February 7: Notable Births and Deaths, with Quotes
Let’s explore notable birth and death anniversaries for February 7.
Ashton Kutcher, actor and entrepreneur (February 7, 1978–present)
“If we just gave people a very simple, frictionless way to say, ‘I disagree with this,’ you would probably reduce a massive amount of the sort of negative swaller that exists inside of social media.” —Ashton Kutcher
Cheng, Roger. “Ashton Kutcher has a fix for social media outrage: Adding a dislike button.” c|net, July 19, 2021, https://www.cnet.com/news/ashton-kutcher-has-a-fix-for-social-media-outrage-adding-a-dislike-button/.
“Different people speak in different ways. My wife’s criticism of me is very different than my criticism of my wife, not only in content, but in the way that we give criticism to one another. And we’ve had arguments in life that have just been about me not understanding the way that she was giving me criticism and her not understanding the way I was giving her criticism, but with love.” —Ashton Kutcher
Cheng, Roger. “Ashton Kutcher has a fix for social media outrage: Adding a dislike button.” c|net, July 19, 2021, https://www.cnet.com/news/ashton-kutcher-has-a-fix-for-social-media-outrage-adding-a-dislike-button/.
Chris Rock, comedian and actor (February 7, 1965–present)
“I didn’t know I was funny—I just knew that people responded to me in a humorous way. Funny is only something that others know about you—you can’t be funny by yourself. I often hear people say, ‘I always knew I was funny.’ I want to say, ‘You idiot—you didn’t know anything.’” —Chris Rock
O, The Oprah Magazine. “Oprah Talks to Chris Rock.” Oprah.com, June 2002, https://www.oprah.com/omagazine/oprah-interviews-chris-rock.
“You only know that you’re smart because you’re around dumb people from time to time! That’s the moment when you say to yourself, ‘Hey, I know a thing or two.’” —Chris Rock
O, The Oprah Magazine. “Oprah Talks to Chris Rock.” Oprah.com, June 2002, https://www.oprah.com/omagazine/oprah-interviews-chris-rock.
“After I left high school and got my GED, I studied broadcast journalism for a year at a community college. Though part of me had always wanted to be a comedian, another part of me had always wanted to be Bryant Gumbel or Dan Rather.” —Chris Rock
O, The Oprah Magazine. “Oprah Talks to Chris Rock.” Oprah.com, June 2002, https://www.oprah.com/omagazine/oprah-interviews-chris-rock.
Harvey Firestone, businessman (December 20, 1868–February 7, 1938)
“If we can just get better men, we can make better developments.” —Harvey Firestone
“Interview with Thomas Edison, Henry Ford & Harvey Firestone.” YouTube, July 4, 2015, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNszspGZd7A.
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