Here are some of the scariest quotes made in the past 20 years.
(None of these have been altered or fabricated in any way.)
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"I didn't commit no crime. I mean, I didn't shoot nobody. I didn't stick
nobody with no blade. I didn't kill nobody. I didn't steal from nobody.
I didn't sell no drugs. This is stupid, real stupid."
-- Mike Tyson, after being convicted of rape and assault
"Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the not
world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that but
with all those flies and death and stuff."
-- Mariah Carey
At the 1994 Miss Universe contest:
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
"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. And 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
"Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates
in the country."
-- Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, D.C.
"Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued.
Reason: it has been reported to our office that you expired on
January 1, 1976."
-- Letter from the Illinois Department of Public Aid
"The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this
century's history....We all lived in this century. I didn't live in
this century."
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republican vice-presidential
candidate during a news conference in which he was asked his opinion of
the Holocaust
"The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make
them unsafe."
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia
"I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly
underpolluted."
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why
we should export toxic wastes to Third World countries.
"After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal,
the school board is extremely pleased to announce the appointment of
David Steele to the post."
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent of Schools, Oakland, California
"The doctors X-rayed my head and found nothing."
-- Dizzy Dean explaining how he felt after being hit on the head by a
ball in the 1934 World Series.
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