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"This Englishwoman is so refined
she has no bosom and no behind."
Stevie Smith
(09/20/1902
03/07/1971)
English writer
"I haven't touched a drop of alcohol since the invention of the funnel."
Malachy McCourt
(09/20/1931
)
Irish-American actor, writer
(brother of Frank McCourt)
"For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most."
Annie Besant
(10/01/1847
09/20/1933)
English social reformer
"People never know what's going on while it's happening. You think, during the Renaissance, people called it 'The Renaissance'?"
Anne Meara
(09/20/1929
05/23/2015)
US comic actor
(was married to Jerry Stiller,
mother with him of Ben Stiller)
"Everything you see I owe to spaghetti."
Sophia Loren
(09/20/1934
)
Italian actor
"Politics is very much like taxeseverybody is against them, or everybody is for them as long as they don't apply to him."
Fiorello La Guardia
(12/11/1882
09/20/1947)
US mayor (NYC)
"I do not think of a symphony only as music in this or that number of bars, but rather as an expression of a spiritual creed, a phase in one's inner life."
Jean Sibelius
(12/08/1865
09/20/1957)
Finnish composer
"What you might see as depravity is, to me, just another aspect of the human condition."
Asia Argento
(09/20/1975
)
Italian actor
(daughter of Dario Argento)
"A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems."
Paul Erdos
(03/26/1913
09/20/1996)
Hungarian mathematician
"None of my 'clients'not Eichmann, not Stangl, not Mengele, and not even Hitler or Stalinwas born a criminal. Somebody had to teach them to hate: maybe the society, maybe the politics, maybe just a Jewish prostitute."
Simon Wiesenthal
(12/31/1908
09/20/2005)
Ukrainian Nazi-hunter
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