A little bit of this town goes a very long way. After five days in Vegas you feel like you've been here for five years.
Hunter S. Thompson
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BRUCE LATIMER Elegance is very dangerous. It's like TNT. A little goes a long way.
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JANICE JACKSON Well I forgot how different it was because I've been here for about four or five years. It's...
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HUNTER S. THOMPSON Coming of age in a fascist police state will not be a barrel of fun for anybody, much less for peopl...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON We had a very, very difficult seven years. The end result we would have been happy with. It went ver...
JEAN CLAUDE KILLY Nothing dates like hate and in literature a little of it goes a very long way.
CYRIL CONNOLLY They held up 'The Outlaw' for five years. And Howard Hughes had me doing publicity for it every day,...
JANE RUSSELL I have been drawing since I was very little and I have been playing hockey for five years.
BRITANI DUNBAR I'm anything but fine. I feel like the sun has set and not risen for five days, Ana. I'm in perpetua...
E.L. JAMES These girls are competitive from the word go. They're very driven. A little bit of coaching goes a l...
KARLA SEMPSROTT They held up 'The Outlaw' for five years. And Howard Hughes had me doing publicity for it ev...
JANE RUSSELL Certainly North Las Vegas brings a lot more to Las Vegas than it would have five years ago.
DONNA GRADY I don't believe in going for a little bit and coming back in two or three years for more. I want thi...
GARY BURKHOLDER February was always the cruellest month for Hunter S Thompson,
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY when you meet that person. a person. one of your soulmates. let the connection. relationship be what...
NAYYIRAH WAHEED If anything, he might be a little bit naive about what goes on in this town,
MICHAEL OXLEY I don't why we struggled offensively. Maybe we were a little rusty. We hadn't played in five days, a...
CRAIG NICHOLSON It's been that way for the whole five years of my career,
ROB MORRIS Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Five days is not too long to wait for a gun
NANCY CARTWRIGHT I've been able to go on and have a successful career on Broadway and certainly the last five yea...
DAVID CASSIDY As for LSD, I highly recommend it. We had a fine, wild weekend and no trouble at all. The feeling it...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON The brutal reality of politics would be probably intolerable without drugs.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON A little bit of affection goes a long way toward reconciling one with the world.
MARTY RUBIN In the time I've been here, I don't know if there's ever been a story like it. You're talking about ...
BILL FENNELLY Martina and I went through a very bad five years. Everything's very good between us now, but it ...
BILLIE JEAN KING We've been working on this for four or five years. We can wait another few days to see it go off.
LESLIE YOUNG Five days is a long time up there.
DENNIS GUTIERREZ There's basically five kids going out for the quarterback spot. Austin got a little bit of varsity e...
JOEY FLORENCE A little perspective, like a little humor, goes a long way.
ALLEN KLEIN It helps a little, especially in the beginning of the session. But those guys learn the track very q...
BRYAN HERTA After more than five years of job losses or very limited gains, there's going to be substantial and ...
JEFF HUMPHREYS It was only after five years in the army, when I was having to do a very boring job in a very boring...
ANTONY BEEVOR We're here for a little bit of a tour for four or five days, just to get together and kind of talk a...
WAYNE GRETZKY The proper bookmark for a Hunter Thompson book is a pair of brass knuckles.
JONATHAN HEATT Boa signed the new contract just before he went away for the international break. Boa has been here ...
CHRIS COLEMAN I threw away 50 years of my life. Take everything you own, throw it in a Porta Potty out here, then ...
DENNIS MITCHELL For the whole thing to go out, particularly for a satellite that's been in business for five years, ...
DENNIS LEIBOWITZ It felt normal to me. I was very well prepared mentally and knew what I had to do. I had been there ...
BRUNO JUNQUEIRA When you have nothing, a little goes a long way. When you have a lot, a little seems like nothing.
KAMAAL DAKARI CONNOLLY The opening of the first new resort on the Las Vegas Strip in five years obviously had an impact.
FRANK STRESHLEY By voting for Gonzi you are voting for another five years of BWSC, another five years of water and e...
JOSEPH MUSCAT There's been so much of a change in five days. It's really amazing.
JOANNE BUXEDER I think he took it personal. We talked a little bit that day. I said listen, 'It's over, come back n...
LUIS SOJO I’m always soft for you, that’s the problem. You could come knocking on my door five years from ...
AZRA T. It?s a very different economic environment from 10, even five years ago.
ROSS GITTELL People are very bad and very good. A little love goes a long way.
AMY POEHLER I think millennials are a generation that's a little bit behind, maybe four or five years behind...
DAN GILBERT Over the years, we worked on some promising projects that Hunter could do while never leaving the Fa...
JAY COWAN One of the worst incidents of that era caused no complaints at all: this was a sort of good-natured ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON OK for now. I enjoyed my quick, high-powered visit over there and look forward to a dead-game replay...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challengin...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.
H. Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.
H. JACKSON BROWN, JR. Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.
H. JACKSON BROWN JR. The individuals that did have a cough were tested. They have to stay out of activities for five days...
BETH ERICKSON In the seven months that this man been here, he's set the city back five years by not taking care of...
KAREN CASON When you're dealing with a little tiny detail, you put it in that context. Is this going to affect s...
STEVE VERNON I am here five years in tuna.
CARMEN VELEZ I've been in this location for five years, but I just can't afford it anymore.
DON NICHOLS For such a long time they dominated us, but over not only the last five or six years, but the last 1...
CLAUDIO REYNA We are very overwhelmed. This has been one of the most successful turnouts I've seen in a long time,...
DAWN RUTH Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON February was always the cruelest month for Hunter S. Thompson. An avid NFL fan, Hunter traditionally...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY This team is ready to take a big step. You have veterans who've been here four years. Now, they need...
AL SAUNDERS I'm like any other composer. If you give me five years to write a symphony, I'm still going ...
DARREN CRISS It's not something you have to do five days a week. It's very flexible.
ANNE MARIE It's not something you have to do five days a week. It's very flexible.
ANNE MARIE THORNTON At the Grammys, you walk down the halls and everyone's got five security guards. You can't t...
DAVE HAYWOOD We talked about withstanding their initial run, the first five minutes (after halftime), when they p...
ERNIE KENT After each stay in a hospital I live extremely healthy (sometimes up to five days!).
GERHARD KOCHER After five years, 20 million pills have been consumed, nobody's died, they've been no injuries.
MATT BOWDEN I feel like I could be likened to an old hound circling on a rug for the last five years.
NEIL YOUNG I'm very happy for Adrian. At the beginning of the year we told him, 'We're playing for you.' He's b...
COREY BREWER And just being out here it's a sanity-reviver. After spending a week, five days, in the office in a ...
ELLEN KNAPP The hall really has a carnival-type atmosphere that night. It's a little bit of Las Vegas, right her...
ERIC PETERSON We've had a very nice birthday present. Our mission has been extended for an additional five years, ...
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EVANGELINE LILLY What was my reaction? Excitement. I've been waiting five years for this moment.
ILYA BRYZGALOV The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days.
CLEMENT ATTLEE After five up weeks, it's ok to have a week like this.
JAMES AWAD I probably won't be able to hear it until five years from now anyway. That's when I always h...
ALAN VEGA We feel a little bit like we've been duped.
HAL JOHNSON I was having a lot of mixed feelings about the independent world as well as the label world. I feel ...
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GENE BLEYMAIER Five violent crimes in five blocks in five days. It's horrifying.
KIM PROPEACK We've been doing five days a week, four hours a day.
DREW LACHEY For the first five days of this week, Ukraine siphoned off nearly 400 million cubic meters of gas. T...
SERGEI KUPRIYANOV Don't have a choice, forty-five days and we've got to be out of here.
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HUNTER S. THOMPSON Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness ... Fear and Loathing ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered f...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON It never got weird enough for me.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Even now, more than 30 years later, I still judge people on the basis of whether they voted for Jack...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON was doldrums time.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Be a beachcomber, a Parisian wino, an Italian pimp, or a Danish pervert; but stay away from the Arme...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Who are these people? These faces? Where did they come from? They look like caricatures of used car ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON So this is how the world works, all energy flows according to the whims of the great magnet.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON So much for Objective Journalism. Don't bother to look for it here--not under any byline of mine; or...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON I agreed. By this time the drink was beginning to cut the acid and my hallucinations were down to a ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON On the way down the hill we walked three abreast in the cobblestone street, drunk and laughing and t...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON At the top of the mountain we are all snow leopards.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON No doubt they all Got What Was Coming To Them. All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstanc...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON A man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON 1) Never trust a cop in a raincoat.
2) Beware of enthusiasm and of love, both are temporary and...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name.
Remembered line from a long-
HUNTER S. THOMPSON The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON It is Autumn, as you know, and things are beginning to die. It is so wonderful to be out in the cris...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON and the sad notes floated out to the
patio and hung in the trees like birds too tired to fly
HUNTER S. THOMPSON I bought a small bottle of beer for fifteen cents and sat on a bench in the clearing, feeling like a...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years p...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Those of us who have been up all night were in no mood for coffee and donuts. We wanted strong drink...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON We are all wired into a survival trip now. No more of the speed that fueled that 60's. That was the ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pim...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Fear is just another word for ignorance
HUNTER S. THOMPSON I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Some may never live, but the crazy never die
HUNTER S. THOMPSON We were warriors then, and our tribe was strong like a river
HUNTER S. THOMPSON This was the fatal flaw in Tim Leary's trip. He crashed around America selling "conciousness expansi...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Five years later? Six? It seems like a lifetime...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Still humping the American Dream
HUNTER S. THOMPSON The possibility of physical and mental collapse is now very real. No sympathy for the Devil, keep th...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Jesus Creeping God! Is there a priest in this tavern? I want to confess! I'm a fucking sinner! Venal...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Ignore that nightmare in the bathroom. Just another ugly refugee from the Love Generation, some doom...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON My blood is too thick for California: I have never been able to properly explain myself in this clim...
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