“If I knew in 1986 how much it was going to cost to keep Pixar going, I doubt if I would have bought the company.”
As quoted in Fortune (18 September 1995)
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“I liked it so much, I bought the company”
Victor Kiam (1926–2001) American businessman, American football executive
TV commercial for Remington Shavers, 1979 <br class="br">Source: I liked the slogan so much..., 30 May 2001, 31 May 2015, BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1357091.stm,
“I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.”
Warren Buffett (1930) American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist
“Sometimes I wish I knew how to go crazy. I forget how.”
Philip K. Dick book A Scanner Darkly
“It’s a lost art,” Hank said. “Maybe there’s an instruction manual on it.”
Source: A Scanner Darkly (1977), Chapter 4 (p. 56)
“How much is your sin going to cost me?”
Ted Haggard (1956) American minister
http://web.archive.org/web/20060509115906/http://www.preachingtodaysermons.com/hatedhowmuis.html, popular sermon on how the consequences of our sin affect others, accessed 4 November 2006.
Desmond Tutu (1931) South African churchman, politician, archbishop, Nobel Prize winner
"Desmond Tutu Would Prefer Hell Over A Homophobic Heaven" at The Huffington Post (26 July 2013) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/26/desmond-tutu-hell-homophobia_n_3661120.html <br class="br">Context: I would not worship a God who is homophobic and that is how deeply I feel about this. I would refuse to go to a homophobic heaven. No, I would say sorry, I mean I would much rather go to the other place. I am as passionate about this campaign as I ever was about apartheid. For me, it is at the same level.
Vincent Van Gogh book The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
1880s, 1880, Letter to Theo (Cuesmes, July 1880)
Source: The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
Context: I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it — keep going, keep going come what may.
But what is your final goal, you may ask. That goal will become clearer, will emerge slowly but surely, much as the rough draught turns into a sketch, and the sketch into a painting through the serious work done on it, through the elaboration of the original vague idea and through the consolidation of the first fleeting and passing thought.
“How can he do this? If you were mine, I would fight to keep you. I would die, before I let you go.”
Juliet Marillier book Daughter of the Forest
Source: Daughter of the Forest
“I knew it. I knew this would happen to me… They were never going to let me be president.”
Hillary Clinton (1947) American politician, senator, Secretary of State, First Lady
On election night, as reported in Amy Chozick's book Chasing Hillary: Ten Years, Two Presidential Campaigns, and One Intact Glass Ceiling (2018) and quoted in "Hillary Clinton On Election Night: ‘They Were Never Going to Let Me Be President’" https://www.thedailybeast.com/hillary-clinton-they-were-never-going-to-let-me-be-president by Gideon Resnick, The Daily Beast (20 April 2018) <br class="br">Attributed
Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept