Quotes about somebody
A collection of quotes on the topic of somebody, doing, likeness, people.
Quotes about somebody

Variant: I think the hardest thing in life is to forgive. Hate is self destructive. If you hate somebody, you're not hurting the person you hate, you're hurting yourself. It's healing, actually, it's real healing...
Forgiveness.

“The game is not about becoming somebody, it's about becoming nobody.”

Statement to the Volksgerichtshof [People's Court] of Judge Roland Freisler (21 February 1943).

“I always just thought if you see somebody without a smile, give'em yours!”
Variant: If you see someone without a smile give them yours.

“If you don't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?”
Source: Abiola Abrams The Sacred Bombshell Handbook of Self-Love: The 11 Secrets of Feminine Power http://books.google.co.in/books?id=ILK0AwAAQBAJ&pg=PT30, El Dorado Publishing, 25 June 2014, p. 30

“I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.”
Source: Franny and Zooey

“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.”
As quoted in Business Etiquette for the Nineties : Your Ticket to Career Success (1992) by Lou Kennedy, p. 8
Variant: Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.

“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
Source: The Bell Jar (1963), Ch. 5

http://www.flixster.com/actor/leonardo-di-caprio/leonardo-dicaprio-quotes

While at the EME Army center in 1951 in the cross country race he was declared 6 in the top 10 who among the 500 who ran. Quoted in ‘Flying Sikh' takes a nostalgic jog down memory lane, 6 April 2012, 13 December 2013, The Hindu http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-sports/flying-sikh-takes-a-nostalgic-jog-down-memory-lane/article3285904.ece,

“If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.”
Other sources
Source: Banksy In His Own Words- Interview At The Sun https://web.archive.org/web/20181102203920/http://graffart.eu/blog/2010/09/banksy-in-his-own-words-interview-at-the-sun/, Graffart.eu, Retrieved 2 November 2018

“I have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there's somebody nobody knows about”

Interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g-U2-cAUMM

Our concern, our duty, is our people and our blood. We can be indifferent to everything else. I wish the S.S. to adopt this attitude towards the problem of all foreign, non-Germanic peoples, especially Russians....
The Posen speech to SS officers (6 October 1943)
1940s

On Being, The Wisdom of Tenderness (transcript) http://www.onbeing.org/program/wisdom-tenderness/transcript/1369 Interview with Krista Tippett, December 24, 2009
From interviews and talks

“O this world is beautiful because of you! To love somebody means that we're closer to God.”
O diese Welt ist schön durch dich! Die Liebe zu einem Menschen führt uns Gott näher.
Michael: a German fate in diary notes (1926)

Isn't that what it says?
Creation seminars (2003-2005), The dangers of evolution

Source: What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire

“I am tired of myself tonight. I should like to be somebody else.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.”

“The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody's ego, that's it, game over.”

“There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.”
Source: The Bell Jar

Source: 1980s–1990s, Barbarians inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays (1999)

From interview with Rajeev Masand

about his work as a particle physicist, at the Fermilab History and Archives Project: Benjamin Lee comments on HEP discoveries http://history.fnal.gov/significant_staff.html#Benjamin_Lee (May, 1976).

“He plays like somebody is standing on his foot.”
Alternative: He plays like somebody was standing on his foot.
In Down Beat "Blindfold Test" with Leonard Feather (13 June 1964); also in
On Eric Dolphy
1960s

Philippines' Duterte makes fresh rape joke https://ph.news.yahoo.com/philippines-duterte-makes-fresh-rape-joke-143846355.html

"Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool," Polemic (March 1947)
After losing to James Blake at the US Open http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/04/sports/tennis/04men.html?pagewanted=all

In the Shadow of the Moon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Shadow_of_the_Moon

Rolling Stone (1976)
1970s
Context: I have never felt comfortable around people who talk about their feelings for Jesus, or any other deity for that matter, because they are usually none too bright... Or maybe "stupid" is a better way of saying it; but I have never seen much point in getting heavy with either stupid people or Jesus freaks, just as long as they don't bother me. In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone. They will not inherit the earth, but then neither will I... And I have learned to live, as it were, with the idea that I will never find peace and happiness, either. But as long as I know there's a pretty good chance I can get my hands on either one of them every once in a while, I do the best I can between high spots.

In his letter to Theo, from The Hague, 21 July 1882, http://www.vggallery.com/letters/245_V-T_218.pdf
1880s, 1882
Context: What am I in the eyes of most people — a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person — somebody who has no position in society and will never have; in short, the lowest of the low. All right, then — even if that were absolutely true, then I should one day like to show by my work what such an eccentric, such a nobody, has in his heart.
That is my ambition, based less on resentment than on love in spite of everything, based more on a feeling of serenity than on passion.
Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in the poorest cottages, in the dirtiest corners. And my mind is driven towards these things with an irresistible momentum.

“I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.”

“I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.”

“A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.”
Variant: You can get discouraged many times, but you are not a failure until you begin to blame somebody else and stop trying.

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“The most important thing to do in your life is to not interfere with somebody else's life.”
In response to Joe Walsh on The Howard Stern Show (1987).

“That's a shame. I'm sure somebody, somewhere, cares.”
Source: The Faceless Ones

“Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream.”

“A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.”