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Birdsnest
7 Mar 2005, 02:57 PM
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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"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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"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 federal
anti-smoking campaign.

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"I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my
body,"
--Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky BASKketball forward.
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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'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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"Half this game is ninety percent mental.."
--Philadelphia Phillies manager, Danny Ozark
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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 democratic congressional candidate in Texas.
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"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment.
It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it."
--Al Gore, Vice President
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"I love California. I practically grew up in Phoenix."
--Dan Quayle

Lee
7 Mar 2005, 03:21 PM
OK, not something somebody said but funny anyway:

Written on a sign in a resturant:

"For people who have children and don't know this, there is a play area downstairs"

cjs55
7 Mar 2005, 03:33 PM
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,"

ISTJ logic at its finest!

crule81
7 Mar 2005, 03:56 PM
"I'll get it when I die."
Yogi Bera, when asked why he bought a life insurance policy for himself.

I have a book called the 776 Stupidest Things Ever Said that has all of these quotes in it.

melancholeric
7 Mar 2005, 04:04 PM
"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
Not even Mariah Carey could be stupid enough to say that. (http://www.snopes.com/quotes/carey.htm)

Bugeater
8 Mar 2005, 08:20 AM
When I was in high school, the girl who was ranked 3rd in the class asked our History teacher if the Underground Railroad was really underground. What a dumb blonde...she SO cheated her way to the top.

songbird36
8 Mar 2005, 08:53 AM
An interviewer on NZ radio some years ago asked a woman"

"How old is your 34 year old daughter"?

jimkopelli
8 Mar 2005, 09:05 AM
Quayle has his own genre of stupid quotes... and several websites dedicated to them...

http://www.xmission.com/~mwalker/DQ/