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"There are three sexes—men, women, and clergymen."

Sydney Smith
(06/03/1771 – 02/22/1845)
English clergyman

"For every credibility gap there is a gullibility gap."

Richard Cobden
(06/03/1804 – 04/02/1865)
English politician

"Never be haughty to the humble or humble to the haughty."

Jefferson Davis
(06/03/1808 – 12/06/1889)
US (Confederate) President

"Every man must be for the United States or against it. There can be no neutrals in this war; only patriots and traitors."

Stephen A. Douglas
(04/23/1813 – 06/03/1861)
US Senator (IL)

"His Majesty does not know what the band has just played, but it is never to be played again."

King George V
(06/03/1865 – 01/20/1936)
British monarch , on Richard Strauss' "Elektra"

"The subject itself is of no account; what matters is the way it is presented."

Raoul Dufy
(06/03/1877 – 03/23/1953)
French artist

"I wasn't really naked. I simply didn't have any clothes on."

Josephine Baker
(06/03/1906 – 04/12/1975)
US entertainer

"He who accepts the unaltered philosophy of another is as ludicrous as he who dons his neighbor's hat, and infinitely more ridiculous."

Paulette Goddard
(06/03/1910 – 04/23/1990)
US actor (was married to Erich Maria Remarque, Burgess Meredith, Charlie Chaplin)

"Sex is currency. What's the use of being beautiful if you can't profit from it?" *

Lili St. Cyr
(06/03/1918 – 01/29/1999)
US actor and clothing line

"In the fight between you and the world, back the world."

Franz Kafka
(07/03/1883 – 06/03/1924)
Czech writer

"It's like kissing Hitler."

Tony Curtis
(06/03/1925 – 09/29/2010)
Italian-US actor (was married to Janet Leigh; father with her of Jamie Lee Curtis) , on kissing Marilyn Monroe

"Nobody saves America by sniffing cocaine,
Jiggling yr knees blankeyed in the rain,
When it snows in yr nose you catch cold in yr brain."

Allen Ginsberg
(06/03/1926 – 04/05/1997)
US writer

"No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start."

Larry McMurtry
(06/03/1936 – )
US writer

"When I heard him, I thought, if he can do that and get away with it, I can do it too."

Ian Hunter
(06/03/1939 – )
English singer/songwriter (Mott the Hoople) , on Sonny Bono

"We should try to bring to any power what we have as women. We will destroy it all if we try to imitate that absolutely unfeeling, driving ambition that we have seen coming at us across the desk."

Colleen Dewhurst
(06/03/1924 – 08/22/1991)
Canadian actor (was married to George C. Scott; mother with Scott of Campbell Scott)

"Maybe the words that I say
is just another way to pray."

Curtis Mayfield
(06/03/1942 – 12/26/1999)
US singer

"Guitar is for the head, drums are for the chest, but bass gets you in the groin."

Suzi Quatro
(06/03/1950 – )
US singer, bassist

"We have only one person to blame, and that's each other."

Barry Beck
(06/03/1957 – )
Canadian hockey player (NY Rangers) , on who started a brawl during Stanley Cup playoffs

"The camera's a ballpoint pen, an imbecile; it's not worth anything if you don't have anything to say."

Roberto Rossellini
(05/08/1906 – 06/03/1977)
Italian director (was married to Ingrid Bergman; father with her of Isabella Rossellini)

"For those who missed it the first time, this is your golden opportunity; you can miss it again." *

Michael Billington
(12/24/1941 – 06/03/2005)
English actor

"There's an alternative. There's always a third way, and it's not a combination of the other two ways. It's a different way."

David Carradine
(12/08/1936 – 06/03/2009)
US actor (son of John Carradine; brother of Keith Carradine)

"Russia scares me—the people on the buses are so serious they look like they're going to the electric chair."

Muhammad Ali
(01/17/1942 – 06/03/2016)
US boxer

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