William S. Burroughs Quotes
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In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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I've never met anybody who says they don't like the World Cup. If you're a soccer fan or not, everybody loves watching it, and I think it could be the same for other sports.
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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I did anything that would get me on the air.
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My company invents all kinds of new technology in lots of different areas. And we do that for a couple of reasons. We invent for fun - invention is a lot of fun to do - and we also invent for profit. The two are related because the profit actually takes long enough that if it isn't fun, you wouldn't have the time to do it.
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I don't know what these Republican congressmen drink that make them experts on women's reproductive health.
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To put it bluntly, there isn't one economic theory that can single-handedly explain Singapore's success; its economy combines extreme features of capitalism and socialism. All theories are partial; reality is complex.
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Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
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I'm a dad, and I can tell you it's the most beautiful thing in the world.
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Somewhere, in some city in America, someone is wearing my clothes, and I'm happy with that.
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As the captain, I was going to be having the dominant role in most of the episodes, and that was appealing. I wasn't interested in coming to Hollywood to sit around.
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Something my mom and I have always said to each other is: 'We're not here for interviews. We're not here to get your picture taken. We're here to make a difference, and this is our opportunity to.'
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Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
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I think it's going to deliver on the promises we've said it's going to and it is going to be the most successful product ever to come into the handheld environment, and it just happens to have a number of different functions.
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I kind of think too much, I try do too many things at once.
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Are we really so far from the Victorians? Much of what our society holds important was shaped in the 19th century.
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All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.
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I have done my time living on the run. I'm British and I want to come home.
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I'm great at working with people and collaborating. And if my biggest gift of all is that I'm really good at pulling things from people and helping them become better at what they're doing, I'm here, as I believe all of us are, to be of service.
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I don't know what my Death Row meal would be. I'm surprised that people can even eat when they're on Death Row.
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Although there's been a fighter before me called Mike Tyson, I'm my own Tyson. I'm Tyson Fury. I ain't trying to be anybody else.
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[Prince Humperdinck] was seventy-five minutes away from his first female murder, and he wondered if he could get his fingers to her throat before even the start of a scream. He had been practicing on giant sausages all the afternoon and had the movements down pretty pat, but then, giant sausages weren’t necks and all the wishing in the world wouldn’t make them so.
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Tell the truth once and for all and shut up forever.
