William S. Burroughs Quotes

To concern yourself with surface political conflicts is to make the mistake of the bull in the ring, you are charging the cloth. That is what politics is for, to teach you the cloth. Just as the bullfighter teaches the bull, teaches him to follow, obey the cloth.

William S. Burroughs

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• I'm more like an animalistic rock chick.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
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• My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I was 4; she wanted to make sure I was serious, and I wanted to be Chuck Berry when I grew up! We were a very musical family; my mum would play guitar, and her, my dad and aunt would sing and harmonize!

  

  Natalia Tena
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• I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.

  

  Irving Layton
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• I profoundly feel that the art of living is the art of giving. You're fulfilled in the moment of giving, of doing something beyond yourself.

  

  Laurance Rockefeller
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• The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
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  • Never
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• I was thinking about the women of Pakistan, those who are not allowed to get education, those who are not allowed to do whatever they want to do in their life. I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.

  

  Samina Baig
  • Life
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• I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.

  

  Ilana Glazer
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• I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alone. It made me a little more confident about my style.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Writing
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• I'm really thankful to God, man. Like now, I'm really making a real comeback with my group. With or without a record, with or without a movie. And behind all the negative press behind this movie.

  

  Ike Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • God
  • Real
  • Movie

• I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Bad
  • Baseball
  • Now

• I could live very quietly, do advertising to earn money.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Live
  • Money
  • Advertising

• The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Say
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  • Physician

• I'm starting to find my own style.

  

  Kara Hayward
  • Style
  • Find
  • Starting

• You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.

  

  J. Cole
  • People
  • Money
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• It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Money
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• Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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• The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'

  

  Ed Speleers
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• The whole borrowing clothes thing is very unnatural for me. I don't feel comfortable with that. If you like something, I'd just give it to you rather than sharing it.

  

  Zana Marjanovic
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  • Clothes
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• I have a one-track mind. That's all that I'm interested in - love. And the lack of it. When it stops.

  

  John Cassavetes
  • Mind

• Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.

  

  James Madison
  • Life
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• I hope never to see the day that I cannot admit having made a mistake.

  

  Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
  • Mistake
  • Admit
  • I Hope

• Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Real
  • Desire

• People may think of Southern humor in terms of missing teeth and outhouse accidents, but the best of it is a rich vein running through the best of Southern literature.

  

  Roy Blount, Jr.
  • People
  • Running
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• To concern yourself with surface political conflicts is to make the mistake of the bull in the ring, you are charging the cloth. That is what politics is for, to teach you the cloth. Just as the bullfighter teaches the bull, teaches him to follow, obey the cloth.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Political
  • Mistake
  • Teach