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“My issues with it are that simply in terms of my own work. It represents 30 years of output. And some of the things, some of the pieces I've used there, when I first wrote them, they seemed probably very menacing, and I hear them now, and they're just kind of pleasant, if that's the word.”
Source : Source: therumpus.net
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“Being a [bank] director is like being a pilot of an aircraft - it's years of boredom and seconds of terror.”
Source : Moira Johnston (2000). “The Tumultuous History of the Bank of America”, p.49, Beard Books
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“What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you?”
Source : Interview with Kate Bush, Spin magazine, gaffa.org. March 1994.
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“If you're trying to get somebody and this might be the only time you're going to catch him, but he is holding his baby and with his mama, you ain't gonna let that chance go by. That's the mentality of the streets. If you let that chance go by, he might catch your ass.”
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“I'm insane, I'm emotional, but I'd rather be that than a robot. So that's definitely something that I wanted to get out there. Especially with Cry Baby's story, because the album is about Cry Baby but I realized that me and her went through the same change.”
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“Without God, all of our efforts turn to ashes and our sunrise into the darkest of nights.”
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“Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush the angry winds and waves, balance the extremes of heat and cold, of rain and drought, that peace, harmony and beauty may reign supreme.”
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“We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.”
Source : Outspoken Essays: Second Series "The Idea of Progress" (1922)
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“Contemporary art photography, or, more specifically, what I would term mainstream art photography, represents for the most part the mining of an exhausted lode.”
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“If people around you aren't going anywhere, if their dreams are no bigger than hanging out on the corner, or if they're dragging you down, get rid of them.”