Peter Lamborn Wilson (Hakim Bey) Quotes
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I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.
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The difference between eccentricity and originality in historical studies is often difficult to detect at first encounter. When a radically new interpretation of a large segment of history makes its appearance, time is needed to sift the evidence.
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I don't feel that it's either necessary or appropriate for me to comment on what the NFL either says or does.
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Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.
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My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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I haven't directed a film since 'Appaloosa,' and I've been looking for something because I love the directing thing.
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I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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When high school students ask to spend their afternoons and weekends in my laboratory, I am amazed: I didn't develop that kind of enthusiasm for science until I was 28 years old.
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The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes for literary studies in the university will finally provide its own corrective.
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I was born in England, but then I lived in Calgary, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, India, Vancouver, London, Toronto, and now L.A.
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There has been a strong tradition in this country that it is not the function of the military to educate the public on political issues.
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When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.
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I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical.
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I hope she misses the cut. She doesn't belong here.
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Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everything has to be put under the spotlight.
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I must explore desert ground and see what can grow. But there are limits. I know in my heart what I would never do.
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Washington is a very complicated city. You have to work the personal relationships. They are politicians, they are congressmen, they are senators, but they are human beings. And for them to get to know you on a personal level really, really makes the difference.
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No one can say which approach is the right one - so no one can say how close we are to a solution.
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The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.
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The concept that I like the most, and the one that I've taken most to heart, is the belief that people can't be united or focused unless they share a common philosophy-a philosophy that gives their effort a greater meaning.
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Those who understand history are condemned to watch other idiots repeat it.
