- Pierre Auguste Renoir
(02/25/1841 – 12/17/1919)
French artist (father of Jean Renoir)
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"When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished."
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"It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear."
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"I'll take Vesuvius!"
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"The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year."
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"One has to look out for engineers—they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb."
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"Thousands upon thousands of persons have studied disease. Almost no one has studied health."
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| "Cesar Romero would attend the opening of a napkin." |  |
"He said it was artificial respiration, but
now I find I am to have his child."
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"If I can't play for big money, I play for a little money. And if I can't play for a little money, I stay in bed that day."
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| "To take my work seriously would be the height of folly." |  |
| "A gossip is someone who talks to you about others, a bore is someone who talks to you about himself, and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself." |
| "One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you." |  |
"If you're a horse, and someone gets on you, and falls off, and then gets right back on you, I think you should buck him off right away."
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"You can't be a politician with a guitar."
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"We were called The Toilets originally—we were flushed with success."
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"I don't do T&A very well because I haven't got much of either."
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| "I was told I had to gain a lot of weight because Hobbits are very portly. Peter [Jackson] is forever suggesting I have more food. 'A little more food for Mr. Astin.'" |  |
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| Died 02/24 | Died 02/25 | Died 02/26 | Death Dates |