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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I did try to write fiction. I wrote 10 novels. And they were all just awful.
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...it behooves us to adapt oneself to the times if one wants to enjoy continued good fortune.
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There's thieves among us Painting the wallsAll kinds of lies, and liesI never told it all
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I find the ones that have the most emotional weight, the heaviest songs. For some reason, for me, they're usually the ones I write the quickest. I put more work into uplifting material, I think, sometimes.
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I am not schizoid. A little manic-depressive, maybe." "'Know thyself.'" "We try, sir.
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Art tells gorgeous lies that come true.
