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Saturday, June 14, 2014

Born Today- with Quotes- BornToday.com

"The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
(06/14/1811 – 07/01/1896)
US writer


Margaret Bourke-White "The beauty of the past belongs to the past." Margaret Bourke-White
(06/14/1904 – 08/27/1971)
US photojournalist

Mary Cassatt "Acceptance, under someone else's terms, is worse than rejection." Mary Cassatt
(05/22/1844 – 06/14/1926)
US artist

Ernesto Guevara "Silence is argument carried on by other means." Che Guevara
(06/14/1928 – 10/09/1967)
Argentine revolutionary

Gilbert Keith Chesterton "Ten thousand women marched through the streets of London saying 'we will not be dictated to,' and then went off to become stenographers." G. K. Chesterton
(05/29/1874 – 06/14/1936)
English writer

Donald Trump "As long as you're going to be thinking anyway, think big." Donald Trump
(06/14/1946 – )
US gazillionaire (was married to Marla Maples)

George O'Dowd "Comparing Madonna with Marilyn Monroe is like comparing Raquel Welch with the back of a bus." Boy George
(06/14/1961 – )
British singer

Yasmine Bleeth "This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time. With somebody else's card, of course!" Yasmine Bleeth
(06/14/1968 – )
US actor, model

Brook Busey "If this whole writing thing doesn't work out, I'll be getting right back on the pole." Diablo Cody
(06/14/1978 – )
US writer, stripper

Jorge Luis Borges "The original is unfaithful to the translation." Jorge Luis Borges
(08/24/1899 – 06/14/1986)
Argentine writer

Alan Jay Lerner "Coughing in the theatre is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism." Alan Jay Lerner
(08/31/1918 – 06/14/1986)
US lyricist (songwriting partner of Frederick Loewe; was married to Nancy Olson, among others)

Rory Gallagher "I try to sit down and write a Rory Gallagher song, which generally happens to be quite bluesy. I try to find different issues, different themes and different topics that haven't been covered before...I've done songs in all the different styles...train blues, drinking blues, economic blues. But I try to find a slightly different angle on all these things. The music can be very traditional, but you can sort of creep into the future with the lyrics.." Rory Gallagher
(03/02/1948 – 06/14/1995)
Irish guitarist

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