“I'm not as soft or as generous a person as I would be if the world hadn't changed me.”
Bobby Fischer (1943–2008) American chess prodigy, chess player, and chess writer
1960s, Portrait of a Genius As a Young Chess Master (1961)
Posthumous attributions, Tupac: Resurrection (2003)
“I'm not as soft or as generous a person as I would be if the world hadn't changed me.”
Bobby Fischer (1943–2008) American chess prodigy, chess player, and chess writer
1960s, Portrait of a Genius As a Young Chess Master (1961)
“I'm here to change the world, and if I am not, I am probably wasting my time.”
Utah Phillips (1935–2008) American labor organizer, folk singer, storyteller and poet
Kupfer, David, "Utah Phillips" http://progressive.org/mag/interview/utahphillips, The Progressive. September 2003. Web. August 6, 2013.
Christine Feehan American writer
Source: Ruthless Game
Bill Nye (1955) American science educator, comedian, television host, actor, writer, scientist and former mechanical engineer
[NewsBank, D-01, Bill Nye, the Science Guy, brings humor to normally serious field, The Daily Gazette, Schenectady, New York, March 9, 2005, Bill Buell]
Riiko Sakkinen (1976) Finnish visual artist
"More a Human Being than an Artist" (6 February 2013) http://www.riikosakkinen.com/blog/?show=archive&m=02-2013
Neil deGrasse Tyson (1958) American astrophysicist and science communicator
A Conversation about Communicating Science, © 2007-2011 The Science Network, January 20, 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ulkX-DA9BM, <br class="br">2010s
“if the world changed, i could not exist, and if i changed, the world could not exist”
Yukio Mishima book The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
Source: The Temple of the Golden Pavilion