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"If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down, these women together ought to be able to turn it right side up again."
Sojourner Truth
(11/18/1797 11/26/1883)
US abolitionist
"A little kindness from person to person is better than a vast love for all humankind."
Richard Dehmel
(11/18/1863 02/08/1920)
German writer
"You can't sweep people off their feet if you can't be swept off your own."
Clarence Day
(11/18/1874 12/28/1935)
US writer
"I am one of those unfortunates to whom death is less hideous than explanations."
Wyndham Lewis
(11/18/1882 03/07/1957)
English artist
"I don't think we had better go into the minute secrets of the campaign, so far as I know them, because I see the reporters are present, who are taking it all down."
Chester Allen Arthur
(10/05/1830 11/18/1886)
US President (21), VP (20)
(see all US Presidents, VPs)
"I believe in Success,
And in Comfort no less
I believe all the rest is but patter."
William Allingham
(03/19/1824 11/18/1889)
Irish writer
"I could eat alphabet soup and sh*t better lyrics."
Johnny Mercer
(11/18/1909 06/25/1976)
US songwriter
, on an unknown musical
"If you're looking for youth, you're looking for longevity, just take a dose of rock 'n' roll. It keeps you going. Just like the caffeine in your coffee. Rock 'n' roll is good for the soul, for the well being, for the psyche, for your everything. I love it. I can't even picture being without rock 'n' roll."
Hank Ballard
(11/18/1927 03/02/2003)
US singer, songwriter, Twister
"We're all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around, enjoying consciousness every now and then for a second or so before splitting up to become bits and pieces of trees and stars and french fries."
Alan Dean Foster
(11/18/1948 )
US writer
"I would kill the clone. That would be my first response."
Elizabeth Perkins
(11/18/1960 )
US actor
, on how she'd react if she encountered an unexpected identical twin
"My life is so full of surprises, nothing surprises me any more."
Kim Wilde
(11/18/1960 )
English singer
"We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough."
Niels Bohr
(10/07/1885 11/18/1962)
Danish mathematician
"A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him."
Man Ray
(08/27/1890 11/18/1976)
US artist, photographer
"You hear about the Duke Ellingtons, the Jimmie Luncefords, and the Fletcher Hendersons, but people sometimes forget that jazz was not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones."
Cab Calloway
(12/25/1907 11/18/1994)
US bandleader, singer, drummer, entertainer
"Perhaps I just didn't know how to compose 'dark' music. Lenny Bernstein always said my music sounded postcoital."
Paul Bowles
(12/30/1910 11/18/1999)
US writer, composer, and traveler
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