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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He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.
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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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Every once in a while when I get a migraine, I like to think, "Who hates me today?"
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The cold war was an aberration. Note how quickly the Europeans turned on America once 400 hostile divisions were no longer on their borders.
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If the whole meaning and purpose of life hinged on what he chose to love and who he chose to become, the answer became clear.
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Every industry needs to embrace innovation. What we are trying to do in aerospace is to embrace innovation but keep it smart by not necessarily taking more substantial risks.
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as soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
