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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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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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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It took me a long time to figure out how to act, and how to conduct myself in the business so I could get what I felt I needed to support my potential and give them what they wanted.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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I ran the Iditarod twice. I finished once. I came in 42nd or 43rd place out of 70 plus teams the first time, and I scratched 80 miles from Nome the second time. You can read about my experience in the race in my books 'Woodsong' and 'Winterdance.'
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It was growing dusk, the blue hour when solid things take on a certain transparency and phantoms become palpable.
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I love the solitude of being on a plane and finally getting to read an entire book and being left alone.
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Jim was most ruined for a servant, because he got stuck up on account of having seen the devil and been rode by witches.
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Speaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to string them together like, 'Blah, blah, blah.' That's when I get crazy.
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I hate restaurants that play music. You come out for a quiet meal, and you're supposed to put up with all this booming. Why? It's madness!
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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?
