BORN TODAY

[Kat]

Born 07/09 Born 07/10 Birth Dates

"I had a veritable mania for finishing whatever I began, which often got me into difficulties. On one occasion I started to read the works of Voltaire when I learned, to my dismay, that there were close on one hundred large volumes in small print which that monster had written while drinking seventy-two cups of black coffee per diem. It had to be done, but when I laid aside the last book I was very glad, and said, 'Never more!'"

* Nikola Tesla
(07/09 (or 07/10)/1856 – 01/07/1943)
Serbian-US inventor

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"Every now and then we discover in the seething mass of humanity round us a person who does not seem to need anybody else, and the contrast with ourselves is stinging."

* Ernest Dimnet
(07/09/1866 – ??/??/1954)
French religious guy
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"Fear grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light."

* Dorothy Thompson
(07/09/1894 – 01/30/1961)
US writer
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"After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down."

* Dame Barbara Cartland
(07/09/1901 – 05/21/2000)
English novelist
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"I am not a product of privilege, I am a product of opportunity."

* Sir Edward Heath
(07/09/1919 – )
English Prime Minister (47)
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"Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business."


* Donald Rumsfeld
(07/08/1932 – )
US executive, politico
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"In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways."


* June Jordan
(07/09/1936 – )
US writer
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"If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed."

* David Hockney
(07/09/1937 – )
English artist
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"I'd give Charles Darwin videotapes of 'Geraldo,' 'Beavis and Butt-head' and 'The McLaughlin Group.' I would be interested in seeing if he still believes in evolution."

* Dean R. Koontz
(07/09/1945 – )
US writer, on what gift he'd like to present to another writer, living or dead
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"Fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a permanent loser."

* O. J. Simpson
(07/09/1947 – )
US football player, actor, murderer
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"If you can feel like a good man in your 40s, you can feel like a better man in your 50s, a Superman in your 60s, and maybe a Spider-Man in your 70s."

* Tom Hanks
(07/09/1956 – )
US actor
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"F*** yeah, man! I'm a rock star girl!"

* Courtney Love
(07/09/1964 – )
US singer (Hole, Smashing Pumpkins); also see Billy Corgan, D'Arcy Wretzky, James Iha, Melissa auf der Maur, and Jimmy Chamberlain

http://www.born-today.com/Today/07-09.htm

[Kat]

"We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too."

* John Calvin
(07/10/1509 – 05/27/1564)
French theologian
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"Come away; poverty's catching."

* Aphra Behn
(07/10/1640 – 04/16/1689)
English writer
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"It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer."

* Sir William Blackstone
(07/10/1723 – 02/14/1780)
English jurist
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"Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind. "

* Robert Chambers
(07/10/1802 – 03/17/1871)
Scottish writer
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"I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring."

* James McNeil Whistler
(07/10/1834 – 07/17/1903)
US artist
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"Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals."

* Finley Peter Dunne
(07/10/1867 – 04/24/1936)
Irish writer
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"A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has the ticket that shows its price."

* Marcel Proust
(07/10/1871 – 11/19/1922)
French writer
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"John Stuart Mill
By a mighty effort of will
Overcame his natural bonhomie
And wrote 'Principles of Political Economy'."

* Edmund Clerihew Bentley
(07/10/1875 – 03/30/1956)
English writer
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"The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were."

* David Brinkley
(07/10/1920 – )
US TV news anchor
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"Even though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink for a living."

* Jean Kerr
(07/10/1923 – 01/05/2003)
US writer, humorist "Please Don't Eat the Daisies"
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"I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law."

* David Dinkins
(07/10/1927 – )
US mayor (NYC), on accusations that he failed to pay taxes
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"From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life."

* Arthur Ashe
(07/10/1943 – 02/06/1993)
US tennis pro
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"You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in."

* Arlo Guthrie
(07/10/1947 – )
US singer-songwriter (Woody's son)
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"If I wasn't talking, I wouldn't know what to say."

* Chico Resch
(07/10/1958 – )
US hockey player
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"We look like K-Mart rock 'n rollers, you know, the discount clothes stores where all the hicks go."

* Kim Deal
(07/10/1961 – )
US singer, songwriter (Pixies, Breeders, Amps)

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"Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order."

* John Quincy Adams
(07/11/1767 – 02/23/1848)
US President (6) (son of John Adams; see all US Presidents)
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"Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don't know which half."

* John Wanamaker
(07/11/1838 – 12/12/1922)
US merchant
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"My work is done, why wait?"

* George Eastman
(07/11/1854 – 03/14/1942)
US inventor, suicide note
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Mother: "It's broccoli, dear."
Child: "I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it."

* E. B. White
(07/11/1899 – 10/01/1985)
US writer, grammarian
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"Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb."

* Yul Brynner
(07/11/1920 – 10/10/1985)
Russian actor
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"I refuse to slap some stupid words on the stupid paper just so we have a stupid song finished."

* Suzanne Vega
(07/11/1959 – )
US singer-songwriter

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"He appears to have been called 'The Little Giant' more because he was little than because he was a giant."

* Irving Stone
(07/14/1903 – 08/26/1989)
US writer, on Stephen Douglas
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"The waste basket is the writer's best friend."

* Isaac Bashevis Singer
(07/14/1904 – 07/24/1991)
Polish writer
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"The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book."

* Northrop Frye
(07/14/1912 – 01/23/1991)
Canadian writer
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"California is a garden of Eden, a paradise to live in or see,
But believe it or not, you won't find it so hot If you ain't got the do re mi."

* Woody Guthrie
(07/14/1912 – 10/03/1967)
US sing, songwriter (Arlo's dad)
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"Ronald Reagan doesn't dye his hair, he's just prematurely orange."

* Gerald Ford
(07/14/1913 – )
US President (38), VP (40) (see all US Presidents; US VPs)
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"Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying."

* Ingmar Bergman
(07/14/1918 – )
Swedish film director
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"The perfect lover is one who turns into a pizza at 4:00 A.M."

* Charles Pierce
(07/14/1926 – 05/31/1999)
US comic
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Looks like Arlo was born July 10th, and Woody July 14th.
We're getting closer to July 19th!