Brion Gysin Quotes
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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The slow philosophy is not about doing everything in tortoise mode. It's less about the speed and more about investing the right amount of time and attention in the problem so you solve it.
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Joe Torre would tell you to make sure you can hit the ball on the outside part of the plate.
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I try to go throughout my daily life just as if nothing has changed, but you don't have much anonymity anymore, which feels really good. People come up, and say hi and they enjoy your work.
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For me, I went from showering at the YMCA in L.A., eating chicken sandwiches and ramen noodles if lucky, and going from couch to couch. I'm a real story. I know the struggle.
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If I can get a story about a player, I would give you a ship load of numbers, batting averages and all just for that one precious story. That's the kind of thing that I love to do.
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When I'm 80 years old, I don't know what I want to be remembered for.
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I'm known for my handwritten notes.
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My schedule goes: wake up, running, exercise, downstairs, running shoes off, then to the shower. That's the Jackie Chan diary.
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I think that basketball players should get the job done no matter how it looks on the screen.
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Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis.
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I hope to start enjoying flirting again when I'm 70, like my mother did.
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Human reason is by nature architectonic.
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We drank a toast to innocenceWe drank a toast to now.And tried to reach beyond the emptinessBut neither one knew how.
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Some people say a front-engine car handles best. Some people say a rear-engine car handles best. I say a rented car handles best.
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Ignorant power is a bane!
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Way back in the 1970s, I was eating a steak, and I looked down, and for the first time it suddenly looked like flesh to me - like a dead creature. In a flash, I realized that every time I ate any kind of meat, something had been killed for me, and I stopped eating all animals, not just cows and pigs but chickens and fish.
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What was shocking to us was that by spreading the energy out across seven beams instead of one, the phototoxicity went way down.
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A sure sign of a soul-based workplace is excitement, enthusiasm, real passion; not manufactured passion, but real involvement. And there's very little fear.
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I think living in Israel and wanting to change reality is the best prescription for never-ending writer's block.
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I enjoy inventing things out of fun. After all, life is a game, not a career.
