Peter Lamborn Wilson (Hakim Bey) Quotes
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New Year's Eve, we're going to be doing a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Symphony Hall. It makes me feel good, because of all the people they could have had, they wanted me! We do have to do a little work with the rhythm section.
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To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
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You don't go out and change your gender for a television show, O.K.? It ain't happening. I don't care who you are.
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Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.
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Whenever I'm free, I spend time with people I love, people that inspire me in many different ways.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
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Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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If we get a few solid festival shows then I will have no problem booking the lads for as many quality club shows around them to make a nice tour come together.
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I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.'
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Food is my favourite thing in the world. I always say if I ate what I actually wanted to eat I'd be in one of those electronic scooters because I'd be too big.
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The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.
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In Europe we could do it, if we fly as soon as the event is over.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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I sang in a reggae band. And then there was a soul band where I sang back-up vocals and some lead. And I was also in a women's a capella group. And I was in the gospel choir at school. Actually, I've always been in choirs. Or some kind of group. Just because I love singing so much. But I truthfully never thought of it as a career.
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When in doubt, do it.
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If you want to humble an empire, it makes sense to maim its cathedrals. They are symbols of its faith, and when they crumple and burn, it tells us we are not so powerful and we can't be safe.
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Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
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Entitled people drive me insane. The world owes you nothing! Get over it!
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For the millions that suffer unjustly, the Confessing Church does not yet have a heart.
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I'm impossible to forget, but I'm hard to remember.
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Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.
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Art tells gorgeous lies that come true.
