William S. Burroughs Quotes
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
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Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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If I had an ego as big as the Eiffel Tower, would I have won this many collective trophies? I know people like to talk about it. And O.K., I am not going to answer every story. But maybe I will let my collective trophies speak for themselves. I don't know many other footballers who have won as much. Do you?
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It was a pleasure to meet President Obama and Michelle. I'm not a political person, but I admire what he has done.
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I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.
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Europe and Africa share proximity and history, ideas and ideals, trade and technology. You are tied together by the ebb and flow of people. Migration presents policy challenges - but also represents an opportunity to enhance human development, promote decent work, and strengthen collaboration.
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Generally speaking, I don't think people know a great deal about the Viking culture, apart from the label that is usually attached to them, either pillagers or deviants who came and brought back loot to Norway. It was an incredibly sophisticated, complex and layered culture. They had their own laws, many of which protected women.
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Scientific advancement should aim to affirm and to improve human life.
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Endorphins are a very powerful thing.
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War is good when good survives and evil is crushed. If you don't crush evil then evil will get you.
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Other than marriage, she doesn't control me and I don't control her.
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Where is it written that a smart woman can't also be stacked?
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I look at the world through a green lens now, but you can't make yourself crazy. That feeling of green guilt can be really inhibiting. It's about a changing mind-set, remembering to turn off the water when you are brushing your teeth.
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The raising to life of all animate beings at the resurrection of the dead can be no more difficult for Divine Power than restoring to life a fly in the spring, heavy with the death-stained sleep of winter.
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I'm a geek through and through. My last job at Microsoft was leading much of the search engine relevance work on Bing. There we got to play with huge amounts of data, with neural networks and other AI techniques, with massive server farms.
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That's absolutely one of my main goals, to have a number one on Billboard. That's a big thing for me. That means people are buying and listening to your music.
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As a political current, Maoism was always weak in Britain, confined largely to students from Asia, Africa and Latin America.
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Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.
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Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
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I don't think we spend enough time in silence, just realizing what's floating around in our noggin.
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I am trying my hardest to stay away from the horror movies just because I feel like people are thinking that's what I do, that I'm a scream queen. I'd like to stay away from that.
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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
