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# Leonard Bacon

Leonard Bacon (February 19, 1802 – December 24, 1881) was an American Congregational preacher and writer.

## Quotes

* "Thou shalt not get found out" is not one of God's commandments, and no man can be saved by trying to keep it.
** Reported in Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 511.
* "I insist that my positive knowledge, however small, is not to be set aside for the gentleman's ignorance, however great."
** Reported in Friends' Intelligencer and Journal (1898) Volume 55, p. 210. No earlier source for this quotation is given, or has otherwise been identified. Several variants are found elsewhere, e.g., ""I cannot allow my opponent's Ignorance, however vast, to offset my knowledge, however small," reported in The Kingston Daily Freeman, Volume 33, Number 167, 3 May 1904, p. 4; and "my knowledge, however small, must outweigh your ignorance, however large," reported in Semi-Centennial (1939), p. 5, by Leonard Bacon, the great-grandson of the preacher. This quote has recently been mis-attributed to William James.

## External links

* Friend's Intelligencer and Journal
* Kingston Daily Freeman
* Semi-Centennial: Some of the Life and Part of the Opinions of Leonard Bacon
# Leonard Baskin

Leonard Baskin (August 15, 1922 – June 3, 2000) was an American sculptor, illustrator, wood-engraver, printmaker, graphic artist, writer and teacher.

## Quotes

* Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.
** Leonard Baskin, Publishers Weekly (5 April 1965).
* There's a tremendous tendency not to make a statement, not to be committed in that ultimate sense. Photo-realism is the same thing as minimal abstraction. Both are unwilling to say anything about the nature of reality, about their own involvement with reality, the evolvement of forms, their expressive...their deepest involvement with human reality.
** Leonard Baskin Interview (1996) Discussing the State of Contemporary Art. in: Don Gray "Art Essays, Art Criticism & Poems" at jessieevans-dongrayart.com
# Leonard B. Meyer

Leonard B. Meyer (January 12, 1918 – December 30, 2007) was a musicologist, composer, author, and philosopher. He contributed major works in the fields of aesthetic theory in Music, and compositional analysis. Best known for his various musical theories expressed in his book Emotion and Meaning in Music and Style and Music: Theory, History, and Ideology.

## Quotes

* "In 'pure' instrumental music, the strategies chosen by composers to create unity were responsive to the tenets of Romanticism...Even in the absence of an explicit program, motivic continuity created a kind of narrative coherence. Like the chief character in a novel, the 'fortunes' of the main motive--its development, variation, and encounters with other 'protagonists'--served as a source of constancy throughout the unfolding of the musical process."
** Style and Music: Theory, History, and Ideology (1989), ISBN 0226521524
* "Because of the variables and the complexity of their interaction, the data assembled by descriptive musicology yield relatively few observable regularities."
** "Universalism and Relativism in the Study of Ethnic music", Ethnomusicology 4, no. 2:49-54 (1960); reprinted in Reading in Ethnomusicology, p. 270-71.

## External links

* a brief biography
# Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein (August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, author, music lecturer and pianist.

## Quotes

* A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.
** Statement from 1953, quoted in A Wonderful Life : 50 Eulogies to Lift the Spirit (2006) by Cyrus M. Copeland, p. 190
* The Rhapsody is not a composition at all. It's a string of separate paragraphs stuck together — with a thin paste of flour and water… I don’t think there has been such an inspired melodist on this earth since Tchaikovsky… but if you want to speak of a composer, that's another matter.
** Of George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue
** "Why Don't You Run Upstairs and Write a Nice Gershwin Tune?", in The Atlantic Monthly, April 1955.
* Any great work of art … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world — the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.
** "What Makes Opera Grand?", Vogue (December 1958)
* The trouble with you and me, Ned, is that we want everyone in the world to personally love us, and of course that's impossible; you just don't meet everyone in the world.
** Quoted in Ned Rorem Paris Diary (1966)
* To Bach, notes were not just sounds but the very stuff of creation.
** "Leonard Bernstein discusses material & structure in Bach's St. Matthew Passion," Bernstein Century - Bach: St. Matthew Passion / Nypo, Et Al (1999) (at 6:31)
* Callas? She was pure electricity.
** As quoted in Callas: The Art and the Life (1974) by John Ardoin
* Einstein said that "the most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious." So why do so many of us try to explain the beauty of music, thus depriving it of its mystery?
** The Unanswered Question (1976)
* The 20th century has been a badly written drama, from the beginning. The opposite of a Greek drama. Act one: Greed and hypocrisy leading to a genocidal world war, a boom, a crash, totalitarianism. Act two: Greed and hypocrisy leading to a genocidal world war, a boom, a crash, totalitarianism. Act three: Greed and hypocrisy … I don't dare continue.
** Leonard Bernstein: The Gift Of Music
* Perhaps the chief requirement of [the conductor] is that he be humble before the composer; that he never interpose himself between the music and the audience; that all his efforts, however strenuous or glamorous, be made in the service of the composer's meaning - the music itself, which, after all, is the whole reason for the conductor's existence."
** The Cambridge Companion to Conducting, p. 16

## Quotes about Bernstein

* Bernstein has been disclosing musical secrets that have been well known for over 400 years.
** Oscar Levant Memoirs of an Amnesiac (1965)
* Today, he uses music as an accompaniment to his conducting.
** Oscar Levant Memoirs of an Amnesiac (1965)
* It was hard not to pay attention to Lenny, who made sure that was always the case by always being fascinating.
** Mary Rodgers SHY: The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers (2022), written with Jesse Green
# László Széchenyi

László Széchenyi (born Széchenyi László Jenő Mária Henrik Simon in Horpács, 18 February 1879–Budapest, 5 July 1938) was an Austro Hungarian military officer, Imperial Chamberlain, diplomat and venture capitalist.

## Quotes

* War has been the excuse people have made throughout history to take something away from others that didn't belong to them. And it's a never ending cycle. First one group takes away something from the other, then the other wants to take it back, only if they succeed, they take much more. And then it starts all over again. War is caused by greed.
** Visions of Utopia
# László Tisza

László Tisza (July 7, 1907 – April 15, 2009) was Professor of Physics Emeritus at MIT. He was a colleague of famed physicists Edward Teller, Lev Landau and Fritz London, and initiated the two-fluid theory of liquid helium.

## Quotes

* If history has a lesson, it is that the "winner take all" attitude deprives one of the pleasures of being the heir to the best of different traditions, even while avoiding their intolerance against each other.
** as reported by Magdolna Hargittai (2004). Candid science IV: conversations with famous physicists. Imperial College Press. p. 402. ISBN 1860944167.
# László Moholy-Nagy

László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Hungarian painter and photographer as well as professor in the Bauhaus school. He was highly influenced by Constructivism. He was a strong advocate of the integration of technology and industry into the arts.

## Quotes

* My talent lies in the expression of my life and creative power through light, colour and form. As a painter I can convey the essence of life.
** Art of the 20th century, Part 1 by Karl Ruhrberg, Klaus Honnef, Manfred Schneckenburger, Ingo F. Walther, Christiane Fricke (2000) p. 178.
* The photogram, image formation outside the camera is the real key to photography,it embodies the essence... that allows us to capture light on light sensitive material without the use of any camera.
** Art of the 20th century, Part 1 by Karl Ruhrberg, Klaus Honnef, Manfred Schneckenburger, Ingo F. Walther, Christiane Fricke (2000) p. 627.
* The experience of space is not a privilege of the gifted few, but a biological function.
** Moholy-Nagy by László Moholy-Nagy (1970) p. 238.
* Designing is not a profession but an attitude.
** Vision in Motion by László Moholy-Nagy (Chicago, III.: Paul Theobald, 1947) p. 42.

## Quotes about Moholy Nagy

* Not all Constructivists concentrate so strongly on reality. There are those for whom inner life plays an important part, such as the non-Russian Moholy Nagy, Kassak, and Baumeister etc. Their art painting figures often have a more symbolic meaning.. .Sometimes without any direct connection to reality.. .Moholy Nagy’s work is 'l’art pour l’art' - as opposed to El Lissitsky who is demonstrative.. ..in as much as he propagates the Bolshevist morale of not dreaming but doing.
** w:Jacob Bendien, in Richtingen in de Hedendaagsche schilderkunst / Trends in the Present Day Art of Painting, w:Jacob Bendien; W.L & J. Brusse N.V. Rotterdam, 1935 (transl: Anne Porcelijn), pp. 93-98
* Moholy Nagy, [in contrast to El Lissitsky ], does not muddle the various technical areas, but limits each technique to its own area. Later, when he applies himself more to photography and film [in America], he champions pure photography and film and opposes the imitation of the art of painting in these areas.
** w:Jacob Bendien, in Richtingen in de Hedendaagsche schilderkunst / Trends in the Present Day Art of Painting, w:Jacob Bendien; W.L & J. Brusse N.V. Rotterdam, 1935 (transl: Anne Porcelijn), pp. 93-98

## External links

* http://moholy-nagy.org/ Moholy-Nagi Foundation with extended biography, list of publications and many art -images]
# László Német

László Német (September 7, 1956 –) is a Serbian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who serves as the bishop of the Diocese of Zrenjanin.

## Quotes

* Waging war costs a great deal; however, being bombed even more, years of international sanctions and the damage inflicted by the NATO bombing in 1999—which has yet to be repaired—have been very hard on the economy, especially as it involves industry and the transportation infrastructure. Serbia has been thrown back at least 50 years.
** Serbian Catholics are joining exodus from a country still in tatters (April 7, 2015)
* It is difficult to say how deep is your faith and how deep is your preparation for this service. It is not that for the first time, someone will go to the altar. But you have to make a certain preparation, to know how to behave, what are the different actions, language, signs used in the Liturgy, the meaning, so that only once you are prepared, you can be fully at the service of the Lord.
** INTERVIEW: Even If Hard to Wake Up Early, Altars Servers Meet Christ & Make Liturgy Beautiful, Bishop Ladislav (August 1, 2018)
# Léa Seydoux

Léa Hélène Seydoux-Fornier de Clausonne (born 1 July 1985) is a French actress.

## Quotes

* When I decided to make the film [Blue Is the Warmest Colour], I knew that it was going to be hard. I think I wanted that. I wanted to see how it was to go this far. […] Of course it was kind of humiliating sometimes, I was feeling like a prostitute. […] [Kechiche] was using three cameras, and when you have to fake your orgasm for six hours... I can't say that it was nothing. But for me it is more difficult to show my feelings than my body.
** "Blue is the Warmest Colour actresses on their lesbian sex scenes: 'We felt like prostitutes'", The Independent (4 October 2013).
# László Gyimesi

László Gyimesi (born June 17, 1948) is a Hungarian pianist and professor.

## About

* This Hungarian Van Cliburn impressed me from the outset with a deep and confident involvement in the music, a capacity for both power and delicacy, and a preference for passion over absolute accuracy.
** John Bennett, Calgary Herald, 1972.
* With his masterclass on piano playing, László Gyimesi helps to preserve the great romantic tradition of piano playing. A relaxed piano technique without unnecessary tensions allows us to express our thoughts and feelings almost directly. Every pianist can come closer to this ideal. His masterclass is extremely valuable in that respect – it can unleash great potential in every pianist.
** Martin Stadtfeld (Hungarian Piano Tradition)

## External links

* Official Homepage
# Rutebeuf

Rutebeuf (or Rustebeuf; fl. 1245 – 1285) was a French trouvère (poet-composers who worked in France's northern dialects).

## Quotes

* Que sont mes amis devenus Que j'avais de si près tenus Et tant aimés?
** What has become of my friends whom I held so closely and loved so much?
** La Complainte de Rutebeuf
* L'amour est morte: Ce sont amis que vent emporte, Et il ventait devant ma porte.
** Love (or friendship) is dead: they were friends whom the wind carries away, and it is windy outside my door.
** La Complainte de Rutebeuf
** Variants: L'amitié; compare: "Gone with the wind"
# Rustam Minnekayev

Rustam Minnekayev is a Russian officer who serves as deputy commander of Russia's Central Military District, with the rank of General Major. He has also served as President of Tatarstan since 2010.

## Quotes

* We are now at war with the whole world, as it was in the Great Patriotic War.
* The whole world was against us and now it's the same thing, they never liked Russia.Russia Targets Moldova Invasion Next as They Seek Land Corridor via Ukraine
** Said during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraina, quoted in "Russia Targets Moldova Invasion Next as They Seek Land Corridor via Ukraine", Newsweek, 22 April 2022
* Russia plans to take full control over Donbas and southern Ukraine as a part of the second phase of the military operation.
* Control over southern Ukrain is another way to Transnistria, where there are also facts about suppression of the Russian-speaking population.
** "Russland vil ta hele sør-Ukraina: − Jeg tror ikke de vil lykkes" (In Norwegian; "Russian wants to take the whole southern Ukraine: - I don't think they will succeed"), VG, 22 April 2022
# Russification of Belarus

Russification of Belarus is a policy of suppressing the use of the Belarusian language and the presence of the Belarusian culture and mentality in various spheres of Belarusian public life by corresponding Russian analogs.

## Quotes

* I can speak Belarusian, although my brain operates in Russian due to circumstances. There is no practice, because our language has been purposefully destroyed since the mid-1990s.
** Nadzeya Astapchuk, Belarusian shot putter, bronze medalist of the 2008 Olympic Games, world and European champion in the TUT.BY comment, June 2020.
* This language <Belarusian> is only ours. No other country has this language. And this is how our language was committed by our government, this is a crime. I believe this crime will still need to be investigated.
** Siarhei Tsikhanouski, political activist and contender for the Belarusian presidency, Homiel. Picket to collect signatures of presidential candidate Tsikhanouskaya. P. 1. 29:26 // Live broadcast on YouTube, May 2020.
# The Bible and homosexuality

There are a number of passages in the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament that have been interpreted as involving same-sex sexual activity and relationships. The passages about homosexual individuals and sexual relations in the Hebrew Bible are found primarily in the Torah (the first five books traditionally attributed to Moses). Some texts included in the New Testament also reference homosexual individuals and sexual relations, such as the Gospel of Matthew, the Gospel of Luke, and various letters attributed to the Apostle Paul originally directed to the early Christian churches in Asia Minor. Both references in the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament have been interpreted as referring primarily to male homosexual individuals and sexual practices.

## Quotes

* You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.
** Book of Leviticus 18:22 (KJV)
* If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
** Book of Leviticus 20:13 (KJV)
* Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
** Paul of Tarsus, Romans 1:20-27 (KJV).
* Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, ... will inherit the kingdom of God.
** Paul of Tarsus, 1 Corinthians 6:9–10 (ESV).
* But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully; Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine; According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.
** Paul of Tarsus, 1 Timothy 1:8–11 (KJV).

## See also

* Christianity and homosexuality
# The Best Sex Ever

The Best Sex Ever is an American erotic anthology series featured on Cinemax during their "After Dark" schedule. The series features simulated sex scenes, and thus can be categorized as "soft core" or "voyeur."
The premise of the show is listeners of a fictional radio show titled, "The Best Sex Ever", call in to recount their sexual exploits. Many high-profile porn stars made an appearance on the show, such as Sunrise Adams, Gina Ryder, Syren, and Monica Mayhem.

## Opening monologue

* It's midnight... the witching hour. That means that once again it's time for you to tell me about the best sex you've ever had. All the good girls and boys have gone to bed, and the rest of us have the night to ourselves.

## Closing monologue

* We've all had a night where intimacy knows no bounds and desire knows no rules... a night of reckless sexual abandon, a night you can still taste years after the sun comes up. We've all had one. What's yours?

## External links

* The Best Sex Ever quotes at the Internet Movie Database
# The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas is a 1982 American musical comedy film co-written, produced and directed by Colin Higgins (in his final film as director). It is an adaptation of the 1978 Broadway musical of the same name.

## Dialogue

    Miss Mona: You know what burns my ass? A flame about three feet high!
    Sheriff Ed Earl Dodd: It's slicker than cat shit on linoleum floor!
    Deputy Fred: Everyone loves Sheriff Ed Earl Dodd, especially Ed Earl Dodd.
# The Naked City

The Naked City is a 1948 film, filmed on the streets of New York City, in which the police investigate a woman's murder, with the actors playing their roles along with the people and the locations of the Big Apple.
    Directed by Jules Dassin. Written by Albert Maltz and Malvin Wald, based on a story by Wald.

## Dan Muldoon

* I don't know anything about medicine, doctor, but that's one prescription that never cured anything.
* The world is so good but the people use to say that the world is not a good place to live in.

## Narrator

* There are eight million stories in the Naked City; this has been one of them.

## Willie Garza

* Thought you were off the liquor. Liquor is bad. Weakens your character. How can a man like me trust a liar like you? I can't.

## Dialogue

    Dan Muldoon: What can you tell me about Mr. Niles' Business?
    Perelli: He ain't got a business. It's a dodge. No credit rating. Dropped from his university club for non-payment of dues. Still owes a food and liquor bill of hundred and ten dollars and eighty three cents.
    Dan Muldoon: No, the picnic is over, you've told your last lie. You're knee deep in stolen jewlery. You're involved in the Dexter Murder. You've been trying to obstruct justice all along the line. Now you're gonna tell me what I want to know or so help me if it's the last thing I do in this department, I'll get you twenty years. Now that's the truth Sonny Boy, and you know I'm not bluffing. Who's Henderson? Who's Henderson?
    Frank Niles: Stoneman! It's Doctor Stoneman.
    Dan Muldoon: [After Niles has been rifling through his valise apparently to check whether a supposed burglar has struck] He got it didn't they?
    Frank Niles: [Looking crestfallen] No, there's nothing missing. I don't have any valuables.
    Dan Muldoon: What were you looking for so hard just now - your BVD's?

## Taglines

* The Most Exciting Story of the World's Most Exciting City!
* The Soul of a City - HER GLORY STRIPPED! HER PASSIONS BARED!
* RAW LIFE! REAL LIFE! RECKLESS LIFE!

## Cast

* Barry Fitzgerald - Det. Lt. Dan Muldoon
* Howard Duff - Frank Niles
* Dorothy Hart - Ruth Morrison
* Don Taylor - Det. Jimmy Halloran
* Frank Conroy - Capt. Donahue
* Ted de Corsia - Willie Garzah aka Willie the Harmonica
* House Jameson - Dr. Stoneman
* Anne Sargent - Mrs. Halloran
* Adelaide Klein - Mrs. Paula Batory
* Grover Burgess - Mr. Batory
* Tom Pedi - Det. Perelli
* Enid Markey - Mrs. Edgar Hylton
* Mark Hellinger - Narrator (voice)

## External links

* The Naked City quotes at the Internet Movie Database
* The Naked City at Rotten Tomatoes
# The Name of this Book is Secret

The Name of this Book is Secret is a 2007 Fantasy Novel for young readers by Pseudonymous Bosch.

## Quotes

* Only bad books have good endings. If a book is any good, it's ending is always bad - because you don't want the book to end.
** The Name of this Book is Secret Quotes on Goodreads
* Books can also provoke emotions. And emotions sometimes are even more troublesome than ideas. Emotions have led people to do all sorts of things they later regret-like, oh, throwing a book at someone else.
** The Name of this Book is Secret Quotes on Goodreads
* Generally speaking, books don't cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems.
** The Name of this Book is Secret Quotes on Goodreads

## See Also

* Fantasy
* Novel

## External Links

* The Name of this Book is Secret Quotes on Goodreads More Quotes from Goodreads