- Dame Nellie Melba
(05/19/1861 – 02/23/1931)
Australian opera singer
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"Music is not written in red, white and blue. It is written in the heart's blood of the composer."
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"One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time."
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"Peace at home, peace in the world."
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"History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals."
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"All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. . . . religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need."
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| "The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely." |  |
"[A successful parent is one] who raises a child who grows up and is able to pay for his or her own psychoanalysis."
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| "I smash guitars because I like them." |  |
"I once told this writer a story about how I met the guys in an elevator and found out we all had the same last name, so we decided to form a band."
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"I did advertise for a holiday companion—capable widow, no sense of humour, some knowledge of haemorrhoids preferred—not a reply."
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"You can pitch a gem and lose, but you can't lose when you win. Wait, don't quote me on that. I sound like Yogi Berra."
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| Died 05/18 | Died 05/19 | Died 05/20 | Death Dates |