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Michael

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Posted: Mar 01, 2006 - 10:39 AM
Post subject: Famous Quotes-Brain Cramps

BRAIN CRAMPS
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> 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 America 1995 from Alabama
> Heather Whitestone
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>
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> "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."
> Popular Pop Singer
> Mariah Carey
>
>
>
> "Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost
> a very important part of your life,"
> (During an interview to become
> Spokesperson for federal anti-smoking campaign.)
> Model, movie and TV actress
> Brooke Shields
>
>
>
> "I've never had major knee surgery on any other part
> of my body,"
> University of Kentucky Basketball Forward
> Winston Bennett
>
>
> "Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the
> lowest crime rates in the country,"
> Washington DC Mayor
> Marion Barry
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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
>
>
> "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."
> Vice President
> Al Gore
>
> "We are ready for any unforeseen event that
> may or may not occur."
> Vice President
> Al Gore
>
>
> "I love California. I practically grew up in Phoenix."
> Vice President
> Dan Quayle
>
>
>
> "We've got to pause and ask ourselves,
> How much clean air do we need?"
> Chrysler Chairman and CEO
> Lee Iacocca
>
>
> "The word "genius" isn't applicable in football.
> A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein."
> NFL Quarterback and Sports Analyst
> Joe Theisman
>
>
> "We don't necessarily discriminate. We simply
> exclude certain types of people."
> ROTC Instructor
> Colonel Gerald Wellman
>
>
>
> "Traditionally, most of Australia's
> imports come from overseas."
> Keppel Enderbery....(who?)
>
>
>
> "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."
> Greenville, South Carolina
> Department of Social Services
>
>
> "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."
> FCC Chairman
> Mark S. Fowler
>

Nathalie25
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Posted: Mar 01, 2006 - 03:10 PM

Quote:

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 America 1995 from Alabama
> Heather Whitestone

Dear Michael, Is that tongue twist or stirring the glue( cause I think may it is not Brain Cramps), may i ask?

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Posted: Mar 01, 2006 - 04:02 PM

Hey Nat, its a bit hard to explain to someone who doesn't get it why this circular reasoning argument is funny because its stupid (a brain cramp I guess) Very Happy

My favourite is this one: Very Happy

> "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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Posted: Mar 01, 2006 - 04:21 PM

Brain cramps require the presence of a brain, otherwise they are just cramps... Wink

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lemongrass
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Posted: Mar 01, 2006 - 04:33 PM

> "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."
> Popular Pop Singer
> Mariah Carey

Very impressive.... Cool

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Posted: Mar 02, 2006 - 11:18 PM

You guys line up alphabetically by height." Bill Peterson, Florida State football coach

"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

"In a sense it's a one-man show... except there are two men involved, Hartson and Berkovic, and a third man, the goalkeeper." John Motson, BBC1

"Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious." Alan Minter, Boxer

"Fred Davis, the doyen of snooker, now 67 years of age and too old to get his leg over, prefers to use his left hand." Ted Lowe

"And now, excuse me while I interrupt myself." Murray Walker

"Watch the time -it gives you an indication of how fast they are running." Ron Pickering

"Batistuta gets most of his goals with the ball" Ian St John

"Adams is stretching himself, looking for Seaman" Brian Moore

"That would have been a goal if the goalkeeper hadn't saved it." Kevin Keegan, ex-England manager and player

"What will you do when you leave football, Jack -- will you stay in football?" Stuart Hall, interviewing Jack Charlton, Radio 5 Live

"Certain people are for me and certain people are pro me." Terry Venables, ex-England manager

"My parents have been there for me, ever since I was about 7." David Beckham

"I was watching the Blackburn game on TV on Sunday when it flashed on the screen that George (Ndah) had scored in the first minute at Birmingham. My first reaction was to ring him up. Then I remembered he was out there playing." Ade Akinbiyi

"I'd like to play for an Italian club, like Barcelona." Mark Draper

"I always used to put my right boot on first, and then obviously my right sock." Barry Venison, ITV

""I never comment on referees and I'm not going to break the habit of a lifetime for that prat." Ron Atkinson

"Without being too harsh on David, he cost us the match." Ian Wright, ITV

"The good news for Nigeria is that they're two-nil down very early in the game." Kevin Keegan

"I was saying the other day, how often the most vulnerable area for goalies is between their legs..." Andy Gray, Sky Sports

"What disappointed me was that we didn't play with any passion. I'm not disappointed, you know, I'm just disappointed." Kevin Keegan

"Strangely, in slow motion replay, the ball seemed to hang in the air for even longer." David Acfield

"If you were in the Brondby dressing room right now, which of the Liverpool players would you be looking at?" Ray Stubbs

"You sometimes open your mouth and it punches you straight between the eyes..." Paddy Crerand

"He's one of those footballers whose brains are in his head..." Derek Johnstone

"I would not be bothered if we lost every game as long as we won the league." Mark Viduka

"If you don't believe you can win, there is no point in getting out of bed at the end of the day." Neville Southall

"Alex Ferguson is the best manager I've ever had at this level. Well, he's the only manager I've actually had at this level. But he's the best manager I've ever had." David Beckham

"I've had 14 bookings this season - 8 of which were my fault, but 7 of which were disputable." Paul Gascoigne

"I've never wanted to leave. I'm here for the rest of my life, and hopefully after that as well." Alan Shearer

"I'm as happy as I can be - but I have been happier." Ugo Ehiogu

"I couldn't settle in Italy - it was like living in a foreign country." Ian Rush

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Posted: Mar 03, 2006 - 01:22 AM

Not a single Bushism yet?

"Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods." George W Bush, Austin, Texas, Dec. 20, 2000

"It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies, but it's life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet." George W Bush, Arlington Heights, Ill., Oct. 24, 2000

"I understand small business growth. I was one." George W Bush, New York Daily News, Feb. 19, 2000

"It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it." George W Bush, Reuters, May 5, 2000

"I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully." George W Bush, Saginaw, Mich., Sept. 29, 2000

"I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family." George W Bush, Greater Nashua, N.H., Chamber of Commerce, Jan. 27, 2000

"They misunderestimated me." George W Bush, Bentonville, Ark., Nov. 6, 2000

"The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants." George W Bush in an interview with the New York Times, Jan. 14, 2001

"Redefining the role of the United States from enablers to keep the peace to enablers to keep the peace from peacekeepers is going to be an assignment." George W Bush in an interview with the New York Times, Jan. 14, 2001

"Then I went for a run with the other dog and just walked. And I started thinking about a lot of things. I was able to-I can't remember what it was. Oh, the inaugural speech, started thinking through that." George W Bush, Pre-inaugural interview with U.S. News & World Report, Jan. 22, 2001 issue

"I know what I believe. I will continue to articulate what I believe and what I believe — I believe what I believe is right." —Rome, Italy, July 22, 2001

"We need to counter the shockwave of the evildoer by having individual rate cuts accelerated and by thinking about tax rebates." —Washington, D.C. Oct. 4, 2001

"People say, how can I help on this war against terror? How can I fight evil? You can do so by mentoring a child; by going into a shut-in's house and say I love you." —Washington, D.C., Sept. 19, 2002

"I wish you'd have given me this written question ahead of time so I could plan for it…I'm sure something will pop into my head here in the midst of this press conference, with all the pressure of trying to come up with answer, but it hadn't yet….I don't want to sound like I have made no mistakes. I'm confident I have. I just haven't — you just put me under the spot here, and maybe I'm not as quick on my feet as I should be in coming up with one." —President George W. Bush, after being asked to name the biggest mistake he had made, Washington, D.C., April 3, 2004

"The really rich people figure out how to dodge taxes anyway." —explaining why high taxes on the rich are a failed strategy, Annandale, Va., Aug. 9, 2004

"My plan reduces the national debt, and fast. So fast, in fact, that economists worry that we're going to run out of debt to retire." —radio address, Feb. 24, 2001

"I try to go for longer runs, but it's tough around here at the White House on the outdoor track. It's sad that I can't run longer. It's one of the saddest things about the presidency." —interview with "Runners World," Aug. 2002

"I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace." —Washington, D.C. June 18, 2002

"If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator." —Washington, D.C., Dec. 19, 2000

There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again." —Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2002 (Watch video)

"Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB-GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across this country." —Poplar Bluff, Mo., Sept. 6, 2004 (Watch video)

"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." —Washington, D.C., Aug. 5, 2004 (Watch video)

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