“Hunter was picked as a promising electronics technician because he aced the Air Force radio-tech exam. Hunter shrugged off the the triumph. Tests were easy. You didn't have to know about radio and electronics; you just needed to be savvy in answering multiple-choice questions. He scored so high, the military thought he was the second coming of Marconi.”

— William McKeen

Source: Outlaw Journalist (2008), Chapter 2, Square Peg, Round Hole, p. 23

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American academic 1954

David Gemmell book Stormrider

Source: Rigante series, Stormrider, Ch. 6

“Didn't I tell you not to touch the Lamborghini? (Kyrian)
(Hunter groused an instant before he cut the wheel and sent the vampire flying through the air.)
And they told me you guys couldn't fly. (Kyrian)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Night Pleasures

Source: Night Pleasures

“Just like a photograph,
I pick you up.
Just like a station on the radio,
I pick you up.”

Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer

Song lyrics, The Sensual World (1989)

“He threw in the towel before we were tested. Maybe because he didn't want to be tested. Maybe because he assumed we would fail. Maybe because, at the time, he just didn't love me enough.”

Emily Giffin (1972) American writer

Source: Love the One You're With

“He must really think I'm a great guy. He must think that, because otherwise He would not have given me so much. I have a great family. I work in a place where I've always dreamt of working. He has helped me out so much that He must have a very high opinion of me. [When asked by the Spanish radio network Cope what he believed God thought about him].”

José Mourinho (1963) Portuguese association football player and manager

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703498804576156263277820144.html?KEYWORDS=GABRIELE+MARCOTTI
2011

“There is nothing so unusual, they tell me, about coming back to your car and finding the radio aerial torn off, the windshield wipers bent up in the air like spaghetti, and all the windows smashed… for no particular reason except to make sure you know just exactly where it's at these days. Where indeed?”

Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author

1970s, Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 (1973)

“If you think about how you sound on the radio while you are on the radio, you will fuck up how you sound on the radio.”

Kai Ryssdal (1963) Radio host, United States Navy officer

Interviewed by Sarah Ball, "What you should know about Kai Ryssdal" https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2013/11/kai-ryssdal-marketplace-profile, Vanity Fair (November 2013).

“If my son Hunter was here, first thing he would give me a kiss and say, "Dad, do you need anything?"”

Hunter Biden (1970) American lawyer, investment advisor, and second son of former Vice President Joe Biden

Always worried about me.
by Joe Biden in above September 2015 interview

“Someone got killed up here…. It was outside. A tall man. He had one leg longer’n the other. And a beard. He was probably a hunter."
"How’d you know all that?"
"I just trod on ‘im.”

Terry Pratchett book Lords and Ladies

Source: Lords and Ladies

“If you didn't have a choice, you had to make a choice. If you didn't have options, you made some. You couldn't just let this world happen to you… he didn't see eternity. He saw this girl and this moment and this one slim chance.”

Ann Brashares book My Name is Memory

Source: My Name Is Memory

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