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"The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me."
Clara Barton
(12/25/1821
04/12/1912)
US humanitarian, Red Cross founder
("The Story of My Childhood")
"All the American women had purple noses and gray lips and their faces were chalk white from terrible powder. I recognized that the United States could be my life's work."
Helena Rubinstein
(12/25/1872
04/01/1965)
Polish-US cosmetician
"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit."
Conrad Hilton
(12/25/1887
01/03/1979)
US hotelier
(great-grandfather of Paris Hilton;
was married to Zsa Zsa Gabor)
"Twelve? Who needs twelve? Couldn't we make do with six?"
Lew Grade
(12/25/1906
12/13/1998)
Ukrainian producer
, on filming apostles
"My audience was my life. What I did and how I did it, was all for my audience."
Cab Calloway
(12/25/1907
11/18/1994)
US bandleader, singer, drummer, entertainer
"When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?'"
Quentin Crisp
(12/25/1908
11/21/1999)
One of the Stately Old Homos of England
"It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper."
Rod Serling
(12/25/1924
06/28/1975)
US writer
"I couldn't act, but I could swing through the trees."
Irish McCalla
(12/25/1928
02/01/2002)
US actor
, on her role in "Sheena, Queen of the Jungle"
"[My daughter loves playing] cowpersons and Indians."
Anne Roiphe
(12/25/1935
)
US feminist, writer
"Ideas are to literature what light is to painting."
Paul Bourget
(09/02/1852
12/25/1935)
French writer
"Writing good editorials is chiefly telling people what they think, not what you think."
Arthur Brisbane
(12/12/1864
12/25/1936)
US editor, writer
"Truth is stranger than fishin'."
Jimmy Buffett
(12/25/1946
)
US singer, songwriter, parrothead head
"You don't forget the movies, but you forget the details of them."
Sissy Spacek
(12/25/1949
)
US actor
"As people do better, they start voting like Republicansunless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing."
Karl Rove
(12/25/1950
)
US political manipulator and general all-around slimeball
"Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death."
Annie Lennox
(12/25/1954
)
Scottish singer (Eurythmics)
"Bush doesn’t know the names of countries, he doesn’t know the names of foreign leaders, he can’t even find the Earth on a globe."
Doug Ferrari
(12/25/1956
)
US comic
"In modelling, there is no point in trying to prove you have a brain, so why even bother? I'd sooner save the energy for something more meaningful."
Helena Christensen
(12/25/1968
)
Danish model
"Because it's 2015."
Justin Trudeau
(12/25/1971
)
Canadian PM (23)
, on why his cabinet was 50% female
(son of Margaret
and Pierre Trudeau)
"In the 20s, you were a face. And that was enough. In the 30s, you also had to be a voice. And your voice had to match your face, if you can imagine that."
Joan Blondell
(08/30/1906 12/25/1979)
US actor
(was married to Dick Powell,
Michael Todd)
"ShirleyI love her, but her oars aren't touching the water these days."
Dean Martin
(06/07/1917
12/25/1995)
Italian-US singer, actor
"Disco is James Brown, hip-hop is James Brown, rap is James Brown; you know what I'm saying? You hear all the rappers, 90 percent of their music is me."
James Brown
(05/03/1933
12/25/2006)
US Godfather of Soul
("Papa's Got a Brand New Bag")
"I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma."
Eartha Kitt
(01/17/1927
12/25/2008)
US singer, actor
"I've achieved what every artist wants, which is that some of their work will outlive them."
George Michael
(06/25/1963
12/25/2016)
English singer (Wham!)
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