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1
Q: "If you could live forever, would you and why ?"
A: "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.

2
"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

3
"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)

4
"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.)

5
"I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body."
- Winston Bennett, Univ. of KY basketball forward.

6
"Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country."
- Mayor Marion Barry, Washington DC.

7
"We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees."
- Jason Kidd, upon his drafting to the Dallas Mavericks.

8
"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.

9
"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it."
- Dan Quayle, former U.S. Vice-President.

10
"I love California. I practically grew up in Phoenix."
- Dan Quayle, former U.S. Vice-President.

11
"I want to make sure everybody who has a job wants a job."
- George Bush during his first Presidential campaign.

12
"For seven and a half years I've worked alongside President Reagan. We've had triumphs. Made some mistakes. We've had some sex ... uh...setbacks."
- George Bush.

13
"I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy. But that could change."
- Dan Quayle, former U.S. Vice-President.

14
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind - or not to have a mind. How true that is."
- Dan Quayle addressing the United Negro College Fund.

15
Walter Mondale: "George Bush doesn't have the manhood to apologize."
Bush: "Well, on the manhood thing, I'll put mine up against his any time."

16
"Nixon has been sitting in the White House while George McGovern has been exposing himself to the people of the United States."
- Frank Licht, then governor of Rhode Island,
(campaigning for McGovern in 1972)

17
"Now we are trying to get unemployment to go up and I think we're going to succeed."
- Ronald Reagan

18
"Bite the wax tadpole."
- Coca-Cola as originally translated into Chinese.

19
"Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the grave."
- ad slogan "Pepsi Comes Alive" as originally translated into Chinese.

20
"I am a jelly doughnut."
- English translation of John F. Kennedy speaking at the Berlin Wall.


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Last updated March 2, 2000



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