Do you love it when famous people say stupid things?

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Ok, so I found these quotes that famous people said and I couldn't help but share them...

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 in the 1994 Miss USA contest.

If you ever feel a little bit stupid, just dig this up and read it again; you’ll begin to think you’re a genius.

(On September 17, 1994, Alabama’s Heather Whitestone was selected as Miss America 1995.)

‘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

‘Smoking kills. If you’re killed, you’ve lost a very important part of your life,’ –Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for federal anti-smoking campaign .

‘I’ve never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body,’ –Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward.

‘Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country,’
–Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, DC.

‘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.’ –Al Gore, Vice President

‘I love California. I practically grew up in Phoenix.’ –Dan Quayle

‘We’ve got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need ?’ –Lee Iacocca

‘The word ‘genius’ isn’t applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.’
–Joe Theisman, NFL football quarterback & sports analyst.

‘We don’t necessarily discriminate. We simply exclude certain types of people.’ –Colonel Gerald Wellman, ROTC Instructor.


‘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.’
–Department of Social Services, Greenville, South Carolina

‘Traditionally, most of Australia’s imports come from overseas.’ –Keppel Enderbery

‘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

"It is wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago"
- Dan Quayle, former U.S. Vice-President

Fiction writing is great, you can make up almost anything."
- Ivana Trump, on finishing her first novel

Alicia Silverstone - "I think that the film Clueless was very deep. I think it was deep in the way that it was very light. I think lightness has to come from a very deep place if it's true lightness."

Bob Dole - "The internet is a great way to get on the net. Life is very important to Americans."

George W. Bush - "More and more of our imports are coming from overseas."

Bill Clinton - "You know the one thing that's wrong with this country? Everyone gets a chance to have their fair say."

Raquel Welch - "I was asked to come to Chicago because Chicago is one of our fifty-two states."

Mayor David Dinkins - "I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law."

Dan Quale - "I understand the importance of bondage between parent and child."

Michael Jackson - "Me and Janet really are two different people."

Doug Collins - "Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points, the almost always win."

Dick Cavett - "If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either."

Casey Stengel - "The team has come along slow but fast."

Janet Barber - "I refuse to think of them as chin hairs. I think of them as stray eyebrows."

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

Celine Dion - "To have your niece die in your arms is the greatest gift from God."

Jean-Claude Van Damme - "In an action film you act the action, in a drama film you act in the drama."

Donald Trump - "Deals work best when each side gets something it wants from the other."

Al Gore - "I invented the internet."

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Thought I would post these so you could all laugh as much as did! Do you know any other dumb quotes by famous people?
Don't you love it when famous people say dumb things?

Answer 1

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker

There's a classic quote that applies here from Mark Twain, he said, "It's better to be thought a fool and remain silent than to open one's own mouth and remove all doubt."

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Asker's Comment:

Lol, sad but true, better to say nothing and leave it all to people's imagination. But we all have the well known brain fart moment. Lol, thanks guys!
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Pearl

Answer 2

Super Funny! I love it when famous people do things like these, it makes us take them down from that pedestal we, oh well some of us have them on.

"You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.'' —
Former president George Bush - Townsend, Tenn., Feb. 21, 2001
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Always

Answer 3

I have one!
We are not without accomplishment. We have managed to distribute poverty equally."
-Nguyen Co Thatch, Vietnamese foreign minister

Oh... Wait I have one more!
I cannot tell you how grateful I am -- I am filled with humidity.
-- Gib Lewis, speaker of the Texas House

And here is a great one...
"I always wanted to kill Hitler. I hated him. As a child studying history and looking at documents, I wondered why didn't someone stand up and try to stop him." -- Tom Cruise on his new movie Valkyrie.

Don't you love it!?
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Me!

Answer 4

LMBO !! I do love them sweetie. I do feel a bit smarter today after reading that Ha ha ha ha. I have said a few dumb things in my life time its nice to know famous people do it too. = ) Have a great day .
Love and Hugs Sugar bug

Answer 5

Good ones...check this out....
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly and lie about your age.
Lucille Ball

Answer 6

Unfortunately it is not what they say that we remember so much as their image.

Answer 7

Sounds like Yogi Berra isn't the only one to mince words.
If you see a fork in the road, take it.