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"I would not have gotten [to Congress] if I had not been as persistent as a hound dog worrying a bone."

Gracie Pfost
(03/12/1906 – 08/11/1965)
US Representative (ID)

"In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination."

Irving Layton
(03/12/1912 – 01/04/2006)
Romanian-Canadian writer

"If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves."

Lane Kirkland
(03/12/1922 – 08/14/1999)
US union leader

"It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on."

Jack Kerouac
(03/12/1922 – 10/21/1969)
US writer

"I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you."

Edward Albee
(03/12/1928 – )
US playwright

"There's not a day when somebody doesn't smile and say, 'Oh, you're Agent 99.' I like being in a world that regards me in a friendly way."

Barbara Feldon
(03/12/1932 – )
US actor

"Nothing is illegal if a hundred businessmen decide to do it."

Andrew Young
(03/12/1932 – )
US mayor (Atlanta)

"Smoking is one of the leading causes of all statistics."

Liza Minnelli
(03/12/1946 – )
US entertainer (daughter of Judy Garland and Vincente Minnelli; was married to Peter Allen)

"I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play every day."

James Taylor
(03/12/1948 – )
US singer, songwriter (was married to Carly Simon)

"Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn."

Charlie Parker
(08/29/1920 – 03/12/1955)
US jazz great

"Playing Shakespeare is very tiring. You never get to sit down unless you're a king."

Josephine Hull
(01/03/1884 – 03/12/1957)
US actor

"If you've got a good vibrato, you can get away with a lot."

Sonny Terry
(10/24/1904 – 03/12/1986)
US harmonica player

"I'd rather have sex with a raccoon."

Morton Downey, Jr.
(12/09/1933 – 03/12/2001)
US talk show host, actor, composer (wrote Wipe Out and Pipeline!) , on smoking

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