Brion Gysin Quotes
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from.
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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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In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.
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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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Never criticize, condemn or complain in a conversation with a customer or prospect.
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I often think to myself, at the end of an interesting life it's maybe not such a bad thing to spend your last days with your friends sitting by the blue, blue ocean reliving the story of your life while sitting in the dangerous sun.
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Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.
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There wasn't really one time in my life where I was like, 'I want to be a model!'
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Nothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated people.
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I enjoy inventing things out of fun. After all, life is a game, not a career.
