- Jean-Baptiste Colbert
(08/29/1619 – 09/06/1683)
French statesman
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"The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least amount of hissing."
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"Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip."
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"You may have genius. The contrary is, of course, probable."
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"We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us."
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"My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there."
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| "A pretty girl is better than a plain one A leg is better than an arm A bedroom is better than a living room An arrival is better that a departure A birth is better than a death A chase is better than a chat A dog is better than a landscape A kitten is better than a dog A baby is better than a kitten A kiss is better than a baby A pratfall is better than anything." |
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"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous."
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"Perfectionists are their own devils."
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"Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you."
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| "Elizabeth Taylor looks like two small boys fighting underneath a mink blanket." |  |
"The National Museum of Photography, Film and Television is tremendously important, both in photography, television, and film."
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"By the time a film of mine makes it into the theatres, I have a love-hate relationship with it. There is always something I could have done to make it better."
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"Why am I running for president? Well, my wife, Cindy, says it is because I sustained several severe blows to the head in prison camp."
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"I was changing a light bulb over Groucho Marx's bed, so I took my shoes off, got on his bed and changed the bulb. When I got off the bed he said: 'That's the best acting you've ever done.'"
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"I don't know if prison is good for everybody, but it did me a lot of good."
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"If I wasn't a musician, I would be a serial killer."
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"I was a veteran before I was a teenager."
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| Died 08/28 | Died 08/29 | Died 08/30 | Death Dates |