William S. Burroughs Quotes
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I deliberately try not to cater for the commercial market, so I can't see myself in competition, you know, with second or third generation rock stars.
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Small businesses want things streamlined, and one of the great successes we're having is less paperwork, faster turnaround times.
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You always read stories of people going out to California and making it as an actor with, like, two dollars, so I figured I'd try it.
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So long as the product is sold, everything is taking its regular course from the standpoint of the capitalist producer.
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I really like acting in French. It's actually quite different for me, from acting in English. It's fun acting in a foreign language. You're liberated or freed from preconceptions.
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My name is Jennifer, and when I first went to school, my kindergarten teacher called me Jenny, and from then on, I was Jenny.
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Choosing nonviolence does not mean that one will never get angry or become upset with others, including the ones we love.
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I'm an artist. Artists don't need permission to work. Regardless of whether I'm acting or not, I write. I write when I'm tired in fact, because I believe your most pure thoughts surface.
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I'm a linguist. I study how people talk to each other and how the ways we talk affect our relationships.
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I love horse-riding - I have three back home in the U.K.
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Under promise and over deliver. People will be pleasantly surprised that you gave more than they expected. And remember that there is always room for us to be better and do better. That's what I am calling for. Not just everybody else - myself, too.
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There is no limit to what a man can do so long as he does not care a straw who gets the credit for it.
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There's no point in success if you don't let it go to your head. That's what it's for.
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The Law is the Law!
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A people's relationship to their heritage is the same as the relationship of a child to its mother.
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I grew up in Baltimore and that's why I root for the Orioles. I'm very suspicious of people who move and take on a new team. You should stick with the team of your youth all the way to your grave. That shows a sense of loyalty and devotion.
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There should not be a question of legal or illegal immigration. People came and immigrated to this country from the time of the Indians. No ones illegal. They should just be able to come.
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Our culture has kind of let the concept of the Renaissance Man die out. We don't really tell the kids that it's okay to bounce around the world, work odd jobs, and do six different things.
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A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.
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Bitter love, a violet with it's crown of thorns in a thicet of spiky passions, spear of sorrow, corolla of rage: how did you come to conquer my soul? What brought you?
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I'm not against religion in the sense that I feel I can't tolerate it, but I think written into the rubric of religion is the certainty of its own truth. And since there are 6,000 religions currently on the face of the earth, they can't all be right. And only the secular spirit can guarantee those freedoms and it's the secular spirit that they contest.
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If the soft machine works, don't fix it. If it works, don't fix it.
