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"Have no friends not equal to yourself."

Confucius
(09/28/0555 – ?/?/0479 BC)
Chinese philosopher

"Oh, to be seventy again!"

Georges Clemenceau
(09/28/1841 – 11/24/1929)
French PM

"It does make a difference what you call things."

Kate Douglas Wiggin
(09/28/1856 – 08/24/1923)
US writer (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm), educator

"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."

Herman Melville
(08/01/1819 – 09/28/1891)
US writer

"Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism."

Louis Pasteur
(12/27/1822 – 09/28/1895)
French scientist

"Who can refute a sneer?"

William S. Paley
(09/28/1901 – 10/26/1990)
US radio, TV magnate (founded CBS)

"If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. It transcends all barriers."

Ed Sullivan
(09/28/1902 – 10/13/1974)
US TV host

"If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity."

Emile Zola
(04/02/1840 – 09/28/1902)
French writer

"Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed if necessary."

Al Capp
(09/28/1909 – 11/05/1979)
US cartoonist (Li'l Abner)

"They come for you in the morning in a limousine; they take you to the studio; they stick a pretty girl in your arms... They call that a profession? Come on!"

Marcello Mastroianni
(09/28/1924 – 12/19/1996)
Italian actor

"I wish I had invented sex. Sex is number one."

Brigitte Bardot
(09/28/1934 – )
French actor (was married to Roger Vadim)

"I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half-empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth."

Janeane Garofalo
(09/28/1964 – )
US comic, actor (SNL)

"...As I walked, a long-forgotten voice came out of my past. Miss Flatto. Miss Flatto, wiggling her finger at my nose and saying, ‘Some day you’ll realize, young man! Some day you’ll realize!’..."

Harpo Marx
(11/23/1888 – 09/28/1964)
US comic actor (Marx Brothers: Groucho, Chico, Harpo, Zeppo, Gummo)

"The simplest Surrealist act consists of dashing down into the street, pistol in hand, and firing blindly, as fast as you can pull the trigger, into the crowd."

André Breton
(02/18/1896 – 09/28/1966)
French surrealist writer

"When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die."

Lillian Smith
(12/12/1897 – 09/28/1966)
US writer

"There's a side of my personality that goes completely against the East Coast educated person and wants to be a pin-up girl in garages across America... there's a side that wants to wear the pink angora bikini!"

Mira Sorvino
(09/28/1967 – )
US actor

"There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it."

Naomi Watts
(09/28/1968 – )
English-Australian actor

"Marxism has not only failed to promote human freedom, it has failed to produce food."

John Dos Passos
(01/14/1896 – 09/28/1970)
US writer

"Beauty, to me, is about being comfortable in your own skin. That, or a kick-ass red lipstick."

Gwyneth Paltrow
(09/28/1972 – )
US actor (daughter of Blythe Danner and Bruce Paltrow)

"The trouble with nude dancing is that not everything stops when the music stops."

Sir Robert Helpmann
(04/09/1909 – 09/28/1986)
Australian dancer and actor , on the musical "Oh! Calcutta!"

"If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!"

Miles Davis
(05/25/1926 – 09/28/1991)
US jazz great (was married to Cicely Tyson)

"Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain."

Pierre Trudeau
(10/18/1919 – 09/28/2000)
Canadian Prime Minister (15) (was married to Margaret)

"No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you."

Althea Gibson
(08/27/1927 – 09/28/2003)
US tennis player

"There's a normal sadness about hurting people, but I'd rather hurt them a little than hurt myself a lot."

Elia Kazan
(09/07/1909 – 09/28/2003)
Constantinople-born filmmaker , on naming names in HUAC hearings

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