“All my life I have been a 'have-not.' At home I was a 'have-not.' I regard myself as belonging to them and have always fought exclusively for them. I defended them and, therefore, I stand before the world as their representative.”
Speech to the Workers of Berlin (10 December 1940)
1940s
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David Duke (1950) American White nationalist, white supremacist, writer, right-wing politician, and a former Republican Louisiana …
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Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947) French painter and printmaker
quoted in Bonnard; by Sarah Witfield and John Elderfield; Harry N. Abrams Inc., New York, 1998 - ISBN 0-8109-4021-3, p. 9
Bonnard did not paint from life but rather drew his subject and made notes on the colors. He then painted the canvas in his studio from the sketches and his notes
T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author
Source: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Others
James Madison (1751–1836) 4th president of the United States (1809 to 1817)
Letter to James Robertson (20 April 1831)
1830s
Context: With respect to the words "general welfare," I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators. If the words obtained so readily a place in the "Articles of Confederation," and received so little notice in their admission into the present Constitution, and retained for so long a time a silent place in both, the fairest explanation is, that the words, in the alternative of meaning nothing or meaning everything, had the former meaning taken for granted.
Stephen Hawking (1942–2018) British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author
From the 1997 television program Stephen Hawking's Universe http://www.pbs.org/wnet/hawking/html/home.html <br class="br">Unsourced variant: All of my life, I have been fascinated by the big questions that face us, and have tried to find scientific answers to them. Perhaps that is why I have sold more books on physics than Madonna has on sex. This quote seems to combine the above sentence from Stephen Hawking's Universe with a statement from the Foreword to The Illustrated Brief History of Time: As Nathan Myhrvold of Microsoft (a former post-doc of mine) remarked: I have sold more books on physics than Madonna has on sex.
Brunello Cucinelli (1953) Italian entrepreneur and philanthropist
Source: A Day In the Life of Brunello Cucinelli https://www.harpersbazaar.com/fashion/designers/a17874/brunello-cucinelli-profile/ Harper's Bazaar, Lauren McCarthy, 15 September 2016
Randall Jarrell (1914–1965) poet, critic, novelist, essayist
“The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p. 71
The Third Book of Criticism (1969)
Kristiana Rae Colón (1986) American poet and playwright
On her relationship to the city of Chicago in “Aprils Fools and Their Universe: Kristiana Rae Colón and #LetUsBreathe Collective” http://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/aprils-fools-and-their-universe-kristiana-rae-colon-and-letusbreathe-collective/ in Sixty (2018 Oct 30)