“I've never met anyone who wanted to be a terrorist. They are desperate people.”
John Perkins (1945) American author
2002, Modi election campaign speech, 2002
“I've never met anyone who wanted to be a terrorist. They are desperate people.”
John Perkins (1945) American author
Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
Source: On Being Blonde (2007), p. 52
Context: The truth is I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't. When they found this out, they would blame me for disillusioning them and fooling them.
Marvin Gaye (1939–1984) American singer-songwriter and musician
Trouble Man
Song lyrics, Trouble Man (1972)
“I've actually had people come up to me and ask me to autograph their guns.”
Clint Eastwood (1930) actor and director from the United States
Reported in Leslie Halliwell, John Walker, Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies (2003), p. 149.
Kim Foxx (1972) American politician
4 March 2016 https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-kim-foxx-states-attorney-profile-met-20160303-story.html
“I've got pissing people off down to a science.”
Maddox (1978) American internet writer
The Best Page in the Universe
“I've heard lots of people lie to themselves but they never fool anyone.”
Steve Martin (1945) American actor, comedian, musician, author, playwright, and producer
Sylvia Browne (1936–2013) American author
May 16, 2003 Larry King Live, CNN interview http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0305/16/lkl.00.html