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Hunter S. Thompson Quotes

If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.

Hunter S. Thompson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Crazy You Up Going Paid Get

The reality is that people know my character, and they know my service.

Character Service People Reality

I'm asthmatic. I was a lot bigger back then, and I still get winded on stage today. But I've learned how to pace it now. I have musical breaks in there.

Today Back Now Stage Bigger Get

I had a strong propensity, which I still have, to be invisible. In grade school, I'd try to disappear and become formless. I lived in a very imaginary world. I loved poetry and wrote my first novel when I was 9. It was about a little girl and the people she met in the woods.

Girl School Poetry People World Try

Traditionally, I like to watch my plays from the very back.

Back Watch Like Very Plays

If you go to a big city anywhere in the world and you need a doctor, just ask me. I can tell you who's good and who's bad. I've even considered writing a guidebook.

Good City Me Writing Doctor World

Ironically, when a bunch of very smart people are sitting around a table for hours trying to figure out whether they should do something, that tends to not necessarily lead to the best results.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

Best Smart People Trying Table Out

I didn't really get into golf until I was about 14. My mom and dad were taking lessons from a pro an hour and a half from our farm in Cohuna, Australia. When they got home, I'd ask my mom to explain everything they learned - drills and all.

Home Mom Golf Farm Australia Ask

There will always be some who, for whatever reason, find themselves dependent on the charity of others. But when half the population is along for the ride, the system becomes dangerously out of balance. Things fall apart.

Ride Balance Charity Fall Find Will

When you read about it, you realize that mental illness is so prevalent. People didn't always have the right terms for it, but most families have had a brush with it.

People You Mental Illness Right Most

So much value has been lost in the housing market that people are now buying. If there's any activity in the housing market, it's because values have plummeted to such depths that the 47% can now afford to live in a government-purchased house, or something like that.

Live Value People Values House Lost

I was a professional and did my best to prepare for every fight, but after PRIDE Grand Prix, to be honest, I didn't have motivation to go on.

Best Fight Pride Motivation Go

No, I don't have an agent. I'm hoping to get one soon.

Get Soon Hoping Agent

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