William S. Burroughs Quotes

I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.

William S. Burroughs

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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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• Now Herod was an active man, and soon found proper materials for his active spirit to work upon.

  

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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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• The first story I finished was when I was six years old.

  

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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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• Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.

  

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• I grew up thinking that singing was my security.

  

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• The leaders of Europe always seem to emerge from the same elite, the same general frame of mind, the same schools, and the same institutions that rear generation after generation of politicians to this day. They take turns implementing the same policies.

  

  Viktor Orban
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• But that was only the beginning of her mortification. Harold had proved her wrong. He had seen that she was a shifty, shallow hypocrite. She had not dared to be alone with him since her exposure. She had never looked at him and had hardly spoken. He seemed cheerful, but what was he thinking? He would never forgive her.

  

  E. M. Forster
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• In my mind, I'm always the best. I don't care what people think, what they say. In my mind, not just this year but always, I'm always the best.

  

  Cristiano Ronaldo
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• I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Crazy