Notable Quotables
Issue date: 2/25/05 Section: Ed-Op
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of rock'n'roll and all that, but they are amateurs. They don't know where the music comes from. I wouldn't even think about playing music if I was born in these times ... I'd probably turn to something like mathematics. That would interest me. Architecture would interest me."
Bob Dylan, musician, admonishing today's artists as not nearly the quality of artists in his heyday.
"They said if he would have aimed it a little more and he would have gotten it closer to her face he would have hit her in the eye."
Jenette Rojas, Mother of Robert Gomez, a 13-year-old Florida boy accused of assault after he flung a rubber band at a classmate. Gomez was also found in violation of a 4th level offense in the school district; a level reserved for arson and bomb threats.
"'Is he an Indian?' Do we really care? Let's cut to the chase; I am not."
Ward Churchill, embattled professor at the University of Colorado, admitting his is not Native American as he had previously asserted and prided himself on. Dr. Churchill has come under fire recently for referring to many 9/11 World Trade Center victims as Nazis.
"We got far enough through it, that it quit."
David Dickinson, owner and manager of Midwest Feeding Company in Milford, Neb., on the extinguishing of a 2,000 ton manure fire that raged for four months.
"How can he get a fair trial anywhere when even the ex-sherrif of Santa Barbara county gets on TV and tells the world he is a child molester? ... A jury of your peers? How is this man going to get it here?"
Unnamed Alternative Juror, who is black, commenting on the fact that there are no blacks on the 12 member panel. Jackson stands accused of molesting a boy who stayed at his Neverland Ranch on numerous occasions.
"In addition to calling Americans murdered on 9/11 "little Eichmanns," Churchill has said: Indian reservations are the equivalent of Nazi concentration camps. I forgot Auschwitz had a casino. If Ward Churchill can be a college professor, what's David Duke waiting for?"
Ann Coulter, syndicated conservative columnist.
"Even thoe [sic] you are risking your life for our country, have you seen how many civilians you or some other soldier killed? I know your [sic] trying to save our country and kill the terrorists but you are also destroying holy places like Mosques."
Anonymous Boy, student at a Brooklyn school, in a letter to Pfc. Rob Jacobs of the United States Army, stationed near the demilitarized zone in South Korea. Pfc. Jacobs has received numerous letters like this from the same school, as it was part of a classroom assignment. The school has apologized for any offense taken by the soldiers.
Bob Dylan, musician, admonishing today's artists as not nearly the quality of artists in his heyday.
"They said if he would have aimed it a little more and he would have gotten it closer to her face he would have hit her in the eye."
Jenette Rojas, Mother of Robert Gomez, a 13-year-old Florida boy accused of assault after he flung a rubber band at a classmate. Gomez was also found in violation of a 4th level offense in the school district; a level reserved for arson and bomb threats.
"'Is he an Indian?' Do we really care? Let's cut to the chase; I am not."
Ward Churchill, embattled professor at the University of Colorado, admitting his is not Native American as he had previously asserted and prided himself on. Dr. Churchill has come under fire recently for referring to many 9/11 World Trade Center victims as Nazis.
"We got far enough through it, that it quit."
David Dickinson, owner and manager of Midwest Feeding Company in Milford, Neb., on the extinguishing of a 2,000 ton manure fire that raged for four months.
"How can he get a fair trial anywhere when even the ex-sherrif of Santa Barbara county gets on TV and tells the world he is a child molester? ... A jury of your peers? How is this man going to get it here?"
Unnamed Alternative Juror, who is black, commenting on the fact that there are no blacks on the 12 member panel. Jackson stands accused of molesting a boy who stayed at his Neverland Ranch on numerous occasions.
"In addition to calling Americans murdered on 9/11 "little Eichmanns," Churchill has said: Indian reservations are the equivalent of Nazi concentration camps. I forgot Auschwitz had a casino. If Ward Churchill can be a college professor, what's David Duke waiting for?"
Ann Coulter, syndicated conservative columnist.
"Even thoe [sic] you are risking your life for our country, have you seen how many civilians you or some other soldier killed? I know your [sic] trying to save our country and kill the terrorists but you are also destroying holy places like Mosques."
Anonymous Boy, student at a Brooklyn school, in a letter to Pfc. Rob Jacobs of the United States Army, stationed near the demilitarized zone in South Korea. Pfc. Jacobs has received numerous letters like this from the same school, as it was part of a classroom assignment. The school has apologized for any offense taken by the soldiers.
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