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.
Vaughn Monroe
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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.
Laura Benanti
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Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.
Malala Yousafzai
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Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
Bai Ling
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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.
Xenophon
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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.
Nathan Gamble
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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.
Madonna
Breakfast Club
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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.
Carl Sagan
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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.
Ted Rall
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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.
Irvine Welsh
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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
Ovid
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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.
Kara Swisher
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Movies don't look hard, but figuring it out, getting the shape of it, getting everybody's character right and having it be funny, make sense and be romantic, it's creating a puzzle. Yes, having been a writer for so long, I have an awareness of when things are going awry, but it doesn't mean I know how to fix them.
Nancy Meyers
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There are a number of candidate vaccines that are in development for HIV/AIDS.
Anthony Fauci
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I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.
Dean Inge
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LOTTERY TICKET: a voluntary tax paid by people who are extremely bad at math.
Roy H. Williams
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For what are we but our past? If that is lost, we become nothing.
Iain Pears
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Like Spain, I am bound to the past.
William S. Burroughs
