extraordinary artist, but someone who always felt the need to invent things… Even so, I played at her funeral. Rachmaninoff.
# Mstyslav Chernov

Mstyslav Chernov (Ukrainian: Мстислав Андрійович Чернов; born 1985) is a Ukrainian filmmaker, war correspondent, videographer, photographer, photojournalist.

## Quotes

* You need reality for the illusion to work. And you need the illusion to understand reality. But what do you need to create and understand a book? Where is a boundary between writer, reader, and charachter? How to know who is who?
** The Dreamtime: A Novel. Translator: Peter Leonard, Felix Helbing. Boston, Cherry Orchard Books 2022, ISBN 978-1644699881
* I’ll be the first director on this stage who will say, ‘I wish I never made this film’. I wish to be able to exchange this to Russia never attacking Ukraine, never occupying our cities. I wish to give it all the recognition to Russia not killing tens of thousands of my fellow Ukrainians. I wish for them to release all the hostages, all the soldiers who are protecting their lands, all the civilians who are now in their jails. We can make sure that the history record is set straight and that the truth will prevail and that the people of Mariupol and those who have given their lives will never be forgotten.
** "Ukrainian Director Says He’d Rather Have No Oscar and No War" 11.03.2024 at NYTimes
# Andrei Grechko

Andrei Antonovich Grechko (October 17, 1903 – April 26, 1976) was a Soviet general, w:Marshal of the Soviet Union and Minister of Defense.

## Quotes

* For us military men, it is impossible to forget.
** Quoted in "Bulletin" - by Cold War International History Project, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars - Cold War - 1995
* Liberalization and democratization are in essence counter-revolution.
** Quoted in "Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse" - Page 58 - by Stephen Kotkin - History - 2001
* At the present stage, the historic function of the Soviet Armed Forces is not restricted merely to their function in defending our motherland and the other socialist countries. In its foreign policy activity the Soviet state actively and purposefully opposes the export of counter-revolution and the policy of oppression, supports the national liberation struggle, and resolutely resists imperialist aggression in whatever distant region of our planet it may appear. The party and Soviet Government rely on the country's economic and defense might in fulfilling these tasks...The development of the external functions of the socialist armies is a natural process. It will continue.
** Quoted in "National Security Affairs: Theoretical Perspectives and Contemporary Issues" - Page 111 - by B. Thomas Trout, James E. Harf - Political Science - 1982
* The lesson of that victory was that Soviet citizens must still heed Lenin's warning of 1921.
** Quoted in "International Perspectives - Page 11 - by Canada Dept. of External Affairs, Canadian Institute of Strategic Studies - 1972
* The Communist Party and the Soviet Government display constant concern to strengthen the country's defensive might and raise the combat readiness of the Armed Forces.
** Quoted in "Soviet Civil Defense" - Page 5 - by Leon Gouré - 1971
* We do not have the right to forget that reactionary imperialism exists and its forces actively operate in the world, that they encourage the arms race and that they try to restore the spirit of the Cold War.
** Quoted in "The Role of Nuclear Forces in Current Soviet Strategy" - Page 53 - by Leon Gouré, Foy D. Kohler, Mose L. Harvey - 1974
# Halyna Hutchins

Halyna Hutchins (Ukrainian: Галина Хатчінс, née Androsovych, Ukrainian: Андросович; 10 April 1979 – 21 October 2021) was a Ukrainian-American director of photography and journalist.

## Quotes
### Rising Stars of Cinematography (2019)

    American Cinematographer (November 2018 interview, released 27 February 2019)
* One thing I learned is that cinematography is not something you do by yourself. It’s a group [project]. You need to develop your own vision, but the key to a successful film is communication with your director and your team.
* Right now, I'm just really interested in finding fruitful collaborations. To me, it’s the collaborative effort between creative minds that elevates each other’s work.
* No. That was no good. That was no good at all.
** 21 October 2021 response to boom operator saying "Oh, that was no good" after Baldwin accidentally shot her, reported 31 October 2021

## About Hutchins

* She had this amazing background that you just sort of instantly romanticize. She had this whole Ukrainian vibe that made her seem both super cool and serious about truth.
** 21 October 2021 by Adam Egypt Mortimer

## External links

* Official website
* Halyna Hutchins on IMDb
# Queen Nwokoye

Queen Nwokoye (born 11 August 1982) is a Nigerian actress. She is best known for starring as the lead character in a 2014 film titled Chetanna which earned her a "Best Actress" nomination at the 11th Africa Movie Academy.

## Quotes

* Once you have passion for something, it hardly dies off.
** I still hang out with old friends…..Queen Nwokoye, The Laurel (Nigeria), 28 August 2023.
* I always tell people, a lead role can make or mar you. So, don’t be in a rush for that lead role. Start little; learn your craft, learn the basics so that when you finally land that big role you will know what to do with it so that it would announce you to the world.
** I still hang out with old friends…..Queen Nwokoye. The Laurel (Nigeria), 28 August 2023.
* It feels good putting smiles on people’s faces.
** MY 1ST MOVIE ROLE WAS TO ACT AS A VIRGIN, QUEEN NWOKOYE ON HER 12 YRS IN ACTING, City People (Nigeria), 1 January 2017
# Tursunoy Saidazimova

Tursunoy Saidazimova (c. 1911 – 10 May 1928) was one of the first Uzbek actresses in the Uzbek SSR and one of the first to sing onstage without a face-veil.

## Quotes about Saidazimova

* In Russian: Бой неравный был. В четырех стенах Н икого друзей. Только смертный страх. Только муж - палач. Только в сердце нож. Только цвет надежд, превращенный в прах... Нет, не надо слез! Траур ни к чему. Распознать врага у себя в дому, П родолжать борьбу, сестры, надо вам, Гибель Турсуной учит вас тому.
** In English: The fight was unequal. Within four walls No friends. Only mortal fear. The husband - executioner. Only a knife in the heart. Colorful hopes, turned to dust... Don't cry! Mourning is useless. Recognize the enemy in your home, Continue the fight, sisters, you need to The death of Tursunoy teaches you that.
** Hamza Hakimzade Niyazi's poem about her martyrdom as the result of an honor killing. Source: Узбекский оперный театр. Tashkent: Художественная литература. 1971. p. 50.
# Deddy Corbuzier

Deodatus Andreas Deddy Cahyadi Sunjoyo, (born 28 December 1976 commonly known as Deddy Corbuzier, is an Indonesian television presenter, actor, YouTuber, and former mentalist.

## Quotes

* BECAUSE IF I TAKE THE HUNDRED THOUSAND THEN THE GAME IS OVER (Link: Instagram)
# Jonas Deichmann

Jonas Deichmann (born April 15, 1987) is a German author, adventurer and extreme athlete, also called "The German Forrest Gump". He is best known for multiple world records in cycling and triathlon.

## Quotes

* Just do it. That is, the hardest part is getting to the starting line. With adventures, you never know what's going to happen. But if you just stay in your comfort zone and don't change anything, then it's comfortable, but it's also boring. And that's why you just have to do it, take the first step.
** Source: In the footsteps of Forrest Gump, (December 5, 2023).
* I never panic. I focus. And I block things out. I tell myself: This is not doing me any good now, don't speed up, stay in rhythm. That's the shore over there, that's where we're going now, and that's all that matters now.
** Cited in an interview with Internationale Fachmesse für Sportartikel und Sportmode, (November 1, 2022)
* Pain is temporary, great memories last forever.
** Quoted in an interview with Vijay Malhotra: In conversation with Jonas Deichmann (April 21, 2020).
* The hardest thing is always getting to the starting line and having the courage to do it. Most adventures fail because they are never done.
** Source: Interview with Wilder Magazine, (March 11, 2021).
* The key is to break down the big goal into small ones. In my mind I don't cycle 18,000 km, I always cycle to the next gas station or restaurant and reward myself with some chocolate.
** Source: Interview with Wilder Magazine, (March 11, 2021).
* I don’t think about the fact that I have to complete a marathon a day. I run one kilometre at a time. If I can do one, I can do another. That way, it never seems overwhelming.
** As quoted in an interview with RedBull, (March 8, 2022).
* When someone says to me, no one’s done that before, I say: great, then I can be the first.
** Source: As quoted in an interview with Gran Fondo cycling magazine, (February 11, 2022).

## Quotes about Jonas Deichmann

* But the Stuttgart-born athlete achieved his masterpiece in 2020 and 2021: In the midst of the Corona pandemic, Deichmann swam, biked and ran alone around the world - and thus advanced to stardom.
** Jonas Deichmann, The man of extremes, by Internationale Fachmesse für Sportartikel und Sportmode.

## External links

* Jonas Deichmann on IMDb
* Official website
# Evliya Çelebi

Derviş Mehmed Zillî (25 March 1611 – 1682), known as Evliya Çelebi (Ottoman Turkish: اوليا چلبى), was an Ottoman explorer who travelled through the territory of the Ottoman Empire and neighboring lands over a period of forty years, recording his commentary in a travelogue called the Seyâhatnâme ("Book of Travel").

## Quotes

* The Grand Architect Sinan son of Abdülmennan Ağa built this noteworthy bridge in the year at the command of Sultan Süleyman. It rises into the sky like a rainbow, spanning the water from one cliff to the other, a single arch like the Vault of Chosroes in Baghdad. The Neretva River flows beneath it in the middle of the city of Mostar. Each end of the bridge is a fortified castle, so it is impossible to pass from one side of the city to the other without crossing this bridge.
** About the Mostar Bridge, in An Ottoman Traveller: Selections from the Book of Travels of Evliya Çelebi

## External links

Encyclopedic article on Evliya Çelebi on Wikipedia
# Megasthenes

Megasthenes (/mɪˈɡæsθɪniːz/ mi-GAS-thi-neez; Ancient Greek: Μεγασθένης, c. 350 – c. 290 BC) was an ancient Greek historian, diplomat and Indian ethnographer and explorer in the Hellenistic period. He described India in his book Indika, which is now lost, but has been partially reconstructed from literary fragments found in later authors.

## Quotes

* [The Indians] live happily enough,... being simple in their manners, and frugal. They never drink wine except at sacrifice. . . . The simplicity of their laws and their contracts is proved by the fact that they seldom go to law. They have no suits about pledges and deposits, nor do they require either seals or witnesses, but make their deposits and confide in each other. . . . Truth and virtue they hold alike in esteem. . . . The greater part of the soil is under irrigation, and consequently bears two crops in the course of the year. . . . It is accordingly affirmed that famine has never visited India, and that there has never been a general scarcity in the supply of nourishing food.
** Quoted in Durant, Will (1963). Our Oriental heritage. New York: Simon & Schuster.
* Of several remarkable customs existing among the Indians, there is one prescribed by their ancient philosophers which one may regard as truly admirable: for the law ordains that no one among them shall, under any circumstances, be a slave, but that, enjoying freedom, they shall respect the equal right to it which all possess: for those, they thought, who have learned neither to domineer over nor to cringe to others will attain the life best adapted for all vicissitudes of lot: for it is but fair and reasonable to institute laws which bind all equally, but allow property to be unevenly distributed."' Among the Indians officers are appointed even for foreigners, whose duty is to see that no foreigner is wronged. Should any of them lose his health, they send physicians to attend him, and take care of him otherwise, and if he dies they bury him, and deliver over such property as he leaves to his relatives. The judge also decides cases in which foreigners are concerned, with the greatest care, and come down sharply on those who take unfair advantage of them.
** Megasthenes, quoted in Ibn Warraq - Defending the West [2007]
# Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo

Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo (Arabic: محمد حمدان دقلو) or Hemedti (Arabic: حميدتي), born 1974 or 1975, is a Sudanese general.

## Quotes

* I am looking forward to having the civilian government today - before tomorrow, a fully civilian government (in Sudan). This is my principle.
** Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo (2023) cited in "Sudan fighting: No talks until bombing stops, Hemedti tells BBC" on BBC News, 30 April 2023.

## Quotes about Dagalo

* M. President, the sad truth is, what is happening in Sudan is in large part the result of a lack of accountability for previous abuses. Many of those involved in today’s conflict committed war crimes in the past and were never held accountable. Maybe things would be different if the former dictator al Bashir had been tried at the Hague. Maybe the SAF would have reformed if high ranking officers been held accountable for atrocities. Maybe the RSF would not exist if the Janjaweed had been accountable for their crimes in Darfur. Maybe General Hemedti had not be getting flown on an Emirati jet and welcomed by African heads of state— things might be different.
** Ben Cardin, "We Cannot Be Silent About Sudan," Delivered on the floor of the U.S. Senate, U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C., March 22, 2024; Vital Speeches of the Day [s. l.], v. 90, n. 6, p. 140–141, 2024
# Abdalla Hamdok

Abdalla Hamdok Al-Kinani (Arabic: عبدالله حمدوك الكناني; born 1 January 1956) is a Sudanese politician serving as the 15th and current Prime Minister of Sudan since 21 November 2021.

## Quotes

* Sudanese blood is precious, let us stop the bloodshed and direct the youth's energy into building and development.
** Abdalla Hamdok (2021) cited in "Explained: Why many in Sudan are angry over PM Abdalla Hamdok's return" on Frontline, 23 November 2021.

## Quotes about

* Our prime minister, Abdallah Hamdok, is a highly qualified professional with an outstanding career in African development. He leads an exceptional team, and they have their priorities straight.
** Leila Aboulela Interview (2020)