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"Statistics are no substitute for judgment."
Henry Clay
(04/12/1777
06/29/1852)
US Secretary of State
"We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are."
James Harvey Robinson
(06/29/1863
02/16/1936)
US historian
"Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority."
Thomas Henry Huxley
(05/04/1825
06/29/1895)
English biologist
(grandfather of Aldous and
Sir Julian Huxley)
"Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings."
Ed Gardner
(06/29/1901
08/17/1963)
US actor
"I understand her. I may not be all Phoebe, but she is all me."
Ruth Warrick
(06/29/1916
01/15/2005)
US actor
, on her character Phoebe Tyler Wallingford on "All My Children"
"There was no use working in rodeos for social security. Nobody was very social and there was little security."
Slim Pickens
(06/29/1919
12/08/1983)
US actor
"Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare."
Oriana Fallaci
(06/29/1929
09/15/2006)
Italian journalist
"Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight."
John Bradshaw
(06/29/1933
05/08/2016)
US philosopher
"One eye sees, the other feels."
Paul Klee
(12/18/1879
06/29/1940)
Swiss artist
"Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more."
Stokely Carmichael
(06/29/1941
11/15/1998)
Trinidadian civil-rights activist
"Never dip lower than you can dip."
Gary Busey
(06/29/1944
)
US actor
"Most Texans think Hanukkah is some sort of duck call."
Richard Lewis
(06/29/1947
)
US comic
"We're going to put you back in the fashion department."
Fred "Gopher" Grandy
(06/29/1948
)
US actor-turned-politician
, to a female reporter
"If I didn't have a large bosom, people would talk about my small one. So what's the difference. I'm glad I have a large one."
Jayne Mansfield
(04/19/1933
06/29/1967)
US actor
"I never thought about 'being' in comedy when I grew up, because I didn't know it was a real job. But looking back, it's the only thing I ever really cared about."
Colin Jost
(06/29/1982 )
US comic writer (SNL)
(married to Scarlett Johansson)
"In the final analysis, it's true that fame is unimportant. No matter how great a man is, the size of his funeral usually depends on the weather."
Rosemary Clooney
(05/23/1928
06/29/2002)
US singer, actor
(was married to Jose Ferrer twice;
aunt of George Clooney)
"A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water."
Carl Reiner
(03/20/1922
06/29/2020)
US comic, actor
(father of Rob Reiner)
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