“Why am I afraid to tell you who I am? I am afraid to tell you who I am, because, if I tell you who I am, you may not like who I am, and it's all that I have…”
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John Powell 6
American Jesuit priest 1645–1713Related quotes

“I am not arguing with you — I am telling you.”
Propositions, 2
1870 - 1903, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies' (1890)
"Talking Clothes" (p.109)
So This Is Depravity (1980)

“If I have to tell him who I am, then I'm not.”
Source: Explaining to a friend why he didn't identify himself to the maitre 'd who told them they'd have to wait in line; as quoted in 3 on a Toothbrush (1963) by Jack Paar, p. 274

First address as Vice-President, widely reported as having been delivered while he was inebriated. (5 March 1865).
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