William S. Burroughs Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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No sensible author wants anything but praise.
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One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.
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Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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The beautiful thing is that ageism just doesn't exist on 'EastEnders.' The show saved me.
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I played with Michy for Belgium. He is still young; he can finish and is very good. He just needs to adapt to English football, and he will. He is intelligent and a good player.
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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Even Gaddafi's adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student; he was expelled from high-school for his anti-monarchic activities. He managed to enroll in another high-school and later graduated in law at the University of Benghazi at the age of 21.
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I don't have a competitive bone in my body, so the last thing I want to do is be competing with people.
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It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.
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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
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Let's face it: pop music in its myriad permutations will always be sexually presumptuous, racially controversial and, frequently, politically charged.
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I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music.
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The psychological trauma of losing a job can be as great as the trauma of a divorce.
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In cognitively demanding fields, there are no naturals. Nobody walks into an operating room straight out of a surgical rotation and does world-class neurosurgery.
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It's a huge step up from the European Indoors to then being a gold medallist at the World Championships.
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In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.
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All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!
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I'm the Bjorn Boerg of table tennis.
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We have over 500,000 illegal immigrants living in Arizona. And we simply cannot sustain it. It costs us a tremendous amount of money of course in health care, in education, and then, on top of it all, in incarceration. And the federal government doesn't reimburse us on any of these things.
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I have always been interested in exploring how we can leverage our knowledge about everyday objects, and how we use them, in order to interact with our digital world.
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What do you mean, you 'don't believe in homosexuality?' It's not like the Easter Bunny, your belief isn't necessary.
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A paranoid is someone who has all the facts.
