|
Great Thinkers
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 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 KY basketball forward
"Outside of the killings, Washington has one of
the lowest crime rates in the country."
---Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, DC
"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 with a lot of chinese people
living there."
---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
"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
And last but not least -- a parting word from Dan
Quayle:
"I love California. I practically grew up in Phoenix."
|
