"Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play."

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Hunter S. Thompson, American Journalist

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"What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy."

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"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."

"For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion."

"What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy."

"They're talking about banning cigarette smoking now in any place that's used by ten or more people in a week, which, I guess, means that Madonna can't even smoke in bed."

"Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake - you know, to send the right message to kids."

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"Good-looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters."

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"Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive."

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