The Things People Say
1. "The sleeping giant goes on the offensive: Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft
is ready to take the offensive."
< http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/04/03/
8373041/index.htm >
"My children--in many dimensions they're as poorly behaved as many other
children, but at least on this dimension I've got my kids brainwashed:
You don't use Google, and you don't use an iPod."
2. "President Bush's remarks on Economic Competitiveness"
< http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/18/
AR2006041801057.html >
"The iPod, interestingly enough, was built on years of government-funded
research in microdrive storage and electrochemistry and signal compression"
3. "Bush brings campaign across the Potomac"
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"Bush added that 'the really rich people figure out how to dodge taxes
anyway'"
4. "Rumsfeld prose makes sweet music"
< http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200403/s1070092.htm >
"Last year, newspaper columnist Hart Seely recorded Mr Rumsfeld's exchanges
with reporters in Pieces of Intelligence: The Existential Poetry of Donald
Rumsfeld. One of those pieces, The Unknown, is Mr Rumsfeld's oft-repeated
musing on the vagaries of intelligence, 'as we know, there are known knowns;
there are things we know we know; we also know, there are known unknowns...'"
Related:
* "Pieces of Intelligence: The Existential Poetry of Donald Rumsfeld"
< http://www.monkeyrivertown.com/brains.php?ART=438 >
* The Donald Rumsfeld Library of Quotations
< http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/bh/rumsfeld.shtml >
5. "Jennifer Lopez wants to be American president"
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"After conquering Hollywood and the pop charts, superstar Jennifer Lopez says
she is ready to wrestle George W Bush out of the White House"
6. "Celine calls her Vegas audiences sleepy drunks"
< http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1328796.html >
"Celine Dion has admitted that audiences at her Las Vegas show are often
tired, drunk, sick and in some cases asleep"
7. "Charlize wants to marry Ozzy"
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"Charlize Theron says she would love to marry Ozzy Osbourne"
8. "'I haven't read a book in my life', says Posh"
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"Former Spice Girl singer Victoria Beckham, the wife of England soccer
captain David, has confessed she has never read a book"
9. "Vanstone denies mocking aviation security measures"
< http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2005/s1513051.htm >
"she allegedly complained about having to use plastic knives on planes, and
used a bizarre example involving gouging someone's eye out with a pencil"
