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Hunter S. Thompson

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HUNTER S THOMPSON I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked fo...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON February was always the cruellest month for Hunter S Thompson,
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY 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 February was always the cruelest month for Hunter S. Thompson. An avid NFL fan, Hunter traditionally...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON 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 February was always the cruelest month for Hunter S. Thompson. An avid NFL fan, Hunter traditionally...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY I feel like I've known Hunter S. Thompson for most of my life. I first encountered him in 1981, ...
TUCKER CARLSON 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 The proper bookmark for a Hunter Thompson book is a pair of brass knuckles.
JONATHAN HEATT About a week earlier I had finished a book (on the Hell's Angels, scheduled this fall by Random Hous...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON People such as Hunter S. Thompson and the Beats were a huge influence on me, not just in what they w...
COREY TAYLOR Even now, more than 30 years later, I still judge people on the basis of whether they voted for Jack...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON My dream dinner party guests would be Ethel Kennedy, Truman Capote and Hunter S. Thompson.
DYLAN PENN Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON I don't recommend steroids for everyone, and I don't recommend growth hormones for everyone....
JOSE CANSECO Perfected young girl inside of an equation for an imperfect place, Seamstressed only for the one wit...
ROSEMARIE YUSEN I grew up poor in crappy situations... various crappy situations. What kept me sane was reading and ...
COREY TAYLOR The government are tightening up on ID for sales of tobacco and alcohol so I recommend that young pe...
ROBERT CLARK I don't make a concerted effort to distinguish myself as Duncan D. Hunter versus Duncan Hunter. ...
DUNCAN D. HUNTER I feel great. It's a way of life, it's something that everyone should do. A lot of people don't do a...
CATHY ELLIOTT I've always wanted to push myself and move with the tide. That's just how I am and it's ...
BRYAN ADAMS For me, I always admire anyone that's entrepreneurs or inventors.
CHARLES MICHAEL DAVIS You don't have to drink this," I said, handing him the champagne. "But Sandy might like it".
"N...
JAY COWAN Insanity is having two or more cars,but nothing for charity sake.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Before a race, I block out what's going on in the stadium. It's different for everyone. But ...
ALLYSON FELIX It is remarkable how things have worked out for me. I am very grateful to everyone for their prayers...
MARSHA SHARP The craziest thing I did to get a guy to notice me was going out with his best friend. It worked - h...
JENNIE GARTH I guess he can recommend what he wants to recommend, but I'm not going to vote for it.
CARY STIDHAM If you put out 150 percent, then you can always expect 100 percent back. That's what I was alway...
JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE I'm such a horror geek, comic geek and action figure geek. I'm inspired by so much - from Hu...
COREY TAYLOR Don't do drugs, don't have unprotected sex, don't be violent... leave that to me
EMINEM Don’t do drugs, don’t have unprotected sex, don’t be violent. Leave that to me.
EMINEM I recommend that people try new stuff or take new fitness classes all the time. It's important t...
ALISON SWEENEY As far as critics, I'm not a hip guy. I was never on drugs. Nobody ever felt sorry for me 'cause I w...
BOBBY VINTON But the drugs are kind of like taboo, at least among me and my friends and the people I've worke...
ETHAN SUPLEE Never lie in bed at night asking yourself questions you can't answer.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ Years later, we added up the time we had spent together before we got married and discovered that it...
JUDY MORGAN But there was so much todo: cigarettes to smoke, sex to have, swings to swing on. I'll have more tim...
JOHN GREEN I say 'no' to drugs. Whenever someone asks me for some of my drugs
I say, 'no.
RODNEY DANGERFIELD It's upsetting for me. I can't speak for everyone else, but I know it's upsetting for me.
DAVID MCFARREN Everyone's always waiting for someone to falter.
GLENN FICARRA I've tried singing like somebody else, and it never worked for me. The only thing that has ever ...
TAMAR BRAXTON Later I would come to believe that erotic ties were all a spell, a temporary psychosis, even a kind ...
LORRIE MOORE Lloyd Alexander's tales were written and published when I was in diapers. Decades later, they re...
JAMES A. MOORE I've worked so hard for so long, and everyone's reaction has made me feel like... almost lik...
JACK ANTONOFF I remained Ryan's companion on the Hollywood party circuit, growing inured to sex and drugs befo...
TATUM O'NEAL I had never been in charge of anything. I'd always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture ...
DAVE GROHL The waitress had the appearance of a very old hooker who had finally found her place in life
HUNTER S. THOMPSON I worked as a prosecutor watching Catholic priests charged with sex abuse and saw firsthand how the ...
CHRISTINE PELOSI New Year's resolutions generally don't work for me. Or I don't work for them. I make the...
PAUL HOLLYWOOD I've worked as someone's deputy, and now it's time for me to run something. It's tim...
JOHN PODHORETZ I never worked holidays, because holiday hand jobs are sad for everyone.
GILLIAN FLYNN When I was a small boy, my father told me never to recommend a church or a woman to anyone. And I ha...
EDMUND G. LOVE I know reverence sound far out, but think back to the best boss you've ever worked for or the best t...
JACK HAWLEY One minute before or after and it wouldnt of happend, is it random or fate?
MISS HANNAH HOWITT I celebrate everyone's religious holidays. if it's good enough for the righteous, it's g...
BETTE MIDLER Don’t do drugs, don’t have unprotected sex, don’t be violent. Leave that to me.
EMINEM ...those of us who write for children are called, not to do something to a child, but be someone for...
KATHERINE PATERSON Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it i...
NATALIE PORTMAN You can't have rock and roll without drugs, you can't have rock and roll without sex.
RICK JAMES It is not primarily the sex/booze/drugs that surround this event, as problematic as they might be; i...
BROTHER KENNETH M. HOAGLAND Sex and drugs and rock and roll
IAN DURY Sex and drugs and rock and roll.
IAN DURY Sandy is in love with me, and I really like Sandy, but for me it's just a sex thing,
HUGH GRANT Chasing the sensation. Whether it was drugs or sex or whatever. Those things had become my main focu...
RICK ALLEN Chasing the sensation. Whether it was drugs or sex or whatever. Those things had become my main focu...
RICK SAVAGE I always recommend rewiring vintage lighting. It's not a bargain if your house burns down.
LARA SPENCER For me, I always wonder what's worse: an emotional betrayal or a physical betrayal? That's a...
HILARIE BURTON I didn't work hard to make Ruby perfect for everyone, because you feel differently from me. No l...
YUKIHIRO MATSUMOTO I have always been small, so defenders have always been taller and tougher than me. So that's di...
EDEN HAZARD By the time I started high school, I knew I wanted to be a writer. After graduating from Smith Colle...
CYNTHIA VOIGT It's worked out for me. I kind of feel bad for them, but for my own interest I have to get paid.
MARCUS GREEN Years ago my mother said to me, 'In this world, Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant.' ...
MARY CHASE And I highly recommend for all the women in the world, even if they're 71, you can never take fo...
SALMA HAYEK Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. I...
MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL I think we're in a time when everyone's afraid to have sex. But I was raised being beautiful...
ALYSSA MILANO I don't want to take credit, but I think we were a source of encouragement for (Hunter).
COLIN HANNA I've written songs for Shirley Bassey, Marianne Faithfull, and Linda Thompson. I sort of focus o...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT When you go from speaker to lieutenant governor, it's kind of a letdown, frankly, ... But I worked w...
GEORGE RYAN He's the boss, but he works for me.
IKENNA OJUKWU But we also know that these drugs aren't effective for everyone -- about a third of people aren't go...
JAMES BLUMENTHAL It's not my plan or whatever in my life to be a sex symbol. It never is. You are who you are, bu...
JESSICA BIEL I was sitting on my mom's lap across from my father to see Kay Thompson at Ciro's. And I alw...
LIZA MINNELLI All the traditional iconography around rock 'n' roll - sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll - wasn't so much...
BRAD TOLINSKI Here's a basic difference between Morelli and me. My first thought was always of cake. His first tho...
JANET EVANOVICH My mother's career was over at 40 but she was still trying to be everyone's buddy, always sm...
CARRIE FISHER I want a world without war, a world without insanity. I want to see people do well. I don't even...
TOM CRUISE Well I think people think sex is controversial. Not always, but certainly it's something to be d...
LIAM NEESON Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
DOROTHY PARKER I have to warn you that my bedroom isn't the best place to stage an assault on me. It's where I'm at...
AMY PLUM Stop flaunting your impeccable language skills, Vincent, help the girl to her feet and let her take ...
AMY PLUM

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Hell no!"
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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