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"The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him."
Russell Baker
(08/14/1925
01/21/2019)
US columnist
("Growing Up")
"I believe that Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once wasan Arctic region covered with ice."
Steve Martin
(08/14/1945
)
US comic, actor, director, writer
"My advice is, don't spend money on therapy. Spend it in a record store."
Wim Wenders
(08/14/1945
)
German director
"A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it."
Danielle Steel
(08/14/1947
)
US writer
"I never liked my own species."
Gary Larson
(08/14/1950
)
US cartoonist (The Far Side)
"They said playing basketball would kill me. Well, not playing basketball was killing me."
"Magic" Johnson
(08/14/1959
)
US basketball player
"If they tell you that she died of sleeping pills you must know that she died of a wasting grief, of a slow bleeding at the soul."
Clifford Odets
(07/18/1906
08/14/1963)
US writer
(was married to Luise Rainer)
, on Marilyn Monroe
"A good role for a woman is hard to come bybe she black, white, or sky-blue pink."
Halle Berry
(08/14/1966
)
US actor
(was married to Olivier Martinez)
"Five inches of snow in five-inch heels. You can't look sexy and you can't look like you know what you're doing because you fall."
Mila Kunis
(08/14/1983
)
US actor
(married to Ashton Kutcher)
"God knows she had plenty of practice."
J. B. Priestly
(09/13/1894
08/14/1984)
English writer
, hearing that Mrs. Shaw was a 'good listener'
"I never thought that much about my playing. I was adequate." *
Roy Buchanan
(09/23/1939
08/14/1988)
US guitarist
"People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation."
Elias Canetti
(07/25/1905
08/14/1994)
Bulgarian writer
"Child, when hard luck fall it just keep fallin'."
Alice Childress
(10/12/1916
08/14/1994)
US writer
"We must be part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulance drivers at the bitter end."
Lane Kirkland
(03/12/1922
08/14/1999)
US union leader
, on labor disputes
"If you really think about the horror of the world, the only suitable attitude seems to be to reject it."
Czeslaw Milosz
(06/30/1911
08/14/2004)
Lithuanian writer
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