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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I'm always shy when I meet people I admire so I wouldn't be able to say anything rather than, 'How do you do? Love you! Bye!'
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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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It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.
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Dictators and oppressors should continue to fear me because I will be here for a long time.
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My clients were always poor folks, working folks, people who were in trouble and couldn't afford to pay a whole lot. I found it very difficult to say no to somebody who needed help, so most of my work turned out to be pro bono. It didn't start out that way, but it turned out that way because I never got paid.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
