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"There are no illegitimate children—only illegitimate parents."
Leon R. Yankwich
(09/25/1888 – 02/09/1975)
US judge (CA) , Decision in Zipkin v. Mozon, June 1928 

"The only place in the world where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder."
William Faulkner
(09/25/1897 – 07/05/1962)
US writer , on Hollywood 

"Look, it's my misery that I have to paint this kind of painting, it's your misery that you have to love it, and the price of the misery is thirteen hundred and fifty dollars."
Mark Rothko
(09/25/1903 – 02/25/1970)
Russian artist 

"The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing."
Ronnie Barker
(09/25/1929 – 10/03/2005)
English comic 

"Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna—or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out."
Barbara Walters
(09/25/1931 – )
US TV person 

"He looked at me as if I was a side dish he hadn't ordered."
Ring Lardner, Sr.
(03/03/1885 – 09/25/1933)
US writer , on William Howard Taft 

"I'm not a big filmophile. I don't watch movies a lot for a hobby. I spend all my time watching sporting events. Because, opposed to movies, you can never tell how they're going to end."
Michael Douglas
(09/25/1944 – )
US actor (son of Kirk Douglas; married to, and same birthday as, Catherine Zeta-Jones) 

"There is one sure way of telling when politicians aren't telling the truth—their lips move."
Felicity Kendall
(09/25/1946 – )
English actor 

"There was this guy wearing a blue scrub hat and a yellow gown and with a Russian accent, being some insane Russian doctor... I laughed for the first time and I knew that life was going to be OK."
Christopher Reeve
(09/25/1952 – 10/10/2004)
US actor , on Robin Williams visiting him in the hospital 

"To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule."
Emily Post
(10/27/1862 – 09/25/1960)
US etiquette maven 

"Lust is the sin that gets me excited. Luckily, because I'm married, I also get really good jewelry out of it."
Heather Locklear
(09/25/1961 – )
US actor (was married to Tommy Lee, Richie Sambora) 

"Of all the awards I've received, this is the most recent."
Will Smith
(09/25/1968 – )
US actor , receiving "Male Star of the Year 2002" award 

"For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end."
Catherine Zeta-Jones
(09/25/1969 – )
Welsh actor (married to, and same birthday as, Michael Douglas) 

"Every little bean must be heard as well as seen!"
Erich M. Remarque
(06/22/1898 – 09/25/1970)
German writer 

"When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again."
Hugo L. Black
(02/27/1886 – 09/25/1971)
US Supreme Court (see other Supreme Court justices) 

"A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes—but a movie actor waits."
Mary Astor
(05/03/1906 – 09/25/1987)
US actor 

"A tie is like kissing your sister."
Duffy Daugherty
(09/08/1915 – 09/25/1987)
US coach 

"He's miscast and she's Miss Taylor."
Emlyn Williams
(11/26/1905 – 09/25/1987)
Welsh critic , on Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor 

"I wasn't a child at 13; were you?"
Marion Zimmer Bradley
(06/03/1930 – 09/25/1999)
US writer 

"I had a wonderful experience on the golf course today. I had a hole in nothing. Missed the ball and sank the divot."
Don Adams
(04/13/1923 – 09/25/2005)
US actor 

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