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"My words are my own, and my actions are my ministers'."
King Charles II
(05/29/1630
02/06/1685)
English royalty
"What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others."
Joseph Priestley
(03/24/1733
02/06/1804)
English chemist
"I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run."
Babe Ruth
(02/06/1895
08/16/1948)
US baseball player
"Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them."
Louis Nizer
(02/06/1902
11/10/1994)
English-US lawyer
"You mean apart from my own?"
Zsa Zsa Gabor
(02/06/1917
12/18/2016)
Hungarian celebrity-because-a-celebrity
(sister of Eva;
was married to Conrad Hilton and eight others)
, when asked how many husbands she's had
"Should not the Society of Indexers be known as Indexers, Society of, The?"
Keith Waterhouse
(02/06/1929
09/04/2009)
English writer
"I've married a few people I shouldn't have, but haven't we all?"
Mamie Van Doren
(02/06/1931
)
US actor
"You can never turn your back on the ocean."
Rip Torn
(02/06/1931
07/09/2019)
US actor
"Some day I'll make a film that critics will like. When I have money to waste."
Francois Truffaut
(02/06/1932
10/21/1984)
French director
"I'm honored that you invited me, especially when for $10,000 and a new convertible you could have had the top running-back prospect at SMU."
Tom Brokaw
(02/06/1940
)
US telejournalist
, on emceeing an NCAA honors luncheon
"The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for."
Bob Marley
(02/06/1945
05/11/1981)
Jamaican singer, guitarist
"Psychologically, you could consider this a reunion tour because I've managed to find enough pieces of my mind in order to be with you here tonight."
Axl Rose
(02/06/1962
)
US singer (Guns'n'Roses)
(also see Slash)
"Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill."
Barbara W. Tuchman
(01/30/1912
02/06/1989)
US writer, historian
("The Guns of August")
"Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others."
Danny Thomas
(01/06/1912
02/06/1991)
US actor
(father of Marlo Thomas)
"You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that."
Arthur Ashe
(07/10/1943
02/06/1993)
US tennis pro
"I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler."
Jack Kirby
(08/28/1917
02/06/1994)
US cartoonist
"People will get tired of managing personal computers and will want instead terminals, maybe with windows."
Ken Olsen
(02/20/1926
02/06/2011)
US businessman, DEC founder
"I don't think I'd want a revival. I'm not doing a tribute to myself."
Dan Hicks
(12/09/1941
02/06/2016)
US singer, songwriter, musician
"If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going."
Professor Irwin Corey
(07/29/1914
02/06/2017)
US comic, actor
"Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis."
Manfred Eigen
(05/09/1927
02/06/2019)
German physicist
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