Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.
Hunter S. Thompson
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HUNTER S. THOMPSON People who pretend to be your friend lead you up a garden path by saying everything that you want to...
GARY F EVANS... One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Electi...
CAL THOMAS 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 cruellest month for Hunter S Thompson,
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 We are drifting into some ugly parallels here, and if I'd written this kind of thing two years ago I...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Waiting so long... for 0 result?
DEYTH BANGER My dream dinner party guests would be Ethel Kennedy, Truman Capote and Hunter S. Thompson.
DYLAN PENN The proper bookmark for a Hunter Thompson book is a pair of brass knuckles.
JONATHAN HEATT 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 One of the main reasons we've been successful is because of our balance. We have three or four peopl...
PETE WAITE Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON I grew up watching a lot of American television and so the American sound has been in my psyche some...
TONI COLLETTE For some decades now, it seems, there has been a ukase in place in American journalism to the effect...
STOCKWELL DAY I think one of the main reasons it did so well was Denzel Washington,
ERIK LOMIS February was always the cruelest month for Hunter S. Thompson. An avid NFL fan, Hunter traditionally...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY That's one of the reasons I moved to Florida. Of course, the main reason is the weather and the ...
MARTINA HINGIS Hunter has for a long time been a proponent of the need to improve our submarine capabilities. Hunte...
JOE KASPER Even now, more than 30 years later, I still judge people on the basis of whether they voted for Jack...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON One of the main reasons that it is so easy to march men off to war," says Ernest Becker, is that "ea...
ANNIE DILLARD It's pretty daunting to fill J.J.'s shoes. The town has been run so well for so long.
JODY ARMSTRONG It's been a long struggle. But we've made huge progress. I mean, when I started at Berkeley,...
ARLIE RUSSELL HOCHSCHILD That is okay by me. Our single objective has been to win the division, and so nothing changes.
JAMES SHANAHAN So much for Objective Journalism. Don't bother to look for it here--not under any byline of mine; or...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON February was always the cruelest month for Hunter S. Thompson. An avid NFL fan, Hunter traditionally...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY I've been playing this game, fortunately for me, since I was three years old. That's one of ...
J. R. SMITH There's so much in American history that has been hidden and shunned.
ASHTON SANDERS I personally think honestly disclosing rather than hiding one's subjective values makes for more...
GLENN GREENWALD One of the reasons it has seemed so difficult for a person to change his habits, his personality, or...
MAXWELL MALTZ I feel like I've known Hunter S. Thompson for most of my life. I first encountered him in 1981, ...
TUCKER CARLSON Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th...
DEYTH BANGER And you've actually watched it yourself?' I asked. 'Willingly?'
Sure. I had to see it, you know...
SCOTT WESTERFELD I wrote to you for a year and you never wrote back. T
rang you over and over again and you woul...
MELINA MARCHETTA I wrote to you for a year and you never wrote back. I rang you over and over again and you would nev...
MELINA MARCHETTA One can't doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed - different plans have to be made...
WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY, JR. It would solve a big bottleneck. One of the reasons video has always been cumbersome . . . is it req...
CHRISTOPHER CHUTE We do foreign assistance for altruistic reasons, certainly for humanitarian reasons, of course. But ...
ROGER WICKER We moved down to 16.3 million in North America in '05, and I'm expecting about 16 million for 2006, ...
CARLOS GOMES There's a loss of faith in the banking system that for so long has been the backbone of prosperi...
LUCY POWELL When has been disappointed for so long, hope becomes the enemy. One cannot be dashed to the earth un...
ROBIN HOBB My experience politically has always been that one-word definition of politics: money. Keep your eye...
DOUGLAS WILDER And I've been incredibly lucky to have a long career in journalism that has given me a front-row...
JUDY WOODRUFF The President has a wonderful sense of humor, which is one of the reasons it is so much fun to work ...
KAREN HUGHES It is grievous to read the papers in most respects, I agree. More and more I skim the headlines only...
MARY RITTER BEARD if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I think one of the reasons Stephen King's stories work so well is that he places his stories in ...
TED NAIFEH Electoral politics was always an objective of the Black Panther party, so Barack Obama is a part of ...
BOBBY SEALE It took me a long time to understand the relationship between ideas and between objective facts. But...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE Dear Lord, have you brought me all this way to stop? Why, why, was I allowed to search so long, to c...
SARA DAVIDSON Dear Lord, have you brought me all this way just to stop? Why, why, was I allowed to search so long,...
SARA DAVIDSON If an investigative reporter finds out that someone has been robbing the store, that may be 'got...
BEN BRADLEE It will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appr...
FLORENCE ELLINWOOD ALLEN What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act?
CRAIG GROESCHEL I'd definitely like to be part of that offense. That's one of the main reasons I'd like to stay.
JONATHAN WELLS Playboy is an American icon and I am so excited to have been chosen as one of the models for this fe...
RACHEL PARKS I've had a lot of fun, and when I talk to kids in journalism schools, I say, look, I know what t...
BOB SCHIEFFER We've all been at Furman for so long. Being at Furman so long has led to loyalty. The transitions ar...
BOBBY LAMB One of the reasons MSNBC is plummeting is that I, not long ago, refused to play any content from the...
RUSH LIMBAUGH Having been an actor and a writer for so long - 20 years or so - I felt that it would be daft to go ...
STEPHEN FRY There's already been black presidents who've been corrupt, so it doesn't strike me that ...
LUPE FIASCO My relationship to reality has been so utterly skewed for so long that I don't even notice it an...
ETHAN HAWKE Well, I think one of the reasons Chicago became so popular as a filmmaker location is because New Yo...
RICHARD ROEPER There is a long-standing tradition in the mainstream press of middle-of-the-road journalism that is ...
ANDREW HEYWARD My father was the Prime Minister of Pakistan. My grandfather had been in politics, too; however, my ...
BENAZIR BHUTTO The problem with Russia is not corruption per se, or even Putin per se. Russian government is not co...
ROBERT ZUBRIN One of the reasons we're so fascinated by the Internet, is that it has the ability to eliminate what...
GUY BURGESS The human condition today is better than it's ever been, and technology is one of the reasons fo...
TOM CLANCY You can rule ignorance; you can manipulate the illiterate; you can do whatever you want when a peopl...
WILL.I.AM We have been made to feel so welcome ever since we got to Thompson.
JANET HARVEY One of the difficulties of not knowing for so long whether we were doing a fifth season or not was t...
CLAUDIA BLACK Sleeping on something has a lot of power for a lot of reasons. One is that the linear mind is shut o...
JUDITH ORLOFF One of the principle objectives of the terrorists is to divide us, one from another. So far ... they...
MICHAEL HOWARD The Hunter has been around for 15 to 16 years,
DAVE EDWARDS When you lose someone, regardless if the loss is human or animal, it is like a part of you has been ...
T.R. THRESTON Guys should not be allowed to use the Internet all day long. So sad.
NATASHA LEGGERO Religion has been in and out of American politics for nearly our whole history. Right now the conser...
DOUGLAS LAYCOCK I believe the earth's climate is changing, but I think it's changing for natural variation r...
JOE BARTON We know that when Main Street does well, so do American families.
BRETT GUTHRIE No one in the history of postwar German politics has risen from nowhere so fast and so far.
GERD LANGGUTH The idea is to believe me... but as far as I see the world... to believe is a sin... to trust me one...
DEYTH BANGER If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doin...
JOHN LECARRE A couple of weeks is a long time in American politics.
PETER JENNINGS It's real easy in a lot of businesses for your head to swell up, and you become somebody else. S...
BRANTLEY GILBERT All I ask is that they go in if I give them a description of her and look for her, ... Now they tell...
SO COLEMAN In fact, the park's geographical location is ideal and I can't see anything unlucky about the place ...
PETER SO Having those fumbles in the last game was shocking, ... This isn't something the coaches are ignorin...
SO COLEMAN Cheung Kong was up HK$4.75 in London trade on Friday, so Hong Kong investors are catching up.
JAMES SO Even though the interest rate rise had been discounted, a half percentage point rise in local intere...
JAMES SO The index is revolving around 16,000 and trying to establish further support at that level.
JAMES SO The whole psychology of the market has changed since the U.S. unemployment figures on Friday. All th...
JAMES SO Sentiment on junior high-tech stocks and China high-tech stocks is quite negative for the time being...
JAMES SO The 13,500 level is the next crucial support level but I don't think we'll see the HSI falling that ...
JAMES SO Interest-rate sensitive stocks are doing a bit better today because the core consumer price index da...
JAMES SO After rallying to 18,000 and then being sold off the market is now trying to re-establish a level of...
JAMES SO
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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