William S. Burroughs Quotes
Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
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Many financial and industrial companies have been bailed out with the public's money, but very few of those who had run those companies have been punished for their failures. Yes, the top managers of those companies have lost their jobs - but with a fat pension and mostly with a handsome severance payment.
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A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.
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I don't know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not.
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As for swimming, I'm now in the pool 5 days a week from 8 to 10 a.m. And I'm in the gym for an hour and a half, 4 days a week. Two days upper body, two days lower.
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Life is a great university for the unfolding of the mind, for developing character. In choosing our life work, when we are free to choose, we should remember this, and choose that which will call the biggest man or woman out of us and not that from which we can coin the most dollars.
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The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.
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I had written in another draft a completely different kind of fight, but they said they couldn't afford to shoot it. They needed a fight scene, though, so I was told to put a fight scene in, but not the one I had written.
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I am a movie fan across the board, though, so if a movie is well done then I love it and it does not really matter what the genre is.
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I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.
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That's what's interesting about the Lower East Side: It's New York, but it's also edgy. It's not as stuffy as Tribeca or Soho.
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I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've still got it.'
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To read too many books is harmful.
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If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.
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I think all actors have a similar deal. You want some people who understand. Although it looks great - and is great - there are also shoddy moments when you feel really rotten, and when it's going well, you're not allowed to complain.
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Is an out-of-control life challenge making you feel 'out of control' over your entire life? If so, stop lying around doing nothing. Stop sleeping late. Stop watching too much TV. Start recognizing that this lack of a disciplined schedule will only increase your feelings of being out of control of your life.
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I've been in a New York City-based cabaret for the past seven years called The Citizens Band. It's possibly one of the most brilliant things I've ever been involved with.
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When I was 14, I had no pressure. I was a kid, and I didn't understand all the attention.
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With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.
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The writer in movies is about as low as you can get and you really are a hired hand. You are paid a lot of money to be treated like dirt.
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I came to Mumbai in 2000 to do a hotel management course. Following this, I worked as a marketing executive with Hotel Sheraton in Muscat for a year. It was in 2004 that I participated in the Gladrags Mr. India contest and bagged the most popular model award. After that, I did few ramp shows and ads.
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We have an immigration system in this country that not only doesn't work, in many cases it doesn't even make any sense.
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The mind is a metaphor of the world of objects which is itself but an endless circle of mutually reflecting metaphors.
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My mother and dad were big animal lovers, too. I just don't know how I would have lived without animals around me. I'm fascinated by them - both domestic pets and the wild community. They just are the most interesting things in the world to me, and it's made such a difference in my lifetime.
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Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
