William S. Burroughs Quotes
The whole drug war is nothing but a pretext to increase police power and personnel, and that, of course, is dead wrong. So many created imagined drug offenses.
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Sometimes I don't know whether a movie has been shot on film or in digital when I watch it in the theatres.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
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I really don't know life without wrestling.
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I've been able to work with great directors in Israel.
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For all of the continued awareness of systemic violence and oppression, there isn't a lot of talk about that psychological toll of racism, at least in white circles and white media.
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All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
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Having a couple really great basics makes it easy to dress well every day.
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If I can hit the ball the way I want to hit it on the range, I'd rather do that than play golf. I just love the feeling of hitting good golf shots.
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For the doubters out there, of course I was going to have help from Penguin's editorial team in telling my story, which I talked about from the beginning.
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I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.
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You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.
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I don't have any ill will or ill thought towards anybody.
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Michael is a funny character, for whom I have a great deal of affection. He sat across his desk and seemed to be a bit of a blunt fellow. We began talking about the characters and he opened up about his vision.
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I like the language in Proust but not the context.
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Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person.
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I'm pretty good at sticking to what I know. You don't see me social commentating on health-care or presidential debates. I talk about what I know because I'm petrified of being wrong.
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I think the best comedies came out during the Depression. Personally.
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Confounding people's expectations was a way to maintain integrity.
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The overwhelming number of police officers in Chicago are doing good work under difficult conditions. They put their lives on the line every day in situations none of us can fully comprehend or appreciate.
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That mot d’ordre must be smothered by another, that being “war at the front and peace within the country.”
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I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.
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Be it known that we, the greatest, are misthought.
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The whole drug war is nothing but a pretext to increase police power and personnel, and that, of course, is dead wrong. So many created imagined drug offenses.
