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# Subject

A subject is an individual who possesses conscious experiences, perspectives, feelings, beliefs, and desires.

## Quotes

* All ideology hails or interpellates concrete individuals as concrete subjects, by the functioning of the category of the subject. ... ideology ‘acts’ or ‘functions’ in such a way that it ‘recruits’ subjects among the individuals (it recruits them all), or ‘transforms’ the individuals into subjects (it transforms them all) by that very precise operation which I have called interpellation or hailing, and which can be imagined along the lines of the most commonplace everyday police (or other) hailing: ‘Hey, you there!’
** Louis Althusser, "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses"
* I am a subject that is a head, not a complement of a chicken that has no head. The subject has become the passive observer, the spectator, waiting for the curtains to fall like the guillotine. Artaud said theater can exist without the text—the production has to liberate itself from literature-and it did liberate itself—it became self-sufficient—it became a conjugation.
** Giannina Braschi, United States of Banana (2011), p. 32.
* All those movements which took place in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and which had the Reformation as their main expression and result should be analyzed as a great crisis of the Western experience of subjectivity and a revolt against the kind of religious and moral power which gave form, during the Middle Ages, to this subjectivity. The need to take a direct part in spiritual life, in the work of salvation, in the truth which lies in the Book—all that was a struggle for a new subjectivity.
** Michael Foucault, "The Subject and Power," Critical Inquiry, Vol. 8, No. 4. (Summer, 1982), p. 782
* The political, ethical, social, philosophical problem of our day is not to try to liberate the individual from the state and from the state's institutions but to liberate us both from the state and from the type of individualization which is linked to the state. We have to promote new forms of subjectivity through the refusal of this kind of individuality which has been imposed on us for several centuries.
** Michel Foucault, "The Subject and Power," Critical Inquiry, Vol. 8, No. 4. (Summer, 1982), p. 785
* Under capitalism, subjectivity can only exist antagonistically, in opposition to its own objectification. To treat the subject as already emancipated, as most mainstream theory does, is to endorse the present objectification of the subject as subjectivity, as freedom.
** John Holloway, Change the World Without Taking Power (2002)
* Subjectivity includes the possibility, for example, that some elements or impulses are subjectively active — they move us — without being consciously known.... It focuses on the "who I am" or, as important, the "who we are" of culture. ... Consciousness embraces the notion of a consciousness of self and an active mental and moral self-production.
** Richard Johnson, describing the distinction between subjectivity and consciousness, What is Cultural Studies Anyway (1983), p. 12

## See also

* Consciousness
* Individual
* Self
# Sublime

Sublime may refer to:

## Arts and entertainment

* Sublime (band)

## Philosophy & Aesthetics

* Sublime (philosophy), the quality of greatness
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# Piano Sonata No. 1 (Chopin)

The Piano Sonata No. 1 in C minor, Op. 4 was written by Frédéric Chopin in 1828 (probably begun around July).

## Quotes

* It’s a juvenile composition that Chopin himself did not deem worth publishing. I respect his will, even though it does have lovely passages.
** Paul Badura-Skoda, "Famous Pianists on Frédéric Chopin and Robert Schumann" (2010) by G. Henle Verlag
* There are so many works in the repertoire that are more musically rewarding! The op. 4 sonata has always seemed to me to be a very, very poor specimen; it‘s almost unbelievable that it came from Chopin‘s pen.
** Marc-André Hamelin, "Famous Pianists on Frédéric Chopin and Robert Schumann" (2010) by G. Henle Verlag
* Chopin’s early piano Sonata, op. 4 has been almost never played in China. This work is Chopin’s very first big structure piano music he ever composed at that moment. I think it was an experimental try for him. Although Chopin is the most popular western “classical” composer in China, nevertheless at this moment, I think, the most important thing for us Chinese is to learn, realize and absorb the essence and spirit of western culture and music but not to take the “complete“.
** Ming-Qiang Li, "Famous Pianists on Frédéric Chopin and Robert Schumann" (2010) by G. Henle Verlag
* I don’t think I will ever perform Chopin’s first piano sonata; it is not on the same level as the following ones.
** Christian Zacharias, "Famous Pianists on Frédéric Chopin and Robert Schumann" (2010) by G. Henle Verlag
# Piano Sonata No. 23 (Beethoven)

Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57 (colloquially known as the Appassionata, meaning "passionate" in Italian) is among the three famous piano sonatas of his middle period.

## Quotes

* I know nothing that is greater than the 'Appassionata'. I'd like to listen to it every day. It is marvellous super human music. I always think with pride—perhaps it is naive of me—what marvellous things human beings can do!
** Vladimir Lenin, quoted in Edmund Wilson, To the Finland Station (London: Martin Seeker & Warburg Ltd., 1941), p. 386
* Ничего не знаю лучше «Apassionata», готов слушать ее каждый день. Изумительная, нечеловеческая музыка. Я всегда с гордостью, может быть, наивной, детской, думаю: вот какие чудеса могут делать люди … Но часто слушать музыку не могу, действует на нервы, хочется милые глупости говорить и гладить по головкам людей, которые, живя в грязном аду, могут создавать такую красоту. А сегодня гладить по головке никого нельзя — руку откусят, и надобно бить по головкам, бить безжалостно, хотя мы, в идеале, против всякого насилия над людьми. Гм-гм, - должность адски трудная!
** I know of nothing better than the Appassionata and could listen to it every day. What astonishing, superhuman music! It always makes me proud, perhaps with a childish naiveté, to think that people can work such miracles! … But I can’t listen to music very often, it affects my nerves. I want to say sweet, silly things, and pat the little heads of people who, living in a filthy hell, can create such beauty. These days, one can’t pat anyone on the head nowadays, they might bite your hand off. Hence, you have to beat people's little heads, beat mercilessly, although ideally we are against doing any violence to people. Hm — what a devillishly difficult job!
*** From a personal conversation, quoted from memory by Maxim Gorky in "V.I. Lenin" (1924)
# Piano Sonata No. 3 (Prokofiev)

Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Sonata No. 3 in A minor, Op. 28 (1917) is a sonata composed for solo piano, using sketches dating from 1907.

## Quotes

* The one-movement Third Sonata is the shortest of Prokofiev’s sonatas. It is also the most carefully crafted of all his early works in this genre. Originating in an early sonata of his conservatory years (also no. 3), it must have been seriously reworked to arrive at its final shape. It possesses a remarkable energy that propels the work from beginning to end. The piece’s general tone reflects a much more Romantic spirit than other works written by Prokofiev in this period. Sarcastic or ironic imagery, so conspicuous in many of his early compositions, is not part of this sonata’s expressive vocabulary.
** Boris Berman, Prokofiev’s Piano Sonatas : A Guide for the Listener and the Performer (2008), "Sonata No. 3 in A Minor, op. 28"
* It was [Piotr Petrovich [Pierre]] Souvchinsky who once recommended me to begin all my concerts with it.
** Sergei Prokofiev, Dnevnik[Diary]
# Piano

The piano is a musical instrument that is designed to be played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Professionals of Piano are referred as Pianist.

## Quotes

Arranged alphabetically by author or source: A · B · C · D · E · F · G · H · I · J · K · L · M · N · O · P · Q · R · S · T · U · V · W · X · Y · Z · See also · External links
    Arranged alphabetically by author

### B

* [T]he piano is the social instrument par excellence. It is drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the most massive of the devices by which the young are tortured in the name of education and the grown-up in the name of entertainment.
** Jacques Barzun, Critical Questions (1984), p. 54

### C

* Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano!
** Frédéric Chopin, as quoted in Jorgensen's Chopin and the Swedish Nightingale (2003), p. 26

### F

* As for the piano, the faster her fingers flew over it, the more he marveled. She struck the keys with aplomb and ran from one end of the keyboard to the other without a stop.”
** Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary (1964), p. 61
* Hannibal Lecter: I prefer the sound and feel of the harpsichord. More alive, the music arrives like experience, sudden and entire. The piano has the quality of a memory.
** "Contorno" (2 July 2015), written by Bryan Fuller, Thomas Harris, Tom de Ville, and Steve Lightfoot, Hannibal, California: Lions Gate Entertainment Corporation

### G

* I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.
** Lady Gaga, interview with Vogue's Jonathan Van Meter, 2011.

### H

* The object of the piano is to substitute one performer for a whole orchestra.
** William Dean Howells, in Modern Italian Poets (1866), Volume 1, p. 373

### L

* I never set fire to a piano. I'd like to have got away with it, though. I pushed a couple of them in the river. They wasn't any good.
** Jerry Lee Lewis, as quoted in Esquire (January 2010), p. 89
* Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.
** Tom Lehrer, as quoted in Quotes about Life and Living, p. 45

### M

* Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony Side by side on my piano keyboard, oh lord why don't we?
** Paul McCartney, song Ebony and Ivory (1982).
* The piano ain't got no wrong notes.
** Thelonious Monk, in response to a guest expert who said he, Monk, created extraordinary music, in spite of "playing the wrong notes on the piano" (March 1976), as quoted in Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original (Kelley, 2009), p. 444

### S

* When you play, never mind who listens to you.
** Robert Schumann, Advice to young musicians (1860), p. 10
* Play always as if in the presence of a master.
** Robert Schumann, Advice to young musicians (1860), p. 10

### W

* The piano has been drinking, not me.
** Tom Waits, from his 1977 album Small Change

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Piano on Wikipedia
# Piano Concerto (Dvořák)

The Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in G minor, Op. 33, was the first of three concertos that Antonín Dvořák completed—it was followed by a violin concerto and then a cello concerto—and the piano concerto is probably the least known and least performed.

## Quotes about Piano Concerto

* I was chatting to a musician-friend, Nicholas Ashton, a few years ago and he asked me what repertoire I was learning at the time: "The Dvořák piano concerto", I replied. "Ah …", the warmth of affection in his voice could be heard through my iPhone: "That's probably my favourite piano concerto". Then Sir András Schiff asked me the same thing at a party last year. His eyes lit up when I mentioned the Dvořák piano concerto and he responded by sending me a beautiful, hardbound facsimile of the autograph a few days later with a kind note: "This wonderful work still needs our help until it's properly appreciated by musicians and the public as well". But then there are those, famous and distinguished conductors amongst them, who have told me they dislike this piece. "Oh, I did it once. A few nice moments but not one of his best efforts." "Just proves that Dvořák wrote some duds."
** Stephen Hough, "Probably my favourite piano concerto"
* There is nothing in Liszt that is anywhere near as difficult to play as the Dvorák Piano Concerto – a magnificent piece of music, but one of the most ungainly bits of piano writing ever printed!
** Lesile Howard, in Lisztomania: an Aussie virtuoso tackles the complete piano music by Francis Merson
# Piano Sonata No. 1 (Prokofiev)

Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 1 was written in 1909. It consists of a single movement in sonata form.

## Quotes

* Once, leaving her class, I heard her calling: —Prokofiev! I turned back. —When are you going to play your compositions for me? —Anna Nikolaevna, I did not know that they interest you. She nodded. —Besides, I play them like a composer, not like a pianist. —This is all right, play like a composer. —In this case, allow me to bring it to you next Friday. —Please. I began studying my Sonata... in a very thorough way. For the first time in my life I practiced each hand separately. On November thirteenth I took the Sonata... to her.... Esipova was following with the score. —This is very interesting music, she said,—but I would like to hear it performed not by you. One can make accents, but it is impossible to play everything fortissimo. Besides, you slam on pedal without any relief. Leave it with me—I will mark the pedal....
** Sergei Prokofiev, Dnevnik[Diary], 1907–1918, vol. 1 (Paris: sprkfv [Serge Prokofiev Foundation], 2002), 100.
* That summer I decided to write a long piano sonata. I was determined that the music would be more beautiful, the sonata interesting technically, and the content not superficial. I had already sketched out some of the thematic material. In this way I began to work on the F minor Sonata No. 2, in three movements, and wrote a good deal of it in a very short time. It proved to be a more mature work than my other compositions of that period, and for several years it towered above them as a solid opus. Later I discarded the second and third movements, then reworked the first and made it into Sonata No. 1, Opus 1. But alongside my serious numbered works, this sonata seemed too youthful, somehow. It turned out that, although it was a solid opus when I was fifteen, it could not hold its own among my more mature compositions.
** Sergei Prokofiev, Autobiography
* ‘I don’t think you ought to bother numbering your sonatas,’ Myaskovsky once said to me with a smile. ‘The time will come when you will cross out all the numbers and write “Sonata No. 1.”’ That is exactly what happened, although some of the material from these early sonatas did go into later sonatas (No. 2 after some changes became No. 1, Op. 1; No. 3 remained No. 3; No. 4 and No. 6 were lost; No. 5 was incorporated in No. 4, Op. 29.
** Sergei Prokofiev, In: S. I. Shlifshtein, ed., S. Prokofiev: Autobiography, Articles, Reminiscences, trans. Rose Prokofieva
* As a rule the publication of his first opus is a landmark for the composer, a sort of dividing line between his early work and his mature compositions. With me it was different: the Sonata No. 1, a naïve and simple little piece, marked the end of my early period; the new began with the Etudes, Op. 2.
** Sergei Prokofiev, In: S. I. Shlifshtein, ed., S. Prokofiev: Autobiography, Articles, Reminiscences, trans. Rose Prokofieva
# Piano Sonata No. 31 (Beethoven)

The Piano Sonata No. 31 in A-flat major, Op. 110, by Ludwig van Beethoven was composed in 1821. It is the central piano sonata in the group of three opp. 109–111 which he wrote between 1820 and 1822.

## Quotes

* The real heart of this Sonata is its finale. It opens with a recitative, full of changes of tempo and figuration, before the Adagio proper gets under way - a klagender Gesang (tearful song) over incessant semiquaver chords. This leads straight into a three-voice Allegro fugue, and the genius of Beethoven's scheme becomes clear when the fugue subject recalls the outline of the opening melody of the first movement - a subtle association by suggestion rather than outright imitation.
** Artur Pizarro - The Beethoven Sonata Cycle
* If you take a piece like Op. 110 of Beethoven, that whole introduction to the slow movement, in the space of something like six measures, are some 22 or 23 different instructions by Beethoven on how to play those six bars. And each time you play, it is an opportunity to get closer to what you think is the combined intention of that. I don’t think of that as surpassing Beethoven. These people are some of the most singular in the history of mankind. These are giants of human expression, of human awareness, and I think it would be a little arrogant to think of going beyond them.
** Leon Fleisher, Interview with pianist Leon Fleisher by Elijah Ho (October 1, 2014)
* The most obvious example is Op. 110, which has a kind of narrative progression, from the relative calm and serenity of the opening movement, to the brusque and almost savage second movement, which seems to take place in a tavern. Part 3, with its aria and fugue, certainly gives a feeling of transformation — from suffering to a kind of exultation at the end.
** Richard Goode, "Pianist Richard Goode: Adventures in Beethoven" by Niels Swinkels (April 2, 2013)
# Pia Zadora

Pia Zadora (born Pia Alfreda Schipani on May 4, 1954) is an American actress and singer.

## About Pia Zadora

* Negative reviews seem to slide off Pia's back like discarded mink coats.
** John Waters, Crackpot, the Obsessions of John Waters (1987) p. 34
# Tape (film)

Tape is a 2001 American drama film starring Ethan Hawke, Robert Sean Leonard, and Uma Thurman. Set in a motel room, the entire film takes place in real-time.
    Directed by Richard Linklater. Written by Stephen Belber.

## Dialogue

    Vince: What, you think I'm a dick?
    Jon: Uh, no. But I do know that occasionally you have a tendency to act in a phallic fashion.
    Jon: You don't like my work?
    Vince: I like it like I like a shot of whiskey first thing in the morning: it's good for about 10 minutes and then I want my coffee.
    Jon: She's probably scared.
    Vince: Oh God, of what? I never threatened her!
    Jon: ...You sometimes present a threatening appearance.
    Vince: Dude... we have been going together for three years.
    Jon: So what?
    Vince: So... I mean, you'd think she would be used to it by now.
    Vince: She thinks I have violent tendencies.
    Jon: Oh, boy.
    Vince: Jon, I never touched her.
    Jon: I never said you did.
    Vince: Well, she thinks I have, uh, "unresolved issues, which occasionally manifest themselves in potentially violent ways."
    Jon: [... ] Women these days have no reason to hang around potentially violent guys. It's not an attractive quality anymore. Too many guys out there with "resolved" violent tendencies.
    Vince: Oh, so I'm out of fashion?
    Jon: Since when are you all high and mighty?
    Vince: I'm not high and mighty. I'm too high to be high and mighty.
    Jon: Thanks, Vince.
    Vince: What?
    Jon: Thanks.
    Vince: For what?
    Jon: For all your honesty.
    Vince: Do you have any idea how much those drugs cost?
    Amy: There'll be other drugs, Vincent.
    Vince: I know... but, I really liked those ones.

## Taglines

* Some things can't be erased.

## Cast

* Ethan Hawke - Vince
* Robert Sean Leonard - Jon
* Uma Thurman - Amy

## External links

* Tape quotes at the Internet Movie Database
* Tape at Rotten Tomatoes
# Tao of Programming

Quotes from The Tao of Programming, a book from 1986

## Thus spake the master programmer:

* When you have learned to snatch the error code from the trap frame, it will be time for you to leave.
* Without the wind, the grass does not move. Without software, hardware is useless.
* A well-written program is its own heaven; a poorly-written program is its own hell.
* You can demonstrate a program for an executive, but you can't make him computer literate.
* Computer literate executive still demonstrates the effectiveness of similarities between the working dialogue.
# Tammy Smith

Tammy Smith (born 1963) is a Brigadier General of the U.S. Army Reserve. Smith was nominated to the Brigadier General position on 10 May 2012, and was formally promoted to the position in a private ceremony at the Women’s Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery. She currently serves as deputy chief in the Army Reserve Office of the Chief, and served for a year in the Afghanistan War.

## Quotes

* A Soldier should never have to hide their family. The strength of our Soldiers is our families.
** Army Times, September 2, 2012.
* While the [Dept. of Defense] position is that orientation is a private matter, participating with family in traditional ceremonies such as the promotion is both common and expected of a leader. Looking at the photos of Tracey's joy as she pins the star on my shoulder is a memory that will imprint my heart forever. Her support keeps me Army Strong.
** Quoted on Yahoo News, "Meet Brig. Gen. Tammy Smith, the first openly gay U.S. general", August 13, 2012.
* I am deeply honored, and genuinely humbled with my selection for Brigadier General. With this promotion, I embrace the opportunity to serve in positions of greater responsibility and to continue to lead the amazing Soldiers in the world’s premier Army. While the DoD position is that orientation is a private matter, participating with family in traditional ceremonies such as the promotion is both common and expected of a leader. I was grateful to be surrounded by my family, friends, and co-workers at this special event. Looking at the photos of Tracey’s joy as she pins the star on my shoulder is a memory that will imprint my heart forever. Her support keeps me Army Strong.
** Quoted on Out Serve Magazine, "Brig. Gen. Tammy Smith Makes Statemant", August 16, 2013.

## Quotes about Tammy Smith

* Even though a majority of the rank and file opposed DADT before it was repealed, Smith's promotion signifies an increased acceptance of gays in the military that goes beyond the actual law.
** Joshuea Seefried, co-founder and co-director of Outserve, an association of active-duty LGBT personnel, quoted on Yahoo News, "Meet Brig. Gen. Tammy Smith, the first openly gay U.S. general", August 13, 2012.
# Tan Le

Tan Le (Vietnamese: Lê Thị Thái Tần, born 20 May 1977 (CEO, Neurotechnologist, Tech Innovator & Influencer, Entrepreneur, Futurist, Author, and Pioneer in the Emerging Field of Brain-Computer Interface) is a Vietnamese-born Australian telecommunications entrepreneur and a co-founder of Emotiv. She was named the 1998 Young Australian of the Year. As president of the Vietnamese Community of Footscray Association, she made a number of contributions to charities and newspapers throughout Melbourne.

## Quotes

* I believe brain data will become a metric as commonly accepted as heart rate variability or daily step count. Athletes, professional gamersand everyday people will become accustomed to using brain data to track their behavioral and cognitive performance.
** Humanizing Technology Amid The Fourth Industrial Revolution Forbes (August 29,2023)
* I'm expecting that EEGs will become an increasingly popular tool for self-monitoring and condition detection and prevention. We’ll all start using brain data to track behavioral and cognitive performance. Companies will collect neurofeedback to make products and work experiences more personal. Invasive BCIs hold vast potential for mobility restoration and human augmentation.
** Predicting The Next Five Years Of Brain Breakthroughs Forbes (June 6, 2023)

## External links

* Young Australian of the Year 1998
* The Technology Entrepreneur that’s Making Science Fiction a Reality