William S. Burroughs Quotes
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The views of religious-Zionist rabbis are of course worthy of being heard, yet they represent a very defined and very narrow camp within the Israeli spectrum. This is not the way to shape the perception of future division and brigade commanders.
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I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.
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I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.
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I cry at films and TV and even adverts.
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The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like.
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All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school.
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I wear my Viking helmet because the horns define how sharp my brains are. If you try to rub me the wrong way, I will stick you with both of my horns.
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It will be undertaken, of course, in the June or July summit, and then to bring NATO closer to Russia or vice versa is a way to move toward integration - toward the integration of Europe.
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I like to release music the way I feel it, as opposed to having a date. The idea of dates, boxes, categories are very scary for me.
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The quickest way may not necessarily be the best.
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In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.
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No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.
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One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late.
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I'm over the hill, maybe even the whole mountain range, but I don't see it that way even one little bit.
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Commercialism isn't challenging creatively; it's only challenging in a stamina way.
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My husband is not a jealous person in any way.
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Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.
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When you go from one part of the Turkish community to another, it's like you're moving from one century to another. People look at each other in a strange way, as if looking at someone from another planet, rather than trying to understand and open space for them.
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Food has always been a class code, and since Alice Waters, the way to give an upper-middle class act is with food that is fresh and local...The class code of the upper-middle class literally links morality and political virtue with certain forms of high-intensity food-preparation activities.
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One of the issues I think is very important, in many communities of color, there's a stigma about mental health. We find that the shaming that comes from acknowledging that one may have some issues that may relate to mental health, often people are not willing to go and seek additional help because of that shaming or that cultural stigma that's associated with it. And I think that we need to make this change in how people approach mental health.
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I want to play in as many theatres as possible, work with as many brilliant people as possible, but definitely do a new play.
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We will be retiring the jersey of one of our heroes, Karl Malone, to hang in the rafters forever among those whom we have already enshrined. In addition to his excellence on the court, Karl and his wife Kay also made great contributions to this community with their time and financial commitments to many worthy organizations.
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I like the shaman very much, the way he was crying.
