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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Being an actor really, really strengthens me as a director. There's just a certain type of understanding that comes from having been there and knowing how much is really being asked of actors that helps me.
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Except for a few guitar chords, everything I've learned in my life that is of any value I've learned from women.
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This is something you can never erase. It leaves a scar on you.
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You pray for your enemies.
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Everybody touches the basketball on offense for us. We don't run plays for particular people. We expect everybody to score and contribute defensively.
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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.
