Norm Crosby - September 15, 1927

"When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty."

Roy Acuff - (September 15, 1903 – November 23, 1992)

"Don't be a blueprint. Be an original."

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"The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him."

Robert Benchley (September 15, 1889 - 1945)

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Louis XIV - September 16, 1638

“It is legal because I wish it.”

Allen Funt (September 16, 1914 – September 5, 1999) - "When people are smiling they are most receptive to almost anything you want to teach them."

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"I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that."

Lauren Bacall (September 16, 1924)

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"I accept responsibility for U-boat warfare from 1933 onward, and of the entire navy from 1943 on, but to make me responsible for what happened to Jews in Germany, or Russian soldiers on the east front - it is so ridiculous all I can do is laugh."

Karl Donitz

Ken Kesey - September 17, 1935

"I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph."

Hank Williams (September 17, 1923 – January 1, 1953) - “If a song can't be written in 20 minutes, it ain't worth writing.”

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“If they give you lined paper, write the other way.”

William Carlos Williams (September 17, 1883 - 1963)

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Roddy McDowall (17 September 1928 – 3 October 1998) - "I enjoyed being in movies when I was a boy. As a child you're not acting - you believe."

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Greta Garbo - September 18, 1905

"I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the difference."

"In the first place, good people are rarely suspicious; they cannot imagine others doing the things they themselves are incapable of doing."

William March (September 18, 1893 - 1954)

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...native son of Alabama...

"Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language."

Samuel Johnson (18 September 1709 – 13 December 1784), aka Dr. Johnson

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"If you really think you're right, you should tell it."

Cass Elliot (September 19, 1941 - 1974)

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Adam West - September 19, 1928

“It was inescapable. I'd just about land something substantial, something I like or a good career move. Then some dinosaur would rear up and say, 'But the audience will think of him as Batman.' It was formidable. It was there like a brick wall.”

"It may be -- I hope it is -- redemption to guess and perhaps perceive that the universe, the hell which we see for all its beauty, vastness, majesty, is only part of a whole which is quite unimaginable." A Moving Target

William Golding (19 September 1911 – 19 June 1993)

Upton Sinclair - September 20, 1878

"I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach."

"I may be smelly and I may be old,
Rough in my pebbles, reedy in my pools,
But where my fish float by I bless their swimming,
And I like the people to bathe in me especially women."

Stevie Smith (September 20, 1902 - 1971)

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“Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings.”
Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton - (September 20, 1885 – July 10, 1941)

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Ethan Coen - September 21, 1958

"We tend to do period stuff because it helps make it one step removed from boring everyday reality."

Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) - "Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit."

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Leonard Cohen, born September 21, 1934

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.

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"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed."

Stephen King (September 21, 1947)

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Paul Muni - September 22, 1895

“I don't want to be a star. If you have to label me anything, I'm an actor - I guess. A journeyman actor. I think 'star' is what you call actors who can't act.”

Joan Jett - September 22, 1960

“Girls have got balls. They're just a little higher up that's all.”

Tommy Lasorda (September 22, 1927) - "Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure."

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"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."

Theodore Edward Hook (September 22, 1788 - 1841)

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Caesar Augustus - September 23, 63 B.C.

“I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.”

Mickey Rooney - September 23, 1920

"You always pass failure on your way to success."

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"You can play music with a shoestring if you're sincere."

John Coltrane (September 23, 1926 - 1967)

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Bruce Springsteen (born September 23, 1949)

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The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

John Marshall - September 24, 1755

“Indeed, in a free government almost all other rights would become worthless if the government possessed power over the private fortune of every citizen.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940)

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Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

"Ambition never rests, not even for a man who has left his footsteps on the moon."
John W. Young (born September 24, 1930)

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Astronaut John Young is the only person to have piloted in space four different classes of spacecraft: Gemini spacecraft, Apollo Command/Service Module, Apollo Lunar Module, and Space Shuttle. Young also drove the Lunar Roving Vehicle on the moon's surface. He was the first person to orbit the moon alone (during the Apollo 10 mission), and was the commander of the first Space Shuttle mission in April 1981.

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"I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it."

William Faulkner (September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962)

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William Faulkner - September 25, 1897

“Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”

"Never explain what you do. It speaks for itself. You only muddle it by talking about it."

Shel Silverstein (September 25, 1930 - 1999)

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T.S. Eliot - September 26, 1888

“You are the music while the music lasts.”

“Life is a lot like jazz...it's best when you improvise.”

George Gershwin (September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937)

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