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Elvis: I get so lonely, I could die

"I get so troglodytic, I could capitulate."


This date in history: April 21, 1956, Elvis Presley gets his first top hit album, as Heartbreak Hotel hits #1.



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Madonna: I'm like a cockroach, you just can't get rid of me

"I'm consubstantial to a cockroach, you can't just disencumber yourself with me."


This date in history: April 20, 1992, Madonna signs a $60 million deal with Time Warner.












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Howard Dean: I've waffled before, I'll waffle again

"I've equivocated precendently, I'll equivocate reiteratively."

This day in history: April 19, 1839, the Treaty of London is signed, establishing Belgium as a kingdom. I'm a big fan of their waffles.

Jackie Robinson: Life is not a spectator sport

"Being contemporary is not a gaiety of deponents ."


This day in history: April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball's color line.




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James C. Penney: The greatest teacher I know is the job itself

"The paragon of inculcation I apperceive is the billet, intrinsically."



This date in history: April 13, 1902,  J.C. Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.


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Bill Clinton: What the meaning of "is" is

"It is predicated on what the quintessence of the lexeme "is" perdures."


This date in history:
April 12, 1999, Bill Clinton was found in contempt of court for giving "intentionally false" testimony about his relationship with Monica S. Lewinsky in the Paula Jones lawsuit.

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John Madden: The defense should be expecting a run or a pass here

"The aegis should conjecture for a skedaddle or a chuck hither."

John Madden: When You Don't Win, You Lose

"When you don't subjugate your opponent, you capitulate."

Tom Waits: I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy

"I'd aggrandize a phial obverse to me than a ventral leucotomy."

Tom Waits: The big print giveth, the small print taketh away

"The prodigious lithography bequeatheth, and the minikin lithography purloineth away."

Quotes Too True to Be Good: Brittany Spears

"I can peregrinate to multifarious transoceanic purlieus...like Canada!"


What she actually said was, "I get to go to lots of oversea places...like Canada!"

Quotes Too True to Be Good: Al Gore

"A striped perissodactyl does not experience vicissitudes of its mottles."


What he really said was, "A zebra does not change its spots."

Quotes Too True to Be Good: Brooke Shields

"Smoking immolates. If you are immolated, you've capitulated a very salient constituent of your quiddity."


What she actually said was, "Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life."

Yogi Berra: The future ain't what it used to be

"The impending ain't congenerous to it's quondam capitulation."

Yogi Berra: If you come to a fork in the road, take it

"If you betide upon a flection in the thoroughfare, expropriate it."

Yogi Berra: Half the lies they tell about me aren't true

"Half the mendacities they promulgate about me aren't veridical."

Speak softly and carry a big stick

"Expatiate fastidiously and schlep a voluminous cudgel."