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"Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment."
Dogen
(01/19/1200
09/22/1253)
Japanese Buddhist priest
("Shobogenzo")
"WhiskeyI like it, I always did, and that is the reason I never use it."
Robert E. Lee
(01/19/1807
10/12/1870)
Confederate general
"The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution."
Paul Cezanne
(01/19/1839
10/22/1906)
French painter
"Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one."
Augustine Birrell
(01/19/1850
11/20/1933)
English politician, scholar
"To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have."
Ken S. Keyes, Jr.
(01/19/1921
12/20/1995)
US writer
"Film-making has become a kind of hysterical pregnancy."
Richard Lester
(01/19/1932
)
US director
"Don't compromise yourself. You're all you've got."
Janis Joplin
(01/19/1943
10/04/1970)
US singer
"I'm funny about who I sweat with."
Dolly Parton
(01/19/1946
)
US singer-songwriter
, on why she doesn't work out with Jane Fonda
"Do not imagine that art is something which is designed to give gentle uplift and self-confidence. Art is not a brassiere. At least, not in the English sense. But do not forget that brassiere is the French for life-jacket."
Julian Barnes
(01/19/1946
)
English writer
("The Sense of an Ending")
"Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography."
Paul Rodriguez
(01/19/1955
)
Hispanic-US comic
"The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new."
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
(12/11/1931
01/19/1990)
Indian spiritual leader
"Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting."
John Russell
(01/03/1921
01/19/1991)
US actor
"And I to my motorcycle
Parked like the soul of the junkyard
Restored, a bicycle fleshed
With power, and tore off
Up Highway 106 continually
Drunk on the wind in my mouth
Wringing the handlebar for speed
Wild to be wreckage forever."
James Dickey
(02/02/1923
01/19/1997)
US writer
("Deliverance")
"If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude. I hope to make you use your imagination."
Hedy Lamarr
(11/09/1914
01/19/2000)
Austrian actor, inventor
"When Warren Beatty called a girl up, it was usually to try to get her into the sack. but he called me to find out what kind of bologna I used. I just don't have what it takes, I guess. Raquel Welch has what it takes. She's so sexy and gorgeous, even I want to jump on her!"
Suzanne Pleshette
(01/31/1937
01/19/2008)
US actor
"The American male doesn't mature until he has exhausted all other possibilities."
Wilfrid Sheed
(12/27/1930
01/19/2011)
US writer
("A Middle Class Education")
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