Allegedly said to Charles Lindbergh after he flew the Atlantic solo in an aeroplane.
Attributed
“Not only do I not know what's going on, I wouldn't know what to do about it if I did.”
“Love isn't about what we did yesterday; it's about what we do today and tomorrow and the day after”
Source: The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century
Source: Dance with the Devil
“It's not necessarily about what career you pick. It's about how you do what you do.”
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (2005)
“We do not have that much to moan about when one thinks of what people did not moan about before.”
From 'Om man så må sige – 350 Dronning Margrethe-citater', quoted in English here http://trondni.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/new-books-wit-and-wisdom-of-margrethe-ii.html.
Society
“What do you do? The DJ. If you did not do the DJ you work would you like to do? The DJ.”
Original: (it) Che lavoro fai? Il DJ. Se non facessi il DJ che lavoro vorresti fare? Il DJ.
Source: prevale.net
“You can't imagine what courage it took to do what he did.”
http://www.nola.com/newsflash/louisiana/index.ssf?/base/news-22/1136568553158920.xml&storylist=louisiana
Seymour Hersh, journalist who "broke" the My Lai massacre story.
Quotes of others about Thompson
“What did my arms do before they held you?”
"Three Women: A Poem for Three Voices" http://www.angelfire.com/tn/plath/3women.html (1962), a radio play published in 1968
Variant: What did my fingers do before they held him?
What did my heart do, with its love?
Source: The Collected Poems
