noteworthy quotes.

q: if you could live forever, would you and why?
a: 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

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

i've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
— winston bennett, university of kentucky basketball forward

outside of the killings, washington has one of the lowest crime rates in
the country.
— marion barry (former mayor of washington, dc who has acknowledged his addictions to cocaine, alcohol, and sex)

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

i don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. there were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.
— john wayne

half this game is ninety percent mental.
— philadelphia phillies manager, danny ozark

i love california. i practically grew up in phoenix.
— dan quayle

it's no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.
— george bush

we've got to pause and ask ourselves: how much clean air do we need?
— lee iacocca

the word genius isn't applicable in football. a genius is a guy like norman einstein.
— joe theisman

we don't necessarily discriminate. we simply exclude certain types of people.
— colonel gerald wellman, rotc instructor

if we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.
— bill clinton

we are ready for an unforeseen event that may or may not occur.
— al gore

traditionally, most of australia's imports come from overseas.
— keppel enderbery

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