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 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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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 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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There are probably more internet hate sites about me than Charles Manson.
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I'm looking for things where, like with 'Ten,' I don't look like me, and I'm playing something a bit different. I'm just trying to flex a different muscle and see if it works. I've saved the world and killed monsters and done all that. Now I want to try something a bit different and a bit more challenging.
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I tell jokes, and I have fun, but I tend to worry about everybody and everything throughout the entire world.
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The Australian tour was good for us; it was ideal preparation for us.
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I know the situations that we do every week are all ones that I encounter in my life or will encounter.
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'Cause when I had my child, people tried to make me feel like life was over for me, and I started to believe that.
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I know I have this level of celebrity, of fame, international, national, whatever you want to call it, but it's a pretty surreal thing to think sometimes that you're in the middle of another famous person's life and you think to yourself, 'How the hell did I get famous? What is this some weird club that we're in?'
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People can get a bit like, "Oh my God, your life is different than mine." But no, it's not. Everyone's got the same problems. We all get jobs, and we lose them. We have a good time, and we don't have a good time. It's changed in that some people have a certain expectation of what they might find when they meet me, which sucks, because I'm not that thing.
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Adulthood is hell.
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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.
