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"The United States of America will sound as pompously in the world or in history as The Kingdom of Great Britain."

Thomas Paine
(02/09/1737 – 06/08/1809)
English-US author, founding father, patriot ("Common Sense")

"In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of."

Robert Schumann
(06/08/1810 – 07/29/1856)
German composer ("Carnaval, Op. 9")

"I pant for retirement and leisure, but am doomed to inexpressible and almost unsupportable hurry."

Sarah Kemble Siddons
(07/05/1755 – 06/08/1831)
English actor

"I do not forget that I am a mechanic. I am proud to own it. Neither do I forget that the apostle Paul was a tentmaker; Socrates was a sculptor; and Archimedes was a mechanic."

Andrew Jackson
(03/15/1767 – 06/08/1845)
US President (7)
(was married to Rachel Donelson Jackson)

"Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles."

Frank Lloyd Wright
(06/08/1867 – 04/09/1959)
US architect (Marin County Civic Center)

"Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius."

George Sand
(07/01/1804 – 06/08/1876)
French writer ("Indiana")
(relationships with Alfred de Musset and Frederic Chopin)

"A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune of getting into print."

Marguerite Yourcenar
(06/08/1903 – 12/17/1987)
Belgian-US writer ("Mémoires d'Hadrien (Memoirs of Hadrian)")

"We presuppose two things: that there is yet to be learned infinitely more than is now known, and that man can learn it."

John W. Campbell, Jr.
(06/08/1910 – 07/11/1971)
US writer ("Who Goes There?")

"We're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time it makes a decision."

Byron R. White
(06/08/1917 – 04/15/2002)
US Supreme Court justice and professional football player

"As if we don't have enough violence on television."

Barbara Bush
(06/08/1925 – 04/17/2018)
US first lady (48) , on hubby George accidentally hitting two spectators with golf balls
(wife of George Herbert Walker Bush, mother of dubya)

"Creative comedy is like growing geraniums in a mine field."

Jerry Stiller
(06/08/1927 – 05/11/2020)
US comic actor ("Seinfeld")
(was married to Anne Meara, father with her of Ben Stiller)

"The greatest joy in nature is the absence of man."

Bliss Carman
(04/15/1861 – 06/08/1929)
Canadian writer ("Vagabondia")

"Is she fat? Her favorite food is seconds."

Joan Rivers
(06/08/1933 – 09/04/2014)
US comic ("The Life and Hard Times of Heidi Abromowitz") , on Elizabeth Taylor

"I'm still trying to recreate a Ray Charles concert that I heard when I was fifteen years old, and all my nerve endings were fried and transformed, and electricity shot through me."

Boz Scaggs
(06/08/1944 – )
US singer, songwriter ("Lido Shuffle")

"There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot."

Scott Adams
(06/08/1957 – )
US cartoonist ("Dilbert")

"Rock'n'roll all goes back to R & B, but to me it's not very relevant. Kraftwerk is much more relevant."

Nick Rhodes
(06/08/1962 – )
English keyboardist (Duran Duran)

"I'm an actor because I lucked into it. As a kid, I never knew what I wanted to be. About all I had proficiency for was playing the cello, and there are very few rich cello players around."

Robert Taylor
(08/05/1911 – 06/08/1969)
US actor ("Magnificent Obsession")
(was married to Barbara Stanwyck)

"A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting."

Abraham Maslow
(04/01/1908 – 06/08/1970)
US psychologist ("Motivation and Personality")

"Everything I'm not makes me everything I am."

Kanye West
(06/08/1977 – )
US singer, songwriter

"How old would you be if you didn't know how old you was?"

Satchel Paige
(07/07/1906 – 06/08/1982)
US baseball player

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