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(when asked by Chris Matthews if what thought about Whoopi Goldberg`s remarks at a John Kerry fundraiser that resulted in her being fired as a spokesman for SlimFast) I wasn`t there. I went to the Los Angeles fundraiser. I wasn`t in the one in New York. I think when you have somebody -- you know, if you did a rock concert that was a benefit and The Who played their music or The Rolling Stones, you`d expect to get, you know, "Satisfaction" or "My Generation." When you hire Whoopi Goldberg, you`re going to get her brand of humor. And I think there is a fine line, and you have to be a little bit mindful. And I, for one, am not going to do any scatological jokes or puns about the president`s last name on your show, mostly for that reason. But I also think I expect a different code of behavior maybe from comedians who have made a career with a certain kind of comedy than I do from, oh, say, the Vice President of the United States (referring to Vice President [Dick Cheney, who told Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy to "Go fuck yourself" on the floor of the Senate), who used this vulgar language, you know, to a senator and was sort of unapologetic about it. So I think the Republicans hitting her (Whoopi) too hard for that is a little bit hypocritical.

- Ben Affleck

Honey, to them I`m just a chick who is hung over at 11:00 in the morning. My hair isn`t combed, I`m wearin` funny lookin` clothes, plus I`m wearin` feathers. I walk in here and say I want a drink. These people don`t want to see me, baby. I mean, let`s face it, they don`t want me in here - period. So there`s three old cats sayin`, `What is this chick doin` here and why?` They`d just as soon be talkin` about the Mets game and they don`t want this chick walkin` in with bells on and a big sack of beads. There`s the snide remarks I`m not supposed to hear, but loud enough, of course, for me to hear. Everybody gets it, man. Getting` treated like a hippie, that`s what I`m talkin` about.

- Janis Joplin

(refuting the remarks of cast and crew that he IS Samwise Gamgee) But I`m not really Sam . . . nobody could be that good, that noble. He`s just better than the rest of us. I`m a lot more Hollywood than Sam would ever be.

- Sean Astin

Explaining his controversial remarks on the death of Heath Ledger: What I actually said was, `I warned them.` I had a bad experience with those sleeping pills that Ledger apparently took. I took one of these pills and had just gone to sleep when I had a phone call to go to an emergency at a friend`s house. I jumped up, went outside and some time later woke up on the driveway. It sounds amusing but I live in the mountains and it could of been worse. I didn`t know Heath Ledger, but I know those pills.

- Jack Nicholson

I`ve been chased by automobiles doing dangerous things on the freeway. People have tried to spit on me. It`s made me totally paranoid. One day a gay group confronted me. They had signs, they were screaming and frothing at the mouth - pure hatred. It was wild. - After making apparently homophobic remarks in a 1992 interview with a Spanish magazine

- Mel Gibson

At first I would get mail saying, `Oh, you must be a Christian because the movie (Groundhog Day (1993)) so beautifully expresses Christian belief.` Then rabbis started calling from all over, saying they were preaching the film as their next sermon. And the Buddhists! Well, I knew they loved it because my mother-in-law has lived in a Buddhist meditation centre for 30 years and my wife lived there for five years. - remarks to the New York Times on the ecumenical popularity of Groundhog Day (1993).

- Harold Ramis

The remarks about my reaching the age of Social Security and coming to the end of the road, they jolted me. And that was good. Because I sure as hell had no intention of just sitting around for the rest of my life. So I`d whip out the paints and really go to it.

- Norman Rockwell

I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything is well in our schools.

- Philip Pullman

(Next, remarks from Boston outfielder Trot Nixon may have snuck under the helmet and into A-Rod`s head.) When people ask me about the Yankees, I tell them about Jeter and Bernie Williams and (Jorge) Posada, ... I don`t tell them about Rodriguez.

- Trot Nixon

I`m just preparing my impromptu remarks.

- Winston Churchill

(MIKE`S RICHMOND REMARKS:) My Tundra was just awesome, ... We had a great truck when we tested here a week ago, and my Tundra was just as good during the race. I could go anywhere I wanted on the track, without any problems. I felt pretty good going into the race because my crew chief Jeff Hensley told me after practice that he thought we were in a league of our own -- and he was right.

- Mike Skinner

(MIKE`S REMARKS:) This race team probably deserved five or six wins by now, ... We`ve been really close so many times. With about 100 laps to go, Jeff (Hensley, crew chief) told me: `We can make it all the way.` And I told somebody to slap Jeff. I said: `I`m not doing that.` Last year we did that and lost the race. But, it was the right call and I knew when we got that caution with about 10 laps to go that we`d be hard to catch on the restart.

- Mike Skinner

I think he has us dead on. For instance, he sees how women often communicate through catty remarks rather than directly addressing a problem or confrontation.

- Rachel Smith

During my opening remarks, I explicitly encouraged attendees to take a shot at hacking the wireless network. Given the level and concentration of hacker talent at these events, I was more than pleasantly surprised they did not succeed. In fact, this is the first year the wireless network has managed to stay up without interruption for more than four hours. That is a true testament to the intrusion protection and advanced security functionality of Aruba`s wireless solution.

- Jeff Moss

Mark Antony in his famous funeral oration in Shakespeare`s `Julius Caesar` says that he came not to praise Caesar, but to bury him. This week, at the funeral for the widow of Dr. Martin Luther King, two of the speakers, Jimmy Carter and Rev. Joseph Lowery, might have opened their remarks by saying that they came not to bury Coretta Scott King, but to bash (President) Bush, which is exactly what they proceeded to do.

- Lee Harris

I often quote Ronald Reagan, who is pretty close to my favorite President ever, I will have to say that, but one of my favorite remarks he ever made was that when you look at Federal programs, there is nothing so close to eternal life on Earth as a Federal Government program.

- Marsha Blackburn

The leader of Iran made one of the most repugnant remarks the international community has heard since Adolf Hitler.

- Tom Lantos

The thoughts of my emotionally so disturbed days must be found again, shifted and developed further. Here and there something of the loose remarks I make must be used, but only when it finds my attention again.

- Robert Musil

(Nelson, in remarks cited by the newspapers, took responsibility for the episode.) If you`re at the helm, you`re at the helm, ... We hired a lot of expertise and I put confidence in him.

- John Nelson

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

- Adrian Jackson

I did not feel myself equal either to the task or the responsibility of venturing any remarks on the Colony of New South Wales itself.

- Alan Grieve

And we`ve also had now the speaker of the Parliament in Iraq using blatantly anti-Semitic remarks, saying the Jews and sons of Jews are the problem of all the violence that`s in Iraq.

- Alger Boyer

I do expect that the President will say something at the beginning of his remarks today, at the conversation.

- Andrea Jarrell

It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.

- Ann Kjera

We were taken by complete surprise by their remarks last weekend. We felt like we wanted to make it an intellectual issue if we were allowed to.

- Apichart Anukularmphai

Based on our review of the story and the reporting that went into the story, we have concluded that the reporter made an inaccurate interpretation of Mr. Montano`s remarks. We apologize to Mr. Montano.

- Apostle

or that if I hadn`t stopped one question short, that I would have been a lot more sensitive about my remarks and sensitive to how they would play out.

- Arthur Travers

The great religious historian, Eusebius, ingenuously remarks that in his history he carefully omitted whatever tended to discredit the church, and that he piously magnified all that conduced to her glory

- Robert Green Ingersoll