William S. Burroughs Quotes

The Federal Narcotics Bureau does a grave disservice by disseminating a lot of misinformation. Most of what they say is such nonsense that I didn't believe them about addiction.

William S. Burroughs

• Believe
• Addiction
• Nonsense
• Misinformation

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• There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.

  

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• Moisturizing every night is important. When you're 50 or 60, it's going to show if you don't take care of it. You have to prepare when you're young, so you still have that healthy, glowing skin when you're 60 or 70.

  

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• Microsoft does platform, not really infrastructure, and they do a little bit of Saas.

  

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• We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.

  

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• I love being a part of Aqua Teen.

  

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• I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations.

  

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• My confidence is easy to shake. I am very well aware of all of my flaws. I am aware of all the insecurities that I have.

  

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• I'm the youngest of five – three girls and two boys. There was one record player for the seven of us. It was good for me, because I got to hear everyone else's music.

  

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• What I love about L.A. and Washington, D.C. is that they're almost the opposite of each other. L.A. is a very creative space while D.C. is a very cerebral space. So, they're the ying and the yang in my world. I like them both for their own reasons.

  

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• I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.

  

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• In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In the two decades since, each time that I have gone back, visions from those days seem to return with increasing persistence.

  

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• What I love about jazz is that it's full of legends, full of myths. It's an oral history because it started in New Orleans and Kansas City, under the radar.

  

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• Comedians are always hitting the topical notes that are on everybody's minds.

  

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• I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.

  

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• Steadfastness, that is holding on; patience, that is holding back; expectancy, that is holding the face up; obedience, that is holding one's self in readiness to go or do; listening, that is holding quiet and still so as to hear.

  

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• I used to adore my old man because he was always so kind. That's one of the most beautiful things I have in my life - the way my father and mother were. And my father was a real ugly man. So it doesn't matter if you look like a gorilla. You see, dogs like us, we ain't such dogs as we think we are.

  

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• The more things you own, the more people you need to employ.

  

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• The Federal Narcotics Bureau does a grave disservice by disseminating a lot of misinformation. Most of what they say is such nonsense that I didn't believe them about addiction.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Believe
  • Addiction
  • Nonsense