October 7: Notable Births, with Quotes
Explore memorable and revealing quotes from public figures, past and present, who were born on October 7.
Lewis Capaldi, singer and songwriter (October 7, 1996–present)
“My shoulder twitches when I am excited, happy, nervous or stressed. It is something I am living with: it’s not as bad as it looks.” —Lewis Capaldi
Moore, Sam. “Lewis Capaldi reveals Tourette’s syndrome diagnosis.” NME, September 7, 2022, https://www.nme.com/news/music/lewis-capaldi-reveals-tourettes-syndrome-3305712
“When they told me, ‘We think you’ve got Tourette’s,’ I was like, ‘Do you know what? That makes so much sense.’” —Lewis Capaldi
Moore, Sam. “Lewis Capaldi reveals Tourette’s syndrome diagnosis.” NME, September 7, 2022, https://www.nme.com/news/music/lewis-capaldi-reveals-tourettes-syndrome-3305712
Simon Cowell, television personality and record executive (October 7, 1959–present)
“I remember the first time I came to do an American show. Everything was like 20 times the size of what you do in the UK. That’s the big difference. Everything’s bigger.” —Simon Cowell
Wired. “Sofía Vergara & Simon Cowell Answer the Web’s Most Searched Questions.” Wired, September 13, 2022, https://www.wired.com/video/watch/autocomplete-inverviews-sofia-vergara-and-simon-cowell-answer-the-webs-most-searched-questions
“I never went to school. I was really, really naughty.” —Simon Cowell
Wired. “Sofía Vergara & Simon Cowell Answer the Web’s Most Searched Questions.” Wired, September 13, 2022, https://www.wired.com/video/watch/autocomplete-inverviews-sofia-vergara-and-simon-cowell-answer-the-webs-most-searched-questions
Yo-Yo Ma, cellist (October 7, 1955–present)
“All great music is the result of successful invention. You’re going toward something you think is valuable. There’s risk involved, but you welcome it. Part of being a musician is reporting on what you experience. If you deliberately limit your experiences, your reporting will be limited.” —Yo-Yo Ma
Beard, Alison. “Life’s Work: An Interview with Yo-Yo Ma.” Harvard Business Review, June 2016, https://hbr.org/2016/06/yo-yo-ma
“Those four years at Harvard were some of the most influential in terms of exposing me to many fields of knowledge and to people my own age who were at least as passionate about what they were doing as I was about what I was doing. Archaeology and anthropology were my favorite subjects. They helped me look at all the cultures I was experiencing through travel and put them in some context.” —Yo-Yo Ma
Beard, Alison. “Life’s Work: An Interview with Yo-Yo Ma.” Harvard Business Review, June 2016, https://hbr.org/2016/06/yo-yo-ma
Vladimir Putin, president of Russia (October 7, 1952–present)
“I want the Kyiv authorities and their real masters in the West to hear me, so that they remember this. People living in Luhansk and Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia are becoming our citizens. Forever.” —Vladimir Putin
Reuters. “Extracts from Putin’s speech at annexation ceremony.” Reuters, September 30, 2022, https://www.reuters.com/world/extracts-putins-speech-annexation-ceremony-2022-09-30/
“There is no Soviet Union, the past cannot be brought back. And Russia today does not need it anymore. We are not striving for this.” —Vladimir Putin
Reuters. “Extracts from Putin’s speech at annexation ceremony.” Reuters, September 30, 2022, https://www.reuters.com/world/extracts-putins-speech-annexation-ceremony-2022-09-30/
Desmond Tutu, activist and humanitarian (October 7, 1931–December 26, 2021)
“I come from a beautiful land, richly endowed by God with wonderful natural resources, wide expanses, rolling mountains, singing birds, bright shining stars out of blue skies, with radiant sunshine, golden sunshine. There is enough of the good things that come from God’s bounty, there is enough for everyone, but apartheid has confirmed some in their selfishness, causing them to grasp greedily a disproportionate share, the lion’s share, because of their power.” —Desmond Tutu
Tutu, Desmond. “Nobel Lecture.” The Nobel Prize, December 11, 1984, https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1984/tutu/lecture/
“A tribute to our people’s commitment to peaceful change is the fact that the only South Africans to win the Nobel Peace Prize are both black. Our people are peace-loving to a fault.” —Desmond Tutu
Tutu, Desmond. “Nobel Lecture.” The Nobel Prize, December 11, 1984, https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1984/tutu/lecture/
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