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Waldheim, Kurt
Austrian politician/U.N. Secretary General
Assistant Manager, The Gap, Vienna, Austria. 1939-1944.

--suspicious resume entry

Wallace, Mike
60 Minutes interrogator

Shh! Listen. It's that damn ticking noise again!

Walters, Barbara
television journalist

Hello, we’re live from Lillihamer, the lovely Olympic landscape, where the legendary luge event will leadoff a little later.
--1994 Olympic coverage

Warhol, Andy
pop artist

Soup is good art.

Warren, Justice Earl
head of Warren Commission

After exiting the President’s body, the bullet ricocheted around Dallas for two days until it entered the abdomen of Lee Harvey Oswald.
--first draft of the single bullet theory

Washington, George
1st U.S. President

That doesn’t look anything like me!
--upon seeing the Washington Monument

Second in war? Third in peace? Fifth in the hearts of my countrymen!?!?
--taking a dip in the polls

Will, George
television contrarian

If you keep quiet about my clip-on bowtie, I won't tell anyone about your clip-on hair.
--secret pact with Sam Donaldson

Wilson, Woodrow
28th U.S. President

OK then, how about this: two leagues --the American and National -- and the winner from each play in the World Series.
--alternate proposal following rejection of the League of Nations

Winfrey, Oprah
talk show host

Lazy, pathetic, unemployable people who sit home and watch daytime television in a vain attempt to avoid confronting the cruel hopelessness of their failed lives.
--rejected show topic

Wright, Orville
flight pioneer

In the event of a water landing, your seat cushion is a seat cushion.
--safety instructions to Wilbur