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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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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Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
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This too I know-and wise it wereIf each could know the same-That every prison that men buildIs built with bricks of shame,And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.
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If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.
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Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.
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He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger has hired billionaire Warren Buffett as his senior economic advisor. And not to be outdone Gary Coleman announced his senior economic adviser will be Thurston Howell the Third.
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O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time.
