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"A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life."
John Hancock
(01/23/1737
10/08/1793)
US founding father
"Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally go mad and waste their substance."
Giambattista Vico
(06/23/1668
01/23/1744)
Italian philosopher
"I won't change a thing in his portrait. Is it my fault if Moore looks like a squashed egg yolk and if his face is all lopsided? Anyway, the same applies to everybody's face... There's no symmetry in nature. One eye is never exactly the same as the other, there's always a difference. We all have a more or less crooked nose and an irregular mouth."
Edouard Manet
(01/23/1832
04/30/1883)
French artist
("A Bar at the Folies-Bergère")
, on his portrait of George Augustus Moore
(Monet is here)
"The mountain sheep are sweeter,
but the valley sheep are fatter;
we therefore deem it meeter
to carry off the latter."
Thomas Love Peacock
(10/18/1785
01/23/1866)
English writer
("Nightmare Abbey")
"Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise."
Phillips Brooks
(12/13/1835
01/23/1893)
US clergyman
"There is currently a formula for success in the entertainment medium, that is: beat it to death if it succeeds."
Ernie Kovacs
(01/23/1919
01/13/1962)
US TV pioneer
"Get my Swan costume ready."
Anna Pavlova
(02/12/1881
01/23/1931)
Russian dancer
, last words
"That nonchalant attempt of Eve's
to fashion garments from leaves
was not, as you have heard, inspired
by shame at being unattired." *
Mrs. Harry St. Clair Zogbaum
(05/16/1888
01/23/1941)
US writer
"I run; I am a coward at heart. I swear, when I smell violence or aggression the coward comes out in me. I have no desire to fight anybody except myself."
Rutger Hauer
(01/23/1944
07/19/2019)
Dutch actor
"Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly."
Pierre Bonnard
(10/03/1867
01/23/1947)
French artist
"We ask for nothing that is not right, and herein lies the great power of our demand."
Paul Robeson
(04/09/1898
01/23/1976)
US actor, singer, activist
("The Emperor Jones")
"Between religion's 'this is' and poetry's 'but suppose this is,' there must always be some kind of tension, until the possible and the actual meet at infinity."
Northrop Frye
(07/14/1912
01/23/1991)
Canadian writer
("Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays")
"Rich means you have to stay there to maintain it."
Nell Carter
(09/13/1948
01/23/2003)
US actor
"I was impressed with the potential positive relationship between grandparents and grandchildren, so I chose an elderly character."
Captain Kangaroo
(06/27/1927
01/23/2004)
US entertainer
"Today I have a strong desire to photograph women clothed from head to foot with hardly an inch of flesh. It will be a challenge to work under such restraints."
Helmut Newton
(10/31/1920
01/23/2004
German-Australian photographer
"I can't die. It would ruin my image."
Jack LaLanne
(09/26/1914
01/23/2011)
US exercise maven
"Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening."
Larry King
(11/19/1933
01/23/2021)
US radio and TV host
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