William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Today, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly.
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How are we doing in the electronics field as opposed to, you know, we hear how advanced the Japanese are? Do you think we're still pretty competitive? Oh, yes.
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I love showing my scar on my tummy - it is shaped like a question mark.
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They definitely mean to maintain that the process called death is a mere severence of soul and body, and that the soul is freed rather than injured thereby.
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I used to play football all the time. In the U.S., people don't play football, so I had to learn basketball. Looking back, that's what I like about my life - doing new things, having a new perspective.
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The late development of mass industrial organization in the United States has both stimulated and retarded the political development of the American working class.
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A relationship with an imaginary woman is preferable to a relationship with a real one.
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Certainly we do not need quantum mechanics for macroscopic objects, which are well described by classical physics – this is the reason why quantum mechanics seems so foreign to our everyday existence.
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Con mi encadenamiento a la tierra pago la libertad de mis ojos.
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People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.
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I don't really know how music and comedy are similar. I try never to dissect it theoretically or academically.
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My dad is too cute. Every morning, he sends me one motivational quote. I have a folder full of all his quotes.
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I was always told that I was too small, too skinny, too slow, not tough enough, and I never ever believed what people told me.
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I plan to die at my desk.
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Thank you so much for supporting me from the day I stepped foot into the music industry. It really means something to me to have Maya Angelou speak on my behalf. It also means a lot to have Oprah on my speed dial!
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Asking for a royally appointed prime minister is undemocratic. It is, pardon me, a mess. It is irrational.
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When I'm wearing makeup, I choose between doing my eyes or mouth because I don't want to look like a beauty pageant child.
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The history of Christianity, therefore, must be of concern to all who are interested in the record of man and particularly to all who seek to understand the contemporary human scene.
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I find the opera part in 'The Greatest Show on Earth' challenging.
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Titles and mottoes to books are like escutcheons and dignities in the hands of a king. The wise sometimes condescend to accept of them; but none but a fool would imagine them of any real importance. We ought to depend upon intrinsic merit, and not the slender helps of the title.
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I don't feel that we were savages. We were in a savage land that made us hard, but we were not savages. Savages today are different, different in all ways. Their savagery is done in technical ways, so they are not called savages anymore. I don't know what savage means, really. There are good and bad in every race. There are traditional values that are good and bad. That goes for everybody.
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Anyone with any sense knew that one of the best parts of the day was the hour just as the sun was rising.
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As far as types preferring other types, people of the same type can understand each others' perspective very well, but also drive each other crazy because they see their flaws magnified.
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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
