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"I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses."
Johannes Kepler
(12/27/1571
11/15/1630)
German astronomer
"Chance favors only the prepared mind."
Louis Pasteur
(12/27/1822
09/28/1895)
French scientist
"I have seen purer liquors, better segars, finer tobacco, truer guns and pistols, larger dirks and bowie knives, and prettier courtesans here in San Francisco than in any other place I have ever visited; and it is my unbiased opinion that California can and does furnish the best bad things that are available in America."
Hinton Helper
(12/27/1829
03/09/1909)
US writer
, on late 19th-century San Francisco
"The lens is the actor's best critic, showing his mind more clearly than on the stage. You can get wonderful cooperation out of the lens if you are true, but God help you if you are not."
Sydney Greenstreet
(12/27/1879
01/18/1954)
English actor
Peter Marshall: "If you're going to make a parachute jump, you should be at least how high?"
Charlie Weaver: "Three days of steady drinking should do it."
(12/27/1905
09/23/1974)
US comedian, actor, pianist, composer
(grandfather of Rosanna,
Patricia, and
David Arquette)
"Never answer a hypothetical question."
Moshe Arens
(12/27/1925
01/07/2019)
Lithuanian-Israeli politician
"If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English."
Wilfrid Sheed
(12/27/1930
01/19/2011)
US writer
("A Middle Class Education")
"The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies."
Lester Bowles Pearson
(04/23/1897
12/27/1972)
Canadian Prime Minister (14)
"One face to the world, another at home makes for misery."
Amy Vanderbilt
(07/22/1908
12/27/1974)
US etiquette maven
"If it were better, it wouldn't be as good."
Brendan Gill
(10/04/1914
12/27/1997)
US writer
"I consider Peter Finch and James Mason the two best English actors of the 1960s. But I never understood Finch. How could he do something as beautiful as "Sunday, Bloody Sunday," but also make all that other sh*t? I mean he could read, couldn't he?"
Sir Alan Bates
(02/17/1934
12/27/2003)
English actor
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