William S. Burroughs Quotes
How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
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I am the last guy that wants to quit making music.
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If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.
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We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individuality. I have to create things she'll want to wear, no matter who she is.
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I've always been in love with the States. When I was a kid, we would take these long summer holidays in Texas, Nashville, and all over. I fell in love with the people, the food, even the smell. You don't necessarily get that in old Europe.
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Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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People know I have a good time on stage. I love my life. I love my job.
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If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.
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When I was 20, I thought anyone in the music business over 25 is past it. Then at 30, you think anyone still doing it at 35 is ridiculous. Suddenly, you find yourself at 48 and still doing it, so I don't know what to say, really.
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I feel very keenly the eyes of the foreign media on our country. And I think a lot of Japanese people feel that things are not working the way they should. When the time comes, I will put myself forward.
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To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
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It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
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Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
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If I had my druthers, I would be a brain in a jar, with a burlap skirt around the cart I'm on - I don't attend to my physical being much.
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
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I knew her work very well and I knew that if she offered me a role in her movie, it wouldn't be something stupid. So I agreed to do the film before I read the script.
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My biggest asset is that I know how to learn, and that, I believe, will help me in the long run.
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We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates - which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing.
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There is something very unnatural and odious in a government a thousand leagues off. A whole government of our own choice, managed by persons whom we love, revere, and can confide in, has charms in it for which men will fight.
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I've realized that the most important thing I can do to look good is just treat myself well, whether it's getting a nice, long massage or just lying low and not going out every single night.
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Family is everything to me. Family and health are the two most important things to me.
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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.
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I'm such a tomboy - I was raised in the South - and I also really wanted to work in New York, being so different from California, though it was a freezing-cold winter.
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How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
