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Tupac Shakur 154
rapper and actor 1971–1996
Barack Obama 1158
44th President of the United States of America 1961
William Shakespeare 699
English playwright and poet 1564–1616
George Orwell 473
English author and journalist 1903–1950
Oscar Wilde 812
Irish writer and poet 1854–1900Recommended quotes
“What is the point of being on this Earth if you are going to be like everyone else?”
Source: Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story
“Marijuana… That's not a drug, that's a plant.”
“Strength does not come from winning.”
From a 1982 interview with Boston Globe journalist Marian Christy. Christy, Marian. "Winning according to Schwarzenegger." https://secure.pqarchiver.com/boston/doc/294151457.html Boston Globe: Boston, MA. 9 May 1982: p 51. Accessed 25 Jun 2016.
1980s
Context: Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. When you make an impasse passable, that is strength. But you must have ego, the kind of ego which makes you think of yourself in terms of superlatives. You must want to be the greatest. We are all starved for compliments. So we do things that get positive feedback.
“Most young women do not welcome promiscuous advances. (Either that, or my luck's terrible.)”
Source: Memoirs Of A Mangy Lover
“Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.”
“I'll teach you to kick me…'
You don't need to teach me--I already know how!”
“Die, my dear? Why that's the last thing I'll do!”
Last words[citation needed]
Lord Palmerston had similar last words in 1865: "Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!"[citation needed]
Source: The Essential Groucho: Writings by, for, and about Groucho Marx
“No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.”
From his book Groucho and Me. It is a variation of a maxim by 17th-century French nobleman François de La Rochefoucauld: "In the adversity of our best friends, we often find something that is not displeasing." (Maxim 99 from Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims, 1665 edition.)
“Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the grooms.”
“There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says "yes" you know he is a crook.”
“I've been looking for a girl like you - not you, but a girl like you.”
“I don't have a photograph. I'd give you my footprints, but they're upstairs in my socks.”
When asked for a photograph for identification
The Groucho Phile (1976)
“Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.”
“I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.”
“Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while”
