„There’s no reason why I should have lived or why I lived and they didn’t. And it’s something I struggle with every day.“
DJ AM’s friend rushed to his SoHo apt., but he was already dead http://blog.taragana.com/e/2009/08/29/goldstein-suffered-daily-struggle-to-cope-29107/ Taragana. Retrieved August 30, 2009.
Ähnliche Zitate

— Emil M. Cioran Romanian philosopher and essayist 1911 - 1995
Quelle: On the Heights of Despair (1934)

— Billy Childish British musician 1959
Tim Teeman, "The importance of being Childish", http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,22876-2475809.html The Times, 2006-12-02
On his father and a fight they had when Childish was 20 years old.
— Fred Hampton African-American activist 1948 - 1969
Excerpt from The Murder of Fred Hampton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7F8RfnDhkA (1971).

— Melanie Thornton singer 1967 - 2001
One of her last interviews before her death in a plane crash on November 24, 2001.
Attributed

„I have never heard of any convincing reason as to why we should privatize land at this stage.“
— Meles Zenawi Ethiopian politician; Prime Minister of Ethiopia 1955 - 2012
Part of PM Zenawi's controversial reply to Dr. Abdul Mejid Hussien, as quoted in Interview—“I have never heard of any convincing reason as to why we should privatize land”

— Du Fu Chinese poet of the Tang Dynasty 712 - 770
"The Winding River", as translated by Rewi Alley in Du Fu: Selected Poems (1962), p. 54

— Jean Sirmond French poet 1589 - 1649
Causæ Bibendi, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). These lines are a poetic translation of a Latin epigram (erroneously ascribed to Henry Aldrich in the Biographia Britannica, second edition, vol. i. p. 131), which Menage and De la Monnoye attribute to Père Sirmond:
Si bene commemini, causæ sunt quinque bibendi:
Hospitis adventus; præsens sitis atque futura;
Et vini bonitas, et quælibet altera causa.
Menagiana, vol. i. p. 172.

— George Carlin American stand-up comedian 1937 - 2008
The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson (1989)
Interviews, Television Appearances

— Eugene O'Neill American playwright, and Nobel laureate in Literature 1888 - 1953
Quelle: The Great God Brown and Other Plays

„I would miss Colby, but it wasn't going anywhere. All the more reason why I should.“
— Sarah Dessen, buch The Moon and More
Quelle: The Moon and More
— Emily Giffin, Something Borrowed
Quelle: Something Borrowed

„I have to fight every single day to live my true life.“
— Sandra Bullock American actress and producer 1964
Parade interview (2009)
Kontext: I have to fight every single day to live my true life. I don't ever want to come home saying, "I should have spoken my mind. I shouldn't have let someone say something that I didn't feel was right." … [But] I have to remember that there's a balance. I'm in the entertainment business. We're here to entertain people, to make them laugh and forget.
— Thomas Adam clergyman, religious writer 1701 - 1784
Quelle: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 272.