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The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.


Hunter S. Thompson

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C. JOYBELL C. To stand on the
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HUNTER S. THOMPSON We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a...
JEANETTE CORON Hold onto one thought: You're not important. You're not anything. Some day the load we're carrying w...
RAY BRADBURY Only God is good."

"We can make good works,
We can be called good folks
We can ...
MAC CANOZA Men have two greatest fears: the first fear is the fear of being needed, and the second fear is the ...
C. JOYBELL C. The mark of a real man, is a man who can allow himself to fall deeply in love with a woman. But the ...
C. JOYBELL C. The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people.
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JEAN SASSON I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It i...
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EYDEN I. If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best.
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C. JOYBELL C. Then that's what the Northern Lights are. All the lives that we're not living.
ADI ALSAID The end is the matter! A step to the end is a factor!
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH This is good business, good for industry and good for the county.
CARL LAUNDRIE Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least doe...
STEPHEN FRY When I die it will be game over,... but I know one life is short, to be selfish is not the best deci...
DEYTH BANGER Perhaps man was neither good nor bad, was only a machine in an insensate universe--his courage no mo...
T.H. WHITE You are good when you walk to your goal firmly and with bold steps.
Yet you are not evil when y...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Today the same thing over. I've got it up the tree again.
MARK TWAIN Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is th...
WILLIAM PENN Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is th...
WILLIAM PENN If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evi...
BARUCH SPINOZA I have met so many heartbroken men. It's a catastrophe. Women are easily overcome by the process tha...
C. JOYBELL C. And these Things,
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they lo...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Nicolas Cage is the best for taking the role of character Joker. He is pretty damn good at jokes!
DEYTH BANGER This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS And I really believe good journalism is good business.
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ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH And what good is a voice when so few will listen?
STACEY JAY I wish I was home", She said miserably.
She tried so hard to be brave,
to be fierce as a...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty.
BRIAN JACQUES Look to your heart and soul first, rather than looking to your head first, when choosing. Rather tha...
JEFFREY R. ANDERSON We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth ha...
L.M. MONTGOMERY To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as sayin...
LEO TOLSTOY There is no worse discriminator than envy. No worse traitor than envy. Even those who are seemingly ...
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NURUDEEN USHAWU God created us in his image, male and female, with personhood and sexual passions, so that when he c...
JOHN PIPER Who are we if not the stories we pass down? What happens when there's no one left to tell those stor...
CARRIE RYAN Anger - a beast within us that needs taming.
SARU SINGHAL They talk and it's been good for her. They're kind of going through some of the same things.
CLINT CHRISTOPHER Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for so...
ROBERT KIYOSAKI The proper bookmark for a Hunter Thompson book is a pair of brass knuckles.
JONATHAN HEATT When each and every believer rises up to serve others and function according to their capacity, the ...
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RICK RIORDAN A servant who serves excellently from his whole heart with due courage and humility is never a serva...
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING Percy was getting tired of water.
If he said that aloud, he would probably get kicked out of Po...
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LEO TOLSTOY The way the bankers have kind of toppled the way money is distributed, and taken most of it into the...
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DOUGLAS BRINKLEY They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Only once you destroy who you think you are can you embrace who you truly are.
SOMAN CHAINANI Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA The business sector is not complaining for as long as it is for the good of our countrymen.
BIENVENIDO CARIAGA Just because something is good is not a sufficient reason for doing it. The number of good things we...
DALLIN H. OAKS Tomorrow is promised to no one. Prioritize today accordingly.
GINA GREENLEE We long for things that harm us and run from the things that grow and heal us. We think good is bad ...
TESSA AFSHAR I'm not an Emontional, but how???
I live with the thought that "Nothing can be returned, it has...
DEYTH BANGER The Democratic Party had no idea how to use the Internet. They treated it like free money and then k...
WES BOYD The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the...
MICHAEL HARRIS Many atrocities, have been done in the name of the greater good.
SARAH J. MAAS The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The heart is deceitful and wicked in everyone; the Holy Spirit changes even the most wretched sinner...
NORM TOMLINSON The heart of the gospel is redemption, and the essence of redemption is the substitutionary sacrific...
NORM TOMLINSON I'm a coward when it comes to matters of the heart. That is my fatal flaw.
HARUKI MURAKAMI You should believe in prayers, even though there is no guarantee of success. Just like Love.
SARVESH JAIN If in barbed wire things can bloom, why couldn't I? I will not die, I will not die.
FRIEDL AND THE CHILDREN OF TEREZIN There is always a good choice and there is always a better choice. There is always the best choice a...
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TUCKER CARLSON Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM People understand what is good for them in the long run. In the long run, what is good for people is...
P. CHIDAMBARAM 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. In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is underm...
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XAVIER RUDD The secret of my success is my hairspray.
RICHARD GERE Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Pastor Smith did not have the religious constitution needed to provide salvation for any of us who�...
CHERYL R COWTAN If you are among the good fellows chances are that you will be among the blemishes for the wicked ar...
APURVA GAGLANI As long as our social order regards the good of institutions rather than the good of men, so long wi...
RICHARD ROBERTS We refused to be what world want us to be- BAD. We are what we are- GOOD. And that's the way it is g...
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HUNTER S. THOMPSON Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.
ANTHONY BURGESS 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 We still should have enough time to reach Rome.”
Hazel scowled. “When you say should hav...
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“You name your furniture?” Frank asked.
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Hell no!"
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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