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🇺🇸Ezra Pound

Literature

1885–1972

"The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity."

"Most people never see the trap they are in."

"The future for me is already a thing of the past -You were my first love and you will be my last"

"Christians... get Christmas under control. Seriously. It won't stop! It doesn't stop, does it? It's always Christmas now! Make it the whole year! It's the only time you pricks are happy!"

"Free Press is a Marxist organization, and it— the FCC is now riddled with Free Press people. The White House, riddled with people that are taking phone calls from Free Press."

"I will never say the things that I want to say to you. I know the damage it would do. I love you more than I hate my loneliness and pain."

"The actual quote attributed to Russell is, "Everything is vague to a degree you do not realise till you have tried to make it precise."

"The moment you meet a person of another religion whom you consider to be as good, as intelligent, and as religious as you are, you will never be the same."

"I’ve never done anybody any harm in my entire life. No need to chase girls, I’ve thousands of them on Top of the Pops, thousands on Radio One."

"Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to somebody else."

"Everyone in the family wears fur except me. … Kim wore fur last night. I told her you cannot wear fur. It's embarrassing."

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🇺🇸Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Politics

anti-vax movement

b. 1954

"Thimerosal is a controversial mercury based vaccine preservative that research scientists and vaccine safety advocates have connected to the epidemic of brain disorders in children."

"To this day, I'm against the draft. I believe the military is much stronger if it's an all-volunteer organization."

"I wanted to believe, and I tried my damnedest to believe, in the rainbow I tried to get over, and I couldn't! … So what? Lots of people can't!"

"Drag is really about mocking identity. Drag is really about reminding people that you are more than you think you are – you are more than what it says on your passport."

"Where I stand doesn't depend on where I'm standing."

"olitics is always just a few steps away from The Lord of the Flies..."

"I can tell you how I feel about you night and day."

"My four years at Berkley represent two of the happiest weeks of my life."

"Tony Fernández, who has worn hero's laurels throughout the postseason, including earlier in this seventh game of the World Series—now, cruel as it may seem, perhaps being fitted for goat horns."

"A comedian goes out and hits people right on. A clown uses pathos. He can be funny, then turn right around and reach people and touch them with what life is like."

"No candidate can win a presidential race advocating gay marriage and opposing the military action in Iraq."

"Even though I think they're probably usually wrong, minority opinions in science are very useful. It keeps the whole process honest ..."

"They say Allen got something from the Marx Brothers. He got nothing. Maybe twenty years ago, he might have been inspired. Today he's an original. The best, the funniest."

"If hooking a car battery up to a monkey's brain will help find the cure for AIDS and save somebody's life, I have two things to say … the red is positive and the black is negative."

"Mark Miller is my brother and I love him dearly."

"The way they're treating my people in the South, the government can go to hell."

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🇺🇸Joni Eareckson Tada

Art

b. 1949

"Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves."

"The sinner must feel far worse before he ever has a right to feel any better."

"It's more sad than anything else, to see someone with such potential throw it all down the drain because of a sexual addiction."

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🇺🇸Larry the Cable Guy

Entertainment

b. 1963

"You ever go eat breakfast at Denny's, and then go to the toilet and sit in there so long you gotta order lunch from the stool? You ever do that? Now I know why they call it the Grand Slam."

"We can put cybersecurity first if we just make sure the next secretary of state doesn't have a private server."

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🇺🇸Bill O'Reilly (political commentator)

Journalism

b. 1949

"Because I think she's run by far-left elements in this country. I feel bad for the woman."

"If I could be a vegetable, I'd be a pumpkin. It's realistically the only vegetable you can use as a weapon, or in any manner of defense."

"Let me tell you something. They say he lied to Congress. I can think of no better bunch of people to lie to than Congress."

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🇫🇷Pierre Schaeffer

Literature

musique concrète instrumentale

1910–1995

"Sound is the vocabulary of nature... noises are as well articulated as the words in a dictionary... Opposing the world of sound is the world of music."

"The worst censors are those prohibiting criticism of the theory of evolution in the classroom."

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