“I realize im black, but id like to be viewed as a person, and that is everybodys wish.”
Michael Jordan (1963) American retired professional basketball player and businessman
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“I realize im black, but id like to be viewed as a person, and that is everybodys wish.”
Michael Jordan (1963) American retired professional basketball player and businessman
“I can answer you in two words: im-possible!”
Samuel Goldwyn (1879–1974) American film producer (1879-1974).
Reported in Paul F. Boller, John George, They Never Said It (1990), p. 40.
Misattributed
John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author
Source: 1900s, Our National Parks (1901), chapter 1: The Wild Parks and Forest Reservations of the West
“What is the chance that one can roll up the sky like a hide?”
Subhash Kak (1947) Indian computer scientist
The Secrets of Ishbar (1996)
Spider Robinson (1948) Canadian author
God Is An Iron (1977)
Context: Call it… joy. The thing like pleasure that you feel when you've done a good thing or passed up a real tempting chance to do a bad thing. Or when the unfolding of the universe just seems especially apt. It's nowhere near as flashy and intense as pleasure can be. Believe me! But it's got something going for it. Something that can make you do without pleasure, or even accept a lot of pain, to get it.
Paul A. Samuelson (1915–2009) American economist
1980s–1990s
Source: Paul Anthony Samuelson, Kate Crowley (1986), The Collected Scientific Papers, Volume 5, p. 561