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"It appears to me that if one wishes to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils."
Niels H. Abel
(08/05/1802
04/06/1829)
Norwegian mathematician
"After the age of 80, everything reminds you of something else."
Lowell Thomas
(04/06/1892
08/29/1981)
US explorer, writer
"It's necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant."
James D. Watson
(04/06/1928
)
US geneticist
"If you're going to do good work, the work has to scare you."
André Previn
(04/06/1929
02/28/2019)
German-US musician
(was married to Mia Farrow)
"When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there."
Ram Dass
(04/06/1931
12/22/2019)
US spiritual teacher
"There is a good deal to live for, but a man has to go through hell really to find it out."
Edwin Arlington Robinson
(12/22/1869
04/06/1935)
US writer
"The guitar's not all that expensive either, when you compare it to gettin' a tooth pulled or something."
Merle Haggard
(04/06/1937
04/06/2016)
US musician
(died on his birthday)
, on a guitar he had built to spec
"If we hadn't put a man on the moon, there wouldn't be a Silicon Valley today."
John Sculley
(04/06/1939
)
US entrepreneur
"I got a job in a radio station because I could always do that with my voicecould make you believe that I was committed to the words coming out of my mouth."
Philip Austin
(04/06/1941
06/18/2015)
US comic, actor, musician (Firesign Theatre)
"It's such a lonely existence, living with a rock'n' roller. No matter how much he loves you, he will always love his music more."
Anita Pallenberg
(04/06/1942
06/13/2017)
German-Italian model
(relationships with Keith Richards,
Brian Jones)
"He always gave me the impression that he got up in the morning to see with whom he could have a quarrel."
Sir Seymour Hicks
(01/30/1871
04/06/1949)
English actor
, on W. S. Gilbert
"My music is best understood by children and animals."
Igor Stravinsky
(06/17/1882
04/06/1971)
Russian composer, conductor
"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny...'"
Isaac Asimov
(01/02/1920
04/06/1992)
Russian writer, scientist
("Foundation" series)
"I do wish I could tell you my age but it's impossible. It keeps changing all the time."
Greer Garson
(09/29/1904
04/06/1996)
English-US actor
"I always said that I'm not the best singer in the world, just the loudest."
Tammy Wynette
(05/05/1942
04/06/1998)
US singer, songwriter
(was married to George Jones)
"I don't like fashion. I don't like art. I do like smashing up expensive things."
Wendy O. Williams
(05/28/1949
04/06/1998)
US singer (Plasmatics)
"We did consider the name 'Beetles,' but Jerry [Allison] said, 'Aw, that's just a bug you'd want to step on,' so we immediately dropped that." *
Niki Sullivan
(06/23/1937
04/06/2004)
US guitarist (Crickets)
"I think Juliet is very out of date. And she didn't have half the nerve of a motion picture actress, that Julietelse she'd have taken that poison at once instead of wasting energy raving about it, and then she'd have wakened up in time, and Mr. Shakespeare would have been short a tragedy!"
Mary Anderson
(04/03/1918
04/06/2014)
US actor
(died near her birthday)
"Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day."
Mickey Rooney
(09/23/1920
04/06/2014)
US actor
(eight wives, among them Ava Gardner)
"Oh, God, that gray computer's down again. Suppose they'll ever get them things figured out? Give me one when they quit breaking down, will you?"
Merle Haggard
(04/06/1937
04/06/2016)
US musician
(died on his birthday)
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