“People whose wishes get granted often don't turn out to be very nice people.”
Source: Witches Abroad
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Terry Pratchett796
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Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter
On his living at a Zen center, as quoted in Los Angeles Times (24 September 1995)
“Be nice to people – all people – even when you don't have to be. Everybody is important.”
Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon
Source: Think Big (1996), p. 86
“It turns out a lot of people don’t get it. Wikipedia is like rock’n’roll; it’s a cultural shift.”
Jimmy Wales (1966) Wikipedia co-founder and American Internet entrepreneur
Wales to Computerworld, "Wikipedia founder gazes into site's future" (18 August 2006) http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/0/E33CA972AD48588CCC2571C7001C3649?OpenDocument, based on an earlier interview at Wikimania
Fulton J. Sheen (1895–1979) Catholic bishop and television presenter
Source: Peace of Soul (1949), Ch. 5, p. 71
Susan Howatch book The Wheel of Fortune
The Wheel of Fortune (1984), Part 4: Kester
“She should, at the very least, be speaking out more. And if people don't listen, then resign.”
Bono (1960) Irish rock musician, singer of U2
Bono: The Rolling Stone Interview (2017)
Context: [On the persecutions of Rohingya in Myanmar, and Aung San Suu Kyi's lack of response to them] That is very hard, and I'm – I feel kind of nauseous about that. I have genuinely felt ill, because I can't quite believe what the evidence all points to. But there is ethnic cleansing. It really is happening, and she has to step down because she knows it's happening. I am sure she has many great reasons in her head why she is not stepping down. Maybe it's that she doesn't want to lose the country back to the military. But she already has, if the pictures are what we go by, anyway. The human rights that are being torched, the lives that are being burned out in Rakhine State are more important than a unity without them. … She should, at the very least, be speaking out more. And if people don't listen, then resign. This is all just really troubling. I am still confounded by it, actually. I am still confounded by it, actually. … Is it that we project onto people who we want them to be? We find somebody we like, and we tell ourselves that a person exists that is better than us. More able than us. A truer moral compass than us. We imbue them with all these qualities. We do that with people. I think I have had it done to me. People have their version of you, they project what they want to see on you. Maybe she was always a politician. She was not a saint. She was not some sort of savior. Maybe we were always wrong, and we just have to accept we were wrong. Or maybe something terrible has happened to her that we just don't know.
Helen Frankenthaler (1928–2011) American artist
1970s - 1980s, interview with Deborah Salomon in 'New York Times', 1989
Ysabella Brave (1979) American singer
"This Just In!" (30 January 2007) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSKgFqisXRo