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# Paul Weitz

Paul Weitz (born November 19, 1965 in New York) is an American filmmaker, who directed American Pie and About a Boy.

## Sourced

* We are supposedly a country at war, but we’re all going about watching American Idol and having not all that different a time than if we weren’t at war. I observe the weird juxtaposition of reading the newspaper and then tuning into American Idol and getting really upset when Constantine gets voted off and then wondering where my head was at. But in a way, that’s also the salvation of the country, our level of optimism.
** on making American Dreamz
*** Also phrased as: "I think it was just the weird feeling of, being like a lot of Americans and sort of reading the paper in the morning and worrying about terrorism and whether the administration was handling things in the right way, and then in the evening worrying even more about whether Constantine was going to get kicked off American Idol. It was really just kind of observing myself and, finding this weird disconnect, between the supposedly deadly serious situation of being at war with us going about our daily lives as if nothing is happening."

## See also

* Category:Paul Weitz films
# Laxity

Laxity is a lack of rigorousness or strictness.

## Quotes

* The very beginning of the soul’s purgation is tranquility, in which the tongue is not given to discussing the affairs of men, nor the eyes to contemplating rosy cheeks or comely bodies, nor the ears to lowering the tone of the soul by listening to songs whose sole object is to amuse, or to words spoken by wits and buffoons—a practice which above all things tends to relax the tone of the soul.
** Basil of Caesarea, Letter to Gregory, Saint Basil: The Letters, R. Deferrari, trans. (1926), vol. 1, p. 13
* Culture is at once the expression and the reward of an effort, and any system of civilization which tends to relax effort will suffer a corresponding depreciation of culture.
** Georges Duhamel, In Defense of Letters (1937), E. Bozman, trans. (1939), p. 22
* As the peculiar faculty of the eye is to see form and color, and of the ear to hear sweet tones and voices, so is aspiration peculiar to the soul. To relax from ceaseless aspiration is sin.
** Meister Eckhart, Sermons, Sermon 7, "Outward and Inward Morality"
* Whatever tends to lighten one's burden must be examined carefully. For although such alleviation is sometimes justified and reasonable, it is most often a deceitful prescription of the evil inclination, and must, therefore, be subjected to much analysis and investigation.
** Moshe Chaim Luzzatto, Mesillat Yesharim (1738)
* ... that Jesuitry of mediocrity, which spontaneously works for the destruction of the uncommon man and seeks to break every arched bow or—even better!—to relax it.
** Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, I. Johnston, trans., § 206
* In World War Two, the worst cases of collaboration weren’t among the real collaborators, that official Militia, but among the people at large, who were collaborators without knowing it, by a sort of laxity, an apathy.
** Paul Virilio , Pure War (2008), p. 183
* The very possibility that there may exist timeless truths is a reproach to the life of laxness and indifference which modern egotism encourages. … Ideas which have their reference to the periphery or individuum, to the particular in space and time, are false and stand in the way of integration.
** Richard Weaver, Ideas Have Consequences (Chicago: 1948), p. 68

## See also

* Diligence
* Rigor
# Layal Abboud

Layal Abboud (Arabic: ليال عبود‎‎:[layāl ˈabˈboud]; born 15 May 1982) is a Lebanese pop singer, folk music entertainer, sound-lyric poet, concert dancer, fit model, Muslim humanitarian and businesswoman.

## Quotes
### 2008

* An artist should combine her beautiful voice, her external form with her coquetry and mollycoddle and to stay away from temptation, in my opinion. There is a huge difference between femininity, coquetry, temptation and irritation.
* I compete with myself, people will judge whether I deserve to be on the scene or not.
** January 16, 2008; Al-Jarida
* I live in love with every moment and with every song.
** August 5, 2008; Interview with Jouhina Magazine

### 2009

* The art road is paved with thorns.
** June 10, 2009; alkhaleej.ae
* If we do not learn from our stumbles, we can't growth.
** September 27, 2009; gerasanews.com

### 2012

* Every year in art is equivalent to 10 normal years ,in my opinion; Art is very tiresome and tiresome.
* No one is competing with me and I am not trying to compete with anyone, I am looking for excellence and uniqueness in my work.
* February 1, 2012; Al-Ittihad

### 2014

* Music is My life.
* A lyricist must be a poet by nature.
* I may live in Beirut, but I think Egypt is beautiful and I feel like it’s my second country.
** July 16, 2014; Interview by Insight Magazine

### 2016

* Man is half of woman, who helps her and the one who stands beside her, one who makes her feel comfortable, but the man should be jealous [Gheerah] on his wife not of her.
* In my childhood our neighbor had horses, I was letting him kiss me to let me ride the horse.
* A woman is 25% mind, 75% emotion.
** June 23, 2016; Interview by Radio Strike

### 2017

* I love being a beautiful woman when I look at myself in the mirror.
** June 15, 2017; Al Kahera Walnas

## External links

Layal Abboud at Wikiquote's sister projects: :
* Article at Wikipedia
* Media from Commons
* Database entry #Q12237722 on Wikidata
* Layal Abboud on Facebook
* Layal Abboud on Instagram
* Layal Abboud on YouTube
# Layne Beachley

Layne Collette Beachley (24 May 1972–) is a former professional surfer.

## Quotes

* Most people didn’t realise how I struggled throughout my life and career. There was a lot of pain, negative thoughts, and trauma that others didn’t see, and today the majority of the population is enduring this.
** LIFE LESSONS WITH LAYNE BEACHLEY (October 23 2020)

## External links

* Official website
# Raymond Ibrahim

Raymond Ibrahim (1973–) is an American author, translator, columnist, critic of Islam and a former librarian.

## Quotes

* Can water and oil mix? In the same manner, pure Islamic teachings and pure Western values are often antithetical to one another. For example, the West believes in freedom of religion, whereas in Islam those who seek to apostatize are penalized, including by death; the West believes in freedom of speech, whereas in Islam any critical talk concerning Muhammad can get one killed. One can go on and on but the point should be clear. Of course, a nominal/secular Muslim may be able to assimilate in a Western society, but that is not a reflection of Islam, which is hardly nominal but rather a full way of life based on sharia.
** Raymond Ibrahim Interview: Truth About Islam Must Be Acknowledged (September 11, 2020)

## See also

* Frank Gaffney
* Bill Warner (writer)
* Chuck Hustmyre

## External links

* Official website
# Raymond Kethledge

Raymond Michael Kethledge (born December 11, 1966) is a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. He was appointed by President George W. Bush in 2008.

## Quotes

* Clearly, there are limits on the Executive power. There are limits on the Commander-in-Chief power. Youngstown Sheet and Tube tells us that. That was a case where the President issued an Executive Order to seize steel mills, cited exigent circumstances related to the Korean War. The Supreme Court stepped forward and said no, you can't do that. That is a clear example of courts doing, I think, what the Senator described. How does a court go about that? I think that certainly as a court of appeals judge, you start with the Constitution itself. You go to Supreme Court precedent, which is obviously binding on any court of appeals. You look to the prior precedents of one's own circuit, which would be binding as well. The decisionmaking can also be informed by precedents from other circuits. I think you look at those things, and you try to reach a lawful result, which is precisely that and which is not a result which is driven by passion or considerations of the moment. That is why judges have life tenure.
** Confirmation of Raymond Kethledge (May 7, 2008)
* I think that the best judges are the ones that seek to apply precedent in good faith. I think most judges do that. But that is something that has to be done in good faith without skewing the precedent one way or the other. At the same time, there has to be a respect for the work of the district courts and not take an ivory tower approach to the review of what happens there. Those judges are the ones that see the people before them. They see the witnesses. The court of appeals just has a cold paper record. I think there has to be a reasonable level of deference given to the judgments of the Article III judge who has the trial before him. And with respect to all of one's colleagues in the judicial system, I think it is very important for a judge to have almost an irrebuttable presumption that every other judge who has looked at a particular issue was doing his or her best to discharge his or her oath just as well as I might be if I am fortunate enough to be confirmed.
** Confirmation of Raymond Kethledge (May 7, 2008)
# Raymond Moody

Raymond Moody (born June 30, 1944) is a psychologist and medical doctor. He is most famous as an author of books about life after death and near-death experiences (NDE), a term that he coined in 1975. His best-selling title is Life After Life.

## Quotes

* Atheism may be, in some cases, just verbal behavior masking personal feelings that may be very different, perhaps even deeply religious.
** Reflection on Life After Life (1977)

## Quotes About Moody

* In his famous and highly regarded book “Life After Life.” With regard to interviews he had conducted with people who had had a Near Death Experience as a result of a suicide attempt from which they either survived or were medically resuscitated, Moody writes: “These experiences were uniformly characterized as being unpleasant. As one woman said, ‘If you leave here a tormented soul, you will be a tormented soul over there, too.’ In short, they report that the conflicts they had attempted suicide to escape were still present when they died, but with added complications. In their disembodied state they were unable to do anything about their problems, and they also had to view the unfortunate consequences which resulted from their acts. A man who was despondent about the death of his wife shot himself, ‘died’ as a result, and was resuscitated. He states: ‘I didn’t go where [my wife] was, I went to an awful place. … I immediately saw the mistake I had made. … I thought, ‘I wish I hadn’t done it.’ Others who experienced this unpleasant ‘limbo’ state have remarked that they had the feeling they would be there for a long time. This was their penalty for ‘breaking the rules’ by trying to release themselves prematurely from what was, in effect, an ‘assignment’ – to fulfill a certain purpose in life.”
** Quoted in What happens to people who commit Suicide? BlavatskyTheosophy.com
* In his subsequent book “Reflections on Life After Life,” Moody says:“All of these people agree on one point: they felt their suicidal attempts solved nothing. They found that they were involved [in the other world] in exactly the same problems from which they had been trying to extricate themselves by suicide. Whatever difficulty they had been trying to get away from was still there on the other side, unresolved. One person mentioned being “trapped” in the situation which had provoked her suicide attempt. [It was] repeated again and again, as if in a cycle.”
** Quoted in What happens to people who commit Suicide? BlavatskyTheosophy.com
# Raymond Francis Chappetto

Raymond Francis Chappetto (August 20, 1945 –) is an American prelate of the Catholic Church who served as an auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Brooklyn.

## Quotes

* Never allow yourself to be turned away from the hope offered by the gospel. Now, you are not only a hearer of this gospel but also its minister.
** Alumni Ordained a Transitional Deacon (19 May 2021) St. Matthias Catholic Academy
* Fear is a normal reaction, and even priests and those in religious life will also experience fear, but fear can lead us to a deeper faith, it turns into a deeper trust in God if we allow God to be part of the journey.
** Cancer Patients Pray in Honor of St. Peregrine During Mass of Healing (9 May 2024) Current News

## Quotes about Raymond Francis Chappetto

* He was always first a priest and a bishop and administrator second. He brought a certain human touch to the work he did so it was very encouraging.
** Nicholas Anthony DiMarzio, Auxiliary Bishop Chappetto Retires After 50 Years in Diocese (7 March 2022) The Tablet
# Raymond G.H. Seitz

Raymond G.H. Seitz (born December 8, 1940), former career diplomat and U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom.

## Quotes

* Remember that the United States is only interested in Britain insofar as Britain is a player in Europe.
** 1992; quoted in Max Hastings: Boris, Churchill and the implosion of the Tories, Financial Times, 2019-09-06
# Raymond Dokpesi

Chief Raymond Anthony Aleogho Dokpesi (25 October 1951 – 29 May 2023) was a Nigerian media businessman. His parents were from Agenebode, Edo state in a family including six sisters.

## Quotes

* One of the greatest errors of my life is polygamy.
** Raymond Dokpesi: Polygamy one of my greatest errors in life. 10 October 2021, PM News.
# Raymond Loewy

Raymond Fernand Loewy (November 5 1893 – July 14 1986) was one of the best-known industrial designers of the 20th century.

## Quotes

* Industrial design keeps the customer happy, his client in the black and the designer busy.
** Raymond Loewy (ca. 1949); Cited in: Paul Greenhalgh (1993) Quotations and Sources on Design and the Decorative Arts. p. 117
* A lot of people are open to new things, as long as they look like the old ones.
** Raymond Loewy (1951); As cited in: Angèle H. Reinders et al. The Power of Design. p. 93
* Is it responsible to camouflage one of America's most remarkable machines as a piece of gaudy merchandise? Form, which should be the clean- cut expression of mechanical excellence has become sensuous and organic.
** Raymond Loewy 1950s, cited in: Karal Ann Marling, ‎Donald J. Bush, ‎Walker Art Center (1989) Autoeroticism. p. 16
** Loewy commented on the new generation automobiles, after having designed the Studebaker of 1953, which according to Loewy looked like "jukeboxes on wheels."
* I believe one should design for the advantage of the largest mass of people, first and always. That takes care of ideologies and sociologies.
** Raymond Loewy, cited in: William Marling (1998) The American Roman Noir: Hammett, Cain, and Chandler. p. 279
* Design is too important to be left to designers.
** Attributed to Raymond Loewy in: Adam Richardson (2010) Innovation X, p. 184

### Never Leave Well Enough Alone (1951)

* This book is the story of a young man who came to America to make a living, and simply happened to do so in a profession which he helped to create.
** Introduction
* I never expected that one could fall so completely in love with a nation and a people. I already knew that very soon I would thrill at everything American, love everything American, perhaps blindly, but fervently and forever. I still remember how thrilled I was at the sight of the flag. After all these years, every time I see the Stars and Stripes in the breeze, I get the same emotional feeling. Aesthetically speaking, it is perfect. One of the outstanding "designs" of all times. It may be that a nation gets the flag it deserves.
** Chapter 1

## About Raymond Loewy

* If there is a designer whose name is synonymous with industrial design it is Raymond Loewy (1893-1986).
** Raymond Loewy. Industrial Design, Overlook Press, 1988. General info
* What Charles and Ray Eames are to furniture design, Raymond Loewy is to industrial design -- the modern master
** Raymond Loewy. Industrial Design, Overlook Press, 1988. General info

## External links

* Quotes by Raymond Loewy at raymondloewy.com
# Raymond F. Jones

Raymond Fisher Jones (1915-11-15 - 1994-01-24) was an American science fiction author. His most acclaimed novel was The Island Earth, eventually adapted into a feature film by Universal Studios.

## Quotes

* It's only Neutron. We call him that because he's so positive.
** Dr. Ruth Adams, This Island Earth (1952)
# Nat Hentoff

Nathan Irving "Nat" Hentoff (June 10, 1925 –January 7, 2017) was an American historian, novelist, jazz and country music critic, and syndicated columnist for United Media.

## Quotes

* Slight, wiry, his blond, curly hair worn long, Bob Dylan never wears a tie and never lets anyone else make decisions for him. His unshakable independence courses through his songs—some of them wryly irreverent, others harshly critical of what he regards as hypocrisy and cruelty. His voice is acrid but curiously compelling, and he has become the most influential folksinger among today's teenagers—as well as among older dissenters. [...] Now 24, he is less the angry preacher of causes than he was two years ago. His songs have become more warmly personal and more deftly witty. He is cactus on the outside and romantic revolutionary within. He has no ideology except that of inner freedom. He is his own man.
** "Cosmo Listens to Records", Cosmopolitan (November 1965)
* I'm always intrigued at how few people understand that free speech encompasses a little more than the speech you like.
** The Indivisible Fight for Life. Presented at AUL Forum, 19 October 1986, Chicago. Accessed 16 April 2019.
* There is something quite startling in the law that will gladden the hearts of eugenicists, who are considerable in number -- though many are still in the closet. The section on Abortion Procedures declares that the state is not permitted to interfere -- at any stage -- in a woman's decision to terminate a pregnancy if "the fetus is affected by genetic defect or serious deformity or abnormality."
** The Specter Of Pro-Choice Eugenics (May 25, 1991)
# Nat King Cole

Nat "King" Cole (born Nathaniel Adams Coles; 17 March 1919 – 15 February 1965) was an American singer and jazz pianist.

## Quotes

* I felt something impossible for me to explain in words. Then when they took her away, it hit me. I got scared all over again and began to feel giddy. Then it came to me— I was a father."
** Ebony (March 1950)
* Madison Avenue is afraid of the dark.
** Comment on why his hit NBC TV show couldn't get a national sponsor. (1956) Quoted in article at the Songwriters Hall of Fame
* I … started out to become a jazz pianist; in the meantime I started singing and I sang the way I felt and that's just the way it came out.
** Spoken in VOA interview (c. 1956) broadcast on Pop Chronicles Show 22 - Smack Dab in the Middle on Route 66: A skinny dip in the easy listening mainstream.
** Also on cassette 3, side B of Gilliland, John (1994) (audiobook). Pop Chronicles the 40's: The Lively Story of Pop Music in the 40's. Mind's Eye. ISBN 978-1-55935-147-8. OCLC 31611854. Pop Chronicles Interviews #131 - Nat "King" Cole.
* I'm a businessman. I work for business people. The kind of thing they say is: Now we've sold a lot of records, let's sell some more.
** British interview (1963)
* I'm a musician at heart, I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.
** As quoted in Nat King Cole (1990) by James Haskings
* Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free.
** As quoted in Nat King Cole (1990) by James Haskings
* «There's just one thing I can't understand. My income tax!”».

### Lyrics

* A buzzard took the monkey for a ride in the air The monkey thought that everything was on the square The buzzard tried to throw the monkey off his back But the monkey grabbed his neck and said — "Now listen, Jack..." "Straighten up and fly right Straighten up and fly right Straighten up and fly right Cool down, papa, don't you blow your top."
** "Straighten Up And Fly Right" (1937) written with Irving Mills.
* The buzzard told the monkey "You're chokin' me Release your hold and I'll set you free" The monkey looked the buzzard right dead in the eye and said "Your story's touching but it sounds like a lie."
** "Straighten Up And Fly Right" (1937) written with Irving Mills.

## External links

* Nat King Cole, The Early Years
* Songwriters Hall of Fame
* All Things Considered (18 December 1999) NPR soundfile (Realplayer)

## References

* ↑ Nat King Cole at Todomusica.org
# Natalia Poklonskaya

Natalia Vladimirovna Poklonskaya (born 18 March 1980) is a Ukrainian-born Russian lawyer and politician. She has served as the adviser to the Prosecutor General of Russia since 14 June 2022. She was formerly a Prosecutor of the 'Republic of Crimea' from 2014 to 2016, and was a Member of the State Duma from 2016 to 2021.

## Quotes

* My daughter looks at these pictures every day. She happily tells me, 'Mom, you’re becoming an anime heroine in Japan,' which of course is very exciting for her. As for myself, though, I'm too busy to really pay much attention to the drawings.
** Of the numerous cartoons of her appearing in Japanese newspapers.
** As quoted in GMA News, 28 March 2014
* It's just chaos! (Это просто хаос!)
** In reference to the Euromaidan events in Kyiv during 2014.
** As quoted by NTV, 22 March 2014
* I'm an attorney. I don't tolerate your nyasha-myasha. (Я — прокурор. И никаких няш-мяш не допущу.)
** As quoted by Vlasti, 25 March 2014
* People are dying, houses and entire cities are destroyed leaving millions of refugees. Bodies and souls are mutilated. My heart is bursting with pain. My two native countries are killing each other, that's not what I wanted then and it's not what I want now.
** On the Russian invasion of Ukraine, April 2022
# Natalia Lozovsky

Natalia Lozovsky is a medieval historian and translator.

## Quotes

* ... it often gets scolded and cannot find a place of its own, almost because people invariably misunderstand its true nature.
** Writing on medieval geography in: Mittman, Asa Maps and Monsters in Medieval England (Taylor & Francis, 2013) p.27
# Natalia Nordman

Natalia Borísovna Nordman-Severova (14 December 1863 – 30 June 1914) was a Russian author who was the partner to the artist Ilya Repin.

## Quotes

* Vegetarianism is necessary for the very rich and the very poor. The poor need it because it is cheap and nourishing. The rich, in order to cleanse all the poisons from the corpses that have accumulated in their overfed organism.
** Povarennaia kneiga dlia golodaiushchikh. Quoted in Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism (NCLC), vol. 108, ed. by Jessica Menzo (Gale Group, 2002), p. 169.
# Perfectly Imperfect

Perfectly Imperfect 2013 by Ruby Yayra Goka is a novel that explores themes of love, relationships, and self-discovery. Set in Ghana, it follows the lives of three women from different backgrounds as they navigate the complexities of family expectations, societal pressures, and personal ambitions. The story delves into the intricacies of their friendships and romantic relationships, highlighting the struggles and triumphs they experience along the way. Goka's narrative is known for its heartfelt portrayal of human emotions and the journey towards finding one's true self amidst life's challenge.
Chapter 2
Chapter 16
Chapter 23 Healing is a process, not a destination.

## External links

https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/5334900.Ruby_Yayra_Goka https://books.google.com.ng/books/about/Perfectly_Imperfect.html?id=ZveUjwEACAAJ&source=kp_book_description&redir_esc=y https://archive.org/details/perfectlyimperfe0000goka