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There is always room for losers in the football business. They are the mother's milk of gambling, and why not? Somebody has to do it, or there won't be any winners.
Hunter S. Thompson
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Hunter S. Thompson
Age: 67 †
Born: 1937
Born: July 18
Died: 2005
Died: February 20
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Hunter Stockton Thompson
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Journalism, to me, is just another drug - a free ride to scenes I'd probably miss if I stayed straight.
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Buy the ticket, take the ride.
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I think I'm one of the most patriotic people that I've ever encountered in America. I consider myself a bedrock patriot. I participate very actively in local politics, because my voice might be worthwhile. I participate in a meaningful way - not by donations I work at it.
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Nixon was a professional politician, and I despised everything he stood for -- but if he were running for president this year against the evil Bush-Cheney gang, I would happily vote for him.
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They're gonna make it look like suicide. I know how those bastards think.
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Like most of the others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser.
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Sounds of life and movement, people getting ready and people giving up, the sound of hope and the sound of hanging on, and behind them all, the quiet, deadly ticking of a thousand hungry clocks.
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Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something.
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There was madness in any direction, at any hour. You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning.
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The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
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Weird behavior is natural in smart children, just as curiosity is to a kitten.
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I harbor a secret urge to whack a salesman in the face, crack his teeth and put red bumps around his eyes.
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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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But I am in the gambling business, for good or ill it is the business I have chosen, and the only governing rule that we all recognize is: always sit close to an exit and never trust a man who doesn't sweat.
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Turn the goddam music up! My heart feels like an alligator!
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North Vegas is where you go if you're a hooker turning forty and the syndicate men on the strip decide you're no longer much good for business out there with the high rollers.
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The regrets I have are so minor. You know, would I leave my Keith Richards hat, with the silver skull on it, on the stool at the coffee shop at LaGuardia? I wouldn't do that again. But overall, no, I don't have any regrets.
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