- Sir Isaac Newton
(12/25/1642 – 03/20/1727)
English scientist
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"I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people."
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"The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me."
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"All the American women had purple noses and gray lips and their faces were chalk white from terrible powder. I recognized that the United States could be my life's work."
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"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit."
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"My audience was my life. What I did and how I did it, was all for my audience."
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"When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?'"
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| "It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper." |  |
| "As life's pleasures go, food is second only to sex. Except for salami and eggs. Now that's better than sex, but only if the salami is thickly sliced." |  |
"I couldn't act, but I could swing through the trees."
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"No person is important enough to make me angry."
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"[My daughter loves playing] cowpersons and Indians."
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"Truth is stranger than fishin'."
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| "You don't forget the movies, but you forget the details of them." |  |
"As people do better, they start voting like Republicans—unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing."
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"Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death."
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| "Bush doesn’t know the names of countries, he doesn’t know the names of foreign leaders, he can’t even find the Earth on a globe." |  |
"In modelling, there is no point in trying to prove you have a brain, so why even bother? I'd sooner save the energy for something more meaningful."
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| Died 12/24 | Died 12/25 | Died 12/26 | Death Dates |