William S. Burroughs Quotes

If the soft machine works, don't fix it. If it works, don't fix it.

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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.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Myself
  • Rock
  • Competition

• Small businesses want things streamlined, and one of the great successes we're having is less paperwork, faster turnaround times.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Great
  • Want
  • Small

• 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.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • California
  • Try

• So long as the product is sold, everything is taking its regular course from the standpoint of the capitalist producer.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Long

• 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.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
  • Different
  • Fun
  • English

• My name is Jennifer, and when I first went to school, my kindergarten teacher called me Jenny, and from then on, I was Jenny.

  

  Jenny Han
  • School
  • Teacher

• Choosing nonviolence does not mean that one will never get angry or become upset with others, including the ones we love.

  

  Bernice King
  • Angry

• 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.

  

  Chadwick Boseman
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Thoughts

• I'm a linguist. I study how people talk to each other and how the ways we talk affect our relationships.

  

  Deborah Tannen
  • People
  • Study

• I love horse-riding - I have three back home in the U.K.

  

  Amy Jackson
  • Home
  • Horse

• 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.

  

  Luvvie Ajayi
  • People
  • Remember
  • Promise

• 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.

  

  Charles Edward Montague
  • Long

• There's no point in success if you don't let it go to your head. That's what it's for.

  

  John Otway
  • Success

• The Law is the Law!

  

  David Pratt
  • Law

• A people's relationship to their heritage is the same as the relationship of a child to its mother.

  

  John Henrik Clarke
  • People
  • Mother
  • Relationship

• 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.

  

  Frank Deford
  • People
  • Up
  • Why

• 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.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • People
  • Time
  • Country

• One step at a time is all it takes to get you there.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Step
  • Step at a Time

• As a blind voter, I'm strongly opposed to the paperless e-voting machines that the NFB is trying to force onto us. I want a voting system that is accessible to as many voters as possible and that also produces an audit trail. The paperless machines are simply the wrong approach, and I support the County's efforts to try to find a better way.

  

  David Dixon
  • Support
  • Blind
  • Produce

• A Machine to Make a Future is an insightful and creative contribution to the literature--both scholarly and journalistic--on contemporary genomics. By 'experimenting' with narrative genre, the authors hope to generate different insights into the world of genomics and biotechnology than ones generally presented in existing accounts. They succeed at that goal, providing an account that is ethnographically rich and analytically open to a world whose structure, implications, and outcomes are very much in the making.

  

  Nadia Abu El Haj
  • Creative
  • Succeed
  • Machines

• The existing program, as it has been developed in the last 70 years, provides a stable monthly income that has prevented seniors, almost 50 percent from falling into poverty. I don't think we want to erode the principles of that system.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Poverty
  • System
  • Program

• A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Elephant

• If the soft machine works, don't fix it. If it works, don't fix it.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Machines