GREAT THINKERS OF OUR TIME!?
1. 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
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. "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
4. "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.
5. "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.
6. "I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of
my body."
---Winston Bennett, Univ. of KY basketball
forward
7. "Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the
lowest crime rates
in
the country." ---Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, DC
8. "We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees."
---Jason Kidd, upon his drafting to the
Dallas Mavericks
9. "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.
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10. "China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese."
---Former French President Charles De
Gaulle
11. "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
12. "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
13. "Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in
the public
mind."
---General William Westmoreland
And last but not least -- a parting word from Dan Quayle:
14. "I love California. I practically grew up in Phoenix." |
