August 30: Notable Births, with Quotes
Explore memorable and revealing quotes from public figures, past and present, who were born on August 30.
Cameron Diaz, actor (August 30, 1972–present)
“I am absolutely a victim to all of the societal objectification and exploitations that women are subjected to. I have bought into all of them myself at certain times.” —Cameron Diaz
Wittmer, Carrie. “Cameron Diaz Says She Barely Thinks About Her Appearance Since Retiring From Acting.” Glamour, March 9, 2022, https://www.glamour.com/story/cameron-diaz-says-she-barely-thinks-about-her-appearance-since-retiring-from-acting
“My body’s strong, my body’s capable. Why am I going to talk down to it? Why am I going to be mean to it when it’s, like, carried me this far?” —Cameron Diaz
Wittmer, Carrie. “Cameron Diaz Says She Barely Thinks About Her Appearance Since Retiring From Acting.” Glamour, March 9, 2022, https://www.glamour.com/story/cameron-diaz-says-she-barely-thinks-about-her-appearance-since-retiring-from-acting
Robert Crumb, cartoonist (August 30, 1943–present)
“I’m no friend of Trump. I think he’s a bad man, but he’s a symptom of things that have been happening in the States for decades, it’s the decline of the Roman Empire.” —Robert Crumb
Ben-Ami, Yuval. “A Rare Interview With Robert Crumb on America, PC Culture and Trump.” Haaretz, August 31, 2020, https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2020-08-31/ty-article-magazine/.premium/rare-interview-with-robert-crumb-on-pc-culture-and-his-trump-voodoo-doll/0000017f-dbe8-d3a5-af7f-fbee2fd40000
“My work is very personal. It represents the time and place from which I came and expresses who I was. I grew up in a not-very-enlightened, lower-middle-class world. Today we see racism wherever we look. It’s a path we take in order to heal ourselves eventually of racism, but now America is so extreme. It has gone completely crazy.” —Robert Crumb
Ben-Ami, Yuval. “A Rare Interview With Robert Crumb on America, PC Culture and Trump.” Haaretz, August 31, 2020, https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2020-08-31/ty-article-magazine/.premium/rare-interview-with-robert-crumb-on-pc-culture-and-his-trump-voodoo-doll/0000017f-dbe8-d3a5-af7f-fbee2fd40000
Warren Buffett, business magnate (August 30, 1930–present)
“The way to get a good partner is to be a good partner, and these are very old-fashioned ideas and they just work so fabulously well.” —Warren Buffett
Quick, Becky. “CNBC Transcript: Billionaire Investors Warren Buffett & Charlie Munger Sit Down with CNBC’s Becky Quick for CNBC’s ‘Buffett & Munger: A Wealth of Wisdom.’” CNBC, July 1, 2021, https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/29/cnbc-transcript-billionaire-investors-warren-buffett-charlie-munger-sit-down-with-cnbcs-becky-quick-for-cnbcs-buffett-munger-a-wealth-of-wisdom-.html
“Bitcoin is ingenious, and blockchain is important, but Bitcoin has no unique value at all. It doesn’t produce anything. You can stare at it all day, and no little Bitcoins come out or anything like that. It’s a delusion, basically.” —Warren Buffett
Quick, Becky. “CNBC Transcript: Billionaire Investors Warren Buffett & Charlie Munger Sit Down with CNBC’s Becky Quick for CNBC’s ‘Buffett & Munger: A Wealth of Wisdom.’” CNBC, July 1, 2021, https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/29/cnbc-transcript-billionaire-investors-warren-buffett-charlie-munger-sit-down-with-cnbcs-becky-quick-for-cnbcs-buffett-munger-a-wealth-of-wisdom-.html
Mary Shelley, author (August 30, 1797–February 1, 1851)
“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.” —Mary Shelley
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin). “Frankenstein.” Project Gutenberg, November 13, 2020, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/84/84-h/84-h.htm
“The companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.” —Mary Shelley
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin). “Frankenstein.” Project Gutenberg, November 13, 2020, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/84/84-h/84-h.htm
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