William S. Burroughs Quotes
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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There is no button that you push and the next day you become independent.
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It's strange but I suppose I'm one of those senior players now and I'll be helping the young players as much as I can.
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Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.
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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
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I do have the odd dream where I'm on stage and I've completely forgotten what I'm meant to be performing - so they are more nightmares than dreams.
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All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.
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If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
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Don't be afraid to convince yourself that your business is incredible, but don't expect others to be convinced without solid data to back it up. Ideas can be a worth a lot, but they are usually not. Execution is everything.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
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Are your people uncomfortable during meetings and tired at the end? If not, they're probably not mixing it up enough and getting to the bottom of important issues.
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I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
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Women just love to shop.
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Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.
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The biographical novel sets out to document this truth, for character is plot, character development is action, and character fulfillment is resolution.
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No matter what happens to me and my career in the future, Berlin is always going to be my hometown.
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It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.
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Salvation lies in imitating Christ, in other words, in imitating the 'withdrawal relationship' that links him with his Father... To listen to the Father's silence is to abandon oneself to his withdrawal, to conform to it.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
