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Jessica: "if I was on death row"

"I don't think I'd be on a diet if I was on death row. I'd have chicken fried steak with gravy." - Jessica Simpson, in OK Weekly, when asked if her favorite healthy snack, "banana and peanut butter all mushed up," would be her choice for her last meal
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Pamela: "If Bob knew he was getting married five years ago"

"If Bob knew he was getting married five years ago in St. Tropez, he wouldn't have believed it." - Pamela Anderson, about her fiancé Kid Rock (whose given name is Robert Ritchie)
Pamela has made three errors in this statement. The quote contains a misplaced modifier and two errors in verb form.
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Paris: "I always have a boyfriend all the time, so I've never really got to know me"

"I always have a boyfriend all the time, so I've never really got to know me and, like, have time for myself because I spend all my energy on the boyfriend." - Paris Hilton
This quote contains a redundancy, an error in verb tense, an error in pronoun choice, and a superfluous colloquialism.
Paris says that she […]

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David: "a good mix of Rob and I" and "It’s just you want a good mix" and "I thought that was a funny mix if you do it"

"Kids like him, and I think that’s a good mix of Rob and I because we used to work together, and then maybe him because he’s new and people like him. It’s just you want a good mix, and I thought that was a funny mix if you do it - and he was into […]

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Simon: "a point in the day where" and "me sitting" and "the two of you/yourself"

"There's a point in the day where I think, 'There's no point in me sitting here with the two of you, so just do it yourself.'" - American Idol judge Simon Cowell, answering the question, "Do [Paula Abdul and Randy Jackson] ever gang up on you?" in OK Weekly
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