- Denis Diderot
(10/05/1713 – 07/30/1784)
French philosopher, encyclopedist
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"I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out."
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"Well, there doesn't seem anything else for an ex-President to do but to go into the country and raise big pumpkins."
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"There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me."
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"It was not her sex appeal but the obvious relish with which she devoured the hamburger that made my pulse begin to hammer with excitement."
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"The pain goes away on payday."
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| "Not since Atilla the Hun swept across Europe leaving 500 years of total blackness has there been a man like Lee Marvin." |
"People who spend most of their natural lives riding iron bicycles over the rocky roadsteads of this parish get their personalities mixed up with the personalities of their bicycles as a result of the interchanging of the atoms of each of them and you would be surprised at the number of people in these parts who nearly are half people and half bicycles."
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"Boiled down to essentials, she is a plain mortal with large feet."
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"Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."
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"Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple."
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"Music can't change the world."
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"Everybody is a book of blood. Wherever we're opened, we're red."
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"If you don't learn history accurately, how can you learn?"
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"As far as his love numbers go, I'm afraid someone who sings like he's got a throat infection is not going to get me smooching."
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"Titanic was never a burden. I am amazed that I was involved in a movie of such epic proportions. It is wonderful to be in India, for example, in the foothills of the Himalayas, and to have an 80-year-old man come up to me and, through squinted eyes, say 'Titanic.'"
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| Died 10/04 | Died 10/05 | Died 10/06 | Death Dates |