William S. Burroughs Quotes
The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time... and you can't see it if you refuse to face the possibility.
William S. Burroughs
Quotes to Explore
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Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.
Earl Monroe
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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
Barry Bonds
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Any musician - I would say 99% of musicians - needs some help along the way. Most people, even if they're self-produced, have someone else mix it, or they'll have someone else master the record. Inevitably, it's like somebody else's personality being put into your art.
Washed Out
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Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.
Gabrielle Union
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Fostering the leadership necessary for transformational outcomes in education is hard work, and in countries around the world, there is a constant search for easier solutions.
Wendy Kopp
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We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.
Mao Zedong
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Idealism, unrealistic idealism, is always contrasted with the reality of the people, of the man in the street. The details of daily life are always more convincing than the political fantasies of the earlier generations.
Orhan Pamuk
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God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.
Dag Hammarskjold
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Why do you need to do a fancy cartwheel for before you hit him? It just looks stupid.
Owen Hart
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
Barbara Kingsolver
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The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
Oscar Wilde
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I like all things natural, and I love being Indian. So clothes-wise, I love wearing Indian. Does my wearing a salwar kameez instead of a dress make me less of an actor, less of a person?
Vidya Balan
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It is our historical experience, that Hungary can only live in wealth and safety if Berlin, Moscow, and Ankara are on our side and also interested in our success - even if we do not always agree on certain questions.
Viktor Orban
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Indian cricket fans are manic-depressive in their treatment of their favorite teams. They elevate players to god-like status when their team performs well, ignoring obvious weaknesses; but when it loses, as any team must, the fall is equally steep, and every weakness is dissected.
Raghuram Rajan
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The tricky thing is music is supposed to be very mysterious; the way it's made is mysterious. Then people like to get upset with the music business.
Cam
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How dull it is to have people defining you.
Octavia E. Butler
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We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.
Hans Kung
