William S. Burroughs Quotes
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.
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Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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The one snack I really love is YoCrunch yogurt. It's like an apple pie in a cup! You have your apples on the bottom, your yogurt in the middle, and piecrust crumbs on top.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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I don't want to be someone else.
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If people don't have a job, they're not too interested in how you intend for them to have a job. They want to see results.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.
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I don't believe Jesus was the son of God, although I'm inclined to think he might have been a great prophet.
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I have had the problem of seeing my male model go to Italy and... stay there.
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Time has shown that Paradise is not cheap, and neither is Hell unnecessary.
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We can't just pay attention to women who look fantastic in a photograph, because there are a lot of people that have fantastic things to say that don't look like 25-year-old white models.
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Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.
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I got the idea that to write books would be the best way to spend a life. I never thought of anything else that seemed like half as much fun, although in my next life I would like to be an architect, too, so I can have an easier time restoring houses.
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For six months I'd do movies and make it all about me. Then the other six months, it's not about me and it doesn't matter what my hair looks like or what anything looks like.
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I think whenever you love something or somebody it means that you have to extend yourself, you have to grow - get a little larger. You can't stay in your little comfortable - spot.
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I did all my fighting before the film started. I fought for the best director, the best lighting man. I was always conscious of how I looked.
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Actors are the flowers of the film, of the set, and of the director. The term 'Flowers of the Screen' holds a deep meaning.
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Some men are great enough that they can love a whole woman, and not just part of her.
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The people who used to hold the purse strings were a select group of white, middle-aged men, but that's changing, and the more it continues to change, the more we'll see inclusive stories get told.
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Even if you're not a Catholic, even if you're not a Christian, in fact even if you have no religious faith at all, what people could see in Pope John Paul was a man of true and profound spiritual faith.
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Modern man has lost the option of silence.
