William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Justice is never given; it is exacted.
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I've been told I have an aggressive driving style.
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Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.
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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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Mucinex were like, 'Would you like to be the Mucinex man? You sound like you're sick right now'. In each spot, they give me a little bit of room to do something strange. And in a world of fractured mediums, where there is no zeitgeist, and you get your comedy from your phone, it's all content.
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Responsible statesmen have only one choice - to do everything possible to prevent a nuclear catastrophe. Any other position is short-sighted; more so, it is suicidal.
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When the phonies are expelled from their leadership roles and the Republican Party backs a moderate gubernatorial candidate acceptable to the rank and file with proper financing and the intestinal fortitude to fight the good fight, the rank and file will rejoin the fold.
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And from a military school which taught me that to fit into society, you can't just do anything you damn well please because it will suit you. And that it's much better to be with the winners than it is with the losers.
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I'm not an actress; I'm not a professional testifier.
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You might expect that the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists would be there and they are.
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I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
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Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.
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I lived the first five years of my life on a farm in Union City, Michigan, with my mom and grandparents. It was the most magical time of my life.
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Sexism is alive and well! We were saying this forty years ago. I'm an optimist, so I like to think we've progressed in some ways - in Australia, we get equal pay.
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I felt we must separate political responsibility. The Dalai Lama should not carry that burden. So that is my selfish reason - to protect the old Dalai Lama tradition. It is safer without political involvement.
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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.
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To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.
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When Pixar calls and says, 'Hey, you wanna be in a Pixar movie?' you don't do a lot of contemplating!
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I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it.
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When I heard Bjork's debut, that was when I first realized that I could be a singer, even with my unusual voice.
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God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him.
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And the seriousness with which the other party takes my words always raises the doubt whether I have taken them seriously enough myself.
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My siblings and I were raised like tenants, to be honest. There was a total absence of intimacy in my family, though there was still a great deal of camaraderie among the kids. Things were set up almost like a business, and it had to be managed that way because we were really poor, and there were a lot of mouths to feed.
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Which came first the intestine or the tapeworm?
