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"The idea that I should become President seems to me too visionary to require a serious answer. It has never entered my head, nor is it likely to enter the head of any sane person."
Zachary Taylor
(11/24/1784
07/09/1850)
US President (12)
"Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others."
Alphonse Karr
(11/24/1808
09/29/1890)
French writer
"Because it has such a ragged movement. It suggests something like that."
Scott Joplin
(11/24/1868
04/01/1917)
US composer
("The Entertainer")
, on "Ragtime" music
"They say the Pharaohs built the pyramids. Do you think one Pharaoh dropped one bead of sweat? We built the pyramids for the Pharaohs and we're building for them yet."
Anna Louise Strong
(11/24/1885
03/29/1970)
US writer
("I Change Worlds: the Remaking of an American")
"When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bustling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity."
Dale Carnegie
(11/24/1888
11/01/1955)
US writer
"So it can be seen that the trouble with the motion-picture art was (and is) that it is too much an industry; and the trouble with the motion picture industry is that it is too much an art. It is out of this basic contradiction that most of the ills of the form arise."
Garson Kanin
(11/24/1912
03/13/1999)
US writer, director, actor
("Adam's Rib")
(brother of Michael Kanin;
was married to Ruth Gordon)
"Half this game is ninety percent mental."
Danny Ozark
(11/24/1923
05/07/2009)
US baseball coach
"America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization."
Georges Clemenceau
(09/28/1841
11/24/1929)
French PM
"Marriage is a wonderful invention; but then again, so is a bicycle repair kit."
Billy Connolly
(11/24/1942
)
Scottish comic, actor
"I have always believed that socially unacceptable men make much better lovers because they are more sensitive."
Candy Darling
(11/24/1944
03/21/1974)
US actor
("Women in Revolt")
"Erotica is pornography I am willing to publicly admit I like."
Spider Robinson
(11/24/1948
)
US writer
"And if nothing else, I've learned that there are people in life who have a need to sort of bask and reflect in glory or to take credit."
Linda Tripp
(11/24/1949
04/08/2020)
US public servant
"July 13, 1954 was the most tragic day of my life. I had lost my beloved Frida forever....Too late now I realized that the most wonderful part of my life had been my love for Frida."
Diego Rivera
(12/08/1886
11/24/1957)
Mexican artist
"I collect watches because I'm always late, and I need to know exactly how late I'm going to bein order to come up with a good excuse."
Colin Hanks
(11/24/1977
)
US actor
(son of Rita Wilson and
Tom Hanks)
"And I'd love to one day be in a position where I could choose a role to showcase my creativity versus just my bra size."
Katherine Heigl
(11/24/1978
)
US actor
"I'm just a musical prostitute, my dear."
Freddy Mercury
(09/05/1946
11/24/1991)
Tanzanian singer (Queen)
"Manifestly subliterate."
John Simon
(05/12/1925
11/24/2019)
Serbian-US critic
("Private Screenings: Views of the Cinema of the Sixties")
, on Rex Reed
"Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing."
Clive James
(10/07/1939
11/24/2019)
Australian critic
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