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# Richard Mottram

Sir Richard Clive Mottram, GCB (born 23 April 1946) is a former British civil servant, who retired in 2007 from his most recent senior post as Permanent Secretary, Intelligence, Security and Resilience in the Cabinet Office.

## Quotes

* We're all fucked. I'm fucked. You're fucked. The whole department's fucked. It's been the biggest cock-up ever and we're all completely fucked.
** Friday, 15 February 2002, about a scandalous email Rawnsley, Andrew. 'Why nothing sticks to New Labour', The Observer (3 March 2002).
* In highly charged political matters, one person's ambiguity may be another person's truth.
** February 1985, as a prosecution witness in the case against Clive Ponting Norton-Taylor, Richard. 'Sir Richard Mottram, The Guardian (25 February 2002).
* The honours system gets to grade people. Graded grains make finer rice.
** April 2004, explaining to the Commons committee on public administration why there are so many different levels of honours Hoggart, Simon. 'Sir Humphrey reveals his Dusty Springfield side', The Guardian (30 April 2004).
* When you are in the future, the past looks different.
** April 2004, to the Commons committee on public administration, Hoggart, Simon. 'Sir Humphrey reveals his Dusty Springfield side', The Guardian (30 April 2004).
* We have six of the most distinguished people in the field on the committee, but you'll just have to take my word for it because I'm not allowed to disclose their names.
** April 2004, explaining to the Commons committee on public administration who was on the committee that recommended scientists for honours Hoggart, Simon. 'Sir Humphrey reveals his Dusty Springfield side', The Guardian (30 April 2004).
# Richard Roxburgh

Richard Roxburgh (born 23 January 1962) is an Australian actor.

## Quotes

* I really was keen on not doing his as a heinous arch-villain. But as person who was, at some state, a complex psychological being and a warrior on par with Van Helsing, and in fact a sort of brother in arms to Van Helsing. So one thing I attached myself to quite early was a kind of... because they come from the foothills of the Carpathians and nobody knows what the hell people looked like or spoke like back then, you know, 500 years ago. One thing that I kind of attached myself to was a sort of gypsy look. There's always been Romany going through that area. There's a look that's drawn from that history and apart from that, there are sound psychological reasons for why Dracula does the things that he does in this story, and I like that.
** The Van Helsing Interviews: Richard Roxburgh (April 8, 2004)
* I absolutely love Bela Lugosi's Count. One thing that always interesting to bear in mind in the great history of Dracula is that, I think almost without exception the film's release has always been surrounded by controversy. Bela Lugosi's Count Dracula at the time was regarded as essentially a kind of B-movie piece of junk. Whereas now, I think it has real luster and appeal to people. I looked at Bella's Count again because Steve was interested in pursuing a sense of the old Universal films, I thought it was kind of good to do that.
** An Iinterview With Dracula and His Brides (May 5, 2004)
* I’m finding the intrusion of the state into everything in our lives increasingly intolerable, we are being dismantled as thinking adults to the extent that we are dumbing down. Eventually we will become completely politically, spiritually, mentally enfeebled … That’s the future, that’s what we’re looking down the barrel of, and it shits me.
** Richard Roxburgh on Rake, Donald Trump and the 'immeasurable madness' of the nanny state (May 17, 2016)

## Quotes about Richard Roxburgh

* I think Richard forgets he is an actor," Colloca once said. "He never talks about it, he never wants to watch himself. I am the one who is always trying to get him out to see shows. Richard says it can be a stupid profession and he is right.
** Silvia Colloca, Silvia Colloca's secret ingredient for the sweet life (July 26, 2015)
# Richard Ryan

Richard Ryan (18 April 1797 – 20 October 1849) was a British poet of Irish decent. He was also a lyricist, playwright and biographer.

## Quotes

* O, saw ye the lass wi’ the bonnie blue een? Her smile is the sweetest that ever was seen, Her cheek like the rose is, but fresher, I ween, She ’s the loveliest lassie that trips on the green.
** O, saw ye the Lass.

## External links

* Read full poem O, saw ye the Lass by Richard Ryan from Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry. Volume II. Love. 1904.
# Richard S. Westfall

Richard S. Westfall (April 22, 1924 – August 21, 1996) was an American academic, biographer and historian of science. He is best known for his biography of Isaac Newton and his work on the scientific revolution of the 17th century.

## Quotes
### Never at Rest (1980)

* In writing Newton's biography, I have attempted, in accordance with my understanding of biography as a literary form, to avoid composing an essay on Newtonian science. At the same time I have sought to make Newton the scientist the central character of my drama.
** Preface
# Richard Rumbold

Richard Rumbold (1622–1685) was an English soldier and revolutionary who took part in the Rye House Plot to assassinate Charles II of England and his brother James.

## Quotes

* I may say this is a deluded generation, veiled with ignorance, that tho popery and slavery be riding in upon them, do not perceive it; tho I am sure there was no man born marked of God above another, for none comes into the world with a saddle on his back, neither any booted and spurred to ride him.
** "Speech on the Scaffold", 1685
# Richard Roth, Jr.

Richard Roth, Jr. was an architect who ran the prominent New York City based architecture firm Emery, Roth and Sons after his father's death. Under his leadership, the firm erected dozens of skyscrapers in Manhattan, many of them on Park Avenue, during the 50's, 60's and 70's. The most prominent of these is the Pan Am Building.'

## Quotes
### As quoted in Meredith L. Clausen, "The Pan Am Building and the Shattering of the Modernist Dream"

* We're in the business of designing buildings for businessmen who put up buildings for other businessmen. (p.185)
* Unfortunately, buildings are not like drawings. You can't just erase them. (p.275)
* Architecture reflects society, and this is not a great age. (p.276)

## External links

* LinkedIn profile
# The Message (Bible)

The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language is a highly idiomatic translation of the Bible by Eugene H. Peterson published in segments from 1993 to 2002.

## Quotes

* שָׂרַ֣יִךְ סֹורְרִ֗ים וְחַבְרֵי֙ גַּנָּבִ֔ים כֻּלֹּו֙ אֹהֵ֣ב שֹׁ֔חַד וְרֹדֵ֖ף שַׁלְמֹנִ֑ים יָתֹום֙ לֹ֣א יִשְׁפֹּ֔טוּ וְרִ֥יב אַלְמָנָ֖ה לֹֽא־יָבֹ֥וא אֲלֵיהֶֽם׃ פ
** Isaiah 1:23, Leningrad Codex.
** Your leaders are turncoats who keep company with crooks. They sell themselves to the highest bidder and grab anything not nailed down. They never stand up for the homeless, never stick up for the defenseless.
** Isaiah 1:23, MSG

## See also

* Eugene H. Peterson

## External links

* Old Testament
* Genesis • Exodus • Leviticus • Numbers • Deuteronomy • Joshua • Judges • Ruth • 1 Samuel • 2 Samuel • 1 Kings • 2 Kings • 1 Chronicles • 2 Chronicles • Ezra • Nehemiah • Esther • Job • Psalms • Proverbs • Ecclesiastes • Song of Solomon • Isaiah • Jeremiah • Lamentations • Ezekiel • Daniel • Hosea • Joel • Amos • Obadiah • Jonah • Micah • Nahum • Habakkuk • Zephaniah • Haggai • Zechariah • Malachi
* Apocrypha
* Esdras • Tobit • Judith • Additions to Esther • Wisdom of Solomon • Susanna • Baruch • Additions to Daniel • Prayer of Manassheh • 1 Maccabees • 2 Maccabees
* New Testament
* Matthew • Mark • Luke • John • Acts • Romans • 1 Corinthians • 2 Corinthians • Galatians • Ephesians • Philippians • Colossians • 1 Thessalonians • 2 Thessalonians • 1 Timothy • 2 Timothy • Titus • Philemon • Hebrews • James • 1 Peter • 2 Peter • 1 John • 2 John • 3 John • Jude • Revelation
English Bible translations King James Version • The Message • New International Version • New Revised Standard Version • New World Translation • New English Translation
# The Messenger (2009 film)

The Messenger is a 2009 film about an American soldier who struggles with an ethical dilemma when he becomes involved with a widow of a fallen officer.
    Directed by Oren Moverman. Written by Alessandro Camon and Oren Moverman.

## Capt. Tony Stone

* [walking to deliver the news to a wife that her husband has died] It could be worse. It could be Christmas.
* Men are the ones that try harder to keep it together. They also can hurt you.
* All I ever wanted was to get shot at. Is that too much to ask for, on the battlefield? A battle?

## Dale Martin

* Look at that tree. Look at that fucking tree! The same age as my son!

## Dialogue

    Captain Tony Stone: I know what you're thinkin'. You're thinkin' shit, I'm a goddamn decorated war hero with three months left to serve, and they draft me into the angels-of-death squadron. I get a beeper, a canned speech, and a lunatic commanding officer to serve a fuckin' ocean of grief. Am I right?
    Staff Sergeant Will Montgomery: More or less, sir. Am I right?
    Captain Tony Stone: It should be in the next couple of blocks...
    Staff Sergeant Will Montgomery: We should just ask someone.
    Captain Tony Stone: No! First of all, men don't ask for directions. Much less soldiers.
    Staff Sergeant Will Montgomery: Why did you join?
    Captain Tony Stone: A dare.
    Staff Sergeant Will Montgomery: A dare? Why are you still here?
    Captain Tony Stone: Well, they offered me a commission, and no one dared me to leave. And I dare you to stay.
    Captain Tony Stone: If she's into you, she's into some weird shit.
    Staff Sergeant Will Montgomery: Thank you, sir, I'll make a note of that.
    Olivia Pitterson: Did you ever lose anybody?
    Staff Sergeant Will Montgomery: Yeah. Friends, over there. My father, during peace time, drunk driver.
    Olivia Pitterson: Did they catch him?
    Staff Sergeant Will Montgomery: No, my father was the drunk driver.
    Captain Tony Stone: You gotta wake the fuck up! You're not in high school, you're not in a fuckin' rock band, you're in the Army.
    Staff Sergeant Will Montgomery: Yeah, I know. I know I'm in the Army. I gave blood to the Army. I got blown up in a fire-fight that lasted longer than your entire war. I didn't sunbath in Kuwait with the rest of the POGs.

## Cast

* Ben Foster – Staff Sgt. Will Montgomery
* Woody Harrelson – Capt. Tony Stone
* Steve Buscemi – Dale Martin
* Jena Malone – Kelly
* Samantha Morton – Olivia Pitterson
* Fiona Dourif - Returning Soldier's Wife
* Yaya DaCosta – Monica Washington
* Eamonn Walker – Lt. Col. Stuart Dorsett
* Peter Francis James – Dr. Grosso

## External links

* The Messenger quotes at the Internet Movie Database
* The Messenger at Rotten Tomatoes
# Vicky Piria

Vittoria "Vicky" Piria (born 11 November 1993) is an Italian-British racing driver who currently races in Formula Renault Eurocup and W Series.

## Quotes

* I think it [The W Series] will be a revolution and I am sure that thanks to F1, it will show more people the female talent we have. It will show that it’s perfectly normal and that girls are just as competitive as men. At the moment, it is irrelevant to me whether I race against men or women or both. Nothing changes for me.
** "Vicky Piria - “It is irrelevant to me whether I race against men or women.”, drivenbydiversity.com
# Vicki L. Ruiz

Vicki Lynn Ruiz (born May 21, 1955) is an American historian who has written or edited 14 books and published over 60 essays. Her work focuses on Mexican-American women in the twentieth century. She is a recipient of the National Humanities Medal.

## Quotes

* We learn from each other’s stories
** from speech (2017)

### From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America (1998)

* When I was a child, I learned two types of history-the one at home and the one at school.
* Situating one's politics, indeed one's very life, toward community empowerment was a given among Chicano student activists.
* Successful union organization depends, in large measure, on a sense of solidarity and community among workers.
* Building community is both a legacy and a responsibility. As a storyteller, listener, recorder, and amateur theorist, I am reminded of a passage in Eudora Welty's Becoming a Writer: "Each of us is moving, changing, and with respect to others. As we discover, we remember; remembering, we discover; and most intensely do we experience this when our separate journeys converge."
* To my knowledge, there are only seventeen Chicanas with PhDs in history. I am number four. Often we labor alone, subject to "proving" our research and our very presence in the academy. I would like to acknowledge the labors of Louise Kerr, Raquel Casas, Antonia Castañeda, Miroslava Chávez, Deena González, Camille Guerin Gonzáles, Lara Medina, Gloria Miranda, María Montoya, Lorena Oropeza, Cynthia Orozco, Emma Pérez, Naomi Quiñonez, Yolanda Romero, Elizabeth Salas, and Shirlene Soto and to honor the legacies of the late Irene Ledesma and Magdalena Mora.

## External links

* UCI faculty page
* American Historical Association page
* Women Also Know History page
# Vicki Robin

Vicki Robin (born July 6, 1945) is an American writer and speaker. She is best known as the author of Your Money Or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence.

## Quotes

* I call money “national wealth” and this other “natural wealth.”
** This Kind of Wealth Really Can Solve Our Problems Yesǃ Magazine (November 13, 2018)

### "Opinion  Why this 1992 personal finance book still has a cult following" (2022)

    "Opinion Why this 1992 personal finance book still has a cult following" The Washington post (October 4, 2022)
* Absent any social or political critique. But “Your Money or Your Life” was never supposed to be just a self-help guide to saving your own financial life.
* There’s a lot of blather about meaningful work and purpose in life. It’s dangled out as a carrot, and I don’t know how many people actually get to do that.
* Spending money is not an assertion of your freedom. It is the key to your next enslavement.
* Nobility is one thing, but to die of frugality is another.
* Things that should happen because of justice and environmental sustainability, but will also benefit the FIRE people in the FIRE movement.
* A lot of people are stuck for their entire lives in jobs that do not agree with their souls because of college debt.
* We need to look as a society at the system that says to succeed you need a college education, but you have to sell your future to get it.
* I never saw it as a book that’s about giving up things.
* I was selling outsmarting a system that’s trying to outsmart you.
# Vicky Hartzler

Vicky Jo Hartzler (née Zellmer, October 13, 1960) is an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for Missouri's 4th congressional district from 2011 to 2023. A member of the Republican Party, she served as the Missouri state representative for the 124th district from 1995 to 2000.

## Quotes

* Conscience protections are important for all of us. We enjoy the freedom to differ in opinion from one another. But, whatever view you may hold on this, or any other issue, I think we can all agree the government should not make our choices for us.
** Congress, we must protect Americans who disagree with abortion (July 14, 2016)

## External links

* Official website
# Vicesimus Knox

Vicesimus Knox (8 December 1752 – 6 September 1821) was an English essayist, headmaster and Anglican priest.

## Quotes

* That learning belongs not to the female character, and that the female mind is not capable of a degree of improvement equal to that of the other sex, are narrow and unphilosophical prejudices.
** Essays, Moral and Literary (1782), no. 142
* All sensible people agree in thinking that large seminaries of young ladies, though managed with all the vigilance and caution which human abilities can exert, are in danger of great corruption.
** Liberal Education (1780), § 27
* Can anything be more absurd than keeping women in a state of ignorance, and yet so vehemently to insist on their resisting temptation?
** Quoted in Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), ch. 7
# Vicky Jenson

Victoria "Vicky" Jenson (born 1960) is a film director of both live-action and animated films, and has been deemed "one of Hollywood's most inspiring female Directors". She has directed projects for DreamWorks Animation and The Walt Disney Company, and is most notable for having directed Shrek, the first film to win an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, giving rise to one of Hollywood's largest film franchises. Other directing credits include Shark Tale, Post Grad, and a stage production of the play, Time Stands Still, by Donald Margulies.

## Quotes

* On ‘Shrek’ we didn't try to figure out how to make adolescents laugh. You have to use yourself as the best judge and use your own instincts. We figured if we laughed at it, chances are good someone else would too.
** Quoted by Hillary Atkin in "Vicky Jenson: Filmmaker", Variety (November 14, 2001).
* I came into DreamWorks looking to direct. I was hoping to go through story as a way toward directing, because that’s how it worked at Disney, story people became heads of story, and heads of story became directors. And they said, ‘Right now we don’t have a lot of story, but we have visual development,’ and I said, ‘Good, I paint!’
** Quoted by Michael Mallory in "Firsts Among Equals", Animation Magazine (March 6th, 2014).
* For a long time, the movie [Shrek] didn’t know what it wanted to be. One problem was unavoidable: Chris Farley had died, and the story had been geared around him, so when he went, the story kind of went with him. It went through an upheaval while they tried to find the right tone for it. I think they were really close to shelving the project when a few of us came into story to try and find a tone that we could work with. When Kelly Asbury moved on to Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron I became head of story, along with Randy Cartwright. Along with Andrew Adamson, who stayed on as director, we started pulling little pieces together out of what remained, and part of the way through, Jeffrey [Katzenberg] decided that I should be directing. A few months later, we started production.
** Quoted by Michael Mallory in "Firsts Among Equals", Animation Magazine (March 6th, 2014). Chris Farley was the original voice of Shrek.
* Here we are, sitting in tuxedos and evening gowns, wearing borrowed jewels, and everyone's watching Shrek take a poot in the water.
** Quoted by Darryn King in "Pixar's 'Inside Out' and 'The Little Prince' Will Premiere at Cannes", Cartoon Brew (April 17, 2015); Jenson is describing her experience of premiering Shrek at the Cannes Film Festival.
# Vico C

Vico C (born September 8, 1971), a Puerto Rican musician who was one of the founders of reggaeton and later became a Christian rapper.

## Quotes

* "Bueno, si mi pueblo perece, por falta de conocimiento. Aqui le va una aspirina
** Fool, if you be cancer, I be the cure.
*** The first sentence is from the Book of Hosea, 4:6.

## External links

* Vico C Biographic film directed by Eduardo Ortíz
# Vicikitsa

Vicikitsa (Pali: vicikicchā) is doubt or indecision about the four noble truths.

## Quotes

* Uncertainty about what is wholesome and unwholesome is called skeptical doubt (vicikiccha). It is considered a hindrance to liberation as it hinders the arising of discriminating knowledge. A person who has doubts about the wholesomeness and unwholesomeness of phenomena is unable to abandon what is unwholesome, develop what is wholesome, and escape the cycle of suffering.
** Mahasi Sayadaw, Manual of Insight (1945), p. 63
* Doubt about the fact that insight wholesomeness consists of simply observing the presently arising mental and physical phenomena is also skeptical doubt. This doubt is so subtle that it is rarely detected but is instead mistaken for investigation. This doubt masquerades as analytical knowledge. The commentary on Netti Yuttihāra explains as follows: "Doubt appears in the guise of investigation."
** Mahasi Sayadaw, Manual of Insight (1945), p. 64
* The Vammika Sutta likens skeptical doubt to a fork in the road. Say a traveler who is carrying many valuables arrives at a fork in the road; if he lingers there unable to decide which way to take, robbers may catch and possibly kill him. In the same way, a doubtful meditator who falls prey to wavering and procrastination cannot continue on with practice. He or she will then become a victim of mental defilements and be unable to escape the cycle of suffering. Only when he or she abandons doubt by noting it and uninterruptedly continues the practice can he or she be liberated from the cycle of suffering.
** Mahasi Sayadaw, Manual of Insight (1945), p. 64
# Vico Magistretti

Vico Magistretti (October 6, 1920 – September 19, 2006) was an Italian industrial designer, known as a furniture designer and architect.

## Quotes

* The Eclisse lamp is beautiful to look at because the concepts are in themselves beautiful.
* They told me: architect, we need to design a night lamp because everyone goes to bed. And I thought of the blind lantern used by thieves in Victor Hugo's The Miserable.
* Design is a conceptual process that can be communicated over the telephone. About Chimera Lamp. A very simple geometric shape with three cylinders in semi-transparent plastic material. I remember having described it over the telephone without any drawing. Geometry and an extremely simple communication system. After about ten days, I was brought the lamp to my studio.
* About the Chimera Lamp. All my sketches testify to the attempt to give my drawing the task, from its very first formulation, to illustrate the meaning, the soul, that my proposal would like to express, suggesting the technical means and the definitions of the materials necessary for a economic and correct implementation of series production. Therefore, for me, drawing is not reproducing the object in all its morphological and technical details but it is a means of digging deeper and deeper into, to find and express the soul, the essence of the object, or rather the other possible one. reality that exists behind visible reality (look at usual things with unusual eyes). This is, for me, design, and is expressed by sketching. “Ceci n'est pas une pipe” writes René Magritte by way of one of his paintings representing a pipe. Even in design, looking behind the pipe, perhaps there is another thing.

## Quotes about Vico Magistretti

* The Eclissi lamp. He called it concept design, a design so clear and simple it could even be explained in words, over the phone. Vico said he had learned from Latin to recognize the superfluous from the necessary, the indispensable and the useless. And when you design an object, he repeated, you have to know how to recognize what is indispensable. (Ernesto Gismondi)

## External links

* ↑ Fondazione Vico Magistretti. Chimera
* ↑ Parigi La Mostra di Vico Magistretti, Lo studio del genio
# Ricki Kgositau

Tshepo Ricki Kgositau-Kanzaa, is trans-rights activist from Botswana who lives in South Africa. In 2017, she was the first trans women to have her preferred gender identity legally recognised in Botswana.

## Quotes

* “I don’t appreciate how certain members of society have continued to address me as a ‘he’ instead of a ‘she’. I gave my time to some people, opening myself up and sharing intimate details of my life but my experiences are being sensationalized. As of now, I will choose when and how to engage the public,”
* “Are these people here for me?”
* “Thank you for coming…”
** "I am a woman" by Botswana Guardian August 14, 2017, Retrieved 22/11/2023.