Hunter S. Thompson Quotes

The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President.

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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For thirty-five years, David Halberstam, an unsilent member of the Silent Generation, has contemplated America and its place in the world, casting his eye on big subjects - Vietnam, global economics, race, mass media, and the 1950s.

John Gregory Dunne

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In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

John Ruskin

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Royalty mostly seem like members of some anachronistic faith, like the Amish, peculiar in gilded buggies.

Stacey D'Erasmo

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Harry Truman wrote scathing letters, but he almost never sent them.

Robert Dallek

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And it's true, you hear things in Damascus and, after a few hours, the human double-take stops operating.

Robert Fisk

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Everybody kind of perceives me as being angry. It's not anger, it's motivation.

Roger Clemens

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Women in the U.S. are influenced by the same trends - popular culture, runway trends, etc. - and our hypothesis is that she's quite anxious to be able to buy products in her town that perhaps she hasn't been able to in the past.

Mary Dillon

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If I'm going away for longer than a week I take a suitcase and check it in but I'm good at packing light and quick - years of modelling, travelling and living out of a suitcase has trained me well.

Lisa Snowdon

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Most novelists are narcissistic egomaniacs who would probably fit somewhere on the CEO spectrum.

Joshua Cohen

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I was making a lot of momentous personal decisions. I was still very very young: when the prize was awarded, I was 33; the work I had done when I was 21.

Joshua Lederberg

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One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

Booker T. Washington

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Unlike most other children, - especially unlike those of today - who are eager to become men and women as speedily as possible, I had a terror of growing up, which became more and more accentuated as I grew older.

Pierre Loti

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