Douglas Brinkley Quotes
February was always the cruelest month for Hunter S. Thompson. An avid NFL fan, Hunter traditionally embraced the Super Bowl in January as the high-water mark of his year.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
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I've been in more laps than a napkin.
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Remember that we are all human beings trying to do what we love to do.
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In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
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Getting your writing criticized can be a lot like getting skinned, and you respond to it just as enthusiastically.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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In 2009, I served as AARP's Ambassador of Caregiving. With a producer and cameraman, I traveled the country for months, interviewing hundreds of caregivers.
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There's more things that I'd like to do. You know, each song is a little bit of a puzzle. I see most of them as just failed attempts.
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We're on the verge of a financial collapse unless we balance the budget, and that means some really, really tough decisions.
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Patents have a place in medical science - for new inventions that advance the state of knowledge.
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I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.
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I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.
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Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
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It gets boring to me when people talk about clothing brands or what boat they're going to buy next summer.
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I simply wanted to get through college as quickly as humanly possible. I had no interest in extracurricular activities or anything that required me to be social. I was allergic to people.
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If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun.
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Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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I get up at an unholy hour in the morning my work day is completed by the time the sun rises. I have a slightly bad back which has made an enormous contribution to American literature.
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I felt self-conscious going out in the street prior to ever even being in a movie. That's just me.
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I have eight guns. I do have a concealed weapons permit.
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The silence of a room when someone enters with a gun is very different from the sound that room makes when empty.
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There have only been about a half dozen genuinely important events in the four-billion-year saga of life on Earth: single-celled life, multicelled life, differentiation into plants and animals, movement of animals from water to land, and the advent of mammals and consciousness.
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February was always the cruelest month for Hunter S. Thompson. An avid NFL fan, Hunter traditionally embraced the Super Bowl in January as the high-water mark of his year.
