Born Today - October 17

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Earl of Sandwich: "I am convinced, Mr. Wilkes, that you will die either of a pox or on the gallows."
John Wilkes: "That depends, my lord, on whether I embrace your mistress or your principles."
(10/17/1725 – 12/26/1797)
English statesman

"American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or can be so easily divorced."

Elinor Glyn
(10/17/1864 – 09/23/1943)
English writer

"Music exists for the purpose of growing an admirable heart."

Shinichi Suzuki
(10/17/1898 – 01/26/1998)
Japanese violinist, teacher

"If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder."

Pope John Paul I
(10/17/1912 – 09/29/1978)
Pope

"The word 'now' is like a bomb through the window, and it ticks."

Arthur Miller
(10/17/1915 – 02/10/2005)
US playwright (was married to Marilyn Monroe)

"I tried to be a good listener. I decided that was what she wanted all along—not so much a friend as an audience."

June Allyson
(10/17/1917 – 07/08/2006)
US actor (was married to Dick Powell), on Joan Crawford

"Men go to bed with Gilda, but wake up with me."

Rita Hayworth
(10/17/1918 – 05/14/1987)
US movie star (was married to Orson Welles), on her role in the movie "Gilda"

"Look, if you're playing Romeo and your Juliet is a pig, you find something you can love about pigs!"

Montgomery Clift
(10/17/1920 – 07/23/1966)
US actor

"Nixon is a purposeless man, but I have great faith in his cowardice."

Jimmy Breslin
(10/17/1930 – )
US writer

"I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated."

Poul Anderson
(10/17/1932 – 08/15/1994)
US writer

"When we've done it—and this sounds like I'm talking about sex, doesn't it?—we've done it every way you can."

Michael McKean
(10/17/1947 – )
US comic actor (Spinal Tap, SNL), on writing songs with his wife

"God, George Bush makes me want to slash my wrists. He's so embarrassing I have to leave the room when he's on the news. What a monkey."

Margot Kidder
(10/17/1948 – )
Canadian actor

"I not only get recognized—I get recognized from behind."

George Wendt
(10/17/1948 – )
US actor

"We live in a time when nearly everything can be summed up in ones and zeroes, right? And that causes a certain amount of despair."

Dolph Lundgren
(10/17/1959 – )
Swedish actor/chemical engineer

"I don't think people come home from work thinking, 'I want to be shocked and startled.' You want to check in with your favorite characters, and it's nice knowing they're not going to change that much."

Mike Judge
(10/17/1962 – )
Ecuadorian cartoonist, on his show "King of the Hill"

"I was in my peak physical condition when I was about like, uh. . . one. Oh God, I looked good, young and fresh! You wouldn't know me now if you'd seen me when I was one, you know? I even looked good for my age. People would come up to me and go, 'what are you, zero?' And I'd go, 'no, I'm one over here!'"

Norm Macdonald
(10/17/1963 – )
Canadian comic, actor (SNL)

"Don't do drugs, don't have unprotected sex, don't be violent. Leave that to me."

Eminem
(10/17/1972 – )
US rapper

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