William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Although I grew up as a fan of the culture from the disco D.J. era as a young kid and hearing the beginnings of hip-hop, I'm hearing it all from another borough in Brooklyn.
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
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Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance in their father's shadow, but the crucial difference is that while the Bushes all hail from the relative mainstream of the GOP, the Pauls have an ideological tributary virtually to themselves.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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Living in New York for 10 months was incredible; it was everything I thought it was going to be and more.
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It's very flattering when you look into the crowd and people have made an effort and dressed in your style.
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There have been moments in my career when I've had to be tough and I've had to step up to the plate - but usually that's because a man has underestimated me. But other than that, I wouldn't say I'm a tough person.
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I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.
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I don't think Steve Jobs had much desire to share his fortune.
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I know it might seem a little superficial, but every actor has their thing. Some people focus on the walk, but for me, it's all about the nails and the voice. Those are the two most important things.
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If we fight our enemy using the same inhumane and morally bankrupt techniques that we are trying to stop, we will simply become what we have beheld.
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Know thou that every fixed star hath its own planets, and every planet its own creatures, whose number no man can compute.
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Between 1939 and 1945 you produced weapons and war equipment valued at thirteen billion dollars, 70 per cent of which you shipped to your allies. The same process is going on today in Canada's much larger and growing industry.
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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
