Question: If you could live forever, would you and why?
Answer: "I would
not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were
supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, but we cannot live
forever, which is why I would not live forever."
-Miss Alabama in
the 1994 Miss USA contest
"Whenever I watch TV and see those poor
starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be
skinny like that but not with all those flies and death and stuff."
-Mariah Carey
"Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces
some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana. The researchers also
discovered other similarities between the two, but can't remember what they
are."
-Matt Lauer on NBC's Today show, August 22
"I haven't
committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law."
-David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to
pay his taxes.
"Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very
important part of your life."
-Brooke Shields, during an interview
to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking campaign
"I've never
had major knee surgery on any other part of my body."
-Winston
Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward
"Outside of the
killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the
country."
-Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, D.C.
"They're
multipurpose. Not only do they put the clips on, but they take them
off."
-Pratt & Whitney spokesperson explaining why the company
charged the Air Force nearly $1000 for an ordinary pair of
pliers.
"We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees."
-Jason Kidd, upon his drafting to the Dallas Mavericks
"I'm not going
to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the
president."
-Hillary Clinton commenting on the release of
subpoenaed documents
"China is a big country, inhabited by many
Chinese."
-Former French President Charles De Gaulle
"That
lowdown scoundrel deserves to be kicked to death by a jackass, and I'm just
the one to do it."
-A congressional candidate in Texas
"The
government is not doing enough about cleaning up the environment. This is a
good planet."
-Mr. New Jersey contestant when asked what he would
do with a million dollars.
"I don't feel we did wrong in taking this
great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed
new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for
themselves."
-John Wayne
"Half this game is ninety percent
mental."
-Philadelphia Phillies manager Danny Ozark
"It
isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our
air and water that are doing it."
-Former U.S. Vice-President Dan
Quayle
"Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the
public mind."
-General William Westmoreland
"If you let that
sort of thing go on, your bread and butter will be cut right out from under
your feet."
-Former British foreign minister Ernest Bevin
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