“I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.”
Billie Holiday (1915–1959) American jazz singer and songwriter
Final Analysis (1990)
“I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.”
Billie Holiday (1915–1959) American jazz singer and songwriter
“I learn to heet myself. Nobody show me”
Roberto Clemente (1934–1972) Puerto Rican baseball player
As paraphrased and quoted in "Sidelight on Sports: A Baseball Star is Born" https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=d5dRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=52sDAAAAIBAJ&pg=1293%2C4057980 by Al Abrams, in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Tuesday, June 7, 1955), p. 20 <br class="br">Baseball-related, <big><big>1950s</big></big>, <big>1955</big> <br class="br">Context: Four years ago he was playing amateur softball in Puerto Rico. "I peetch and play shortstop," he said of his early days. "I no play outfield until pro ball." Roberto turned pro in 1952 with Santurce and last year played winter ball for that team with Willie Mays. Herman Franks, Giant coach, was the manager. "Wee-lee May and Herm Frank help me," he answered when I asked him if he had been given special instruction in the game by anyone. "May show me how to field and throw," he added. Did Mays or anyone show him how to hit? "No," he replied, pride in his voice. "I learn to heet myself. Nobody show me."
“Nobody could believe in me the way I believed in myself.”
Yanni (1954) Greek pianist, keyboardist, composer, and music producer
Yanni in Words. Miramax Books. Co-author David Rensin
Linda Smith (1958–2006) comedian
A Brief History of Timewasting, Room 101
“I see myself as representing the conservative wing of the postindustrial society.”
Newt Gingrich (1943) Professor, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
1980s
Maurice Sendak (1928–2012) American illustrator and writer of children's books
NOW interview (2004)
Context: I wasn't gonna paint. And I wasn't gonna do ostentatious drawings. I wasn't gonna have gallery pictures. I was gonna hide somewhere where nobody would find me and express myself entirely. I'm like a guerrilla warfare in my best books.
Clement Attlee (1883–1967) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Speech to the Labour Party Conference in Southport (2 October 1934) , quoted in Talus, Your Alternative Government (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1945), p. 17 and D. M. Touche, Britain's Lost Victory (London: The Individualist Bookshop, 1941).
1930s
“Nobody else can demean me. I can only demean myself”
Susan Elizabeth Phillips (1948) American writer
Source: Kiss an Angel
Tawakkol Karman (1979) Yemeni journalist, politician, human rights activist, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient
2010s, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Tawakkul Karman – A Profile (2011)
Halle Berry (1966) American actress
The Star-Ledger staff (May 2, 2003) "It's a beautiful year, again, for this Oscar-winner", The Star-Ledger, p. 62.