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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You might say that the very best that can happen is to have energetic opponents.
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By the time we've hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons.
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I started slow, and eventually I started working out 4 to 5 days a week. We all have to start somewhere, and doing something is better than nothing at all.
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How we fund transportation in this country is broken. You all pay a gasoline tax, right? Well, cars go farther, we get electric cars, and so on. And then we do more with the money than just build roads. We do bike lanes and mass transit.
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The reason most of the children are having problems in any inner-city neighborhood is because they don't see enough positive role models in their own environment.
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Time is what death needs to grow people in.
