Ted Nugent Quotes

#1. I know we just met today, but I gotta see you tomorrow. I know this is our first date, I don't expect you to swallow.

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#2. Sometimes too much tolerance can kill you.If you are tolerant of people poisoning themselves to death they will drag you down. They will ruin your life by being intentional obstacles to your dreams.

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#3. I was a walking, talking hunk of human poop,

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#4. If the coyote's in your living room pissing on your couch, it's not the coyote's fault. It's your fault for not shooting him.

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#5. My memory bank has overflowed out of control forever. I'm surprised my smile hasn't killed me yet. I have lived an indescribable joyful, adventurous, musical dream life and it just gets better every year.

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#6. I am a political animal, because for God's sakes I think "We The People" is a job. I think experienced self government demands on all levels - intellectual, moral, historical, and spiritual level. We are supposed to be engaged and give directions to our elected employees.

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#7. When the law disarms good guys, bad guys rejoice.

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#8. I'm so much fun. Every kid wishes I was their grandpa! I'm the Motor City Madgramps.

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#9. If you would force me to be unarmed and helpless I would have to do everything in my power to neutralize you ... Peace and love will get you killed. That doesn't sound like a hippie.

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#10. I don't pay to have my dirty work done for me. I do it myself.

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#11. So listen everybody to what I got to say, there's hope for tomorrow, if we wake up today.

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#12. Every study on crime and or firearms proves time and time again, that 99.99999% of American gun owners do not commit crimes or use our firearms in any dangerous or improper way.

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#13. They got how many trillions of dollars in gold and silver and jewelry and art and real estate and stained glass and they're passing the basket on Sunday so they can get the tomato farmers' donation?

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#14. James Brown's Live at the Apollo is not just a musical whiplash, it's a spiritual cleansing. You can just close your eyes and see him doing the splits, kicking the mic stand and doing a 360.

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#15. If you don't have a sense of humor, you'll hurt yourself arguing with me.

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#16. Use your lives wisely, my friends, and conserve these precious freedoms for future generations.

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#17. An uninhibited, Chuck Berry devotee but experimented with and broke a lot of ground on feedback techniques and solid variations in tonal and dissonant utilizations. I'm one of the best guitarists in the world, and I play with great emotion.

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#18. There's an absolute surety to the hands-on conservation lifestyle of hunting, fishing and trapping where you know you're going to consume today.

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#19. Anybody that wants to disarm me can drop dead.

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#20. I'm an extremist? I don't think so. I think people that call me an extremist are extremely brain dead and soulless.

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#21. [I] never thought too highly of anyone foolish enough to take on the nickname of a life-destroying dope product and promote such family-destroying conduct on stage.

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#22. To show you how radical I am, I want carjackers dead. I want rapists dead. I want burglars dead. I want child molesters dead. I want the bad guys dead. No court case. No parole. No early release. I want 'em dead. Get a gun and when they attack you, shoot 'em.

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#23. Apartheid isn't that cut-and-dry. All men are not created equal.

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#24. The Indians the needed some food, and some skins for a roof. They only took what they needed, baby, millions of buffalo were the proof.

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#25. I ceased cleansing my body. Two weeks before the test I stopped eating food with nutritional value. A week before, I stopped going to the bathroom. I did it in my pants. My pants got crusted up.

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#26. I'm not in the leftist controlled Rock and Roll Hall of Fame because of my political views, primarily my lifelong militant support of the NRA, the Second Amendment, and my belief that the only good bad guy is a dead bad guy.

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#27. The best musicians in the world were raised on the same kind of music I was raised on and that is black, soulful, authoritative, ultra-tight, ferocious, uppity, defiant music that from the Howlin' Wolf, the Muddy Waters, the Lightnin' Hopkins, the Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, and Little Richard.

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#28. I have a job to pay attention. It is my number one duty as a human being - to earn an experiment in self-government every day by spotlighting cockroaches who violate their oath to the US constitution and wipe their ass with the US Constitution

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#29. Nobody is going to invest a fortune into good orchard land, all the farming equipment necessary, the fertilizer, the seedlings, the nonstop Herculean work effort needed to grow apples, then bring them to the fruit stand for people to take home for free.

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#30. I don't wanna be a rock star. I don't believe in rock stars. If you really examine what goes with being a rock star, I've avoided that really well.

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#31. To my mind it is wholly irresponsible to go into the world incapable of preventing violence, injury, crime, and death. How feeble is the mindset to accept defenselessness. How unnatural. How cheap. How cowardly. How pathetic.

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#32. If there is one thing I am, it's always right.

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#33. If it was up to me, if you uttered the word 'gun control,' we'd put you in jail.

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#34. I make a pussy purr with the stroke of my hand.

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#35. Brilliant thoughts flow with a life of their own to a dedicated reasoning predator up in a tree with a bow and arrow half the year meditating soulfully in anticipation to kill unsuspecting meat-infested herbivores.

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#36. The Second Amendment of our Bill of Rights is my Concealed Weapons Permit, period.

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#37. Mr. Janet Reno? I think Mr. Janet Reno ... I think he's one of the best hunting dogs in the world.

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#38. You have to save the habitat, you have to save the population - not individual animals. What you want to save is the foundation, the basic infrastructure from which resources are produced. You can't save Fifi and Boo-Boo and Thumper.

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#39. I really have the American dream licked.

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#40. We hunt and fish or we'll go nuts dealing with the criminal behavior of our elected officials.

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#41. Mankind: A quality of life upgrade is available to each and every one of you. It should give you a quality of life upgrade, which means no drugs, no alcohol, no fast food - unless, of course, it's a mallard.

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#42. Lance Bass needs to quit worrying about outer space and celebrate life by learning how to kill his own food.

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#43. There will come a time when the gun owners of America, the law-abiding gun owners of America, will be the Rosa Parks and we will sit down on the front seat of the bus, case closed,

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#44. Without question Gibson guitars are the finest, most revered guitars on the planet.

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#45. I'm such a lucky guy. I've been able to make my own decisions for my own life for the last fifty years ... or sixty ... well maybe not sixty. Even though I think I was making my own decisions at the tender age of eight.

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#46. Whenever I donate a hunting trip for the Children's Leukemia Foundation, Ronald McDonald Cancer House, all these children's charities, I offer the anti-hunters an opportunity: if you donate more to the children's charity than the hunters donate we won't go hunting.

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#47. I clearly understood the concept of wise use before I ever heard the actual words, for my father wouldn't allow us to waste anything.

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#48. There aren't really any actual misconceptions, just dumb people versus good, honest people.

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#49. I'm a lucky, lucky man. I mean, the people I surround myself with are so inspiration. They're so motivational and they're so dynamic and positive. You really can't stop that positive force when everything and everyone around you is so positive.

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#50. I contribute to the dead of winter and the moans of silence, blood trails are music to my ears ... I'm a gut pile addict ... The pig didn't know I was there ... it's my kick ... I love shafting animals ... it's rock 'n' roll power.

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#51. There are multi-scatterings of various and associated issues and concerns, but it all boils down to accountable people versus those unwilling to be accountable.

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#52. God knows America would be the greatest again if she operated like the Nugent family. No takers, no whiners, no gangsters, no dopers, no drunks, no criminals, no bloodsuckers, no excuse makers, no crybabies, no punks, no Obama supporters.

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#53. Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians - except for the occasional mountain lion steak.

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#54. Every hateful statement ever made about me is a dirty lie.

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#55. I indeed do respect all people for the positives in their life. Sadly, there comes a time of diminishing returns in the balance. At the end of the day, my respect is reserved for those solidly in the asset column of mankind.

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#56. There is no finer sonic-producing weapon for a guitar slayer than a hand crafter Gibson masterpiece.

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#57. There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.

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#58. I started singing with the Amboy Dukes in '87. I sang 'Oh Baby Please Don't Go,' the old Van Morrison song by Joey Smith. I started singing more from then on.

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#59. I don't objectify women. I'd like to think that I'm optimizing their hardware.

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#60. My baby she'll take a chance, my baby got a brand new dance, Wango Tango, Wango Tango.

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#61. Like the average American that I hang out with, and like my father before me, I raised all my children to respect tools and use them wisely and safely.

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#62. I don't plan [my recordings], I really don't. It's so spontaneous I wish all rock lovers and rock journalist could witness a Ted Nugent recording session. It is so primal, it's like idiot kids in the garage with their first loud amplifiers, its intoxicating, it is irreverent, it is uninhibited.

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#63. Like all other law-abiding Americans, I fully support legal immigration.

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#64. Americans have the right to choose to be unarmed and helpless. Be my guest.

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#65. I have busted more hippies' noses than all the narcs in the free world.

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#66. I think you should ride the line between fatigue and chaos. The chaos keeps the energy level and spontaneity maximized, while fatigue is just over the edge, and you should try to avoid it.

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#67. There was a time when man stood strong, right was right and wrong was wrong.

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#68. I've always identified [myself] with the warrior and good over evil, and you don't negotiate for good over evil, if you want peace and love, kill people that deny you that.

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#69. We use our tax dollars to pay some bureaucrat to kill a mountain lion, dig a hole and bury this precious beast. No one gets to eat it, nobody gets to buy licenses, fees and taxes themselves. And that's only after a mountain lion has killed somebody! Oh my God! And the Osbournes are still No. 1!

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#70. On my first bowhunt on the property a few years back, I was on my own for twenty-two days and killed an amazing thirty-three head of big game. I'm surprised I even came home. I was in heaven.

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#71. I don't like repeat offenders; I like dead offenders.

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#72. How dare politicians continue to pass insane laws forcing good, law-abiding people to be defenseless and helpless.

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#73. Do you want to feel good, or do you want to do good?

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#74. My band and music are so intense they scare me, and I'm not afraid of anything. We love our music with everything we got and deliver the most inebriating fun concerts on earth every night.

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#75. I am always writing music. I have got unlimited ideas because I have been clean and sober for my entire life.

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#76. Jesse Jackson and Al Not-So-Sharpton would be lisping their ebonic mumbo-jumbo that the policy and the president are racist and bigoted.

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#77. I dont partake in assembly-line convenience. I dont say that killing things is bad while I hire people to kill things for me.

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#78. I still tour like a man possessed, because I am.

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#79. Only criminals and bloodsuckers reward bad behavior.

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#80. With all due respect, many in the entertainment industry are deep into mind-altering substance abuse, and when one's logic and intellectual calculating powers are replaced with dopey feel-good, fantasy-driven denial, the democratic party serves them well.

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#81. Hunting is the last perfect thing.

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#82. If you want to get a sensual thunderbolt then you have got to be cocked, locked and ready to rock, doc. I find that whole milk and lots of Vitamin D help.

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#83. My love is like a tire iron.

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#84. What the hell is social justice? What sort of fool can imagine income equality as dictated by bureaucrats and government thugs? I dare anyone to attempt to explain those drug-inspired fantasies in meaningful terms.

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#85. A man must stand up for what he believes in - especially in this culture war between good and evil.

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#86. Green Day is politically brain-dead but I love the little monkeys.

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#87. As long as we continue to fight in between the jamming with all we have to save America from the current suicidal deathwish of the corrupt, criminal punks intentionally destroying the last best place.

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#88. If we want our bodies to be healthier, we need to get off the salmonella, e-coli, mad cow, assembly-line toxic hell train! God I love that statement. What did I just say?

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#89. Unfortunately, there are people in America, there are people in politics, there are people in positions of authority, who want to forcibly unarm, and force in to helplessness, American citizens.

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#90. And let's all be honest here; more of us believe in the American hero Sheriff Joe Arpaio's thorough investigation into your phony birth certificate and phony history than the phony media's smoke and mirrors.

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#91. If Barack Obama becomes the president in November again, I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year.

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#92. I am Classic Rock Revisited. I revisit it every waking moment of my life because it has the spirit and the attitude and the fire and the middle finger. I am Rosa Parks with a Gibson guitar.

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#93. The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.

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#94. I heard guys say they got into rock and roll to pick up women. I didn't get into rock to pick up women, but I sure adapted.

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#95. I'm Beginning To Wonder If It Would Have Been Best Had The South Won The Civil War.

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#96. The spirit of the woods is like an old good friend, makes me feel warm and good inside. I knew his name and it was good to see him again, cause in the wind he's still alive.

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#97. I am the Great White Buffalo and I play an American-made Gibson guitar that can blow your head clean off at 100 paces.

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#98. If you're not upsetting idiots, you might be an idiot.

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#99. Only thing worse than a Frenchman is a Frenchman who lives in Canada

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#100. If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.

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