William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.
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Nothing earth-shattering has happened in men's fashion. How much can you do with men's clothes?
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If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.
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Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.
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Back in the really olden days, dinner was seldom a ceremonial event for U.S. families. Only the very wealthy had a separate dining room. For most, meals were informal, a kind of rolling refueling; often only the men sat down.
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When I first ran, being a woman in politics was seen as both a negative and also a positive. You could attract more women voters, but on the other hand, a lot of men wouldn't vote for you.
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I have been reorganizing and restructuring AOL: changing the strategy and rebuilding it from scratch in the worst economy in a generation.
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And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and not sex. And men believe in sex and not love.
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I really wanted Michael Jackson to be in the first Men in Black, but he didn't want to be considered as an alien!
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If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
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I've always said to my men friends, If you really care for me, darling, you will give me territory. Give me land, give me land.
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I don't have one role that I want to play. I guess... I want to be a producer. I want to be an activist. I want to be proactive in bringing about work for men, women, boys, girls, everybody who is good at what they do and deserve a shot at it.
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It's successful, middle-class Arab men and women, professionals with seemingly happy family lives, who are prepared to go to paradise for a greater cause. That's terrifying.
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Men are separated by so many petty things.
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We're going through the Olympics. We're watching women working as teams. We're watching men working as teams. We're watching all working as teams. We're proud of men and women getting medals. That's how the Navy should be working.
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To a generation beaten down by skyrocketing unemployment, plunging retirement savings, and mounting home foreclosures, 'Mad Men' offers the schadenfreude-filled message that their predecessors were equally unhappy - and that the bleakness meter in American life has always been set on high.
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I have lived too long to cherish many illusions about the essential high-mindedness of men when brought into stark confrontation with the issue of control over their security, and their property interests.
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When women and men can shed an equal quantity of tears in public, that's when we'll have equal power.
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Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
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I am kind of the front man for a team of people behind the scenes who are working just as hard as me and are putting in just as much time to make this all happen. I'm not trying to be humble. I just want everyone to get credit where credit is due.
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...existence has become an unreasoning, wild dance around the golden calf, a mad worship of God Mammon. In that dance and in that worship man has sacrificed all his finer qualities of the heart and soul — kindness and justice, honor and manhood, compassion and sympathy with his fellowman.
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Inactivity is the beginning of all vice.
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O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time.
