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Been Quotes by Hunter S. Thompson
- Those of us that had been up all night were in no mood for coffee and donuts, we wanted strong drink. We were, after all,…
- I have always loved marijuana. It has been a source of joy and comfort to me for many years. And I still think of it…
- Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.
- Richard Nixon has never been one of my favorite people anyway. For years I've regarded his existence as a monument to all the rancid genes…
- George McGovern, for all his mistakes... understands what a fantastic monument to all the best instincts of the human race this country might have been,…
- There are times, however, and this is one of them, when even being right feels wrong. What do you say, for instance, about a generation…
- Coming of age in a fascist police state will not be a barrel of fun for anybody, much less for people like me, who are…
- In the terms of our Great Society the Hell's Angels and their ilk are losers - dropouts, failures and malcontents. They are rejects looking for…
- Music has always been a matter of energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is…
- I measure my life in pages. If I have pages at dawn, it's been a good night.
- I've been studying drugs for years.
- Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.
- I believe that the major operating ethic in American society right now, the most universal want and need is to be on TV. I've been…
- The slow-rising central horror of "Watergate" is not that it might grind down to the reluctant impeachment of a vengeful thug of a president whose…
- I don't think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It's lonely out here.
- Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.
- The next MVP of the Super Bowl is just as likely to have been a full-time grocery store bagger last year as a Heisman Trophy…
- I can't think in terms of journalism without thinking in terms of political ends. Unless there's been a reaction, there's been no journalism. It's cause…
- Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is…
- Ignore that nightmare in the bathroom. Just another ugly refugee from the Love Generation, some doom-struck gimp who couldn't handle the pressure. My attorney has…
- Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.
- My life has been the polar opposite of safe, but I am proud of it and so is my son, and that is good enough…
- My blood is too thick for California: I have never been able to properly explain myself in this climate.
- A little bit of this town goes a very long way. After five days in Vegas you feel like you've been here for five years.
More Been Quotes
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- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
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- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour