William S. Burroughs Quotes
Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
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When I started out in fashion, everything had to be very structured and tight and controlling, and now I'm getting to a point where I think - I could wear a great big parka, that could be quite fabulous. I haven't always got to show off my size, show off my shape. It's a turning point for me.
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Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.
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I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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Great amount of scientific research is there to show that health is better because transcendental meditation deals with consciousness, and consciousness is the basic value of all the physical expressions. The entire creation is the expression of consciousness.
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The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.
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I do not consider the Lisbon Treaty to be a good thing for Europe, for the freedom of Europe, or for the Czech Republic.
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You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized.
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The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
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I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.
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No civilisation can claim to have a monopoly on universal values and no one can claim to be always faithful to his own values.
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I spent a lot of time between bars like this.
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I don't normally take to Yorkshiremen.
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I love figure skating and what I am able to express creatively. I want to leave a legacy in the sport.
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It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.
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Custom reconciles us to everything.
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Movies don't have borders.
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You have to open up on stage.
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I discovered that, in order to write a magnificent piece, you should shoot the images because once you are filming, you are writing the script in your mind.
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The significance of the cherry blossom tree in Japanese culture goes back hundreds of years. In their country, the cherry blossom represents the fragility and the beauty of life. It's a reminder that life is almost overwhelmingly beautiful but that it is also tragically short.
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What after all, is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.
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You can't substitute promise after promise with known violators of prior promises at the expense of protecting ourselves or setting an example.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
