IX. 407–408 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
“Ain't no reason for me to kill nobody in the ring, unless they deserve it.”
Muhammad Ali (1942–2016) African American boxer, philanthropist and activist
Comment after the match with Jimmy Ellis was stopped by the referee in the twelfth round (July 1971)
Woody Guthrie (1912–1967) American singer-songwriter and folk musician
The last line of this last stanza is also sometimes rendered "This land is made for you and me."
This Land Is Your Land (1940; 1944)
“Art is just fraud. You just have to do something nobody else has done before.”
Nam June Paik (1932–2006) American video art pioneer
In interview with a Korean newspaper, quoted in: KoreAm Journal, Vol. 17 (2006), p. 79
1970s
“Nobody steals books but your friends.”
Roger Zelazny book The Guns of Avalon
Source: The Guns of Avalon
Michael Bloomberg (1942) American businessman and politician, former mayor of New York City
http://www.gothamist.com/2007/05/29/bloombergs_memo.php
Illegal Immigration
Iggy Pop (1947) American rock singer-songwriter, musician, and actor
Interview interview (1999)
Context: Everybody's a little more worldly now, and there's more exposure to things. When I made Fun House, back in 1970, nobody wanted to interview me. It was wonderful. I was like one of those little white things you find living under rocks, that every once in a while people pull up by mistake and go, "aagh!" But now everybody has a video camera, and that may have changed the nature of "the message from below," as it were.
“I opened a book and in I strode. Now nobody can find me.”
Julia Donaldson (1948) British children's writer
