Crazy quotes, inspiration, little known facts.. you figure it out.
Cooked up for April 2003
"I'm so earnest that whenever I go in a bathroom stall, if there's a girl coming out when I'm going in, I have to smile at her. As in.. 'We're having a moment now, because you have left the stall that I am now going to go into.' I just have to smile."
- Rosario Dawson, Paper, April 2003
"'Last night,' a girl from a Chinese sports newspaper begins, 'Yao Ming was not so effective down the streech, and.. ' 'Down the what?' Rudy interrupts. 'Down the streech?' She says cautiously.. 'Oh!' Rudy erupts. 'Down the stretch! It's the stretch. The stretch. That was very good though.'"
- Yao Ming's coach Rudy Tomjanovich, Slam Magazine, May 2003
"When mine is over? [career] ..You'll never hear from me again. I'm not going out like Jordan. I'm not going out like Holyfield. I'm not going out like Tyson. Ego killed that man. I don't have no ego. I'm not going out like Ali. He went out like a sucka. I'm a take a page from Flip Wilson or Johnny Carson. You come look for me? The Mac man will be gone."
- Bernie Mac, GQ, April 2003
"Xtina.. That was just a nickname that was given to me by my A&R guy on my first record. Like Christmas becomes Xmas, Christina becomes Xtina. It so caught on it's tattooed on the back of my neck as a nickname. What was an inside joke has become.. I'm sure you heard about this.. this split personality thing. It's silly."
- Christina Aguilera, Q UK, April 2003
"People always say Michael Jordan started the look and I just laugh. Actually I started the bald head. Slick Watts was the first guy in the NBA to do it but he was long retired when I arrived. It became my trademark and then it became everyone's trademark, and I almost had to grow an afro back."
- Xavier McDaniel, Slam, May 2003
"Like 99 percent of rappers out there, once you get to a certain level and enough money to buy whatever you want, all you want to do is sit around, play games and watch movies."
- Lil Flip, King Magazine, May/June 2003
"I'm just going to keep working on everything, which is all I do because I don't have much of a life. Why would I want to go to a party or a movie instead of working on this wonderful game of basketball."
- High School baller Ndudi Ebi, Slam, May 2003
"I'm 14 years old and I started playing golf about two years ago. You inspired me. Because I had nothing to work for I did bad in school, but now that I made the High School golf team I have to keep my grades up. I am the only freshman on the team, and sometimes I get made fun of. Did you ever get made fun of? What did you do?"
-- Chance Wills, New Braunfels, TX
"Oh yeah, I always got made fun of. They would say golf is a wussy sport.. non athletic.. takes no skill to play. I got teased a lot. The beauty of it is that I knew how difficult golf was. I knew that I had found my passion. They may have been criticising me for whatever they percieved the sport to be, but I was playing something I loved. No one could take that away from me. They could make jokes, but in the end I was doing the thing that I loved to do, and I wasn't sure they were doing the same. Hang in there, Chance. Study hard and play smart."
- Tiger Woods answering his email, Golf Digest, April 2003
"I wanted to work at McDonald's so bad. It was getting close for me to graduate and I was like, if I don't get signed I'm either going to work at McDonald's or the Army."
- Nivea, King, May/June 2003
"It must be acknowledged mistakes were made during our shock and awe campaign, the main one being calling it ‘the shock and awe campaign.’ I objected to that title but I was outvoted. I wanted to call it ‘Tango and Cash’ but there were some legal problems."
- "Bush Updates America", Saturday Night Live, April 5, 2003
"There are actually very educated people doing ignorant acts. I try to do an act that's at least as smart as I am."
- Chris Rock, Roll Out, April 10, 2003
Nina, which means "little one" or "little girl" in Spanish, was a pet name that her boyfriend had given her at the time. Simone, the French actress Simone Signoret, provided a dignity and individuality that she sought. Plus it just sounded so damn good!"
- Where Nina Simone got her name.. her real name is Eunice Waymon
"There was a parade for the troops returning from Iraq.. some people in the town have equated their homecoming to the resurrection of Jesus Christ."
- FOX News Channel, April 20, 2003
"Dont drink and drive....u might go over a bump and spill ur beer!!!!!!!!!!" - (shaken in by Alba Princess)
"Girlfriend, let me break it down for you again/ You know I only say it because I'm truly genuine/ Don't be a hard rock, when you really are a gem/ Baby girl! Respect is just the minimum/ Ni99as fukked up and your still defending them
- Lauryn Hill, "That Thing - Doo Woop" (shaken in by Sh0rtchoco)
"Oprah should run for president. Seriously, just think about this. She's a billionaire. She can't be bought. She's got good politics, she's got a good heart and she'll have us all exercising at 6 in the morning."
- Michael Moore, April 15, 2003
"I was so far behind, I thought I was in front."
- Brian Tracy
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