I'm an old-fashioned person, and I don't like informers. - William S. Burroughs

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The center line of science literacy - which not many people tell you, but I feel this strongly, and I will go to my grave making this point - is how you think.

William S. Burroughs

I'm an old-fashioned person, and I don't like informers.

Informers, Like, Old Fashioned, Person, Persons

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I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don't mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.

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The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time. . . and you can't see it if you refuse to face the possibility.

Faces, Reality, Refuse, Time, Way

It is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin - music, sculpture, writing, painting - and by magical I mean intended to produce very definite results. Paintings were originally formulae to make what is painted happen. Art is not an end in itself, any more than Einstein's matter-into-energy formulae is an end in itself. Like all formulae, art was originally FUNCTIONAL, intended to make things happen, the way an atom bomb happens from Einstein's formulae.

Art, Make, Mean, Originally, Paintings, Writing

There are no innocent bystanders.

Bystanders, Innocent

Now Christianity sounded good at first to the naive convert. Love, peace and charity - what's wrong with that? I'll tell you what's wrong - a series of unprecedented horrors perpetrated by so-called Christians: The Inquisition, the Conquistadores, the American Indian wars, slavery, Hiroshima and the present-day Bible Belt.

Christian, Firsts, Tell, War, Wars, Wrong

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Robert Baer

The first suicide bombing that entered my consciousness was the Beirut embassy bombing. It was very personal. I'd been in the embassy and I knew most of the people in the station who were killed in the bombing. So you take the personal aspect of it and the mystery of who the bomber was and the fact that a small group of people could drive us out of a country that was absolutely key to the United States, and what was behind this. . . The fact that they've been able to hide the embassy bombers' identities for all these years tells me we're up against a very capable movement.

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Vanessa L. Williams

Sometimes the very thing you're looking for is the one thing you cannot see.

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Jimmy Savile

A very great Memory often forgetteth how much Time is lost by repeating things of no Use.

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Anthony Mackie

Practice your improv more than learn your lines. 'Cause there's no way you'll be able to learn all those lines in a short time. You have to realize what you know and what you don't know - and what you don't know, just come up with three alternate lines or improv that you can put in that spot.

Come, Lines, Practice, Three, Way

Neil deGrasse Tyson