William S. Burroughs Quotes
There's a book called Mummy and the people actually seem to have become addicted to mummy dust. And mummy dust was somehow made from people who've died of the most loathsome diseases. It's too bad that [David] Cronenberg didn't see this book, see I only saw it after the film was made. It might have been of interest to him.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.
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The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.
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I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
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I don't really see myself as a celebrity, but more as a sort of mitre.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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I want to go create my own independent content and entertainment, in new models and in new ways, and essentially show studios and networks that people are good.
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The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
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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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There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
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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 even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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Coaching in the NBA is not easy. It's like a nervous breakdown with a paycheck.
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I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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I am self-taught. In other words, God is my teacher.
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I suppose that if your name is Freud, it is better to be related to Sigmund than not. It must be frustrating to have to keep denying family connection.
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General Pickett, finding the battle broken while the enemy was still reinforcing, called the troops off.
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A gentleman can always be told by the way he speaks to those that he thinks are his inferiors in some respect. His equals he does not wish to offend, his superiors he does not dare to offend, and of those whom he considers his inferiors he would be all the more considerate.
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In the Arctic, things are already getting freaky. Temperatures have warmed three times faster than the global average.
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There's a book called Mummy and the people actually seem to have become addicted to mummy dust. And mummy dust was somehow made from people who've died of the most loathsome diseases. It's too bad that [David] Cronenberg didn't see this book, see I only saw it after the film was made. It might have been of interest to him.
