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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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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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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The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?
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Her berth was of the wombe of morning dew, And her conception of the joyous Prime.
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I don't know how long I would've stayed, to be honest.
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I love art, being so close to the galleries, being by the water - and sunsets from the terrace.
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The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
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I'm a big believer that we get the politicians we deserve.
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Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time. Sometimes it will be ahead, other times it will be behind. But brand is simply a collective impression some have about a product.
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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.
