2002

Explore 46 quotes from the year 2002

I don't oppose all wars. And I know that in this crowd today, there is no shortage of patriots, or of patriotism. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.

Barack Obama

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Topic

Iraq War

Speaker

Barack Obama

Source

Speeches of Barack Obama

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

2002 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Obama, Barack. Speech to anti-war rally. 2 Oct. 2002, Federal Plaza, Chicago, IL, USA.

I know we're all pretty small in the big scheme of things, and I suppose the most you can hope for is to make some kind of difference, but what kind of difference have I made? What in the world is better because of me?

About Schmidt

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Topic

Making a difference Looking back

Speaker

Warren Schmidt

Actor

Jack Nicholson

Source

About Schmidt

Medium

Film

Genre

Comedy drama (film) Comedy drama

Language

English

Time

2002 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

About Schmidt. Directed by Alexander Payne. New Line Cinema, 2002.

Through story, every culture defines itself and teaches its children how to be people and members of their people.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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Topic

Stories Culture

Author

Ursula K. Le Guin

Source

The Operating Instructions

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

2002 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Le Guin, Ursula K. "The Operating Instructions." Oregon Literary Arts meeting. 2002, Portland, Oregon, USA. Speech.

Campaign promises are-by long democratic tradition-the least binding form of human commitment.

Antonin Scalia

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Topic

Campaign promises Political campaigns Democracy Politics

Author

Antonin Scalia

Medium

Supreme Court opinion

Genre

Legal writing

Language

English

Time

2002 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Scalia, Antonin. United States, Supreme Court. Republican Party of Minnesota v. White. United States Reports, vol. 534, 17 June 2002, pp. 765-821. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/536/765/.

Two little mice fell in a bucket of cream. The first mouse quickly gave up and drowned. The second mouse, wouldn't quit. He struggled so hard that eventually he churned that cream into butter and crawled out. Gentlemen, as of this moment, I am that second mouse.

Catch Me if You Can

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Topic

Persistence Never giving up Perseverance

Speaker

Frank Abagnale

Actor

Christopher Walken

Source

Catch Me if You Can

Medium

Film

Genre

Comedy drama (film) Crime (film) Comedy drama Crime

Language

English

Time

2002 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Catch Me If You Can. Directed by Steven Spielberg, Amblin Entertainment/DreamWorks Pictures/Parkes/MacDonald Productions/Kemp Company/Splendid Pictures, 2002.

I have several walls in several rooms of my house covered with the snowstorm of rejections, but they didn't realize what a strong person I was, I persevered and wrote a thousand more dreadful short stories, which were rejected in turn.

Ray Bradbury

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Topic

Rejection Writing Perseverance

Author

Ray Bradbury

Source

Snoopy's Guide to the Writing Life

Statement Type

Irony Joke

Language

English

Time

2002 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Bradbury, Ray. Quoted in Snoopy's Guide to the Writing Life, edited by Barnaby Conrad and Monte Schultz. Writer's Digest Books, 2002.

Okay, no uterus, no opinion.

Rachel Green

Friends

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Topic

Abortion Women's rights

Speaker

Rachel Green

Actor

Jennifer Aniston

Source

Friends

Medium

TV program

Genre

Sitcom Comedy (TV) Comedy

Language

English

Time

2002 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

"The One with the Secret Closet." Friends, written by David Crane and Marta Kauffman and Robert Carlock, directed by Kevin Bright, season 8, episode 14, Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions and Warner Bros. Television, 2002.

I love you, but I love me more.

Samantha

Sex and the City

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Topic

Loving oneself

Speaker

Samantha

Actor

Kim Cattrall

Source

Sex and the City

Medium

TV program

Genre

Romantic comedy (TV) Comedy (TV) Romantic comedy Comedy

Statement Type

Profession of love

Language

English

Time

2002 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

"Luck Be an Old Lady." Sex and the City, written by Darren Star and Julie Rottenberg and Elisa Zuritsky, directed by John David Coles, season 5, episode 3, Darren Star Productions, 2002.

If you can quote the rules, you can fucking obey them.

Tony Soprano

The Sopranos

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Topic

Obedience Rules

Speaker

Tony Soprano

Actor

James Gandolfini

Source

The Sopranos

Medium

TV program

Genre

Crime (TV) Drama (TV) Crime Drama

Language

English

Time

2002 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

"Whoever Did This." The Sopranos, written by David Chase and Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess, directed by Tim Van Patten, season 4, episode 9, Chase Films and Home Box Office, 2002.

I don't like talking to people I know, but strangers I have no problem with.

Larry David

Curb Your Enthusiasm

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Topic

Strangers Misanthropy

Speaker

Larry David

Actor

Larry David

Source

Curb Your Enthusiasm

Medium

TV program

Genre

Comedy (TV)

Statement Type

Irony

Language

English

Time

2002 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

"Chet's Shirt." Curb Your Enthusiasm, written by Larry David, directed by Robert B. Weide, season 3, episode 1, Home Box Office, 2002.

I will not be judged by you or society. I will wear whatever and blow whomever I want as long as I can breathe-and kneel.

Samantha

Sex and the City

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Topic

Eff the haters Criticism from others

Speaker

Samantha

Actor

Kim Cattrall

Source

Sex and the City

Medium

TV program

Genre

Romantic comedy (TV) Comedy (TV) Romantic comedy Comedy

Language

English

Time

2002 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

"Cover Girl." Sex and the City, written by Darren Star and Judy Toll and Michael Patrick King, directed by John David Coles, season 5, episode 4, Darren Star Productions, 2002.

Sometimes it's easier living the lie.

Catch Me if You Can

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Topic

Truth and lies Dishonesty Lies

Speaker

Carl Hanratty

Actor

Tom Hanks

Source

Catch Me if You Can

Medium

Film

Genre

Comedy drama (film) Crime (film) Comedy drama Crime

Language

English

Time

2002 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Catch Me If You Can. Directed by Steven Spielberg, Amblin Entertainment/DreamWorks Pictures/Parkes/MacDonald Productions/Kemp Company/Splendid Pictures, 2002.

That’s the thing about needs. Sometimes when you get them met, you don’t need them anymore.

Carrie

Sex and the City

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Topic

Human needs

Speaker

Carrie

Actor

Sarah Jessica Parker

Source

Sex and the City

Medium

TV program

Genre

Romantic comedy (TV) Comedy (TV) Romantic comedy Comedy

Language

English

Time

2002 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

"The Good Fight." Sex and the City, written by Darren Star and Michael Patrick King and Candace Bushnell, directed by Charles McDougall, season 4, episode 13, Darren Star Productions, 2002.

If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.

Haruki Murakami

Kafka on the Shore

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Topic

Memory

Speaker

Miss Saeki

Author

Haruki Murakami

Source

Kafka on the Shore

Medium

Novel

Language

Japanese

Time

2002 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Murakami, Haruki. 海辺のカフカ [Kafka on the Shore]. Shinchosha, 2002.

Poverty is a lot like childbirth-you know it is going to hurt before it happens, but you'll never know how much until you experience it.

J.K. Rowling

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Topic

Poverty

Author

J.K. Rowling

Source

Mail on Sunday

Medium

Newspaper

Language

English

Time

2002 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Rowling, J. K. Mail on Sunday. 16 June 2002.

The blizzard doesn't last forever; it just seems so.

Ray Bradbury

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Topic

Things get better Perseverance

Author

Ray Bradbury

Source

Snoopy's Guide to the Writing Life

Statement Type

Encouragement

Language

English

Time

2002 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Bradbury, Ray. Quoted in Snoopy's Guide to the Writing Life, edited by Barnaby Conrad and Monte Schultz. Writer's Digest Books, 2002.

Art has always been the raft on to which we climb to save our sanity.

Dorothea Tanning

Quoted in Salon

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Topic

Art as therapy Purpose of art Art

Speaker

Dorothea Tanning

Source

Salon

Medium

Interview

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

2002 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Tanning, Dorothea. Interviewed by John Glassing. Salon, 11 Feb. 2002, https://www.salon.com/2002/02/11/tanning/.

All experience is great providing you live through it.

Alice Neel

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Topic

Life experience Caveats

Author

Alice Neel

Source

Alice Neel: Black and White

Language

English

Time

2002 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Neel, Alice. Alice Neel: Black and White. c. 1984.

The problem here is that there will always be some uncertainty about how quickly he can acquire nuclear weapons. But we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.

Condoleezza Rice

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Topic

Justifications and rationales Iraq War

Speaker

Condoleezza Rice

Medium

Interview

Language

English

Time

2002 2000s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Rice, Condoleezza. "CNN Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer." Interviewed by Wolf Blitzer. CNN, 8 Sept. 2002.

An infectious greed seemed to grip much of our business community.

Alan Greenspan

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Topic

Dot com bubble Financial panics and bubbles The stock market

Speaker

Alan Greenspan

Source

Federal Reserve Board's Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress

Language

English

Time

2002 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Greenspan, Alan. "Federal Reserve Board's Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress." Before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, U. S. Senate. 16 July 2002, Washington DC, USA.