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| #5101 | | I am just a nice, clean-cut Mongolian boy.
-- Yul Brynner, 1956
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| #5102 | | I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of
pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you
that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic
globule. Consequently, my family pride is something inconceivable. I
can't help it. I was born sneering.
-- Pooh-Bah, "The Mikado"
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| #5103 | | I didn't know he was dead; I thought he was British.
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| #5104 | | I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.
-- George Bernard Shaw
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| #5105 | | I shot an arrow in to the air, and it stuck.
-- graffito in Los Angeles
On a clear day,
U.C.L.A.
-- graffito in San Francisco
There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our
lungs there'd be no place to put it all.
-- Robert Orben
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| #5106 | | I'm going through my "I want to go back to New York" phase today. Happens
every six months or so. So, I thought, perhaps unwisely, that I'd share
it with you.
> In New York in the winter it is million degrees below zero and
the wind travels at a million miles an hour down 5th avenue.
> And in LA it's 72.
> In New York in the summer it is a million degrees and the humidity
is a million percent.
> And in LA it's 72.
> In New York there are a million interesting people.
> And in LA there are 72.
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| #5107 | | "I'm in Pittsburgh. Why am I here?"
-- Harold Urey, Nobel Laureate
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| #5108 | | If all the Chinese simultaneously jumped into the Pacific off a 10 foot
platform erected 10 feet off their coast, it would cause a tidal wave
that would destroy everything in this country west of Nebraska.
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| #5109 | | Illinois isn't exactly the land that God forgot -- it's more like the
land He's trying to ignore.
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| #5110 | | In 1880 the French captured Detroit but gave it back ... they couldn't
get parts.
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