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# Rita Charon

Rita Charon (born in 1949) is an American physician with a doctorate in English literature who established the field of Narrative Medicine which refers to the training in interpreting literature and then applying that skill to understanding the accounts which patients tell.

## Quotes

* I first used the phrase "narrative medicine" in [the year] 2000 to refer to clinical practice fortified by narrative competence-- the capacity to recognize, absorb, metabolize, interpret and be moved by the stories of illness.
** What to do with stories
* What do I do with the paradoxes, the ambiguities, the contradictory stories from a family member, the gaps in memory, the fact that the stories change from month to month? What do I do with my doubt about the meaning of what I am hearing?
* When doctors write, they too experience the discovery of learning what they know. It continues to astonish me that writing is an avenue to the "unthought known"-- that is, the part of knowledge that sits under awareness.
** Kripalu
* Our task as doctors, nurses, therapists, and ethicists is to learn each patient's personal language in its tenses, its images, its silences, and its tensions.
** Time and Ethics, p. 68 from Stories Matter (2002)
* ...the biggest challenge I had was to convince people that I wanted to listen to whatever they said. One lady said, "You mean you want me to talk?"
** Medium
* I meet with lots of pre-medical students now, and they show me their personal statement to get into medical school. They read the statement. It's all about wanting to help people, integrated care, and justice. I have to say "What about the science? Does the science interest you? Because if it doesn't, you're not going to do well."
* I think my duty is to promote two things in my students: creativity and doubt....The creative person is able to venture into the unknown....And to tolerate doubt both requires and generates creativity. It's when you're out there, off the shore of the known, that you have to create.
** The Women in Medicine Legacy Foundation, Oral History Project (2016)
* Radical listening is the effort to be present, to bear witness, and to listen without your biases and assumptions. It's about curiosity, not judgment.
* This isn't just about being a nice doctor or having a nice bedside manner. It's hearing and taking responsibility for improving access and equity, because it's in our power to do this.
** Insight into Diversity
# Rita Dominic

Rita Uchenna Nkem Dominic Nwaturuocha (born 12 July 1975) is a Nigerian actress. In 2012, she won the Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role.

## Quotes

* I respect the institution of marriage as my parents were married until death literally parted them and they had a beautiful relationship. The problem is at some point, it begins to annoy you because of how much importance people have placed on it.
** Rita Dominic on marriage.
* I do want to marry, and I want to get it right once and for all. You know, we make such a big deal of it; we force people and put pressure on them to go in. When they eventually rush into this union, they make mistakes because they were only trying to please people.
** Rita Dominic on marriage
* "Anjola is a very dark character, infact I remember when we were in the Basement shooting, it was so dark in there that it literally affected me, I wasn’t sleeping well. I’ll try to sleep and I’d wake up abruptly."
** Reveals how Brenda Fassie inspired her character in 'La Femme Anjola'
* I will marry the man of my dreams and not the man society dreams for me.
** Speaking during an interview with TVC.
* "I don’t know. I think I just really think differently from a lot of people. I don’t know. What I mean by that is there are certain things I don’t let get to me".
** Speaking in an interview with media personality, Chude.
* "I play Ada, a heavily burdened house wife on a mission to finding fulfilment in her five-year-old marriage. She becomes increasingly desperate and takes a path uncommon to many to fulfil her quest."
** Her role in the film One Room (2 July 2016)
* "The story and the role are different from anything I’ve done."
** Her reason for choosing to act in the movie One Room (July 2016)
* "She’s delightful to work with and is very clear with her directions. As a producer, she is very organised. We have very few ‘actor’s directors’ in this industry and she’s one of the very few."
** Her experience working with Blessing Egbe (2016)
* "I’ve featured in a lot of other people’s films aside from mine but over a decade ago, I started being choosy of the kind of movies I feature in. I wanted to go for more challenging roles. I want to play more of an outside the box role that stretches my character."
** Explaining her absence in regular Nollywood movies (4 December 2021)
* "Let me say that I like to work on movies that would be seen internationally. It can be a Nollywood that would be globally accepted."
** Aims at international value (December 2021)
* "I won’t say slowing down, it’s about being more intentional about the kind of job you want to be identified with. Because I feel like after being in Nollywood for over two decades, you want to do certain roles that are very challenging outside your norm, stretching yourself."
** Debunking that the new crop of actresses in Nollywood form any form of challenge to her (2021)
* "I don’t know, all I know is that I just try to do the best I can as a producer and an actor."
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## External links

* Official website
* Rita Dominic on IMDb
# Rita Hayworth

Rita Hayworth (born Margarita Carmen Cansino; 17 October 1918 – 14 May 1987) was an American actress and dancer.

## Quotes

* I've had a lot of unhappiness in my life — and a lot of happiness. Who doesn't? Maybe I've learned enough to be able to guide my daughters.
** AP reports, (November 1, 1963)
* I have always felt that one of the secrets of real beauty is simplicity.
** Article written as guest columnist for Arlene Dahl, headlined "Rita Hayworth Sees Simplicity As Part Of Beauty" in The Toledo Blade (March 11, 1964)
* Perhaps if we thought for a second of the classic, simple elegance of the Spanish lady it might help us to be "simply" ourselves.
** Article written as guest columnist for Arlene Dahl, headlined "Rita Hayworth Sees Simplicity As Part Of Beauty" in The Toledo Blade (March 11, 1964)
* Movies were much better in the days when I was doing them.
** As quoted in St. Petersburg Times (June 23, 1968)
* I'm an afternoon person.
** As quoted in St. Petersburg Times (June 23, 1968)
* Nobody makes up my mind for me. They used to at Columbia.
** As quoted in "Rita Remains Striking, Trim, Busy" in The Palm Beach Post (October 16, 1969)
* Everybody else does nude scenes, but I don't. I never made nude movies. I didn't have to do that. I danced. … I was provocative, I guess in some things. But I was not completely exposed.
** As quoted in "Rita Remains Striking, Trim, Busy" in The Palm Beach Post (October 16, 1969)]
* Just because I was married to Aly Khan, people think I'm rich. Well, I'm not. I never got a dime from Aly or from any of my husbands.
** As quoted in New York Times (October 25, 1970)
* Dancing in Tijuana when I was 13 — that was my "summer camp." How else do you think I could keep up with Fred Astaire when I was 19?
** As quoted in New York Times (25 October 1970)
* Men fell in love with Gilda, but they wake up with me.
** As quoted in Rita Hayworth : Portrait of a Love Goddess (1977) by John Kobal

## External links

* Rita Hayworth at IMDb
* Rita Hayworth at TCM Movie Database
# Rita Deanin Abbey

Rita Deanin Abbey (20 July 1930 – 20 March 2021) was an abstract artist and an emeritus professor of art at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She worked in a variety of mediums, published six books, and created sculptures, stained glass windows, and murals on public display around Las Vegas.

## Quotes

* My energies have always gone into making art rather than promoting it.
** As quoted in "A Towering Spirit" for Nevada Public Radio (2022)

### Rivertrip (1977)

ISBN 9780873581523
* Arches National Monument is a place where I once lived, painting out of doors with a spectacular view of Mountain La Sal and the Arches. There were always furrows, storms, snakes, dinosaur bones, pot shards, new arches, rocks, the sun, pictorially real and other real adventures. I ventured over the old and new roads, trails, sensing and knowing new idioms and aims, exhilarated by my prospective Rivertrip- My intentions, not yet disclosed...

### In Praise of Bristlecone Pines (2000)

ISBN 9780620253482
* The trunks and limbs heavy with resin look polished, Smooth to a caressing touch or embrace, Stimulating feelings into the nature of things, Triggering thoughts of surface textures, of color-light, form and tension. Bristlecone Pines don’t decay...they erode like stone. Astonishing! Yellows, greys. Their scattered fragments, eternal spirit shapes, seem planted, Alive and whole with shadows and scents of pine.
* We need to cherish, to listen to the wisdom of the “Ancients,” As they listen to us. Bristlecone Pines don’t decay...they erode like stone.

## Quotes about Abbey

* "Dance Eternal" demonstrates Abbey's excellence as a draftsman. Her line, always bold and rhythmic, is bursting with supple eloquence.
** Dan Skea, "Magic of the Desert" for The Las Vegas Sun (May 4, 1986)
* Rita Deanin Abbey translates the wild gestures of action painting into compositions on large steel panels enameled with shiny porcelain. This technique solidifies the strokes and blobs of paint into parodies of themselves, much as Roy Lichtenstein's cartoony "Brushstroke" paintings took the rough edges off Abstract Expressionism.
** Review in The New York Times (1989)
* Land is not simply a subject for Abbey, but a major fact of her life that she examines daily.
** William L. Fox, "Rita Deanin Abbey: Art in the Place of Abstraction". Mapping the Empty: Eight Artists and Nevada (1999), pp. 29–48

## External links

* Interview with Rita Deanin Abbey
* Las Vegas Review-Journal Obituary
# Ted Pappas

Ted Pappas is the current executive editor of Encyclopedia Britannica, and a leading critic of Wikipedia.

## Quotes

* The premise of Wikipedia is that continuous improvement will lead to perfection, that premise is completely unproven…with many of the pieces you don't know who it's written by, and who the administrators are…one of the administrators overseeing the political coverage openly encourages people to vote for John Kerry…30,000 articles were created by a bot [an automated program that goes round causing havoc]…hyperlinks, bulletpoints and cut-and-paste press releases do not an encyclopedia entry make.
** Who knows?", The Guardian, Tuesday, October 26, 2004.
# Ted Rall

Frederick Theodore Rall III (born August 26, 1963) is an American columnist, syndicated editorial cartoonist, and author.

## Quotes

* Life is incredibly short, yet we're always told that change takes time. For a race of mortals, dicking around just isn't acceptable.
** Search and Destroy: Cartoons by Ted Rall. Pg. 107.
# Ted Sizer

Theodore R. Sizer (born 23 June 1932 in New Haven, CT - died 21 October 2009) was an American leader of educational reform and the founder of the Coalition of Essential Schools.

## Quotes

* Things remain the same because it is impossible to change very much without changing most of everything.
** Sizer, T. (1983). Editorial. Phi Delta Kappan. June, page 674.

### Horace's Compromise: The Dilemma of the American High School (1984)

* In the history of education, the most striking phenomenon is that schools of learning, which at one epoch are alive with a ferment of genius, in a succeeding generation exhibit merely pedantry and routine.
** p. 95.
* The first object of any act of learning, over and beyond the pleasure it may give, is that it should serve us in the future. Learning should not only take us somewhere; it should allow us later to go further more easily.
** p. 95.
# Ted Nasmith

Ted Nasmith (born in 1956) is a Canadian artist, illustrator and architectural renderer.

## Quotes

* I was destined from early childhood. I drew anything and everything. Later when I developed my abilities in high school, I was inspired by storybook illustrations, traditional landscape paintings, surrealism, science fiction art and automotive advertising art. I wanted to use my talents for something along those lines, rather than 'fine art' per se.
** Interview with Ted Nasmith (May 29, 2006)
* I don’t really the count hours I put into my paintings, to be quite honest. I suspect I might be surprised at how many it takes for an average artwork, because before I even begin painting I’ll tend to ‘lose myself’ in making the drawings and corrections and variations involved in the preliminary stage.
** Ted Nasmith (April 25, 2012)
* I admire much of what I’ve seen in digital painting and drawing, and understand its importance as a new medium with limitless potential, but like synthesized sounds in music, it is telling that it seeks to imitate established art-styles and looks. That’s a practical issue, since it means its traditional-looking artwork can also be transmitted over the internet, and has a life of its own in the cyber realm.
* I’ve realized that as long as I trust in my instincts and love of his work, there is room for much variation in interpretation of even detailed descriptions. Which is a reason to love many other artists’ versions of the scenes, too.
** Happy Little Ents: The Middle-earth Landscapes of Artist Ted Naismith (March 20, 2020)

## External links

* Official website
# Ted Stevens

Theodore Fulton "Ted" Stevens (November 18, 1923 - August 9, 2010) was an American politician.
He served in the United States Senate from Alaska from 1968 to 2009 and was president pro tempore from 2003 to 2007. He was the longest-serving Republican Senator in history.

## Quotes

    We were violating the law, lobbying from the executive branch.
       - In an oral history for the Eisenhower Library given in October 1977. Stevens was referring to his efforts from within the Eisenhower administration to support a bill to grant statehood to Alaska.
    I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the internet commercially. [...] They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the Internet. And again, the Internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.
       – Speech before the Senate on network neutrality (June 28, 2006).
    I have not been convicted of anything.
       - At an October 30, 2008, debate in Anchorage, Alaska. Stevens had been convicted on October 27 of seven counts of failing to report more than $250,000 in gifts. CNN.
# Ted Turner

Robert Edward "Ted" Turner III (born November 19, 1938) is an American media mogul and philanthropist. As a businessman, he is known as founder of the Cable News Network more popularly known as CNN, the first 24-hour cable news channel. In addition, he founded WTBS, which pioneered the superstation concept in cable television. As a philanthropist, he is known for his $1 billion gift to support the United Nations, which created the United Nations Foundation, a public charity to broaden domestic support for the UN. Turner serves as Chairman of the United Nations Foundation board of directors. Additionally, in 2001, Turner co-founded the Nuclear Threat Initiative with U.S. Senator Sam Nunn (D-GA). NTI is a non-partisan organisation dedicated to reducing global reliance on, and preventing the proliferation of, nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons. He currently serves as Co-Chairman on the Board of Directors.

## Quotes about Turner

* Don't let Ted Turner deface my movie with his crayons.
** Orson Welles, near death request to filmmaker Henry Jaglom, about film colorization
*** Lebo, Harlan (1990). Citizen Kane:the fiftieth-anniversary album. Doubleday. p. 194. ISBN 978-0-385-41473-9.
* If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
** Forbes: "At Long Last, He's Citizen Ted" (30 January 2003)
* While the problem can sometimes seem overwhelming, we can turn things around – but we must move beyond climate talk to climate action.
** UN Foundation: "Time for Climate Action" (23 September 2014)
# Simon Barnes

Simon Barnes is a journalist and author.

## Quotes

* Humans lived for several million years as fully wild beings: only in the last 10, 000 did we invent agriculture; only in the last couple of centuries did we invent industry. We are a species that has spent 99 per cent of its history as hunter-gatherers. We haven't had time for our unconscious minds and our unconscious needs to have changed. If you like, our souls have not changed, and this is true whether or not we believe that we have them.
** How To Be Wild (2007)

## External links

* Official website
* Authority control: VIAF: 255667505 | ISNI : 0000 0003 5580 2097 | WorldCat search
# Simon Donaldson

Simon Kirwan Donaldson (born 20 August 1957) is an English mathematician.

## Quote

* ... the dialogue between mathematical physics, geometry, and algebraic topology. The interaction between these subjects has been such a dominant feature of research developments in the past few years that it seems scarcely necessary to recite a list of examples: in fact, on the mathematical side it is quite hard to think of active areas in geometry and topology which have not been noticeably influenced by insights from physics—where by "physics" we mean particularly quantum field theory—and on the other hand the geometrisation of fundamental physical concepts is a profound and pervasive development.
** (1995). "Book Review: Topology of gauge fields and condensed matter by Michael Monastyrsky (translated from Russian by Oleg Efimov)". Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 32 (2): 248–251. ISSN 0273-0979. DOI:10.1090/S0273-0979-1995-00574-4. (quote from p. 248)

## Quotes about Simon Donaldson

* Geometers have studied the topology of closed surfaces and their higher- dimensional analogues (manifolds) for a long time. But a remarkable breakthrough came in the early 1980s when Simon Donaldson found some totally new and unexpected invariants of four-dimensional manifolds. These were based on the Yang–Mills equations of physics but it was not until later that Edward Witten again showed how to interpret Donaldson's invariants in terms of quantum field theory. Later still, using duality ideas from string theory, Witten and Seiberg made a significant improvement of Donaldson theory which led to solutions of old problems.
** Spenta R. Wadia (2007). The Legacy of Albert Einstein: A Collection of Essays in Celebration of the Year of Physics. World Scientific. p. 22. ISBN 978-981-270-049-0.
# Simon Cowell

Simon Philip Cowell (born 7 October 1959) is a British A & R (artist and repertoire) executive for BMG Records. He is probably best known as a judge on the television programs The X-Factor and American Idol.

## Quotes
### 2000s

* Very simple. I'm putting up the money, and I also have ears.
** On Americans who question his right to judge Americans since he is British
** Quoted in Bill Keveney, "Viewers 'Idol'-ize this saucy search for a superstar," USA Today (18 June 2002)
* The host is pathetic! The show is pathetic! The audience is pathetic!
** On the 2002 MTV Video Music Awards
** Quoted in "MTV hypefest turns into snoozer", originally published in the Chicago Sun-Times, August 30 2002
* You know Paula, who I couldn't look at the beginning of the series... I love her to death now. I hate to admit it but I do.
** Quoted on Entertainment Tonight (21 May 2003)
* Sinitta and Jackie are my family now. I don't think of them as ex-girlfriends anymore. They are an extension of my life... It must be infuriating, but I'd never change because my ex-girlfriends are so close I couldn't imagine life without them.
** Quoted in mirror.co.uk interview (22 October 2005)
* Normally, they want me to be rude to them. People come up to me and sing, and I say "That was great. Thank you." And they're like "Well, aren't you going to be rude to me?" No! When I miss auditions, contestants get upset that I'm not there, because they expect me to be cruel to them — it's some sort of badge of honor. That's how crazy everything is.
** Quoted in interview, Playboy magazine (February 2007)
* If I tape an 11-hour day, guess which parts end up on air. Not the bits when I'm pleasant, but the parts when I'm obnoxious.
** Quoted in interview, Playboy magazine (February 2007)

### 2010s

* I changed my diet and I’ve not looked back since. You feel better, you look better. I cut out a lot of the stuff I shouldn’t have been eating and that was primarily meat, dairy, wheat, sugar — those were the four main things. … Once you get into a pattern I’ve found it quite enjoyable. It has helped me sleep and I wake up feeling less tired. I noticed a massive difference in how I felt in about a week. I have more energy and focus and it wasn’t difficult. I don’t like to use the word diet because that’s the reason I never went on a diet before — the word diet makes me miserable.
** Quoted in "Meat-loving Simon Cowell reveals he’s gone VEGAN as he turns 60 this year", thesun.co.uk (23 April 2019)
# Simon Heffer

Simon James Heffer (born 18 July 1960) is an English historian, journalist, author and political commentator. He has published several biographies and a series of books on the social history of Great Britain from the mid-nineteenth century until the end of the First World War. He was appointed professorial research fellow at the University of Buckingham in 2017.
He has worked as a columnist for the Daily Mail and since 2015 has had a weekly column in The Sunday Telegraph. As a political commentator, Heffer takes a socially conservative position.

## Quotes

* The repulsive Paul Gadd — or Gary Glitter — as I cannot bring myself to call him because of its frivolous connotations says he wants police protection because some "nutter" might kill him. I'm not sure how much of a nutter one would have to be to want to kill Gadd, a convicted paedophile with a penchant for small girls. Most rational people would find it quite acceptable if he were to be taken out and shot in the back of the head, and will be regretting that he came through his three years in a Vietnamese jail in quite such good shape. I am not for a moment suggesting that anyone outraged by the existence of Gadd, or who fears for their own children when this man is loose on British soil, should take the law into his own hands. I do, though, fail to see how making him sign the sex offenders' register is going to make the blindest bit of difference. The police have better things to do than to protect this piece of filth. The only reason why they should stick close to him, though, is to keep him away from our children.
** "Police should not protect Gary Glitter", The Daily Telegraph (2 August 2008), p. 25
** The online version is no longer on the newspaper's website.