52 Quotes by Brian D'Ambrosio

Old and cold. High rates of suicide and prescription drug abuse. Look at the inbred faces at the grocery stores and coffee shops, the exercise-deficient kids, the routinized state workers, the sun-deprived adults and isolated third and fourth generation sad cases who've never experienced a meal outside of Lewis and Clark County. Make no mistake; Helena, Montana is old and cold and the rigid, sick antithesis of living.

Needless to say, I personally don’t believe fighting should be banned. I don’t understand why a relatively small segment of the hockey world feels obligated to ban extracurricular combat when it’s so popular elsewhere in American sports. Additionally, the league shouldn’t be trying to ban fighting to save the enforcers from hurting themselves. Fighters realize the risks associated with what they do, and they are bound to accept these risks.

Boxing begins in illusion and ends in real blood and tears. That’s what makes it so beautiful.

I’ve always stressed the value of autonomy for intellectual and moral development. Autonomy provides us with a sphere of discretion which we all require.

A pickup truck is a fragile ego overcompensated.

To those who advocate that America follow the Chinese model of a totalitarian lockdown because of a virus or flu strain, must remember that the Maoist principle of Chinese rule is founded on total control of the populace, with the loss of freedom on every front: of speech, movement, work, information. Americans shouldn’t be drinking the green tea so unquestioningly.

The lonely, wistful revisionism of memories is as gratingly repetitive as snow and ice in Canada. I avoid them both at all costs – memories and Canada.