William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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Tech companies tend to do tech best.
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You'll be free or die!
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This is the only thing I know.
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Goodness gracious I can't seem to stop Calling it off Calling it off just to keep crawling to your arms
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It is precisely in those moments when I don’t know what to do, boredom drives one to try …a host of possibilities… to either get somewhere or not get anywhere.
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Just to paint a representation or design is not hard, but to express a thought in painting is. Thought is fluid. What you put on canvas is concrete, and it tends to direct the thought. The more you punt on canvas the more you lose control of the thought. I’ve never been able to paint what I set out to paint.
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It's the audiences that inspire me to keep going. I feel that we all grew up together. The majority now are the people who were raised on the music in the Sixties.
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When we were at the CMT Awards this year, Robert Plant was there. What an icon, I love him... But I can't go up and speak to him, because I don't want to seem like a goob.
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And that Newman wasn't, and yet to me Pollock is just as radical and unlike Expressionism as Newman.
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I like musicals.
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In the West, it was believed that attitude and ambition saved you. In Africa, we had learned that no one was immune to capricious tragedy.
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I like to use effects, but a lot of the time I just can't deal with these tracks with all these artificial sounds.
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Sweats and some flip-flops is what you'll get from me, or you'll get some six-inch pumps and a ruffled shirt.
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Managing and moving your money should be a right, not a privilege. This isn't about banking the unbanked. It's about re-imagining what consumer retail banking can be.
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My father was in the service. His job was to integrate the Armed Forces overseas. So that meant we showed up at military bases in Okinawa or Germany, racially unannounced. That made me, in that particular society if you will, the outsider.
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The French have got to understand that a film is so expensive that it can no longer afford to be regional or even national in scope.
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Foreign policy is effectively the assertion of many individual countries intersecting on the global marketplace. And you have to figure out how to get your interest served in a way that meets the interests and needs of these other folks.
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There's actually a lot of information on a lot of people and that is a major achievement of a police state.
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What's central about numbers for us as adults is that we can apply a number like 7 to a diverse number of things. We can say that there are seven dots but also that a horn honks seven times. Although these are different in their sensory qualities, the numbers are the same.
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I always want to set myself a challenge by doing something no-one would expect me to do! But, having said that, I don't feel as a musician you can steer too far away from what you normally do.
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It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays.
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The word is now a virus.
