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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I don't have a telephone. If I had a lot of money, I wouldn't have one.
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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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Strip makeup lights just don't give you a fighting chance no matter how good looking you are. Light sconces that flank the mirror illuminate your entire face evenly.
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The Internet is a collective hallucination: one of the best humanity has ever generated.
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The mighty edifice of Government science dominated the scene in the middle of the 20th century as a Gothic cathedral dominated a 13th century landscape. The work of many hands over many years, it universally inspired admiration, wonder and fear.
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In art school we're always taught that art is an end in itself - art for art's sake, expressing yourself, and that that's enough.
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A policeman, as you discover, has to put up with a hell of a lot of abuse. A man in any other line of work would nail a guy who laid that kind of abuse on him. I know I would.
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I would never curse God," he explained. "You don't want to do that, because he's pretty awesome. So I never did that. I just thanked him every day for the struggles that I was going through and I thank him for everything that's ever happened in my life. I thank him a bunch and thank him a bunch and then throw in a little, 'Maybe you could make this happen…' for some happiness in my life.
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Art tells gorgeous lies that come true.
