William S. Burroughs Quotes
The forward step must be made in silence. We detach ourselves from word forms - this can be accomplished by substituting for words, letters, concepts, verbal concepts, other modes of expressions: for example, color.
Quotes to Explore
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I never even held a guitar until I was 23 and living in California, but then loved it. I'm really not an accomplished instrumentalist. Maybe that has something to do with why I write and sing.
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Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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I am completely, utterly obsessed with clothes. To an embarrassing extent.
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Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.
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The colonel replied that he didn't care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.
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My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.
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The fact that two-thirds of Americans who work at small businesses will see premium increases because of the health law is devastating news. This is one more in a long line of broken promises from President Obama and Washington Democrats.
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Now, I am completely independent - I earn my living by speaking and writing.
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There is so much good music in the U.S. and there is just a small section that gets recognised at the Grammys.
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More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him.
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I went up for the first time when I was 18. It's a great place - I love L.A.; I mean, in Ireland it just rains all the time, it's crap weather, so it's nice to go to L.A. where it's just sunshine every day, and then it's kinda easier to live a kinda healthy lifestyle.
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The National Flood Insurance Program is a voluntary program. If a community really feels that the building insurance requirements are too burdensome, they don't have to participate.
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I'm from Pennsylvania, so I was in New York a lot and my brother lives in New York.
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I grew up trying to be like my idols, and one of the main people in my life was my father. He played football, and when your father is telling stories about the game he played... Everybody wants to be like their father.
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I don't think anyone who has been to Africa comes away untouched by the place. You see a lot of beauty and optimism, but you also come away with an awareness of the huge gulf between what most of us have and what most of them have to make do with. Then, every now and then, a famine or a war makes everything a hundred times worse.
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I needed something to challenge myself a little more. I found fighting, and it completely fit my personality.
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With the neutron bomb, which destroys life but not property, capitalism has found the weapon of its dreams.
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People copy examples and then they wonder what is the trouble. They look at examples and without theory they learn nothing.
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I think that painting is a very ancient form of expression.
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I like black and white films. I don't exactly know why - probably because there is a stylization which is removed from actual life, unlike a color film.
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Every ship should have a cat.
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The forward step must be made in silence. We detach ourselves from word forms - this can be accomplished by substituting for words, letters, concepts, verbal concepts, other modes of expressions: for example, color.
