William S. Burroughs Quotes
Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
Quotes to Explore
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That's what I like about Neil Jordan's films: everyone is better at what they do than you are.
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I style my roles mostly with some help from my team of stylists.
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I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.
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It's one thing to get a letter from your kid at camp telling you he wants to come home. It's another to get a letter from a grown child saying they're coming back to live with you!
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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
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She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
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As you probably know, I've written a lot about the presidency, so it's obviously exciting when you get to interview a president and write about it.
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All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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You can celebrate the female form in comfort. We left corsets behind in the dark ages, so why bring them back now?
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One of the banners I would put up in front of any American president and new administration is 'Do not overreact to your predecessors' policies.'
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I want a future where my children feel safe and appreciated and proud to be who they are. My heart is one with all the Arab Spring heroes, no matter how small they think their role is. I know they believe, like me, that we are working for a world whereby an Arab can live with the other in a respectful and dignified way.
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My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.
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I don't feel American. I do feel like a New Yorker. I think there's a real distinction there. A city allows you to become a citizen even when you're not a national.
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My target is to give everything, and only if we win the trophies will I be relaxed.
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Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I know what they mean, I sympathize with them, I understand them. There should be a name (as poetic as love) for this relationship between loather and loathed; it is of the closest and more full of passion than incest.
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A cocktail done right can really show your guests that you care.
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I'm very religious. I believe that things happen, and you have to go along with them.
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One emphasis of my research has been on the question of how people spend their time. Time is the ultimate finite resource, or course, so the question of how people spend it would seem to be important.
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Greatness of spirit is to bear finely both good fourtune and bad, honor and disgrace, and not to think highly of luxury or attention or power or victories in contests, and to possess a certain depth and magnitude of spirit.
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Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.
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Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
