"It's embarrassing ... you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller's List."

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Abbie Hoffman

#Wind Quotes #Government Quotes #Trying Quotes

“I admire and respect Bill Clinton. I think he was a great president.”
“Only a portion of my intestinal tract was working.”

Source : "Mary Ann Mobley: going public about a private disease". Saturday Evening Post Interview with Cory SerVaas, January 1, 1994.
“When I was working on the Olympic cookbook it was amazing to discover how different athletes need different types of diets. Everybody thinks that an athlete has to eat lots of carbohydrates, however some athletes don't need that. Some sports such as sprinting are explosive so you need a diet that will give you the energy for that moment.”
“The man who works recognizes his own product in the world that has actually been transformed by his work. He recognizes himself in it, he sees his own human reality in it he discovers and reveals to others the objective reality of his humanity of the originally abstract and purely subjective idea he has of himself”

Source : Alexandre Kojève (1980). “Introduction to the Reading of Hegel”, p.27, Cornell University Press
“I understand basketball is not my entire life. It's only a part of my life. And there are a lot of other things that interest me a great deal ... other goals to seek, and this is how I have balance in life.”
“If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England.”
“Everything that is not me is incomprehensible.”
“Diminish the influence of fate”

Source : Darin Strauss (2001). “Chang and Eng”, p.222, Penguin

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