February 14: Notable Births and Deaths, with Quotes
Let’s explore notable birth and death anniversaries for February 14.
Simon Pegg, actor, comedian, and screenwriter (February 14, 1970–present)
“Everything is so huge on ‘Mission Impossible,’ it’s like marshalling an army. I love doing those big movies, because they’re fun, and because of the scale and the sheer ridiculousness of that kind of movie-making machine.” —Simon Pegg
Sawyer, Miranda. “Simon Pegg: ‘It’s time… Film would be so much healthier with more voices, different stories.’” The Guardian, June 28, 2020, https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/jun/28/simon-pegg-lost-transmissions-mental-health-blm-film-industry-mission-impossible-7.
“All your realities are sealed in these concrete boxes, which never change unless you hack them apart with therapy. When you actually find out why you do things, you think, oh, that makes so much sense. It’s actually liberating to get into the nitty-gritty of your own madness.” —Simon Pegg
Sawyer, Miranda. “Simon Pegg: ‘It’s time… Film would be so much healthier with more voices, different stories.’” The Guardian, June 28, 2020, https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/jun/28/simon-pegg-lost-transmissions-mental-health-blm-film-industry-mission-impossible-7.
“The film industry would be such a healthier, more interesting place if there were more voices, different stories, different experiences. It’s so dominated by one particular voice and colour of face, it just perpetuates a bland mono-voiced cultural landscape.” —Simon Pegg
Sawyer, Miranda. “Simon Pegg: ‘It’s time… Film would be so much healthier with more voices, different stories.’” The Guardian, June 28, 2020, https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/jun/28/simon-pegg-lost-transmissions-mental-health-blm-film-industry-mission-impossible-7.
Carl Bernstein, journalist and author (February 14, 1944–present)
“I tell stories circumlocutiously.” —Carl Bernstein
Smith, David. “Carl Bernstein: ‘Our democracy, before Trump, had ceased to be working well.’” The Guardian, January 15, 2022, https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/jan/15/carl-bernstein-interview-our-democracy-before-trump-had-ceased-to-be-working-well.
“I went to legally segregated public schools in the capital of the United States until 1954. My parents took me with them to sit-ins when I was eight or nine years old to desegregate the restaurants and the lunch counters downtown. The swimming pools were drained by the recreation department when I was a kid rather than allow integration. Imagine, the recreation department in the capital! It’s unthinkable today.” —Carl Bernstein
Smith, David. “Carl Bernstein: ‘Our democracy, before Trump, had ceased to be working well.’” The Guardian, January 15, 2022, https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/jan/15/carl-bernstein-interview-our-democracy-before-trump-had-ceased-to-be-working-well.
“When Black Lives Matter comes along, it’s because of not continuing to fulfil the promise that began in that civil rights revolution. In addition, there is a political party that is committed to stopping that movement.” —Carl Bernstein
Smith, David. “Carl Bernstein: ‘Our democracy, before Trump, had ceased to be working well.’” The Guardian, January 15, 2022, https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/jan/15/carl-bernstein-interview-our-democracy-before-trump-had-ceased-to-be-working-well.
William Tecumseh Sherman, Union Army general (February 8, 1820–February 14, 1891)
“Every member of the nation is bound by natural and constitutional law to ‘maintain and defend the Government against all its opposers whomsoever.’ If they fail to do it they are derelict and can be punished or deprived of all advantages arising from the labors of those who do.” —William Tecumseh Sherman
Owens, Mackubin. “William Tecumseh Sherman and Total War.” Bill of Rights Institute, https://billofrightsinstitute.org/essays/william-tecumseh-sherman-and-total-war.
“War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out.” —William Tecumseh Sherman
Owens, Mackubin. “William Tecumseh Sherman and Total War.” Bill of Rights Institute, https://billofrightsinstitute.org/essays/william-tecumseh-sherman-and-total-war.
William Blackstone, judge and politician (July 10, 1723–February 14, 1780)
“The liberty of the press is indeed essential to the nature of a free state: but this consists in laying no prior restraints upon publications, and not in freedom from censure for criminal matter when published. Every freeman has an undoubted right to lay what sentiments he pleases before the public: to forbid this, is to destroy the freedom of the press: but if he publishes what is improper, mischievous, or illegal, he must take the consequence of his own temerity.” —William Blackstone
Zeigler, Sara L. “William Blackstone.” The First Amendment Encyclopedia, https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1286/william-blackstone.
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