William S. Burroughs Quotes
Home is where your ass is and if you want to move you move your ass the first step is learning to change homes with someone else and have someone else's ass.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.
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Aesthetically, I don't really like the blond, tan thing. I am pale. So I may as well embrace the pale. Long, blond hair and a bad spray tan is the stuff of my nightmares.
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I don't go out anywhere. I don't go to nightclubs, so meeting somebody in the nightclub is out of question.
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My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.
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We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I've ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the 'Girlfriend in a Coma' is, like, really funny.
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If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
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When we write about Auschwitz, we must know that Auschwitz, in a certain sense at least, suspended literature. One can only write a black novel about Auschwitz or - you should excuse the expression - a cheap serial, which begins in Auschwitz and is still not over.
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As a longtime fan of talk radio, I'm very worried about the low opinion that conservative hosts and callers have of the American artist. Art is portrayed as a scam, a rip-off and snow job pushed by snobbish elites.
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I think the hardest thing I went through in the UFC was my first loss. It was terrible. It was traumatizing. But it's just going back and rebuilding and getting better.
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I cannot be music director at La Scala and at Staatsoper. This would be unfair to one of the two institutions.
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No individual, regardless of where they live or whom they love, should suffer discrimination.
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It's so great to see a woman dressed in jeans and a lace-up boot with an extraordinary jacket. It's a moment where you do want to mix high and low, and it's not so much about a head-to-toe designer look.
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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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When I go to clubs, I don't have to wait outside.
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I'm gonna stay an album guy. In fact, concept albums are really blowing my mind right now, because if you want to promote an album, think about it - a concept album might be the way to go.
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Bahrain is very dear to me.
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I don't do comedy so much although I would like to do a comedy.
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I was writing a scene where a guy was choking another guy to death. You can go online and type 'chokeholds' and watch scenes where martial artists choke each other out. You can hear what noises they make when they go unconscious, see how their bodies flop and everything. YouTube is amazing for the more detailed stuff.
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I did make a solo album in my house when I was there. And because I was just afraid of flying, I wouldn't promote it, and I wouldn't tour. Actually, it wasn't a very good album anyway - it got buried underneath the pits of Hell, I suppose.
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What hinders the middle class the most is taxes, and what hinders business from creating jobs and moving people into the middle class are regulations.
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You realize just how long youve been away when you get home and start dialing 8 out of habit so you can get access to local calls.
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I do think it's important for young women to know that magazine covers are retouched. People don't really look like that.
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Home is where your ass is and if you want to move you move your ass the first step is learning to change homes with someone else and have someone else's ass.
