William S. Burroughs Quotes
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I still wanted to see the family come back to life. And when that didn't transpire from the music, it kinda made me feel like I was bein' taken advantage of. I thought, when people heard '8 Diagrams,' they'd be like, 'Oh, Wu-Tang is a wrap now - they've lost it.' And I know that we didn't lose it.
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Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.
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I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.
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I never was a very good singer.
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Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until you're a mother.'
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I'm committed to the goal of Senate Bill 324, and that is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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Microsoft does platform, not really infrastructure, and they do a little bit of Saas.
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I love being a part of Aqua Teen.
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IBM, Microsoft, the profit they made was larger than the top four banks in China put together... But where did the money go?
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My biggest fear has always been being 40 and hating my job. I love challenges. I'm not afraid to try anything.
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I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he was actually a person quite unlike what we now think of as Machiavellian. He was a republican. He disliked totalitarian government.
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You need to make sure you hire people who are capable of being strong team players. Team members should fit the company's culture, be committed to the team, and be capable of being genuinely vulnerable and selfless.
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With the mega – fame came the mega – downfall – you know, with the press and everything – and at a young age, it was very stressful to me.
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As long as I'm not selling out the people that ride or die with me, I'm glad I'm not an MC. I'm a motivational speaker. I'm not that rapper dude.
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I went to church when I was younger, but it was never something pushed down my throat or anything, which is a good thing. I found out for myself where I belonged.
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Someone has to stand up for wimps.
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I've had albums out since the 1970s. I was in a musical, 'The Boy Friend,' directed by Ken Russell, and I was on Broadway in 'My One And Only' with Tommy Tune, so I've always been a singer, but I suppose people think of my modelling more.
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I was with - he wasn't the president then, but - Barack Obama, when he was running, in Washington, during Black Congressional Caucus Weekend, and did a panel about global warming with him. It was almost as if I switched careers for a while, and became a political activist.
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The progressive Islamisation of our country and the increase in political-religious demands are calling into question the survival of our civilisation.
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A landscape image cuts across all political and national boundaries, it transcends the constraints of language and culture.
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Philiosophers like Hume and Descartes and Hobbes saw things similarly. They thought that mental images and ideas were actually the same thing. There are those today that dispute that, and lots of debates about how the mind works, but for me it's simple: Mental images, for most of us, are central in inventive and creative thinking.
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[Political movements] both favor alcohol and are against pot.
