April 17 Birthdays

Nikita Krushchev
Biography

Author Profession: Soviet leader
Born: 1894-04-17
Died: 1971-09-11

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Nikita Krushchev

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
Jennifer Garner
Biography

Author Profession: US Actress
Born: 1972-04-17
Died: —

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Jennifer Garner

My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we stop and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset, I hear my mothers voice and smile.
Chavela Vargas
Biography

Author Profession: Costa Rican Musician
Born: 1919-04-17
Died: 2012-08-05

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Chavela Vargas

When you like something, you should do it all night long.
Nick Hornby
Biography

Author Profession: Literature & Fiction, Entertainment edit data
Born: 1957-04-17
Died: —

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Nick Hornby

People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos, we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss. Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
Harold Feinstein
Biography

Author Profession: US Photographer
Born: 1931-04-17
Died: 2015-06-20

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Harold Feinstein

Coney Island is and always will be the peoples playground. Its a place where people of all backgrounds come to have a good time.
Karen Blixen
Biography

Author Profession: Literature & Fiction edit data Karen Christence Dinesen, Baroness Blixen-Finecke - wrote as Isak Dinesen, Pierre Andrezel, other pseudonyms: Tania Blixen, Osceola, etc.A Danish writer
Born: 1885-04-17
Died: 1962-09-07

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Karen Blixen

I know of a cure for everything: salt water...in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea. Karen Blixen
Olivia Hussey
Biography

Author Profession: British Actress
Born: 1951-04-17
Died: —

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Olivia Hussey

When I was a little girl, I used to walk around with a towel on my head, pretending I was a nun. And then one day my mother said, Why dont you just become an actress, and then you can pretend youre a nun.
Henry Vaughan
Biography

Author Profession: Welsh Poet
Born: 1622-04-17
Died: 1695-04-28

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Henry Vaughan

They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.
Jan Hammer
Biography

Author Profession: Musician
Born: 1948-04-17
Died: —

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Jan Hammer

Emotions are the fuel to really move you along - thats the only way you can create music. If you dont feel any emotions, its not going to happen.
Maiwenn
Biography

Author Profession: French Actress
Born: 1976-04-17
Died: —

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Maiwenn

You can watch Chanel fashion shows and watch the news. Fortunately you dont have to choose. I always vote, I go to rallies, but I also go to fashion shows.
Miguel Cabrera
Biography

Author Profession: Venezuelan Athlete
Born: 1983-04-17
Died: —

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Miguel Cabrera

If you go to a game nervous, you make a mistake.
Nicholas D'Agosto
Biography

Author Profession: US Actor
Born: 1980-04-17
Died: —

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Nicholas D'Agosto

Im realizing for the first time, your life goes on while youre trying to pursue this career. I saw my career as everything. But you have this life, too. Living your life fully, you come to know yourself better. Youll find the place for it.
Ray Stannard Baker
Biography

Author Profession: US Journalist
Born: 1870-04-17
Died: 1946-07-12

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Ray Stannard Baker

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.
Cynthia Ozick
Biography

Author Profession: Literature & Fiction, Short Stories edit data
Born: 1928-04-17
Died: —

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Cynthia Ozick

We take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude. Cynthia Ozick
William Gilmore Simms
Biography

Author Profession: US writer
Born: 1806-04-17
Died: 1870-06-11

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William Gilmore Simms

The proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly exploded in the air.
Artur Schnabel
Biography

Author Profession: Austrian pianist, composer
Born: 1882-04-17
Died: 1951-08-15

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Artur Schnabel

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes ah, that is where the art resides.
Isak Dinesen
Biography

Author Profession: Danish writer
Born: 1885-04-17
Died: 1962-09-07

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Isak Dinesen

What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning, with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine?
William H. Holden
Biography

Author Profession: US actor
Born: 1918-04-17
Died: 1981-11-16

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William H. Holden

Hell is paved with Good Samaritans.
Liz Phair
Biography

Author Profession: US singer, songwriter
Born: 1967-04-17
Died: —

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Liz Phair

Madonna is the speedboat, and the rest of us are just the Go-Gos on water skis.

April 17 Birthdays