“Jerry Springer: What would you have been if you would have not been a performer?”
GG Allin (1956–1993) American singer-songwriter
On The Jerry Springer Show
As quoted in Meeting Jimmie Rodgers : How America's Original Roots Music Hero Changed the Pop Sounds of a Century: How America's Original Roots Music Hero Changed the Pop Sounds of a Century (2009) by Barry Mazor, p. 347
“Jerry Springer: What would you have been if you would have not been a performer?”
GG Allin (1956–1993) American singer-songwriter
On The Jerry Springer Show
Tony Banks (1942–2006) British politician
"The wit and wisdom of Tony Banks" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4593562.stm, BBC News, 8 January 2006. <br class="br">after a kiss-and-tell story appeared detailing how former Conservative minister David Mellor, his close friend and fellow Chelsea fan, wore football kit during sex.
John Feffer (1963) American foreign policy writer
Trumpism is here to stay: America’s neo-fascist fever dream has only just begun (2016)
“I could have been a great many things.”
Louisa May Alcott book Little Women
Variant: I should have been a great many things, Mr Mayor
Source: Little Women
Anthony Lewis (1927–2013) American journalist
[Richard H., Weiss, November 5, 1998, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Times columnist likes to mine a vein of thought, G1]
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“I have been called a great many things in my time – that's politics.”
Nigel Farage (1964) British politician and former commodity broker
Upon being fined €2,980 for "inappropriate behaviour" towards Herman Van Rompuy, EU President - Nigel Farage fined for verbal attack on EU president http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/mar/02/nigel-farage-fined-mep-rompuy, The Guardian, 2 March 2010. <br class="br">2010
“Garg works in the great tradition of Wilfred Funk and Norman Lewis… Garg, however, is more fun.”
Anu Garg (1967) Indian author
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Robert
Armstrong
2003-02-23
Just the right books for when words fail you
“Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me”
Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist
Source: The Woman Destroyed
Jimmy Kimmel (1967) American talk show host and comedian
ABC Chairman Lloyd Braun — reported in ZAP2IT.COM (December 10, 2003) "'Jimmy Kimmel' back for a second season", Chicago Tribune RedEye Edition, Chicago Tribune, p. 46.
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