Peter Lamborn Wilson (Hakim Bey) Quotes
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.
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We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
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Our country is in deep trouble. To talk and re-litigate in 1998, or even what Mitt Romney said or didn't say in 1994 or 2002, I don't think most people really care.
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In the calculus of western interests, there is no suffering, whatever its scale, which cannot be justified. Chechens, Palestinians, Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis are of little importance.
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I don't actually think there has ever been too much emphasis on what I am wearing.
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All you needed back then was a blow dryer and a dream.
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Every once in a while, I would say, 'I don't want to do this anymore,' and I would go back to third grade, and after six months, I'd say, 'OK, I'm bored. Let's go make a movie.'
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If there is no threat to the lives of the citizens, our tactic will be to not intervene or impede members of the protest in expressing their will freely.
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I am indebted to the Indian Army, from my birth till now; I have grown and imbibed the indomitable spirit of this fighting force.
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We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.
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'Villain' is such a harsh word.
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Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.
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I would hate to be on a plane every day.
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I've had Republicans come to me and say, 'Tell me how I should talk to young people!' as if it's some foreign language or something.
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Over the past decade, prescribing information has grown more and more complex, more and more dense and more difficult to negotiate.
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Even we schoolchildren know that ordinary diplomats don't drive around in unmarked cars carrying Glock pistols.
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I think when I start out writing, I always try to write the version of the movie that I want to go see. I don't mean it in a way that ignores the audience, but I really set out to make a movie that I want to see and that, hopefully, other people will want to go see it. So whatever's amusing to me, I guess, I throw it all in there.
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Men are nothing, principles are everything.
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I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations - the director and the actors and the designers build the house.
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Words belong to those who use them only till someone else steals them back.
