“An old speech of mine delivered fourteen years ago was read to show — I know not what. Perhaps it was to show that I am not infallible. If so, I have to say in defense, that I never pretended to be”
1860s, The Constitution of the United States: Is It Pro-Slavery or Anti-Slavery? (1860)
Context: The American people in the Northern States have helped to enslave the black people. Their duty will not have been done till they give them back their plundered rights. Reference was made at the City Hall to my having once held other opinions, and very different opinions to those I have now expressed. An old speech of mine delivered fourteen years ago was read to show — I know not what. Perhaps it was to show that I am not infallible. If so, I have to say in defense, that I never pretended to be.
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Speech in Berlin http://der-fuehrer.org/reden/english/33-02-01.htm, 1 Febraury 1933
1930s
Interview with Laura Yorke. Reader's Digest. July 2006
Source: Notes Towards the Definition of Culture, T.S. Eliot. Quoted from Gewali, Salil (2013). Great Minds on India. New Delhi: Penguin Random House.
On being cured of his gastritis, as quoted in TIME magazine (24 June 1940) http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,764097,00.html
Fiction, "The Fifth Head of Cerberus", Orbit 10 (1972)
As quoted in Filipinos in History, Vol. 2 (1989) by National Historical Institute of the Philippines.
ULOL
Interview: Tyler Perry, movie mogul, 21 August 2010
“I made the statement years ago which is often quoted that 80 percent of life is showing up.”
People used to always say to me that they wanted to write a play, they wanted to write a movie, they wanted to write a novel, and the couple of people that did it were 80 percent of the way to having something happen. All the other people struck out without ever getting that pack. They couldn’t do it, that’s why they don’t accomplish a thing, they don’t do the thing, so once you do it, if you actually write your film script, or write your novel, you are more than half way towards something good happening. So that I was say [sic] my biggest life lesson that has worked. All others have failed me.
Interview for The Collider (2008) http://collider.com/entertainment/interviews/article.asp/aid/8878/tcid/1/pg/2.