“Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.”
~ Galileo Galilei, b. 15 February 1564
Galileo Galilei (b. Feb 15): “Nature is relentless and unchangeable.”
15 FebCarl Bernstein (b. February 14): “Weird, stupid and coarse are becoming cultural norms…”
14 Feb
“For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.”
~ Carl Bernstein, b. 14 February 1944
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Bertolt Brecht (b. February 10): “Unhappy the land in need of heroes.”
10 Feb
Bertolt Brecht (born 10 February 1898, died 14 August 1956) was a German poet, playwright, and theatre director. Widely considered one of the great dramatic creations of the modern stage, Mother Courage and Her Children is Brecht’s most profound statement against war.
10 quotations:
- Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
- He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
- Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
- No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
- I don’t know what a man is. Only that every man has his price.
- Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
- There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
- When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
Ashton Kutcher (b. February 7th): “Don’t settle for what life gives you…”
7 Feb
“Don’t settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something.”
~ Ashton Kutcher, b. 7 February 1978
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Alice Cooper (b. February 4th): “Getting drunk & stoned is easy.”
4 Feb
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“Getting drunk & stoned is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that’s a tough one. That’s rebellion!”
~ Alice Cooper, b. 4 February 1948
S.J. Perelman (b. February 1st): “All of us have only one personality.”
1 Feb
“The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.”
~ S.J. Perelman, b. 1 February 1904
Ronda Rousey (b. February 1st): “I’m scared all the time…”
1 Feb
“People say to me all the time, ‘You have no fear.’ I tell them, ‘No, that’s not true. I’m scared all the time.’ You have to have fear in order to have courage. I’m a courageous person because I’m a scared person.”
~ Ronda Rousey, b. 1 February 1987
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Norman Mailer (b. January 31): “Style is character.”
31 Jan
“A really good style comes only when a man has become as good as he can be. Style is character. A good style cannot come from a bad, undisciplined character… I think good style is a matter of rendering out of oneself all the cupidities, all the cripplings, all the vague desires. And then I think one has to develop one’s physical grace.”
~ Norman Mailer, b. 31 January 1923
Justin Timberlake (b. January 31): “I’m completely removed from any hype that comes my way.”
31 Jan
“I’m completely removed from any hype that comes my way.”
~ Justin Timberlake, b. 31 January 1981
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Vanessa Redgrave (b. January 30): “Integrity is so perishable.”
30 Jan
“Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.”
~ Vanessa Redgrave, b. 30 January 1937
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