Repost: Great Thinkers of our time

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, which is why i would not live forever" - Miss Alabama in the 1994 Miss USA contest

"Whenever i watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I cant 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

"I havent 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. 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.

"China is a big country, inhabited by many chinese" - Former French President, Charles De Gaulle

"Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country" - Mayor Marion Barry (Washington DC)

"It isnt pollution that's harming the environment. Its the impurities in our air and water that are doing it" - Former US Vice President Dan Quayle