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"Wanting more. Having your cake or eating your cake are fine. Not even wanting cake is where you get fucked."
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Doug Stanhope"Ive been playing the CNN Drinking Game. Have you ever played that? Where you do a shot every time George Bush says the word "evil"? Oh, Im a wreck! You gotta do a double shot every time he says "evildoers". Chug the bottle for "axis of evil". Are you a president or an exorcist?!"
Doug Stanhope is an American stand-up comedian, author, actor, political activist and podcast host. His stand-up material consist of profane and confrontational observations of life.
"Wanting more. Having your cake or eating your cake are fine. Not even wanting cake is where you get fucked."
"I couldnt be a responsible enough parent if my kid was born with a new suit and a full-time job."
"You were born free, you got fucked out of half of it, and you wave a flag celebrating it."
"Life is like animal porn. Its not for everyone."
"I hate when your friends quit drinking on you, dont you? Its sad. Ive lost more friends to A.A. than Liberace did to the virus. Its sad to see em go. You see a thirty day chip on your buddys key ring, its like seeing a toe tag on his cold, stiff corpse."
"Drugs support terrorism"? No, your SUV supports terrorism."
"In the life of the mass-order, the culture of the generality tends to conform to the demands of the average human being. Spirituality decays through being diffused among the masses when knowledge is impoverished in every possible way by rationalisation until it becomes accessible to the crude understanding of all."
"I say this to you because we Spaniards are a forgetful people, because we are used to living for the moment, because we do not look back, because we do not know how to see the chain of heroes, because we do not contemplate the sum of sacrifices."
"Sharon Tate was my best friend. Once, we were roommates. She introduced me to my husband. She was the godmother to my baby daughter who is named for her. In the six years time that I knew her, she never said an unkind word about anyone."
"Long time to see. (VS: Tapion)"
"Most mathematicians prove what they can, von Neumann proves what he wants." Once in a discussion about the rapid growth of mathematics in modern times, von Neumann was heard to remark that whereas thirty years ago a mathematician could grasp all of mathematics, that is impossible today. Someone asked him: "What percentage of all mathematics might a person aspire to understand today?" Von Neumann went into one of his five-second thinking trances, and said: "About 28 percent."
"Children must be free to think in all directions irrespective of the peculiar ideas of parents who often seal their childrens minds with preconceived prejudices and false concepts of past generations. Unless we are very careful, very careful indeed, and very conscientious, there is still great danger that our children may turn out to be the same kind of people we are."