“I want to make it clear to England, I am not a party girl.”

Alan Watts, on Zen (2015) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh-3FJs2pz8 <br class="br">Context: I want to make one thing absolutely clear. I am not a Zen Buddhist, I am not advocating Zen Buddhism, I am not trying to convert anyone to it. I have nothing to sell. I&#x27;m an entertainer. That is to say, in the same sense, that when you go to a concert and you listen to someone play Mozart, he has nothing to sell except the sound of the music. He doesn’t want to convert you to anything. He doesn’t want you to join an organization in favor of Mozart&#x27;s music as opposed to, say, Beethoven&#x27;s. And I approach you in the same spirit as a musician with his piano or a violinist with his violin. I just want you to enjoy a point of view that I enjoy.

Source: Speech to the Conservatives of Manchester (3 April 1872), cited in The World's Best Orations from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Vol. 1 (eds. David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler), pp. 309-338

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)

Quero deixar bem claro que não vou parar.
Source: Veja Magazine; 1992 Edition. February 18th, 2005.
Context: Announcing his retirement.

"Miss World"
Song lyrics, Live Through This (1994)

1990s, Speech to the Council for National Policy (1997)

Source: Wintergirls

Statement made in Hanover (1755), quoted in Isaac Kramnick, Bolingbroke and His Circle: The Politics of Nostalgia in the Age of Walpole (Cornell University Press, 2018), pp. 113–114

In an interview following her election as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article2843875.ece, 10 November 2007.