William S. Burroughs Quotes
Now all politicians assume a necessity of control, the more efficient the control the better.
William S. Burroughs
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No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.
Andrew Vachss
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Whether lawyer, politician or executive, the American who knows what's good for his career seeks an institutional rather than an individual identity. He becomes the man from NBC or IBM. The institutional imprint furnishes him with pension, meaning, proofs of existence. A man without a company name is a man without a country.
Lewis H. Lapham
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A lot of people put a lot of restrictions on their ability to develop. And that's fine for you if that's what you feel your limitations are, but I think it's wrong when you assume someone is not natural because you are imposing your limitations on someone else.
Kai Greene
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Everything depends on liking the people and trusting the people. You have to assume that whatever they do will be as good as you want the thing to be and just go ahead with that.
Anne Carson
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Children in school are not students, they are pupils. It is typical of certain kinds of politicians that they should regard children as adults, the better subsequently, and consequently, to regard adults as children.
Anthony Daniels
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The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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How can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on Russian Or on Spanish politics? Yet here's a travelled man that knows What he talks about, And there's a politician That has read and thought, And maybe what they say is true Of war and war's alarms, But O that I were young again And held her in my arms!
William Butler Yeats
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I've never been disappointed by politicians. I've never invested that much in them in the first place.
Paul Merton
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When I was five, I went on my first audition. It was for a Pizza Hut commercial.
Haley Joel Osment
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When you see them have a ban that does not include exceptions for rape or incest or the health of the mother, you understand that elections do matter. We will be very active in '06 and in '08 in electing candidates that represent the views of most Americans.
Nancy Keenan
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Now, through the catalytic interaction with technology, the human species is getting set to redefine itself.
Terence McKenna
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Now all politicians assume a necessity of control, the more efficient the control the better.
William S. Burroughs