William S. Burroughs Quotes

How far would people get in physics if discovery was described as disgusting - "Your formula is disgusting and filthy"? Not very far.

William S. Burroughs

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• I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.

  

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• I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.

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• War is over if you want it.

  

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• I'm a big 'American Idol' watcher, and sometimes I like to watch 'America's Got Talent.' Those are big, corny admissions, but sometimes it's so fun to see those kids really sing their hearts out.

  

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• All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.

  

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• To have so many years in the rap industry and so many number one songs, and sold so many millions of records, introduced the world to people like Cool & Dre, DJ Khaled, Pitbull, Rick Ross, Trick Daddy, Remy Ma, Big Pun, Rico Love... I could go on and on. Having been able to influence the rap game for so long is very important to me.

  

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• It's easy not to bribe. But it's not so easy to keep a business running at the same time.

  

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• When you have the first show set in India on American television, there's gonna be a Nervous Nellie kind of vibe.

  

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• I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.

  

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• Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.

  

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• Some people say to be an actor you've got to die to do it. I think it's healthy if you think, 'I'll do it if it works, and if I don't, I can do something else.' That way seems to work for me.

  

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• I have no guitar technique.

  

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• Actually, there was another band where we were three girls, around '84 when I met John Zorn, called Sunset Chorus. It was just bass and drums and guitar- we didn't make any records but we played a lot of different clubs in New York.

  

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• I like reading a lot. Jeffrey Archer and Robert Ludlum are my favourite authors. I love making realistic cinema, so I read non-fiction more.

  

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• Racism is ignorant. And it's stupid. And it's old. And it's played out. So beat it already with that, you know what I mean? 'Let's all get along' - I'm so tired of that damn sentence, but it's true.

  

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• I want to do movies but not talk about them.

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• A free, analytical and questioning press must be helped survive.

  

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• I won't be skating for the rest of my life, that's for sure.

  

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• Me hicieron de cien años algunos minutos que se quedaron conmigo, no cien años.

  

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• Like every country, North Korea has some very smart people. They could be contributing a lot more to science and other areas, but North Koreans are forced to spend so much time memorising the fake history of our dictators and other propaganda, so are at a huge disadvantage.

  

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• How far would people get in physics if discovery was described as disgusting - "Your formula is disgusting and filthy"? Not very far.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • People
  • Physics
  • Disgusting