William S. Burroughs Quotes
The American uppermiddle-class citizen is a composite of negatives. He is largely delineated by what he is not.
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A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast.
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Initial excitement over the announcement that Enbridge was building a pipeline to Kitimat dampened considerably when people discovered that the number of permanent jobs for locals, in the end, would amount to some dock workers.
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I loved her. I still love her, though I curse her in my sleep, so nearly one are love and hate, the two most powerful and devasting emotions that control man, nations, life.
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In my day, I wasn't the best footballer, but I was the best goalscorer for two or three years.
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How did abortion and birth control impact the congressional race of Dan Maffei and Ann Marie Buerkle or the presidential race between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney? I don't know. But I think the so-called social issues were front and center in the minds of voters. These issues may indeed have lost the Republicans some elections.
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I like to swim. It's good for the body and it helps clear my head.
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There was nothing about 'The Killing' that patronized its audience, and it was quite slow and detailed, all of the things which, for a long time, people had been nervous of making.
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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
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This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians.
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Most of my stuff hasn't gone viral. I have been successful on YouTube and I'm very proud of the stuff that I've done, but compared to the people who are actual internet stars and making a living off of it, my views are nothing.
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I race in two or three classic races a year and I may carry on for 10 more years or I may stop tomorrow.
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Countries aren't built by boring people.
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I've always just focused on the work, and I've just tried to be honest with the work. If the work speaks to people, fantastic.
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The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line: the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea.
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I think I matured quite early, but what that does mean is I have moments of complete immaturity. When I come home, I don't want to be an actor. I just want to be a kid. I barely even know what money is.
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It's okay to take yourself too seriously if you're a serious actor and you've got the scrubs on. And then with me, it's kind of like, well, I'm a comedian, I'm making fun of everybody and everything. And I'm making fun of myself. I'm having fun making fun of and for other people.
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Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.
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Mike Judge usually receives underwhelming acclaim for his movies when they come out; it takes a while for people to catch up.
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You have to think like a designer. You have to establish the trend four seasons before it becomes popular.
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No one depended anymore on my care and, finally, even I was no longer a burden to myself.
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I had a professor one time... He said, 'Class, you will forget almost everything I will teach you in here, so please remember this: that God spoke to Balaam through his ass, and He has been speaking through asses ever since. So, if God should choose to speak through you, you need not think too highly of yourself. And, if on meeting someone, right away you recognize what they are, listen to them anyway'.
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You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lose your way in the first place.
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The American uppermiddle-class citizen is a composite of negatives. He is largely delineated by what he is not.
