William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Grief is a terrible, painful place. You can't grind away on grief in a solid way and say, 'I'm going to work on this until it's over' because it will be with you for the rest of your life, whatever you do. So, you deal with it and move on.
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Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.
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Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.
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Being a father is the most important thing, if you ask me. It changed me as a person and gave me an all new life.
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The first thousand days of a baby's life are likely to determine the rest of her life - whether she grows up to be healthy or not, both physically and emotionally.
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We want to counter the idea that Muslims and non-Muslims can't live together. This is not who we are or who we want to be.
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To be honest, I've made a game out of trying to live through my James Dean, Janis Joplin, Freddie Prinze, Jim Morrison period, those demons that we all have that we're either successful or not at making work for us rather than destroy us.
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Life is one long jubilee.
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It only took one text message to change my life. That's when I discovered my loving husband had been unfaithful. His infidelities ended our marriage.
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What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.
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The simple reality of life is that everyone is wrong on a regular basis. By confronting these inevitable errors, you allow yourself to make corrections before it is too late.
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I'm just going to live my life and be who I am.
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I've realized how important it is to have women in your life. You get to a certain age where you're like, 'I need women around.'
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In some ways, Trump's large, national coalition defies easy characterization. He draws from a broad base of good people: kind folks who open their homes and hearts to people of all colors and creeds, married couples with happy homes and families who live nearby, public servants who put their lives on the line to fight fires in their communities.
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I grew up in a food-obsessed Italian family, so food was always front and center in my life. I was a food obsessed person who morphed into a comedian and tried to figure out a way to make fun of my cake and eat it too.
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'Let your occupations be few,' says the sage, 'if you would lead a tranquil life.'
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We tried every single way of giving birth. It didn't work. I wasn't too crazy about having to do a C-section and take all the drugs. Finally, I just had to be like, 'Let it go.'
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When I race in Australia or Korea or Japan I know it will be a big change for me because Ferrari fans are worldwide.
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It was very bad if the council had resorted to recruiting men. By tradition men were our last line of defence, their physical strength bent towards the single and most important task of protecting our homes and children. This meant the council had decided that our only defence was to defeat the enemy, period. Anything else meant the end of Darre.
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When it feels scary to jump, that’s exactly when you jump. Otherwise you end up staying the same place your whole life. And that I can’t do.
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If you weren't surprised by your life you wouldn't be alive. Life is surprise.
