Iconic Birthday Quotes From The Famous And Infamous Born On This Day In History

"I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of God than live in that palace at Washington"

"Doubt is the brother of shame"

"One hand washes the other...both hands wash the face"

"I get ideas from everything. A big color, the sound of water and wind, or a flash of something cool. Playing is like life. Either you feel it or you don't"

"You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose"

"There's always one more way to do something - your way"

"You can call me mercenary, or call me madam, but, as I always tell my customers - just call me anytime"

"I and women like me could make a big contribution to what Mayor John Lindsay calls Fun City, and the city and state could derive the money in taxes and licensing fees that I pay off to crooked cops and political figures"

"They arrested me and then they deported me, for ‘moral turpitude.’ Being arrested and marched past people I knew was most humiliating. And this arrest affected not just me but my girls, my clients and my business"

"My fame at that point had become international and my poor, kind husband at the time, even though I was no longer working as a madam, was bombarded with cruel comments and I know his business must have suffered"

"Many of them seem to be in psychoanalysis with problems arising from a domineering mother or a Jewish American Princess wife who walks all over them"

"If this was still 1970 and I wasn’t so ethical and protective of the identity of my clients I might be willing to divulge names"

"Jail was disgusting, the first attack was on my sense of smell - the stench of vomit, urine and body odor was suffocating"

"I have only hated men at those moments when I realized that I was doing all the giving and they the taking. At least when I was a prostitute, it was all honest and upfront"

"Sex has been with us since the human race began its existence, yet I would estimate that 90 percent of human beings still suffer enormous inhibitions in this area"

"You just can't be good in bed anymore. You have to be good at the keyboard too"

"If my business was legitimate, I would deduct a substantial percentage for depreciation of my body"

"A psychiatrist once said 'you're the type of Second World War survivor who becomes a winner'"

"I thought it would be small book, maybe selling 3,000 copies in New York"

"My business could be made legal, the way off-track betting is in New York"

"I've made millions, maybe $5m, but it took me 40 years to go through it"

"When the stocks go up, the cocks go up"

"In America you can get away with murder, but not with sex"

"Now I'm a Happy Booker" [about her Amsterdam B&B]

"I survived and now I want to be a queen"

"I sure did a lot of penetrating research"

"I'm trysexual, I'll try anything"

"My Pleasure is my business"

"Life's just a bus stop to somewhere infinitely better"

"It was the greatest contribution towards the whole of human race, made by China, is to prevent its 1.3 billion people from hunger"

"All work of the party’s news and public opinion media must reflect the will of the party, mirror the views of the party, preserve the authority of the party, preserve the unity of the party, and achieve love of the party"

"In Soviet Union, where the military was depoliticized, separated from the party and nationalized, the party was disarmed. When the country came to crisis point, a big party was gone just like that"

"Why must we stand firm on the party's leadership over the military? Because that's the lesson from the collapse of the Soviet Union"

"China’s headlong plunge into capitalism over the last 40 years was not a repudiation of the Communist Party’s founding ideology, but something possible only because of it"

"To further promote anti-corruption efforts, we need to insist on the successful experiences gained through the Party's long-term anti-corruption practice"

"At present and into the future, China's development is entering a period when various risks and challenges are emerging together. And it will only get more complex"

"Resolutely guard against the infiltration of Western ideology, and consciously resist the influence of extremist though"

"It is for the people of Asia to run the affairs of Asia, solve the problems of Asia and uphold the security of Asia"

"We should uphold the idea that working hard is the most honorable, noblest, greatest and most beautiful virtue"

"Corruption could lead to the collapse of the Party and the downfall of the State"

"When the ideals of the Cultural Revolution could not be realised, it proved an illusion"

"There are some bored foreigners, with full stomachs, who have nothing better to do than point fingers at us"

"China doesn't export revolution"

"Asia's problems ultimately must be resolved by Asians and Asia's security ultimately must be protected by Asians"

"The core socialist values and Chinese culture will help to immerse various religions of China"

"No one is in the position to dictate to the Chinese people what should and should not be done"

"Happiness does not fall out of the blue and dreams will not come true by themselves"

"China doesn't come and cause you headaches, what more is there to be said?"

"The struggles we face will not be short term, but long term"

"China doesn't export hunger and poverty"

"Mexico. Melancholy, profoundly right and wrong, it embraces as it strangulates"

"Vegas is Sin City. It really gives you a feeling of looseness and anything can go"

"It doesn't take any ability to hustle"

"I think that all of us are 5-year-olds and we don't want to be embarrassed in the schoolyard"

"You never have to guess where you stand with me"

"Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide"

"It's not just a black thing. When we came out, it was already a foregone conclusion that all types of life listen to rap. All cultures. But we never knew that"

"He threatened to slam me into a freezer and pull me out when I was an ice cube. I just started using that name, and it just caught on" (talking about his older brother)

"We changed pop culture on all levels. Not just music. We changed it on TV. In movies. On radio. Everything"

"The Beastie Boys broke all the walls for me. They were the introduction of rap is for everybody"

"I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different shit, you know what I mean?"

"I'm gonna live a long life, and I might change religions three or four times before I die"

"Religion is man-made, it's flawed. I don't follow nobody but my own conscience"

"Create your own path, hone your talent, be ready to show your talent, and don't doubt yourself"

"To me, reality is better than being fake"

"When you're talking to lions, you can't meow like a pussycat"

"The worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing"

"Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That's all it is"

"If you think about stuff that happened when you were young, it stays with you forever"

"Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining"

"It is just all about whether you get it or not; the camera don't lie"

"The subject of Citizenfour, Edward Snowden, could not be here for some treason"

"I think women who don't understand boundaries are fascinating"