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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To play vinyl onstage is not my thing. For me, vinyl is for home listening.
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Whoever sees me sees the teaching, and whoever sees the teaching sees me.
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What difference does it make if you live in a picturesque little outhouse surrounded by 300 feeble minded goats and your faithful dog? The question is: Can you write?
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Mmmm! Lunch and no cleanup! Can life get better? I submit that it can NOT!
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If we tried to rely entirely on reason, and pressed it hard, our lives and beliefs would collapse - a form of madness that may actually occur if the inertial force of taking the world and life for granted is somehow lost. If we lose our grip on that, reason will not give it back to us.
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Bizarre and engrossingly disturbing, Naked Lunch, finds truth in madness.
