"I must say the idea of a United Africa was nonsense."

-- C. L. R. James

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“Sometimes I wake up at night and go, 'Oh, damn! Here we go again! What were they thinking? They gave me this role; don't they know I'm faking it?”
“Art is an elastic sort of love.”
“I'm Michael Schumacher. I don't need to test my driving ability.”

Source : "Barrichello on China Pole". news.bbc.co.uk. September 25, 2004.
“I drink red wine on ice to water it down.”
“The basis for building a Christian society is evangelism and missions that lead to a widespread Christian revival, so that the great mass of earth's inhabitants will place themselves under Christ's protection, and then voluntarily use his covenantal laws for self-government. Christian reconstruction begins with personal conversion to Christ and self-government under God's law; then it spreads to others through revival; and only later does it bring comprehensive changes in civil law, when the vast majority of voters voluntarily agree to live under biblical blueprints.”
“I'm an enigma, an unknown. You can't really figure out what I'm going to do next. I like it like that.”
“The new century will see unimaginable levels of wastefulness and extravagance, but it will also be an age in which the individual human being acquires a true and universally recognised value.”
“Sirs, I have tested your machine. It adds a new terror to life and makes death a long-felt want.”

Source : When pressed by a gramophone company for a written testimonial, in Hesketh Pearson 'Beerbohm Tree' (1956) ch. 19; Beerbohm later insisted 'the immortalism must stand' when asked to make amendments

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