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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I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.
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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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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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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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Everybody wants to have the president talk about their issue.
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Enjoying fiction requires a shift in selfhood. You give up your own identity and try on the identities of other people, adopting their perspectives so as to share their experiences. This allows us to enjoy fictional events that would shock and sadden us in real life.
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I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
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Confident people, who understand comedy, improvise so much better than people who are scared. You can't be scared to improvise. You have to know your character, and then you have to let go.
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Your 'conscious life' is an elaborate after-the-fact rationalization of things you really do for other reasons.
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Time is what death needs to grow people in.
