50 Cent (1975) American rapper, actor, businessman, investor and television producer
From his interview with Louis Gannon for Live magazine, The Mail on Sunday (UK) newspaper, 25 October 2009.
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2000s
50 Cent (1975) American rapper, actor, businessman, investor and television producer
From his interview with Louis Gannon for Live magazine, The Mail on Sunday (UK) newspaper, 25 October 2009.
James Nicoll (1961) Canadian fiction reviewer
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2000s
“I don't believe in rock bottom. Rock bottom is like a fishing term.”
Charlie Sheen (1965) American film and television actor
On TMZ, February 28 2011
“I have abandoned my search for truth and am now looking for a good fantasy”
Ashleigh Brilliant (1933) American author and cartoonist
Gabriel Byrne (1950) Irish actor, film director, film producer, writer, cultural ambassador and audiobook narrator
On how people forgo truthful living for lies in “Gabriel Byrne: 'There’s a shame about men speaking out. A sense that if you were abused, it was your fault'” https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/nov/08/gabriel-byrne-its-an-obscenity-to-tell-innocent-children-theyre-going-to-hell in The Guardian (2020 Nov 8)
“All novels are fantasies. Some are more honest about it.”
Gene Wolfe (1931–2019) American science fiction and fantasy writer
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) Poet, essayist, physician
Part of a statement at the annual meeting of the Massachusetts Medical Society (30 May 1860), generally quoted in a simplified form omitting Holmes's exceptions including opium and anaesthetics. <br class="br">Throw out opium, which the Creator himself seems to prescribe, for we often see the scarlet poppy growing in the cornfields, as if it were foreseen that wherever there is hunger to be fed there must also be a pain to be soothed; throw out a few specifics which our art did not discover, and it is hardly needed to apply; throw out wine, which is a food, and the vapors which produce the miracle of anaesthesia, and I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica [medical drugs], as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind,—and all the worse for the fishes. <br class="br">As quoted in a review of Currents and Counter-currents in Medical Science (1860) in The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, Vol. 40 (1860), p. 467 http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=zHdDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA467 <br class="br">Paraphrased variant: If all the medicine in the world were thrown into the sea, it would be bad for the fish and good for humanity.
“I have too many fantasies to be a housewife…. I guess I am a fantasy.”
Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
Variant: I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.
Glenn Beck (1964) U.S. talk radio and television host
The Glenn Beck Program
Premiere Radio Networks
2010-06-08
Beck believes that in 100 to 200 years, his 8-28 rally "will be remembered as the moment America turned the corner"
2010-06-08
Media Matters for America
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201006080027
on his Restoring Honor rally on 2010-08-28
2010s, 2010