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"I feel very old sometimes... I carry on and would not like to die before having emptied a few more buckets of sh*t on the heads of my fellow men."

Gustave Flaubert
(12/12/1821 – 05/08/1880)
French writer ("Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners")

"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?"

Harry M. Warner
(12/12/1881 – 07/25/1958)
Polish film producer and Warner Brother ("The Jazz Singer")
(brother of Jack L. Warner)

"There are times when patience proves at fault."

Robert Browning
(05/07/1812 – 12/12/1889)
English writer ("Sordello")
(was married to Elizabeth Barrett Browning)

"I have not collected art. Art collected me. I never found paintings. They found me. I have never even owned a work of art. They owned me."

Edward G. Robinson
(12/12/1893 – 01/26/1973)
Romanian actor

"Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college."

Lillian Smith
(12/12/1897 – 09/28/1966)
US writer ("Strange Fruit")

"Nobody could imagine just how terrible McCarthyism would be. So many careers went down the toilet."

Karen Morley
(12/12/1909 – 03/08/2003)
US actor ("Our Daily Bread") , Morley was blacklisted for not testifying
(was married to Charles Vidor)

"I get tired of hearing my ballplayers bellyache all the time. They should sit in the press box sometime and watch themselves play."

Buzzie Bavasi
(12/12/1914 – 05/01/2008)
US baseball manager

"Hell hath no fury like a hustler with a literary agent."

Frank Sinatra
(12/12/1915 – 05/14/1998)
US singer ("From Here to Eternity")
(was married to Ava Gardner, Mia Farrow)

"People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness."

John Wanamaker
(07/11/1838 – 12/12/1922)
US merchant

"Life is indeed precious, and I believe the death penalty helps to affirm this fact."

Edward Koch
(12/12/1924 – 02/01/2013)
US mayor (NYC), People's Court judge

"I didn't know anything about speed or diet pills, but they gave me these little red pills, like Benzadrine, that you can only buy in Mexico now."

Connie Francis
(12/12/1937 – )
US singer

"I'm not trying to sell sex. I just don't like wearing a lot of clothes onstage."

Sheila E
(12/12/1957 – )
US entertainer

"After all the nice things I've said about that hag! When I get hold of her I'll tear out every hair of her moustache!"

Tallulah Bankhead
(01/31/1902 – 12/12/1968)
US actor , on Bette Davis

"You don't want to get rid of your experiences, because they're your experiences—good or bad—and you need them, but it would be great if they weren't on the video shelf!"

Jennifer Connelly
(12/12/1970 – )
US actor

"I don't remember ever having finished a book."

Bridget Hall
(12/12/1977 – )
US model

"I have learned the difference between a cactus and a caucus. On a cactus, the pricks are on the outside."

Morris Udall
(06/15/1922 – 12/12/1998)
US Congressman (AZ), presidential contender

"He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt."

Joseph Heller
(05/01/1923 – 12/12/1999)
US writer
(Catch-22)

"'Do you ever notice,' asked Luisa, 'how easy it is to forgive a person any number of faults for one endearing characteristic... while someone with many good qualities is insupportable for a single defect if it happens to be a boring one?'"

Shirley Hazzard
(01/30/1931 – 12/12/2016)
Australian writer ("The Bay of Noon")

"Look, people have an image of Italians. When I go somewhere in the world, I don't care where it is, when they look at me it's not about my intelligence. It's who can I beat up."

Danny Aiello
(06/20/1933 – 12/12/2019)
US actor ("Do the Right Thing")

"A committee is an animal with four back legs."

John LeCarré
(10/19/1931 – 12/12/2020)
English writer ("The Spy Who Came In from the Cold")

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