When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.


Hunter S. Thompson

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Coming of age in a fascist police state will not be a barrel of fun for anybody, much less for peopl...
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I'm a pro at weird.
STEPHENIE MEYER
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...
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The brutal reality of politics would be probably intolerable without drugs.
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February was always the cruellest month for Hunter S Thompson,
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY
Everyone gets weird hours sometimes,
STEVE WILLIAMS
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 ...
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OK for now. I enjoyed my quick, high-powered visit over there and look forward to a dead-game replay...
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There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challengin...
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He'd perked the campaign plane or the campaign bus up a whole lot, he'd come out and say, had hey, w...
BRUCE MORTON
People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.
SAM NEILL
When everyone looks weird to you, who's weird?
JIM GENOVESE
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
At this point I think we need to embrace the weird. High-five it. Give it our phone number.
JIM ZUB
We are drifting into some ugly parallels here, and if I'd written this kind of thing two years ago I...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
February was always the cruelest month for Hunter S. Thompson. An avid NFL fan, Hunter traditionally...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY
The weird thing about saying good-bye is that it never gets easier.
ALYSON NOEL
I feel like I've known Hunter S. Thompson for most of my life. I first encountered him in 1981, ...
TUCKER CARLSON
I have a weird propensity to know what's going to happen in the future.
JOHN CAMERON MITCHELL
I used to think that anyone doing anything weird was weird. I suddenly realized that anyone doing a...
PAUL MCCARTNEY
I used to think that anyone doing anything weird was weird. I suddenly realized that anyone doing an...
PAUL MCCARTNEY
To me, it's weird when people review improv at all.
JACK MCBRAYER
Sundance is weird. The movies are weird - you actually have to think about them when you watch them.
BRITNEY SPEARS
I used to think that anyone doing anything weird was weird. I suddenly realized that anyone doing an...
PAUL MCCARTNEY
It's definitely weird, because pretty much everybody owns the Tony Hawk videogame. Just going ov...
BAM MARGERA
You're not going to get weird on me, are you?"

"How exactly would I get weird on y...
THOMAS PIERCE
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call ot...
PAUL MCCARTNEY
Weird stuff, for me, is not that weird. I guess if it were other people, they'd think it was wei...
STEPHANIE BEATRIZ
The proper bookmark for a Hunter Thompson book is a pair of brass knuckles.
JONATHAN HEATT
In the 60's people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, people take prozac to...
UNKNOWN
Be the weirdest little weird in all Weird Town.
GRACE HELBIG
It's weird how close you can be to making a total wrong turn,
JASON BAKER
February was always the cruelest month for Hunter S. Thompson. An avid NFL fan, Hunter traditionally...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY
Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird ki...
PENN JILLETTE
Weird is the new cool and normal the new boring; Stay weird
EVY MICHAELS
It?s weird! Surreal is the word I would use.
GARY LOVEMAN
Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
It's going to be really weird leaving. I'm going to miss the team.
CARLOS SILVA
This is as weird as it gets. I've never been in a game that felt anything like this, that starts wit...
DAVID CARTER
If you're gonna get weird, get weird.
RICHIE SAMBORA
Don’t try to explain your seemingly weird behavior to someone else, if your explanation is going t...
DR HITESH C SHETH
Where's your will to be weird?
JIM MORRISON
We're all weird.
JOHN O'CALLAGHAN
Being different shouldn't be consider weird. Thinking that someone is weird because they are differe...
ROSA M. BETANCES
He's such a great dog. I never thought I was going to be a weird dog person, because there are a lot...
DANNY PINO
Being weird adds spice to life. Having weird friends just deepens the flavor
JAYELLE COCHRAN
Everyone is weird and not weird all at once.
SHANA ODEN
I never know if it's the right choice I'm making. It's always weird going from one place...
SELENA GOMEZ
People such as Hunter S. Thompson and the Beats were a huge influence on me, not just in what they w...
COREY TAYLOR
A lot of our music came out of a lot of weird psychology and weird emotions. When you play the whole...
DAVE DAVIES
Isn't it weird the way you remember things, when someone's gone?
SARAH DESSEN
I would read the atlas for pleasure. I knew it was weird. It was weird.
KEN JENNINGS
Yes I am weird, weird is good. Normal is overrated.
MAD-D
Flirting is funny. And it's awkward and weird.
HANNAH SIMONE
It's going to be good being back home. It's going to be weird.
LOUIS ROBITAILLE
Am I weird?"

"Yeah. But so what? Everybody's weird.
STEPHEN KING
I think it's weird seeing myself on the television, but it's great!
CAMREN BICONDOVA
It?s a different concept. Definitely, it?s weird. The goal is to make a statement.
ED ESPINOZA
Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen sudd...
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What's weird is that I work with these directors and then I start channeling them. I kind of tur...
JAMIE BELL
What we're always looking for is weird social issues and weird connections to make. Luckily for ...
TREY PARKER
I made odd noises as a child. Just did weird things, like turn off light switches twice. I think my ...
JOHNNY DEPP
Nowadays, everybody wanna be weird. We know how to manifest being weird.
ASAP ROCKY
It's weird. Weird because it not only happened, it happened to him.
SANDY ALOMAR
Yes! Boys are all weird. Every one of them is weird. Yuck!
MAE WHITMAN
I'm a low-key guy. So I like going to places and not being known. So it's weird when people ...
BRYSON TILLER
For my kids, it's just weird to see your dad pretend to be someone else. It's weird to see y...
NIKOLAJ COSTER-WALDAU
Maybe your weird is my normal. Who's to say?
NICKI MINAJ
It's totally weird to see myself on a billboard!
KIMBERLY CALDWELL
I have a very quiet life. There's nothing weird.
GEORGE A. ROMERO
I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird.
EDIE CAMPBELL
Maybe you should call him,' Simon suggested, trying not to think too hard about how weird it was to ...
CASSANDRA CLARE
There’s Ambien-in-alcohol weird and then there’s Ambien-mistaken-for-cocaine weird.
T. A. THOMPSON
There’s Ambien-in-alcohol weird and then there’s Ambien-mistaken-for-cocaine weird.
TANYA THOMPSON
It was just weird,
JOE TORRE
The simple truth is that you can understand the way you are. You can know and love and hate it. You ...
BRENNA YOVANOFF
It's a weird thing,
MATT KENSETH
It was a little weird.
CHASE UTLEY
So this is weird,
JOHNNY DEPP
Is it weird in here, or is it just me?
STEPHEN WRIGHT
It's very weird for me,
DUSTY BAKER
Because it's so weird
JOHN LENNON
Yeah, that's the weird thing.
STEVE BAYS
Weird is my personality, Complicated are my words and Mystery I am but those what gets you to like m...
RED DELACHINA
Very much as men project weird fantasies on women, the people in New York project weird fantasies on...
CAROLYN SEE
I have my own demons and dark moods. It's weird.
CHRIS ROCK
I hate that about guys. At least girls have the decency to be fake and pretend everything’s okay w...
LAUREN BARNHOLDT
Just remember this- weird's good. Embrace the weird, dude. Enjoy it because it's never going away.
TIM THARP
Weird people don't care if they're weird. They are the most entertaining to converse with because no...
DONNA LYNN HOPE
weird and unusual people are not necessarily weird or unusual, everybody else is just typical..
MOALE FONO
You don't have to drink this," I said, handing him the champagne. "But Sandy might like it".
"N...
JAY COWAN
I never fail to find it weird when people recognise me.
MOLLIE KING
It's weird, It's really weird to be called a breakout star. And some people are referring to...
LIZZY CAPLAN
I can't imagine having long hair anymore; it's weird.
ROBIN WRIGHT
I've never met a well-adjusted person. It's weird.
JOSS WHEDON
A lot of comedians, when they have a bad gig, will blame everything but themselves. They'll blame th...
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We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter aci...
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Good people drink good beer.
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I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics ar...
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Richard Nixon was a criminally insane Monster - Bill Clinton is a black-hearted Swine of a friend.
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I felt a little guilty about jangling the poor bugger's brains with that evil fantasy. But what the ...
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Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusi...
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Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness ... Fear and Loathing ...
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There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered f...
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It never got weird enough for me.
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Even now, more than 30 years later, I still judge people on the basis of whether they voted for Jack...
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was doldrums time.
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Be a beachcomber, a Parisian wino, an Italian pimp, or a Danish pervert; but stay away from the Arme...
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Who are these people? These faces? Where did they come from? They look like caricatures of used car ...
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So this is how the world works, all energy flows according to the whims of the great magnet.
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So much for Objective Journalism. Don't bother to look for it here--not under any byline of mine; or...
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I agreed. By this time the drink was beginning to cut the acid and my hallucinations were down to a ...
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On the way down the hill we walked three abreast in the cobblestone street, drunk and laughing and t...
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At the top of the mountain we are all snow leopards.
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No doubt they all Got What Was Coming To Them. All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought ...
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Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.
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Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why.
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A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstanc...
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A man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long.
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1) Never trust a cop in a raincoat.
2) Beware of enthusiasm and of love, both are temporary and...
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All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name.

Remembered line from a long-
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The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch...
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It is Autumn, as you know, and things are beginning to die. It is so wonderful to be out in the cris...
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and the sad notes floated out to the
patio and hung in the trees like birds too tired to fly
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I bought a small bottle of beer for fifteen cents and sat on a bench in the clearing, feeling like a...
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No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years p...
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Those of us who have been up all night were in no mood for coffee and donuts. We wanted strong drink...
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We are all wired into a survival trip now. No more of the speed that fueled that 60's. That was the ...
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The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pim...
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Fear is just another word for ignorance
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I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes.
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Some may never live, but the crazy never die
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We were warriors then, and our tribe was strong like a river
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This was the fatal flaw in Tim Leary's trip. He crashed around America selling "conciousness expansi...
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Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Five years later? Six? It seems like a lifetime...
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Still humping the American Dream
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The possibility of physical and mental collapse is now very real. No sympathy for the Devil, keep th...
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Jesus Creeping God! Is there a priest in this tavern? I want to confess! I'm a fucking sinner! Venal...
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Ignore that nightmare in the bathroom. Just another ugly refugee from the Love Generation, some doom...
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My blood is too thick for California: I have never been able to properly explain myself in this clim...
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What kind of rat bastard psychotic would play that song- right now, at this moment?
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