 | "I have just signed legislation outlawing the Soviet Union; bombing begins in five minutes." President Ronald
Reagan, 1984 (joking before a radio broadcast, unaware the microphone was already on)
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| "Computers in the future may have only 1000 vacuum tubes and perhaps weigh only 1½
tons." Popular Mechanics, March 1949
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| "A nickel ain't worth a dime any more." Yogi Berra, Baseball player
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| "640K ought to be enough for everybody." Bill Gates
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| "I can't think of a better way to spread the message of world peace than
by working with the NFL and being part of Super Bowl XXVII." Michael Jackson,
singer
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| "I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were ever 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
Universe contest, when asked if she would want to live forever.
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| "The president has kept all of the promises he intended to keep." George Stephanopolous, Clinton aide
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| "Our Cabinet is always unanimous, except when we disagree." William Vander
Zalm, premier of British Columbia, Canada
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| "Everything that can be invented has been invented." Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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| "The internet is a great way to get on the net." Bob Dole, US Congressman
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| "The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible."
Yale University management professor in response to Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service.
(Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.)
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| "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
|
| "Passive activity income does not include the following: Income for an activity that is not a passive activity."
- IRS form 8583, Passive Activity Loss Limitation
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| "We'd like to avoid problems, because when we have problems, we can have troubles." Wesley Bolin, Governor
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| "Better make it six, I can't eat eight." Dan Osinski, Baseball pitcher, when a waitress asked if he wanted his pizza
cut into six or eight slices
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| "I get to go lots of overseas places, like Canada." Louisiana native, Britney Spears
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| "I may be dumb, but I'm not stupid." Terry Bradshaw, Former football player/announcer
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| "Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life." Brooke Shields
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| "When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results," President Calvin Coolidge, 1930
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| "Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value." Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole
Superieure de Guerre
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| "A billion here, a billion there, sooner or later it adds up to real money." Everett Dirksen, Congressman
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| "Money is not everything, but it does make poverty tolerable." Moss Evans,
general secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union
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| "Solutions are not the answer." Richard Nixon, former U.S. President
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| "I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the President." Hillary Clinton
referring to the release of subpoenaed papers
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| "Be sure and put some of those neutrons on it." Mike Smith, Baseball pitcher, ordering a salad at a restaurant
|
| "We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." Decca Recording Company rejecting the
Beatles, 1962
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| "If only faces could talk..." Pat Summerall, Sportscaster, during the Super Bowl
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| "A zebra does not change its spots." Al Gore
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| "Fiction writing is great, you can make up almost anything." Ivana Trump, on finishing her first novel
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| "Nobody goes there any more -- it's too crowded" Yogi Berra
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| "It will be years -- not in my time -- before a woman will become Prime Minister." Margaret Thatcher, 1974
|
| "The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe." Frank Rizzo, former
police chief and mayor of Philadelphia
|
| "Things are more like they are now than they ever were before." President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1955
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| "Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something."
Dennis Rodman, NBA Basketball player, on Chicago Bull's team chemistry being overrated
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| "China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese." French President Charles de Gaulle
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| "It isn't pollution that is hurting the environment, it's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it."
Dan Quayle, former U.S. Vice-President
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| "We are not ready for an unforeseen event that may or may not occur." Dan Quayle, former U.S. Vice President
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| "I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of a national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet
meeting." President Ronald Reagan
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| "I want to make sure everybody who has a job wants a job." Vice President George Bush
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| "If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure." Vice President Dan Quayle
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| "What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is."
Vice President Dan Quayle
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| "The team has come along slow but fast." Casey Stengel, Baseball player/manager
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| "Traditionally, most of Australia's imports come from overseas." Keppel Enderberry, former Australian
cabinet minister
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| "You guys line up alphabetically by height." Bill Peterson, Florida State football coach
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| "If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very low crime rate." Mayor Marion Barry,
Washington DC
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| "If crime went down 100%, it would still be fifty times higher than it should be." Washington DC
Councilman, John Bowman
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| "I cannot tell you how grateful I am -- I am filled with humidity." Gib Lewis, speaker of the Texas House
|
| "I think that the film Clueless was very deep. I think it was deep in the way that it was very light. I think lightness
has to come from a very deep place if it's true lightness." Alicia Silverstone, Actress
|
| "I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law." Mayor David Dinkins, New York City
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| "I deny the allegations and I defy the alligators!" Indicted Chicago Alderman
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| "I am a great mayor. I am an upstanding Christian man. I am an intelligent man. I am a deeply educated man. I am a
humble man." Mayor Marion Barry, Washington DC
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| "Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious." Alan Minter, Boxer
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| "We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees." Jason Kidd, upon his drafting to the Dallas Mavericks |
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