Chris Rock (1965) American comedian, actor, screenwriter, television producer, film producer, and director
Bigger and Blacker (HBO, 1999)
Source: The Alloy of Law
Chris Rock (1965) American comedian, actor, screenwriter, television producer, film producer, and director
Bigger and Blacker (HBO, 1999)
Dave Eggers book A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Source: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
“No, gentlemen, if I am to be shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet.”
Andrew Johnson (1808–1875) American politician, 17th president of the United States (in office from 1865 to 1869)
As military governor of Tennessee, asserting that he would walk alone, to friends who offered to escort him to the statehouse, after postings of a placard saying he should be "shot on sight." (c.1862); as quoted in Andrew Johnson, President of the United States: His Life and Speeches (1866) by Lillian Foster.
Quote
“If you can't impress yourself, then no one else really matters.”
Laurell K. Hamilton book Obsidian Butterfly
Source: Obsidian Butterfly
Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: Love in the Afternoon
Rohit Sharma (1987) Indian cricketer
Rohit Sharma has a better technique than Virender Sehwag: Shoaib Akhtar, India Today, 7 October 2019 https://www.indiatoday.in/sports/cricket/story/india-vs-south-africa-test-series-shoaib-akhtar-rohit-sharma-opener-inzamam-ul-haq-virender-sehwag-1606976-2019-10-07, <br class="br">About him
“You have to be! (Laughs) You might get shot!”
John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter
Responding to a reporter question during The Beatles Australian tour of if they were aware of everything going on around them. http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=5x5UUQM2Qy4
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) 32nd President of the United States
Comment in early 1933 about Benito Mussolini to U.S. Ambassador to Italy Breckinridge Long, as quoted in Three New Deals : Reflections on Roosevelt's America, Mussolini's Italy, and Hitler's Germany, 1933-1939 (2006) by Wolfgang Schivelbusch, p. 31
1930s