Source: A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
“You've got to balance the compassionate-use aspect with trying to figure out whether it works.”
Anthony Fauci (1940) American immunologist and head of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Quoted by the New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/09/health/in-ebola-outbreak-who-should-get-experimental-drug.html?_r=0 (August 9, 2014), regarding the Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa.
“If you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black.”
Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)
Interview with African American radio host Charlamagne tha God on "The Breakfast Club", as quoted in * 2020-05-22
Joe Biden, in testy interview, says 'you ain’t black’ if you're undecided over him vs. Trump
Nicholas Wu
USA TODAY 2020
Source: https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/05/22/biden-you-aint-black-if-you-cant-decide-between-trump-and-biden/5242706002/
Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985) sculptor from France
Quote of Dubuffet, in a letter to Jacques Berne mailed from Algeria, late 1940's; (Lettres à J.B., p. 35.); as cited in 'Dubuffet, Lévi-Strauss, and the Idea of Art Brut', Kent Minturn http://www.columbia.edu/cu/arthistory/faculty/Minturn/Dubuffet-Levi-Strauss.pdf, from RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics, No. 46, Polemical Objects (Autumn, 2004), pp. 247-258, p. 250 <br class="br">1940's
“Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.”
Barbara Kingsolver (1955) American author, poet and essayist
Cecelia Ahern book Love, Rosie
Variant: I’m trying to make some sense out of the phrase “Everything happens for a reason,” and I think I’ve figured out what the reason is—to piss me off.
Source: Love, Rosie
