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Friday, January 2, 2015

Born Today: Well Known People with Revealing Quotes- Born Today.com

Uh-oh. Too many interesting people born today. Will on do bios on some of them, this has to be a fielder's choice.

"Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius."
Johann Casper Lavater
(11/15/1741 – 01/02/1801)
Swiss theologian 
"A woman can be a woman and a true one without having all her time engrossed by dress and society."
Martha Carey Thomas
(01/02/1857 – 12/02/1935)
US educator 
Beatrice Potter Webb"So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere."
Beatrice Webb
(01/02/1858 – 04/30/1943)
English writer 
"If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; but an American cow."
William Lyon Phelps
(01/02/1865 – 08/21/1943)
US educator, writer 
Josef Stalin"A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic."
Josef Stalin
(01/02/1880 – 03/05/1953)
Russian leader 
"There is no distance on this earth as far away as yesterday."
Robert Nathan 
(01/02/1894 – 05/25/1985)
US writer 
Isaac Asimov"It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be... This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking."
Isaac Asimov
(01/02/1920 – 04/06/1992)
Russian-born writer and scientist 
Lawrence Weiss"It irks me when people use the character's name in a demeaning way."
Larry "Bozo the Clown" Harmon
(01/02/1925 – 07/03/2008)
US entertainer , on people calling politicians "Bozo" 
Roger Miller"It's one thing to have talent. It's another to figure out how to use it."
Roger Miller
(01/02/1936 – 10/25/1992)
US singer-songwriter 
David Bailey; portrait of John and Paul"I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked."
David Bailey
(01/02/1938 – )
English photographer (was married to Catherine Deneuve) 
"But when you come to Heritage USA, remember to bring your Bible and your VISA card—because the Bible is the Holy Truth, and God doesn't take American Express."
Jim Bakker
(01/02/1939 – )
US televangelist (was married to Tammy Faye Bakker) 
Lynda Barry"Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke."
Lynda Barry
(01/02/1956 – )
US writer, cartoonist 
Richard Ewing Powell"The best thing about switching from being an actor to being a director is that you don't have to shave or hold your stomach in anymore."
Dick Powell
(11/14/1904 – 01/02/1963)
US actor (was married to Joan BlondellJune Allyson) 
John Elmer Carson"Fans are people who let an actor know he's not alone in the way he feels about himself."
Jack Carson
(10/27/1910 – 01/02/1963)
US actor 
Christy Turlington"I think, 'If my butt's not too big for them to be photographing it, then it shouldn't be too big for me.'"
Christy Turlington
(01/02/1969 – )
US supermodel (married to Edward Burns) 
"It isn't the high price of stars that is expensive, it's the high price of mediocrity."
Bill Veeck
(02/09/1914 – 01/02/1986)
US baseball player, owner 

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