Margaret Atwood (1939) Canadian writer
Turning Pages: The Life and Literature of Margaret Atwood (2007)
During his show as quoted in * https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-01-20-tm-836-story.html
WHAT’S THE RUSH? : Radio Loudmouth Rush Limbaugh Harangues Feminazis, Environmental Wackos and Commie-Libs While His Ratings Soar
Bob
Baker
Los Angeles Times
1991-01-20
1990s
Margaret Atwood (1939) Canadian writer
Turning Pages: The Life and Literature of Margaret Atwood (2007)
William Luther Pierce (1933–2002) American white nationalist
- Time To Do What's Right, 1997
1990s, 1990
Source: [Pierce, 1976-2002, 224]
Kurt Vonnegut book The Sirens of Titan
Source: The Sirens of Titan (1959), Chapter 7 “Victory” (p. 181)
Derren Brown (1971) British illusionist
TV Series and Specials (Includes DVDs), Trick of the Mind (2004–2006)
Charles Portis book True Grit
Source: True Grit (1968), Chapter 6, p. 151 : exchange between 'LaBoeuf' and 'Rooster Cogburn'
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
2012
Context: “Assume that in 30 minutes you will stop being president. I will take your place. Prepare me. Teach me how to be president.”
This was the third time I’d put the question to him, in one form or another. The first time, a month earlier in this same cabin, he’d had a lot of trouble getting his mind around the idea that I, not he, was president. He’d started by saying something he knew to be dull and expected but that—he insisted—was nevertheless perfectly true. “Here is what I would tell you,” he’d said. “I would say that your first and principal task is to think about the hopes and dreams the American people invested in you. Everything you are doing has to be viewed through this prism. And I tell you what every president … I actually think every president understands this responsibility. I don’t know George Bush well. I know Bill Clinton better. But I think they both approached the job in that spirit.” Then he added that the world thinks he spends a lot more time worrying about political angles than he actually does.
“Do not read so much, look about you and think of what you see there.”
Richard Feynman (1918–1988) American theoretical physicist
letter to Ashok Arora, 4 January 1967, published in Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track (2005) p. 230
Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985) sculptor from France
Quote in Dubuffet's letter to American art-promoter Gould, dated 4 August 1946; as cited in Physiognomic Illegibility, by Kent Mitchell Minturn - JEAN DUBUFFET'S POSTWAR PORTRAITS https://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/fineart/people/faculty/minturnPDFs/Minturn%20Final%20(low%20res).pdf <br class="br">1940's
“I am less than what you tell about me but more than what you think about me”
Ali book Nahj al-Balagha
Nahj al-Balagha
Context: A man sarcastically started praising Imam Ali, though he had no faith in him and Imam Ali hearing these praises from him said "I am less than what you tell about me but more than what you think about me."