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"Innovations never happen as planned."
Gifford Pinchot
(08/11/1865
10/04/1946)
US environmentalist, Governor (PA)
"Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning."
Cardinal John Newman
(02/21/1801
08/11/1890)
English cardinal
"Scarlett O'Hara is going to be a thankless and difficult role. The part I'd like to play is Rhett Butler."
Norma Shearer
(08/11/1902
06/12/1983)
Canadian actor
(was married to Irving Thalberg)
"People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents."
Andrew Carnegie
(11/25/1835
08/11/1919)
Scottish-US industrialist, philanthropist
"Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you."
Alex Haley
(08/11/1921
02/10/1992)
US writer (Roots)
"Lorenzo believes in taking a big bite out of life."
Arlene Dahl
(08/11/1925
)
US actor
(was married to Fernando Lamas)
, on her son Lorenzo Lamas
"Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested on."
Carl Rowan
(08/11/1925
09/23/2000)
US journalist
"An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences."
Edith Wharton
(01/24/1862
08/11/1937)
US writer
("The Age of Innocence")
"Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying."
Marilyn vos Savant
(08/11/1946
)
US columnist
"Is 'Giants' the first one-word oxymoron?"
Bob Lacey
(08/11/1946
04/30/2004)
US comic
, on the San Francisco baseball team
"Don't worry meI am an eight ulcer man on four ulcer pay." *
Stephen T. Early
(08/27/1889
08/11/1951)
US writer, press secretary
"Basically, rock'n'roll is about looking good, living fast, and dying young."
Joe Jackson
(08/11/1954
)
US singer, pianist
"Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall."
Jackson Pollock
(01/28/1912
08/11/1956)
US painter
"I would not have gotten [to Congress] if I had not been as persistent as a hound dog worrying a bone." *
Gracie Pfost
(03/12/1906
08/11/1965)
US Representative (ID)
"You get the part, sign the contract and start to realize millions of people follow this guy and know more about your character than you do."
Chris Hemsworth
(08/11/1983
)
Australian actor
(brother of Liam Hemsworth)
"In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from."
Alfred A. Knopf
(09/12/1892
08/11/1984)
US publisher
"Television is rather a frightening business. But I get all the relaxation I want from my collection of model soldiers."
Peter Cushing
(05/26/1913
08/11/1994)
English actor
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