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Ted Nugent, born on December 13, 1948, is an American rock musician, singer, and guitarist. He is known for his energetic live performances and unique guitar skills. He gained prominence in the 1970s and 1980s as a representative of hard rock music, particularly with his involvement in bands like Nuge and Lynyrd Skynyrd.

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“If there is one thing I am, it's always right.”

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

Ifs Gun Jail Gun Control

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“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.”

Ifs Children Opportunity House Offers Foundation Charity Cancer Hunting Hunters Mcdonalds Donate Leukemia Ronald Mcdonald

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“Practice, practice, practice. Practice until you get a guitar welt on your chest...if it makes you feel good, don't stop until you see the blood from your fingers. Then you'll know you're on to something!”

Ifs Knows Feels Practice Blood Fingers Guitar Feel Good Chests Make You Feel Good

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“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.”

People Ifs Sometimes Dream Too Much Obstacles Tolerance Ruins Your Dreams Drag Poisoning

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“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.”

People Ifs Want Evil And Love Deny Warrior Peace And Love Good Over Evil

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“My life is a tsunami of inspirations. Number one is that I really do just love my BBQ. I mean it's the sustenance of mankind. You know, the animal rights of people, if they had their way, 99% of the human race would parish because we sustain ourselves with dead stuff on the grill.”

People Ifs Knows Way Humans Mean Inspiration Life Is Stuff Animal Numbers Race Rights Mankind Human Race Animal Rights Sustenance Tsunami Parish Bbq

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“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.”

Ifs Force Sound And Love Helpless Hippie Peace And Love Unarmed

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“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.”

Ifs Knows Would Be America Excuse Criminals Makers Punk Supporter God Knows Gangsters No Excuses Whiners Bloodsuckers Crybabies Obama Supporters

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“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.”

Ifs Believe Wells Stars Rocks Don't Believe Avoided Rock Star

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“It grabs me, but not as much as it grabs some of the other people that rave about them. With the Black Keys, I'm missing crescendos with the sax, keyboard or guitar solo. It never comes to me. All my favorite music is rife with crescendo and I'm not hearing enough with them. If you can get the Black Keys to hear this, tell them I offer my crescendo guitar anytime they desire it.”

People Ifs Enough Desire Black Missing Keys Offers Music Is Guitar My Favorite Hearing Solo Keyboards Rave Crescendo Guitar Solos Favorite Music Black Keys

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“I don't care if it's Bruno Mars or Aerosmith or ZZ Top... it's about songs. 'Paperback Writer,' 'Satisfaction,' 'Cat Scratch Fever,' 'Walk This Way,' all the killer songs in the world start with an identifiable guitar pattern that is basically a bastardization of either honky-tonk or boogie-woogie. And that's in every cool piece of music in the world that you and I love.”

Ifs World Way Care Song Walks Pieces Cat Guitar Patterns Satisfaction Don't Care I Don't Care Killers Mars Scratches Fever Very Cool Aerosmith Boogie Tonks

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“If you want less of something, tax it. If you want more of something, don't tax it or reduce the tax burden.”

Ifs Want Taxes Burden Tax Burden

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“If the American public were accurately polled, I suspect the results would find Bonnie & Clyde, Bill Clinton, Ponzi Scheme scamster Bernie Madoff, and the infamous Wily Coyoteto be believed to be more honest and trustworthy than Hillary Clinton.”

Ifs Results Honest Bills Clinton Suspects Schemes Trustworthy Infamous Ponzi Scheme Madoff

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“Everyone, including Hillary Clinton, knows Hillary is an unsavory and unethical scoundrel, an obvious and accomplished liar and, if America had a real Justice Department that actually cared about serving up equal justice under the law, she would be facing a number of felony charges.”

Ifs Knows Real Would Be America Law Justice Numbers Equal Clinton Including Obvious Accomplished Department Serving Liars Scoundrels Unethical Felony Equal Justice

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“We are a nation of laws, not a nation that ignores laws if it benefits the Democrat Party.”

Ifs Law Nations Party Benefits Democrat

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“Let's be honest, if the Democrats didn't support ignoring our nation's immigration laws, there is no way they could win the presidency or a local dog catcher election.”

Ifs Way Law Winning Nations Support Honest Dog Election Democrat Immigration Locals Being Honest Presidency Catchers Immigration Laws

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“If enough Americans determine I could do a better job in public office, and Mrs. Nugent and my beloved family agree, there is no limit what I am willing to do for my country.”

Ifs Country Enough Jobs Willing Limits Office Agree Determine Beloved Better Jobs Public Office Beloved Family

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“The greatest philosopher of all time was Dirty Harry. And if you remember, Dirty Harry took the words right out of my mouth: "A good man needs to know his limitations."”

Ifs Knows Men Needs Remember Mouths Philosopher All Time Limitation Dirty Good Man

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“The war is coming to the streets of America and if you are not keeping and bearing and practicing with your arms then you will be helpless and you will be the victim of evil.”

Ifs War America Evil Streets Arms Victim Helpless

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“If you want to save a species, simply decide to eat it. Then it will be managed - like chickens, like turkeys, like deer, like Canadian geese.”

Ifs Want Species Chickens Turkeys Geese Deer Funny Thanksgiving Thanksgiving Funny Funny Happy Thanksgiving Thanksgiving Turkey Turkeys On Thanksgiving

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“War is good when good survives and evil is crushed. If you don't crush evil then evil will get you.”

Ifs War Evil Survival Crush Crushed

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“Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I'd scare you.”

Ifs Years Looks Doe Energy Player Guitar Scare Detroit Guitar Player Gamer Goofy Venison

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

Ifs America Law Nations Immigration Packages Immigration Laws

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“If guns cause crime, all of mine are defective.”

Ifs Causes Crime Mines Gun Defective

Book:God, Guns & Rock'N'Roll

Source: God, Guns & Rock'N'Roll

“If Elvis Presley had been a bowhunter, he'd probably be alive today.”

Ifs Today Alive Hunting Live For Today

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

Ifs Hurt Arguing Sense Of Humor

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

Ifs Has Beens War Wonder South Civil War

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

Ifs Years Next President Barack Jail Next Year November

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“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.”

Ifs Want Whole Helping Rocks Ready Sensual Milk Locked Vitamins Thunderbolts Vitamin D

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“I have obviously failed to galvanize and prod, if not shame enough Americans to be ever vigilant not to let a Chicago communist raised communist educated communist nurtured subhuman mongrel like the ACORN community organizer gangster Barack Hussein Obama to weasel his way into the top office of authority in the United States of America.”

“I'm repulsed at the concept of man-on-man sex, I think it's against nature, I think it's strange as hell, but if that's what you are, I love you. I'm not going to judge people's morals. I say live and let live.”

Ifs Thinking Men Sex Moral Hell Love You Strange Judging Gay Concepts Live And Let Live

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“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?”

Ifs Want Needs Body Lines Hell Mad Train Statements Toxic Cows Assembly Assembly Line

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“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.”

Ifs Rooms Faults Shooting Couches Living Room Coyotes

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“If you're not upsetting idiots, you might be an idiot.”

Ifs Might Idiot Upset

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

Ifs Today Peace Interest Special Tomorrow Wake Up Activism Special Interests Hope For Tomorrow

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About the Author

Born: December 13, 1948
Known for: Musician
Quotes: 209

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