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"I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves."

Lord Chesterfield
(09/22/1694 – 03/24/1773)
English statesman

"Why, sir, there is every possibility that you will soon be able to tax it!"

Michael Faraday
(09/22/1791 – 08/25/1867)
English scientist , to PM William Gladstone, on the usefulness of electricity

"I won't go up in a plane, but if a play crashes, I'll jump into the next one that comes along and take it up for a spin."

Paul Muni
(09/22/1895 – 08/25/1967)
Austro-Hungarian actor , same birth and death dates as Faraday

"If he raced his pregnant wife he'd finish third."

Tommy Lasorda
(09/22/1927 – )
US baseball coach , on catcher Mike Scioscia

"Men are irrelevant."

Fay Weldon
(09/22/1931 – )
English writer

"I want to write songs that are so sad, the kind of sad where you take someone's little finger and break it in three places."

Nick Cave
(09/22/1957 – )
US musician (Bad Seeds)

"During the 'whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa's' in 'Combination Of the Two,' I couldn't help but go to the mirror and pretend I was a wild woman like Janis, in a rock band."

Joan Jett
(09/22/1958 – )
US singer

"Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble and that was the end of that."

Marion Davies
(01/03/1897 – 09/22/1961)
US actor (LTR with William Randolph Hearst)

"What will the preachers do when the Devil is saved?"

Dave Gardner
(06/11/1926 – 09/22/1983)
US comic

"The world would not be in such a snarl,
had Marx been Groucho instead of Karl."

Irving Berlin
(05/11/1888 – 09/22/1989)
US composer , telegram on Groucho's 71st birthday (shown with Bing and the Andrews Sisters)

"Glamour is just sex that got civilized."

Dorothy Lamour
(12/10/1914 – 09/22/1996)
US actor , just glamour without the 'g'

"The [Academy Awards] ceremonies are a two-hour meat parade, a public display with contrived suspense for economic reasons."

George C. Scott
(10/18/1927 – 09/22/1999)
US actor (was married to Colleen Dewhurst, Trish Van Devere; father with Dewhurst of Campbell Scott)

"He taught me to teach myself, which is the greatest thing a teacher can do."

Isaac Stern
(07/21/1920 – 09/22/2001)
Russian-US musician , on his music teacher Naoum Blinder

"Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?"

Marcel Marceau
(03/22/1923 – 09/22/2007)
French mime

"It isn't the music that people remember most about me. It's the women."

Eddie Fisher
(08/10/1928 – 09/22/2010)
US actor , father (with Reynolds) of Carrie Fisher, was also married to Elizabeth Taylor, Connie Stevens, and two others

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