Brion Gysin Quotes
When ya gotta go Now we know what we are here for. We are not here to love fear and serve any old bearded but invisible thunder God. We are here to go.
Quotes to Explore
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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I am the daughter of Nigerian immigrants. My mother is a survivor of both polio and of the Igbo genocide during her country's civil war in the late 1960s.
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Endorphins are a very powerful thing.
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I played sports year around: basketball, soccer, softball and I ran track year around, from the time I was, like, six, seven.
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I love traditions. I mean, cultural ones.
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Like any young person who gets into a political campaign, I joined out of a highfalutin' desire to change the world. But you start to see the sort of tactics people use. You start to see politics not only in the macro but in the micro of the campaign itself. Some people get turned off by this side of it. Other people are drawn to it.
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So many older people, they just sit around all day long and they don't get any exercise. Their muscles atrophy, and they lose their strength, their energy and vitality by inactivity.
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I believe fantasy and dreaming can be made a reality. You don't have to be rich. You don't have to be a VIP.
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For example, the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object.
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My wife is completely different from me: she's good with everyone, whereas I'm good at directed conversation when I have a purpose for it, like now. If everyone's sitting around being social, I'm not great.
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The vast majority of Malaysians are sensible people; they're moderates, they want peace, they want harmonious race relations at home. They look for national unity.
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There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting.
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It's actually very beautiful when you can't conceive on your own, you can actually go to the doctors and with science you can create a child.
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Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
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I'm a pretty decent cook. I like to grill. I have a smoker that I love. I love me some steak. And I'll make a huge salad with a ton of vegetables.
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I have come to salvage Elphin's honor and his freedom. Taliesin am I, primary chief bard to Elphin.Primary chief poet Am I to Elphin. And my native country Is the place of the Summer Stars. John the Divine Called me Merlin, But all future kings Shall call me Taliesin.
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And yet I am what they think I am.
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Today, not to take away from any of the present artists, but music has gotten a little shallow, in my opinion. Everybody's talking about the same thing: sex, money, clothes, cheating... I want to open up not necessarily better conversations, but, in my opinion, more important ones, and touch on things that are actually going on.
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I had an addiction to sugar growing up - major, major, major.
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If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self- interest, you can have practically anything you go after.
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I have always known my mother as an agnostic, less certain than my father that the universe hadn't been created by some great intelligence. But she would get even more annoyed than my father did when she thought that people were invoking God to do their jobs for them - for example, when she saw a bus with a sticker saying 'Allah Protect Us.'
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When ya gotta go Now we know what we are here for. We are not here to love fear and serve any old bearded but invisible thunder God. We are here to go.
