William S. Burroughs Quotes
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All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!
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Your goal in an online dating profile and in your first message to somebody is to strike up a conversation.
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The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time.
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If I'm not on tour or in the studio, I'm in nature somewhere, usually some kind of ocean. Playing music has afforded me that. It's not lost on me that it's a tremendous opportunity to be able to spend your life being surrounded by nature.
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A good system shortens the road to the goal.
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There's no such thing as 'too much TV,' unless we're all spending more and not watching more.
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It is people who are the objects of globalization and at the same time its subjects. What also follows logically from this is that globalization is not a law of nature, but rather a process set in train by people.
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I said what I said before Congress because I meant every word of it.
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Once, when I tried to calculate the height of the balcony, I broke my arm. Another time, I wanted to see if water moves faster than kerosene. When my father came out to smoke, a fire broke out.
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You can have your choice of men but I could never love again He's the only one for me Jolene I have to have this talk with you My happiness depends on you and whatever You decide to do Jolene...
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Music is the one part of the entertainment business where you can't fool anybody into buying a record.
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As a student, I was more gifted in history and geography. Things like arithmetic were not my strength.
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Desperate? That can be a justification for all kinds of behavior.
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We break our promises to one another. We break our promises to God. But God never breaks His promises to us.
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I think the idea of getting out of a traffic jam and getting out of work each week and going and doing all this stuff would be really exhausting.
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All is going well so far. There are some remarks here and there and there are some complaints here and there but we expect to resolve those questions or complaints Sunday and the next day.
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Our security must be threatened in order for us to appreciate it.
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I just wasn't psychologically made to get married or, God forbid, be a father.
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True freedom has more to do with following the North Star than going whichever way the wind blows. Sometimes it seems like freedom is blowing with the winds of the day, but that kind of freedom is really an illusion. It turns your boat in circles. Freedom is sailing toward your dreams.
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I couldn't have gotten this far without my beautiful parents. I'm also very lucky to have the best friends that I do.
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I felt that there could be some anger. There could be some frustration that he has the tendency to take over the room, but I wanted all of those things to show in the grays of her hair and the fact that her hips are much wider than they probably were when she met him. I wanted it to show in the fact that her hair is not done up all the time. I wanted it to be a part of that every day that wasn't in your face. Because then for me, that's overacting. To me, that's not "being." I wanted Rose [in "Fences"] to be many things.
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If you, Like me, Were made of fur, And sun warmed you, Like me, You'd purr.
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Shooting is my principal pastime.
