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"The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell."
Andrew Carnegie
(11/25/1835 08/11/1919)
Scottish-US industrialist, philanthropist
"I want all hellions to quit puffing that hell fume in God's clean air."
Carry Nation
(11/25/1846 06/09/1911)
US temperance fanatic
, on smoking
"About half."
Pope John XXIII
(11/25/1881 06/03/1963)
Italian Pope
, when asked how many people work in the Vatican
"Both the cockroach and the bird could get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most."
Joseph Wood Krutch
(11/25/1893 05/22/1970)
US naturalist, writer
"I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down."
Virgil Thomson
(11/25/1896 09/30/1989)
US composer
"Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment... They do everything but watch television."
Lewis Thomas
(11/25/1913 12/03/1993)
US physician, writer
"I can remember a reporter asking me for a quote, and I didn't know what a quote was. I thought it was some kind of soft drink."
Joe DiMaggio
(11/25/1914 03/08/1999)
US baseball player
(was married to Marilyn Monroe)
"I'm not a dictator. It's just that I have a grumpy face."
Augusto Pinochet
(11/25/1915 12/10/2006)
Chilean dictator
"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
(11/25/1926 07/31/2001)
US writer
"No one will do it for you."
Ben Stein
(11/25/1944 )
US speechwriter, actor, game show host
"July 13, 1954 was the most tragic day of my life. I had lost my beloved Frida forever....Too late now I realized that the most wonderful part of my life had been my love for Frida."
Diego Rivera
(12/08/1886 11/25/1957)
Mexican artist
"Research is an organized method for keeping you reasonably dissatisfied with what you have."
Charles F. Kettering
(08/29/1876 11/25/1958)
US inventor
"To be a good model, I'd need a lot more confidence... and more confidence to be more bare."
Jill Hennessy
(11/25/1968 )
Canadian actor
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
Upton Sinclair
(09/20/1878 11/25/1968)
US writer
"How do you survive Christmas? You drink a lot. And drink a lot, right. Drink a lot and drink a lot."
Christina Applegate
(11/25/1971 )
US actor
"Laugh, and the world laughs with you; snore, and you sleep alone."
Anthony Burgess
(02/25/1917 11/25/1993)
English writer
("A Clockwork Orange")
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