People can say whatever they want about you without knowing the facts. They can criticize you without even knowing you, and hate you when they don't even know you. All of a sudden, you're, like, the bin Laden of America. Osama bin Laden is the only one who knows exactly what I'm going through.
The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.
Isaac Babel, Journalist (1894) |
Harrison Ford, Actor (1942) |
Ken Jeong, Actor (1969) |
Jack Kemp, Politician (1935) |
Tom Kenny, Actor (1962) |
Ruth Ellis, Criminal (1955) |
Bronislaw Geremek, Historian (2008) |
Frida Kahlo, Artist (1954) |
Yousuf Karsh, Photographer (2002) |