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"Well-washed and well-combed domestic pets grow dull; they miss the stimulus of fleas."
Sir Francis Galton
(02/16/1822
01/17/1911)
English scientist
("The Art of Travel")
"Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading."
G. M. Trevelyan
(02/16/1876
07/21/1962)
English historian
"There's a saying among prospectors: 'Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find.'"
Robert Flaherty
(02/16/1884
07/23/1951)
US director
"What do you give a man who has everything? Penicillin." *
Jerry Lester
(02/16/1910
03/23/1995)
US actor
"Getting involved is so, so... involving."
Vera-Ellen
(02/16/1921
08/30/1981)
US dancer, actor
"Hollywood is an extraordinary kind of temporary place."
John Schlesinger
(02/16/1926
07/25/2003)
English director
"The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation."
Aharon Appelfeld
(02/16/1932
01/04/2018)
Romanian writer
("Badenheim 1939")
"Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going to get it."
Sonny Bono
(02/16/1935
01/05/1998)
US singer, congressman
(was married to Cher)
"Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do."
James Harvey Robinson
(06/29/1863
02/16/1936)
US historian
"I've got a phone, answer machine, TV set, computer, hand grenadeeverything you need to run a business in Los Angeles."
Ice T
(02/16/1958
)
US rapper, actor
"This taught me a lesson, but I'm not sure what it is."
John McEnroe
(02/16/1959
)
US tennis ace
, on losing a championship
"I think you have to control the materials to an extent, but it's important to let the materials have a kind of power for themselves; like the natural power of gravity, if you are painting on a wall, it makes the paint trickle and it drips; there is no reason to fight that."
Keith Haring
(05/04/1958
02/16/1990)
US artist
"Books about books is fun but frivolous."
Angela Carter
(05/07/1940
02/16/1992)
English writer
"Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them."
John W. Gardner
(10/08/1912
02/16/2002)
US writer, political theorist
"I'm a musical person, and that's what I want my life to be about."
Lesley Gore
(05/02/1946
02/16/2015)
US singer
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