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"Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls."
Sir Edward Coke
(02/01/1552
09/03/1634)
English jurist
"The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it."
Richard Whately
(02/01/1787
10/08/1863)
English archbishop
"A good general rule is to state that the bouquet is better than the taste, and vice versa."
Stephen Potter
(02/01/1900
12/02/1969)
English writer
, on wine tasting
("Gamesmanship")
"I worked like a son of a bitch to learn a few tricks and I fight like a steer to avoid getting stuck with parts I can't play."
Clark Gable
(02/01/1901
11/16/1960)
US actor
(was married to Carole Lombard)
"A special effect is as big a star as any in the world."
George Pal
(02/01/1908
05/02/1980)
Hungarian animator
, after seeing "Star Wars"
"You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long."
Boris Yeltsin
(02/01/1931
04/23/2007)
Russian politician
"Old men need applause too."
Don Everly
(02/01/1937
)
US singer
"If my kids could wish each other into the cornfield, as it were, they'd LIVE there. I mean, they'd be in that cornfield all the time."
Bill Mumy
(02/01/1954
)
US actor, musician (Lost in Space...)
"The thing I found incredible about Los Angeles was the flagrant inequality. You'd be on the Sunset Strip with people dangerously close to attacking you for money while all these Rolls-Royces were going by."
Exene Cervenka
(02/01/1956
)
US (ex-"X") singer
(was married toand bandmates withJohn Doe,
was married to Viggo Mortenson)
"No man can be a genius in slapshoes and a flat hat."
Buster Keaton
(10/04/1895
02/01/1966)
US comic actor
"I'm Jewish. I've always had a thing where it's okay to dance with the devil, just don't become the devil. Even at my peak, I never went too over the top."
Pauly Shore
(02/01/1968
)
US comic
"Every tool carries with it the spirit by which it had been created."
Werner Karl Heisenberg
(12/05/1901
02/01/1976)
German physicist
"Are tectonic plates dishwasher-safe?"
Herb Caen
(04/03/1916
02/01/1997)
US columnist (SF Chronicle)
"I'm sorry, if you continue to complain, I will have to cancel your subscription."
Art Hoppe
(04/23/1925
02/01/2000)
US columnist (SF Chronicle)
"If you have to make mistakes, make them good and big; don't be middling if you can help it."
Hildegard Knef
(12/28/1925
02/01/2002)
German actor, singer
"[He] openly said women should be kept in concentration camps for breeding purposes onlythat's all we were good for."
Irish McCalla
(12/25/1928
02/01/2002)
US actor
, on Carl Junghans, her director in "River Goddesses"
"Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears."
Giancarlo Menotti
(07/07/1911
02/01/2007)
Italian composer
"I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them."
Edward Koch
(12/12/1924
02/01/2013)
US mayor (NYC), People's Court judge
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