Appears in Barbet Schroeder (1974), General Idi Amin Dada: A Self Portrait.
“So I never felt anything except how bad I was and like, "Oh, shame on you!"”
Interviewed by Cathay Che, The Advocate (8 May 2001)
Context: The message I got from my record label at the time — and this was on purpose — was that I wasn't selling enough. Even when the single was a hit, it wasn't enough of a hit — I never got to number 1; I only got to number 5. And MTV didn't like the first video for the song, and we had to do another one. So I never felt anything except how bad I was and like, "Oh, shame on you!"
Source: The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists
: Daly to the Bessborough Commission 1880.
Source: Moran 1994, page 195
Source: Conversations with Judith Cladel (1939–1944), pp. 406-407
“She had that rare virtue of never existing completely except for that opportune moment”
Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude
“The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night (1885) Terminal Essay: Social Conditions, fn. 13.
Source: Drenai series, The King Beyond the Gate, Ch. 12
Context: I never worshipped anything but my sword and my wits; now I suffer for it. But I can take it, for am I not a man?... It is not hard to be a legend, Tenaka. It is what follows when you have to live like one.
“I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.”
Source: Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey
