William S. Burroughs Quotes
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'Frontline' started doing digital content in 1995. We started streaming our films in 2000.
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To power the country by building 186,000 fifty-story wind turbines - and running 19,000 miles of new transmission lines - just seems impractical and preposterous compared to the idea of building a hundred new nuclear facilities primarily on the sites we already have.
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Decision – making is very scary for me.
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Funny is as funny does, and funny puts on a walrus mask and slowly gyrates in a mall food court. I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.
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The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
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I got addicted to Tetris, playing it in my basement, I was missing all these airplane flights over it. After the fourth one that I missed, I realized I needed to get rid of this thing - so ever since then, I don't play video games any more.
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I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men's lives. I began to feel the need to participate more fully in the life of the community.
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That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.
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I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.
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I don't ever want to be a person that I'm not. A lot of girls fall into the trap where they are trying to impress other people, and that's the time when they lose themselves.
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Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
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When I started in the mid-'90s, the goal was really to shoot for a film career and stay there.
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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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My whole life was geared toward being a highly educated person.
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Any competent programmer has an API to cash, payments, escrow, wills, notaries, lotteries, dividends, micropayments, subscriptions, crowdfunding, and more.
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If economists were to wait for careful studies before offering opinions about policy, we would never have anything timely to say.
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My advice for writers is to get a good day job. It takes the pressure off writing if you have a job that pays the bills.
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My father loved Brazilian football, a diehard follower, so of course, he hated Germany and always rooted against them, always.
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Although we should not love our friends for the good that they do us, it is a sign that they do not love us much if they do not do us good when they have the power to do so.
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It takes waking prayer and working prayer and going to bed in prayer each day with increasing dedication. I must be the best person that I am able to be when I am painting. Tonight the wind is howling and the barrels are full of sky water.
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There is no such thing as a free lunch.
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One couldn't even measure roughness. So, by luck, and by reward for persistence, I did found the theory of roughness, which certainly I didn't expect and expecting to found one would have been pure madness.
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Bizarre and engrossingly disturbing, Naked Lunch, finds truth in madness.
