“Fifty percent of people want to sleep with me, and the other 50 percent want to kill me.”

—  Rachel Marsden

cited in Fox's Ann Coulter 2.0 http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/03/29/marsden/index.html. Salon.com.

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