William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Maybe I won't stay out of prison. Who knows?
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I was in prison with pretty much the who's who of the jihadist and Islamist scene of Egypt at the time, and Egypt was the cradle of Islamism for the world - it's where it began and where jihadism began as well.
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No one today knows what is indecent.
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I do a number of things working on human rights issues, prison recidivism rates, and then I also push and have worked a lot on the social issues of rebuilding the family.
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I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
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It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
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Tony Judt's remarkable 'The Memory Chalet' was written from the prison of mute immobility.
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One out of 100 citizens of the U.S. is going to prison, and it's not that the system is making criminals, it's that it's making criminals better criminals. We're breeding them like rats and it has to change.
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I think of my brother just out of prison again. He will have spent ten years of the last 30 in prison.
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One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
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Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
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The idea that an actress - mostly lauded for her performances in more than a dozen films - somehow represents a threat to Iran's national security is laughable at best. But in Ahangarani's case, far from anything humorous, the allegations have actually resulted in the sober prospect of real prison time.
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People in general have a preconceived idea of what prison is, from seeing documentaries or whatever.
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The first thing I did that was at all in the public eye, other than on stage, was 'Oz,' in which I played the head of the Aryan Brotherhood in a maximum-security prison.
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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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I felt after I left prison in England that maybe there was a slim chance I could put my life back on track and have a career.
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You know, I've been playing with my hair color ever since I was nine.
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I don't know many people who don't have somebody in their family who's a part of the gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgender community. It's not like they're aliens or outsiders. This is family.
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Nelson Mandela set his course a long time ago, and in word and deed, years of determination, sacrifice, and faith--he set a new standard in the likes of Gandhi, Mother Teresa, and Martin Luther King, Jr. --changing the world and all of us for the better. I was one of those regular citizens watching when he made his first trip here after being released from prison. Amazing memories. I regret that I never met him in person. May he rest in peace
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The trick. . .is to find the balance between the bright colors of humor and the serious issues of identity, self-loathing, and the possibility for intimacy and love when it seems no longer possible or, sadder yet, no longer necessary.
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Did you ever know that you're my hero, you're everything I wish I could be. I could fly higher than an eagle with you as the wind beneath my wings.
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Your message is stupid. Iraq is not afraid of you or anyone else when it has a right to claim. What you warned about is not on Iraq's agenda. Iraq is vital and powerful. It is not an opportunistic country. Your administration has not learned from the past.
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I always said that there's a real risk to having 50 different enforcement entities.
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as soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
