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- The neo-hippie-dips, the sentimentality-crazed iguana anthropomorphizers, the Chicken Littles, the three-bong-hit William Blakes- thank God these people don't actually go outdoors much, or the environment…
- The Tenth Commandment sends a message to socialists, to egalitarians, to people obsessed with fairness, to American presidential candidates in the year 2000 - to…
- God has no role to play in politics except to make sure politicians go where they belong. To hell.
- When government does, occasionally, work, it works in an elitist fashion. That is, government is most easily manipulated by people who have money and power…
- There's a lot of debate on this subject - about what kind of car handles best. Some say a a front-engined car, some say a…
- We won't dispassionately investigate or rationally debate which drugs do what damage and whether or how much of that damage is the result of criminalization.…
- That doesn't mean that you should just sit back and just let accidents happen to you. No, you have to go out and cause them…
- If the wind is blowing like stink and everything is working right, a twelve-meter sailboat can go eleven and a half or twelve miles an…
- Never steal anything so small that you'll have to go to an unpleasant city jail for it instead of a minimum-security federal tennis prison.
- There was also a hunger strike in front of the National Press Club, which seemed an odd place to have a hunger strike (a cocktail…
- A cocktail party is what you call it when you invite everyone you know to come over to your house at six p.m., put cigarettes…
- .......the poor of the world cannot be made rich by redistribution of wealth. Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped poverty, taking their…
- The Arab peoples possess an ancient and highly developed civilization that is in many ways more sophisticated than our own. For instance, they invented algebra.…
- I've always figured that if God wanted us to go to church a lot He'd have given us bigger behinds to sit on and smaller…
- Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your…
- You can learn all about the human condition from covering the crime beat in a big city - you don't need to go to Beirut…
- The free market is ugly and stupid, like going to the mall; the unfree market is just as ugly and just as stupid, except there…
- To mistrust science and deny the validity of the scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work…
- College professors used to be badly paid and worth it. Colleges used to be modest institutions; they should go back to being modest institutions.
More Go Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then. — Richard Armour
- Moshing and broken glass just don't go together. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- It's actually amazing because you go so far into another side of your brain when you're studying something completely different, and I… — Dido Armstrong
- I exercise everyday. I swim, I bike, I run and I go to the gym. — Lance Armstrong
- The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further… — Neil Armstrong