Memorable quotes of 2011

Occupy movements around the country and the world might have packed up and gone home (with a little help from police), but the “We are the 99%” chant remains. The Tumblr blog, We are the 99 percent, helped popularize the cause of the protesters as they highlighted the income disparity between the rich and everyone else.  (AFP/Getty Images)

The GOP presidential candidate caused a stir during his August trip to the Iowa State Fair, when asked about how he would raise taxes to help cover entitlement spending. A heckler yelled “Corporations!” to which he said, “Corporations are people, my friend.” Democrats immediately pounced on Romney, saying that he is an out-of-touch elitist. “This is what Mitt Romney is going to run on?” wrote DNC spokesman Brad Woodhouse.  (Charlie Neibergall/Associated Press)

Facebook founder and CEO’s personal challenge for 2011 was to be more in tune with the food he eats, which includes knowing where the food comes from ... personally. In an email to Fortune in May he wrote, “This year I’ve basically become a vegetarian since the only meat I’m eating is from animals I’ve killed myself. So far, this has been a good experience.”  (Paul Sakuma/Associated Press)

After spending 20 years behind bars, the former model who killed, dismembered and cooked her husband, then ate his body parts appealed for an early parole in October. She said that at the time she was just trying to defend herself against her husband, who was trying to strangle her. She also denied eating him. “If I didn’t defend my life, I would have been dead. I’m sorry it happened, but I’m glad I lived,” she said. “I’m sorry I dismembered him.”  (Diana Marcum/Los Angeles Times)

When Natalie Portman accepted a Golden Globe in January for her role in “Black Swan,” the giddy actress wanted to give a wink to her fiance and co-star, Benjamin Millipied. Referring to a scene with Millipied, she said, “And also you might remember him as the guy, when they ask ‘would you
sleep with that girl?’ and he’s like, ‘no’. He’s the best actor -- it’s not true, he totally wants to sleep with me!”  (Jay L. Clendenin/Los Angeles Times)