William S. Burroughs Quotes
Jesus Christ said 'by their fruits ye shall know them,' not by their disclaimers.
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To even get to the Olympics, I have to qualify for the 2013 World Championships and the standard is high. I know I am always going to be a few points behind the top guys.
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I still drink vodka; I'm not an advocate of drinking, but I'm no angel. I don't like grass, because it just makes me hungry.
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I moved about 45 minutes from West Hollywood, and I live surrounded by nature and the wilderness, but I constantly find myself walking around, like in the commercial, saying, 'Can you hear me now?'
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We're fortunate enough to live on a planet that's bathed in thousands of times more energy than we use and that's stocked with thousands of times more water, raw materials, and even food-growing potential than we need.
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It is as difficult to define or classify Islamic cinema as it would be a Christian, Jewish or Buddhist one.
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As a child, I had lived many years in Southampton and sang in the choir of the Dune Church.
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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We are God's creation, and we have a responsibility to keep ourselves at our best.
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I have had two knee surgeries on my right knee: that was my jumping leg that I jumped off for years and years.
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Shame is something you'll find a lot of - particularly Catholic - girls feel about their bodies, about their sexuality, about their diet, about anything you like. Shame is the way you keep them down. That's the way to crush a girl.
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People tend to compartmentalize themselves into IT people, and movie star people, and scientists, but when we share our perspectives about nature, we find a common denominator.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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Once people realized that, 'Hey, we're going to be left on Earth here, and everything is going to hell quickly,' sci-fi soon became about our own self-destruction.
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You have to turn the noise off a little bit. Fortunately, I'm not really on social media. I've been able to live in a bit of a black hole.
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Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.
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Social Security is the only thing most Americans can count on to keep them out of poverty during retirement.
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There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he's such a great kid.
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When you find something that you really love to do, you kind of just know instantly that, OK yeah, I want to do this for the rest of my life.
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Sometimes we need to speak oddly to see clearly.
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It makes no sense to bad mouth people, but I think Jean-Luc Godard is astonishing as a survivalist, somebody who can do a film that is as extraordinary as Goodbye to Language.
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The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.
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Without discipline a body of men becomes rabble. Rabble dies, either on the battlefield or in a POW camp.
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Jesus Christ said 'by their fruits ye shall know them,' not by their disclaimers.
