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"In opera, there is always too much singing."
Claude Debussy
(08/22/1862
03/25/1918)
French composer
"All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends."
Dorothy Parker
(08/22/1893
06/07/1967)
US writer
"They improvidentially piped growing volumes of sewage into the sea, the healing virtues of which were advertised on every railway station."
Robert Cecil
(02/03/1830
08/22/1903)
British PM (37)
"The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace."
Kate Chopin
(02/08/1850
08/22/1904)
US writer
"Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious."
Deng Xiaoping
(08/22/1904
02/19/1997)
Chinese communist leader
"To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event."
Henri Cartier-Bresson
(08/22/1908
08/03/2004)
French photographer
"No matter what you got, the blues is there."
John Lee Hooker
(08/22/1917
06/21/2001)
US blues singer
"Haldeman is the only man in America in this generation who let his hair grow for a courtroom appearance."
Mary McGrory
(08/22/1918
04/20/2004)
US journalist
"We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out."
Ray Bradbury
(08/22/1920
06/05/2012)
US writer
"Men who are insecure about their masculinity often challenge me to fights."
Honor Blackman
(08/22/1925
04/05/2020)
English actor
, on her role in "the Avengers"
"Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that's what it feels like to me. Whether that's what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs."
Tori Amos
(08/22/1963
)
US singer, songwriter
"I hope more than a handful of you would like to buy me a beer afterwards."
Layne Staley
(08/22/1967
04/05/2002)
US singer (Alice in Chains)
"I always say I want to look haunted."
Kristen Wiig
(08/22/1973
)
US comic
(SNL)
"To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them."
Jacob Bronowski
(01/18/1908
08/22/1974)
Polish-English mathematician
("The Ascent of Man")
"There is no going back. God knows I've made mistakes, some of them close to tragedies, but then I suppose I'm greedy. I wanted it all."
Colleen Dewhurst
(06/03/1941
08/22/1991)
Canadian actor
(was married to George C. Scott;
mother with Scott of Campbell Scott)
"All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad, or peculiar."
Grace Paley
(12/11/1922
08/22/2007)
US writer
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