Mel Gibson (1956) American actor, film director, producer and screenwriter
Apology issued July 29, 2006 for his behavior and comments during the incident with his drunk driving and speeding. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/5230480.stm
Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Mel Gibson (1956) American actor, film director, producer and screenwriter
Apology issued July 29, 2006 for his behavior and comments during the incident with his drunk driving and speeding. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/5230480.stm
Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist
Source: Lover Enshrined
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
Speech in Mitchell, South Dakota; (1 June 2008)
2008
Mike Tyson (1966) American boxer
http://www.details.com/culture-trends/news-and-politics/201008/interview-boxing-mike-tyson
On himself
Christie Brinkley (1954) American model
“Christie Brinkley Is 'Energized' About 2009”, interview with People (18 January 2009) http://people.com/celebrity/christie-brinkley-is-energized-about-2009/.
“I think my life would be easier, she said,
if I could just get my selves to agree on something.”
Brian Andreas (1956) American artist
Source: Still Mostly True
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841–1935) United States Supreme Court justice
Attribution reported in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989), which states that this is not verified in works about him nor in Magnificent Yankee, the film about him. Holmes expressed a similar sentiment in a letter to Sir Frederick Pollock (May 24, 1929): "For sixty years she made life poetry for me". Mark De Wolfe Howe, ed., Holmes-Pollock Letters (1941), vol. 2, p. 243.
Attributions
Robert E. Lee (1807–1870) Confederate general in the Civil War
Testimony to the Joint Congressional Committee on Reconstruction (17 February 1866) responding to a question on relocating freed slaves to other states as quoted in Report of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction at the First Session Thirty-Ninth Congress https://books.google.com/books?id=dUgWAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1866), pp. 135-6. <br class="br">1860s