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"Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem."

John Galsworthy
(08/14/1867 – 01/31/1933)
English writer

"About as modest as Mussolini."

David Crosby
(08/14/1941 – )
US singer, songwriter (Byrds, CSNY) , on Joni Mitchell

"I believe that Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was—an Arctic region covered with ice."

Steve Martin
(08/14/1945 – )
US comic, actor, director, writer

"My advice is, don't spend money on therapy. Spend it in a record store."

Wim Wenders
(08/14/1945 – )
German director

"A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it."

Danielle Steel
(08/14/1947 – )
US writer

"I never liked my own species."

Gary Larson
(08/14/1950 – )
US cartoonist (The Far Side)

"A politician will do anything to keep his job—even become a patriot."

William Randolph Hearst
(04/29/1863 – 08/14/1951)
US newspaper magnate (LTR with Marion Davies)

"Grub first, then ethics."

Bertolt Brecht
(02/10/1898 – 08/14/1956)
German playwright

"They said playing basketball would kill me. Well, not playing basketball was killing me."

"Magic" Johnson
(08/14/1959 – )
US basketball player

"A good role for a woman is hard to come by—be she black, white, or sky-blue pink."

Halle Berry
(08/14/1968 – )
US actor

"Our loss is their loss."

Oscar Levant
(12/27/1906 – 08/14/1972)
US composer, pianist , on Milton Berle becoming a Christian Scientist

"God knows she had plenty of practice."

J. B. Priestly
(09/13/1894 – 08/14/1984)
English writer , hearing that Mrs. Shaw was a 'good listener'

"I never thought that much about my playing. I was adequate."

Roy Buchanan
(09/23/1939 – 08/14/1988)
US guitarist

"People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation."

Elias Canetti
(07/25/1905 – 08/14/1994)
Bulgarian writer

"We must be part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulance drivers at the bitter end."

Lane Kirkland
(03/12/1922 – 08/14/1999)
US union leader , on labor disputes

"If you really think about the horror of the world, the only suitable attitude seems to be to reject it."

Czeslaw Milosz
(06/30/1911 – 08/14/2004)
Lithuanian writer

"I truly believe that God has healed me, and one day the doctors will say to me ‘You can stop the medication now because you are healed’."

Clare Marie Bowe
(06/06/1975 – 08/14/2007)
English daughter of friend of the quotekeeper

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