Great Thinkers of Our Time!?

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

"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." — Matt 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
life." — Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a 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." — Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, D.C.

"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 some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the
president." — Hillary Clinton commenting on the release of subpoenaed documents

"China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese." — Former French
President Charles De Gaulle

"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

"The government is not doing enough about cleaning up the environment. This is a
good planet." — Mr. New Jersey contestant when asked what he would do with a million
dollars.

"Half this game is ninety percent mental." — Philadelphia Phillies manager
Danny Ozark

"It isn’t pollution that’s harming the environment. It’s the impurities in our air
and water that are doing it." — Former U.S. Vice-President Dan Quayle

"Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind." —
General William Westmoreland

"If you let that sort of thing go on, your bread and butter will be cut right out
from under your feet." — Former British foreign minister Ernest Bevin