English: Billie Holiday, Downbeat, New York. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
William Wordsworth – 1770 – Poet
“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”
William Ellery Channing – 1780 – Writer
“Every human being is intended to have character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.”
Marjory Stoneman Douglas – 1890 – Journalist
“All we need, really, is a change from a near frigid to a tropical attitude of mind.”
David Low – 1891 – Cartoonist
“Making a cartoon occupied usually about three full days, two spent in labour and one in removing the appearance of labour.”
Walter Winchell – 1897 – Journalist
“Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.”
Billie Holiday – 1915 – Singer (Eleanora Fagan)
“If I’m going to sing like someone else, then I don’t need to sing at all.”
Ravi Shankar – 1920 – Sitarist
“Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.”
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Wayne Rogers – 1933 – Actor
“When you’re in the movie business you have a start date and a stop date.”
Jerry Brown – 1938 – Politician
“Inaction may be the biggest form of action.”
Francis Ford Coppola – 1939 – Director and Writer
“Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos.”
Sir David Frost – 1939 – Broadcaster and Businessman
“Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn’t have in your home.”
Robert Metcalfe – 1946 – Engineer
“The Internet will catastrophically collapse in 1996.”
Janis Ian – 1951 – Musician
“Once you’re halfway home, you know that you can probably get the rest of the way there.”
Jackie Chan – 1954 – Actor
“The ads all call me fearless, but that’s just publicity. Anyone who thinks I’m not scared out of my mind whenever I do one of my stunts is crazier than I am.”
Tony Dorsett – 1954 – Athlete
“To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.”
Christopher Darden – 1956 – Lawyer
“I chose to go to law school because I thought that someday somehow I’d make a difference.”
Russell Crowe – 1964 – Actor
“People accuse me of being arrogant all the time. I’m not arrogant. I’m focused.”
Jack Black – 1969 – Actor
“You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow.”
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