"Was I a criminal? No. I was a good member of society. Only my society and the one making the laws are different."

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Source : "For the unrepentant patriarch of LSD, long, strange trip winds back to Bay Area" by Joel Selvin, www.sfgate.com. July 12, 2007.

Owsley Stanley

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“We all used to collect baseball cards that came with bubble gum. You could never get the smell of gum off your cards, but you kept your Yankees cards pristine.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I, also, would like to look and smile, sit and walk like that, so free, so worthy, so restrained, so candid, so childlike and mysterious. A man only looks and walks like that when he has conquered his Self. I also will conquer my Self.”
“Humor relies on the traditions of a society. It takes what we know and it twists it. ... Because women are on the ground floor, and we know the traditions so well, we can bring a different voice to the table.”
“I do have a lot of sexual imagery in my performance. But I don't think it's ever encouraging anyone to have sex. I think I just show my own sexuality, but I don't think I've ever really written about having sex or anything like that.”
“The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness...”
“An optimist is neither naive, nor blind to the facts, nor in denial of grim reality. An optimist believes in the optimal usage of all options available, no matter how limited. As such, an optimist always sees the big picture. How else to keep track of all thatâ€™s out there? An optimist is simply a proactive realist.”
“A team is not a bunch of people with job titles, but a congregation of individuals, each of whom has a role that is understood by other members.”
“I've been married 34 years. I have not been a perfect man. I have made mistakes in my life.”

Source : Interview with Connie Chung, www.deseretnews.com. August 24, 2001.

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