William S. Burroughs Quotes
Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him.William S. Burroughs
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The hypothesis may be put forward, to be tested by the s subsequent investigation, that this development has been in large part a matter of the reciprocal interaction of new factual insights and knowledge on the one hand with changes in the theoretical system on the other.
Talcott Parsons -
The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.
Daniel Alarcon -
I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
Rand Paul -
The first thing I look at is, 'Is the entrepreneur going after really big problems, to the extent that it feels scary when they talk about it?' You wonder if the idea is possible. I have seen that a lot of times, people go after small problems, and that's a sign that they are not confident.
Sachin Bansal -
I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
Carice van Houten -
My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me.
Irwin Shaw
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Choreography and creativity - it's my matrix; let's see where we can move.
Wayne McGregor -
If you are in this business long enough, you hear about a thousand things that are going to kill you. Open source? Yeah, we are not dead yet. Cloud? That's not new; it's a new name.
Safra A. Catz -
When the art world is done wrong, a reader's faith is lost and possibly not recuperable.
Rachel Kushner -
When we do an investment, we always ask, 'Can we affect the outcome? When buying a company, can we have an impact?' That's a different style of investing than a passive investor in the stock market. To me, that's how you're taking the risk out of it. You know what your capability is and how you can enhance value.
Dan Gilbert -
Everything in life has a price on it - there ain't a damn thing free in America, and football has got a price on it.
Earl Campbell -
Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.
Jacob Bronowski
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I don't plot with huge detail, just big moments and important elements, and then I have a structure but can fly by the seat of my pants when I write.
Rae Carson -
Usually, I just don't care what I look like. If it's cold, I'm, like, putting on whatever I have to to be warm.
Zendaya -
Those who believe that health is a commodity, on par with cars or computers, fail to grasp the basic economic lesson that health is very vulnerable to exposure to the markets, not least due to the profound asymmetries in power between the providers and consumers.
Vikram Patel -
You can disagree without being disagreeable. That's always been my mantra.
Larry Hogan -
It's a tough town, it's a loving town, it's a supportive town, and that's why so many great news people, journalists have come through Chicago or are from Chicago.
Tamron Hall -
Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.
Zendaya
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Politicians should trust people with the truth. Very often, we don't do that.
Leo Varadkar -
Many psychoanalysts refused to let me speak at their meetings. They were exceptionally vigorous because I had previously been an analyst and they were very angry at my flying the coop.
Albert Ellis -
I have always been an active part of my community.
Salma Hayek -
I've written thousands of stories, started hundreds of news cycles.
Matt Drudge -
We are sending out thoughts of greater or less intensity all the time, and we are reaping the results of such thoughts. Not only do our thought-waves influence ourselves and others, but they have a drawing power - they attract to us the thoughts of others, things, circumstances, people, 'luck', in accord with the character of the thought uppermost in our minds.
William Walker Atkinson -
Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him.
William S. Burroughs