“I'm not bossy - I just happen to be more capable than most everyone else.”
Shannon Hale (1974) American fantasy novelist
Source: The Actor and the Housewife
“Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.”
— Joseph Heller, book Catch-22
Source: Catch-22
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“Winning medals wasn’t the point of the Olympics. It’s the participating that counts.”
Pierre de Coubertin (1863–1937) Founder of modern Olympic Games, pedagogue and historian
As quoted in "The Olympics — Where Are They Headed?", in 'Awake!' magazine (8 February 1977)
Hugh Laurie (1959) British actor, comedian, writer, musician and director
Source: [2006-08-21, http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060821/ap_en_tv/people_hugh_laurie, Hugh Laurie plays U.S. doctor on `House', Associated Press (via Yahoo! News), 2006-08-21]
Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) Führer and Reich Chancellor of Germany, Leader of the Nazi Party
Source: Munich - Speech of April 12, 1922 https://archive.org/stream/TheSpeechesOfAdolfHitler19211941/hitler-speeches-collection_djvu.txt
“… no sooner had you done something than someone else appeared who threatened to do it better.”
Gabriel García Márquez book Living to Tell the Tale
Living to Tell the Tale (2002)
Jesse Owens (1913–1980) American track and field athlete
Interview (1971); also quoted in "Owens pierced a myth" by Larry Schwartz http://espn.go.com/sportscentury/features/00016393.html in ESPN SportsCentury <br class="br">1970s
Uthradom Thirunal Marthanda Varma (1922–2013) Maharaja of Travancore
Sangeetha Seshagiri, in "Marthanda Varma, Titular Head of Travancore Royal Family, Passes Away (16 December 2013)"
Alicia Witt (1975) American actress
Context: I like digging into these characters that are a lot more complex, and there's a lot that isn't apparent on the surface … In a weird way, you can access all that fear and pain. … Nothing makes me happier than when somebody figures out I was in something, and then they'd seen me in something else, and had no idea it was the same person… Then I feel like I've done my job. … I've always loved finding characters that are not always the most likable ones when you first meet them, and finding a way to make them people that viewers will identify with, even against their better judgment.<br><br>As quoted in "Why Now Is a Divine Time for Alicia Witt", by Sarah Beauchamp at Huffington Post (30 May 2014) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sarah-beauchamp/why-alicia-witt-should-be_b_5400673.html
