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'It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.' Peter Ustinov

'The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat'. Lily Tomlin

'Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.' Quentin Crisp

'A day without laughter is a day wasted.' Charlie Chaplin

I warn you not to be ordinary, I warn you not to be young, I warn you not to fall ill, and I warn you not to grow old. - Neil Kinnock 7 June 1983. The man must have been able to see the f**king future of this sad nation.


Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate. John F Kennedy - 1961

"I'd hate to advocate drugs, alcohol or insanity to anyone but they've always worked for me."


Hunter S Thompson.


"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side."


Hunter S Thompson.

I found this quote tapped to a PC when I was freelancing at the Press Association more than ten years ago. I do not know who it is attributable to but it pretty much sums up my feelings towards tabloid journalists.


"Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch-all for fuck-offs and misfits - a false doorway to the backside of life, a filthy piss-ridden little hole nailed off by the building inspector, but just deep enough for a wino to curl up from the sidewalk and masturbate like a chimp in a zoo cage."

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