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# Eku Edewor

Georgina Chloe Eku Edewor-Thorley otherwise known as Eku Edewor (born 18 December 1986), is a British Nigerian actress, television presenter, and model.

## Quotes

* An image depicts younger members of society helping a young bride as she walks the short distance to her new home. They carry small cases, some are relatives, wrapped in newly printed fabric to represent the brides family. Other images reveal the beauty of our attire, our traditional dress, Jewellery and the beauty of our landscape.
** ‘This is about Culture Not Colour’! Eku Edewor & Team Respond to Criticism of ‘Heritage’ Shoot, BellaNaija, March 4, 2015.
* I feel incredibly blessed that I have been given a great opportunity to display how much I love what I do and I look forward to having a great night celebrating our musicians on the largest music platform in Africa.
** Eku Edewor And Siyabonga Ngwekazi To Host 2014 Channel O Africa Music Video Awards, Waafrikaonline.
# Ekur

Ekur (Sumerian: 𒂍𒆳 É.KUR), also known as Duranki, is a Sumerian term meaning "mountain house". It is the assembly of the gods in the Garden of the gods, it was the most revered and sacred building of ancient Sumer.

## Quotes

* Elam, a raging dog, a destroyer, will not defile E-kic-nu-jal, the sanctuary which covers heaven and earth. [...] Its protective spirits shall not be split apart!
** Ishbi-Erra to Ibbi-Suen, Letter from Ishbi-Erra to Ibbi-Suen about the purchase of grain, Correspondence of the Kings of Ur, Old Babylonian period, ca. 1800-1600 BCE, at The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature; their original date of composition and their historical accuracy are debated.
* Not only did the lord make the world appear in its correct form, the lord who never changes the destinies which he determines – Enlil – who will make the human seed of the Land come forth from the earth – and not only did he hasten to separate heaven from earth, and hasten to separate earth from heaven, but, in order to make it possible for humans to grow in "where flesh came forth" [the name of a cosmic location], he first raised the axis of the world at Dur-an-ki. He did this with the help of the hoe -- and so daylight broke forth.
** Song of the Hoe, 3rd millennium BCE. Text online at the Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature.
* The E-kur, the temple of Enlil, was founded by the hoe. By day it was building it, by night it caused the temple to grow.
** Song of the Hoe, 3rd millennium BCE. Text online at the Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature..
# Ekta Kapoor

Ekta Kapoor (born 7 June 1975) Indian television and film producer, director, writer and creative head of Balaji Telefilms Limited

## Quotes

* When you're writing a character, you have to know where they're coming from. You may never use that information, but you have to know it. It just helps you mark the journey better.
** From Talks at Google, Google Talk moderated by Cliff Redeker Talks at Google - 16 Aug 2016, at 14 Min 24 Sec
* I never want to be on a pedestal. Because the same people who put you on a pedestal will throw you of it. I really don't want to be appreciated to the extent that I start living for their appreciation.
** From interview with Anupama Chopra, Film Companion - On The Move with Ekta Kapoor - 25 Feb 2019, at 24 Min 42 Sec
* Art has different meaning for different people. For some its realism, for some its escapism, and you have to accept that.
** From interview with Rajeev Masand, CNN News18 - Ekta Kapoor Interview with Rajeev Masand - 4 Oct 2019, at 4 Min 28 Sec
* I could actually tell stories and narratives which were little alternative and radical. For whatever its worth, you can support imperfection. (as an answer to the evolving tastes of the Indian Audience and the rise of the Digital Streaming Platforms)
** CNN News18 - Ekta Kapoor Interview with Rajeev Masand - 4 Oct 2019, at 14 Min 48 Sec
# El Boricuazo

Jesús Omar Rivera (born January 16, 1962), better known as El Lambon, is a radio and TV personality, writer, tourist guide, college instructor, and public speaker and last but not least, keyboard warrior from Bayamón, Puerto Rico.

## Quotes

* ¡Qué rico es ser boricua!
** How delicious is being boricua!
*** "Boricua el mejor cantante de Bélgica", primerahora.com (2008-04-09)
# Diego Rivera

Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez, known as Diego Rivera (December 8, 1886–November 24, 1957) was a Mexican painter.

## Quotes

* When we began, we had no opportunities; we prepared in silence and created our own opportunity.
** On making your own artistic opportunities in the book Conversations with Diego Rivera: The Monster in His Labyrinth
* Here it is—the might, the power, the energy, the sadness, the glory, the youthfulness of our lands.
** On the layout of New York City (as quoted in the book The Fabulous Life of Diego Rivera)
* Here in Mexico…I find that very simple intuitive persons, in common with a highly sophisticated and prepared type, accept my way of painting. But the bourgeois mind (here as elsewhere called “cultured,” I believe does not. This bourgeois mind of Mexico is that of a special virulence, for being mixed in race for only a few generations, it is also lamentably mixed in its ‘culture.’ It is, in a word, saturated with European bad taste, the finer European influences having been almost wholly rejected by the Creole of Mexico…
** On how his work was received Mexico (as quoted in the book The Fabulous Life of Diego Rivera)
* Your engineers are your great artists and these highways are the most beautiful things I have seen in your beautiful country…Out of them and the machine will issue the style of tomorrow.
** On being enchanted by engineers in “Diego Rivera: A Man and His Murals” (Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute)

## Quotes about Diego Rivera

* Later on, I learned about the Mexican muralists that painted beautiful images on the walls of public buildings. Diego Rivera, Orozco, Tamayo, and others.
** Alfredo Arreguín letter
* Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933, and almost immediately the Left press in the United States began to publish cartoons hostile to his regime. But throughout the decade barely a handful of artists, whatever their political preferences, addressed the increasingly virulent outbreaks of anti-Semitism in Germany. The few who did include the Mexican Diego Rivera (1886-1957), and the Jewish Americans Ben Shahn (1898-1969) and Max Weber (1881-1961). Rivera, one of the first to respond, included an anti-Semitic episode in a mural panel painted toward the end of 1933 in the didactic manner he used at that time. It was the "Hitler" panel, one of twenty-one that comprised his Portrait of America, made for the New Workers' School in New York City. Rivera supported himself while completing the panels with funds he had received for his ill-fated mural for the RCA Building in Rockefeller Center, Man at the Crossroads Looking with Uncertainty but with Hope and High Vision to the Choosing of a Course Leading to a New and Better Future, which was destroyed in 1933 because it included, among other scenes, a portrait of Lenin.
** Matthew Baigell Jewish-American Artists and the Holocaust (1997)
# Dieting

Dieting is the practice of eating food in a regulated and supervised fashion to decrease, maintain, or increase body weight, or to prevent and treat diseases, such as diabetes and obesity. A restricted diet is more often pursued by those wanting to lose weight.

## Quotes

* Fat boy on a diet, don't try it. I'll jack your ass like a looter in a riot!
** Cypress Hill, "Insane in the Brain" (1993), Black Sunday, Ruffhouse

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Dieting on Wikipedia
# Diego Velázquez

Diego Velázquez (6 June 1599 – 6 August 1660) was a Spanish painter, the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV, and one of the most important painters of the Spanish Golden Age.

## Quotes

* Raphael, to be plain with you, for I prefer to be candid and outspoken, does not please me at all.. ..It is Titian that bears the banner.
** As quoted by Hugh Stokes in Francisco Goya, Herbert Jenkins Limited Publishers, London, 1914, p 71
** Velazquez's remark is to the Italian contemporary painter Salvator Rosa

## Quotes about Diego Velázquez

* I have had Three Masters-Nature, Velázquez, And Rembrandt.
** Francisco de Goya Art Is the Highest Form of Hope & Other Quotes by Artists by Phaidon (2016) p 178
# Dieter Seebach

Dieter Seebach (born 31 October 1937) is a German chemist known for his synthesis of biopolymers and dendrimers, and for his contributions to stereochemistry.

## Quotes

* In the mean time, synthetic organic methodology has experienced an explosive expansion, which is due to two fundamentally different types of developments: (i) theclassical reactionshave been modified to become regio-, diastereo-, and enantioselective, and to become catalytic (cf. organocatalysis). (ii) The—mostly catalytic—use of transition-metal derivatives has enriched organic synthesis withnew types of reactions(cf. metathesis), which can almost all be rendered enantioselective by employing chiral ligands on the metal centers. Many of the resulting procedures for carrying out certain transformations have turned out to be of broad scope and to be generally reliable, so that—for brevity—they were named after their inventor(s) in synthetic discussions, and that’s all about Name Reactions. It is, therefore, not surprising that several monographs on this subject have appeared and that new editions of books on Name Reactions are essential. (...) Name Reactions are at the core of the art of organic synthesis!
** Foreword to A. Hassner and I. Namboothiri, Organic Syntheses Based on Name Reactions: A practical guide to 750 transformations Third Edition (2012)
# James Harvey Young

James Harvey Young (September 8, 1915 – July 29, 2006) was social historian most well known as an expert on the history of medical frauds and quackery.

## Quotes
### The Toadstool Millionaires: A Social History of Patent Medicines in America Before Federal Regulation (1961)

* Some years later, I yielded completely to the impulse, persuaded that medical quackery has been—and is—an important theme in American social and intellectual history.
** p. vii
* Quackery is important because through it vast numbers of our people have sought to bolster or restore their health and because it affords insight into an anti-rational approach to one of the key problems of life.
** p. vii
# James Gustafson

James Gustafson (born December 2, 1925) is an American theological ethicist.

## Quotes
### "Varieties of Moral Discourse: Prophetic, Narrative, Ethical and Policy"

       in Seeking Understanding: The Stob Lectures, 1986-1998 (2001)
* Many years ago I heard a paper read by a colleague who was very philosophically astute and informed. The paper was on ethics, and it was rigorously argued, proper distinctions were made, and the critique of other points of view was cogent. ... When my colleague finished his paper the man chairing the meeting said, "That's not ethics. Ethics has to do with prophecy. I learned that from Rabbi Abraham Heschel."
** p. 47
* Prophets tend to be impatient with detailed analyses of particular choices made in the past—choices that determined how, month by month, we got to where we are from where we were. They tend to be equally impatient with how we can practically get from where we are today to some modest increments of improvement a month from now. To the prophet such preoccupation seems to be rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
** p. 50
* The legitimacy of prophetic moral discourse, I believe, is without question. It is not, however, sufficient as moral discourse. It undercuts preoccupation with meager thinking about means to short-range ends. ... It does not concern itself with incremental choices that have to be made by persons and institutions in which good and evil are intricately intermingled.
** p. 55
* Prophets do not help responsible Christian persons who seek to gain political and economic power as a means to serve the public good within the constraints of political, economic, medical, or other institutions.
** p. 55
# James Herbert Brennan

J. H. "Herbie" Brennan (5 July 1940 – 1 January 2024) was a lecturer and the author of over 100 fiction and non-fiction books for adults, teens and children.

## Quotes
### Magical Use of Thought Forms (2001)

* But one of the great disappointments of esoteric practice is that discovering reality is your own creation does not give you the power to change it permanently. However much physics you read, however many mystical writings you study, the world remains stubbornly solid. In theory, you should be able to build your next home by thinking it into existence. In practice, you still have to lay the bricks like anybody else.
** p. 34

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on James Herbert Brennan on Wikipedia
# Helen Zia

Helen Zia (born 1952) is a Chinese-American journalist and activist for Asian American and LGBTQ rights.

## Quotes

* There is a saying that an injustice to one is an injustice to all. No one is truly equal and free until everyone is equal and free. When a society allows anyone to be treated as less than equal and therefore less than fully human, we not only rob those people of their full humanity, we also become complicit in their mistreatment. Sometimes people think they can look the other way as long as “their group” isn’t harmed. But that is an illusion because we are all connected by our humanity, and as history has proven over and over again, harsh and autocratic power will inevitably spread like cancer to maintain itself…
** On the need for equal rights for all in “Interview with Helen Zia” in China Underground (2018 Aug 22)
* U.S. history and China's history are very, very deeply - and in a complicated way - intertwined with each other over a few hundred years. And so there were times when that relationship was fraught with tension. But there were also times of great friendship…
** On the complicated relationship between America and China in “'Last Boat Out Of Shanghai': The Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution” in NPR (2019 Feb 19)
* My primary identity as a kid was being rejected by American society—because you’re from another country, you can’t possibly be American—and my parents’ identity more as being Chinese, so I saw myself as Chinese…
** On her Asian American identity in “HELEN ZIA” (Asian American Reproductive Justice Oral History Project, 2013)
* A lot of Asian American parents are sort of like, Oh, Why’d you stick your neck out? You’re really going to get—you’ll be the nail that sticks out, then you’ll get hammered down. You’ll bring trouble to yourself and to your family. And you know, that’s not really the way it works. It’s really the more you speak up, the more possibility [you have] for making a difference, for making a change, instead of suffering in silence. It’s the only way—especially in a democracy—it’s the only way to improve conditions in your community, to make it better…
** On her journalistic work in “HELEN ZIA” (Asian American Reproductive Justice Oral History Project, 2013)
# Helena Maria Viramontes

Helena Maria Viramontes (born February 26, 1954) is an American fiction writer and English professor.

## Quotes

* They grew up very Americanized, in West Los Angeles, and even though the community was very Mexican, they grew up listening to radio shows, being very much influenced by movies, by things like that. So between 1920 and 1940 it was very interesting time, where they were really trying to discover what it was to be American, even though my grandmother and grandfather were Mexican. It was a time that I’m excavating myself in my work because it was such a transition for them…
** On how her maternal side of the family navigated Americanization in “The Excavation of Identity as a Political Act: A Conversation with Helena Maria Viramontes” in Sampsonia Way (2017 Jan 24)
* If we know each other’s history, we will be able to see parallels in this history. If the black students knew about the Jazz Quarter and the incredible historic events, I bet they would feel a certain pride. And the Central Americans would understand that there was a transformation and maybe have a little respect. Perhaps then there would maybe be more conversation between them. But if we don’t find those parallels, there’s going to be an incredible war.
** On how people might benefit from learning each other’s history in “The Excavation of Identity as a Political Act: A Conversation with Helena Maria Viramontes” in Sampsonia Way (2017 Jan 24)
* Nobody has the degrees, the historical context, to tell you you’re not someone that you think you are. Nobody has that right…
** On how she views identity in “The Excavation of Identity as a Political Act: A Conversation with Helena Maria Viramontes” in Sampsonia Way (2017 Jan 24)
* I think it had to have begun pretty early on, [with] that life passion for the curiosity of people's lives and for their stories. As a kid, I would love to listen to my mother and to my aunt talking. When they would sit around the table to do tamales, for example – making tamales is a communal effort. One person can't make tamales, it's got to be a number of people. And so, several of my aunts and my mother would sit down around the table to put masa on the corn husks. And as they were doing that, they would share stories, share jokes, laugh, remember things, and I would love sitting under the table and just listening to all this…
** On how family instilled an interest in stories in “Fiction and Social Justice: Interview with novelist Helena María Viramontes” (Gonzaga University; 2019)
* There's tons of books out there about writers who suffer insecurities, who suffer all kinds of other ailments. To live in your head for a long time is a difficult thing, especially in terms of novelists, where you have this whole blueprint of this world in your head. I feel like, because I'm so much in my head, I forget that I have a real life, you know? That's a major challenge…
** On one of the challenges of being a writer in “Fiction and Social Justice: Interview with novelist Helena María Viramontes” (Gonzaga University; 2019)
# Helena Bonham Carter

Helena Bonham Carter, CBE (born 26 May 1966) is a British actress best known for her roles in costume dramas, as Bellatrix Lestrange in the Harry Potter series and as Mrs. Lovett in the film musical Sweeney Todd.

## Quotes

* He had zero experience but he was really good. The irony is, given the fact that the character can't play very well, is that he's actually a brilliant footballer.
** Of co-star Greg Sulkin in film "66"; Evening Times (Glasgow); Nov 2, 2006; Andy Dougan; p. 3
* I had never had any experience of autism before and I would come home and look at my son, Billy, who is now two, and be absolutely paranoid, particularly because he loves Thomas the Tank Engine, and lots of autys love Thomas. But he is not very good at pointing, and autistic children absolutely love middow
** On playing the role of the mother of an autistic child; Evening Standard (London); Nov 16, 2005; Liz Jones; p. 34
* I'm convinced that whatever state you're in during your pregnancy has a huge influence on the baby's personality - so I hope we haven't produced a little serial killer!
** On making "Sweeney Todd" while pregnant; The Daily Mirror (London); Jan 25, 2008; John Hiscock; p. 15
* No matter how many modern parts I do, people still refer to me as Mrs. Costume Drama.
** Los Angeles Magazine Vol. 44, No. 11 (November 1999), p. 96
* Famous people come up to me, but I don't know who they are because my sight is so bad. It's always at the pool of the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills when I don't have my lenses in and my glasses are in my room. … With the number of people I ignore, I'm lucky I work at all in this town.
** Los Angeles Magazine Vol. 44, No. 11 (November 1999), p. 169

### Guardian interview 3 Nov 2006

* I've aged, but I don't think I've grown up.
* There is no normality in life. Having two houses means that we can get out of each other's hair - which, let's face it, we've both got a lot of
** Of her relationship with Tim Burton
* On the day Billy was born, it was like walking through a mirror and everything was Technicolor. My life had been very work-orientated, and all in close-up. Once I had the family it went into sudden widescreen.
* When you're up for an Oscar, you just get offered everything. It's fantastic, but a lot of it you're completely inappropriate for.

### Interview on Cinema.com, 2001

* I think it's quite an extreme statement - it might be my ultimate attempt to put the corset to bed. But I think I've still got a bit of a sado-masochistic streak in me, because if I'm not going to be restricted by corsets and covered in lace, then I still wind up wearing an ape-mask over my face. I do wonder how I get myself in these situations!
* I drink booze, I smoke, and I'm hooked on caffeine. I actually have been known to swear at times and belch and even raise my voice when provoked. And I'm not physically repressed!
** Of her role in Planet of the Apes.
* It was a challenge to be able to create a character without being able to use one's normal set of expressions. All the rubber and makeup attached to your face left you with only a modest range of facial movements.
** Of her role in Planet of the Apes.
# Helena Kennedy, Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws

Helena Ann Kennedy, Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws, LT, KC, FRSA, HonFRSE (born 12 May 1950), is a Scottish barrister, broadcaster, and Labour member of the House of Lords. A Bencher of Gray's Inn, she is President of Justice, the law reform think tank, and a director of the International Bar Association's Institute of Human Rights. She was Principal of Mansfield College, Oxford, from 2011 to 2018.

## Quotes

* This is Schindler's List time. These women were in mortal danger. They were running courts on things like domestic violence and child marriage and many of them locked up [the] Taliban. As soon as [the] Taliban came back they had to flee.
** Cited by Christina Lamb in "Afghan female judges rescued by Baroness Kennedy", The Times (31 October 2021)
** Baroness Kennedy raised more than a £1 million in donations from individuals such as J.K. Rowling to airlift from Afghanistan 500 people (including 103 women who were on the Taliban's "kill list") who were female judges, other endangered women and their families
* [On the situation for women in Afghanistan after the 2020–2021 U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan] They were not allowed to leave home without a male escort. They were not allowed to go to work. They were not allowed to continue with their education. Their sex became the limitation on what they could do or be. This is true for all women and girls in Afghanistan under the Taliban reign.
** "Europe faces Schindler’s List moment", The New European (4 November 2021)
* I have still got women sending me the most tragic, terrible text messages and phoning me at all hours, saying "please help me, I am hiding in my basement, I didn't get on your planes in 2021 because my mother was dying, I couldn't leave at the time, but now they are after me."
* Sometimes they are Afghanis who have worked for us. Sometimes they are Afghanis of a particular minority called the Hazara, who get slaughtered as soon as the Taliban look at them.
** "Baroness tells of 'terrible texts' from trapped Afghan women pleading for help", The Independent (25 June 2003)
# Helena Modjeska

Helena Modjeska (October 12, 1840 – April 8, 1909) was a renowned Polish-American actress who specialized in Shakespearean and tragic roles.

## Quotes

* It is never right to be more Catholic than the Pope.
** Memories and Impressions of Helena Modjeska (1910)