- George Washington Carver
(01/05/1864 – 01/05/1903)
US agricultural chemist (died on birthday)
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"When I was young, I said to God, 'God, tell me the mystery of the universe.' But God answered, 'that knowledge is for me alone.' So I said, 'God, tell me the mystery of the peanut.' Then God said, 'Well, George, that's more nearly your size.'"
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"An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured."
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"The secret of a successful newspaper is to take one story each day and bang the hell out of it. Give the public what it wants to have and part of what it ought to have whether it wants it or not."
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"Maria Montez has a dual personality: one for Hollywood and another as a mother and a wife... that woman is full of simplicity, culture and romance with an overflowing humanity."
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"What was once thought can never be unthought."
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"I don't want to spend the next two years in Holiday Inns."
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"Let's build a monument for the veto. Let's build a monument for impotence and incapacity."
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| "I'm attracted to long-legged girls with long arms and a little head." |  |
| "I'm better than Olivier." |  |
"I felt like poisoning a monk."
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"Some coaches pray for wisdom. I pray for 260-pound tackles. They'll give me plenty of wisdom."
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| "I have a professional acquaintance whose recent eyelid job has left her with a permanent expression of such poleaxed astonishment that she looks at all times as if she had just read one of my books." |
"Nothing important has ever come out of San Francisco, Rice-a-Roni aside."
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"I think that people who are famous tend to be underdeveloped in their humanity skills."
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"One of those Canadian proverbs."
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| "Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best." |  |
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