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"The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice."
Sir Arthur Helps
(07/10/1813
03/07/1875)
English writer
("Talk About Animals and Their Masters")
"I had a veritable mania for finishing whatever I began, which often got me into difficulties. On one occasion I started to read the works of Voltaire when I learned, to my dismay, that there were close on one hundred large volumes in small print which that monster had written while drinking seventy-two cups of black coffee per diem. It had to be done, but when I laid aside the last book I was very glad, and said, 'Never more!'"
Nikola Tesla
(07/10/1856
01/07/1943)
Serbian-US inventor
"Th newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, controls th' ligislachure, baptizes th' young, marries th' foolish, comforts th' afflicted, afflicts th' comfortable, buries th' dead an' roasts thim aftherward."
Finley Peter Dunne
(07/10/1867
04/24/1936)
US writer
("Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War")
"A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has the ticket that shows its price."
Marcel Proust
(07/10/1871
11/18/1922)
French writer
"The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were."
David Brinkley
(07/10/1920
06/11/2003)
US telejournalist
(co-anchor with Chet Huntley)
"The three toughest fighters I've ever been up against were Sugar Ray Robinson, Sugar Ray Robinson, and Sugar Ray Robinson. I fought Sugar so many times, I'm surprised I'm not diabetic! But I did have him off the canvas once...when he stepped over my body to leave the ring."
Jake LaMotta
(07/10/1922
09/19/2017)
US boxer
"I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law."
David Dinkins
(07/10/1927
11/23/2020)
US mayor (NYC)
, on accusations that he failed to pay taxes
"My contributions were many: First clown director, with witty sayings and flashily dressed, now called master of ceremonies."
Jelly Roll Morton
(10/20/1890
07/10/1941)
US pianist
"From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life."
Arthur Ashe
(07/10/1943
02/06/1993)
US tennis pro
"You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in."
Arlo Guthrie
(07/10/1947
)
US singer, songwriter
(son of Woody)
"If I wasn't talking, I wouldn't know what to say."
Chico Resch
(07/10/1948
)
US hockey player
"To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are."
Sholem Asch
(11/01/1880
07/10/1957)
Polish-Yiddish writer
"I want to be a diva... like people-totally-respect-my-music diva, not diva like carry-my-diet-Coke-around."
Jessica Simpson
(07/10/1980
)
US singer
(sister of Ashlee Simpson)
"I don’t think I could live without a deck of cards in my hands."
Omar Sharif
(04/10/1932
07/10/2015)
Egyptian actor, bridge player
("Doctor Zhivago")
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