Most Notable Quotations of 2010 (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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"If you touch my junk, I'm gonna have you arrested" seems to be gaining
currency -- it probably will be this year's "Don't tase me, bro!"

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> I am now working on my list for the Associated Press of the top 10
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> notable quotations of the year.  By "notable" I mean "important" or
"famous"
> or "particularly revealing of the spirit of our times" rather than
necessarily
> being eloquent or admirable.
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> Some of the possibiliities (many of them very helpfully suggested by
Ben
> Zimmer) include:
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> Government isn't what our Founding Fathers put into the Constitution.
> Sharron Angle
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> I'd like my life back.
> Tony Hayward
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> Dude, you have no Koran!
> Jacob Isom
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> I'm going to take my talents to South Beach.
> LeBron James
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> I'm not a witch.  I'm nothing you've heard.  I'm you.
> Christine O'Donnell
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> We live in hard times, not End Times.
> Jon Stewart
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> I would welcome suggestions of additional quotes from 2010,
particularly ones
> from politics or popular culture or entertainment or sports or
business or
> technology.
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> Fred Shapiro
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