—Rolling Stone photo shoot
from Los Angeles Free Press, March 22, 1968. Gene Youngblood
Metro Article http://www.metro.co.uk/sport/football/756336-gordon-strachans-greatest-quotes 22nd October, 2009
“I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.”
Source: "Berlin Diary" (1930) from Goodbye to Berlin (1939)
“I don't know if the member of Prince Edward-Hastings thinks he's on camera, but he's not.”
Comment in the House of Commons in response to the heckling of George Hees, October 17, 1977 (this particular Question Period was the first to be televised, prompting Trudeau's remark. In actuality, John Raymond Ellis was the Prince Edward-Hastings MP.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2kRv0kW5Oc#t=6m51s
“If poverty was to be sold three cents today, i can't buy it.”
Source: I Will Marry When I Want
“I've aged, but I don't think I've grown up.”
Guardian interview 3 Nov 2006 http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2006/nov/03/1
“How am I going to live today to create the tomorrow I've committed to?”
Variant: How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to?
"When I Think Of My People Broken Down", as translated in "The Poetry of Sri Lanka", in Journal of South Asian Literature, Vol. 12, No. 1 (Fall-Winter 1976), published by Asian Studies Center, Michigan State University, p. 11
Context: Unbearable becomes the pain in my heart —
When I think of my people, broken down,
broken by disease in mind and limb. On the edge of life they always linger;
For countless are the diseases
Of Ignorance and Hunger. And on treacherous paths to Slavery
like children blind, they would walk behind
strangers from over the sea. O, divine Land, blessed by the gods!
O, ancient Mother of Culture and Art!
Thy children today are spineless hordes.
