Hunter S. Thompson quotes - page 12

Remember this, folks - I am a Hillbilly, and I don't always Bet the same way I talk. Good advice is one thing, but smart gambling is quite another. (Hunter S. Thompson)
Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist. View quote
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Rude people will now & then ask me why I think I know so much about Politics. I tell them it's because I'm Smart... But that is a lie: The real reason is because I'm an incurable Gambling addict. View quote
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I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory... And why not? Victory is good for you, and don't let anybody tell you different. View quote
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But after a while you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife in her teeth. Most acid fanciers can handle this sort of thing. View quote
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The only thing wrong with the NBA - or any other professional sport, for that matter - is a wild epidemic of Dumbness and overweening Greed. There is no Mystery about it, and no need to change any rules. View quote
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I am more than just a serious basketball fan. I am a life-long addict. I was addicted from birth, in fact, because I was born in Kentucky and I learned, early on, that Habitual Domination was a natural way of life. View quote
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Duke is an ugly word in Kentucky. Nothing in the world compares to the joy of beating those hateful swine from Duke. View quote
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Richard Nixon was an evil man - evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency. View quote
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Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today's winners are tomorrow's blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope. View quote
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Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to pieces. (Hunter S. Thompson)
February is always a bad month for TV sports. Football is gone, basketball is plodding along in the annual midseason doldrums, and baseball is not even mentioned. View quote
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Nixon was a crook, of course, but he was also a rabid football fan - and he knew the game, which still astounds me, but I have always had a soft spot for him because of it. View quote
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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. View quote
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Yes sir, I am a tortured man for all seasons, as they say, and I have powerful friends in high places. Birds sing where I walk, and children smile when they see me coming. View quote
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Without gambling, I would not exist. View quote
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Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs -- unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendents who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times. View quote
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Richard Nixon was a criminally insane Monster - Bill Clinton is a black-hearted Swine of a friend. View quote
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Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president. View quote
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I was 22 when JFK was murdered, and I will never recover from it... Never. View quote
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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. (Hunter S. Thompson)
I had a soft-spot in my heart for Ronald Reagan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth. View quote
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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 winner. View quote
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It is all well and good for children and acid freaks to believe in Santa Claus - but it is still a profoundly morbid day for us working professionals. It is unsettling to know that one out of every twenty people you meet on Xmas will be dead this time next year.... Some people can accept this, and some can't. That is why God made whiskey, and also why Wild Turkey comes in $300 shaped canisters during most of the Christmas season... View quote
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Quacks are a part of our culture, and we all fall prey to them. Who among us can say, for sure, that even our own personal physicians are honest and competent? View quote
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