The «smartest» people in the world and their thoughts — немного забавных цитат

Искала что-то интересное для Warm-up activities или Conversation Classes, и наткнулась на вот этот забавный список «умных» цитат. Как именно их использовать пока не придумала (прочитать/прокомментировать, выбрать лучшую, составить Top 5 и др.) ,  но настроение  улучшилось :-). Возможно, они Вам пригодятся для каких-то учебных целей. Если нет — по крайней мере улыбнетесь :-).

1. Question: «If you could live forever, would you and why?»  Answer: «We  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 in the 1994 Miss USA contest

2. «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.»

 -- Mariah Carey, American pop singer

3.  «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

4. «Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.»

 -- Brooke Shields, American actress, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking campaign.

5. «I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.»

 --Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward.

6.  «Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates  in the country.»

 --Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, D.C.

7.  "I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are  the president."

 --Hillary Clinton commenting on the release of subpoenaed documents

8.  «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.

9.  «I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them.  There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians  were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.»

 -- John Wayne,  American film actor

10.  «Half this game is ninety percent mental.»

 -- Philadelphia Phillies manager Danny Ozark

11.  «It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities  in our air and water that are doing it.»

 -- Former U.S. Vice-president Dan Quayle (Right on, Danny!!!)

12.  «Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.»

 -- General William Westmoreland

13.   «I have opinions of my own -strong opinions- but I don't always agree  with them.»

 --George Bush, former US President

14.  "The loss of life will be irreplaceable."

 --Dan Quayle, former Vice President of the United States

15. "I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have  is that I didn't study my Latin harder in school so I could converse   with those people."

 -- Dan Quayle,  former Vice President of the United States

16.  «What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.»

 -- Dan Quayle,  former Vice President of the United States

17.  «We are ready for an unforeseen event that may or may not occur.»

 --Dan Quayle,  former Vice President of the United States

18. «Not only is he ambidextrous, but he can throw with either hand.»

 --Duffy Daugherty, football coach and sports analyst

19.   «I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version.»

 --Colonel Oliver North, from his Iran-Contra testimony

20. «We are sorry to announce that Mr. Albert Brown has been quite unwell, owing to his recent death, and is taking a short holiday to recover.»

 --Parish Magazine

21. «We are not without accomplishment. We have managed to distribute  poverty equally.»

 --Nguyen Co Thatch, Vietnamese foreign minister

22.  "The word 'genius" isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein."

 --Joe Theisman, NFL football quarterback and sports analyst

23.  "We don't necessarily discriminate. We simply exclude certain types of people."

 --Colonel Gerald Wellman, ROTC Instructor

24.  "The road of good intentions is paved with Hell."

 --Spencer Ante, Wall Street Journal

25.  "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."

 --Mark S. Fowler, FCC Chairman

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