"I guess that's one of the things about……" — Hunter S. Thompson
"I guess that's one of the things about growing up in the fifties - it never occurred to me that you wouldn't be at least as successful as your parents."
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445 Quotes by Hunter S. Thompson
Hunter S. Thompson has 445 quotes on this site.
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Get out of control, but appear under control. It?s not bad to alarm other people, though ? it?s good for…
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Breakfast is a personal ritual that can only be properly observed alone, and in a spirit of genuine excess. The…
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Those of us that had been up all night were in no mood for coffee and donuts, we wanted strong…
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There is an ancient Celtic axiom that says 'Good people drink good beer.' Which is true, then as now. Just…
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Cover a war in a place where you can't drink beer or talk to a woman? Hell no!
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I have always loved marijuana. It has been a source of joy and comfort to me for many years. And…
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They don't hardly make 'em like him any more - but just to be on the safe side, he should…
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In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile.
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We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and - in spite of True Romance magazines - we shall all…
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Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.
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No one holds command over me. No man. No god. No Prince. What is a claim of age for ones…
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Old elephants limp off to the hills to die; old Americans go out to the highway and drive themselves to…
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These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.
— Hannah Arendt
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Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike…
— Rowan Atkinson
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Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music…
— Jackson Browne
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I'm so lucky to have a career in my fifties. And to still have the desire to do it. I…
— Kim Cattrall
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English television from the Fifties to the Nineties was the least bad in the world, and now it's just as…
— John Cleese
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Now, as I move through my fifties, I can be professional and domestic, creative and intellectual, patient and urgent. I…
— Susan Sarandon
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It's funny, this thing about happiness. It's a commodity that was imported from America in the Fifties. I see myself…
— Francesca Annis
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When I used to go to the Manhattan Chess Club back in the fifties, I met a lot of old-timers…
— Bobby Fischer
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My dad was kind of a pool shark and had a Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin thing going on. I've always…
— Dylan McDermott
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You know, women have a history of just being - we've been told all our lives not to say -…
— Cybill Shepherd
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Other people get moody in their forties and fifties - men get the male menopause. I missed the whole thing.…
— Rik Mayall
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A lot of people ask me where music is going today. I think it's going in short phrases. If you…
— Miles Davis
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