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 Universe contest
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Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the
country. -- Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, DC
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I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.- Winston
Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward
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"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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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 Pop singer
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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
-Former U.S. President Calvin Coolidge
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The police are not here to create disorder. They're here to preserve
disorder." - Former Chicago mayor Daley during the infamous 1968 Democratic
Party convention
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China is a big country, inhabited by many CHINESE. - Former French
President Charles de Gaulle
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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.
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A billion here, a billion there-sooner or later it adds up to real money. -
Everett Dirksen
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The Internet is a great way to get on the Net. - Republican presidential
candidate Bob Dole
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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before. - Former U.S.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Traditionally, most of Australia's imports come from overseas. -
Former Australian cabinet minister Keppel Enderbery
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We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees. - Jason Kidd, upon his
drafting to the Dallas Mavericks
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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
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It is bad luck to be superstitious. - Andrew Mathis
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"It's like an alcatraz around my neck." - Boston mayor Menino on the
shortage of city parking spaces
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Half this game is ninety percent mental. - Philadelphia Phillies manager
Danny Ozark
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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 $1,000 for an ordinary pair of pliers
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It is wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago. - Former U.S.
Vice-President Dan Quayle
I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was
that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those
people. - Former U.S. Vice-President Dan Quayle
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
I love California. I practically grew up in Phoenix. - Former U.S.
Vice-President Dan Quayle
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If you've seen one redwood tree, you've seen them all. - Forestry expert
Ronald Reagan
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The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them
unsafe. -- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia
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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
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The president has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
-Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on "Larry King Live"
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After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the
school board is extremely pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele
to the post. -- Philip Streifer, Superintendent of Schools, Barrington,
Rhode Island
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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
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Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.
-General William Westmoreland, during the war in Viet Nam
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