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You know, one time we had a hill bombed for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like victory. Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore Robert Duvall: Apocalypse Now: 1979 Luke, I am your father. [4] No, I am your father. Darth ...
One particular case of misattribution is the Matthew effect.A quotation is often attributed to someone more famous than the real author. This leads the quotation to be more famous, but the real author to be forgotten (see also: obliteration by incorporation and Churchillian Drift).
Quote on a building of fashion designer Marlies Dekkers in Rotterdam, Netherlands in 2019. 15 minutes of fame is short-lived media publicity or celebrity of an individual or phenomenon. The expression was inspired by a quotation misattributed to Andy Warhol : "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes."
No one said it would be easy. Meg James. November 20, 2023 at 3:13 AM (Jim Cooke/Los Angeles Times; Photo by Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP) ... "We're all rolling up our sleeves, including myself ...
The sages of antiquity liked to say that money is the root of all evil on earth. Some equally wise, but also witty guy in the 20th century added that the main problem is not so much money, but the ...
Early uses of the phrase refer to it as a catchphrase among gamblers. In an 1879 discussion of gambling in Chicago, an "old-timer" is quoted as saying, "[G]oodness knows how they live, it’s mighty hard times with the most of them; in the season they make a bit on base ball, or on the races, and then, you know, 'there’s a sucker born every minute', and rigid city legislation drives the hard ...
1. "Just Google it." Google didn't exist in the '80s, and while the internet existed, it wasn't utilized much for personal use at that time. Heck, most homes didn't even have computers back then.
"I'm telling you there's an enemy that would like to attack America, Americans, again. There just is. That's the reality of the world. And I wish him all the very best." – Washington, D.C., January 12, 2009. [30] "Well, I mean that a defeat in Iraq will embolden the enemy and will provide the enemy—more opportunity to train, plan, to attack us.