Verbatim

'This tart is ready to go.'

KATIE COURIC, CBS Evening News anchor, mocking former anchor Dan Rather in a YouTube clip. Earlier this year, Rather said Couric had "tarted up" the Evening News since she took over

'The day after the revolution is just as important as the revolution itself. Our work is just beginning.'

EMILIE ROSENBLATT, Columbia University senior, on the end of a 10-day student hunger strike. The action was aimed at reforming the curriculum to include more ethnic studies and preventing university expansion into Harlem

'I don't do it. It would hurt me. I would die from it, I'm afraid.'

CHRISTIAN LACROIX, fashion designer, on his exercise habits

'How is eating whale different from eating pigs or cows?'

KEIJI FUJINO, a whale-meat butcher in the Japanese port of Shimonoseki, where Japan's largest whaling expedition in decades set sail on Nov. 18

'They sort of talked me into allowing them to use [them].'

NATALIE PORTMAN, on nude scenes that the filmmakers of Goya's Ghosts shot using a body double without her knowledge

'[After] a guy shot up the White House with an assault weapon ... the Secret Service said it didn't seem like such a good idea for me to be running on the street every morning. I suppose a few people were hoping I would do just that.'

BILL CLINTON, on why he struggled with his weight during his presidency

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