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"As to the presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and my surrender of it."

Martin Van Buren
(12/05/1782 – 07/24/1862)
US President (8), VP (8) (see all US Presidents, VPs)

"Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance."

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
(01/27/1756 – 12/05/1791)
Austrian composer

"The downhill path is easy, but there's no turning back."

Christina Rossetti
(12/05/1830 – 12/29/1894)
English poet (sister of Dante Gabriel Rossetti)

"While gripinge grefes ye hart would wounde,
And dolefulle domps ye mynde oppresse,
There musicke with her silver sound,
Is wont with spede to send redresse."

Alexandre Dumas Père
(07/24/1802 – 12/05/1870)
French writer (father of Alexandre Dumas Fils [duh!])

"Even for the physicist the description in plain language will be a criterion of the degree of understanding that has been reached."

Werner Karl Heisenberg
(12/05/1901 – 02/01/1976)
German physicist

"I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I've ever known."

Walt Disney
(12/05/1901 – 12/15/1966)
US filmmaker

"All the laws of Washington and all the bayonets of the Army cannot force the Negro into our homes, our schools, our churches."

Strom Thurmond
(12/05/1906 – 06/26/2003)
US senator (SC), bigot, and hypocrite , in 1948

"A vacuum with nipples."

Otto Preminger
(12/05/1906 – 04/23/1986)
Austrian director , on Marilyn Monroe

"The hardest thing in the world is to start an orchestra, and the next hardest, to stop it."

Hans Richter
(04/04/1843 – 12/05/1916)
Hungarian conductor

"I am following Nature without being able to grasp her. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers."

Claude Monet
(11/14/1840 – 12/05/1926)
French painter (Manet is here)

"Elvis may have been the king of rock'n'roll, but I am the queen."

Little Richard
(12/05/1932 – )
US singer, pianist, hall of famer

"California: The west coast of Iowa."

Joan Didion
(12/05/1934 – )
US writer (was married to John Gregory Dunne)

"The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found."

Calvin Trillin
(12/05/1935 – )
US writer

"My boyfriend and I live together, which means we don't have sex—ever. Now that the milk is free, we've both become lactose intolerant."

Margaret Cho
(12/05/1968 – )
US-Korean comic

"Let's face it, sports writers, we're not hanging around with brain surgeons."

Jimmy Cannon
(??/??/1910 – 12/05/1973)
English writer

"I try to avoid the sweet-ass roles."

Nick Stahl
(12/05/1979 – )
US actor

"Dewey is so old, Michael Jackson stopped watching."

Frankie Muniz
(12/05/1984 – )
US actor , on his 'Malcolm in the Middle' costar aging

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