William S. Burroughs Quotes
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I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will lie on the floor on a rug, look through some books and magazines, and maybe listen to music and try to do stretching exercises to tune up.
Jackson Browne -
'Breaking Bad' was such a high plateau.
Aaron Paul -
Nobody is making Americans buy Chinese goods.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I'm not a very technical musician at all.
Washed Out -
What's interesting is to be sexy but not know it. You'll be in a restaurant, and some girls will walk in and you can tell that they really want to be sexy. It's written on their faces because that's all they want to show. There's a fear that one might not look further.
Olga Kurylenko -
Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.
Sam Harris
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TV presenting isn't the hardest job in the world, and I've done all right financially out of it.
Gail Porter -
I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
Carine Roitfeld -
The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
Katee Sackhoff -
People who live in glass houses... have to answer the door.
Karl Pilkington -
Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
Vern Buchanan -
Some people are cool with the fact that their bodies bear witness to this great thing they produced, their children, and I understand that. But on a personal level, it makes me feel better that my breasts are not down to my knees when I'm undressed in front of my husband.
Patricia Heaton
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
A. Whitney Brown -
When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.
Jack Nicholson -
I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
Camille Claudel -
The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
Damien Rice -
For nearly as long as civilization has existed, patriarchy - enforced through the rights of the firstborn son - has been the organizing principle, with few exceptions.
Hanna Rosin
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I was born in New York City. But my family moved when I was still an infant. Except for a year and half when we lived in Youngstown, Ohio, I grew up in small towns in Pennsylvania. I graduated from high school in Farrell, Pennsylvania.
E. L. Konigsburg -
I don't understand, given the constraints physicians have in doing their job and the paperwork demanded of them, why people want to be physicians. I think we've made it very, very difficult for them to perform their job. I think that's a shame.
Malcolm Gladwell -
The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
Walter Savage Landor -
Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered, and I fear I never will.
William S. Burroughs