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.
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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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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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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 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 needed something to challenge myself a little more. I found fighting, and it completely fit my personality.
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The biggest risk with a series that goes on this long is that you'll get bored with the character.
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I go to Japan every November on vacation, and the one thing I never return home without is yuba, which is the thin skin that forms atop boiling soy milk. You skim it off and either eat it fresh or dry it.
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It is greater than the stars - that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating earth and the things growing thereon.
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My budget is similar to the Penny Plan, which cuts 1 percent a year for five or six years and balances the budget.
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Being Captain of the Dodgers meant representing an organization committed to winning and trying to keep it going. We could have won every year if the breaks had gone right.
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Free Tibet before free trade.
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I would say that a lot of the characters I've been attracted to are very vulnerable and they expose themselves emotionally. Not so much in 'The Fighter,' not so much in 'The Master' - I think those are different.
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If you stay on the air for 18 years, people know you.
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Maggie was scratching at the door. I let her in. And then I thought that maybe life was like that—​there would always be something scratching at the door. And whatever was scratching would just scratch and scratch until you opened the door.
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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.
