William S. Burroughs Quotes
Addiction is a disease of exposure. Doctors and nurses, for instance, have a high addiction rate.
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I cannot possibly believe that I have it made while so many black brothers and sisters are hungry, inadequately housed, insufficiently clothed, denied their dignity as they live in slums or barely exist on welfare.
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I wanted to create flats that are as chic as heels - flats you don't have to apologize for.
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One thing I noticed working in the Bronx is that leaders come in the craziest places. They don't always show up at community board meetings. Sometimes it's just the guys on the corner that the boys on the block respect.
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I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter.
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Ethel Merman would stay with a show for years and tour with it. So would Mary Martin, the great stars. They recognized the value of that success and nurtured it. Now, you come from Hollywood, you play 12 weeks and go away. I don't think that's the best policy.
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Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
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Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
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The luxury of radio is that you don't spend hours in make-up, and you can wear whatever you want. It's bizarre. You'll be saying lines, with various people around making sound effect noises.
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You know, I'm fairly intelligent, but I don't think my grades reflected that.
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We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
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I wanted to start working on something that had a lasting effect.
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For me, having a child is a really great responsibility because you've got something there that is depending on you for information and love until a certain age when it goes to school.
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'Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.
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Jerry Rice had won two Super Bowls already by the time he got to his ninth year in the league. That's what it's all about: winning that ring.
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The last thing I want my child to see is Dad running around in the middle of the pack. That would really upset me. And that would upset him. I would be embarrassed to take him to school with kids saying, 'Hey, how'd your dad do this weekend?' 'Well, he finished fifth or sixth'.
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I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.
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I absolutely consider fashion a form of art. Of course, there is some fashion that is not art at all - it's utilitarian, made for the purpose of covering up. And there are a lot of people out there who put a lot of effort into looking awful. But there are also people putting the same amount of energy into making bad art.
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I think anybody who has been in the theater, prefers it. Television is a... factory. You turn out things on a revolving assembly line. You don't have time to perfect anything in television.
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In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, The New York Times, The Washington Post and other newspaper should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly.
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I think golf is literally an addiction. I'm surprised there's not Golf Anonymous.
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When you are a singer, you have to nurse yourself and make sure you don't get a cold.
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You've got to get away from the idea cancer is a disease to be cured. It's not a disease really. The cancer cell is your own body, your own cells, just misbehaving and going a bit wrong, and you don't have to cure cancer. You don't have to get rid of all those cells. Most people have cancer cells swirling around inside them all the time and mostly they don't do any harm, so what we want to do is prevent the cancer from gaining control. We just want to keep it in check for long enough that people die of something else.
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Workaholicism is such a tough addiction to get over. I had to my wife because she was an enabler.
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Addiction is a disease of exposure. Doctors and nurses, for instance, have a high addiction rate.
