"You see, right now I'm being true to myself," claimed Harrison.
"Write as I will, and rush as I may into the middle of things, I shall never overtake myself," claimed Tristram Shandy.
When I wasn't dismissing these songs for being vapid, overproduced and devoid of any redeeming value, I found myself claiming the best moments as products of my generation.
Demographically marooned by my fellow Americans, I, like the whooping crane, find myself claiming membership in a class that is not only endangered, but in some sense also irrelevant.
I excused myself, claiming extreme fatigue from traveling and drove home to the apartment I had rented.
"I decided I could no longer continue to fool myself," claimed former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in his recently-released memoirs, addressing an ideological shift accounting for the disparity between his public support for a united Jerusalem and eventual willingness to concede dividing the city during closed-door negotiations.
And I could flatter myself and claim I've been implicated in the revival of each of their posthumous careers, so we'd have something to raise a glass or spark a joint to.
In the immediate few weeks, I intend to make good on my pledge to myself to claim German nationality to retain European citizenship, as I am eligible for it as a descendant of refugees of Nazism to Britain.
"At the time I was not aware that I could contact my bank myself to claim PPI refunds.
I myself cannot claim originality in the application of this method to physics, since I owe the suggestion and the stimulus for its application entirely to my friend and collaborator Dr Whitehead, who is engaged in applying it to the more mathematical portions of the region intermediate between sense-data and the points, instants and particles of physics.
