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Notable Quotes
JUNE 4, 2020
“Say What?!”
If I didn’t have a primary, I wouldn’t care.
THE BALTIMORE JEWISH HOME
-Congressman Elliot Engel overheard on a hot mike asking Bronx President Ruben Diaz to allow him to speak at a news conference about the shooting of George Floyd and the ensuing unrest
For a while after the pandemic began, Zoom seemed new and fun. We rearranged our lighting to our best advantage and made sure our cameras weren’t shooting directly up our noses. We put up funny background screens, even on work calls. “Hey Rob, is that a brontosaurus in your swimming pool?” we cackled stupidly. It was during this period that endless jokes were made about not wearing pants. Burn that [stuff] down. Burn it all down.
-Nicholas Goldberg, Jewish World Review, in an article titled “Zoom was fun at first. But it wouldn’t be 2020 if we didn’t figure out a way to ruin it”
-ESPN reporter Chris Palmer tweeting a photo of a building burning in LA during a riot
They just attacked our sister community down the street. It’s a gated community, and they tried to climb the gates. They had to beat them back. They destroyed a Starbucks and are now in front of my building. Get these animals [expletive] out of my neighborhood. Go back to where you live.
B A LT I M O R E J E W I S H H O M E . C O M
– ESPN reporter Chris Palmer tweeting several hours later, when the rioters came into his neighborhood
I’m really quite overcome with emotion on this day. It’s kind of hard to talk, frankly. I’ve spent 18 years working toward this goal, so it’s hard to believe that it’s happened. - SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, after the launch of astronauts in a Falcon 9 rocket, made by his company, to the International Space Station
I don’t want to rush everything. – Jack Rico, age 13, who just graduated college in California with his fourth college degree
In 2000, while on SNL, I made a terrible decision to do an impersonation of Chris Rock while in blackface. There is no excuse for this. I am very sorry for making this unquestionably offensive decision and thank all of you for holding me accountable. - Comedian Jimmy Fallon apologizing on Twitter after a video surfaced this week of him wearing blackface while playing fellow comedian Chris Rock in a Saturday Night Live sketch twenty years ago
