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# Janna Levin

Janna J. Levin (born 1967) is a theoretical cosmologist. Much of her work deals with looking for evidence to support the proposal that our universe might be finite in size due to its having a nontrivial topology.

## Quotes

* "(By moving) I'm making sounds on the drums of spacetime"… "Space itself wobbles and rumbles like a drum... Black holes can bang on spacetime like mallets on a drum"
** (2010) http://youtube.com/watch?v=eLz9TvxGoKs
* People used to try to hijack quantum mechanics and its inherent mystery to cast a cloud around determinism, in the hope that free will could survive modern physics. But that never worked very well. Since when does random chance equal free will? The only salvation for volition is a soul and faith and you’re not allowed to ask me about that.
** How the Universe Got its Spots (2002)
* It might seem limited to impose our human perception to try to deduce the grandest cosmic code. But we are the product of the universe and I think it can be argued that the entire cosmic code is imprinted in us. Just as our genes carry the memory of our biological ancestors, our logic carries the memory of our cosmological ancestry. We are not just imposing human-centric notions on a cosmos independent of us. We are progeny of the cosmos and our ability to understand it is an inheritance.
** How the Universe Got its Spots (2002)
* Topology and number theory are my faves.
** Barnard Physics Mechanics PHYS BC2001 (Autumn 2010)
# Nancy Rabalais

Nancy Nash Rabalais is an American marine ecologist.

## Quotes

* We need to make decisions that make us less consumptive and reduce our reliance on nitrogen. It's like a carbon footprint. But you can reduce your nitrogen footprint. I do it by not eating much meat -- I still like a little every now and then -- not using corn oil, driving a car that I can put nonethanol gas in and get better gas mileage. Just things like that that can make a difference. So I'm challenging, not just you, but I challenge a lot of people, especially in the Midwest -- think about how you're treating your land and how you can make a difference. So my steps are very small steps. To change the type of agriculture in the US is going to be many big steps. And it's going to take political and social will for that to happen. But we can do it. I strongly believe we can translate the science, bridge it to policy and make a difference in our environment. We all want a clean environment.
** The "dead zone" of the Gulf of Mexico (November 2017)
# Roland W. Schmitt

Roland Walter Schmitt (July 24, 1923 – March 31, 2017 ) was a physicist, business executive and the nineteenth president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

## Quotes

* We hardly know the limit of intelligence of individuals who can fruitfully contribute to science in one way or another if they are given the proper training – including graduate training – as assistants, as supervised or semi-independent researchers, as team members. Individuals with any of a very broad spectrum of intellectual attributes can contribute to science.
** in Criteria for Federal Support of Science: A Panel Discussion Arranged by the Division of Physical Sciences, National Research Council, March 11, 1968. National Academy of Sciences. 1969. p. 17.
# Santa Barraza

Santa Barraza (born April 7, 1951) is a Chicana mixed-media artist and painter who is well-known for her colorful, retablo style painting. Barraza pulls inspiration from her own mestiza ancestry and from Pre-Columbian art. Barraza is considered to be an important artist in the Chicano art movement.

## Quotes

* It was very important for me to move back to Kingsville because my work is all about the land and the terrain and the cactus and the myths and legends and people. Especially the people, the Mexican community.
* We can take the iconography and create our own iconography.
** A&M-Kingsville Professor Explores Blurring of Borders Through Art (26 December 2014)
* My artwork is about resistance, de-colonization, self-definition, self-empowerment and survival. I draw upon myths, family folklore, and indigenismo (a native way of being). I reinterpret and register all these as cultural, visual, iconographic manifestations of my identity. As the subject matter of my art, I exalt a lineage of women, energized from a sacred space of creation.
** Santa Barraza, Artist of the Borderlands (2001)
# Carmen Lomas Garza

Carmen Lomas Garza (born 1948) is an American artist and illustrator.

## Quotes

* My parents did not trust…There was a lot of mistrust…There was this skepticism about white people because of what they had gone through. And I didn't associate with any white people except when I got to junior high.
** On the racial divides in her household and community in “Oral history interview with Carmen Lomas Garza, 1997 Apr. 10-May 27” (Smithsonian Archives of American Art)
* In the end, you know, this whole thing about the feminist movement and the feminist art movement, in the end, when it comes down to it, as a Chicana artist, I know what my father has gone through, I know what my husband and my brothers have gone through, and I know what my nephews are going to go through with discrimination and racism. You know, I have to support them. They are my family. And I've seen it now more and more where white women are turning their back against men of color. You know, so their support isn't there as much as they vowed to do. You know, even though they're a minority…
** On where she stands as a Chicana artist in “Oral history interview with Carmen Lomas Garza, 1997 Apr. 10-May 27” (Smithsonian Archives of American Art)
* I wanted to have these kinds of images because other Chicano artists were doing imagery that was very political, sending messages about oppression and discrimination, honoring the great muralists in Mexico, and protesting the Vietnam war because a lot of Chicanos had been drafted into the army. There were a lot of protests against the war and the draft. I just wanted to focus on the every day life that we’re all very familiar with. We needed to re-celebrate that: the beautiful things that we have always known and grown up with…
** On depicting everyday life for Mexican Americans in “Carmen Lomas Garza in the Artist Studio, April 2011” (de Young Museum of Art)
* I grew up with a lot of discrimination and racism though we were in South Texas it was still very prevalent and I had to deal with a lot of it in the public school system. In the elementary school we were punished for speaking Spanish, physically punished for speaking Spanish. So you’re made to feel ashamed. When the farm workers came through Kingsville on their march to Austin, the capital of Texas, we were very excited. The most obvious issues that were being discussed were the violence against the Mexicans and the farm workers, anybody who wasn’t the right color was subject to being arrested, to being beat up by the Texas Rangers. It was at that point that I made the decision that no matter what it took from me I was going to be a Chicana artist, no matter what! Because here was this whole population of my people who were being unfairly treated and if I could use my artwork as a vehicle towards bringing a greater understanding as who were as a people: our culture, our language, out customs, our mannerisms. Everything about our lives needed to be brought out in a fine art format…
** On becoming a Chicana artist in “CARMEN LOMAS GARZA – IN HER OWN WORDS” in Latinopia (2010 Mar 6)
# Saeed Jones

Saeed Jones (born November 26, 1985) is an American poet.

## Quotes

* Something you see in the book is my tendency to self-bully. It started when I was a gay black kid growing up in the suburbs. I wasn’t bullied by individuals; kids weren’t shoving me into lockers or calling me slurs to my face. Shame—electrified by racism and homophobia—was enforced by the broader culture though, and in response, I started bullying myself. I started saying cruel things about myself to myself. While I’ve generally grown out of self-hate, an ease with being tough and candid about myself to myself is an integral aspect of my writing…
** On confronting self-hatred in his book How to Fight For Our Lives in “Interviews: Saeed Jones” in BookPage (2019 Oct 7)
* Being gay isn't a choice, just like being black isn't a choice…I don't stop. I do not give up. I do not take America's 'no' to my identity for an answer.
** On being Black and gay in the United States in “'We're All Struggling': Writer Saeed Jones Reflects On Identity And Acceptance” in NPR (2019 Nov 6)
* I’m obsessed with manhood as a brutal and artful performance. My mind always finds its way back to the crossroad where sex, race, and power collide. Journeys, transformation, as well as dashed attempts to transform, fascinate me as well.
** On masculinity as a performance (as quoted in “Saeed Jones” in Poets.org)
* If you look at the poems in Prelude, you can identify the later material by identifying the poems with more white space and unexpected line breaks. Grief did that to me and my writing. It exploded my expectations and introduced these blank pockets of deep feeling. My prose writing became more fluid and lyrical…
** On how losing his mother affected his writing in “You and I Have Peril in Common: The Millions Interviews Saeed Jones” in The Millions (2019 Nov 21)
# Tomás Rivera

Tomás Rivera (December 22, 1935 – May 16, 1984) was a Chicano author, poet, and educator.

## Quotes

* I wanted to document, somehow, the strength of those people that I had known . . . when the migrant worker was living without any kind of protection.
** On his novel . . . y no se lo tragó la tierra (as quoted in “Tomás Rivera: December 22, 1935–May 16, 1984”)
* When people asked what I wanted to be, I'd tell them a writer. They were surprised or indifferent. If people don't read, what is a writer?
** On his wanting to become a writer at an early age in "From Poverty to Power: The Inspiring Story of Tomas Rivera" (TeenInk)
* …And I was only concerned about the migrant worker, the people I had known best. I had been a migrant worker. So I began to see that my role—if I want to call it that—would be to document that period of time, but giving it some kind of spiritual strength or spiritual history.
** On writing about migrant workers (as quoted in “CUANDO LLEGUEMOS/WHEN WE ARRIVE: THE PARADOX OF MIGRATION IN TOMAS RIVERA'S "... Y NO SE LO TRAGO LA TIERRA")
# Larry McMurtry

Larry Jeff McMurtry (born June 3, 1936) is an American novelist, essayist, bookseller and screenwriter whose work is predominantly set in either the old West or in contemporary Texas.

## Quotes

* A woman's love is like the morning dew. It's just as likely to settle on a horse turd as a rose.
** Leaving Cheyenne (1963).
* "It's really quite simple. Mr. Isinglass robbed my father, destroyed my mother, exiled my brothers, and ruined me. If I catch him asleep I'll kill him. I do hope you like this pudding. I had to ride quite a way to find the plums."
** Anything For Billy (1988).

### The Late Child (1995)

* "We choose our lovers for their flaws, you know," Mel said. "People would be bored shitless if they had to love only the good in someone they care about."
* "Pat, did they get you for the embezzling?" Harmony asked.
    "That, and the fact that I got stopped with a few pills in my car," Pat said. "Seventeen thousand pills, to be exact".
# Estela Portillo-Trambley

Estela Portillo-Trambley (January 16, 1926 - December 1, 1998) was a Chicana poet and playwright.

## Quotes

* I was not really of the barrio, but the barrio was an important part of my life. Spanish was my first language; English was the language of my reading world. This was the world I lived in—an idealistic world, and unreal world that filled my senses with hopes, with joy and identification…
** On her upbringing (as quoted in the book Chicana Ways: Conversations with Ten Chicana Writers)
* Deep in my psyche, I am no different than any American—I have a greater command of their language than they do. I am a composite of all of the heroines in the books I’ve read—legendary, mythological, fictional ones. I wonder if I am real? I want to be!
** On how she would describe herself (as quoted in the book Chicana Ways: Conversations with Ten Chicana Writers)
* I’ve always been at the peripheries of the Chicano Movement because the Chicano world does not consider me Chicana enough. They, however, respect me as a writer…
** On being indirectly involved with the Chicano movement (as quoted in the book Chicana Ways: Conversations with Ten Chicana Writers)
* When I was a child, poverty was a common suffering for everybody around me. A common suffering is a richness in itself.
** On her childhood (as quoted in the book Latinas in the United States, set: A Historical Encyclopedia)
# Emily Prager

Emily Prager (born April 21 1948 in Texas) is an American author and journalist.

## Quotes

* The only way to escape one's fate is to enjoy it.
** A Visit from the Footbinder
# William Saletan

William Saletan is an American journalist, who writes for Slate and the New York Times.

## Quotes

* If we’re going to start calling out religious and political groups for extremism, we could start at home with Republicans. Too many of them spew animus. Too many foment sectarianism. Too many sit by, or make excuses, as others appeal to tribalism. If Obama were to treat them the way they say he should treat Islam — holding the entire faith accountable for its ugliest followers — they’d squeal nonstop about slander and demagogy. They’re lucky that’s not his style.
** "Go Ahead and Say It, Mr. President", Slate (24 February 2015)

## External links

* Articles written by Saletan at Slate.com
* Video discussions involving Saletan on Bloggingheads.tv
# Historical fiction

Historical fiction is a literary genre in which a fictional plot takes place in the setting of particular real historical events.

## Quotes

* I am fully sensible that an historical romance, founded on the House of Saxe Coburg, might be much more to the purpose of profit or popularity than such pictures of domestic life in country villages as I deal in. But I could no more write a romance than an epic poem. I could not sit seriously down to write a serious romance under any other motive than to save my life; and if it were indispensable for me to keep it up and never relax into laughing at myself or other people, I am sure I should be hung before I had finished the first chapter.
** Jane Austen, letter to James Stanier Clarke (1 April 1816)
** The Novels and Letters of Jane Austen, ed. R. Brimley Johnson, vol. 1 (New York: Frank S. Holby, 1906), p. xxviii
* His is a mind brooding over antiquity—scorning "the present ignorant time." He is "laudator temporis acti"—a "prophesier of things past." The old world is to him a crowded map; the new one a dull, hateful blank.
** William Hazlitt, The Spirit of the Age (1825)
* All the time I was at work on the Two Cities, I read no books but such as had the air of time in them.
** Charles Dickens, letter to John Forster (2 May 1860)
** The Letters of Charles Dickens, vol. 2 (London: Chapman and Hall, 1879), p. 113
* Fills Ilion, Rome, or any town you like Of olden time with timeless Englishmen.
** Edwin Arlington Robinson, "Ben Jonson Entertains a Man from Stratford", in The Man Against the Sky (1920), p. 42
* Those who put the historical novel in a category apart are forgetting that what every novelist does is only to interpret, by means of the technique which his period affords, a certain number of past events; his memories, whether consciously or unconsciously recalled, whether personal or impersonal, are all woven of the same stuff as history itself.
** Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian (1955)
* Black Robe is an historical novel, in a way, but it doesn't give you the heavy padding that historical novels do. They do a lot of research and then they must put the research in. I don't believe in that. Do a minimum of research, and then keep it out. Don't let it impede the story.
** Brian Moore, in Rosemary Hartill, Writers Revealed (1989)

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Historical fiction on Wikipedia
# Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans

Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans is a direct-to-video animated superhero film, and a crossover between the television series Teen Titans Go! and Teen Titans, both of which are adapted from the DC Comics superhero team of the same name. Warner Bros. announced that a crossover featuring the Titans from both series was in the works.
    Directed and produced by Jeff Mednikow. Screenplay by Marly Halpern-Graser and Jeremy Adams. Based on Characters appearing in comic books published by DC Comics.

## Robin

    2003: Remember, we have to play along with this to save our Earth. Do not go too hard on those "baby versions" of us.
    2013: [throws a bird rang at his 2003 counterpart's head] "Baby versions" I HEARD THAT!
    2003: Okay, maybe rough them up a little.

## Dialogue

    [The Teen Titans meet the 2003 versions of themselves]
    2013 Beast Boy: Hasn't we seen them?
    2013 Starfire: [dreamily] Their Robin is so handsome.
    2013 Robin: Look at those guys. So tall… and such big hands.
    Infinite Earth Robins: Titans of Infinite Earts… GO!
    2013 Starfire: Tamaranean battle formation Gleebrax!
    Infinite Earth Starfires: RECKZAR!

## Cast

* Scott Menville as both Robins
* Tara Strong as both Ravens
* Khary Payton as both Cyborgs
* Hynden Walch as both Starfires
* Greg Cipes as both Beast Boys
* Kevin Michael Richardson as Hexagon and both Trigons
* Robert Morse as Santa Claus
* Grey Griffin as Mrs. Claus
* Rhys Darby as Master of Games
* Sean Maher as Nightwing (DC Animated Movie Universe)
* "Weird Al" Yankovic as Gentleman Ghost and Darkseid
# Ibijoke Faborode

Ibijoke Faborode is the co-founder and CEO of Nigerian nonprofit ElectHER.

## Quote

* I believe in good standards of living. I believe in hard work but I also know how to enjoy life and that is my motivation.
* I like the finer things in life and I tell people that I’m not apologetic because I work hard
* You can not blow the other man with the tower, one day you will have to come down and face the people.
* I believe in impact, and adding value and those are the things that drive me.
* take every day one at a time. I get pragmatic, if it’s not working, I look for another way. I am a solution-oriented person.
* When you have a populace and you have five percent deciding for others or you have 95 percent of men deciding for the society, it can’t be inclusive.
# George Chakiris

George Chakiris (born September 16, 1934) is an American dancer and actor. He is best known for his appearance in the film version of West Side Story as Bernardo, for which he won both the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor.

## Quotes

* My personal way to be a hero... is to be a vegetarian.
** At the pre-show of the musical Loving the Silent Tears, as quoted in "That Musical About Veganism Starring Jon Secada and Based on the Poetry of Supreme Master Ching Hai, Explained", LA Weekly (October 30, 2012).
* ‘Be vegan’ and ‘make peace’ are fantastic four words to think about in daily life and in everything we do. Being vegan means to me that we not only eat healthy foods, but we have respect for all life on the planet. And that’s important. And ‘make peace,’ that’s important as well. Peace really has to start with us, individually. And then hopefully it will spread, and we emit that, so to speak, in our behavior in general and the things we do, whether it is private or work.
** "In-Depth with Loving the Silent Tears Guest Speaker: George Chakiris", GodsDirectContact.org (2012).
# Doris Day

Doris Day (born Doris Mary Anne Kappelhoff; 3 April 1922 – 13 May 2019) was an American actor, singer, and animal welfare advocate.

## Quotes

* The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
** As quoted in Doris Day : Her Own Story (1975) as told to A. E. Hotchner
* I’ve been through everything. I always said I was like those round-bottomed circus dolls — you know, those dolls you could push down and they’d come back up? I’ve always been like that. I’ve always said, "No matter what happens, if I get pushed down, I’m going to come right back up."
** "People Who Matter: An Interview with Doris Day" by Cameron Woo and Nellie McKay in The Bark, Issue 34, (January - February 2006)

## Misattributed

* Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.
** Though she is quoted as saying this in a 1996 interview, she is also quoted as saying it is a maxim which she follows as a Christian Scientist; it comes from the Christian Science Hymnal, Hymn 249, "O, when we see God's mercy" by Vivian Burnett: "Our gratitude is riches, complaint is poverty."

## External links

* Official website
* Doris Day Animal Foundation
* Doris Day on IMDb
# Leslie Z. Benet

Leslie Z. Benet (17 May 1937) is an influential pharmaceutical scientist and a professor at the University of California, San Francisco.

## Quotes

* Pharmacokinetics may be simply defined as what the body does to the drug, as opposed to pharmacodynamics, which may be defined as what the drug does to the body. Benet, Leslie Z. (1984). "Pharmacokinetics: Basic Principles and Its Use as a Tool in Drug Metabolism". in Mitchell, Jerry R; Horning, Marjorie G. Drug Metabolism and Drug Toxicity. New York, NY: Raven Press. p. 199.
* Even though it’s applied science we’re dealin’ with, it still is – science! Benet, Leslie Z. (16 June 1994), "Panel Discussion", Bio-International ’94. Conference on Bioavailability, Bioequivalence and Pharmacokinetic Studies, Munich, Germany
# Michael Dine

Michael Dine (born 12 August 1953) is an American theoretical physicist, specializing in elementary particle physics, supersymmetry, string theory, and physics beyond the Standard Model.

## Quotes

* We have stressed that the cosmological constant (i.e. the dark energy) presents potentially the most striking failure of naturalness. One might hope to solve this problem by introducing new degrees of freedom. Supersymmetry helps to some extent.
** Supersymmetry and String Theory: Beyond the Standard Model. Cambridge University Press. 2015. p. 437.
* The only string theories we really understand well have exact supersymmetry.
** (2 August 2019)"Loose Ends: String Theory and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory". (quote at 40:20 of 1:27:24)