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"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish."
Euripedes
(09/23/0480 –
?/0406 BC)
Greek playwright
"The chasm between the principles upon which this Government was founded, in which it still professes to believe, and those which are daily practiced under the protection of the flag, yawns wide and deep."
Mary Eliza Church Terrell
(09/23/1863 –
07/24/1954)
US writer, social reformer
("A Colored Woman in a White World")
"Love endures only when the lovers love many things together and not merely each other."
Walter Lippmann
(09/23/1889 –
12/14/1974)
US writer
"Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory."
Ray Charles
(09/23/1930 –
06/10/2004)
US R'n'B and jazz singer, songwriter, and pianist
("Georgia on My Mind")
"I never thought that much about my playing. I was adequate." *
Roy Buchanan
(09/23/1939 –
08/14/1988)
US guitarist
"What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult."
Sigmund Freud
(05/06/1856 –
09/23/1939)
Moravian Father of Psychoanalysis
("The Interpretation of Dreams")
(father of Anna)
"Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze."
Elinor Glyn
(10/17/1864 –
09/23/1943)
English writer
"When it comes to luck, you make your own."
Bruce Springsteen
(09/23/1949 –
)
US singer, songwriter
"Any tool is a weapon if you hold it right."
Ani DiFranco
(09/23/1970 –
)
US singer, songwriter
Peter Marshall: "Which of your five senses tends to diminish as you get older?"
Charlie Weaver: "My sense of decency."
(12/27/1905 –
09/23/1974)
US comedian, actor, pianist, composer
(grandfather of Rosanna,
Patricia, and
David Arquette)
"There aren't any embarrassing questions—only embarrassing answers."
Carl Rowan
(08/11/1925 –
09/23/2000)
US journalist
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"I've never been lifted. But I do like a bit of glamour in the morning."
Louise Nevelson
"I was friendly with most of my ex-wives. My God, there's a Mickey Rooney's Former Wives Marching Band!"
Mickey Rooney
"You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice."
Lord Viscount John Morley
"You can play a shoestring if you're sincere."
John Coltrane
"I would never discriminate against someone's talent because they showed the poor taste to like me."
Bob Fosse
"The storyteller makes no choice, soon you will not hear his voice, his job is to shed light, and not to master."
Robert Hunter
"Thousands of tickets sold out in a day. I found it extraordinary—until I realised a local newspaper had said I'd be singing naked! They all wanted to see that French woman singing in the nude."
Juliette Gréco