"Sit down and eat yer fuckin' meatballs!"
-- A lady, as overheard by Joe.My.God

"I love it when I see in the paper who's made a complete jack-off of themselves - it amuses me... So, I get it, but at some point at the end of the nineties, studios and insurance companies suddenly started using your private persona to get you a sobriety coach and five hours of fucking Gestalt therapy a week - or we don't pay you."

-- Robert Downey Jr., in Wonder Boy by Logan Hill in New York Magazine.


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"We'll bomb, strafe and send missiles against their people even though our security's not directly threatened... This is contrary to international law. It's also contrary to what every president has done in this country for more than 100 years, Democrat or Republican."

-- President Jimmy Carter


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"A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men".

-- Roald Dahl

"I am a fashion God."
-- Michael Brown, former FEMA Director, in e-mails he wrote during the recent New Orleans disaster.

"Brownie, You're doin a heck of a job!"
-- George W. Bush

"Why the f*ck is everyone so dressed up?"

-- Elaine Stritch, at MoMA royal reception for Prince Charles, last night, as quoted by Cindy Adams.

"My only regret about being gay is that I repressed it for so long."

-- Armistead Maupin

"As a singer, I have minimal skills. As a dancer, I have even 'minimaller' skills."

-- Rosie O'Donnell, on Inside the Actor's Studio.

"Ho, ho, ho!"

-- Elmer Dresslar, Jr., Voice of the Green Giant, 1925-2005.


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"Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address".

-- Lane Olinghouse

"I am going to have a great Friday and a fantastic weekend, and hope you do too."

-- Karl Rove said as he left his home this morning, as reported by CNN.

"You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense."

-- Rick Warren

"What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease."

-- George Dennison Prentice

"I'd like people to say I'm a person who always wanted to be free and wanted it not only for myself; freedom is for all human beings."

-- Rosa Parks, 1913-2005.


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“Fat kid got lucky.”
-- Gordon "Porky" Lee, Star of The Little Rascals, 1933-2005.


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"The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference".
--­ Anonymous

"Children... if we really love them must be allowed to struggle, for only through the struggle of adolescence can they acquire the security of adulthood."

-- Michael DeSisto

"Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else".

-- James M. Barrie

"It promotes co-operation. When people aren't happy, you see it. When people aren't getting along, you see it. People also want to feel included, and everybody wants - I keep saying this - recognition and respect."

-- Michael Bloomberg, on his unusual office arrangement in the center of a large open room with all of his Deputies and aids surrounding his desk, as quoted in yesterday's New York Times.


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"I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it".

-- Edith Sitwell