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# Laurie Johnson

Laurence Reginald Ward Johnson (7 February 1927 – 16 January 2024) was an English composer and bandleader.

## Quotes

* After a musical on the stage has been running a little while it can be quite painful watching. The singers get out of tune, the timpanist can come in halfway through the second act and fall over the gong.
** "The Sound of £££'s for Mr Johnson", Evening Standard (19 March 1965), p. 8
* The film has to tell the composer what it need, then it's in the lap of the gods, isn't it, as to whether others think it works or not.
** Laurie Johnson interview (14 August 2018)
# Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Noelle Hill (born 26 May 1975) is an American singer–songwriter, rapper, producer, and actress, most famous for being a member of the Fugees and for her solo album, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.

## Quotes

* How you gonna win when you ain't right within?
** Doo Wop, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (1998)
* If everyone is a product of this society, who will say the things that need to be said, and do the things that need to be done, without compromise? Truth will never start out popular in a world more concerned with marketability than righteousness. It will initially suffer ridicule and even violence — yet ultimately it is undeniable. All of humanity is living in a dream world, but suffering real consequences.
** "THE MIDDLE MAN", By: Lauryn Hill (2003)
* It's emotional warfare telling the people we love, the most, the truth about ourselves.
** MTV Unplugged 2.0, By: Lauryn Hill (2002)

## Quotes about Lauryn Hill

* From the moment I first heard Lauryn Hill's song about becoming a mother, I knew that I would name my child Zion. "Now the joy of my world is in Zion / Now the joy of my world is in Zion," she sang. I wept out loud the first time I heard the song. It touched me to my soul.
** Cori Bush The Forerunner: A Story of Pain and Perseverance in America (2022) p 96

## External links

* Official site
# Laurette Taylor

Laurette Taylor (born Loretta Helen Cooney; April 1, 1884 – December 7, 1946) was an American actress, primarily on stage, with some forays into silent film. She was a preeminent figure of the Early-to-Mid 20th century theater.

## Quotes

* Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them.
** The Quality You Need Most, from Green Book Magazine (April 1914)
* Acting is the physical representation of a mental picture and the projection of an emotional concept.
** The Quality You Need Most, from Green Book Magazine (April 1914)
* Beautiful women seldom want to act. They are afraid of emotion and they do not try to extract anything from a character that they are portraying, because in expressing emotion they may encourage crow's feet and laughing wrinkles. They avoid anything that will disturb their placidity of countenance, for placidity of countenance insures a smooth skin.
** The Quality You Need Most, from Green Book Magazine (April 1914)
* Instinct is the direct connection with truth.
** The Quality You Need Most, from Green Book Magazine (April 1914)

## External links

* The Sheila Variations: In Memory of Laurette Taylor
* Laurette Taylor on IMDb
# Laurie L. Patton

Laurie L. Patton is an American academic, author, and poet who serves as the 17th president of Middlebury College.

## Quotes

* Barring any new discoveries, neither internal evidence from the Veda, nor archaeological evidence, nor linguistic substrata alone can make the turning point in any given hypothesis. This situation should be the most persuasive case of all for scholars to allow the questions to unite them in interdependence, rather than suspicions to divide them in monistic theory-making. It is far too early for scholars to begin taking positions and constructing scenarios as if they were truths.
** Bryant, E. F., & Patton, L. L. (2005). The Indo-Aryan controversy : evidence and inference in Indian history. Routledge p. 17
# Laurie Zoloth

Laurie Zoloth (born 1950) is an American bioethicist and Dean of University of Chicago Divinity School.

## Quotes
### "﻿Interrupting Your Life: An Ethics for the Coming Storm" (2014)

       Presidential Address to the American Academy of Religion, November 23, 2014
* We dig up what is left of life crushed to carbon beneath us, and we burn it: to make important things, really—hospital intensive care units, synthetically derived insulin and steel beams for the new high school library. But we burn it for nothing, too, really, for vanity and emptiness.
* For what are we interrupted? For the grandest dramas and the greatest joys, ... for true loves, for desperate needs ... If you are a moral being, you will have done well to be a being who has broken off, one who has stopped.
* A theology of interruption demands we attend to the interruption as if the interruption were the real, and the other stuff of our lives a distraction.
* The wealthiest have garnered the vast majority of wealth and burned the vast majority of carbon at the expense of the lives and the health of the poor.
* In scriptural texts we think important, the point is made over and over again: Your moral activities can affect the rain, the harvest, and the health of everything you love. The link between moral choices and material outcomes is made continually, and it is received and studied toward normative action. The texts suggest the interruption of desire, of consumption, and of acquisition.

## External links

* Presidential Address to the American Academy of Religion November 23, 2014
# Laurie Anderson

Laurie Anderson (born 5 June 1947) is an American experimental performance artist and musician.

## Quotes
### Big Science (1982)

* Good evening. This is your Captain We are about to attempt a crash landing... Place your tray tables in their upright, locked position Your Captain says: Put your head on your knees Your Captain says: Put your head in your hands... We are going down We are all going down, together... Standby.
** From the Air
* Uh – this is your Captain again You know, I've got a funny feeling I've seen this all before Why? Cause, I'm a caveman Why? Cause, I've got eyes in the back of my head Why? It's the heat. Standby This is the time. And this is the record of the time
** From the Air
* Golden cities. Golden towns And long cars, in long lines and great big signs And they all say: Hallelujah. Yodellayheehoo Every man for himself. Ooo coo coo Golden cities. Golden towns. Thanks for the ride Big Science. Hallelujah. Big Science. Yodellayheehoo
** Big Science
* Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha... Hello? This is your mother, are you there? Are you coming home?...Hello? Is anybody home? Well, you don't know me, but I know you And I've got a message to give to you And I said: okay, who is this really? And the voice said: This is the hand, the hand that takes...Neither snow nor rain nor gloom of night Shall stay these couriers from the swift completion Of their appointed rounds
** O Superman
* Let X equal X You know, it could be you It's a sky-blue sky The satellites are out tonight Let X equal X...
You know, I could write a book And this book would be thick enough to stun an ox 'cause I can see the future, and it's a place... Thanks for all the presents... Thanks for introducing me to the Chief
** Let X = X
* She said, it looks Don't you think it looks a lot like rain? He said, isn't it? Isn't it just, isn't it just like a woman? She said, it's hard It's just hard, it's just kind of hard to say
** It Tango

### United States Live (1984)

* Paradise Is exactly like Where you are right now Only much much Better.
** "Language is a Virus (from Outer Space)", opening lines; the song title itself is a quote of William S. Burroughs.

### Home of the Brave (1986)

* And he said: Now, I'm the Soul Doctor, and you know, language is a virus from outer space, and hearing your name is better than seeing your face.
** "Difficult Listening Hour" (https://youtube.com/watch?v=mua8Pr6uRso at 1:14:35)

### Homeland (2010)

* And you know the reason I really love the stars is that we cannot hurt them. We can't burn them or melt them or make them overflow. We can't flood them or blow them up or turn them out. But we are reaching for them. We are reaching for them.
** "Another Day in America" (2010)

## External links

* LaurieAnderson.com
* Talk Normal: The Laurie Anderson Anthology (Liner Notes). Archived from the original on 2001-01-11.
* Some Notes on Seeing: The Waters Reglitterized By Laurie Anderson for exhibition 2005
* Eclectic Laurie Anderson visits Ames. Archived from the original on 2003-08-18.
* NASA Art Program. Archived from the original on 1998-12-01.
# Jean Varenne

Jean Varenne (12 June 1926 – 12 July 1997) was a French Indologist and a prominent figure of the Nouvelle Droite. He taught Sanskrit at the Aix-Marseille University, then at Jean Moulin University Lyon 3, where he was eventually nominated professor emeritus. Varenne has also been a visiting professor at the University of Chicago, and at other universities in India, Cambodia and Mexico.

## Quotes

* The archaism of the Gāthās would incline us to situate Zarathuštra in the very beginning of the first millennium BCE, if not even earlier.
** Jean Varenne (2006:43) quoted in Elst, Koenraad (2018). Still no trace of an Aryan invasion: A collection on Indo-European origins.
# Jean le Rond d'Alembert

Jean le Rond d'Alembert (16 November 1717 – 29 October 1783) was a French mathematician, mechanician, physicist and philosopher. He was also co-editor with Denis Diderot of the Encyclopédie.

## Quotes

* Rien n'est plus incontestable que l'existence de nos sensations; ...
** Nothing is more incontestable than the existence of our sensations; ...
*** in the Discours préliminaire de l’Encyclopédie.

## Quotes about Jean le Rond d'Alembert

* D'Alembert was always surrounded by controversy. … he was the lightning rod which drew sparks from all the foes of the philosophes. … Unfortunately he carried this... pugnacity into his scientific research and once he had entered a controversy, he argued his cause with vigour and stubbornness. He closed his mind to the possibility that he might be wrong...
** Thomas L. Hankins (1990). Jean D'Alembert: Science and the Enlightenment. Taylor & Francis. p. 236. ISBN 2881243991.
# Jean Zerbo

Jean Zerbo (27 December 1943–) is a Malian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who has serves as the Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Bamako.

## Quotes

* I believe that the religious have two main tasks. On the one hand, as Ezekiel says, to behave like sentinels, not spies: when there is a threat we must warn and try to solve the problem before it explodes, it is a very big responsibility and if there are so many problems it means that the sentinels did not carry out their job well. Then we must be intercessors and when there is hostility between two groups, families or people, we have to mediate in truth. It is also essential to always keep prayer alive for the Country and for the protagonists so that God converts the heart. Now, it can be said, that the heart of many is of stone, it is up to us to make it flesh. Religions here seek a common line to promote peace.
** Cardinal Zerbo: Catholic sentinels and mediators among violence and conflict (24 June 2020)
# Jean Toomer

Jean Toomer (December 26, 1894 – March 30, 1967) was an American poet and novelist and an important figure of the Harlem Renaissance.

## Quotes
### Poems from Cane (1923)

* And there, a field rat, startled, squealing bleeds, His belly close to ground. I see the blade, Blood-stained, continue cutting weeds and shade
** from "Reapers"
* O singers, resinous and soft your songs Above the sacred whisper of the pines, Give virgin lips to cornfield concubines, Bring dreams of Christ to dusky cane-lipped throngs.
** from "Georgia Dusk"
* Superstition saw Something it had never seen before: Brown eyes that loved without a trace of fear, Beauty so sudden for that time of year.
** from "November Cotton Flower"
* One seed becomes An everlasting song, a singing tree, Caroling softly souls of slavery, What they were, and what they are to me, Caroling softly souls of slavery.
** from "Song of the Son"

## External links

* Review of Portage Potential
* Review of Shadows of Heaven
* Modern American Poetry: Jean Toomer
* Essay on Cane
* Online Toomer bio
* Essay on Toomer and Class
# Lou Leon Guerrero

Lourdes Aflague "Lou" Leon Guerrero (born 8 November 1950) is a Guamanian politician. She currently serves as the current Governor of Guam since 7 January 2019. She served 5 terms as a senator in the Guam Legislature from 1995 to 2007 and served for 14 years as president and CEO of the Bank of Guam.

## Quotes

* We know that community testing helps us quickly identify new COVID cases, so we can isolate the virus. Please get tested. We know that vaccines and boosters are effective at preventing severe illness, hospitalizations and death. Please, go get vaccinated and go get boosted.
** Lou Leon Guerrero (2022) cited in: "Governor: 'I am not announcing any new restrictions at this time'" in Pacific Daily News, 11 January 2022.
# Lou Diamond Phillips

Lou Diamond Phillips (born February 17, 1962) is a Filipino American actor and director.

## Quotes

* My overall philosophy was to continue to do good work, to expand my range, and to show that range. I think Hollywood can certainly try to put you into boxes. My entire career has been somewhat of a reflection of my college theater experience, and that was, I did everything. Not only did I do Shakespeare and Molière, but I did Mamet and John Patrick Shanley; contemporary playwrights. I was writing in college, I was directing in college, and when I got to Hollywood, I tried to continue that. I think my first three roles in Hollywood are somewhat indicative of that. You’ve got 'La Bamba,' then 'Stand and Deliver,' then 'Young Guns.' All three films are very different, and all three characters are extremely different.
** On his varied career in “Interview: Lou Diamond Phillips talks legendary career, joining ‘Conversations in L.A.’ and his future behind the camera” in AXS (2019 Mar 22)
* Once you wrap your brain around playing your age, it's a very, very positive thing…
** On being an older actor in “Lou Diamond Phillips Gets Paternal on 'Prodigal Son'” in AARP Magazine (2019 Sept 23)
* When I did La Bamba and Stand and Deliver, I marched with Cesar Chavez and fasted with him. Whatever I have directed, I've flipped roles to be more inclusive of ethnic, female and LBGQ performers. This is a flag I've waved from the beginning. I got into the door and kept my foot in it so others could come in behind me.
** On pushing for diversity in Hollywood in “Lou Diamond Phillips Gets Paternal on 'Prodigal Son'” in AARP Magazine (2019 Sept 23)
* I have never felt that Hollywood is mine, and I've never felt like the King of Hollywood. I've always felt lucky to be included... to be invited to the party. I guess because I've never expected my career to be as successful as it has been – I'd still be acting for free in Dallas, Texas if La Bamba had never come along. This has always been my love and my passion – my work – and so to be doing it at the level I'm doing, I'm quite happy…
** On never truly being included in Hollywood in “An Interview with Lou Diamond Phillips” in IGN (2012 May 20)
# Lou Holtz

Lou Holtz (born January 6, 1937, in Follansbee, West Virginia) is a former NCAA football head coach, and is currently an author and a motivational speaker who has spoken to the likes of Fortune 500 companies on topics such as the importance of teamwork and goal setting.

## Attributed

* The next flag they plant will be all white, and it'll be surrender.
** On Michigan State's flag-planting, as attributed by John Walters, "Cool Hand on the remote", Sports Illustrated.com, 19 September 2005
* Ya know, Hitler was a great leader, too.
** On Michigan Wolverines head coach Rich Rodriguez, as attributed by Dick Weiss, "Lou Holtz sorry for Hitler line", New York Daily News.com, 17 October 2008
* He had shoulder surgery on his elbow.
** Attributed by Ben Weiximann, "Top 15 Funniest Lou Holtz Quotes", TheBleacherReport.com. Also see "Say What??? ESPN Broadcaster... a little confused...".
* They say a tie is like kissing your sister. I guess that is better than kissing your brother.
** Attributed by Ben Weiximann, "Top 15 Funniest Lou Holtz Quotes", TheBleacherReport.com.
* On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.
** Attributed by Ben Weiximann, "Top 15 Funniest Lou Holtz Quotes", TheBleacherReport.com.
* If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
** Attributed by Ben Weiximann, "Top 15 Funniest Lou Holtz Quotes", TheBleacherReport.com.
# Lou Krieger

Lou Krieger is a poker expert.

## Quotes

* Poker is a microcosm of all we admire and disdain about capitalism and democracy. It can be rough-hewn or polished, warm or cold, charitable and caring or hard and impersonal. It is fickle and elusive, but ultimately it is fair, and right, and just.
** More Hold'Em Excellence: A Winner for Life‎ - Page 4, Lou Krieger - ConJelCo LLC, 1999, ISBN 188607013X, 9781886070134 - 188 pages

## External links

* Biography
# Loungo Matlhaku

Leungo Matlhaku (born 26 March 1995), also known as Loungo Matlhaku is a sprinter from Botswana who competes primarily in the 200 metres. She won a bronze medal in the 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. Additionally, she won several medals at regional level.

## Quotes

* Setting new national records was an indication that athletes were at their peak performance and that the upcoming national meets would be mouthwatering with the positive performance.
** MATLHAKU TEBOGO SET NEW RECORDS . by Tebogo Lephogole (February 2021),Retrieved on 05 November 2022
# Louvre Come Back to Me!

Louvre Come Back to Me! is a 1962 Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Chuck Jones. It is the last Pepé Le Pew cartoon of the "classic" Warner Bros. animation age.

## Dialogue

    [last lines]
    Mona Lisa Painting: [as Pepé's stink affects the paintings] I can tell you chaps one thing. It's not always easy to hold this smile.

## Voice cast

* Mel Blanc as Pepé le Pew.
* Julie Bennett as Penelope Pussycat / Mona Lisa. (uncredited)
# John Hewitt (poet)

John Harold Hewitt (28 October 1907 – 22 June 1987) was an Ulster poet from Belfast.

## Quotes

* We would be strangers in the Capitol; this is our country also, no-where else; and we shall not be outcast on the world.
** "The Colony", in The Bell, vol. 18, no. 11 (1953), pp. 33–7
* I'm an Ulsterman, of planter stock. I was born in the island of Ireland, so secondarily I'm an Irishman. I was born in the British archipelago and English is my native tongue, so I am British. The British archipelago consists of offshore islands to the continent of Europe, so I'm European. This is my hierarchy of values and so far as I am concerned, anyone who omits one step in that sequence of values is falsifying the situation.
** In The Irish Times (4 July 1974)
# John Heyl Vincent

John Heyl Vincent (23 February 1832 – 9 May 1920) was an American Methodist Episcopal bishop.

## Quotes
### Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

    Quotes reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895).
* Oh, wonderful teacher! Oh, favored disciples! Oh, famous school — that built no marble halls, and collected no grand library, but turned all life into opportunity; made houses and streets and seaside and mountain-tops, places of discipline and recitation and delight! Oh, blest example — shining this day on the pages of history — our example, our dream, our desire!
** p. 62.
* He was Himself forsaken that none of His children might ever need to utter His cry of loneliness.
** p. 73.
* We are pilgrims, not settlers; this earth is our inn, not our home.
** p. 206.
* At some time, here or hereafter, every account must be settled, and every debt paid in full.
** p. 361.
* He that would speak Divine things in a language which living men of to-day can comprehend, must keep up with the researches and discoveries of men who study nature, and put her words into the speech of the present.
** p. 414.
* There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm.
** p. 556.
* In the highest class of God's school of suffering we learn not resignation nor patience, but rejoicing in tribulation.
** p. 569.
* To live a godly life is the best way to light up a lesson that the teacher can possibly employ.
** p. 572.
* The teacher should use illustrations for the better teaching of the lesson, and never to fill up time, to amuse the class, or to display his own genius.
** p. 572.
# John Hill Burton

John Hill Burton FRSE (22 August 1809 – 10 August 1881) was a Scottish advocate, historian and economist. The author of Life and Correspondence of David Hume, he was secretary of the Scottish Prison Board (1854–77), and Historiographer Royal (1867–1881).

## Quotes

* To every man of our Saxon race endowed with full health and strength, there is committed, as if it were the price he pays for these blessings, the custody of a restless demon, for which he is doomed to find ceaseless excitement, either in honest work, or some less profitable or more mischievous occupation. Countless have been the projects devised by the wit of man to open up for this fiend fields of exertion great enough for the absorption of its tireless energies, and none of them is more hopeful than the great world of books, if the demon is docile enough to be coaxed into it. Then will its erratic restlessness be sobered by the immensity of the sphere of exertion, and the consciousness that, however vehemently and however long it may struggle, the resources set before it will not be exhausted when the life to which it is attached shall have faded away ; and hence, instead of dreading the languor of inaction, it will have to summon all its resources of promptness and activity to get over any considerable portion of the ground within the short space allotted to the life of man.
** The Book-Hunter (1862), p. 106; quoted as an epigraph by Pisanus Fraxi, Centuria Librorum Absconditorum (1879), p. vi
# John Hirasaki

John Hirasaki (born 1941) is an American engineer who was employed by the United States' National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) during the Apollo 11 mission.

## Quotes

* ... essentially, NASA was quite colorblind. If you could do the job, that was what mattered.
   * NASA Johnson Space Center Oral History Project Edited Oral History Transcript:John K. Hirasaki. nasa.gov (March 6, 2009). Retrieved on June 2, 2018.