William S. Burroughs Quotes

No atomic physicist has to worry, people will always want to kill other people on a mass scale. Sure, he's got the fridge full of sausages and spring water.

William S. Burroughs

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• It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.

  

  M. Ward
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  • Music
  • Luxury

• The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • People
  • Man
  • Sports

• I'm not anti-middle-class in the slightest. Look at me! I am very pro people putting time and money and effort into trying to improve the world.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • People
  • Time
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• People have told me that they cannot put down 'If I Stay' after reading it, and readers have become very invested in the love story between Adam and Mia.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • People
  • Love
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• I think as women, the smarter and more powerful we are, the more it can be threatening and alienating to other people, more than with men. That's something we need to support each other with.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • People
  • Men
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• People really do not have time to read all the newspapers in the world and all the sites that we now commonly use on the web. There is no possibility of keeping up.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Some people feel good about helping others, and they do so often. They do not realize that their good deeds have a second agenda. They want to be appreciated.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • People
  • Good
  • Want

• I'm planning to be here forever, but I know at some point I'll probably have to give it up. If you live to 100, there's a very good chance you'll live forever. Because very few people die after 100.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • People
  • Up
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• We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Real
  • Know

• All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • People
  • Character
  • Action

• People gravitate toward information that implies a happier outlook for them.

  

  Nate Silver
  • People
  • Information
  • Outlook

• I actually find it a lot easier to interview people I don't agree with because I'm far more curious about how they've arrived at that place.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • People
  • Find
  • Place

• Okay, let's talk about cartoon labels for half a second - some people think anything with a dog or a car or a colorful alien is garbage, which is not true. Look at Big Moose Red. It's, like, a $6 wine with a cheesy label, and it's actually a solid wine.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • True
  • Car

• People do connect me with James Bond simply because I happen to like scrambled eggs and short-sleeved shirts and some of the things that James Bond does, but I certainly haven't got his guts nor his very lively appetites.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • People
  • Certainly
  • Lively

• Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • People
  • Past
  • Literature

• People don't just love mysteries. They are obsessed with them - especially the kind that are never definitively solved.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Mysteries
  • Obsess

• The genuine truth, and I do think about this a lot, is that I'm one of the least competitive people you'll ever meet. Except with myself.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • People
  • Truth
  • Myself

• I'm not one of those people who needs that gratification of doing, like, 10 films a year.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • People
  • Doing
  • Year

• In my eyes, I think it's important that if you're doing something you're proud of and that is genuine and authentic, you have a responsibility to bring that to as many people as possible, just for the sheer reason that there are musicians out there who are manufacturing emotions that aren't genuine.

  

  Nicholas James Murphy
  • People
  • Important
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• Going from an error rate of 25 meters in GPS to 2.5 meters is huge. Going to 25 centimeters is going to matter just as much.

  

  Astro Teller

• I love design in general, the creativity. Whether it is golf courses, my apparel line, ads we do or our business with AriZona, design is fun.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Business
  • Fun
  • Design

• I wore myself out physically and mentally over my career, and I couldn't be there for my daughters in ways I should have been.

  

  Darcey Bussell
  • Career

• I start with actors that I know personally or I know their work, and there are things about their work or their presence or their own personality that make a character, that exaggerates some qualities and suppresses other qualities. It's always a real collaboration for me.

  

  Jim Jarmusch
  • Work
  • Real
  • Character

• No atomic physicist has to worry, people will always want to kill other people on a mass scale. Sure, he's got the fridge full of sausages and spring water.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • People
  • Water
  • Worry