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- The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.
- Hunter S. Thompson (1939 - 2005), San Francisco Examiner, 1985
- If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
- Hunter S. Thompson (1939 - 2005)
- Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.
- Hunter S. Thompson (1939 - 2005)
- Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,--'Wait and hope'.
- Alexandre Dumas (1802 - 1870), The Count of Monte Cristo
- Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 - 1864)
- I would like to be called an inspiration to people, not a role model--because I make mistakes like everybody else. When I'm offstage, I'm just like everybody else.
- Britney Spears (1981 - )
- Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.
- Carlos Santana, Associated Press interview, September 1, 2004
- Freedom and independence form my character.
- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (1881 - 1938), Founder of modern Turkey 24.04.1921
- Everything passes. Everything changes. Just do what you think you should do.
- Bob Dylan (1941 - ), "To Ramona"
- An education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.
- Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
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