„We're just going to play the hell out of it until they can't take it anymore.“
— Shingai Shoniwa British musician 1981
http://www.indietastic.net/cms/2007/06/noisettes_interview.html
„So they didn't let anybody else off. I can't live anymore, they've done me. Auschwitz was just a child's play.“
Having just been sentenced to death, 1948.
Source: Ewa K. Czaczkowska, Chcą beatyfikacji Pileckiego, Rzeczpospolita. Nr 249 (8150), 24 October 2008, p. A9
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Witold Pilecki7
World War II concentration camp leader and resistor 1901 - 1948Related quotes
„One can't learn much and also be comfortable. One can't learn much and let anybody else be comfortable.“
— Charles Fort American writer 1874 - 1932
Ch. 6 http://www.resologist.net/talent06.htm
Wild Talents (1932)
„Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn't know. So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. He's not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball.“
— Magic Johnson American basketball player 1959
Then & Now: Magic Johnson http://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/01/17/cnn25.tan.johnson/index.html
„Can't anybody here play this game?“
— Casey Stengel American baseball player and coach 1890 - 1975
As quoted in Can't Anybody here Play This Game? (1963) by Jimmy Breslin; reproduced in "Rocene's Sport Jabs" by Ray Rocene, in The Missoulian (April 21, 1963), p. 11
Context: This makes a man think. You look up and down the bench and you say to yourself, "Can't anybody here play this game?"
„You can't let anybody else tell you what your choices are. Sometimes they won't give you the right choice.“
— Louis Sachar, book Stanley Yelnats' Survival Guide to Camp Green Lake
Source: Stanley Yelnats' Survival Guide to Camp Green Lake
„If I can't really find a way to live with myself, I can't expect anyone else to live with me.“
— Peter Sellers British film actor, comedian and singer 1925 - 1980
As quoted in The Hollywood Book of Extravagance: The Totally Infamous, Mostly Disastrous, and Always Compelling Excesses of America's Film and TV Idols (2007) by James Robert Parish, p. 95
„It wasn't about being happy or unhappy. I just didn't want to be me anymore.“
— Sarah Dessen, book What Happened to Goodbye
Source: What Happened to Goodbye
„We're off the script
We're off the lease
We can't catch any decent sleep
We don't live here anymore“
— Jakob Dylan singer and songwriter 1969
"We Don’t Live Here Anymore"
Women + Country (2010)
„Barcelona gave me everything, they took a chance on me when nobody else would. I never have any desire to play for anybody else, I will be here for as long as they want me.“
— Lionel Messi Argentine association football player 1987
Interview with ShortList, 2015 http://www.shortlist.com/entertainment/sport/lionel-messi-talks-champions-league-copa-america
„I just had my makeup done, so you can't make me cry.“
— Bret Easton Ellis, book Glamorama
Glamorama (1998)
„Let them call us nonentities. Who cares? A nonenitiy can be just as famous as anybody else if enough people know about him.
But let’s leave personalities out of this and just talk about me.“
— Gracie Allen American actress and comedienne 1902 - 1964
Source: How to Become President (1940), Ch. 1 : Government jobs pay big money
Context: Who am I to talk? That’s a fair question, and one which deserves a better answer than I can give you. … Come to think of it, who are you? Whoever you are, I sympathize with you. I sympathize with everybody; that’s what I get for being a candidate myself. Let them call us nonentities. Who cares? A nonenitiy can be just as famous as anybody else if enough people know about him.
But let’s leave personalities out of this and just talk about me.
„I don't think the father figures who let me down are bad people. They were doing the best they could, and sometimes that's just not enough. It's less their fault than it is the circumstances they were in. I can't really blame them for what happened. Now I'm so far away from these issues that it doesn't hurt anymore. In those moments, it was excruciating, but you can't stay in pain too long. You have to let it wash over you and pass, or else it will drown you.“
— Erika Jayne American singer, actress and television personality 1969
pg. 59-60
Pretty Mess book (2018)
„If there was a problem connected with my being a lesbian, even after I became aware of it, it was the loneliness, the fact that I didn't know anybody else like me.“
— Elsa Gidlow Canadian-American poet 1898 - 1986
Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives (1977), as cited in Palmer, Chris, October 6, 1978, "' Word is Out' an important film on gays http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=we08AAAAIBAJ&sjid=Yi4MAAAAIBAJ&pg=3700%2C2698575", Bangor Daily News.
„Dealt with a best friend getting killed. It was [by] two 35-year-old black men. Wasn't no police officer involved, wasn't anybody else involved, and I didn't hear anybody shouting "black lives matter" then.“
— Richard Sherman (American football) American football player 1988
As quoted in "Seattle Seahawks' Richard Sherman addresses 'Black Lives Matter' after post falsely attributed to him" http://blog.seattlepi.com/football/2015/09/16/seattle-seahawks-richard-sherman-addresses-black-lives-matter-after-post-falsely-attributed-to-him/ (16 September 2015), by Stephen Cohen, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Hearst Seattle Media
Press conference (16 September 2015)
„So he didn't have to prove how he felt about me. Like so much else, I should just know.“
— Sarah Dessen, book The Truth About Forever
Source: The Truth About Forever
„Take it back
Oh, take it back
I don't want your lovin', anymore
Let me live
Oh, let me live
It's not you who I sing for“
— Zooey Deschanel American actress, musician, and singer-songwriter 1980
"Take It Back".
She & Him : Volume One (2008)
„I should be crying, but I just can't let it show.
I should be hoping, but I can't stop thinking
Of all the things I should've said,
That I never said.
All the things we should've done,
That we never did.
All the things I should've given,
But I didn't.“
— Kate Bush British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer 1958
Song lyrics, The Sensual World (1989)
„Translation: "I quit. I can't play anymore. I lack the desire to do it. "“
— Romário Brazilian association football player 1966
Parei. Não dá mais. Não tenho mais vontade.
Source: Veja Magazine; 1886 Edition. January 5th, 2005.
Context: Announcing his retirement.