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"Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent."
Johann Gottfried von Herder
(08/25/1744
12/18/1803)
German philosopher
"The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds."
David Hume
(05/07/1711
08/25/1776)
Scottish philosopher
"One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones."
Bret Harte
(08/25/1836
05/05/1902)
US writer
"The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly."
Michael Faraday
(09/22/1791
08/25/1867)
English scientist
"Flattery must be pretty thick before anybody objects to it."
William Feather
(08/25/1889
01/07/1981)
US writer
("The Business of Life")
"Women aren't as mere as they used to be."
Walt Kelly
(08/25/1913
10/18/1973)
US cartoonist
"Sure, I look like a white man. But my heart is as black as anyone's here."
George Wallace
(08/25/1919
09/13/1998)
US Governor (AL)
"You can learn more by watching 'Let's Make a Deal' than you can by watching Walter Cronkite for a month."
Monty Hall
(08/25/1921
09/30/2017)
Canadian TV game show host
"Here stands before you a Negro woman, raised in Harlem, who went on to become a tennis player... and finally wind up being a world champion, in fact, the first black woman champion of this world."
Althea Gibson
(08/25/1927
09/28/2003)
US tennis player
"Walk amongst the natives by day, but in your heart be Superman."
Gene Simmons
(08/25/1949
)
Israeli singer, bassist (Kiss)
"There's two kinds of musicheavy metal and all the crap they play on radio and show on MTV."
Rob Halford
(08/25/1951
)
English singer (Judas Priest)
"With these vulgar fractions of the treble clef,
I wish you luck with a capital F."
Elvis Costello
(08/25/1954
)
English singer-songwriter
(married to Diana Krall)
"Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeon-holes. The living world is a continuum."
Alfred Kinsey
(06/23/1894
08/25/1956)
US researcher
"Man, I love that song. I think about it at least once a day."
Billy Ray Cyrus
(08/25/1961
)
US singer
(father of Miley Cyrus)
, on his hit "Achy Breaky Heart"
"I don't want to be a star. If you have to label me anything, I'm an actorI guess. A journeyman actor. I think 'star' is what you call actors who can't act."
Paul Muni
(09/22/1895
08/25/1967)
Austro-Hungarian actor
"I've looked in the mirror every day for 20 years. It's the same face."
Claudia Schiffer
(08/25/1970
)
German supermodel
"My whole family's been in the business. My whole family is crazy."
Blake Lively
(08/25/1987
)
US actor
(married to Ryan Reynolds)
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