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Top Quotes of 2008
Quotes of the Week - Oct 12, 2008:
"I was trying to give Tina Fey more material. Job security for Saturday Night
Live."
--
US vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, joking about
her gaffes during
interviews and media appearances.
"Your company is now bankrupt, our economy is now in a state of crisis,
but you
get to keep $480 million. I have a very basic question for you: Is this fair?
-- Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, questioning
Lehman
Brothers CEO Richard Fuld over the bank's collapse.
"Nations once rich in faith and vocations are losing their own identity under
the harmful
and destructive influence of a certain modern culture."
-- Pope Benedict XVI, criticizing modern life and greed
at a meeting of bishops
in Rome on Oct. 5.
"This is not a man who sees America like you and I see America.
Our opponent is
someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect that he's
palling
around with terrorists who would target their own country. Americans need to
know this."
-- Sarah Palin, accusing Barack Obama of associating with Bill Ayers,
a founder
of radical Weather Underground, which was involved in several bombings in early
1970s.
"The financial crisis is nothing compared with the environmental crisis."
-- Jean-Christophe Vie, of the International Union for the Conservation of
Nature,
on a new report that 25% of the world's mammals face extinction.
"We can solve this crisis — and we will."
-- US President George Bush, American people to have confidence
in the
economy during a "deeply unsettling period".
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Quotes of the Week - Oct 6, 2008
"The reality
is we're in an urgent situation and the consequences will get bigger each day we
do not act."
-- US
President George Bush, on efforts to resurrect the $700 billion financial rescue
package.
"Sixty-seven percent of the Republican Conference decided to put political
ideology ahead of the best interest of our great nation."
-- U.S. Congressman James E. Clyburn, a Democrat from South
Carolina, after the House voted against
the $700-billion bailout package aimed
at stabilizing financial markets.
"I go three, maybe four times a year to get tested for sexually transmitted
infections and most of the time I don't even need to."
-- Kelly Osborne.
"He'll be up there with Churchill."
-- Cherie
Blair on how history will judge her husband and former British Prime Minister
Tony Blair.
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Quotes of the Week - Sept 30, 2008:
"If money
isn't loosened up, this sucker could go down."
-- US president George Bush as political wrangling threatens to
sink $700 billion Wall Street bailout package.
"Our entire economy is in danger."
-- US president George Bush in TV appeal for support for plan to
avert financial meltdown.
"Don't blow it up."
-- US treasury secretary Henry Paulson on bended knee, to
Democratic Party House speaker Nancy Pelosi,
pleading for her to back $700bn
Wall Street bailout.
"My name is not Gordon."
-- Michael
Douglas, refers to his 1987 character in movie Wall Street after reporter
asked
him about current financial crisis.
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Quotes of the Week - Sept
23, 2008:
"They are
like looters after a hurricane."
-- Andrew Cuomo, New York's attorney general, on short-selling of
stock by traders who have
made a fortune by driving down the price of bank
shares.
"I love art and this proves I'm not alone."
-- British artist Damien Hirst after selling 54 pieces of his
work for $127m.
"I have signed this agreement because my belief in Zimbabwe and its peoples runs
deeper
than the scars I bear from the struggle ... and because my hope for the
future is greater than the grief for the needless suffering of the past years.
We deserve a better life; a life without fear, hunger, poverty and oppression."
-- Morgan
Tsvangirai, the incoming Prime Minister of Zimbabwe.
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Quotes of the Week - Sept 16, 2008:
"You can put lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig."
-- US
presidential candidate Barack Obama in what sounded like an attack on Republican
vice-president nominee Sarah Palin.
"I thought I'd host an end of the world party, but the media might take it
seriously."
-- Stephen
Hawking, reassuring that world was not due to end with the launch of the Large
Hadron Collider.
"I'm going to try to win an eighth Tour de France."
-- Lance
Armstrong announcing he is coming out of retirement.
"I suggest we flaunt our defiance of the UN with a series of vast barbecues:
carnivorous festivals of chops and sausages and burgers and chitterlings."
-- London mayor Boris Johnson rejects UN calls to give up meat to
save the planet.
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Quotes of the Week - Sept 9, 2008:
"I live to
play hockey. I like to go camping and hang out with the boys,
do some fishing. I
don't want kids. I'm a f**in' redneck."
-- Levi
Johnston, boyfriend of Sarah Palin's pregnant daughter.
"What's the difference between a hockey mom and a pitbull? Lipstick."
-- US
vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin at Republican convention.
"I want to give a shout-out to all my Saudi Arabian brothers and sisters.
If you
could all please send me some oil for my jet, I would really appreciate it."
-- Sean "P
Diddy" Combs in YouTube video.
"My dress was worth every penny.
I was proud to tell everyone at the
wedding how
much it cost."
-- English
bride Heather Saint, 20, who bought her wedding dress for 5p on eBay.
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Quotes of the Week - Sept 2, 2008:
"It's not because John McCain doesn't care. It's because John McCain doesn't get
it."
-- US
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama at his party's Denver convention.
"No way. No how. No McCain. Barack Obama is my candidate. And he must be
president."
-- Hillary
Clinton backs Obama at convention.
"In international relations, you cannot have one rule for some and another rule
for others."
-- Russian
president Dmitri Medvedev on recognizing independence of Georgia's breakaway
regions,
saying the West set a precedent by treating Kosovo the same way.
"I wanted to show myself as I am. I couldn't care less about the camera."
-- Designer Valentino Garavani, in a new warts-and-all portrait
documentary of half century in fashion.
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Quotes of the Week - August 25, 2008:
"I'll have my staff get back to you on that."
-- US
Republican presidential candidate John McCain on being asked how many houses he
owns (the answer is seven).
"I hope the nation and the people will forgive my mistakes."
-- Former
Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf in his resignation speech.
"If they knew the plane was faulty, why did they let it fly?"
-- A
relative of one of the 153 passengers killed in the SpanAir crash at Madrid
airport.
"I feel now at 53 I have grown into a deeper understanding of what a human life
is."
-- John
Lennon's killer Mark Chapman seeks parole. His request was denied.
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Quotes of the Week - August 19, 2008:
"Eat, sleep and swim. That's all I can do."
-- Olympic
champion Michael Phelps explains the secret of his success, a lot of eggs in a
12,000 calories a day diet.
"The world just got a little less funny."
-- George
Clooney's reaction to the death of his friend, comedian Bernie Mac, 50.
"This is not 1968 and the invasion of Czechoslovakia, where Russia can invade
its neighbour, occupy a capital, overthrow a government and get away with it.
Things have changed."
-- Condoleezza
Rice on military clashes between Russia and Georgia.
"They are steeped in sin and, if eaten long enough for in quantity,
will almost
certainly kill you."
-- Actress
Emma Thompson on the scourge of potato crisps.
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Quotes of the Week - August 11, 2008:
"That wrinkly white-haired guy used me in his campaign ad,
which means
I'm running for President. So thanks for the endorsement
white-haired dude, and I want
America to know I'm, like, totally ready to lead."
-- Paris
Hilton lampoons a John McCain US presidential campaign video using her image.
"I respected him, and he respected me."
-- Osama bin
Laden's former driver, Salim Hamdan, tells a military court he never suspected
bin Laden was involved in terrorism until after the 9/11 attacks.
"These new bras represent pioneering work."
-- Rudiger Carstens, a spokeswoman for the German federal police,
which has
just introduced the 'bulletproof bra'.
"I read the script and it's not bad. The message is I'm a dangerous lunatic,
and
that I'm possessed by monkeys."
~ Singer Iggy
Pop on a forthcoming Hollywood movie based on his life ~
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Quotes of the Week - August 4, 2008:
"I took him aside and said: 'I posed in the nude.'
He said: 'Oh,
I like this one. Can I have a print?'"
-- Carla
Bruni-Sarkozy recalls the moment she told her husband
French President Nicolas Sarkozy full details of her modeling career.
"[It] is now unimaginable to many people that this court could acquit me.
I
believe that this fact seriously jeopardises the trial itself."
-- On trial
at UN war crimes tribunal, former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic says he
is victim of media witchhunt.
"Sugar is responsible for a lot of deaths. Arguably more than crack cocaine."
-- Guy
Ritchie, who is married to Madonna.
"He's the biggest celebrity in the world. But is he ready to lead."
-- John
McCain launched an advertisement asking this question about Barack Obama's
suitability for US presidency.
"Green protesters are our best passengers. They're always flying off to their
demonstrations."
-- Ryanair
chief executive Michael O'Leary on why he believes critics of budget airlines
are hypocrites.
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Quotes of the Week - July 29, 2008:
"Wall Street got drunk and now it's got a hangover. And the question is how long
will it sober up and not try to do those fancy financial instruments?"
-- US president George Bush
ponders America's financial services meltdown.
"Thank God my brother is alive and healthy. He has lost weight but he is normal
and reasonable. He knows whether or not he is guilty."
-- Luka
Karadzic, brother of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, arrested for
war crimes.
"Too often [the Church] is weighted down and burdened with the sins and failings
of her children; too often she appears disfigured and discouraged."
-- Pope
Benedict XVI.
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Quotes of the Week - July 22, 2008:
"What is the difference between God and Bono?
God doesn't wander down Grafton
Street thinking he's Bono."
-- Irish
music promoter and TV personality Louis Walsh.
"Our world has grown weary of greed, exploitation and division,
of the tedium of
false idols and piecemeal responses, and the pain of false promises."
-- Pope
Benedict XVI on the perils of materialism.
"May the cheaters get caught. May they go away."
-- Christian
Prudhomme, director of the Tour de France, after stage winner
Riccardo Ricco
tests positive for blood-booster EPO.
"I challenge our nation to commit to producing 100 per cent of our electricity
from renewable energy and truly clean carbon-free sources within 10 years."
-- Al Gore
challenges the US to commit to meeting all its electricity needs with renewable
sources by 2018.
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Quotes of the Week - July 15, 2008:
"You are my lord, you're my darling, you're my orgy, my charming prince."
-- Carla
Bruni-Sarkozy's tribute to husband, Nicholas Sarkozy, president of France.
"Barack, he's talking down to black people. I want to cut his nuts off."
-- Jesse
Jackson, US Democrat and civil rights activist, about his party's presidential
candidate Barack Obama.
"Many things that happened in the jungle we have to leave in the jungle."
-- Former
hostage Ingrid Betancourt, refuses to discuss certain details about her six
years of captivity in jungles of Colombia.
"Europe is a family of 27 nations, we can't leave anyone behind."
-- Nicolas Sarkozy, French President, urging European Parliament
to speed
negotiations over Lisbon Treaty.
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Quotes of the Week - July 8, 2008:
"If I see something sagging, bagging and dragging,
I'm going to
nip it, tuck it and suck it."
-- Dolly
Parton reveals her anti-aging procedure.
"I get there, I put on clothes, I leave it on the hanger and I go home."
-- Gisele
Bundchen on the arduous life of a supermodel.
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Quotes of the Week - July 1, 2008:
"What is so special is that you spend 27 years in prison, you come out
and you do
the thing that everyone thought was impossible to do,
become
president of the nation and change the way people feel about Africa."
-- Oprah
Winfrey to Nelson Mandela on his 90th birthday.
"We have seen the outbreak of violence against fellow Africans in our own
country
and the
tragic failure of leadership in our neighboring Zimbabwe."
--
Nelson Mandela speaks out against Robert Mugabe.
"I won't lie to you and say that I always enjoy the campaigning,
but when the
days get a little long and I get a little frustrated,
I remind
myself that I have a ringside seat on American history."
-- Cindy
McCain, wife of US presidential candidate John McCain.
"Sixty-six pence per person in the country -
less than the
price of two pints of milk or a download to an iPod."
--
Buckingham Palace spokesman explains the cost of the Queen to British nation.
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Quotes of the Week - June 24, 2008:
"We are not going to give up our country because of a mere X. How can
a ballpoint
fight with a gun?"
-- Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe hints he will cling to
power,
whatever the
outcome of the election for president.
"To come out with this kind of hugely expensive and over-the-top burger and to
have
80 million people going to bed hungry every night is just to shoot yourself
in the foot."
-- David
Tuciker of War on Want, the anti-poverty group, as Burger King launches a $200
burger, consisting of
Japanese-style Wagyu, Italian truffles and Spanish cured
ham.
"This could revolutionize transport."
-- Mayor of Paris Bertrand Delanoe unveils a green scheme under
which
the city is to
provide electric cars that drivers can pick up and drop off wherever they like.
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Quotes of the Week - June 17, 2008:
"I think that, in retrospect, I could have used a different rhetoric.
Phrases
such as 'bring them on' or 'dead of alive' indicated to people that I was,
you
know, not a man of peace."
-- US
President George W Bush regrets being so hawkish over Iraq.
"The nation will live to regret what the court has done today."
-- US
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia after the court rules foreign terror
suspects at
Guantanamo Bay can challenge their detention in US courts.
"He didn't like the nose."
-- Courtroom
sketch artist Janet Hamlin on the response of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the
self-confessed
mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, after he saw a sketch of himself.
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Quotes of the Week - June 10, 2008:
"Kids, drink responsibly or you'll end up looking like this, not pretty."
-- Pop star
Lily Allen, in her MySpace blog, after she was carried out of the British
Glamour magazine's
Woman of the Year Awards by a security guard after getting
totally drunk.
"I backed off wrongly, sideways like a crab."
-- British
TV chat show host Michael Parkinson, after being knighted by Queen Elizabeth.
"You know who I am, right? I'm researching a part - I'm doing this for a part.
I've been
clean for a long time. Today was the first time I was relapsing,
but you guys
saved me. Can you let me go?"
-- Tatum O'Neill to police officers who arrested her for
allegedly buying
crack
cocaine from a street dealer.
"One of the founding fathers of rock and roll has left the building he helped
construct."
--
Announcement of the death of Bo Diddley, by his management agency.
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Quotes of the Week - June 3, 2008:
"In some ways the Web is the most important book in the world."
-- Jeff
Bezos, CEO of Amazon.com, on the company's e-reader, The Kindle.
"This may be the last day I'm ever involved in a campaign of this kind."
-- Bill
Clinton, husband of US presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton, on the eve of what
political
pundits anticipate to be her withdrawal from the Democratic campaign.
"The so-called international misers theory is totally unfounded."
-- China's
commerce minister Chen Deming, refuting Chinese netizens' claim that
multinational corporations
such as Nokia and McDonald's donated little to help
Sichuan earthquake victims. According to Chinese Internet portal S
ina.com,
corporations have donated or pledged more than $1 billion.
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Quotes of the Week - May 27, 2008:
"Those 20 envelopes won't shake up German democracy."
-- Spokesman for Deutsche Post after stamps depicting Nazi leader
Rudolf Hess
are accidentally issued.
"It was painful, and it was a big struggle, and I didn't understand it."
-- Madonna
reflects on the media uproar over her adoption of a Malawi infant.
"I'm at the fish counter and a man, with his 13-year-old daugfhter,
is talking
to me about sex. Nice to be recognized but, frankly,
all I wanted was some
clams."
-- Kim
Cattrall, the randy one from Sex and the City.
"There's always someone younger and prettier."
-- Actress
Gwyneth Paltrow, 35, faces Hollywood reality.
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Quotes of the Week - May 20, 2008:
"I wish for the recovery of my daughter Kerstin, the love of my children,
the
protection of my family and for people with heart and compassion."
-- Elisabeth Fritzl, the Austrian woman kept as a sex slave by
her father
for 24 years thanks people for their support in a handwritten
message on a
notice board
in the square of her home town.
"No foreigners allowed."
-- Burmese police officer stopping aid workers from entering
cyclone-stricken
communities
in the Irrawaddy Delta.
"My wife wouldn't let me retire. She kicks me out of the door at
7am every
morning.
She's quite a
formidable person."
-- Manchester United Manager Sir Alex Ferguson after his team won
the Premier
League title.
"I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal."
-- US
President George W Bush explaining why he quite the game in 2003.
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Quotes of the Week - May 13, 2008:
"We have lit the torch on top of the world."
-- Climber on Chinese mountaineering team that took the
Olympic
flame to top Mount Everest.
"I am not a monster. I could have killed them all,
and no one would have known."
-- Josef Fritzl, 73, the Austrian man who fathered seven children
with
daughter he imprisoned in a cellar for 24 years.
"Every US President has to have a war."
-- Mikhail Gorbachev, former Soviet President, claiming the
US military
buildup risks leading to a new cold war with Russia.
"We will not just bring our supplies to an airport,
dump it and take off."
-- Anthony
Banbury, UN World Food Program Regional Director, on why relief agencies
were
having trouble getting food aid to cyclone survivors in Burma.
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Quotes of the Week - May 5, 2008:
"I am so sorry. I had no idea."
-- Elizabeth Fritzl, mother of the girl kept prisoner in a
basement in Austria
for 24 years
by her father who fathered seven children with her.
"Some of the comments that Rev Wright has made offend me,
and I
understand why they offend the American people. He does not speak for me. He does not
speak for the American people."
-- Barack
Obama on his old pastor.
"I am sure I had it. It's why men want to bonk everything that moves."
-- Singer Chris de Burgh explaining how a mid-life crisis made
him
want to have
sex with his children's nanny.
"Hillary Clinton is talking tough. She said if Israel is ever attacked by Iran,
she would obliterate Iran. Although, she does admire the Iranians for stoning
adulterers."
-- Chatshow
host Jay Leno.
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Quotes of the Week - April 29, 2008:
"A homosexual cannot do the job of a footballer.
The football
world is not designed for them.
It's a
special world in which you stand naked under the showers."
-- Former
Juventus general manager Luciano Moggi.
"If the human race is to continue for another million years,
we will have
to boldly go where no on has gone before."
-- Professor
Stephen Hawking calls for more investment in space travel.
"My own years as a teenager were marred by a sinister regime that thought it had
all the answers. Its influence grew, infiltrating schools and civil bodies as
well as politics and even religion, before it was recognized for the monster it
was."
-- Pope
Benedict XVI on Nazism, speaking to seminarians and young people
at St.
Joseph's Seminary in Yonkers, New York, during his first papal visit to the US.
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Quotes of the Week - April 22, 2008:
"We will absolutely exclude pedophiles from the sacred ministry. I
t is more
important to have good priests than to have many priests."
-- Pope
Benedict.
"In the US and Europe over the last year we've been focused on the prices of
gasoline at the pump. While many worry about filling their gas tanks, many
others around the world are struggling to fill their stomachs. And it's getting
more and more difficult every day."
-- IMF chief
Robert Zoellick.
"I don't need to be on TV on a Saturday night; I do it because
I love
helping these performers."
-- Composer Andrew Lloyd Weber hits back at Kevin Spacey's
accusations
that his
reality television shows are basically just long advertising campaigns for his
musicals.
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Quotes of the Week - April 14, 2008:
"Sometimes I think that when people become famous,
there's a
public perception that they are not human beings any more."
-- Writer Salmon Rushdie.
"The Left doesn't even have good taste in women.
Ours are more
beautiful and, moreover, all have super degrees."
-- Italian politician Silvio Berlusconi predicts an electoral
victory,
with beauty,
brains and The Right on his side.
"I feel my entire life up until this moment has crystallised and
come to
fruition
since I met
this woman."
--
53-year-old action hero Bruce Willis, about 29-year-old underwear
model Emma
Heming, who is his girlfriend.
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Quotes of the Week - April 7, 2008:
"The evidence provided no basis whatsoever in suggesting that (Prince Philip)
was involved in killing his daughter-in-law, One of the regrettable features of
this case is the number of people who have told lies in the witness box or
elsewhere."
-- Lord
Justice Scott Baker, presiding at the Princess Diana Inquest.
"How did Bush go from being an alcoholic bum to the most powerful figure in the
world?"
-- Film
director Oliver Stone, who is making a movie about President George W. Bush.
"The Chinese have made sure that for a few hours,
Paris will
look like Tiananmen Square. I think it's shameful."
-- Robert
Menard, of Reporters Without Borders, on the heavy
police
turnout promised in Paris to deter protests as the Olympic
torch passes
through that city.
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Quotes of the Week - March 31, 2008:
"I do not think that is any of your business."
-- Chelsea Clinton, daughter of Hillary Clinton, asked if her
mother's
credibility
was damaged during the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
"Within me, there is a charitable disposition."
-- President
Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe denies he is a tyrant.
"Vice President Dick Cheney is in Baghdad. While he was in Iraq,
he said that
it's a successful endeavour. At least I think that's what he said.
It was hard
to hear over the explosions."
-- Chatshow host David
Letterman.
"We have
enemies for whom no attack is too cruel."
--
Presumptive Republican nominee for US President John McCain.
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Quotes of the Week - March 24, 2008:
"They can examine my pulse, my urine, my stool, everything."
-- The Dalai Lama invites Chinese authorities to investigate
whether he
was behind the rioting in Tibet.
"Even President Bush is starting to get worried about this economy
being out of
control, you know. I mean, gold is over $1,000 an ounce.
Oil, over
$100 a barrel. Hookers, $5,000 an hour."
-- Chatshow
host Jay Leno, referring to the Governor of New York's links to a prostitute.
"I saw a photo of me taken at the wrap party for Miami Vice. I looked awful. My
eyes were dead. That night I got on a plane and
checked into rehab. I was just
broken."
-- Colin
Farrell on his decision to check into rehab.
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Quotes of the Week - March 17, 2008:
"We have no business qualifications, we don't understand marketing,
and we're not
very good at it."
-- Michael and Xochi Birch, who are set to make in excess of
$850m
from the
sale of the Bebo social networking site to AOL.
"Whether intentionally or unintentionally,
some kind of
cultural genocide is taking place."
-- The Dalai Lama, calling for international action
in wake of
Chinese crackdown on rioters in Tibet.
"I believe whatever doesn't kill you simply makes you stranger."
-- The Joker as played by Heath Ledger in the new Batman movie
The Dark
Knight set to release this summer. Producers say no edits will be made
to
Ledger's dialogue to reflect the actor's death.
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Quotes of the Week - March 10, 2008:
"They say fags and booze are bad for you - but I'm still here."
-- Britain's
oldest employee Buster Martin, aged 101, after running a half marathon.
"It's a bit like a Travelodge, minus the mini bar and room service."
--
Englishwoman Kate Knight, jailed for trying to kill her husband, on prison life.
She tried to kill him by slipping anti-freeze into his wine and curry.
"I saw this crocodile and thought I'd tease it a bit with a small bit of bait,
just to get
it in quite close to me for the picture. I was playing around,
pointing at
it, laughing - when it suddenly jumped at me.
I didn't
realize crocs were so aggressive"
-- Novon Mashiah a tourist in Australia's Northern Territory
annoyed
a croc
beside his boat so much it jumped out of the water at him.
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Quotes of the Week - March 3, 2008:
"We shot this on two handicams in three weeks for 100 grand.
We never
thought we would be up here tonight."
-- Irish singer with The Frames Glen Hansard accepting the
Oscar for best original song
for Falling Slowly, from the film Once.
"I don't think we've ever been moved so deeply."
-- Jon Deak, of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra,
which made a
historic debut in North Korea.
"Talk is cheap. Flouting the rules is expensive."
-- Neelie Kroes, EU competition commissioner, which fined
Microsoft
a record
$1,35 billion for failing to fully comply with a 2004 antitrust order.
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Quotes of the Week - Feb 25, 2008:
"He's a man
of great character."
-- Cindy McCain, wife of US presidential candidate John McCain,
following
rumors he had a fling with a female lobbyist.
"Kosovo is ours! Kosovo is Servia."
-- Serb protesters gathering at US embassy in Belgrade
to protest
the independence of Kosovo.
"It's not allowed for a woman to sit with a strange man
and talk and drink
coffee together."
-- Saudi
Arabia defends the arrest of a US woman for having coffee with a colleague.
"Washington is a place where good ideas go to die."
-- US
presidential hopeful Barack Obama.
"People get very snotty when I say I want to bring
Mozart to the masses,
but what was
Mozart if not a pop star?"
-- pianist and TV presenter Myleene Klass.
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Quotes of the Week - Feb 19, 2008:
"My conscience will not allow me to continue with business as usual."
-- Steven
Spielberg steps down as artistic adviser to the Beijing Olympics
in protest at
China's stance on the conflict in Darfur.
"I feel like I am 20 again, but with arthritis."
-- Sylvester
Stallone, 61, returns as Rambo.
"He would probably not last long, a black man in the position of president.
They
would kill him. Hillary is a very sharp lady.
It might be calmer if she wins."
-- Nobel
Prize winner Doris Lessing on Barack Obama and the US presidency.
"For the pain, suffering and hurt of these stolen generations,
their descendants
and for their families left behind, we say sorry.
To the mothers and the
fathers, the brothers and the sisters,
for the breaking up of families and
communities, we say sorry.
And for the indignity and degradation thus inflicted
on a proud people
and a proud culture, we say sorry."
--
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd apologises for the past mistreatment of
Aborigines.
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Quotes of the Week - Feb 12, 2008:
"We hold in our hands the solution to the global tobacco epidemic that threatens
the lives of one billion men, women and children during this century."
-- World Health Organisation Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan,
launching
WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic, 2008.
"Stay natural. I've been through all this. Look at the state of me."
-- Glamour
model Jordan (Katie Price).
"We are less of an underdog than we were two weeks ago.
Two weeks ago
we were a big underdog, now we're a slight underdog."
-- Barack
Obama.
"I think the results last night prove the wisdom of my investment."
-- Hillary
Clinton on lending $5m of her own money to her presidential campaign.
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Quotes of the Week - Feb 5, 2008:
"I see this as the beginning of the new age in which we will communicate
with
billions of
planets across the universe."
-- Yoko Ono on Nasa announcement they will beam into space
The Beatles
song Across the Universe.
"I was friends with Hillary Clinton before we started this campaign.
I will be
friends with Hillary Clinton after this campaign is over."
-- Barack
Obama on his Democratic rival in US presidential race.
"We had never heard of her. We had to look her up in Wikipedia"
-- Spokesman for Woolworths stores in UK, who were forced to
withdraw
a children's
bed named "Lolita" after mothers objected to it.
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Quotes of the Week - Jan 28, 2008:
"I know I'm ugly, but I need love like everyone else."
-- Yu
Zhenhuan, 29, from China, the world's hairiest man.
"Sorry for being topless."
-- How Carla Bruni, official girlfriend to President Sarkozy of
France,
once greeted
a surprised British journalist.
"'I'll now have the opportunity to do this 24 hours a day on a platform that
goes on for ever."
--
Oprah Winfrey launches her own digital channel, Oprah
Winfrey Network.
Last week I probably slept an average of two hours a night. I couldn't stop
thinking.
My body was exhausted, and my mind was still going."
-- Heath
Ledger speaking to reporters recently. He died this week.
"Being a scientologist, when you drive past an accident
it's
not like
anyone else when you drive past. You're really the only one that can help."
-- Tom
Cruise on Scientology.
"Musharraf has destroyed Pakistan. The whole of Pakistan is drowned in blood."
-- Pakistani
opposition leader Nawaz Sharif on President Pervez Musharraf.
"He talks about it as though I had laid it all out there for the taking.
I was
the buffet and he just couldn't resist the dessert. That's not how it was."
--
Monica Lewinsky on her encounters with Bill Clinton.
I am allergic to domestic goddesses.
Men would prefer a woman with a dirty mind
to a clean house."
-- Kathy
Lette.
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Quotes of the Week - Jan 14, 2008:
"It's not easy and I could not do it if I just didn't passionately believe it
was the right thing to do.
I have had so many opportunities from this country, I
just don't want us to fall back. This is very personal for me.
It is not just
political. I see what's happening. We have to reverse it. Some people think
politics is a game. I
t is about our country. It is about our kids' future."
-- A tearful
Hillary Clinton on the US presidential campaign trail in New Hampshire.
"Jerry Springer is an appalling man. This isn't entertainment, this is an
absolute disgrace.
We are very unhappy with this so-called special event."
-- Spokesman
for America's Little People Organisation on the US TV host who featured a
punch-up involving two midgets.
"People live with their choices, and the choice not to play by the rules
has
been compounded by the choice to break the law."
-- Judge
Kenneth Karas after sentencing Olympic track star Marion Jones to six months in
prison and two years of probation.
Jones pleaded guilty in October of lying to a
federal agent in 2003 about her use of steroids
"Sir Ed described himself as an average New Zealander with modest abilities. In
reality, he was a colossus."
--
Helen Clark Prime Minister of New Zealand, on the death of Sir Edmund Hillary,
who in 1953 became the first person to climb Mt. Everest.
"Over the last week, I listened to you and, in the process, I found my own
voice."
-- Hillary
Clinton, thanking voters of New Hampshire after her victory in the state's
Democratic primary despite pollster
predictions that opponent Barack Obama would
win.
"Tonight, we sure showed 'em what a comeback looks like."
-- John McCain, after winning the New Hampshire Republican
primary despite declining poll numbers and funding.
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Quotes of the Week - Jan 7, 2008:
"You campaign in poetry, you govern in prose."
-- Hillary
Clinton, accusing her Democrat rival Barack Obama of lacking substance ahead of
the New Hampshire primary.
"If Jesus came back today, I think he'd throw up."
-- Former
Gov. Jesse Ventura on politics and organized religion in his upcoming book Don't
Start the Revolution Without Me!
"She is in dire need of both medical and psychological intervention."
-- Dr.
Phil McGraw, after meeting pop star Britney Spears before her release from
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in L.A.
He later canceled a one-hour show that was
to examine her latest public meltdown .
It's intimidating to think you might be arrested for something on your blog.
On
the other hand, this means that these voices on the blogosphere are being
heard."
-- Ahmad Al-Omran
of Saudi Arabia, after the country's Interior Ministry confirmed that
blogger
Fouah al-Farhan was being held for "purposes of interrogation".
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