Doug Stanhope Quotes
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The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without exceptions, of course, but more than we ought to be comfortable with.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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I've always been taught that hard work doesn't fail.
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I wore U.S.A. across my chest in 1976.
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Actors are just soldiers who follow commands.
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I've had to be tough my whole life.
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It's something that has informed quite a lot of my comedy - that idea of someone who is always trying to get in there with the right crowd, always trying to be a certain type of person and never managing it.
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Saying you are a patriot does not make you one; wearing a flag pin does not in itself mean anything at all.
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I am much more productive late at night because I have no one to look to for entertainment aside from myself.
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I hate editing. I love to write, but I hate to reread my stuff. To revise.
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The only really good vegetable is Tabasco sauce. Put Tabasco sauce in everything. Tabasco sauce is to bachelor cooking what forgiveness is to sin.
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I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
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I always felt like there were always egos involved when I was trying to get music finished in New Order. Sometimes it would feel like I was running through water.
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But, in the name of the experimental method and out of our poor knowledge, are we really entitled to claim that everything happens by chance, to the exclusion of all other possibilities?
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The fact that people put on 'Honey, I'm Good' to get their day started - that's really sweet.
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I don't feel like literature has the power to alienate. I think that's something people feel if they don't connect with a work of art. But I don't think a work of art can actively reject the person who's looking at it or reading it.
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At the time that I knew them, they were not living together. They began dating again after their divorce, so I didn't really see fighting.
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Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug.
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It's up to you to define your own brand of leadership and your own version of success.
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Laziness acknowledges the relation of the present to the past but ignores its relation to the future; impatience acknowledge its relation to the future but ignores its relation to the past; neither the lazy nor the impatient man, that is, accepts the present instant in its full reality and so cannot love his neighbour completely.
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The writer's room is a really interesting place to be.
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We've gotta restore the American people's confidence in the ethics process by ensuring that political self-interest can no longer prevent politicians from enforcing ethics rules.
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You should laugh everywhere you can find even the slightest glimmer of humour.
