William McKeen famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Life as Hunter Thompson's mother was no weenie roast.
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I didn't read this book--I inhaled it. This a terrific new take on a great old rock n roll story, a clash of the musical titans.
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is perfect in the same way that The Great Gatsby is perfect. Take a pencil and read these books, looking for something that doesn't sound right, something you'd want to change. You'll leave the page untouched.
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This writing wasn't painful. It was like being high.
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Perhaps the heart of the American Dream was found in the search.
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Nothing infuriates an academic more than a talented and successful colleague.
-- William McKeen
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Music is language itself. It should not have any barriers of caste, creed, language or anything. Music is one, only cultures are different. Music is the language of languages. It is the ultimate mother of languages.
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Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly.
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I wanted to live. For the father and brother who I never knew and for my mother who was cheated of a life of happiness. I wanted to live for them. And I wanted to live for me.
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When mother is happy, family is happy. When family is happy, nation is happy.
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I shall always think of myself first and foremost... as a hunter.
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I'm a Red-baiter; I'm a witch-hunter if the witches are Communists.
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Vegetarian: Indian word for lousy hunter.
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You can't teach a hunter it's wrong to kill.
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
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Only recently have we come up with the technology to turn lazing around into a way of life. We've taken our sinewy, durable, hunter-gatherer bodies and plunked them into an artificial world of leisure.
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