William S. Burroughs Quotes
A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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I will admit to hoarding beauty products. I'm a beauty lady.
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School boards can be a steppingstone to higher forms of political leadership.
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At first, because this genre of music was so urban, sometimes we would sing songs that were so aggressive. And my parents didn't like it. They would break my cassettes and say, 'That music is garbage.'
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I've watched Urkel since I was a little kid.
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Scientists are not movie stars or politicians who will feel insulted if they are not showered with accolades. Scientists are not interested in accolades.
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Maybe since I was 35 years old it was time to go upstairs.
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No one has been a greater advocate for the power of love in this world than I; both in my life and in my music.
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Reformed theology so far transcends the mere five points of Calvinism that it is an entire worldview.
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We have now educated ourselves into a state of complete imbecility.
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I knew Jack Kennedy; Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy.
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Who here wants to be a writer?' I asked. Everyone in the room raised his hand. 'Why the hell aren't you home writing?' I said, and left the stage.
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I'd like there to be less refugees. I'd like all girls to go to school. That's what we need to be thinking about, and working on making our own families good and strong and our own kids happy.
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When you live with an open heart, unexpected, joyful things happen.
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I have since wandered among men of many races and many religions.
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Whatever our dreams, ideas, or projects, we plant a seed, nurture it -- and then reap the fruits of our labors.
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I just close my eyes and act like I'm a 3-year-old. I try to get as close to a childlike level as possible because we were all artists back then. So you just close your eyes and think back to when you were as young as you can remember and had the least barriers to your creativity.
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My personal background is actually very unusual for the kind of career I chose. I didnt meet anyone who had ever done physics in my life. I grew up in the Himalayan forests. My father was a forest conservator, which meant that if I wasnt in school I was in the forests with him. That has been very largely responsible for my ecological inclinations.
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I don't wanna lose you And I always wanna feel this way Cause everytime I'm with you I feel true love, true love.
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It's a big win for us...just because we've been struggling to win a game after a game. You feel good about not giving up one after we win one.
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Vain man is apt to think we were merely intended for the world's propagation and to keep its human inhabitants sweet and clean; but, by their leaves, had we the same literature he would find our brains as fruitful as our bodies.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
