Paull Shin (1935-2021)

Shin, 2004

Paull H. Shin

Paull Hobom Shin (Korean name Shin Hobom; 신호범; September 27, 1935 – April 12, 2021) was an American politician and educator who served as a member of the Washington State Senate, the first Korean American ever elected to the Washington State Legislature.[1]

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¶ For your discouraged soul,
Exhausted with loneliness,
I'll be…
A radiant star at your windowsill,
Revealing new hope, encouraging new dreams;

[An Exodus for Hope: The Footsteps of a Dream (2010)]

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paull_Shin

Stephen King (1947- )

Stephen King

Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author.

He is a highly acclaimed author known for his work in the horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, and fantasy genres. He has written numerous bestsellers, including "Carrie," "The Shining," "It," and "The Dark Tower" series. His works have been adapted into many movies, TV shows, and miniseries.

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Quotes

Monsters

¶ Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

Scary

¶ The scariest moment is always just before you start.

- It is one of Stephen King's famous quotes. 

William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)

William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)

William Carlos Williams (17 September 1883 – 4 March 1963) was an American poet and physician.

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Quotes·Quotations by William Carlos Williams

Summer

¶ In summer, the song sings itself.

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William Faulkner (1897-1962)

William Faulkner (1897-1962)

William Cuthbert Faulkner (born Falkner, September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer and Nobel Prize laureate from Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner worked in a variety of media; he wrote novels, short stories, a play, poetry, essays and screenplays during his career. He is primarily known and acclaimed for his novels and short stories, many of which are set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, a setting Faulkner created based on Lafayette County, where he spent most of his childhood.

Faulkner is considered one of the most important writers of the Southern literature of the United States, along with Mark Twain, Robert Penn Warren, Flannery O'Connor, Truman Capote, Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Harper Lee and Tennessee Williams. Though his work was published as early as 1919, and largely during the 1920s and 1930s, Faulkner was relatively unknown until receiving the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature. Two of his works, A Fable (1954) and his last novel The Reivers (1962) won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

In 1998, the Modern Library ranked his 1929 novel The Sound and the Fury sixth on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century; also on the list were 1930's As I Lay Dying and Light in August (1932).

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Quotes·Quotations by William Faulkner

Advice

¶ Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Faulkner

Will Smith (1968- )

Will Smith (1968- )

Willard Christopher "Will" Smith, Jr. (born September 25, 1968), also known by his stage name The Fresh Prince, is an American actor, producer, and rapper. He has enjoyed success in television, film and music. In April 2007, Newsweek called him the most powerful actor in Hollywood. Smith has been nominated for four Golden Globe Awards, two Academy Awards, and has won multiple Grammy Awards.

In the late 1980s, Smith achieved modest fame as a rapper under the name The Fresh Prince. In 1990, his popularity increased dramatically when he starred in the popular television series The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. The show ran for nearly six years (1990–1996) on NBC and has been syndicated consistently on various networks since then. In the mid-1990s, Smith moved from television to film, and ultimately starred in numerous blockbuster films. He is the only actor to have eight consecutive films gross over $100 million in the domestic box office and the only one to have eight consecutive films in which he starred open at #1 spot in the domestic box office tally.

Fourteen of the nineteen fiction films he has acted in have accumulated worldwide gross earnings of over $100 million, and four took in over $500 million in global box office receipts. As of 2011, his films have grossed $5.7 billion in global box office. His most financially successful films have been Bad Boys, Bad Boys II, Independence Day, the Men in Black films, I, Robot, I Am Legend, Hancock, Wild Wild West, Enemy of the State, Shark Tale, Hitch, and Seven Pounds. He also earned critical praise for his performances in Six Degrees of Separation, Ali and The Pursuit of Happyness, receiving Best Actor Oscar nominations for the latter two.

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Quotes·Quotation by Will Smith


Will Smith as Alex Hitch Hitchens from Hitch (2005)

¶ Because that's what people do. They leap, and hope to God they can fly, because otherwise you just drop like a rock, wondering the whole way down, why in the hell did I jump? But here I am, Sarah, falling, and there's only one person who makes me feel like I can fly. It's you.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Smith

Frances Wright (1795-1852)

Frances Wright

Frances Wright (September 6 1795 – December 13 1852), also widely known as Fanny Wright, was a Scotland-born lecturer, writer, feminist, abolitionist, and utopian, who became a U. S. citizen in 1825.

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@ Your spiritual teachers caution you against enquiry — tell you not to read certain books; not to listen to certain people; to beware of profane learning; to submit your reason, and to receive their doctrines for truths. Such advice renders them suspicious counsellors. By their own creed you hold your reason from their God. Go! ask them why he gave it. [Lecture III: Of the more Important Divisions and Essential Parts of Knowledge]

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http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Frances_Wright

Dita Von Teese

Dita Von Teese (1972- )

Dita Von Teese (born Heather Renée Sweet on September 28, 1972) is an American burlesque dancer, model, costume designer, author and actress.

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@ Madonna is the only modern celebrity who is truly a style icon. Who else has the audacity to dress like her these days? She really influenced how I wanted to look when I was growing up, and made me realize that I didn’t have to look like a blond beach bunny or a Playboy model.
[http://www.contactmusic.com/news/von-teese-madonna-inspired-me-to-be-individual_1037902]

@ At eurovision, The Armenians are killing me with their hair and especially the fierce cateye liner! LOVE! I am part Armenian, in fact.
[https://twitter.com/DitaVonTeese/status/1808509968]

@ Playboy is the second most-recognised symbol in the world after Coca-Cola, It’s a Hollywood walk of fame for female bodies. My dad is a different story – he threw me out of the house when I was 16 because I worked in the lingerie store and wore black lace panties. But he loved that I was on the Playboy cover; suddenly I was his daughter again. In fact, everything changed after the Playboy cover. Before, people were scared of me, but suddenly what I did was validated.
[http://personalispolitical.wordpress.com/2007/08/13/dita-von-sleeze-and-borelesque/]

@ Good manners. They're forgotten in America. I think it's bad manners to stand around in public with ripped jeans and your hair in a mess, holding a Starbucks.
[http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/the-5minute-interview-dita-von-teese-burlesque-artiste-424723.html]

@ You know how some celebrities have fans of the opposite sex, who imagine they’re going to marry them and live happily ever after? I have a different thing. Over the past 15 years I’ve had a few female fans who’ve gone overboard and been upset because we didn’t become best friends and go shopping together.
[http://crushable.com/entertainment/dita-von-teese-talks-about-crazy-ex-marilyn-manson]

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http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Category:Actors

Henry Bromel (1947-2013)

Henry Bromel (1947-2013)

Alfred Henry Bromell (September 19, 1947 – March 18, 2013) was an American author, screenwriter, and director.

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Henry Bromel

Love

¶ Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Bromell

ROH Moo-hyun (1946-2009)

ROH Moo-hyun (1946-2009)

Roh Moo-hyun (Hangul: 노무현; Hanja: 盧武鉉; Korean pronunciation: [no mu hjʌn]) GOM (1 September 1946 – 23 May 2009) was the ninth President of the Republic of Korea (2003–2008). Roh's pre-presidential political career was focused on human rights advocacy for student activists in South Korea. His electoral career later expanded to a focus on overcoming regionalism in South Korean politics, culminating in his election to the presidency. He achieved a large following among younger internet users, particularly at the website OhMyNews, which aided his success in the presidential election.[3][4]

Roh's election was notable for the arrival in power of a new generation of Korean politicians, the so-called 386 Generation, (i.e. people in their thirties when the term was coined, who had attended university in the 1980s, and who were born in the 1960s).[5][6] This generation had been veterans of student protests against authoritarian rule, and advocated a conciliatory approach towards North Korea, even at the expense of good relations with the USA.[7]

Despite high initial hopes,[8] his presidency encountered strong opposition from the conservative Grand National Party and media. They constantly accused him of incompetence, and insulting criticism was frequently published in the media.[9] As a result, many of Roh's policies, including a plan to move the capital, and a plan to form a coalition with the opposition, were also attacked and made no progress.

After leaving office, Roh returned to his hometown of Bongha Maeul. The constantly growing numbers of visits by his political supporters[10] were seen as a threat to the Grand National Party. Fourteen months later, Roh was suspected of bribery by prosecutors, and the subsequent investigation attracted public attention. This scandal, the collapse of the "Pro-Roh faction" of politicians,[11] the collapse of the Uri Party and the defeat of its successor the Democratic Party in the National Assembly, and the defeat of Roh's designated successor in the presidential elections, marked a decline in the political fortunes of the 386 Generation that had brought Roh to power.[12]

Roh committed suicide on 23 May 2009 by jumping from a mountain cliff behind his home named "Bueong-i Bawi" (lit. "Owl's Rock"), after leaving a suicide note on his personal computer.[13] About 4 million people have visited Roh's hometown named "Bongha Village" for a week after his death. His suicide was confirmed by police.[14]

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Quotes·Quotations by ROH Moo-hyun

Dokdo

¶ Dokdo is a symbol of South Korea's liberation and return to self-rule after World War II.

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References

[1]^ (Korean) "노무현후보 김추기경의 방문". Naver News Dong-a Ilbo. 20 June 2002. Retrieved 13 September 2008.
[2]^ (Korean)Hani News The Hankyoreh(3 September 2008). Retrieved 13 September 2008
[3]^ Watts, Jonathan (24 February 2003). "World's first internet President logs on". The Guardian (London). Retrieved 26 January 2008.
[4]^ "The Web Site That Elected a President". Bloomberg BusinessWeek. 24 February 2003. Retrieved 12 January 2012.
[5]^ "Out with the old". Newsweek. 4 August 2003. Retrieved 23 May 2009.
[6]^ "Korea's Young Lions". Bloomberg BusinessWeek. 24 February 2003. Retrieved 12 January 2012.
[7]^ "South Korea: Too Much Activism?". Newsweek. 27 November 2006. Retrieved 23 May 2009.
[8]^ Jung, Ha-yun (25 February 2003). "Democracy takes office in South Korea". The New York Times. Retrieved 23 May 2009.
[9]^ 디지털뉴스팀. "김동길 "노무현이 잘한 일이 뭔가"…독설 쏟아내 – 경향신문". News.khan.co.kr. Retrieved 12 January 2012.
[10]^ ""노무현 전 대통령님 나와주세요" : 사회일반 : 사회 : 뉴스 : 한겨레" (in (Korean)). Hani.co.kr. Retrieved 12 January 2012.
[11]^ "Roh’s 'Participatory' Group Fading Out". The Korea Times. 30 April 2009. Retrieved 23 May 2009.
[12]^ "Fiasco of 386 Generation". The Korea Times. 2 May 2008. Retrieved 23 May 2009.
[13]^ a b c "SKorean ex-president Roh dies in apparent suicide". Associated Press. 23 May 2009. Retrieved 23 May 2009.
[14]^ "Ex-President Roh Jumps to His Death". The Korea Times. 23 May 2009. Retrieved 23 May 2009.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roh_Moo-hyun

Robert H. Schuller (1926- )

Robert H. Schuller (1926- )

Robert Harold Schuller (born September 16, 1926, in Alton, Iowa) is an American televangelist, pastor, speaker, motivator and author. He is principally known for the weekly Hour of Power television program which he began in 1970. He is also the founder of the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, California, where the Hour of Power program originates. On January 22, 2006, Schuller announced his retirement.

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Quotes·Quotation by Robert H. Schuller

Decisions

¶ Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_H._Schuller

Peter Finch (1916-1977)

Peter Finch (1916-1977)

Frederick George Peter Ingle Finch (28 September 1916 – 14 January 1977) was a British-born Australian actor. He is best remembered for his role as "crazed" television anchorman Howard Beale in the film Network, which earned him a posthumous Academy Award for Best Actor, his fifth Best Actor award from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, and a Best Actor award from the Golden Globes. He was the first of two people to win a posthumous Academy Award in an acting category; the other was fellow Australian Heath Ledger.

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Quotes·Quotation by Peter Finch

Peter Finch as Howard Beale from Network (1976)

¶ I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Finch

Laurence J. Peter (1919-1990)

Laurence J. Peter (1919-1990)

Dr. Laurence Johnston Peter (September 16, 1919 – January 12, 1990) was an educator and "hierarchiologist", best known to the general public for the formulation of the Peter Principle.

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Quotes·Quotations by Laurence J. Peter

Beauty

¶ Every girl should use beauty that Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_J._Peter

H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)

H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)

Henry Louis "H. L." Mencken (September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956) was an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, critic of American life and culture, and scholar of American English.[1] Known as the "Sage of Baltimore", he is regarded as one of the most influential American writers and prose stylists of the first half of the twentieth century. Many of his books remain in print.

Mencken is known for writing The American Language, a multi-volume study of how the English language is spoken in the United States, and for his satirical reporting on the Scopes trial, which he dubbed the "Monkey Trial". He commented widely on the social scene, literature, music, prominent politicians, pseudo-experts, the temperance movement, and uplifters. A keen cheerleader of scientific progress, he was very skeptical of economic theories and particularly critical of anti-intellectualism, bigotry, populism, fundamentalist christianity, creationism, organized religion, the existence of God, and osteopathic/chiropractic medicine.

In addition to his literary accomplishments, Mencken was known for his controversial ideas. A frank admirer of German philosopher Nietzsche, he was not a proponent of representative democracy, which he believed was a system in which inferior men dominated their superiors.[2] During and after World War I, he was sympathetic to the Germans, and was very distrustful of British propaganda.[3] However, he also referred to Adolf Hitler and his followers as "ignorant thugs". Mencken, through his wide criticism of actions taken by government, has had a strong impact on the American libertarian movement.[4]

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Quotes·Quotations by H. L. Mencken

Women

¶ Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn’t, they’d be married, too.

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Notes

[1]^ Obituary Variety, February 1, 1956
[2]^ Mencken, Henry (1926). Notes on Democracy. New York: Alfred Knopf
[3]^ Hobson (1994), p. 435
[4]^ Burns, Jennifer (2009). Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 48. ISBN 978-0-19-532487-7.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._L._Mencken

Hank Williams (1923-1953)

Hank Williams (1923-1953)

Hank Williams (September 17, 1923 – January 1, 1953), born Hiram King Williams, was an American singer-songwriter and musician regarded as one of the most important country music artists of all time. Williams recorded 35 singles (five released posthumously) that would place in the Top 10 of the Billboard Country & Western Best Sellers chart, including 11 that ranked number one.

Born in Mount Olive, Alabama, Williams moved to Georgiana, where he met Rufus Payne, a black street performer who gave him guitar lessons in exchange for meals. Payne had a major influence on Williams's later musical style. During this time, Williams informally changed his name to Hank, believing it to be a better name for country music. After moving to Montgomery, Williams began his career in 1937 when WSFA radio station producers hired him to perform and host a 15-minute program. He formed as backup the Drifting Cowboys band, which was managed by his mother, and dropped out of school to devote all of his time to his career.

When several of his band members were conscripted to military service during World War II, Williams had trouble with their replacements and started drinking heavily, causing WSFA to dismiss him. Williams eventually married Audrey Sheppard, who became his manager for nearly a decade. After recording "Never Again" and "Honky Tonkin'" with Sterling Records, he signed a contract with MGM Records. In 1948 he released "Move it on Over," which became a hit, and also joined the Louisiana Hayride radio program. In 1949, he released a cover of "Lovesick Blues," which carried him into the mainstream of music. After an initial rejection, Williams joined the Grand Ole Opry. He had 11 number one songs between 1948 and 1953, though he was unable to read or notate music to any significant degree. Among the hits he wrote were "Your Cheatin' Heart," "Hey, Good Lookin'," and "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry."

During his last years Williams's consumption of alcohol, morphine and other painkillers severely compromised his professional and personal life. He divorced his wife and was dismissed by the Grand Ole Opry due to frequent drunkenness. Williams died suddenly in 1953 at the age of 29. Despite his short life, Williams has had a major influence on country music. The songs he wrote and recorded have been covered by numerous artists, many of whom have also had hits with the tunes, in a range of pop, gospel, blues and rock styles.

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Quotes

Hear that lonesome whippoorwill? He sounds too blue to fly. The midnight train is whining low, I'm so lonesome I could cry.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Williams

Greta Garbo (1905-1990)

Greta Garbo (1905-1990)

Greta Garbo (18 September 1905 – 15 April 1990), born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson, was a Swedish film actress. Garbo was an international star and icon during Hollywood's silent and classic periods. Many of her films were sensational hits, and all but three of her twenty-four Hollywood films were profitable. Garbo was nominated four times for an Academy Award and received an honorary one in 1954 for her "luminous and unforgettable screen performances". She also won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress for both Anna Karenina (1935) and Camille (1936). In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Garbo fifth on their list of greatest female stars of all time, after Katharine Hepburn, Bette Davis, Audrey Hepburn, and Ingrid Bergman.

Garbo launched her career with a leading role in the 1924 Swedish film The Saga of Gosta Berling. Her performance caught the attention of Louis B. Mayer, chief executive of Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM), who brought her to Hollywood in 1925. She immediately stirred interest with her first silent film, Torrent, released in 1926; a year later, her performance in Flesh and the Devil, her third movie, made her an international star.

With her first talking film, Anna Christie (1930), she received an Academy Award nomination. MGM marketers enticed the public with the catch-phrase "Garbo talks!" That same year she won a second Oscar nomination for her performance in Romance. In 1932, her immense popularity allowed her to dictate the terms of her contract, and she became increasingly choosy about her roles. Many critics and film historians consider her performance as the doomed courtesan Marguerite Gautier in Camille to be her finest. The role gained her a third Academy Award nomination. After working exclusively in dramatic films, Garbo turned to comedy with Ninotchka (1939), which earned her a fourth Academy Award nomination, and Two-Faced Woman (1941).

In 1941, she retired after appearing in only twenty-seven films. Although she was offered many opportunities to return to the screen, she declined most of them. Instead, she lived a private life, shunning publicity.

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Quotes·Quotation by Greta Garbo


Greta Garbo as Grusinskaya from Grand Hotel (1932)

¶ I want to be alone. I think I have never been so tired in my life.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greta_Garbo