Friday, August 25, 2006

Deep Thoughts for Friday

Deep Thoughts for Friday:

(On September 17, 1994, Alabama's Heather Whitestone was selected as Miss America 1995.)
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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"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 basketball 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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"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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"Half this game is ninety percent mental."
--Philadelphia Phillies manager, Danny Ozark
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"I love California . I practically grew up in Phoenix ." -- Dan Quayle
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"We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need ?"
--Lee Iacocca
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"The word "genius" isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein." --Joe Theisman, NFL football quarterback & sports analyst.
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"We don't necessarily discriminate. We simply exclude
certain types of people."
--Colonel Gerald Wellman, ROTC Instrutor.
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"Traditionally, most of Australia 's imports come from overseas."
--Keppel Enderbery
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"Your food stamps will be stopped effective
March 1992 because we received notice that you passed away. May God bless you. You may reapply if there is a change in your circumstances."
--Department of Social Services, Greenville , South Carolina
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"If somebody has a bad heart, they can plug this jack
in at night as they go to bed and it will monitor their
heart throughout the night. And the next morning, when
they wake up dead, there'll be a record."
--Mark S. Fowler, FCC Chairman
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Scary isn't it!?

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Dr Seuss Says:

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. - Dr. Seuss
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Alright, I'm guilty! The two quotes (by Mariah Carey and Al Gore) have been removed because they aren't true. I should have checked them out before posting them. It's still scary though that these 2 public figures have said enough stupid things that those 2 quotes have circulated as truth and the majority of people don't question it. Either we (me included) are that stupid, or the intelligence of those 2 people is actually that questionable!

5 comments:

  1. lmao...and people wonder why I ramble on about the ignorance that plagues this country. Ugh!

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  2. I think the Mariah Carey quote is an invention, and that the 'impurities not pollution' quote originated in MAD magazine as a fictional Dan Quaylism, later applied routinely to other politicians thought be be stupid or unaware of the environment (neither would apply to Gore, I would think).

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  3. I knew the Mariah one because I liked it so much when I heard it before I'd tried to track it down!

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  4. Mariah's and Al's might not be true quotes, but all of these sound like somethin' Dubya would've said! What a hoot!

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