Quotations from 1996 "I hate reality, but, you know, where else can you get a good steak dinner?" -- Woody Allen [] "I don't want to keep proving myself to the world anymore. I've done that." -- Cindy Crawford [] "I'm not a doomsday philosopher, but if you want to talk about what's really tough, I can't respect a society that can't keep guns out of schools. I don't care if you've gotta put 30 adults with guns down there to do it." -- Jack Nicholson, on what's wrong with America. [] "People don't realize you can die from Hepatitis A, although you don't very often." -- Elizabeth Murano, Shasta County director of public nursing. [] "Cold and white." -- Prince Charles, in frosty response to a British reporter on the slopes in Switzerland, "How's the snow, sir?" [] "As a media megastar, I now travel all over the world. Let me say this to doubts about the existence of God -- fly Air Sudan. If you arrive safely, there has to be." -- Roger Royle, English vicar. [] "The Republicans must love families, they have so many of them. I'm offering a reward to any Republican candidate who's left his wife for an older woman." -- James Carville, Democratic Party strategist. [] "No way! Most of our parents were married." -- Argus Hamilton of Los Angeles, commenting on a federal survey detailing illiteracy in the United States. [] "I am fascinated by Courtney Love, but the same way I am by someone who's got Tourette's syndrome walking in Central Park." -- Madonna [] "If education fails, what's going to happen to the population that's exploding?" -- San Jose State University President Robert Caret [] "Having Al D'Amato head up an ethics investigation is a little like getting Bob Dornan to head a mental health task force." -- Al Franken [] "I've always thought it was arrogant to write about yourself, particularly when you're still alive." -- American Indian leader Russell Means, commenting on his autobiography. [] "Some people compare me to John Kennedy, especially when I play under the president's desk during meetings." -- George Stephanopoulos, White House adviser. [] "If they are from South Carolina, I'm sure they are competent." -- Sen. Strom Thurmond, 93, of South Carolina, when asked his opinion of Hootie and the Blowfish. [] "Sometimes there'll just be better places to live than a place with low wealth and high needs. If you're living in an area with a bad school, you move to a place where there's a better school." -- Lamar Alexander, candidate for the GOP presidential nomination, explaining his ideas on what parents of children who attend poorly funded schools should do. [] "She told me, `Sir, New Mexico, old Mexico, it doesn't matter. I understand it's a territory, but you still have to go through your nation's Olympic committee.' " -- New Mexico resident Wade Miller, recounting a geographic mix-up he encountered on the phone with a ticket agent for the Summer Olympics in Atlanta. [] "We know that women love to clean." -- Yuri Glazkov, deputy commander of Russia's Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, on why American astronaut Shannon Lucid will be welcome aboard the Mir space station. [] "Feburary" and "Noverber." -- Dan Quayle's spelling of the months on his home page. [] "I don't get out much anymore. I don't get asked out much anymore. It's amazing how many people beat you at golf now that you're no longer president." -- George Bush [] "I know (Phil Gramm) has a Ph.D. in economics, but you can't sound like you just walked out of the woods in `Deliverance' and not scare people." -- Don Imus on Phil Gramm's presidential nomination campaign. [] "We know it's not good for kids. But a lot of other things aren't good. Some would say milk's not good." -- Bob Dole, on tobacco. Tobacco companies contributed $385,000 to his campaign by June 1996. [] "It's all about the future. That's where we're headed in this country." -- Bob Dole [] "It's the evil of two lessers." -- Michael Moore on the choice between Bill Clinton and Bob Dole. [] "All white people, I don't believe, are intolerant. That's why I say I love the individuals, but I don't like the race." -- Rep. Barbara-Rose Collins, D-Mich. [] "If he's convicted, the judge should drop the theft charge and send him away for being stupid." -- Clark Johnson, who plays Detective Meldrick Lewis, of the theft suspect who stumbled onto the set of "Homicide" and surrendered to actors. [] "So, have you ever been kissed by a woman before?" -- Tonya Harding to 81-year-old Alice Olson, whom Harding revived with mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. [] "Tell her that I love her. And that if she loves me, she should wear something green at her next press conference. I shall be watching and hoping." -- Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi telling an American reporter of his love for State Department spokeswoman Margaret Tutwiler. [] "Histrionics are against him." -- John Tesh, NBC Olympics commentator, assessing a gymnast's chance for a medal. [] "Another birthday." -- Frank Sinatra, when asked what he wanted for his 81st birthday.