Ted Nugent Quotes
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.
Nugent, Ted. Interview. High Times, Aug. 1977, p. 42.
Oxfam, the international relief agency, had called a press conference to announce the critical starvation problem in the Sudan. Few reporters attended as controversial confirmation hearings for Secretary of Defense were ongoing and there were accusations that the nominee, former senator John Tower, was a womanizer and an alcohol abuser:
Lyon had spat in the face of Congressman Roger Griswald, 1762-1812 who had called Lyon a coward. Modern House rules prohibit personal attacks and remarks about fellow Congressmen.
Reflection on the Irish Potato Famine of 1845-1850
84 people died after hundreds of peaceful Muslim protestors were crowded into Thai Army trucks and kept there for hours.
At the time in Britain, women who gave birth to out-of-wedlock children were not only disgraced, but also disciminated agains them in almost every phase of life. Poor single women would be fired by their employers even if it was the employer who had impregnated her. Few would hire a woman who had given birth to a bastard child. As a resukt of this terrible pressure on women, many would murder their own new-born child, and others would "leave it to others".
Theodore Anthony Nugent is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and pro-gun political activist. He initially gained fame as the lead guitarist of The Amboy Dukes, a band formed in 1963 that played psychedelic rock and hard rock. After dissolving the band, he embarked on a solo career. Nugent is known for his Gibson Byrdland, his bluesy and frenzied guitar playing and his energetic live shows. Despite possessing a distinctive, wide-ranging singing voice, Nugent recorded and toured with other singers during much of his early solo career, including Derek St. Holmes, Brian Howe, and Meat Loaf, only taking on full lead vocal duties later on. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, he was part of the supergroup Damn Yankees.