Kim Kardashian: 'I'm Actually Shy'

After watching the opening salvo of the seventh season of Dancing with the Stars I wasn't shocked about the costumes the participants and dancers wore but this statement from Kim Kardashian:

"I'm actually a shy person."

Hmmm... let me think for a minute. Or two. Or a million times about this.

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"The good reporter, it is said, can be judged by the condition of his legs. Success in the field comes from a fortuitous combination of luck and shoe leather. The business of getting news is described in the metaphors of the mine worker - pick and shovel, digging, a great deal of sweat."

-Douglass Cater

The Fourth Branch of Government

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"I like men because they're men."

-Dale Levitski, above, of Chicago, IL,

Top Chef Miami runner up

I wasn't expecting Dale to end up in the final three of the Top Chef season three finale. I did expect Casey (of Dallas, TX) and Hung (of Las Vegas, NV) to be in the finals though. I wasn't all in favor of giving the prize to Hung. No matter how good he was, proving his finesse techniques, his personality is a big thumbs down. Is he a good example of a competitor? No. Should he be called a model to all immigrants? Maybe, for what he has achieved but other than that... phew. I"m glad I'm not his friend. It would have been nice if he was humble like most Asians are perceived to be, but, like Marcel, he turned out to be a narcissist. I am glad that Casey won as fan favorite. Casey, you rock!

Casey and Hung

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Now, I guess we have to applaud Dale for being open about his sexuality. Here he emphasized the obvious - men are men. From whichever side you inspect them, they'll still be men.

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"If you have creatd the fifth generation of atomic bombs and are testing them already, who are you to question other people who just want nuclear power. I think the politicians who are after atomic bombs, politically, they're backwards. Retarded."

- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

President of Iran

in a speech at Columbia University

on Sept. 24, 2007

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The ceremony of wearing a kimono can make one wish for the era of Adam and Eve when clothing was so simple that one simply had to pick leaves if she wanted to change fashion.

-Michelle P. So

from Caught in the Net column

"Chopstick stuck in a geisha’s ear"

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I don't know anyone who didn't like this book or hear one negative comment against it, which is unsual. This is New York, and everyone's a critic.

-Carol Wald of Three Lives & Co., a NY bookstore,

on Irene Nemirowsky's book, Suite Francaise

Quoted from a USA Today article (Sept. 25, 2007 page 1D)

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Americans, unconsciously arrogant because we live in what is temporarily the most powerful nation on the planet... tend to think that we invented the world... We tend to think that the First Amendment is the only mechanism for the protection of free speech and the press and that other democracies, without it, must be deficient (rather than different).

-Michael Schudson

"Orientations: The Press and Democracy in Time and Space" quoted in

The Press, edited by Geneva Overholser and Kathleen Hall Jamieson

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While eating at a restaurant today I saw this quote:

"There is life after table salt."

-Atlanta Bread