William S. Burroughs Quotes
If everyone is to be made responsible for everything they do, you must extend responsibility beyond the level of conscious intention.
Quotes to Explore
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
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I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.
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Too many executives I've met over the years have the mentality of a bodybuilder; they've come to accept the idea that growth is synonymous with success.
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What really matters is what's on the inside.
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Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
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Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.
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I would say that all short stories have mystery naturally built into them.
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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You don't have to do everything from scratch. Nobody wants to make puff pastry!
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I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent.
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In college, I didn't perform so much, but when I graduated is when I discovered Second City. Then I realized, 'Oh, there are people who can focus on comedy and especially improvisational comedy and make a career out of it.'
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What is our greatest enemy? Segregation.
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I usually sleep just a few hours a night.
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First of all my real full name is Lloyd Vernet Bridges III.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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I was a complete outsider in high school.
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Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
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Odors have an altogether peculiar force, in affecting us through association; a force differing essentially from that of objects addressing the touch, the taste, the sight or the hearing.
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The collapse of communism as an ideology and of the Soviet Union as a world power has made possible an unprecedented internationalization of current American values, among them free choice in the consumer marketplace, reduced government economic regulation and an emphasis on individual self-fulfillment rather than the social good, all promoted by an internationalized mass media and consumer culture.
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If we meet our great responsibility, I believe we can not only deter aggression and create an ever more secure and widening world of security - but we can also shape, step by step, a future of liberty and opportunity across the world.
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If everyone is to be made responsible for everything they do, you must extend responsibility beyond the level of conscious intention.
