William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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.
Warren Littlefield
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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.
Irving Ravetch
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
Ralph Steadman
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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.
Vikram Patel
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
Vera Farmiga
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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.
Cameron Mackintosh
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Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.
Jeff Koons
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African-American music tends to have, at the very least, a glimmer of hope to it - sometimes full-fledged hope.
Jordan Peele
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On the environment and climate change, I suspect that future generations will think there was too much timidity, too much fear of upsetting business. Basically, New Labour was very nervous about regulating business, or requiring it to do anything, even when there was a very clear social or environmental case for doing so.
Geoff Mulgan
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
Warren Giles
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For me, there is a lot of room for improvement and there are a lot of things I would like to be better at.
Geddy Lee Weinrib
Rush
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
William S. Burroughs
