“Since I came to the White House, I've gotten two hearing aids, had a colon operation, a prostate operation, skin cancer, and I've been shot… damn thing is, I've never felt better.”
Source: Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches
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Dan Aykroyd (1952) Canadian film actor
As quoted in "I'm still haunted by Belushi" by Sean O'Hagan in The Observer (28 September 2003)
Context: You know, even when the material wasn't so good, I've gotten to work with the greats, and I've always given it my best shot. I'm satisfied with my work. I could stop tomorrow, and if Bright Young Things was my last role, I could say I tidied it up with dignity.
Scarlett Johansson (1984) American actress, model, and singer
As quoted in "Wilde about the girl" in The Sydney Morning Herald (13 June 2005) http://www.smh.com.au/news/Film/Wilde-about-the-girl/2005/06/12/1118514919678.html <br class="br">Context: I read a lot of things about myself that aren't true … I've read that I've been with people I've never met. It's nice not to have any attachment, but, likewise, it's nice to have a boyfriend. I'm open to that. But it's hard, when you're working constantly, to spend enough time with someone.
“I always felt that I was not a part of things in general. I've always been outside of things.”
Jim Henson (1936–1990) American puppeteer
Interview with The Boston Globe (1989)
Michael Jordan (1963) American retired professional basketball player and businessman
As quoted in Nike Culture : The Sign of the Swoosh (1998), by Robert Goldman and Stephen Papson, p. 49
“I've been called worse things by better people.”
Pierre Trudeau (1919–2000) 15th Prime Minister of Canada
When it was reported to him that President Richard Nixon had called him an "asshole" (1971), quoted in Absurdities, Scandals & Stupidities in Politics (2006) by Hakeem Shittu and Callie Query, p. 19
My only response was that I had been called worse things by better people.
Trudeau's account of the comment, in Memoirs (1993) by Pierre Elliott Trudeau, p. 218
“I've given him more mixed signals than a dyslexic Morse code operator.”
Rachel Cohn (1968) American writer
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