I am surprised and embarrassed to be a part of the first American generation to leave the country in far worse shape than it was when we first came into it.
Hunter S. Thompson
Related I feel like I've known Hunter S. Thompson for most of my life. I first encountered him in 1981, ... TUCKER CARLSON None of us wants to leave this world in worse shape than we found it, CHRISTINE TODD WHITMAN What is worse, I leave it. What can't be understand, I leave it. What is bad, I leave it. What I say... DEYTH BANGER February was always the cruellest month for Hunter S Thompson, DOUGLAS BRINKLEY It was terrific to see this morning. The first thing I saw when I came in was Lance with his shirt o... DENIS PAGAN Vietnam was the defining event for my generation. It spilled over into all facets of American life -... TIM O'BRIEN It's hard to believe, but when (partner) Lanny Hester and I bought Bristol in 1978 it was in worse s... GARY BAKER The first time I did a big American film, I was surprised by all the different financiers who came t... STELLAN SKARSGARD 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 reality, I don't see myself as a man hunter. In fact, when it comes to love, I am rarely the ... CARLA BRUNI But when we came out of camp, that's when I first realized that being in camp, that being Japane... GEORGE TAKEI 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married. JAMES C. DOBSON It's the first time I ever came up in the first inning. To get a hit and be a part of the inning was... JAMEY WRIGHT I'm first generation in the country - my family's Mexican. MANNY MONTANA I came from Costa and we really didn't run much - we had like four meets a year. I just came to prac... JENELLE HERRIN (Assistant coach) Phil Crowe got him on the bike when he was injured, and (Adams) came back 100 perc... CHRIS STEWART My father was among the first of his generation to look into writers who've become part of the A... ANTONYA NELSON I was in better shape when I went into boot camp than when I came out. KAI RYSSDAL For starters, that’s a rather simple principle of Time Travel right there – and according to the... CHRISTINA ENGELA On my first trip to New York in the 1980s, the first place I wanted to visit was the Plaza Hotel, ho... MARY KAY ANDREWS You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He want... CRAIG GROESCHEL 'The Road' was my first American film, my first film in the snow. The first of everything. S... KODI SMIT-MCPHEE Somebody out there is going to do something that's far more surprising than anything that I woul... LARRY WALL As far as African-American lieutenants, I believe I am the first. LT. WAYNE HUDSON I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society. TED RALL I feel bad for the kids that are in school right now and the young people all across America who don... MARCO RUBIO Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop. HUNTER S. THOMPSON I am really proud to be a part in whatever way of women becoming active in the political scene. I th... ANITA HILL Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c... GERMANY KENT When you give, you will be blessed. When you give, it will be given back to you. CRAIG GROESCHEL I'm just excited about the opportunity. I'm surprised I made it and excited that I am now a part of ... LAURA NUNEZ When I first came to Congress, the party was supposed to help you. Now, when a new member is sworn i... JIM COOPER As for LSD, I highly recommend it. We had a fine, wild weekend and no trouble at all. The feeling it... HUNTER S. THOMPSON The brutal reality of politics would be probably intolerable without drugs. HUNTER S. THOMPSON We are first and foremost saddened, because we all hurt when one church wants to leave the body, but... HARRIET SANDMEIER Sarah (Winnemucca) is best known for her 1883 autobiography, Life among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and... LINDA RODRíGUEZ MCROBBIE That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it. EMINEM Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it SARA SHEPARD There are individuals who are working very hard to promote fear and antagonism towards Islam and Mus... FEISAL ABDUL RAUF February was always the cruelest month for Hunter S. Thompson. An avid NFL fan, Hunter traditionally... DOUGLAS BRINKLEY When punk came along, I found my generation's music. I grew up listening to the Beatles and the ... ROBERT SMITH I remember when this first came up a couple of years ago. It's so stupid, but it keeps getting worse... DAVID KANG I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES As far as I am concerned, the first episode of Buffy was the beginning of my career. It was the firs... JOSS WHEDON We really do consider ourselves caretakers of the organization and of a tradition. Almost everyone w... BRIAN WELLS It looks like we will be one of the top counties in the country as far as the aging of the baby boom... JOANNE KLINE Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT The fact that I was going to be the first American woman to go into space carried huge expectations ... SALLY RIDE My dream dinner party guests would be Ethel Kennedy, Truman Capote and Hunter S. Thompson. DYLAN PENN It was kind of bare when we first came here. MARGIE ACHMAN Because the series is situated in the next century, and for the most part under water, there are man... JONATHAN BRANDIS We are the first generation of human beings to have substantial insights into the origin of our cosm... ARTHUR PEACOCKE You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice. BOB MARLEY When I first met you, you had your arm in a sling. Your front teeth were crooked. There was this gre... F.K. PRESTON I'm an American designer. It's important to riff on that. I remember, when my mom and I firs... JASON WU I was the first one to say that there could be comfortable, sexy shoes, and it's a big part of o... EDGARDO OSORIO This might be the first generation where kids are dying at a younger age than their parents and it... JUDY DAVIS Time determines the occurrence of possibilities and impossibilities, but God determines the time for... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH She parted her lips as though she were going to scold him, but, after a moment of sitting with her m... KELSEY BRICKL I was a hypocrite. When the roof came down, it was going to fall on me first. LAURA BICKLE I'm the first to admit I've had a sheltered life. I grew up in the country and went to a boa... ADAM RICKITT Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... GERMANY KENT I had a lot of teams and other people tell me that I was going to be a first rounder and that convin... ANDRAY BLATCHE When I first came to college, it was a time that I was trying to figure out, 'Who am I? What mak... LINDSEY STIRLING So far the kids have loved it. I think it?s going to be huge. It?s the first park school to open in ... JENNIFER LEAVITT After a Polish Pope, whose country was first to be invaded by the Germans in World War Two, we now h... HORST KOEHLER When I came into the WWF, the first thing I really didn't want to have was being Bret Hart's... OWEN HART When the ball was hit, my first reaction as a shortstop was always go in the direction of the ball. ... BEN ZOBRIST We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kid... KURT VONNEGUT My first reaction is it could have been a lot worse than it was. DON CARTY February was always the cruelest month for Hunter S. Thompson. An avid NFL fan, Hunter traditionally... DOUGLAS BRINKLEY I was completely out of basketball shape, but once I got up and down the floor a few times it came b... RICKY MARSHALL I'm excited about it. We used to get at it. I remember when Darrell first came in -- I thought he wa... SHAWN SPRINGS I was surprised by how low the score was especially in the first half, but I felt it played into our... GREG STAKE I knew we were going to have to play better than when we saw them the first time. We must have becau... JOE LOIACONO It was almost better to be caught by the hungry, soulless vampires; the most they would probably do ... JULIE KAGAWA My first Olympics was Munich in 1972. I am better now than I was then, in knowledge and experience. ... IAN MILLAR When we first came in we looked up and saw how huge it was and everybody was in awe. EMILY ROSE I remember when replay first came to TV. I can't remember who it was now, but a manager came out... DOUG HARVEY It would be one thing if the department didn't identify security lapses in the first place, but a mo... BENNIE THOMPSON It was frustrating for them that first year. The hard part was assimilation and learning the [Americ... JUDY BERNSTEIN Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter ... BIBLE I've always been a big PlayStation fan. Even when the Xbox first came out, I stuck with the Play... REGGIE BUSH The only person I know who is in worse shape than I am (on Montgomery Clift). MARILYN MONROE People such as Hunter S. Thompson and the Beats were a huge influence on me, not just in what they w... COREY TAYLOR If we don't, I fear very much that for the first time in the modern history of our country the next ... BERNIE SANDERS From the age of four, I was a huge comic fan and still am. When Lost in Space came along it was like... BILL MUMY We have a tough stretch ahead of us. I have no reason to believe they'll approach it any other way t... GARY ANDERS We played really well for this being the first game of the year. I am pleasantly surprised. These gu... KENT BRISCOE Over the years, we worked on some promising projects that Hunter could do while never leaving the Fa... JAY COWAN One of the worst incidents of that era caused no complaints at all: this was a sort of good-natured ... HUNTER S. THOMPSON OK for now. I enjoyed my quick, high-powered visit over there and look forward to a dead-game replay... HUNTER S. THOMPSON There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challengin... HUNTER S. THOMPSON In the beginning the Universe was created. This had made many people very angry and has been wi... DOUGLAS ADAMS When you think about . . . going into another country for the first time, it's a little daunting, ..... JAMES WEBB That guy, if he's not the first pick in the country, I'd be awfully surprised. ELLIOTT AVENT But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of th... FAY GODWIN 'Diary of a Teenage Girl' was my first American movie. It was my first movie in an American ... BEL POWLEY I was part of it, and I am still part of it today in terms of what it means to a whole new generatio... DAVID AMRAM
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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