Hunter S. Thompson Quotes

As long as I'm learning something, I figure I'm OK - it's a decent day.

Hunter S. Thompson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 18, 1937 - February 20, 2005

Topics

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I did a lot of community theatre and met a manager that worked out of Philadelphia, and she started sending me up to New York for auditions, and I got the part in a play at Manhattan Theatre Club when I was 15.

John Gallagher, Jr.

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I'm a car nut. My father was a parts manager at a Chevrolet dealership.

John Lasseter

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The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.

John Locke

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What hadn't been realized in the literature until now is that merely to describe how severely something has been tested in the past itself embodies inductive assumptions, even as a statement about the past.

Robert Nozick

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Nobody can doubt Puerto Rico, sociologically, linguistically, culturally, and historically, is a nation. We have our own rich culture, thousand years of history, unique territory, and almost everyone's first language is Spanish, not English.

Anibal Acevedo Vila

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The free market is the epitome of life itself. This is something that all scientists recognise because science itself operates on free market lines.

John Sulston

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And what I learned in Church's course. He trained us intensively in his new system, which he was just developing. Two papers were presented. I think the second paper wasn't published until well after the course was finished.

Stephen Cole Kleene

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If you need three adjectives to describe something, then you've probably chosen the wrong something.

Roger Rosenblatt

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The securities laws of the 1930s were so important because it forced companies to file registration statements and issue prospectuses, and it remedied the imbalance of information.

Ron Chernow

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I always start my day with a red-eye misto - two shots, extra hot, extra foam - from Starbucks.

Mika Brzezinski

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In the book the relationship with Katharine and Almasy is sort of only in the patient's mind.

Michael Ondaatje

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Atlantic's Jerry Wexler believes first-rate records are made by first-rate voices. He certainly has worked with enough of them: Clyde McPhatter, Joe Turner, La Vern Baker, Ray Charles, Otis Redding, Solomon Burke, Wilson Pickett and Aretha Franklin.

Jon Landau

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