Peter Lamborn Wilson (Hakim Bey) Quotes
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I enjoy money. Not enough people in this world are happy. I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me.
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Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.
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I think that T.V. shows are more like working at a home. You know you're going to the same place every day, working with the same people, the same cast and crew. You're in a dressing room instead of a trailer, so I think that that's more of a normal sort of lifestyle.
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If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.
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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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Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time - 50 years I'd say.
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My dad was a kind of semiprofessional Dixieland-type drummer, and I learned the drums from him. When I was about twelve, we bought our first Ludwig drum set from a pawnshop - a marching-band bass drum, great big tom-toms, and big, deep snare drums.
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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
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I love ice cream, and I love chocolate.
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No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
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I've met people who will go to a movie that I can't stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There's something they like and identified in that movie, and I don't see it.
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I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.
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Sometimes I feel like there are just too many things weighing on my mind at once, and I can't control my thoughts or even my body at times.
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.
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I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.
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Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
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Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.
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There's nothing funnier than the human animal.
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Priest organizations around the country, both local and national, should realize that their membership has a serious image problem and undertake programs to improve it.
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I worked at the New York Civil Liberties Union as a starving actor in the early '80s. I was in love with what they were doing.
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The phrase 'off with the crack of the bat', while romantic, is really meaningless, since the outfielder should be in motion long before he hears the sound of the ball meeting the bat.
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This part of Brazil offered the curious spectacle of a great evil, which has been long suffered to exist and is now advancing, gradually yet surely, to that state which must entail inevitable destruction on the existing Government of the country.
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Mummies are dehydrated & they long for the blood of living words.
