William S. Burroughs Quotes
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I think of New Yorkers as not taking the time to talk to someone they don't know.
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Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior.
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There's no problem with fans and bands. There's a problem with the economics of the outside disruption of the industry.
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Bill Clinton left office with a more than 60% approval rating.
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It was lucky for me. It wasn't lucky for the nine people that got killed and the 20 that were injured.
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I have never looked at a child and been so angry that I flipped out.
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I actually don't think there is any difference between French and American cuisine. French cuisine was always about discipline, about ingredient, about creativity, but also about simple. I see America as very similar in these rights.
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When I was at school, I used to end every school day with fountain pen ink all over my hands and face and down my shirt.
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We've always believed in our music.
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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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I am outraged that the Gorillaz have infringed the copyright of my song 'Time Warp,' claiming their song 'Stylo' to be an original composition.
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The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.
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It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food.
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How many times do I have to repeat this: my childhood was fantastic.
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One thing the music industry has taught me is to manage my expectations.
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If a big person invests time in reading, kids learn reading is important, the child is important, words are important, stories are important.
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I think that there are empty ecological niches in the literary landscape crying to be filled and when a book more or less fills a niche it's seized on, even when it's a far from perfect fit.
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I think the best projects understand that they don't need to invent a new currency. They don't need to use the block chain as their long-term data storage solution. And they don't need to use the peer-to-peer network as their communication mechanism. They should use the block chain as the world's most secure distributed ledger.
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I was born in Nizhny Novgorod to a very poor family and unfortunately my father and mother separated when I was very little.
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I'm a bed monster.
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While everyone is focused on security and civil liberties, Trump's Cabinet of billionaires will try to quietly push through even more extreme measures to enrich themselves and their class, like dismantling Social Security or auctioning off major pieces of government for profit.
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Waiting is far more difficult than doing.
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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
