William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
Larry Elder -
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.
Dan Marino -
Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
Barbara Walters -
Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
Gary Bauer -
I don't want to be someone else.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
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.
Nancy Pelosi
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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.
Hans Kung -
One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.
Faith Baldwin -
I don't believe Jesus was the son of God, although I'm inclined to think he might have been a great prophet.
Damian Lewis -
I have had the problem of seeing my male model go to Italy and... stay there.
Camille Claudel -
Time has shown that Paradise is not cheap, and neither is Hell unnecessary.
Said Nursi -
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.
Cameron Russell
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Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.
Karl Marx -
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.
Frances Mayes -
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.
Rachel True -
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.
Naomi Shihab Nye -
My father was a gambler. My father could not resist a casino or a card game. He loved gambling.
Samuel Goldwyn, Jr. -
I savored my time on top of the podium by watching the American flag rise up out of the crowd as the anthem played, thinking about how every single second of training I've done was for this minute and how many people played a role in my achievement.
Hannah Kearney
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Usually, when I write a novel, it takes me about 100 pages to figure out the voice of the narrator.
Colson Whitehead -
If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?
Blaise Pascal -
We invented words; we'll tell you how they're supposed to sound.
John Oliver -
My priorities were taking the kids to school and being a mum and being a daughter and being a sister. Just spending a lot of that time with my family that I'd probably lost a lot of, touring with the Cranberries.
Dolores O'Riordan The Cranberries -
We ought not to judge superior men without reference to the spirit of their age. This is an influence from which they cannot escape, and so far as it extenuates their errors it ought to be pleaded in their favour.
John Tyndall -
Modern man has lost the option of silence.
William S. Burroughs