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“Cum pot eu, băiat de țăran, de la Băicoi, să stau într-o casă cu lei la ușă și atâta somptuozitate? Sunt bogat doar prin prisma generației și ar fi rușinos să afișez atâta opulență.”

“Opera is not elitist. Most of us are from very ordinary backgrounds.”

“Who knows if in the time of their children, these very pictures now painted for Maharajas and nobles will not become their property as well, and find their way into museums.”

“What a ridiculous place is Ilahabad! May God get rid of it; for it has no healing for the sick, nor anything of note for the gentleman…”

“The great big public thinks of poetry, particularly modern poetry, as something highbrow.”

“나는 천한 사람이다.”

“We didn’t have the entourages they have today - coaches, hitting partners, massage therapists, fitness coaches. In those days, no one could afford that.”

“I've been poor and I've been rich, and I can tell you that rich is better.”

“In England, racehorses received better treatment than we did.”

“Workers, unite! Unity gives strength.”

“For what would the people think, seeing a Mandarin, one who ought to be dignified, leave his chair to talk to a man dressed like a tramp?”

“고래등 같은 기와집을 보면 반드시 침을 뱉으며 지나갔습니다.”

““老鸦似措大，饥寒则吟。” — “A crow resembles a poor scholar: when hungry and cold, it sings.””

“You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools.”