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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. |
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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 |
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| 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."
-- Mat Lauer on NBC's Today Show,
August 22, 1999. |
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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. |
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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 antismoking campaign. |
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| 6.
"We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees."
-- Jason Kidd, upon his drafting to the
Dallas Mavericks. |
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7.
"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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| 8.
"China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese."
-- Former French President, Charles De
Gaulle. |
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9.
"Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest
crime rates in the country."
-- Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, D.C. |
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10.
"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. |
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