William S. Burroughs Quotes
If after having been exposed to someone's presence you feel as if you've lost a quart of plasma, avoid that presence. You need it like you need pernicious anemia.William S. Burroughs
Quotes to Explore
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
Jack Osbourne -
I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
Wangari Maathai -
Writing is challenging work because it's so easy to get consumed with how it's going, what's going to happen to it, who's going to like or not like it. You want to get all of that stuff out of your head and just let the work flow.
Wayne Dyer -
I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.
Tab Hunter -
You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it's a fact, and you can make a profound difference in people's lives without having a title in front of your name.
Gavin Newsom -
'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
S. E. Hinton
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Religion is induced insanity.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair -
I think I was more or less, convinced of that by just the press, the US press. By people who were pressuring you, saying that you gotta beat the Russian's, if you don't win anything else, win the Russian meet and so forth.
Ralph Boston -
It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming.
Natalie Imbruglia -
The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
Walter Gropius -
As a little kid, I watched hip hop get created. So it's an honour for me to represent the Bronx, the motherland of hip hop.
Fat Joe -
Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.
Abhishek Bachchan
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We don't really think that much about what we do; it's just fun.
Watkin Tudor Jones -
Those who said I'm not an out-and-out goal-scorer are probably right. I always feel I could score more.
Wayne Rooney -
The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
Ralph Fiennes -
Ambition is important. Of course you can't get anywhere without talent, but there are a lot of talented people. To succeed, you have to be the most ambitious talented person.
Natalie Massenet -
We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides.
Saint Ignatius -
Unemployment determination in a modern economy was the main subject area of my research from the mid-1960s to the end of the 1970s and again from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s.
Edmund Phelps
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These ancient stories in religion speak to our desire. But they move us toward hope.
Elaine Pagels -
Jason: I'm all for hobbies, but you think this is the time for origami? Whatcha making, a crane?
Rachel Caine -
You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really.
Iain Banks -
I was debauched in my 20s, but I was fit and healthy in my teens.
Davinia Taylor -
We have conquered for ourselves a place in the sun. It will now be my task to see to it that this place in the sun remains our undisputed possession, for our future lies upon the water.
Wilhelm II -
If after having been exposed to someone's presence you feel as if you've lost a quart of plasma, avoid that presence. You need it like you need pernicious anemia.
William S. Burroughs