HIStory: Past, Present & Future, Book I (1995)
Recommended quotes
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"The Chris Farley Show" sketch on Saturday Night Live, regarding the Paul is Dead hoax.
"Silly Love Songs", 1976
Lyrics, Wings
Context: You'd think that people would have had enough of silly love songs
I look around me and I see it isn't so
Some people want to fill the world with silly love songs
And what's wrong with that?
I'd like to know
'Cause here I go again...
I love you.
“the beatles were always a great band. nothing more nothing less”
Source: Blackbird Singing: Poems and Lyrics, 1965-1999
“Don't live to fight, fight to live.”
Source: Resurrection, 1971-1996
Attributed to Zuse in: Ra L Rojas, Ulf Hashagen (2002) The First Computers: History and Architectures. p. 270
Der Glaube an eine bestimmte Idee gibt dem Forscher den Rückhalt für seine Arbeit. Ohne diesen Glauben wäre er verloren in einem Meer von Zweifeln und halbgültigen Beweisen.
Attributed in Konrad Zuse http://www.dpma.de/ponline/erfindergalerie/bio_zuse.html on "Die Erfindergalerie", dpma.de, 2008
Die Gefahr, dass der Computer so wird wie der Mensch, ist nicht so groß wie die Gefahr, dass der Mensch so wird wie der Computer.
Attributed in: Hersfelder Zeitung. Nr. 212, 12. September 2005.
Quoted in the Washington Post (29 March 1970)
1970s
In a speech to Arab diplomats in Stockholm; Quoted in the Jerusalem Post (23 February 1996).
1990s
On Palestinian Authority Television (15 January 2002).
2000s
1970s, Speech to UN General Assembly (1974)
“All religious wars are about people arguing over who has the biggest invisible friend.”
Many unsourced variations are attributed to Arafat.[citation needed] The actual origin is Richard Jeni.
Misattributed
Source: http://www.gdargaud.net/Humor/QuotesReligion.html
“This is my homeland; no one can kick me out.”
As quoted in The Daily Iowan (11 September 2003), Yasser Arafat's reply to Ariel Sharon's threat to expel him from the occupied territories.
2000s
“It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.”
On vegetarianism. Interview with The New Zealand Herald (5 May 2011), quoted in “Natalie Portman: 'Eating For Me Is How You Proclaim Your Beliefs'”, in ecorazzi.com http://www.ecorazzi.com/2011/05/05/natalie-portman-my-beliefs-are-reflected-in-how-i-eat/.
Natalie Portman, quoted in The Phantom Menace "Production Notes". I wear a diaper in lucy in the sky