“When I take on a project, I really put my soul into it. I'd die for it. That's how I am.”
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Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) Spanish artist
Source: Quotes of Salvador Dali, 1971 - 1980, Comment on deviant Dali, les aveux inavouables de Salvador Dali, p. unknown
José Martí (1853–1895) Poet, writer, Cuban nationalist leader
Yo soy un hombre sincero<br>De donde crece la palma<br>Y antes de morirme quiero<br>Echar mis versos del alma. <br class="br">I (Yo soy un hombre sincero) as translated by Esther Allen in José Martí : Selected Writings (2002), p. 273, ISBN 0142437042 <br class="br">Variant translations: <br class="br">A sincere man am I<br>From the land where palm trees grow,<br>And I want before I die<br>My soul's verses to bestow. <br class="br"> "A Sincere Man Am I" http://oldpoetry.com/opoem/46409-Jose-Marti-A-Sincere-Man-Am-I---Verse-I-, as translated by Manuel A. Tellechea, in Versos Sencillos: Simple Verses (1997) ISBN 1558852042 <br class="br">I am a sincere man<br>from where the palm tree grows,<br> and before I die I wish<br>to pour forth the verses from my soul. <br class="br">Simple Verses (1891)
Margaret Way (1900) Australian romance fiction writer
Source: Genni's Dilemma
Charb (1967–2015) French caricaturist and journalist
Xavier Ternisien, A "Charlie Hebdo", on n'a "pas l’impression d’égorger quelqu’un avec un feutre" http://www.lemonde.fr/actualite-medias/article/2012/09/20/je-n-ai-pas-l-impression-d-egorger-quelqu-un-avec-un-feutre_1762748_3236.html, Le Monde, 20 september 2012.
Dara Ó Briain (1972) Irish comedian and television presenter
Dara Ó Briain Talks Funny: Live in London (2008)
Luís de Camões (1524–1580) Portuguese poet
Enfim acabarei a vida e verão todos que fui tão afeiçoado à minha Pátria que não só me contentei de morrer nela, mas com ela.
Letter to Don Francisco de Almeyda, 1579; written after "the disaster of Alcácer-Kebir when the mad King Sebastião's mammoth invasion of Morocco ended in his death and the destruction or enslavement of all but one hundred of his army of over 20,000. [Camões] died on 10 June 1580, just before the throne passed to Philip II of Spain", as reported by Landeg White in The Lusiads (Oxford World's Classics, 2001), p. x; quoted as Camões' last words in The Yale Literary Magazine, Vol. VIII (January, 1843), No. 3, "Luis de Camoëns", p. 115.
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