William S. Burroughs Quotes
The world wasn't a more tolerant place when I was a young man. Rather, they simply sidestepped all the issues.
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I know politics and politicians are hated, but I still believe in goodness of a heart that has selfless intentions. With the grace of God, I will make a difference.
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I was fortunate enough to get an author-backed role in Aamir Khan starrer 'Talash.'
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For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.
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I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.
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The Palestinian Authority gets money from the American taxpayer.
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There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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I used to try to pick locks because I grew up on my grandparents' farm and I started my own little spy club. I would go around the farm and try to break into the shed and try spying on my grandpa. It was ridiculous.
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I'd feel guilty just doing gags.
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I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.
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The Democratic Party went far to the left, I think, and left some of us stranded on the beach, so we went to the Republican Party.
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I've fondly dreamed of becoming the face of an important brand since I was a child, in the same way that others dream of becoming an astronaut. I dreamed of this as I first and foremost dreamed of becoming an actor and would look up at these huge posters of celebrities while driving along motorways or crossing under bridges.
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I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping agencies, anything. I was so desperate.
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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
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I was a foggy, erratic teenager: a fifth child, the last in the queue for conversation or attention.
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I'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success.
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I started out doing theater when I was really young, and I completely fell in love with it. I knew that this was what I wanted to do.
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It’s easy to say that if you were there you would have refused, that you would rather die than participate in the slaughter, but it all looks very different when it’s real, when the moment comes to choose.
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From time immemorial men have quenched their thirst with water without knowing anything about its chemical constituents. In like manner we do not need to be instructed in all the mysteries of doctrine, but we do need to receive the Living Water which Jesus Christ will give us and which alone can satisfy our souls.
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At the end of the '60s, I was trying to enter the world of comics.
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The mind is like an umbrella - it functions best when open.
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The world wasn't a more tolerant place when I was a young man. Rather, they simply sidestepped all the issues.
