William S. Burroughs Quotes
I started to write in about 1950; I was thirty-five at the time; there didn't seem to be any strong motivation. I simply was endeavoring to put down in a more or less straightforward journalistic style something about my experiences with addiction and addicts.William S. Burroughs
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You must consider, when reading this treatise, that mental perception, because connected with matter, is subject to conditions similar to those to which physical perception is subject.
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Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.
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Every year is pressure. You need to put in on yourself to go out and perform.
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Robots are good at things that are structured.
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These 'Sports Illustrated' people, they know how to hold a secret.
Bar Refaeli -
The kind of classic pose of a female model is to look kind of sexy and a bit annoyed.
Caitlin Moran
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No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.
Garth Brooks -
I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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Dancing has always been a passion of mine.
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Israel has a security concern involving geography. But geography does not have the same value it did in 1967.
Rahm Emanuel -
Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer.
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Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.
Olympia Brown
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I knew Hunter Thompson since the '70s, and I loved him, but he would wear me out as I got older.
P. J. O'Rourke -
There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
Daniel Berrigan -
When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.
Dan Quayle -
Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on T.V.
Samantha Bond -
I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.
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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
Jack Schwartz
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Cities are about juxtaposition. In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like. In Bordeaux, we built law courts right next door to what is effectively a listed historic building, and that makes it exciting.
Richard Rogers -
I'm quite a strong person, and I've become even stronger.
Lizzie Armitstead -
The only constant is change. Unless you get a small group of neighbors together to stop it.
Heraclitus -
Being single doesn't mean your weak. It means your strong enough to wait for what you deserve.
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I started to write in about 1950; I was thirty-five at the time; there didn't seem to be any strong motivation. I simply was endeavoring to put down in a more or less straightforward journalistic style something about my experiences with addiction and addicts.
William S. Burroughs