
As quoted in "15 Best Conor McGregor Quotes" http://www.foxsportsasia.com/news/15-best-conor-mcgregor-quotes/, FOX Sports Asia
2010s, 2014
Answer to the question whether the American public could expect a similar dynamic if he would win the presidential elections, quoted in Donald Trump: Questions on money for war veterans http://www.aljazeera.com/blogs/americas/2016/05/donald-trump-fumes-veterans-money-questions-160531203455389.html aljazeera.com, 1 June 2016
2010s, 2016, June
As quoted in "15 Best Conor McGregor Quotes" http://www.foxsportsasia.com/news/15-best-conor-mcgregor-quotes/, FOX Sports Asia
2010s, 2014
“I'm not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.”
“The changes are not going to stop. They are going to continue and accelerate. Like it or not.”
Acceptance Speech for the Margaret Edwards Award (1998)
Context: I don't want to dump on TV, but there's no doubt that our language has been changed by television, especially by the media, which tries to manipulate us into being consumers. Most of the time nowadays we human beings are referred to as consumers. What does the consumer think? What does the consumer want? How ugly. Forest fires consume. Cancer consumes. I want us to be nourishers. To be a librarian, particularly a librarian for young adults, is to be a nourisher, to share stories, offer books full of new ideas. We live in a world which has changed radically in the last half century, and story helps us to understand and live creatively with change.
The changes are not going to stop. They are going to continue and accelerate. Like it or not.
In the anime, Hikaru says this when he plays in a Go tournament for the first time.
Hikaru no Go
“I'm not going to change my ways just to please you, or appease you.”
Seek Up
Remember Two Things (1993)
“New York is like my dream city. That's where I'm going to live, I'm convinced of it.”
" High School Musical Starring Frances Bean Cobain http://www.harpersbazaar.com/celebrity/red-carpet-dresses/a235/frances-bean-cobain-0308/" (2008)
“I just don't want them to change me, if I'm going to die I still want to be me.”
Variant: They don't own me. If I'm gonna die, I wanna still be me.
Source: The Hunger Games