William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Working as a musician, I have to constantly generate new material, so school keeps me sharp. Reading and writing all the time helps me to be a better songwriter.
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I love morning television because it's the most vulnerable time of day, when you are at your rawest, and if I have the ability to make viewers smile, that's a gift from God.
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I was initially a leading man, but only on television.
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Maybe now that we have the same sponsor in Remington we can spend some time together outdoors.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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When you're still in the broadcast business, you're still trying to reach tens of millions. You're trying to still aim for a broader audience, and I think that's a more difficult task to spread yourself across that audience, connect with them, as opposed to a very, very small, pinpointed audience. Difficult to do.
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Well, I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner. And that's what I try to do, is sometimes I lean to one side of it, sometimes I lean to the other.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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The current approach that psychiatry takes almost ignores social worlds in which mental health problems arise and tries to become highly biomedical like other branches of medicine such as cardiology or oncology. But psychiatry has to be far more embedded in people's personal and social worlds.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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Two of my theatres are 1930s and the other five are by Sprague, the greatest Edwardian architect of the lot. They've needed a lot of work doing to them but they were built very well.
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Everybody goes through a phase of fatigue, and I am no different. Re-inventing yourself in your profession is the key to deal with fatigue.
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The key is falling in love with something, anything. If your heart's attached to it, then your mind will be attached to it.
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One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.
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All wisdom does not reside in Delhi.
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I've never been against women. That anti-feminist rap is bogus. I think men should be nice to women, buy them diamonds.
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If I didn't have a girlfriend, I'd have 10 girls at the studio, and they would make me not rap.
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I've never had to fend for a child's life, which sounds very terrifying.
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The greatest thing we can do is to give each other a safe space to truly, truly be ourselves in the world.
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I have a heart tattoo on the inside of my middle finger on my left hand.
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My theory is that Kurt had a lot of residual pain from his childhood. And when you pile that on top of his experience in World War II - he was in Dresden when it was bombed and saw a city annihilated. When you combine those two things, my impression of Kurt Vonnegut at 84 was that he was a very pained and haunted man.
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The fact that some of these Arab states are willing to make this public is heartening, and it's a fair response to the Sharon government for the courage which the Sharon government has shown in moving out of Gaza and those four West Bank settlements.
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
