Jim Breuer (1967) American actor and comedian
And then we went in...
Explaining the origin of the Joe Pesci skits in an interview on Mancow's Morning Madhouse
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Jim Breuer (1967) American actor and comedian
And then we went in...
Explaining the origin of the Joe Pesci skits in an interview on Mancow's Morning Madhouse
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Józef Piłsudski (1867–1935) Polish politician and Prime Minister
Jerzy Robert Nowak, Na przekór skorpionom. Wyznania upartego Polaka, Warszawa 2005, p. 52.
Attributed
“It's amazing what one can accomplish when one doesn't know what one can't do.”
Jim Davis (1945) American cartoonist and creator of Garfield
“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit”
Harry Truman (1884–1972) American politician, 33rd president of the United States (in office from 1945 to 1953)
This is attributed to Truman in some sources, but a similar saying is recorded as early as 1909 https://books.google.com/books?id=bidJAAAAIAAJ&dq=how%20much%20%22care%20who%20gets%20the%20credit%22&pg=PA26#v=onepage&q=how%20much%20%22care%20who%20gets%20the%20credit%22&f=false. <br class="br">Misattributed
“Dogs, also, bark at what they do not know.”
Heraclitus (-535) pre-Socratic Greek philosopher
Fragment 97
Numbered fragments
Roberto Clemente (1934–1972) Puerto Rican baseball player
Clemente's oft-cited "wasting your time on this earth" admonition, but in a context quite distinct from that of its ubiquitous counterpart (which is likewise contained in this speech—see below); from the opening of his Tris Speaker Memorial Award acceptance speech, delivered on January 29, 1971; as quoted in "800 Turn Out for Baseball Dinner" by Joe Heiling (The Houston Post, January 30, 1971, p. 1-B) and "Post Time: Clemente's Catch Proves Point" by Houston Post sports editor Clark Nealon (The Houston Post, June 18, 1971, p. 5-D).
Other, <big><big>1970s</big></big>, <big>1971</big>
Context: I am a very proud person. Baseball has helped send my brothers and nephews to school. But more than that, baseball has become my whole life. Accomplishment is something you cannot buy. If you have a chance and don’t make the most of it, you are wasting your time on this earth. It is not what you do in baseball or sports, but how hard you try. Win or lose, I try my best.
“3736. One barking Dog, sets all the Street a barking.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist
Inarticulate Touches
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part IX - A Painter's Views on Painting