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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I never trust a fighting man who doesnt smoke or drink. ADMIRAL FREDERICK I never trust a fighting man who doesnt smoke or drink. ADMIRAL WILLIAM FREDERICK HALSEY JR. (BULL) Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. JEFFREY FRY Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. I am a small business owner; I'm in the agri-business. That's about as blind a trust as you ... SONNY PERDUE I've been in the business 25 years and I have never signed a piece of paper in a room that night wit... RUTH VITALE In business, you must remain unattached to the outcome. It matters not who is chosen first and who i... LAURA MONCUR February was always the cruellest month for Hunter S Thompson, DOUGLAS BRINKLEY I only am in this business because I enjoy it. I think that is the only way to be in the business. JAKE LLOYD Warren has a common sense approach to business issues and an integrity that is unmatched. That's the... ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman neve... ROBERT SMITH SURTEES In this business, it's easy for either your heart or your head to be swayed, and I try to always... KATE BOSWORTH Being present is being connected to All Things. S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. This is an ideal business for me and my brother. We get along great. We'd like to expand the busines... DANNY STRICKLAND February was always the cruelest month for Hunter S. Thompson. An avid NFL fan, Hunter traditionally... DOUGLAS BRINKLEY I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling... HUNTER S. THOMPSON There is always room for losers in the football business. They are the mother's milk of gambling... HUNTER S. THOMPSON I've never gone to acting school and I never will, so I'm learning about the business from t... JONATHAN RHYS MEYERS In business, in the music world, people know that I can be very friendly and warm but that, after a ... PIERRE BOULEZ I have always noticed that a man who gives the most for the money, gets the most business. VASH YOUNG This is who I am. Accept it or not. The tattoos won't wash off, the earrings will never change. I am... KATIE MCGARRY Creativity is inherent in all successful businesses. Business does not have to be so boring or cut a... ANDREA BATES To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN The greatest asset, even in this country, is not oil and gas. It's integrity. Everyone is search... GEORGE FOREMAN An exit is only a success if you set an exit as your primary goal. My primary goal was to build a gl... RYAN HOLMES My thing is, I don't get in nobody's business or nothing like that or try to bash anybody fo... WARREN G Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China." "That expression has never made sense to m... LISA KLEYPAS PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL NATALIE URQUIETA The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is... JOHN F. KENNEDY Do they want to keep it simple and fun or complicated and not so much fun. The lodging business is a... DENNIS JONES After all those years in the business, I asked myself, 'Am I really any good? Or am I only good ... JOSEPH ABBOUD The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.' ORISON SWETT MARDEN The Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum will never accept an artifact from any company whose business i... JEFF IDELSON There are agents and brokers in all fields, but they always mind their own business but politicians ... RAMESH KAVDIA(RAMESH BABA) Wrong? So you are saying, I'm wrong okay then... It's not possible every time to be right, one ... DEYTH BANGER I think the hallmark of the organization is built around the membership. The members recognize that ... BRAD ROEBER His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING We need to recognize our agreements and disagreements with whomever is chosen as president, but we c... MATT MEAD I know I was a great friend to Tiger Woods. But when you have a relationship that's involves bus... HANK HANEY I've never felt like I was in the cookie business. I've always been in a feel good feeling b... DEBBI FIELDS Cardio is a nice way to start the morning, man. Whether you sit on the bike for half an hour or thro... ANTHONY JOSHUA I've never felt like I was in the cookie business. I've always been in a feel good feeling business.... DEBBI FIELDS The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible. So I'll play in ... JEREMY RENNER February was always the cruelest month for Hunter S. Thompson. An avid NFL fan, Hunter traditionally... DOUGLAS BRINKLEY It's something that I love about this business and that scares me about this business, but in a ... CANDICE ACCOLA This is not a change of career for me. Just an expansion of it. I have contracts and obligations and... CLAUDIA SCHIFFER I think it's somewhat hypocritical for the governor to state that we're going to pad her political n... ALTON ASHY But for a Christian, there are, strictly speaking, no chances. A secret Master of Ceremonies has bee... C.S. LEWIS In this business, to remain competitive we must search for ways to profitably grow our company. And ... MARK SCHULZ I think these things are so political you can't trust them at all. It's madness that I am on the lis... GERMAINE GREER It seems important to me that beginning writers ponder this—that since 1964, I have never had a bo... JOSEPH HANSEN Business dispatched is business well done, But business hurried is business ill done. EDWARD GEORGE BULWER Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried
is business ill done. EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON I was in the Nixon White House during Watergate, and we pretended that we were all about business as... DAVID GERGEN It's like you always have to put on a happy face, be the phony baloney, and I'm so not that.... CHLOE SEVIGNY But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,' faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to... CHARLES DICKENS The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place. ORISON SWETT MARDEN The golden rule for every business man is this: ''Put yourself in your customer's place.'' ORISON SWETT MARDEN The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a... JEANETTE CORON The dawn is killing me off, the fog is on the windows, the [ra]coons have robbed the cans, and down ... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Coming of age in a fascist police state will not be a barrel of fun for anybody, much less for peopl... HUNTER S. THOMPSON In a family business, you grow up with close contact to the business, whatever it is, and the beer b... CARLOS ALVAREZ That, Verena managed after some suspenseful seconds, is, she said, regarding her gloved hands, rema... TRUMAN CAPOTE The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people. CRAIG GROESCHEL The vast majority, who believe in astrology and think that the planets have nothing better to do tha... ISAAC ASIMOV My father has a manufacturing company in Kentucky, and he's an electrical engineer. A brilliant ... LAURA BELL BUNDY Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he pro... B. F. HARRIS Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that "he pr... B. F. HARRIS Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that "he pr... CHARLES H. SPURGEON That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it. EMINEM Even after the dehadhyas (the belief that 'I am the body') has gone, people will say, "I saw you eat... DADA BHAGWAN Working with family complicates work in a good way, and it complicates it in ways that are confusing... JAMIE TROWBRIDGE It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A... ADAM BALDWIN I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good w... MARGARET THATCHER In order to do well, you have to do good for children, and that is the core business model for every... ALICE CAHN As I said just now, the world has gone past me. I don't blame it; but I no longer understand it. Tra... CHARLES DICKENS The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL I have Tourettes and Aspergers, but Tourrets and Aspergers don't have me. You know, I'm doin... JAMES DURBIN In my world, people are always plotting. You have no idea of all the crimes peopl... ANDREW VACHSS I dabbled a little bit in the whole music thing but I've always thought about Bernie Taupin, who... CARMEN EJOGO Well first of all it's a business and it's a tough business, and you have to have the streng... ROBERT REDFORD Whether it's a family or a team or a business, trust is the cornerstone of any good operation. I thi... ED HEINTSCHEL Having cakes as a business certainly changes things for me - I don't now sit at home doing a cak... JANE ASHER The problem is that if we trust in man we are always let down. No, we shouldn't trust in man-- not u... STEFANI CARMICHAEL I believe in evolution and I think when it comes to business and the roots of business and the funda... ELLIOTT GOULD Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good... WILLIAM FEATHER I try to physically and mentally immerse myself in whatever it is I am doing. That is good for me as... WILLIAM EARL BROWN It's against type in the sense of my background, but it's with type in the sense that I am a... BEN MCKENZIE I feel so honored to be able to say "What I do is for my son" without that being an excuse to do stu... C. JOYBELL C. Okay, I'm not in the news business, and I'm not going to tell anyone how to do their job. Ho... CRAIG NEWMARK Upon him I will visit famine and a fire, Till all around him desolation rings And all the ... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Then that's what the Northern Lights are. All the lives that we're not living. ADI ALSAID Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM Remember this, folks - I am a Hillbilly, and I don't always Bet the same way I talk. Good advice... HUNTER S. THOMPSON An all-out trade war with China would be damaging to Disney's business and to business in genera... BOB IGER Just because I liked something at one point in time doesn’t mean I’ll always like it, or that I ... JAROD KINTZ Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service, by the idea that "he pr... B. F. HARRIS We have an unwavering commitment to our social responsibility program; it's good for business, a... ROBERT J. FISHER I do still sit back and wonder when I'm in LA if this is all really true or is it all kid-on. Bu... JAMES COSMO
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THOMPSON A cap of good acid costs five dollars and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony with God sing... HUNTER S. THOMPSON In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile. HUNTER S. THOMPSON Cover a war in a place where you can't drink beer or talk to a woman? Hell no!" HUNTER S. THOMPSON Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure i... HUNTER S. THOMPSON History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of history i... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Buy the ticket take the Ride HUNTER S. THOMPSON If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would ... HUNTER S. THOMPSON I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. HUNTER S. THOMPSON We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. HUNTER S. THOMPSON We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter aci... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Good people drink good beer. HUNTER S. THOMPSON I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics ar... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Richard Nixon was a criminally insane Monster - Bill Clinton is a black-hearted Swine of a friend. HUNTER S. THOMPSON I felt a little guilty about jangling the poor bugger's brains with that evil fantasy. But what the ... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusi... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness ... Fear and Loathing ... HUNTER S. THOMPSON There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered f... HUNTER S. THOMPSON It never got weird enough for me. HUNTER S. THOMPSON Even now, more than 30 years later, I still judge people on the basis of whether they voted for Jack... HUNTER S. THOMPSON was doldrums time. HUNTER S. THOMPSON Be a beachcomber, a Parisian wino, an Italian pimp, or a Danish pervert; but stay away from the Arme... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Who are these people? These faces? Where did they come from? They look like caricatures of used car ... HUNTER S. THOMPSON So this is how the world works, all energy flows according to the whims of the great magnet. HUNTER S. THOMPSON So much for Objective Journalism. Don't bother to look for it here--not under any byline of mine; or... HUNTER S. THOMPSON I agreed. By this time the drink was beginning to cut the acid and my hallucinations were down to a ... HUNTER S. THOMPSON On the way down the hill we walked three abreast in the cobblestone street, drunk and laughing and t... HUNTER S. THOMPSON At the top of the mountain we are all snow leopards. HUNTER S. THOMPSON No doubt they all Got What Was Coming To Them. All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought ... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Freedom is something that dies unless it's used. HUNTER S. THOMPSON Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why. HUNTER S. THOMPSON A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstanc... HUNTER S. THOMPSON A man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long. HUNTER S. THOMPSON 1) Never trust a cop in a raincoat. 2) Beware of enthusiasm and of love, both are temporary and... HUNTER S. THOMPSON All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name. Remembered line from a long- HUNTER S. THOMPSON The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch... HUNTER S. THOMPSON It is Autumn, as you know, and things are beginning to die. It is so wonderful to be out in the cris... HUNTER S. THOMPSON and the sad notes floated out to the patio and hung in the trees like birds too tired to fly HUNTER S. THOMPSON I bought a small bottle of beer for fifteen cents and sat on a bench in the clearing, feeling like a... HUNTER S. THOMPSON No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years p... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Those of us who have been up all night were in no mood for coffee and donuts. We wanted strong drink... HUNTER S. THOMPSON We are all wired into a survival trip now. No more of the speed that fueled that 60's. That was the ... HUNTER S. THOMPSON The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pim... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Fear is just another word for ignorance HUNTER S. THOMPSON I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes. HUNTER S. THOMPSON Some may never live, but the crazy never die HUNTER S. THOMPSON We were warriors then, and our tribe was strong like a river HUNTER S. THOMPSON This was the fatal flaw in Tim Leary's trip. He crashed around America selling "conciousness expansi... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Five years later? Six? It seems like a lifetime... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Still humping the American Dream HUNTER S. THOMPSON The possibility of physical and mental collapse is now very real. No sympathy for the Devil, keep th... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Jesus Creeping God! Is there a priest in this tavern? I want to confess! I'm a fucking sinner! Venal... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Ignore that nightmare in the bathroom. Just another ugly refugee from the Love Generation, some doom... HUNTER S. THOMPSON My blood is too thick for California: I have never been able to properly explain myself in this clim... HUNTER S. THOMPSON What kind of rat bastard psychotic would play that song- right now, at this moment? HUNTER S. THOMPSON