Marc Chagall (1887–1985) French artist and painter
as quoted by Joseph A. Harriss, in 'The Elusive Marc Chagall', - the 'Smithsonian Magazine', December 2003 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/the-elusive-marc-chagall-95114921/ <br class="br">after 1930
Susan Sontag (1933–2004) American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist
Source: Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
“I do it because I can't seem to live with myself if I do not. I don't know any other way to be.”
Martin Sheen (1940) American actor
On his activism in social justice and peace issues.
2000s, Progressive magazine interview (2003)
Context: I do it because I can't seem to live with myself if I do not. I don't know any other way to be. It isn't something you can explain; it is just something that you do; it is something that you are.
“I will live to make myself not feared.”
Catherine the Great (1729–1796) Empress of Russia
As quoted in The Historians' History of the World (1904) by Henry Smith Williams, p. 423
“I kinda live where I find myself.”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
The Rolling Stone Interview: Bob Dylan http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/the-rolling-stone-interview-bob-dylan-19840621 (21 June 1984)
“…before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.”
Harper Lee book To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
