Charles Webster Leadbeater (1854–1934) English theosophist
A Textbook of Theosophy (1912), Chapter One
“Of course, the entire effort is to put myself
Outside the ordinary range
Of what are called statistics.”
"Thoughts During An Air Raid"
The Still Centre (1939)
Context: Of course, the entire effort is to put myself
Outside the ordinary range
Of what are called statistics. A hundred are killed
In the outer suburbs. Well, well, I carry on.
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“I only believe in statistics that I doctored myself.”
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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In German: »Ich glaube nur der Statistik, die ich selbst gefälscht habe«
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Michelle Pfeiffer (1958) American actress
In response to criticism that she was too beautiful to play a lonely waitress in Frankie and Johnny, quoted in Pfeiffer: Beyond the Age of Innocence by Thompson, p. 223
Context: The description of the character is that Frankie is an attractive woman if she'd just put a little effort into how she looks. So that's basically the way I played her. I consider myself an attractive woman, and I can be not-so-great-looking if I don't put effort into how I look. But more importantly, the core of the character was someone who had given up on love, and that could be any age, any size, any form of beauty. That could be anybody.
Alain de Botton book The Consolations of Philosophy
Source: The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), Chapter I, Consolations For Unpopularity, p. 9.