William S. Burroughs Quotes
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I would happily have done any of the 'Bourne Identity' sequels. There are good sequels, but I'm not good at making them.
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I'm an artist; I'm not going to use trigonometry.
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On issue after issue, the Obama Administration has openly ignored, defied, and unilaterally tried to change the law.
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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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I always wanted pink hair.
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I'm 68 and a half years old; I grew up with newspapers; I love newspapers; I love the news business. I started CNN; I'm a journalist and proud of it.
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What we did ten years ago with the Playstation was a phenomenal success story for the company. That product had a ten year life cycle, which has never been done in this industry.
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I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see.
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I miss people. I miss going anywhere and meeting a random person and saying 'Hi' and having a conversation about life. I love people.
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The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.
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The Israeli public's willingness to enlist, the warm embrace for the soldiers and the residents of the south, and the desire to contribute and to give at any given moment really warm the heart, and it gives all of us strength.
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The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people.
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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
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Life is one big love story with hundreds of little love stories within it.
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Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It's much too strict, but it's a hell of a teacher.
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New Age is a very small box. It was a term that was brought in by the music industry to classify music that is neither jazz, classical, pop or rock. They didn't know what to call it or what to do with it. So they threw it all together under this one name.
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I have a view that if you build something that's good, and you keep making it better, it lasts.
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I went to the Senate, accomplished nothing as usual.
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The problem is not that public schools do not work well, but rather that they do. The first goal and primary function of schools is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is the function which we normally label state indoctrination.
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I fought well at 155, but I don't think I ever came close to my best at 155. I think I'll get to my best at 170 pounds.
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I try to get the best performance an actor can give.
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There was one difference I would come to realize, between white kids and Indians. Among white kids there are tattletales everywhere. Indians? An Indian wouldn't tattle to save his own mother. Indians, over the years, have learned the value of keeping their mouths shut.
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Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts.
