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"Never praise a sister to a sister in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears."

Rudyard Kipling
(12/30/1865 – 01/18/1936)
English writer ("The Jungle Book")

"Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets."

Stephen Leacock
(12/30/1869 – 03/28/1944)
Canadian writer ("Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town")

"'I might go for a walk.' Even to me this sounded a pedestrian thing to do."

L. P. Hartley
(12/30/1895 – 12/13/1972)
English writer

"The sky hides the night behind it, and shelters the people beneath from the horror that lies above."

Paul Bowles
(12/30/1910 – 11/18/1999)
US writer, composer, and traveler

"I thank you in advance for the great round of applause I'm about to get."

Bo Diddley
(12/30/1928 – 06/02/2008)
US singer, songwriter ("Road Runner")

"You can't get the Monkees back together as a rock'n'roll group. That would be like Raymond Burr opening up a law practice."

Michael Nesmith
(12/30/1942 – )
US singer, songwriter, videographer, White-Out heir (Monkees, First National Band)

"A hero is one who does what he can."

Romain Rolland
(01/29/1866 – 12/30/1944)
French writer ("Jean-Christophe")

"The Monkees are like the mafia. You're in for life. Nobody gets out."

Davy Jones
(12/30/1945 – 02/29/2012)
English actor, singer, dancer (Monkees) ("Daydream Believer")

"As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag."

Patti Smith
(12/30/1946 – )
US singer, songwriter, poet
(relationship with Sam Shepard)

"Knowledge keeps no better than fish."

Alfred North Whitehead
(02/15/1861 – 12/30/1947)
English mathematician, philosopher

"Aren't the artists brave to go out and paint a sea as rough as that? I don't see how he kept his canvas dry."

Ruth Draper
(12/02/1884 – 12/30/1956)
English monologuist

"If God had intended for breasts to be seen, He wouldn't have created large woolen pullovers."

Tracey Ullman
(12/30/1959 – )
English singer, actor

"Newspapermen ask dumb questions. They look up at the sun and ask if it is shining."

Sonny Liston
(05/08/1932 – 12/30/1970)
US boxer

"Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps."

Tiger Woods
(12/30/1975 – )
US golfer
(was married to Elin Nordegren)

"What's wrong with sweetness and light? It's been around quite awhile."

Richard Rodgers
(06/28/1902 – 12/30/1979)
US composer ("The Sound of Music")
(songwriting partner with Oscar Hammerstein)

"Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose?"

Eliza Dushku
(12/30/1980 – )
US actor

"Just because I don't do bad things doesn't mean I don't have bad thoughts."

Kristin Kreuk
(12/30/1982 – )
Canadian actor

"Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe."

John Gregory Dunne
(05/25/1932 – 12/30/2003)
US writer ("True Confessions")
(was married to Joan Didion)

"It's like having a gangrenous arm. The only thing you can do is amputate it. Obviously you're gonna miss the arm, but if you don't cut it off you'll die."

Artie Shaw
(05/23/1910 – 12/30/2004)
US bandleader ("Begin the Beguine") , on leaving fame behind in 1954
(was married to Evelyn Keyes, Kathleen Winsor, Ava Gardner, Lana Turner, and four others)

"If you want to execute me, I'll bring my own f890ing rope."

Saddam Hussein
(04/28/1937 – 12/30/2006)
Iraqi despot

"For my second and third pictures I won Academy Awards. Nothing worse could have happened to me."

Luise Rainer
(01/12/1910 – 12/30/2014)
German actor
(was married to Clifford Odets)

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