Michael Franti (1966) American rapper
Interview, live at Coachella http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YMwcXBePqE
“Politics disabuses a person of the notion that you can please everybody. It is an inescapable fact that people will always have different opinions, and some people are going to disagree. Sooner or later, a person constructs his or her own "platform" and stands on it, regardless of what others think, say, or do. It is also true that some people delight in another person's demise.”
Source: Never Again: Securing America and Restoring Justice (2006), p. 67
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Attributed to Russell in Prochnow's Speakers Handbook of Epigrams and Witticisms (1955), p. 132
Disputed
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Variant: I think the idea is that every person has to live for his or her own life and then make the choice to share it with other people.
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“a poem is a naked person... some people say that I am a poet”
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Liner notes http://bobdylan.com/linernotes/bringing.html, Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
Brandon Sanderson book Alcatraz Versus the Knights of Crystallia
Source: Alcatraz Versus the Knights of Crystallia
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Pope Francis (1936) 266th Pope of the Catholic Church
Attributed to Pope Francis in a Facebook image circulated circa , this is debunked in "Mass Exodus" at Snopes.com (15 December 2014) http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/popeatheist.asp, which asserts there are no credible indications Francis ever made such a statement: "It's not clear where the quote originated, but there is no proof (nor is there precedent) for the claim Pope Francis voiced it." <br class="br">Misattributed
