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“Being normal is being completely unique, because nobody's the same.”
Jonathan Van Ness (1987) American hairstylist and television personality
page 218
Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love (2019)
“Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.”
Michelangelo Antonioni (1912–2007) Italian film director and screenwriter
Sunday Times [London] (20 June 1971)
Adam Roberts book Jack Glass: The Story of a Murderer
Part 3, Chapter 8, “The Wrath of Diana” (p. 337).
Jack Glass (2012)
“Why is it nobody understands me and everybody likes me?”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
As quoted in New York Times article "The Einstein Theory of Living; At 65 he leads the simplest of lives — and grapples with the most complex thoughts." http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00713FA3A58157A93C0A81788D85F408485F9 (12 March 1944) <br class="br">Variants: <br class="br">Why is it that nobody understands me, yet everybody likes me? <br class="br">As quoted in The Dark Side of Shakespeare : An Elizabethan Courtier, Diplomat, Spymaster, & Epic Hero, p. 126 https://books.google.com/books?id=-5SxGKrTRUEC&pg=PA126 (2003) by W. Ron Hess <br class="br">Everyone likes me, yet nobody understands me. <br class="br">As quoted in "The culture of Einstein" at MSNBC (18 March 2005) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7406337/ <br class="br">1940s
“Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.”
Arthur Miller book Death of a Salesman
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Death of a Salesman (1949)
Umberto Eco (1932–2016) Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist
Source: "Why Are They Laughing In Those Cages?", in Travels in Hyperreality : Essays (1986), Ch. III : The Gods of the Underworld, p. 122
Context: The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. If it had been possible he would have settled the matter otherwise, and without bloodshed.
Context: The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. If it had been possible he would have settled the matter otherwise, and without bloodshed. He doesn't boast of his own death or of others'. But he does not repent. He suffers and keeps his mouth shut; if anything, others then exploit him, making him a myth, while he, the man worthy of esteem, was only a poor creature who reacted with dignity and courage in an event bigger than he was.
“Just being Tan-Tan, sometimes good, sometimes bad, mostly just getting by like everybody else.”
Nalo Hopkinson book Midnight Robber
Section 4 (p. 326)
Midnight Robber (2000)
“Nobody ever accused me of being objective.”
Paul Conrad (1924–2010) German theologian
As quoted in Multer-Wellin, B. (2006). Paul Conrad: Drawing Fire http://www.hulu.com/watch/55119. Documentary, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).