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

Wendell Berry (1934- )

Wendell Berry (1934- )

Wendell Berry (born August 5, 1934) is an American man of letters, academic, cultural and economic critic, and farmer. He is a prolific author of novels, short stories, poems, and essays. He is an elected member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, a recipient of The National Humanities Medal, and the Jefferson Lecturer for 2012. He is also a 2013 Fellow of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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Quotes·Quotations by Wendell Berry

Past

¶ The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it.

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

Woody Allen (1935- )

Woody Allen (1935- )

Woody Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg; December 1, 1935) is an American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, jazz musician, author, and playwright. Allen's films draw heavily on literature, sexuality, philosophy, psychology, Jewish identity, and the history of cinema. He is also a jazz clarinetist who performs regularly at small venues in Manhattan.[1]

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Quotes·Quotation by Woody Allen

Death·Immortality

¶ I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!

Money

¶ Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.


Woody Allen as Alvy Singer from Annie Hall (1977)

¶ That's because they don't throw their garbage away, they turn it into television shows.

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[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_Allen

Warren Beatty (1937- )

Warren Beatty (1937- )

Warren Beatty ( /ˈbeɪti/ BAY-tee; born March 30, 1937) is an American actor, producer, screenwriter and director. He has been nominated for 15 Academy Awards, including winning the Best Director Award and its highest honor, the Irving G. Thalberg Award. He has been nominated for 16 Golden Globe Awards and won six, including the Cecil B. DeMille Award, which he received in 2007. Only Beatty and Orson Welles have been nominated for producer, director, writer and actor in the same film. Welles did it once (for Citizen Kane), Beatty did it twice (for Heaven Can Wait and Reds).

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Quotes·Quotations by Warren Beatty


Warren Beatty as Clyde Barrow from Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

¶ We rob banks.

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

Jean Houston (1937- )

Jean Houston (1937- )

Jean Houston (born 10 May 1937) is an American scholar, lecturer, author, and philosopher active in the "human potential movement". She has been an adviser to political leaders and to UNICEF, and since 2003 has worked with the United Nations Development Group training leaders in the new field of Social Artistry.[1]

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Quotes·Quotations by Jean Houston

Happiness

¶ At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

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References

[1]^ "Jean Houston Foundation". Jean Houston Foundation. Retrieved 2011-09-20.

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

Susan Jeffers (1938-2012)

Susan Jeffers

Susan Jeffers (March 3, 1938 – October 27, 2012, 74 years old), Ph.D. has helped millions of people throughout the world overcome their fears, heal their relationships, and move forward in life with confidence and love.

She is the author of many internationally renowned books including Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway, Feel the Fear. . .and Beyond, Feel the Fear Power Planner, End the Struggle and Dance With Life, Dare to Connect, Opening Our Hearts to Men, Losing a Love...Finding a Life, Thoughts Of Power and Love, The Little Book of Confidence, Embracing Uncertainty, Life is Huge! plus her "Fear-less Series" of affirmation books and tapes (Inner Talk for Peace of Mind, Inner Talk for a Confident Day, and Inner Talk For a Love That Works). Her latest book is The Feel the Fear Guide to Lasting Love, which was published in the UK in May 2005 and in the US and Canada by her own publishing company, Jeffers Press, in October 2005.

As well as being a best-selling author, Susan is a sought-after public speaker and has been a guest on many radio and television shows internationally. She lives with her husband, Mark Shelmerdine, in Los Angeles.

What makes the work of Susan Jeffers stand out? A look at the masses of thank-you letters she receives reveals that her fans--young and old, and from a whole array of life situations--love her humanness, her humor, her willingness to reveal so much of herself, the universality of her message, and the easy-to-understand style of her writing...a winning combination, indeed. They report, "It's as though she is speaking directly to me." The connection is truly felt. And connection is what Susan Jeffers is all about.

"Susan Jeffers is attractive, articulate, artfully commanding..."
Los Angeles Times

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Quotes·Quotation

Feel the fear and do it anyway. [Challenge]

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http://www.susanjeffers.com/

Robert Duvall (1931- )

Robert Duvall (1931- )

Robert Selden Duvall (born January 5, 1931) is an American actor and director. He has won an Academy Award, two Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards and a BAFTA over the course of his career.

A veteran character actor, Duvall has starred in some of the most acclaimed and popular films and TV shows of all time, among them The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, To Kill a Mockingbird, THX 1138, Joe Kidd, The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, MASH, Network, True Grit, Bullitt, The Conversation, Apocalypse Now, Tender Mercies, The Natural and Lonesome Dove.

He began appearing in theater during the late 1950s, moving into television and film roles during the early 1960s in such works as To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) (as Boo Radley) and Captain Newman, M.D. (1963). He started to land much larger roles during the early 1970s with films like the blockbuster comedy MASH (1970) (as Major Frank Burns) and the lead in George Lucas' THX 1138 (1971). This was followed by a series of critically lauded performances in films which were also commercial successes: The Godfather (1972), The Godfather Part II (1974), Network (1976), The Great Santini (1979), Apocalypse Now (1979), and True Confessions (1981).

Since then Duvall has continued to act in both film and television with such productions as Tender Mercies (1983) (for which he won an Academy Award), The Natural (1984), Colors (1988), the television mini-series Lonesome Dove (1989), Stalin (1992), The Man Who Captured Eichmann (1996), A Family Thing (1996), The Apostle (1997) (which he also wrote and directed), A Civil Action (1998), Gods and Generals (2003), Broken Trail (2006) and Get Low (2010).

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Quotes·Quotation by Robert Duvall

Robert Duvall as Bill Kilgore from Apocalypse Now (1979)

¶ You smell that? Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for twelve hours. When it was all over I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like … victory. Someday this war's gonna end.

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

Marion Barry (1936- )

Marion Barry (1936- )

Marion Shepilov Barry, Jr. (born March 6, 1936) is an American Democratic politician who is currently serving as a member of the Council of the District of Columbia, representing DC's Ward 8. Barry served as the second elected mayor of the District of Columbia from 1979 to 1991, and again as the fourth mayor from 1995 to 1999. In addition to his current term, Barry also served two other tenures on the D.C. Council, as an At-Large member from 1975–79, and as Ward 8 representative from 1992–95. In the 1960s he was involved in the Civil Rights Movement, serving as the first president of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).

Barry came to national prominence as mayor of the national capital, the first prominent civil-rights activist to become chief executive of a major American city; he gave the presidential nomination speech for Jesse Jackson at the 1984 Democratic National Convention. His celebrity transformed into international notoriety in January 1990, when Barry was videotaped smoking crack cocaine and arrested by FBI officials on drug charges. The arrest and subsequent trial precluded Barry seeking re-election, and Barry served six months in a federal prison. After his release, however, he was elected to the D.C. city council in 1992 and ultimately returned to the mayoralty in 1994, serving from 1995 to 1999.

Despite his history of political and legal controversies, Barry remains a figure of enormous popularity and influence on the local political scene of Washington D.C. The alternative weekly Washington City Paper nicknamed him "Mayor-for-Life," a designation that remained long after Barry left the mayoralty. The Washington Post has stated that "To understand the District of Columbia, one must understand Marion Barry."

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Quotes·Quotation

Duh...

¶ Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.

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