Brion Gysin Quotes
You should never do two things. You should hammer one nail all your life, and I didn't do that; I hammered on a lot of nails like a xylophone.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.
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The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.
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I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
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Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
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I don't weigh into politics.
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I went to church when I was younger, but it was never something pushed down my throat or anything, which is a good thing. I found out for myself where I belonged.
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I still have the dress I wore on the first date with my husband, which was more than 66 years ago. I still have it, and it still fits.
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Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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I always say: To be well dressed you must be well naked.
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Semiotics is really interested in the questions like, what keeps you watching something, what keeps you - you know, what keeps you listening to a story on the radio? Like, what keeps you turning the pages in a book? What's the pleasure of it that's moving you forward, that's pulling you in and grabbing you and pulling you forward?
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Whoever has lost a fight in the UFC and hasn't wanted to fight that guy the next day shouldn't be in the sport.
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Senator Wyden continues to be the Senate's truest champion of an open Internet.
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I'm enslaved to writing to the point where I sacrifice almost everything else.
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My mom and I are very close.
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You'll see me on 'Top Chef' someday. My Midwestern hospitality needs an outlet, you know?
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I would love to spend a year living in New York; I've wanted to do that since I was 18. I'll be really disappointed if I'm 50 and haven't done something like that.
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Rock & roll was the only thing I wanted to get into.
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the right line of conduct is the same for both sexes, though the manner in which it is pursued, may somewhat vary, and be accommodated to the strength or weakness of the different travelers.
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Life is filled with potential that is truly unfathomable. At last we are coming to see the enormous power it possesses. That is why we must never write anyone off. In particular, we mustn’t put boundaries on our own potential. In most cases, our so-called limitations are nothing more than our own decision to limit ourselves.
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You should never do two things. You should hammer one nail all your life, and I didn't do that; I hammered on a lot of nails like a xylophone.
