Melanie Perkins (1987) Australian technology entrepreneur
Source: https://twitter.com/arjunmahadevan/status/1677775875369058304
As quoted in The Seven Deadly Sins (2000) by Steven Schwartz, p. 23
Melanie Perkins (1987) Australian technology entrepreneur
Source: https://twitter.com/arjunmahadevan/status/1677775875369058304
“People who have no vices, have very few virtues.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
According to The Inner Life of Abraham Lincoln (1867) by F. B. Carpenter, Lincoln quoted this as having been said to him by a fellow-passenger in a stagecoach. See also "Washington during the War", Macmillan's Magazine 6:24 http://books.google.com/books?id=rB4AAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA24&dq=folks (May 1862) <br class="br">Posthumous attributions <br class="br">Variant: It's my experience that folks who have no vices have generally very few virtues.
“People who call themselves divas…you are not a diva. I'm pretty sure you're a cunt.”
Sarah Silverman (1970) American comedian and actress
Real Time with Bill Maher episode 145, 13 March 2009
Jennifer Lopez (1969) American singer and actress
Jennifer Lopez shades A-list actress peers in resurfaced interview https://nypost.com/2019/09/25/jennifer-lopez-shades-a-list-actress-peers-in-resurfaced-interview/, by Nadine DeNinno, New York Post, September 25, 2019.
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
2010s, 2016, September, First presidential debate (September 26, 2016)
Leonard Susskind (1940) American physicist
General Relativity Lecture 5, YouTube, published 30 October 2012 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quWN1V9jOf0 (quote at 1:21:46 of 1:39:06)
“Go away. I hate everyone right now, and I'm pretty sure that includes you.”
Jill Shalvis (1963) American writer
Eric Temple Bell book Men of Mathematics
Men of Mathematics (1937)
Context: The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so also can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular.<!--1986 ed., p. 488