"I am the hero of Africa."

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Source : Attributed in "Simpson's Contemporary Quotations" by James Beasley Simpson, (p. 1), 1988.

Idi Amin

“I practiced saxophone eight hours a day for the first two years I played.”
“Maybe I'm an open book, or maybe love is like a magnifying glass straight into the souls of those who own your heart.”
“Old breed? New breed? There's not a damn bit of difference so long as it's the Marine breed.”

Source : Speech by Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta, Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, archive.defense.gov. August 10, 2012.
“Sometimes, Just when we need them, life wraps metaphors up in little bows for us. When you think all is lost, the things you need the most return unexpectedly.”

Source : Susannah Cahalan (2012). “Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness”, p.206, Simon and Schuster
“In that we say he [Christ] made whole the lame, the paralytic, and those born blind, we seem to say what is very similar to the deeds said to have been done by Esculapius.”

Source : Justin Martyr (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Justin Martyr (Annotated Edition)”, p.30, Jazzybee Verlag
“There are, it seems, two muses: The Muse of Inspiration, who gives us inarticulate visions and desires, and the Muse of Realization, who returns again and again to say, 'It is yet more difficult than you thought.' It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.”
“I bring my classical training - some of it, but not all of it - and also my background and culture, to spirituals. And I try to leave room for that unpredictable factor, where the feeling of the song is allowed to come through. The same ethos can be applied to singing Mozart, or Schubert, or Bach. It's not just about what's on the page.”
“Iâ€™ll respond to your text message, baby.”

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