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"When I see the Ten Most Wanted lists, I always have this thought: If we'd made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn't be wanted now."
Eddie Cantor
(01/31/1892
10/10/1964)
US entertainer
"The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance."
Charles H. Spurgeon
(06/19/1834
01/31/1892)
English clergy
"The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised."
Dame Freya Madeline Stark
(01/31/1893
05/09/1993)
French-born English writer
("The Valleys of the Assassins and Other Persian Travels")
"I thought I told you to wait in the car."
Tallulah Bankhead
(01/31/1902
12/12/1968)
US actor
, greeting an ex-lover after several years
"The quality of debate [in the House of Lords] is pretty highand it is, I think, good evidence of life after death."
Rev. Donald Soper
(01/31/1903
12/22/1998)
English clergy
"If those absolutely important things are ignored, of how we speciated, how we adapted to the planet, then we're going to lose something precious. There won't be anywhere to go and no place to come home to."
Alan Lomax
(01/31/1915
07/19/2002)
US musicologist
"Are you looking for a Negro who won't fight back?"
Jackie Robinson
(01/31/1919
10/24/1972)
US baseball player
, on being recruited as the first professional black player
"I've enjoyed wonderful health. The only time I ever got sick was when I watched Barbra Streisand in 'Hello, Dolly!' on an airplane."
Carol Channing
(01/31/1921
01/15/2019)
US singer, actor
"For me it was like I was an old car and I was being taken out for a ride at one hundred mph; and I kind of liked it, because I was really getting rid of a lot of rust."
Norman Mailer
(01/31/1923
11/10/2007)
US writer
("The Naked and the Dead")
, on attending a Ramones concert
"We've come a long way, but it's like nibbling at the edge of darkness."
Benjamin L. Hooks
(01/31/1925
04/15/2010)
US jurist, minister
"I don't sit around and wait for great parts. I'm an actress, and I love being one, and I'll probably be doing it till I'm 72, standing around the backlot doing 'Gunsmokes.'"
Suzanne Pleshette
(01/31/1937
01/19/2008)
US actor
, died 12 days short of 72
"We don't have to protect the environment, the Second Coming is at hand."
James G. Watt
(01/31/1938
)
US Secretary of Interior
"Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law. Understand that we are you. Understand that if we decide to have sex whether safe, safer, or unsafe, it is our decision."
Derek Jarman
(01/31/1942
02/19/1994)
English filmmaker
("Jubilee")
"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries."
A. A. Milne
(01/18/1882
01/31/1956)
English writer
("Winnie-the-Pooh")
"People go 'You look a lot like Minnie Driver.' Once I said, 'Thanks, Minnie is a great actress.' But, it blew up in my face. This person said, 'Nah, didn't like the last movie she did.'"
Minnie Driver
(01/31/1970
)
English actor
"You live with the fear people might find out. Then you actually have the courage to tell people and they go, I don't think you are gay. It's enough to drive you crazy."
Portia de Rossi
(01/31/1973
)
Australian actor
(married to Ellen DeGeneres)
"If you don't disagree with me, how will I know I'm right?"
Samuel Goldwyn
(08/17/1879
01/31/1974)
US film producer
"I personally prefer a nice frozen TV Dinner at home, mainly because it's so little trouble. All you have to do is have another drink while you're throwing it in the garbage."
Jack Douglas
(07/17/1908
01/31/1989)
US comic, writer
("My Brother was an Only Child")
"Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage amongst his books. For to you Kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned by the flicking of a finger..."
Gordon R. Dickson
(11/01/1923
01/31/2001)
Canadian writer
("Childe Cycle")
"In Texas, we do not hold high expectations for the governor's office; it's mostly been occupied by crooks, dorks and the comatose."
Molly Ivins
(08/30/1944
01/31/2007)
US writer
"Now, children, go to sleep. I don't want you to worry when you hear the creaking on the stairs. The ghost promised he wouldn't show up tonight."
Mary Higgins Clark
(12/24/1927
01/31/2020)
US writer
("A Stranger Is Watching")
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