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"Do not arouse disdainful mind when you prepare a broth of wild grasses; do not arouse joyful mind when you prepare a fine cream soup."
Dogen
(01/19/1200
09/22/1253)
Japanese Buddhist priest
("Shobogenzo")
"I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves."
Lord Chesterfield
(09/22/1694
03/24/1773)
English statesman
"Why, sir, there is every possibility that you will soon be able to tax it!"
Michael Faraday
(09/22/1791
08/25/1867)
English scientist
, to PM William Gladstone, on the usefulness of electricity
"I won't go up in a plane, but if a play crashes, I'll jump into the next one that comes along and take it up for a spin."
Paul Muni
(09/22/1895
08/25/1967)
Austro-Hungarian actor
"Men are irrelevant."
Fay Weldon
(09/22/1931
)
English writer
"I want to write songs that are so sad, the kind of sad where you take someone's little finger and break it in three places."
Nick Cave
(09/22/1957
)
Australian musician (Bad Seeds)
(relationship with P. J. Harvey)
"During the 'whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa's' in 'Combination Of the Two,' I couldn't help but go to the mirror and pretend I was a wild woman like Janis, in a rock band."
Joan Jett
(09/22/1958
)
US singer
"Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble and that was the end of that."
Marion Davies
(01/03/1897
09/22/1961)
US actor
(LTR with William Randolph Hearst)
"Glamour is just sex that got civilized."
Dorothy Lamour
(12/10/1914
09/22/1996)
US actor
, just glamour without the 'g'
"He taught me to teach myself, which is the greatest thing a teacher can do."
Isaac Stern
(07/21/1920
09/22/2001)
Russian-US musician
, on his music teacher, Naoum Blinder
"Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?"
Marcel Marceau
(03/22/1923
09/22/2007)
French mime
"I really didn't say everything I said."
Yogi Berra
(05/12/1925
09/22/2015)
US baseball great
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