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"Always remember this: There are only eighteen inches between a pat on the back and a kick in the rump."
Hattie McDaniel
(06/10/1895 – 10/02/1952)
US actor 

"It won't be long before we'll be writing together again. I just hope they have a decent piano up there."
Frederick Loewe
(06/10/1904 – 02/14/1988)
Austrian composer , on songwriting partner Alan Jay Lerner's death 

"If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough."
Dr. Edward Everett Hale
(04/03/1822 – 06/10/1909)
US religious leader 

"All those great swans chasing that absurd young man!"
Sir Terence Mervyn Ratigan
(06/10/1911 – 11/30/1977)
English writer , on ballet 

"She was what we used to call a suicide blonde—dyed by her own hand."
Saul Bellow
(06/10/1915 – 04/05/2005)
Canadian writer 

"I declare this thing open, whatever it is."
Prince Philip
(06/10/1921 – )
British Royal Family , opening the Vancouver City Hall 

"I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot."
Judy Garland
(06/10/1922 – 06/22/1969)
US singer, actor (mother of Liza Minnelli) 

"There must be more to life than having everything."
Maurice Sendak
(06/10/1928 – 05/08/2012)
US writer/illustrator (Where the Wild Things Are) 

"I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said 'I will be so brief I have already finished,' and he sat down."
Edward O. Wilson
(06/10/1929 – )
US scientist, writer 

"There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating."
Frederick Delius
(01/29/1862 – 06/10/1934)
English composer 

"I get paid for seeing that my clients have every break the law allows. I have knowingly defended a number of guilty men. But the guilty never escape unscathed. My fees are sufficient punishment for anyone."
F. Lee Bailey
(06/10/1939 – )
US lawyer 

"Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences."
Marcus Garvey
(08/17/1887 – 06/10/1940)
Jamaican organizer 

"These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder."
Jeff Greenfield
(06/10/1943 – )
US journalist , on the O. J. Simpson jury 

"For every point I'm given, I'll have earned two, because I'm a Negro."
Jack Johnson
(03/31/1878 – 06/10/1946)
US boxer 

"I'd say if you live in the United States of America and you vote for George Bush, you've lost your mind."
John Edwards
(06/10/1953 – )
US Senator (NC), vice presidential (2004) and presidential (2008) candidate 

"Lately, I've been a little sad that I'm not a gay man."
Gina Gershon
(06/10/1962 – )
US actor 

"Jazz isn't dead, it just smells funny."
Jimmy Chamberlain
(06/10/1964 – )
US drummer (Smashing Pumpkins, Zwan) ; also see Billy Corgan, D'Arcy Wretzky, James Iha, Melissa auf der Maur, and Courtney Love , but Frank Zappa said it first. If anyone has an original Jimmy Chamberlain quote...? 

"I'd kill myself if I was as fat as Marilyn Monroe."
Elizabeth Hurley
(06/10/1965 – )
English model, actor 

"Come to work on time, know your lines, and don't bump into the furniture."
Spencer Tracy
(04/05/1900 – 06/10/1967)
US actor , advice 

"One never realizes how much and how little he knows until he starts talking."
Louis L'Amour
(03/22/1908 – 06/10/1988)
US writer 

"A proof tells us where to concentrate our doubts."
Morris Kline
(05/01/1908 – 06/10/1992)
US mathematician 

"I used to sell furniture for a living. The trouble was, it was my own."
Les Dawson
(02/02/1933 – 06/10/1993)
English comic 

"Opening games make me nervous. To tell the truth, I'd rather open with our second game."
John McKay
(07/05/1923 – 06/10/2001)
US football coach 

"I never wanted to be famous; I only wanted to be great."
Ray Charles
(09/23/1930 – 06/10/2004)
US R'n'B and jazz great 

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