William S. Burroughs Quotes
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.
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I've grown up playing for some incredible coaches, and I don't think anybody's ever been as fortunate as I have in terms of the people I've been allowed to play under, coach under, or be involved with.
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We started with things like locating ski runs or locating a transmission line corridor or locating a new town or doing a coastal zone plan. We ourselves weren't doing the planning work, but we were doing all the mapping work for the landscape architects and planners who would subsequently incorporate the maps into their actual designs.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.
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I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.
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If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.
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We're all idealistic when young.
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We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.
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I am just a plain Jew; I mean have no training.
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These days, everything is magnified very quickly by the media - the slightest slip can turn into a catastrophe.
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All you have to do is to dream big and try to fulfil it.
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I don't get hung up on weight.
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It would be good if teachers could genuinely understand that black English is not mistakes, it's just different English, and that what you want to do is add an additional dialect to black students' repertoire rather than teaching them out of what's thought of as a bad habit, like sloppy posture or chewing with your mouth open.
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When I'm with other people who inspire my silliness or sense of humor, I'm funny. When I sit down to write, it's hard not to be funny.
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People can expect to see a lot of me - I'm not too proud to stand on corners and hold my campaign signs.
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Happiness and unhappiness are in the heart and spirit of each one of us: If you feel unhappy, then place yourself above that and act so that your happiness does not get to be dependent on anything.
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Time is what death needs to grow people in.
