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“Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.”
“Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.”
| Yukiya Amano, Public Servant (1947) |
| J. M. Barrie, Novelist (1860) |
| James M. Barrie, Playwright (1860) |
| Gregory Bateson, Scientist (1904) |
| Vince Cable, Politician (1943) |
| Howard Carter, Scientist (1874) |
| Rosario Dawson, Actress (1979) |
| Manfred Eigen, Scientist (1927) |
| Albert Finney, Actor (1936) |
| Jose Ortega Y Gasset, Philosopher (1883) |
| Nelson Algren, Novelist (1981) |
| Dan Devine, Coach (2002) |
| Brenda Fassie, Musician (2004) |
| Paul Gauguin, Artist (1903) |
| Mary Johnston, Novelist (1936) |
| Akhmad Kadyrov, Statesman (2004) |
| Alan King, Comedian (2004) |