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TOP
10
THINKERS OF
YOUR TIME
Greatest
Actual Quotations of the 20th-Century
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, singer
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 Today Show
4.
I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply
with the law.
David
Dinkins, New York City Mayor, on allegations that he dodged
paying 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 a federal antismoking
campaign spokesperson
6.
We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees.
Jason
Kidd, upon his drafting into the Dallas Mavericks
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
8.
China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese.
Former
French President, Charles DeGaulle
9.
Outside
of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime
rates in the country.
Mayor
Marion Barry
10.
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 US Vice-President
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