“I don't care about that scum! Why should I receive a prize? I know that I'm a genius!”
As quoted by Werner Herzog, in My Best Fiend, (1999)
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“I won't be happy until I'm up there, receiving the Nobel Prize.”
Kevin Barry (1902–1920) 18 year old medical student and Irish republican, executed by Britain.
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Judith Sheindlin (1942) American lawyer, judge, television personality, and author
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Kelly Osbourne (1984) English singer-songwriter, actress, television presenter and fashion designer
The Osbournes
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
Dialogue between Russell and his daughter Katharine, as quoted in My Father – Bertrand Russell (1975)
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“If you don’t care about my people, why should I care about yours?”
Octavia E. Butler book Adulthood Rites
Part II “Phoenix” chapter 15 (p. 383)
Adulthood Rites (1988)
“Most people, I think, don’t even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?”
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Smokey Robinson (1940) American R&B singer-songwriter and record producer
Being with You (1981)
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John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter
Genius is a form of madness and we're all that way. But I used to be coy about it, like me guitar playing. But if there's such a thing as genius — I am one. And if there isn't, I don't care.
John Lennon interview with Rolling Stone magazine (December 1970)