warrrreagl

My vision for this thread is to post a quote every day from a famous person on their birthday.

"We can lie in the language of dress or try to tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent."

Alison Lurie (September 3, 1926)

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Living is easy with eyes closed.

ColonelSpecial

Okay it is a stretch but bear with me.

"It's morphin' time!"

Jason David Frank (September 4, 1973)

If it doesn't ring bells immediately, it is because he is the white ranger from The Power Rangers.

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"Mommy, the presidents are squishing me!"

"Using the pull out method of contraceptive is like saying I won't use a seat belt, I'll just jump out of the car before it hits that tree."

Sara

warrrreagl

AWESOME!

"Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread."

Richard Wright (September 4, 1908 - 1960)

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Living is easy with eyes closed.

warrrreagl

"It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of 'culture.'"

John Cage (September 5, 1912 - 1992)

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Living is easy with eyes closed.

hunnychile

My new favorite:

"Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting."
- Buckminster Fuller AKA Bucky.

What an interesting mind!

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"I need compassion, understanding and chocolate." - NJB

noodle

I love this thread. Quotes are one of my favorite things to explore. And make up.


Raquel Welch ~ “The mind can also be an erogenous zone”

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warrrreagl

Noodle and hunnychile THANKS! I knew I could count on you.

"Between New York and LA, there's 200 million people that aren't hip, and they don't want to be hip."

Jeff Foxworthy (September 6, 1958)

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Living is easy with eyes closed.

warrrreagl

"The past cannot be cured."

Elizabeth I (September 7, 1533 - 1603)

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Living is easy with eyes closed.

uncle phil

Chrissy Hynde - September 7, 1951

Back on the Chain Gang

"Circumstance beyond our control,
Oh, the phone, the TV and the News of the World.
Got in my house like a pigeon from hell.
Oh, threw sand in our eyes descending like flies.
Oh, put us back on the train yeah,
Oh, Back on the chain gang."

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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
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"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
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never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.

hunnychile

"Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood."
- C.G. Jung

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"I need compassion, understanding and chocolate." - NJB

Willravel

"Rassemblons des faits pour nous donner des idées." Comte Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon

uncle phil

and he was born on september 7, when?

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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
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"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
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never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.

uncle phil

Richard the Lionhearted - September 8, 1157

"Wine... a bucket of it!"

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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
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"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
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never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.

mixedmedia

Neko Case - September 8, 1970

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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce

warrrreagl

"Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end."

Sid Caesar (September 8, 1922)

*my personal hero...I talked to him on the phone once in 1984.

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Living is easy with eyes closed.

hunnychile

"I'm gonna take my rats..." - Pink, Singer. B. 1979.

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"I need compassion, understanding and chocolate." - NJB

warrrreagl

"The Beatles did treat me as a member of the group. And that was a great honor, you know?"

Billy Preston (September 9, 1946 - 2006)

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Living is easy with eyes closed.

uncle phil

Joe Theisman - September 9, 1949

"Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein."

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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
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"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
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never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.

mixedmedia

Julian "Cannonball" Adderley - September 9, 1928

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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce

warrrreagl

HA!!!!

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Living is easy with eyes closed.

uncle phil

i met him at the outback pro-am last spring in tampa; nice guy, down-to-earth, doesn't walk with a limp any more, and golfs a good game...

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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
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"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
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never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.

warrrreagl

He may not walk with a limp, but just the thought of that video of him breaking his ....urk.....urk.....urk.....

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Living is easy with eyes closed.

uncle phil

Isaac Funk - September 10, 1839

"Put that in your Funk & Wagnalls!"

(actually Dan Rowan said it, but you get my drift...)

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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
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"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
-----------------------------------------
never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.

mixedmedia

Stephen Jay Gould, evolutionary biologist - (September 10, 1941 – May 20, 2002)

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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce

warrrreagl

"You don't even know
what a dream is;
how did it come?
It didn't come,
it was there."

Hilda Doolittle (September 10, 1886 - 1961)

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Living is easy with eyes closed.

uncle phil

William Sidney Porter - September 11, 1862

"A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows."

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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
-----------------------------------------
"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
-----------------------------------------
never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.

mixedmedia

Jessica Mitford, author of The American Way of Death - September 11, 1917 - July 22, 1996

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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce

warrrreagl

"I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us."

D. H. Lawrence (September 11, 1885 - 1930)

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Living is easy with eyes closed.

uncle phil

H.L. Mencken - September 12, 1880

"An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup."

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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
-----------------------------------------
"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
-----------------------------------------
never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.

warrrreagl

"Life doesn't give you all the practice races you need."

Jesse Owens (September 12, 1913 - 1980)

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Living is easy with eyes closed.

uncle phil

David Clayton-Thomas - September 13, 1941

"What goes up
must come down
spinning wheel
got to go around
talkin' 'bout your troubles
it's a cryin' sin
Ride a painted pony
let the spinning wheel spin..."

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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
-----------------------------------------
"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
-----------------------------------------
never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.

mixedmedia

Roald Dahl (September 13, 1916 - November 23, 1990)

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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce

Baraka_Guru

"I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect."

-Henry James (April 15, 1843 – February 28, 1916)

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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot

warrrreagl

"Is an artist much more than a beggar?"

Clara Wieck Schumann (September 13, 1819 - 1896)

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Living is easy with eyes closed.

thirdsun

“Men don't get smarter when they grow older. They just lose their hair.”
Claudette Colbert
Sept 13, 1903 – July 30, 1996

inBOIL

Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin.
-Ivan Pavlov (Sep. 14, 1849 - Feb. 27, 1936)

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And you believe Bush and the liberals and divorced parents and gays and blacks and the Christian right and fossil fuels and Xbox are all to blame, meanwhile you yourselves create an ad where your kid hits you in the head with a baseball and you don't understand the message that the problem is you.

warrrreagl

"Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression."

Margaret Sanger (September 14, 1879 - 1966)

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Living is easy with eyes closed.

uncle phil

Clayton Moore - September 14, 1914

“I am a fighter. I believe in that which is right, and the truth is, I have been the Lone Ranger for the past thirty years and I will not give up the fight. I love my public and I'll fight for you. I'll continue to make personal appearances for my thousands of fans.”

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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
-----------------------------------------
"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
-----------------------------------------
never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.

thirdsun

Walter Koenig - Sept 14, 1936



"Star Trek: Who Mourns for Adonais? (#2.2)" (1967)
Apollo: I am Apollo!
Ensign Pavel Chekov: [sarcastically] And I am the Czar of all the Russias!
Capt. Kirk: Mister Chekov!
Ensign Pavel Chekov: I sorry, Captain. I never met a god before.
Capt. Kirk: And you haven't yet.

mixedmedia

Jean Renoir - (15 September 1894 – 12 February 1979)



A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it into pieces and makes it again.

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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce