William S. Burroughs Quotes
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There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
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I've worked so hard since I was 18 years old, and I'd hate for the memories to be boiled down to being a Melania Trump impersonator.
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Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.
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Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
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Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier.
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I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.
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I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.
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But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
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When you have birds you stare at them a lot and their eyes are recessed on their head. When they look at something they tilt their head in a quizzical expression.
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The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel.
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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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Fall into your sentences; enjoy writing them. Love the world you are creating.
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Sound-wise, I'm really limitless in the way I write songs. Whatever comes out, comes out. Every song is completely different.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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I'm an outsider.
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I'm always thinking, 'My goodness, I got booked again!' So I am really happy to still be working.
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Climate change - for so long an abstract concern for an academic few - is no longer so abstract. Even the Bush administration's Climate Change Science Programme reports 'clear evidence of human influences on the climate system.'
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Their way of Dancing, is nothing but a sort of stamping Motion, much like the treading upon Founders Bellows.
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It has been said that unsettled questions have no pity for the repose of nations. It should be said with the utmost emphasis that this question of the suffrage will never give repose or safety to the States or to the nation until each, within its own jurisdiction, makes and keeps the ballot free and pure by the strong sanctions of the law.
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Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post.
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The center picked the ball up a little bit and we felt like we got it off right when he picked it up, ... We probably looked at it 30 times in there with Danny and I'd say we kind of got right off on it. That could have won it for us.
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On the road, I try to maintain my connections with friends and family as much as I possibly can. That keeps me pretty grounded.
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Like Spain, I am bound to the past.
