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, 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
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 I can't remember what they are.
- Mat Lauer on NBC's Today Show, August 22.
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.
Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your like.
- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal antismoking campaign.
We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees.
- Jason Kidd, upon his drafting to the Dallas Mavericks.
I'm not going to have reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president.
- Hillary Clinton, commenting on the release of subpoened documents.
China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese.
- Former French President, Charles De Gaulle.
Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
- Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, D.C.
It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impuities in our air and water that are doing it.
- Former U.S. Vice President, Dan Quayle