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Quotes

• "I would not wish to be Prime Minister, dear." - Margaret Thatcher in 1973.
• "That rainbow song's no good. Take it out." - MGM memo after firstshowing of The Wizard Of Oz.
• "You'd better learn secretarial skills or else get married." -Modeling agency, rejecting Marilyn Monroe in 1944.
• "Radio has no future."
• "X-rays are clearly a hoax".
• "The aeroplane isscientifically impossible." - Royal Society president Lord Kelvin,1897-9.
• "You ought to go back to driving a truck." - Concert manager, firingElvis Presley in 1954.
• "Forget it. No Civil War picture ever made a nickel." - MGM executive,advising against investing in Gone With The Wind.
• "Can't act. Can't sing. Slightly bald. Can dance a little." - A filmcompany's verdict on Fred Astaire's 1928 screen test.
• "Very interesting, Whittle, my boy, but it will never work." - Professor of Aeronautical Engineering at Cambridge, shown FrankWhittle's plan for the jet engine.
• "There will be one million cases of AIDS in Britain by 1991." - WorldHealth Organization in a 1989 report. It over-estimated by 992,301cases.
• "The Beatles? They're on the wane." - The Duke of Edinburgh in Canada,1965. They went on to produce a string of No 1s.
• "The atom bomb will never go off - and I speak as an expert inexplosives." - U.S. Admiral William Leahy in 1945.
• "All saved from Titanic after collision." - New York Evening Sun,April 15 1912.
• "Brain work will cause women to go bald." - Berlin professor, 1914.
• "Television won't matter in your lifetime or mine." - Radio Timeseditor Rex Lambert, 1936.
• "Everything that can be invented has been invented." - director of the US Patent Office, 1899.
• "And for the tourist who really wants to get away from it all, safarisin Vietnam." - Newsweek magazine, predicting popular holidays for thelate 1960s.