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.

  

  Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
  • God
  • Believe
  • Heart

• I was fortunate enough to get an author-backed role in Aamir Khan starrer 'Talash.'

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Enough
  • Author
  • Role

• 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.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Music
  • Thinking

• I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Myself
  • Imagination
  • Player

• The Palestinian Authority gets money from the American taxpayer.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Money
  • American
  • Authority

• There comes a time when money doesn't matter.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Time
  • Money
  • Matter

• Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Smart
  • Poverty
  • Immigration

• 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.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Important
  • Business
  • High

• 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.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Up
  • Try
  • Grandparents

• I'd feel guilty just doing gags.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Feel
  • Doing
  • Guilty

• I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Intellectual
  • Intense
  • Cricketer

• 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.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Think
  • Party
  • Beach

• 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.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Up
  • Important
  • Dream

• 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.

  

  Fleur East
  • Remember
  • Running
  • Day

• I was completely surrounded by religion from a young time. I was taught by my father. I engaged in discussions with him and many of these scholars who visited and came around the dining table, the lunch table, and attended many lectures with my dad. And so I learned the apprentice way.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Time
  • Father
  • Dad

• We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Life
  • Freedom
  • Value

• I was a foggy, erratic teenager: a fifth child, the last in the queue for conversation or attention.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Attention
  • Child
  • Teenager

• 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.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Life
  • Success
  • Understanding

• To spend time is to pass it in a specified manner. To waste time is to expend it thoughtlessly or carelessly. We all have time to spend or waste, and it is our decision what to do with it. But once passed, it is gone forever.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Time
  • Decision
  • Forever

• When you know who you truly are, you can live more freely and in tune with your karma.

  

  Alan Finger
  • Karma
  • Freely
  • Truly Are

• Winning the World Cup was a dream come true after so many years of wanting something so bad. After that final whistle, I dropped to the ground on my knees and got emotional.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • World
  • Bad
  • True

• By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • World
  • Bridge
  • Rude

• The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts.

  

  John Muir
  • World

• The world wasn't a more tolerant place when I was a young man. Rather, they simply sidestepped all the issues.

  

  William S. Burroughs
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