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"Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration."
William Hazlitt
(04/10/1778
09/18/1830)
English writer
"One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune."
General Lew Wallace
(04/10/1827
02/15/1905)
US military
"There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that virtue is abhorrent to them, and so inveterably dishonest that theft is to them a master passion."
William Booth
(04/10/1829
08/20/1912)
English religious leader, Salvation Army founder
"Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light."
Joseph Pulitzer
(04/10/1847
10/29/1911)
Hungarian journalist, prize
"Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees."
Frances Perkins
(04/10/1880
05/14/1965)
US educator
"We work in the toy department."
Jimmy Cannon
(04/10/1909
12/05/1973)
US writer
, on sports writers
"A calcined, scalped, rasped, scraped, flayed, broiled, powdered, leprous, blotched, mangy, grimy, parboiled country without trees, water, grass, fields... it is infinitely liker hell than earth, and one looks for tails among the people."
Algernon Charles Swinburne
(04/05/1837
04/10/1909)
English writer
(died near his birthday)
, describing part of France
"We called him 'mumbles.' He didn't speak his words very loud. The sound man was always saying, 'Kid, speak up!' But he mumbled his way to a fortune."
Sheb Wooley
(04/10/1921
09/16/2003)
US actor, singer, songwriter
, on Clint Eastwood
"Don't be a marshmallow. Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk. Stop being vegetables. Work for Justice. Viva the boycott!"
Dolores Huerta
(04/10/1930
)
US labor activist
"You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?"
Kahlil Gibran
(01/06/1883
04/10/1931)
Lebanese philosopher poet
("The Prophet")
"Working gets in the way of living."
Omar Sharif
(04/10/1932
07/10/2015)
Egyptian actor, bridge player
"Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live."
Henry van Dyke
(11/10/1852
04/10/1933)
US writer, Presbyterian
"The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer."
John Madden
(04/10/1936
)
US football coach, commentator, commercial hack
"Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves."
Paul Theroux
(04/10/1941
)
US writer
"It doesn't work if the bad guys kill his mother's uncle's friend's neighbor's pet dog. You've got to make the stakes high."
Steven Seagal
(04/10/1952
)
US "actor"
, on why the hero's wife or girlfriend must get killed in every one of his stupid movies
"It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste."
Evelyn Waugh
(10/28/1903
04/10/1966)
English writer
"I try to keep away from being bigheaded. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and then they stink for the rest of their life. But there are several respected adult actors who were child actors that started very young. I'm going to try and model myself after Kurt Russell and Jodie Foster. Just keep learning from the role and not just go for the money."
Haley Joel Osment
(04/10/1988 )
US actor
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