„Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else.“

„Funny the way it is, if you think about it.
Somebody's going hungry, someone else is eating out.
Funny the way it is, not right or wrong.
Somebody's heart is broken, it becomes your favorite song.“

—  Dave Matthews American singer-songwriter, musician and actor 1967

Funny the Way It Is
Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King (2009)

„There was this funny thing of anything could happen now that we realized everything had.“

—  Raymond Carver American short story author and poet 1938 - 1988

Fonte: Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories

„Interesting things did seem to happen, but always to somebody else.“

—  Diana Wynne Jones, livro Howl's Moving Castle

Fonte: Howl's Moving Castle

„Maybe we're all in somebody's dream. Maybe everything's a dream, and nothing else.“

—  David Almond, livro My Name Is Mina

Fonte: My Name Is Mina

„I wonder if I am capable of being somebody’s sun, somebody’s everything. Am I centered enough now to be the center of somebody else’s life?“

—  Elizabeth Gilbert, livro Eat, Pray, Love

Fonte: Eat, Pray, Love

„Everything good that has happened to me has happened as a direct result of helping someone else. Everything.“

—  Danny Trejo Mexican American actor 1944

"Actor Danny Trejo saves a trapped baby from an overturned car" https://kfor.com/2019/08/07/actor-danny-trejo-saves-a-trapped-baby-from-an-overturned-car/ (August 7, 2019)

„The funny thing about facing imminent death is that it really snaps everything else into perspective.“

—  James Patterson American author 1947

Fonte: The Angel Experiment

„Everything's funny for God's sake. Everything.“

—  Gloria Estefan Cuban-American singer-songwriter, actress and divorciada 1957

www.s-t.com (July 5, 1996)
2007, 2008

„America, I know the road will be long, but I know we can get there. Yes, we will stumble, but I know we’ll get back up. That’s how a movement happens. That’s how history bends. That's how when somebody is faint of heart, somebody else brings them along and says, come on, we’re marching.“

—  Barack Obama 44th President of the United States of America 1961

2013, "Let Freedom Ring" Ceremony (August 2013)

„Somebody dies and people eat your food. Funny how that works.“

—  Sherman Alexie, livro The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Fonte: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

„Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.“

—  André Gide French novelist and essayist 1869 - 1951

„Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it.“

—  Lewis Carroll English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer 1832 - 1898

Variante: Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it
Fonte: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

„If you've been successful, you didn't get there on your own. If you've got a business, you didn't build that, somebody else made that happen.“

—  Barack Obama 44th President of the United States of America 1961

Misquoted by Mitt Romney " These Hands http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLZpMFbxyxU" campaign ad ()
[2012-07-19, Romney video deceptively edits Obama speech to make it sound anti-business, Greg, Sargent, The Plum Line, The Washington Post, http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/the-morning-plum-romney-video-deceptively-edits-obama-speech-to-make-it-sound-anti-business/2012/07/19/gJQAoRpavW_blog.html, 2012-10-08]
The Web version of the ad http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Lr49t4-2b8 uses a <span style="color:grey">longer misquote</span>: "If you've been successful, you didn't get there on your own. You didn't get there on your own. I'm always struck by people who think, "well, it must be because I was just so smart." There are a lot of smart people out there. "It must be because I worked harder than everybody else." Let me tell you something — if you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.
Splices two parts of a speech in Roanoke, Virginia on (see above). Full quote:
<p>There are a lot of wealthy, successful Americans who agree with me — because they want to give something back. They know they didn't — look, <span style="color:darkgrey">if you've been successful, you didn't get there on your own.</span> <span style="color:grey">You didn't get there on your own. I'm always struck by people who think, "well, it must be because I was just so smart." There are a lot of smart people out there. "It must be because I worked harder than everybody else." Let me tell you something —</span> there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there.</p><p>If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges; <span style="color:darkgrey">if you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.</span> The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet.</p>
Misattributed

„Finally, I can spend somebody else’s money on somebody else. And if I spend somebody else’s money on somebody else, I’m not concerned about how much it is, and I’m not concerned about what I get. And that’s government. And that’s close to 40% of our national income.“

—  Milton Friedman American economist, statistician, and writer 1912 - 2006

Fox News interview (May 2004)
Contexto: There are four ways in which you can spend money. You can spend your own money on yourself. When you do that, why then you really watch out what you’re doing, and you try to get the most for your money. Then you can spend your own money on somebody else. For example, I buy a birthday present for someone. Well, then I’m not so careful about the content of the present, but I’m very careful about the cost. Then, I can spend somebody else’s money on myself. And if I spend somebody else’s money on myself, then I’m sure going to have a good lunch! Finally, I can spend somebody else’s money on somebody else. And if I spend somebody else’s money on somebody else, I’m not concerned about how much it is, and I’m not concerned about what I get. And that’s government. And that’s close to 40% of our national income.

„Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.“

—  Quentin Crisp, livro The Naked Civil Servant

Fonte: The Naked Civil Servant (1968), Ch. 18

„Not, not mine: it's somebody else's wound.
I could never have borne it. So take the thing
that happened, hide it, stick it in the ground.
Whisk the lamps away…
Night.“

—  Anna Akhmatova Russian modernist poet 1889 - 1966

No, it is not I, it is else who is suffering.
I could not have borne it. And this thing, which has happened
Let them cover it with black cloths,
And take away the lanterns...
Night.
Translated by D. M. Thomas
Requiem; 1935-1940 (1963; 1987), Prologue

„It never grows old, putting on a beautiful dress. For me, it's a great distraction. It's always ridiculous, and it always feels like it should be happening to somebody else.“

—  Sarah Jessica Parker American actress 1965

Interview for Allure magazine, February 2008

„For all that somebody gets dumped every nanosecond in the world, you don’t want to be lumped in with everybody else – you want it to be expressed as poignantly and vividly as you feel it yourself…A cliche is only a cliche if it’s happening in someone else’s life.“

—  Joanna Trollope British writer 1943

On how people react to her characters in “Joanna Trollope on families, fiction and feminism: ‘Society still expects women to do all the caring’” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/mar/02/joanna-trollope-on-families-fiction-and-feminism-society-still-expects-women-to-do-all-the-caring in The Guardian (2020 Mar 2)

„Everybody is somebody's else's weirdo“

—  Scott Adams cartoonist, writer 1957