Can you name the famous people from their quotes about themselves?

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QuoteWho Am I?
'I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.'
'I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.'
'I despise a world which does not feel that music is a higher revelation that all wisdom and philosophy.'
'I'm an idealist without illusions.'
'I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.'
'I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed.'
'As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.'
'You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.'
'I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.'
'I believe in being an innovator.'
'I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.'
'I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.'
'I want to change the pop world one sequin at a time.'
'I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.'
'I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them.'
'If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.'
'I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.'
'I am an optimist. It doesn't seem too much use being anything else.'
'I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells.'
'I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.'
'I'm not funny. What I am is brave.'
'I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all.'
'With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.'
'I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.'
'Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.'
'Thank goodness I never went to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.'
'I am the state.'
'I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.'
QuoteWho Am I?
'To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.'
'I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.'
'I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.'
'I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.'
'I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.'
'I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.'
'I think, therefore I am.'
'I really don't believe in magic.'
'I've been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War.'
'I love treason but hate a traitor.'
'I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.'
'Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.'
'I am not a saint, unless you think of a sinner as a saint who keeps on trying.'
'I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.'
'I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.'
'I am not a Marxist.'
'I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.'
'I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.'
'I trust no one, not even myself.'
'I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.'
'Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.'
'I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.'
'I am among those who think that science has great beauty.'
'I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.'
'I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.'
'I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be one or the other.'
'I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.'
'I will not be triumphed over.'
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