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William S. Burroughs Quotes

Most people don't see what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: 'For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you.'

William S. Burroughs

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: February 5, 1914 - August 2, 1997

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God Eyes People You Principal See

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Jim Sullivan

Music Learn Early Country Jazz Rock

Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.

Jim Bishop

Daughter Dating Watching Over Dollar

Congress is a place that lacks any debate of ideas.

Mauricio Macri

Ideas Debate Place Congress Any

Spielberg, like many others, wants to convince before he discusses. In that, there is something very totalitarian.

Jean-Luc Godard

Others Convince Something Like He

Everyone likes a burger now and then, and that's absolutely fine.

Steve Easterbrook

Burger Now Now And Then Everyone

My third hire when I came to Spotify was Tiffany Kumar, who came on as our global head of songwriter relations. The whole idea was to put our heads together and figure out how to build and contribute within the songwriting community.

Troy Carter

Community Together Build Songwriting

Everyone who hears our music loves it, but how many people get to hear it?

Trombone Shorty

Music People Everyone Get Who Hear

The unhappy truth is, learning is hard.

Tucker Carlson

Learning Truth Truth Is Unhappy Hard

I was very lucky - it wasn't a question of being wealthy; my father was just extremely lucky with the couple of jobs he got. So we got a chance to travel when nobody else could travel.

Romesh Gunesekera

Father Travel Chance Nobody Lucky

The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.

Mike Tyson

Character Me See Pathetic Some Sort

In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.

Jose Saramago

End Die Living In The End Discover

Everyone has a different colour as an actor. And the composite of all those colours hopefully creates something that's fun to watch.

Jon Tenney

Fun Actor Everyone Colour Something