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Who Shares Your Day and What Did They Say? This is a collection of thought-provoking quotations for each day of the year by people who share YOUR birthday!

July 21

Wife of President Grover Cleveland

Wife of President Grover Cleveland (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Matthew Prior – 1664 – Poet

“They talk most who have the least to say.”

Frances Cleveland – 1864 – Wife of President Grover Cleveland

“Take good care of all the furniture …  We are coming back.”

Ernest Hemingway – 1899 – Author

“In order to write about life, first you must live it.”

Marshall McLuhan – 1911 – Sociologist

“Diaper backward spells repaid.  Think about it.”

Isaac Stern – 1920 – Musician

“Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception:  Carnegie Hall enhances the music.”

Rudolph A. Marcus – 1923 – Scientist

“Life would be indeed easier if the experimentalist would only pause for a little while.”

Don Knotts – 1924 – Actor

“My idol was Jack Benny, and he was the master of subtlety and timing.”

Norman Jewison – 1926 – Director

Ernest Hemingway 1923 Passport Photograph, 1923

Ernest Hemingway 1923 Passport Photograph, 1923 (Photo credit: The U.S. National Archives)

“Betrayal … is my favorite subject.”

John Gardner – 1933 – Novelist

“One should fight like the devil the temptation to think well of editors.   They are all, without exception – at least some of the time, incompetent or crazy.”

Jonathan Miller – 1934 – Entertainer

“Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility.”

Les Aspin – 1938 – Politician

“Before we give you billions more, we want to know what you’ve done with the trillion you’ve got.”

Janet Reno – 1938 – Politician

“The good lawyer is the great salesman.”

Jim Clyburn – 1940 – Politician

“A lot of very competent people sometimes make errors.”

Paul Wellstone – 1944 – Politician

“Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.”

Kenneth Starr – 1946 – Lawyer

“Don’t blame the messenger because the message is unpleasant.”

Garry Trudeau – 1948 – Cartoonist

“Coming up with ideas is really hard – they don’t spontaneously pop into my head while I’m cutting vegetables.”

Cat Stevens – 1948 – Musician

“Communal well-being is central to human life.”

Robin Williams – 1951 – Actor

“Why do they call it ‘rush hour’ when nothing moves?”

Doug Collins – 1951 – Athlete

“I’ve always said you have to go through a lot of heartache in life to feel joy.”

Jon Lovitz – 1957 – Actor

“My dad would always say, ‘What can you do to make the world a better place?’  Well, I can make people laugh.”

Mick Mulvaney – 1967 – Politician

“My dad told me something long before I was in politics, and when your dad gives you advice every single day, eventually one or two of the things stick in your mind.  And he said, don’t believe what people say, believe what they do.”

Brandi Chastain – 1968 – Athlete

“And to learn, you have to be willing to push yourself.”

Ali Landry – 1973 – Model

“Chocolate is not cheating!  After a salty meal, you need a little bit of sweet.  This is living, not cheating.”

Sprague Grayden – 1980 – Actress

“If you just stay away from junk, and stick with what your mom taught you, you’re eating pretty healthy.”

Juno Temple – 1989 – Actress

“I think it’s so exciting to try anything you possibly can.”

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July 20

The inventor and pioneer of aviation Alberto S...

The inventor and pioneer of aviation Alberto Santos-Dumont (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Petrarch – 1304 – Poet

“A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.”

Thomas Lovell Beddoes – 1803 – Poet

“If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy?”

Howard Thurston – 1869 – Celebrity

“The average man is not hard to mystify.”

Alberto Santos Dumont – 1873 – Aviator

“The human voice cannot mount up into these boundless solitudes.”

Edmund Hillary – 1919 – Explorer

“People do not decide to become extraordinary.  They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.”

Thomas Berger – 1924 – Novelist

“Why do writers write?  Because it isn’t there.”

Nam June Paik – 1932 – Artist

“The future is now.”

Alistair MacLeod – 1936 – Author

Natalie Wood

Natalie Wood (Photo credit: Film Star Vintage)

“I like to think that I am telling a story rather than writing it.”

Barbara Mikulski – 1936 – Politician

“Each of us can make a difference.  Together we make change.”

Natalie Wood – 1938 – Actress

“The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.”

Carlos Santana – 1947 – Musician

“The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart.  The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.”

Tim Ferriss – 1977 – Author

“Exercise is overrated.”

Elliott Yamin – 1978 – Musician

“Music’s something you feel.  You have to feel it first before you hear it.”

Gisele Bundchen – 1980 – Model

“The more you trust your intuition, the more empowered you become, the stronger you become, and the happier you become.”

Julianne Hough – 1988 – Musician

“I think it’s important to be happy before you can make anybody else happy.”

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July 19

English: "Self Portrait," by the Fre...

English: “Self Portrait,” by the French artist Edgar Degas, oil on canvas. Courtesy of the Musée d’Orsay, Paris. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Gottfried Keller – 1819 – Writer

“A human life is a schooling for eternity.”

Victor Cherbuliez – 1829 – Novelist

“What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunity, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one’s ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.”

Edgar Degas – 1834 – Artist

“Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.”

Anatole Broyard – 1920 – Critic

“The more I like a book, the more slowly I read.  This spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable.”

Rosalyn S. Yalow – 1921 – Scientist

“The excitement of learning separates youth from old age.  As long as you’re learning you’re not old.”

George McGovern – 1922 – Politician

“Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction “Love the neighbor as thyself.'”

Jan Myrdal – 1927 – Author

“There is a third dimension to traveling, the longing for what is beyond.”

Thomas J. Sargent – 1943 – Economist

English: Original description: Dr. Rosalyn Yal...

English: Original description: Dr. Rosalyn Yalow at her Bronx Veterans Administration Hospital, October 13, 1977, after learning she was one of three American doctors awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine that year. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

“What I really don’t like is oversimplification.”

Ilie Nastas – 1946 – Athlete

“I haven’t reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.”

Brian May – 1947 – Musician

“Astronomy’s much more fun when you’re not an astronomer.”

Howard Schultz – 1953 – Businessman

“Expect more than others think possible.”

Kathleen Turner – 1954 – Actress

“The big gap between the ability of actors is confidence.”

Campbell Scott – 1961 – Actor

“Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.”

Evelyn Glennie – 1965 – Musician

“I hope the seeds I have sown will be taken up by those who will follow me because the journey I have begun cannot be undertaken in isolation.”

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July 18

William Makepeace Thackeray

William Makepeace Thackeray (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

George Savile – 1726 – Politician

“A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.”

William Makepeace Thackeray – 1811 – Novelist

“Life is a mirror:  if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.”

Charles Erwin Wilson – 1890 – Businessman

“A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could.”

Jessamyn West – 1902 – Author

“A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.”

Harriet Nelson – 1909 – Actress (Peggy Lou Snyder)

“Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself.”

Hume Cronyn – 1911 – Actor

“I find it very difficult just to sit.  I would love to learn how to do that with contentment.”

Red Skelton – 1913 – Comedian (Richard Bernard Skelton)

“Live by this credo:  have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness.  Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.”

Gallery ~ Harriet Hilliard Nelson

Gallery ~ Harriet Hilliard Nelson (Photo credit: e r j k p r u n c z y k)

Phil Graham – 1915 – Businessman

“News is the first rough draft of history.”

Nelson Mandela – 1918 – South African President

“With freedom comes responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not yet ended.”

John Glenn – 1921 – Astronaut

“There is still no cure for the common birthday.”

Elizabeth Jennings – 1926 – Poet

“For me, poetry is always a search for order.”

Margaret Laurence – 1926 – Novelist

“When I say ‘work’ I only mean writing.  Everything else is just odd jobs.”

Kurt Masur – 1927 – Musician

“You have to change your mind with every orchestra because every orchestra has a different character.”

Yevgeny Yevtushenko – 1933 – Poet

“Envy is an insult to oneself.”

Joe Torre – 1940 – Athlete

“You’re always in the storm’s eye, so to speak, when you’re with the Yankees.”

Martha Reeves – 1941 – Musician

“A song has to become as much a part of you as a tailored suit.”

Steve Forbes – 1947 – Businessman

“A promise made should be a promise kept.”

Richard Branson – 1950 – Businessman

“A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.”

Ricky Skaggs – 1954 – Musician

“Great music is great music, period.”

Vin Diesel – 1968 – Actor

“It’s insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.”

Chace Crawford – 1985 – Actor

“Doubt your doubts before you doubt your beliefs.”

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July 17

Anne Hutchinson – 1591 – Clergy

“I have been guilty of wrong thinking.”

Isaac Watts – 1674 – Politician

“Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.”

John Jacob Astor – 1763 – Merchant

“A man who has a million dollars is as well off as if he were rich.”

Warren Weaver – 1894 – Scientist

“Science is not gadgetry.”

James Cagney

James Cagney (Photo credit: twm1340)

Berenice Abbott – 1898 – Photographer

“Photography can only represent the present.  Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.”

James Cagney – 1899 – Actor

“You dirty, double-crossing rat.”

Art Linkletter – 1912 – Journalist

“The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence and obsolescence.”

Phyllis Diller – 1917 – Comedian (Phyllis Ada Driver)

“Cleaning your house while your children are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.”

Juan Antonio Samaranch – 1920 – Celebrity

“Olympism is the marriage of sport and culture.”

Robert Cormier – 1925 – Author

“I take real people and put them in extraordinary situations.”

Geezer Butler – 1949 – Musician

English: Phyllis Diller portrait

English: Phyllis Diller portrait (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

“If you polish things too much, it loses the feeling.”

David Hasselhoff – 1952 – Actor

“If you don’t respect me you’re not gonna get that respect back.”

J. Michael Straczynski – 1954 – Producer

“Never follow somebody else’s path; it doesn’t work the same way twice for anyone…the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way.”

Luke Bryan – 1976 – Musician

“You never take your fans for granted.  You always appreciate them every show, night in, night out.”

Mattie Stepanek – 1990 -Poet

“Even though the future seems far away, it is actually beginning right now.”

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July 16

English: Public Domain Image of Mary Baker Eddy

English: Public Domain Image of Mary Baker Eddy (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Joshua Reynolds – 1723 – Artist

“The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.”

Mary Baker Eddy – 1821 – Theologian

“Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love.  It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but required all mankind to share it.”

Theodore N. Vail – 1845 – Industrialist

“Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.”

Roald Amundsen – 1972 – Explorer

“Adventure is just bad planning.”

Ivy Lee – 1877 – Writer

“Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow.”

Shoeless Joe Jackson – 1889 – Athlete

“I ain’t afraid to tell the world that it didn’t take school stuff to help a fella play ball.”

Orville Redenbacher – 1907 – Businessman

“I had popcorn all over the place, so I decided I might as well be in the Processing Business.”

Barbara Stanwyck – 1907 – Actress

Ginger Rogers - 1920s

Ginger Rogers – 1920s (Photo credit: danceonair1986)

“Egotism – usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.”

Ginger Rogers – 1911 – Actress (Virginia Katherine McMath)

“The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first.”

Mari Evans – 1923 – Poet

“To identify the enemy is to free the mind.”

Bess Myerson – 1924 – Model

“To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.”

Robert Sheckley – 1928 – Author

“A novel is often a longer process of handling self-doubt.”

Anita Brookner – 1938 – Historian

“Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.”

Desmond Dekker – 1941 – Musician

“Things will get better if you just hold out long enough.”

Jimmy Johnson – 1943 – Coach

“The only thing worse than a coach or CEO who doesn’t care about his people is one who pretends to care.  People can spot a phony every time.”

Tony Kushner – 1956 – Playwright

“As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well.  You inflict things on people.”

Jerry Doyle – 1956 – Actor

“If you’re not having fun – I don’t care what you’re doing – don’t do it.  Move on.  Find something else, life’s too short.”

Michael Flatley – 1958 – Dancer

“Whenever I hear, ‘It can’t be done,’ I know I’m close to success.”

Mark Burnett – 1960 – Businessman

“The best person to get something done is a busy person.”

Phoebe Cates – 1963 – Actress

“Too many people are buying gifts for themselves when they pick out a gift for a friend.”

Miguel Indurain – 1964 – Athlete

“To be free and to live a free life – that is the most beautiful thing there is.”

Will Ferrell – 1967 – Comedian

“I have only been funny about seventy-four percent of the time.  Yes I think that is right.  Seventy-four percent of the time.”

Barry Sanders – 1968 – Athlete

“I really love peace and quiet.”

Corey Feldman – 1971 – Actor

“As an actor, you’re pretty much a hired gun.  You are reading other people’s words off a page and doing what they want you to do.”

Brian Celio – 1981 – Novelist

“True friends:  only a few have ’em, but only a few will admit that they don’t.”

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July 15

The Author of "A Visit from St. Nicholas&...

The Author of “A Visit from St. Nicholas” (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Clement Clarke Moore – 1779 – Writer

“T’was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.”

Franklin Knight Lane – 1864 – Politician

“A public office is not a job, it is an opportunity to do something.”

Lord Northcliffe – 1865 – Publisher

“Journalism:  A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.”

Walter Benjamin – 1892 – Critic

“Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.”

Rudolf Arnheim – 1904 – Artist

“In a land of immigrants, one was not an alien but simply the latest arrival.”

Dorothy Fields – 1905 – Musician

“A song just doesn’t come on.  I’ve always had to tease it, squeeze it out.”

Robert Conquest – 1917 – Historian

“Everyone is a reactionary about subjects he understands.”

Iris Murdoch – 1919 – Author

“Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.”

Jacques Derrida – 1930 – Philosopher

“To pretend, I actually do the thing:  I have therefore only pretended to pretend.”

Clive Cussler – 1931 – Writer

“Sometimes my plot lines are so convoluted, I get calls from friends at 3 AM saying; you SOB.  You’ll never pull this one off.”

Harrison Birtwistle – 1934 – Composer

“My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don’t meet.  And then your friends say:  It’s terrific!”

Alex Karras – 1935 – Athlete

“Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.”

Larry Cohen – 1941 – Director

“Are you eating it?  Or is it eating you?”

Linda Ronstadt – 1946 – Musician

“The thing you have to be prepared for is that other people don’t always dream your dream.”

Lydia Davis – 1942 – Writer

“I would recommend, definitely, developing a ‘day job’ that you like – don’t expect to make money writing.”

Trevor Horn – 1949 – Musician

“I hate having to read the manual.”

Richard Russo – 1949 – Novelist

“People in small towns, much more than in cities, share a destiny.”

Jesse Ventura – 1952 – Athlete and Politician

“Wrestling is ballet with violence.”

Willie Aames – 1960 – Actor

“I don’t think you need to go looking for the enemy.  He’s going to look for you.”

Kim Alexis – 1960 – Model

English: Dan Lipinski

English: Dan Lipinski (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

“Don’t ever be afraid to step out and do something different.”

Dan Lipinski – 1966 – Politician

“On this Veterans Day, let us remember the service of our veterans, and let us renew our national promise to fulfill our sacred obligations to our veterans and their families who have sacrificed so much so that we can live free.”

Adam Savage – 1967 – Entertainer

“I reject your reality and substitute my own.”

Ian K. Smith – 1969 – Author

“Women want to feel wanted.  Men want to feel needed.”

Brian Austin Green – 1973 – Actor

“The worst thing you can do is to put your life aside for someone else.”

Seth Gordon – 1974 – Director

“The best movies are rooted in reality.”

Diane Kruger – 1976 – Model

“You should be smart enough to know that you don’t know everything.  But you have to believe in yourself.  I certainly do.”

Taylor Kinney – 1981 – Actor

“To be honest, as an actor, job security is not a trait.”

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July 14

English: Owen Wister

English: Owen Wister (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Pasquier Quesnel – 1634 – Theologian

“The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.”

James Whistler – 1834 – Artist

“An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.”

Emmeline Pankhurst – 1858 – Activist

“Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.”

Owen Wister – 1860 – Writer

“When you can’t have what you choose, you just choose what you have.”

Happy Chandler – 1898 – Politician

“We Americans are a peculiar people.  We are for the underdog, no matter how much of a dog he is.”

Gerald Finzi – 1901 – Composer

“But no work from a first rate mind is ever really second rate.”

Erwin Griswold – 1904 – Lawyer

“The right to be left alone is the underlying principle of the Constitution’s Bill of Rights.”

Isaac Bashevis Singer – 1904 – Novelist

English: Woody Guthrie, half-length portrait, ...

English: Woody Guthrie, half-length portrait, seated, facing front, playing a guitar that has a sticker attached reading: This Machine Kills Fascists Türkçe: Woody Guthrie, üzerinde “Bu makine faşistleri öldürür” yazan gitarıyla birlikte (8 Mart 1943). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

“When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.”

Woody Guthrie – 1912 – Musician

“This land is your land, this land is my land, From California to the New York Island.  From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters.  This land was made for you and me.”

Northrop Frye – 1912 – Critic

“Advertising – a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.”

Gerald R. Ford – 1913 – 38th President of the United States

“A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.”

Jerome Lawrence – 1915 – Playwright

“A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air.  A psychotic is the man who lives in it.  A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.”

Arthur Laurents – 1918 – Playwright

“Psychoanalysts and elephants, they never forget.”

Ingmar Bergman – 1918 – Director

“I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.”

Lee Friedlander – 1934 – Photographer

“I retired from everything except work.”

Bruce Oldfield – 1950 – Designer

“Don’t be limited by the expectations of others.  You can always be better and do more.”

Esther Dyson – 1951 – Scientist

“Change means that what was before wasn’t perfect.   People want things to be better.”

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July 13

English: John Clare (1793-1864), Poet.

English: John Clare (1793-1864), Poet. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

John Clare – 1793 – Poet

“The best way to avoid a bad action is by doing a good one, for there is no difficulty in the world like that of trying to do nothing.”

Isaac Babel – 1894 – Journalist

“No iron can pierce the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place.”

Charles Scribner, Jr. – 1921 – Publisher

“Reading is a means of thinking with another person’s mind; it forces you to stretch your own.”

Simone Veil – 1927 – Lawyer

“Pain is the root of knowledge.”

David Storey – 1933 – Novelist

“Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too.”

Wole Soyinka – 1934 – Dramatist

“And I believe the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.”

Jack Kemp – 1935 – Politician

“Winning is like shaving – you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum.”

Paul Prudhomme – 1940 – Chef

“Have fun.  Do something nobody else had done before, or has done since.”

Sir Patrick Stewart – 1940 – Actor and Writer

“I would like to see us get this place right first before we have the arrogance to put significantly flawed civilizations out onto other planets, even though they may be utterly uninhabited.”

Chef Paul Prudhomme

Chef Paul Prudhomme (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Robert Forester – 1941 – Actor

“If you deliver excellence right now, that gives you the best shot at the best future you’ve got coming.”

Harrison Ford – 1942 – Actor

“I’m like old shoes.  I’ve never been hip.  I think the reason I’m still here is that I was never enough in fashion that I had to be replaced by something new.”

Erno Rubik – 1944 – Inventor

“Our whole life is solving puzzles.”

Cheech Marin – 1946 – Comedian

“The reason we’re so dangerous is because we’re totally harmless.”

Ian Hislop – 1960 – Editor

“I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.”

Tom Kenny – 1962 – Actor

“You have to remember we’re just performers, that we seldom have any kind of grasp on real life.”

Jose Andres Puerta – 1969 – Chef

“Simple ingredients, treated with respect … put them together and you will always have a great dish.”

Carolyn Mackler – 1973 – Author

“Everything you do to other people affects them, and how you treat people affects them.”

Liu Xiang – 1983 – Athlete

“Challenges are meant to be met and overcome.”

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July 12

Drawing upside down - Andrew Wyeth

Drawing upside down – Andrew Wyeth (Photo credit: Ujwala Prabhu)

Claude Bernard – 1813- Psychologist

“It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.”

Henry David Thoreau – 1817- Poet

“Luck comes to all who work at making it happen.”

William Osler – 1849 – Scientist

“One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.”

George Eastman – 1854 – Businessman

“What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are.”

Max Jacob – 1876 – Poet

“Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn’t want to kill it.”

Oscar Hammerstein – 1895 – Writer

“If you don’t have a dream how are you going to make a dream come true?”

R. Buckminster Fuller – 1895 – Inventor

“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.”

Pablo Neruda – 1904 – Writer

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cdcovers/tchaikovsky/concerto no 1 van cliburn.jpg (Photo credit: exquisitur)

“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”

Milton Berle – 1908 – Comedian (Milton Berlinger)

“Motivation is when dreams put on work clothes.”

Willis Lamb – 1913 – Scientist

“You never find friends following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own.”

Andrew Wyeth – 1917 – Artist

“I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape.  Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn’t show.”

Pierre Berton – 1920 – Author

“Racism is a refuge for the ignorant.  It seeks to divide and destroy.  It is the enemy of freedom, and deserves to be met head-on and stamped out.”

Beah Richards – 1926 – Actress

“Heaven and earth!  How is it that bodies join but never meet?”

Van Cliburn – 1934 – Musician

“I’m not a success, I’m a sensation.”

Bill Cosby – 1937 – Actor and Writer

“I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children is the same reason that Napoleon had for invading Russia:  it seemed like a good idea at the time.”

Phillip Adams – 1939 – Writer

“Unless you’re willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won’t happen.”

John Lahr – 1941 – Critic

“Nobody has ever gone broke selling escape to the American public.”

Richard Simmons – 1948 – Celebrity

“Number one, like yourself.  Number two, you have to eat healthy.  And number three, you’ve got to squeeze your buns.  That’s my formula.”

Cheryl Ladd – 1951 – Actress

“You have to make peace with life.”

J. D. Hayworth – 1958 – Politician

“A fair question could be posted in this fashion:  If people are not obeying existing laws, what makes us think they would obey any new laws?”

Adam Johnson – 1967 – Writer

“I know it really sounds cheesy, but I did feel a duty to try to tell the stories of people who couldn’t speak for themselves.”

Lisa Nicole Carson – 1969 – Actress

“Life is a full meal.”

Kristi Yamaguchi – 1971 – Athlete

“They say, once you have a child, your heart is forever outside your body.  I totally understand that now.”

Cheyenne Jackson – 1975 – Actress

“I think having a dog makes you more compassionate.”

Michelle Rodriguez – 1978 – Actress

“The best part of making the movies … learning from the pros themselves.”

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