Al Sharpton (1954) American Baptist minister, civil rights activist, and television/radio talk show host
Eulogy for Michael Jackson at his memorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MAKLq865bk (7 July 2009).
Monster (2004)
Al Sharpton (1954) American Baptist minister, civil rights activist, and television/radio talk show host
Eulogy for Michael Jackson at his memorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MAKLq865bk (7 July 2009).
Carol Ann Duffy (1955) British writer and professor of contemporary poetry
Interviewed in The Guardian, December 4, 2005. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2005/dec/04/poetry.features
Bill Cosby (1937) American actor, comedian, author, producer, musician, activist
Associated Press interview, , quoted in [2014-11-19, Bill Cosby on Rape Allegations: ‘I Don’t Talk About It’, Maya Rhodan, Time, http://time.com/3596545/cosby-responds-rape-allegations-ap-video/, 2014-11-24]
Post-interview on-camera remarks, requesting they not air his interviewer's attempt to ask him about comedian Hannibal Buress' comedy routine about multiple women having alleged that Cosby drugged and raped them:
Brett Zongker: I have to ask about your name coming up in the news recently regarding this comedian—
Bill Cosby: No, no, we don't answer that.
Brett Zongker: OK. I just wanted to ask you if you wanted to respond about whether any of that was true.
Bill Cosby: There's no response.
Brett Zongker: I'm gonna ask you, if— With the persona that people know about Bill Cosby, should they believe anything differently about what—?
Bill Cosby: There is no comment about that.
Brett Zongker: OK.
Bill Cosby: And I'll tell you why.
Brett Zongker: OK.
Bill Cosby: I think you were told. I don't want to compromise your integrity, but um, we don't— I don't talk about it.
Nasreddin (1208–1284) philosopher, Sufi and wise man from Turkey, remembered for his funny stories and anecdotes
But now you see, nobody offers me a donkey to replace my lost one."
Sugeng Hariyanto, Nasreddin, A Man Who Never Gives Up (1998), ISBN 9789796721597, p. 13
“I didn't know I was looking for anything until I saw you.”
Sylvia Day (1973) American writer
Source: Reflected in You
Kurt Vonnegut book The Sirens of Titan
Source: The Sirens of Titan (1959), Chapter 7 “Victory” (p. 165; epigram)
V.S. Naipaul (1932–2018) Trinidadian-British writer of Indo-Nepalese ancestry
As quoted in "V.S. Naipaul in Search of Himself: A Conversation" with Mel Gussow, The New York Times, (24 April 1994)
Jeremy Clarkson (1960) English broadcaster, journalist and writer
Source: For Crying Out Loud! The World According to Clarkson Volume Three (2008), p. 1