William S. Burroughs Quotes
[Death is] a gimmick. It's the time-birth-death gimmick. Can't go on much longer, too many people are wising up.
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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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If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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I did about a 100 concerts this year. All over the United States. We're cutting back next year to about 40. We generate money for an organization called Mercy Corps.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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Inevitably, I think the people that want to work with me are also the people that I want to work with.
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I think the biggest part of a good party is the host and then going around making sure nobody's left alone and knows enough about the people in the room to know who to introduce to whom.
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The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.
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The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.
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Honestly, I'd love to say I live this amazing Hollywood lifestyle, but actually, I'm at home with my same friends and cooking. I crochet, I do watercolor. I think what surprised me the most is that that isn't the lifestyle everyone necessarily lives.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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I'm not a business girl. I will never be a business girl, but I will say, for Anna Wintour, that I respect successful people; I like things that are success.
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I sound like a chain-smoking drag queen after a hard night of singing 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon'.
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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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How often do we see a Muslim woman who is intelligent and independent, and has a voice of her own and is career-driven, on American TV?
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I found the happiest woman in America is between 50 and 55, is happily married, has made significant progress in her career, and lives in a community where she can easily exercise outside. But the most important single thing was she had her last child before she was 35.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
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I never got to know my grandparents, and I am envious of my friends who have a special relationship with theirs.
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I talk in that baby talk voice when I'm on TV, it's a put on.
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It's the federal government's responsibility to secure our borders. We passed Senate Bill 1070 as another tool in order to protect the citizens of Arizona. We have over 500,000 illegal immigrants living in Arizona. And we simply cannot sustain it.
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[Death is] a gimmick. It's the time-birth-death gimmick. Can't go on much longer, too many people are wising up.
