Who said this?

[rbnyc]

No cheating!

Can you name the famous person who said each of the following (A different person said each thing.):

1. A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

2. As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.

3. I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph.

4. Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

5. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

6. No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

7. A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

8. I see myself as a citizen of the planet. Even as a child, I always found it mindless to root for your own team. I was puzzled by the fact that people said their own team was better than other teams simply because it was theirs.

9. If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.

10. An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

EDIT: typo

[Droopy]

1. I'm going to guess Frank Zappa

[AllegroRondo]

3. Number 8 sounds like one of his

[rbnyc]

6. Number 8...

...someone just as cool as Frank Zappa. He's one of my favorite people of all time.

[rbnyc]

4. Sorry.

If there's one person who could have said all of that, I'd put money on Zappa. But actually, it's a different person for each.

[Deep13]

2. "...or sailed an uncharted land...."

I don't know who any of them are except that the I have heard the one about the autograph. That was some child celebrity, I forgot who.

The above quote just struck me funny. Sailing on land? That must have been slow going.

[rbnyc]

5. Yeah...that is weird.

I actually didn't even notice that. I was reading a bunch of quotes and I liked the essence of that one.

[pitohui]

7. really that's so bogus anyway

pessimists have probably contributed more to society than optimists because they do the planning and the work, while the optimist is still hoping things will work out alright without them taking any effort to make it so

i'd prefer ben franklin's take on the topic of pessimism, don't recall it word for word anymore, but it boiled down to something along the lines of he chose pessimism because in that way he was never disappointed

whoever made the statement about "sailing to uncharted lands," i seriously doubt that they accomplished anywhere near what ben franklin did

[rbnyc]

10. Well...

I agree that it's not cool to generalize like that. However, having a negative outlook does impair one's ability to conceive of the broadest base of possibilities. And while it does take planning and effort to achieve something, belief and visualization are powerful.

[BrotherBuzz]

12. Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society.

The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute. - G.B. Stern

[rbnyc]

15. That's awesome.

:)

[Rabrrrrrr]

19. Yes, of course - stands to reason that you would celebrate the pessimist.

I don't think you're thinking of pessimists, however - I think you are thinking of people who plan ahead; the kind of people who measure twice and cut once.

Those aren't pessimists.

[rbnyc]

9. or sailed to an uncharted land,

I looked it up somewhere else...it's just a typo.

[Rabrrrrrr]

18. No, it was "sailed TO an uncharted land"

[DarkTirade]

8. You just did. Duh. :P

[rbnyc]

11. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

:toast:

[rug]

13. I can't name the person but I can name the forum or group where it was said.

1. Weather Group
2. Rabrrrrr Forum
3. Atheist/Agnostic Group
4. GD Forum
5. GD-P Forum
6. Seekers on unique Paths group
7. Impeach Group
8. Nader Group
9. Socialist Progressives Group
10. Macintosh Users Group

[rbnyc]

16. LOL! (nt)

[alphafemale]

14. #3 Is probably a former child star. Maybe Shirley Temple or Natalie Wood.

"3. I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph."

[rbnyc]

17. #3 is...

...Shirley Temple.

[Rabrrrrrr]

20. give it a shot here...

1. Oscar Wilde
2. Zappa, me, or Gore Vidal. Orson Welles? Probably not.
3. Shirley Temple.
4. Lily Tomlin.
5. Dorothy Parker.
6. Einstein.
7. Edison.
8. Carl Sagan
9. Lyndon Johnson (or maybe MLK, Jr.?)
10. Donald Trump - well, I'm sure that's not right, but I can't think of the name of the guy I'm thinking of.

[rbnyc]

21. Answers:

Select the space below to reveal answers!


1. Carl Reiner
2. Dick Cavett
3. Shirley Temple
4. Lily Tomlin
5. Oscar Wilde
6. Hellen Keller
7. George Bernard Shaw
8. Wallace Shawn
9. Aristotle
10. Niels Bohr


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