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"I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all."

Marie Antoinette
(11/02/1755 – 10/16/1795)
Austria-born French royalty

"The passion for office among members of Congress is very great, if not absolutely disreputable, and greatly embarrasses the operations of the Government. They create offices by their own votes and then seek to fill them themselves."

James K. Polk
(11/02/1795 – 06/15/1849)
US President (11) (see all US Presidents)

"I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damned good word with which to carry an election."

Warren G. Harding
(11/02/1865 – 08/02/1923)
US President (29) (was married to Florence Kling Harding; see all US Presidents)

"It seems that boredom is one of the greatest discoveries of our time. If so, there's no question but that he must be considered a pioneer."

Luchino Visconti
(11/02/1906 – 03/17/1976)
Italian director , on Michelangelo Antonioni

"Most people seem to think I'm the kind of guy who shaves with a blowtorch. Actually I'm bookish and worrisome."

Burt Lancaster
(11/02/1915 – 10/20/1994)
US actor

"We have probed the earth, excavated it, burned it, ripped things from it, buried things in it. That does not fit my definition of a good tenant. If we were here on a month-to-month basis, we would have been evicted long ago."

Rose Bird
(11/02/1936 – 12/04/1999)
Chief Justice (CA)

"Bill Clinton's foreign policy experience stems mainly from having breakfast at the International House of Pancakes."

Pat Buchanan
(11/02/1938 – )
US columnist

"They say that a good cook can ignite sparks by the way he kisses. The way I see, just because a guy can turn on the stove doesn't necessarily make him a good cook."

Stefanie Powers
(11/02/1942 – )
US actor

"A woman whose face looked as if it had been made out of sugar and someone had licked it."

George Bernard Shaw
(07/26/1856 – 11/02/1950)
Famous English author and literary smart guy , on Isadora Duncan

"If you knew how meat was made, you'd probably lose your lunch. I know—I'm from cattle country. That's why I became a vegetarian."

k. d. lang
(11/02/1961 – )
US singer

"Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead."

James Thurber
(12/08/1894 – 11/02/1961)
US writer

"The greatest comedies that were made by anybody were made in two reels, I don't care who it was."

Hal Roach
(01/14/1892 – 11/02/1992)
US filmmaker

"I really like to create the sound of a choir the most. If you could see what the sound of it looks like when I shut my eyes and listen, you'd see the sound as angels spanning across the universe."

Eva Cassidy
(02/02/1963 – 11/02/1996)
US singer

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