"Life as Hunter Thompson's mother was no weenie roast."

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Source : William McKeen (2009). “Outlaw Journalist: The Life and Times of Hunter S. Thompson”, p.10, W. W. Norton & Company

William McKeen

#Mother Quotes #Hunters Quotes

“I was a very awkward high schooler, especially in early high school. I had the middle part with a swoop, all that. It was the late â€™90s!”

Source : "Broadway Favorite Aaron Tveit Tackles the Small Screen With ‘Graceland’". Interview with Suzy Evans, www.backstage.com. June 27, 2013.
“Our pre-kindergarten programs have shown a better work force and have attracted more businesses into the state. We implemented our Smart Start program in 1993. In my first two terms in the 1970s, we focused on elementary and high schools. We realized we were starting too late. We knew to be effective we had to start even earlier.”
“No half measures. Some things canâ€™t be cut in half. You canâ€™t half-love someone. You canâ€™t half-betray, or half-lie.”

Source : Mark Lawrence (2013). “Emperor of Thorns”, p.61, Penguin
“In fact, it was all I could do to stop myself from saying, 'I've always been a big fan of your work â€¦”
“God comes right out and tells us why he gives us more money than we need. It's not so we can find more ways to spend it. It's not so we can indulge ourselves and spoil our children. It's not so we can insulate ourselves from needing God's provision. It's so we can give and give generously (2 Corinthians 8:14; 9:11)”
“States with high and rising tax burdens are more likely to suffer economic decline; those with low and falling tax burdens are more likely to enjoy strong economic growth.”

Source : "Low-Tax Tiger" by Lawrence Kudlow, www.realclearpolitics.com. January 20, 2006.
“Oh the Broom, the yellow Broom, The ancient poet sung it, And dear it is on summer days To lie at rest among it. I know the realms where people say The flowers have not their fellow; I know where they shine out like suns, The crimson and the yellow. I know where ladies live enchained In luxury's silken fetters, And flowers as bright as glittering gems Are used for written letters. But ne'er was flower so fair as this, In modern days or olden; It groweth on its nodding stem Like to a garland golden.”

Source : Mary Botham Howitt, “The Broom Flower”
“I think you have a pact with an audience in every picture, and I think the pact is to try and be truthful and to be real.”

Source : "Director James L. Brooks talks Spanglish". Interview with Brian B., movieweb.com. December 16, 2004.

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