“...2 squared you think it means 2x2=4, but really, they mean a square in space. It's really space but only in your head. You can't draw a perfect square in a material world, but in your mind you can have perfect space.”
The Ice Storm-movie

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
Albert Einstein

“I'm thinking how much the bible sounds like our constitution. It can't cover specifics so it gives us guide lines that could justify a range of options in way or another. If we choose to look we cannot hide from our freedom to choose....it's in our hands to do the right.”
The Ninth Justice - movie

“Some men see things as they are and say why; I dream of things that never were and say why not.”
Michael Jackson – ‘History’ (Disc 2-Song 13 'history').

“Profit is the blood that runs through our vains; it's not the reason for our existence”
C.E.O. Of NUCOR - America's second biggest steel manufacture

“I've always found it very sanitary to be broke.”
Orsen Welles – “The lady from Shanghai”
“People will think; your concerned with what people will think, well let me enlighten you on what people will think, I' somewhat of an authority of what people will think.”
Orsen Welles – “Citizen Kane”

“I think that nostalgia is used to justify present day behavior.”
David Pledger (Artist) - ABC Radio 774

“Fucken; you can never win with people.”
Pecker-University friend (architecture)

“However, the gamble of these forerunners of disturbance re-injected the dream of autonomy with the amphetamine of hope that gives contemporary producers and activists the energy to set up to the gambling table to roll the dice again.”
“Critical Art Ensemble-The Electric Disturbance” - by Automedia, New York 1994

“Images breed images in me.”
Francis Bacon

“...but being immortal-I can't punish myself...Vengeance is mine and I intend to take it on my own lazy and selfish nature-through the species l created, through their representative, that's you.”
“Acid House” - directed by Paul McGuian

“If there is hope, it lies with the prowls. If they could become conscience of their own strength, they will have no need to conspire.”
George Orwell - 1984

“War is peace
Freedom is slavery
Ignorance is strength”
George Orwell - 1984

“There is truth and there is untruth; to be in the minority of one does not make you mad.”
George Orwell - 1984

“Power is tearing human minds apart and putting them back together again of your own choosing.”
George Orwell - 1984

“The law of gravity is nonsense no such law exists; if l think I float and you think l float, then it happens.”
George Orwell - 1984

“...if the headline is big enough it makes the news big enough.”
Orsen Welles - “Citizen Kane”

“We are the middle children of history men, no purpose or place; we have no great war, no great depression. Our great war is a spiritual war, our great depression is our lives.”
“Fight Club” - Directed by David Fincher
“There is possible in impossible.”
“Alas for me” - Movie written & directed by Jean Luc Godard

“Work like you don't need money, Love like you'll never be hurt, And dance like no one's watching.”
Adam Lambrinos

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Kathy Freeman's Tattoo

“His bad and he'll die; so l like it.”
“The Simpsons” - response to Mr. Burns Portrait

“How do you do it Homer? How do you silence the voice that says think?”
“The Simpsons” - Ned Flanders

“I'm not popular enough to be different.”
“The Simpsons” - Homer Simpsons

“Please don't take your brain for granted, it's the best friend you'll ever have.”
“The Simpsons” - Lisa Simpson

“You people don't think, you regurgitate”
“The Simpsons” -Mr. Burns

“It's a great thing when you realise that you have the ability to surprise yourself.”
“American Beauty” - Written by Alan Ball

“Never underestimate the power of denial.”
“American Beauty” - Written by Alan Ball

“The mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible”
Oscar Wilde

“We know the price of everything but the value of nothing”
Oscar Wilde

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
Oscar Wilde

“There are two ways of disliking art; one is to dislike it; the other is to dislike it rationally.”
Oscar Wilde

“The very essence of romance is uncertainty”
Oscar Wilde – “The Importance of Being Earnest”- (Act l)

“My dear Algy, you talk exactly as if you were a dentist. It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces a false impression”
Oscar Wilde – “The Importance of Being Earnest” - (Act l)

“Bunburyist”= A person who creates a false identity in order to better his/her circumstances by playing either identity to suite there situation.”
Oscar Wilde – “The Importance of Being Earnest” - (Act l)

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!”
Oscar Wilde – “The Importance of Being Earnest” - (Act l)

“Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.”
Oscar Wilde – “The Importance of Being Earnest” - (Act l)

“Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me so nervous.”Oscar Wilde – “The Importance of Being Earnest” - (Act l)

“I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing. Which do you know?”
Oscar Wilde – “The Importance of Being Earnest” - (Act l)

“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.”
Oscar Wilde – “The Importance of Being Earnest” - (Act l)

“Who writes my history?”
Ian McDougall – “The Autistic Ogler” (Thesis/Masters)

Koyaanisqatsi (From the Hopi Language)
1.) Crazy Life
2.) Life in Turmoil
3.) Life Disintegrating
4.)Life Out of Balance
5.)A State of Life That calls For Another Way of Living
Movie - Directed by Godfrey Reggio

“NO – yes”
“Casino” - Movie - Sign on Robert De Niro's desk

“All the decisive blows are struck left handed.”
Walter Benjamin

“You've got to remember that there is a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.”
Frank Zappa-Halloween 1981 concert.

“What’s a girl like you doing in a hotel like this?”
Frank Zappa- “Broadway the hard way” – “what kind of girl?” track 16

“Broken hearts are for arsholes.”
Frank Zappa - “Shake your booty”

“Listen baby would I lie to you just to run my hands through your pubes.”
Frank Zappa - “You can't do that on stage No: 1 anymore”

“Remember that there is a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.”
Frank Zappa - “You can't do that on stage No: 1 anymore”

“Looks like you done pretty good here Harry as a boy, I sees your growing up like a weed.”
Frank Zappa – “Thing Fish” - disc 2/track 2 ‘The white boy troubles’

“I'm drowning here and your describing the water.”
"As Good as it Gets"- Movie

“The Russians would have a to develop a really complicated missile to destroy the United States; the Americans would not have so much trouble. And under the administration like Ragen, I'm sure that they have sat down and looked at the numbers and said that this is a pretty terrific idea...wait. there's more! They not only think it's a terrific idea, but they are convinced that Jesus wanted them to do it this way.”
Frank Zappa –I n an interview with an English Journalist

“How do you rate women so well? I think about a man; then I take away reason and accountability!”
“As good as it gets” - movie

“The best thing you've got is your willingness to humiliate your self!”
“As good as it gets” - Movie

“I get so sentimental when I see how perfect perfection can be...”
"Top Hat" - Fred Astaire

“Americans are the Materialists of the abstract.”
Gertrude Stein

“Between air-conditioning and the Pope, I'll take air-conditioning.”
Woody Allen – “Deconstructing Harry”

"Only unfulfilled love can be romantic"
Woody Allen-Vicky Christina Barfelona

“I don't think you're paranoid, l think that you are the opposite of a paranoid; I think you go around with the insane delusion that people like you.”
Woody Allen – “Deconstructing Harry”

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“I believe that the moment is at hand when by a paranoid and active advance of the mind, it will be possible to systematize confusion and thus help to discredit completely the world of reality...”
Salvador Dali - La Femme Visible (Paris: Editions Surrealists, 1930)

“Not only do l know we lost 6 million, but records are made to be broken.”
Woody Allen – “Deconstructing Harry”

“The last time l was in a women was when l was in the Statue of Liberty.”
Woody Allen – “Crimes and Misdemeanors”

“...we live in a world where there is nobody to punish you, if you don't punish yourself.”
Woody Allen – “Woody Allen on Woody Allen- conversations with Stig Bjorkman.”

“...fascism which is an illness, not a political movement.”
Woody Allen – “Woody Allen on Woody Allen- conversations with Stig Bjorkman.”

“Be happy that you're just miserable.”
Woody Allen –“Woody Allen on Woody Allen” (interview with Stig Bjorkman)

“An Artists creates his own moral Universe”
Woody Allen -“Bullets over Broadway”

“I've seen it all before, they try to document their private suffering and flog it off as art.”
Woody Allen – “Stardust Memories”

“Fashionable pessimist.”
Woody Allen – “Manhattan”

“Hey I’m honest, what do you want, l say what's on my mind and if you don't like it, fuck off.”
Woody Allen – “Manhattan”

“...it's very hard to argue that in the face of death, life loosing any real meaning.”
Woody Allen – “Interiors”

“Tradition is the illusion of permanence”
Woody Allen

W.A. - “Why were there Nazis?”
MOTHER - “Tell him Max”
FATHER -“How the hell do I know why there were Nazis? I don’t even know how the can opener works.”
Woody Allen – “Hannah and her sisters”

“It's the second law of thermal dynamics; sooner or later everything turns to shit.”
Woody Allen – “Husbands and Wives”

“Hey don't knock masturbation, it's sex with someone I love.”
Woody Allen – “Annie Hall”

“A relationship I think is like a shark; it has to keep moving forward or it dies.”
Woody Allen – “Annie Hall”

“You’re always trying to get everything perfect in art because it's so hard in life.”
Woody Allen – “Annie Hall”

“The tradition of Liberty is all. The common people will let it go, oh yes; they will sell Liberty for a quieter life, that is why they need to be lead.”
“Clockwork Orange” - Directed by Stanley Kubrick-based on Anthony Burgess novel

“Creativity, as well as re-creativity, defies metronomic or any other pedantic sameness.”
Karl Haas - “Inside Music”

“That Luna Park eats people everyday and regurgitates them out.”
Pecker (University friend)

“You take plumbing and a women's nature, they're both unpredictable and filled with hidden mysteries...all a man can do is service them properly so that they can flow like they were designed to.”
Written by & Directed by Alan Rudolph – “After Glow”

“I'm excited about the impossibilities.”
Written by & Directed by Alan Rudolph – “After Glow”

“White Australia has a black history.”
T-shirt in Victorian Museum

“Not just in commerce in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale.”
Johannes de Silelntio (Preface)-“Fear and Trembling”

“...all relationships end; you either split up or one of you dies.”
“Bedrooms and Hallhays” - written by Robert Farrar

“I would never wanna belong to any club that would have someone like me for a member.”
Groucho Marx

“You know what Capitalism is; get fucked!”
“Scar Face” - movie

“Don't forget, what goes in goes out.”
Jean Luke Godard - “Hail Marry” – movie

“F.U.C.K. = Fornication Under Consent of the King”

“Maybe living and dyeing are the same thing and maybe the fact that we have turned them into two different things that we feel so lost.”
Denis Johnson - “Jesus' son” - movie

“Martin, stop being so listless and lifeless, stop enjoying your depression.”
“L'ennai” – movie”

“There isn't a monopoly in common sense, on either side of the political fence, cause we share the same biology regardless of ideology.”
Sting – “The best of Sting” (track 14-“Russians”)

“There are people in this world Bob, who look very official while they're doing what they are doing and do you know why... because they don't know what they are doing; because if you know what you are doing you don't have to look like you know what you are doing; it comes naturally.”
“The big Kahoona” - Movie-Directed by John Swanback

“Technological progress asphyxiates the unseen, the heavens and hells of historical mythology.”
Ian Perlman (Sydney based writer)

“Since the computer does not respect scale, it allows entry into ‘voluptuous’ space.”Ian Perlman (Sydney based writer)

“You are not what you own.”
RMIT toilet door

“The beat my heart skipped.”
Movie title

“It is easy to know the difference between right and wrong, the difficulty is choosing the wrong that is more right.”
“The Seige” - movie

“I respect your right to be a dickhead.”
Kate Lambrook – “The Panel”

“For in nature the surface of things is beautiful but its imitation is lifeless. The object gives us everything, but their depiction gives us nothing.”
Mondrian-Holtzman and James “The New Art.”

“There's a father bull & a son bull on a mountain top, & the sun bull says to the father Bull; ‘why don't we run down & fuck that cow?’ and the father Bull says; why don't we walk down & fuckem all!”
Bill - Ex-American patriot

“There are girls that you love; and there are girls that you fuck the first night standing up the first night.”
“The Restaurant” - movie

“What's the smartest thing that ever came out of a women's mouth? Einstein's cock.”
“The Limley” - movie

“You know to me acting was always ah; acting is a fulfillment a wish fulfillment. I want to be people who I'm not, I want to be people who are better than me, or purer than me even if they are pure evil.”
Richard Dreyfuss - interview on ‘The old man who love stories’

“Sorry didn't put humpty dumpty back together again.”
“Collateral” - movie

“Humpty dumpty was pushed!”
Graffiti on the wall

“This little boy goes to his Dad and asks, “What is politics?”
Dad says, "Well, son let me try to explain it to you this way... I'm the breadwinner of the family, so let's call me 'Capitalism'. Your Mum, she's the administrator of the household, so we'll call her the Government. We're here
to take care of YOUR needs, so we'll call you ‘The People’. The nanny, well, she works hard all day for very little money, so we'll consider her ‘The Working Clas’. And your baby brother... we'll call him 'The Future'. Now, think about that and see if it makes sense.’ So the little boy goes off to bed thinking about what his Dad has said.

Later that night, he hears his baby brother crying, so he gets up to check on him. He finds that the baby has severely soiled his diaper. So the little boy goes to his parents' room and finds his mother sound asleep. Not
wanting to wake her, he goes to the nanny's room. Finding the door locked, he peeks into the keyhole and sees his father in bed with the nanny. He gives up and goes back to bed.

The next morning, the little boy says to his father, “Dad, I think I understand the concept of politics now.” The father says, "Good, son, tell me in your own words what you think politics is all about”. The little boy replies, “Well, while Capitalism is screwing the Working Class, the Government is sound asleep, the People are being ignored, and the Future is in Deep Shit.”
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“The answer 2 the question of life is a grey-haired bitch at least Suckin' on the ebony dancer in between these dirty sheets Spittin' out the aftertaste of a boy who might not call again if this is the game you stood in line 4 how r U gonna win?”
“New Power Generation”- Prince-track 5 “Shoo-Bed-Ooh”

“Go on...go home; put on a silly hat. Do what ever morons do.”
“Under Suspicion” - movie

“Mediocre people tolerate success when it comes from a movie star or an athlete...but when it comes to one of their own ahhh; then it strikes them as being an injustice.”
“Under Suspicion” - movie

son: “why do you always use that word ‘niger’ so much?”
father: “I say niger 100 times a day every morning, it keeps my teeth white.”
Written and directed by Spike Lee - “Bamboozeled”

“As soon as artists in the various branches of plastic art will have realised that they must speak a universal language: they will no longer cling to their individuality with such anxiety.”
Theo Van Dosenburg - “De Stijil” in 1917

“The truly modern man is directed for its own sake, nor toward the predominantly emotional; rather it takes the form of the autonomous life of the human spirit becoming conscious.”
“Mondrian” – ‘The new Plastic in Painting’

“Death only closes a mans reputation and determines it as good or bad.”
Written by Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda &Terry Southern – “Easy Rider” movie

“Good artists copy; and great artists steal.”
Pablo Picasso

“The heart will not worship what the mind rejects.”
Bishop John Shelby Spong.

“I just hate to see an erection go to waste.”
Prince - “Black Album-Rock hard in a funky Place-Track 8”

“By challenging you, I challenge my self.”
Jeff Ferick

“Gentlemen you can't fight in here this is the war room.”
“Dr. Strange Love” - Directed by Stanley Kubrick

“If ignorance is bliss then knock the smile off my face.”
Rage against the Machine – “Settle for Nothing”(track 4)

“I love all painting the look like the way I feel.”
Adolph Cottelib – “New York School”

“Kill a few people, you're a murderer; Kill a few million you're a conqueror...go figure!”
“Cliff Hanger” - movie

“They say there can only be peace when there is war.”
Huan N Trinh

“I try to close the door on reality but it comes through the window.”
Adam Lambrinos

A: ”I can't see the future”
B: ”You don't need to see it if you know its there”
‘Flirt’ – movie written and directed by Hall Hartley
“The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.”
John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946)

“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.”
Richard Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983)

“Your more advanced than a cockroach; have you ever tried explaining yourself to one.”
“The Mothman Prophacy” - movie

“What's a girl like you doing in a hotel like this?”
Frank Zapp – “Broadway the Hardway” - Track 16 ‘What kind of girl?’

“Just want you to know your friendship means a lot to me. If we were on a sinking ship and there was only one lifejacket left... I would really fucken miss you.”
John Deniz - S.M.S. phone message

“Some'a us never was, some'a us never has been, some'a us never will be. some'a us never will be again…a little food for thot.”
Dr. John - “Creole Moon” track 3-“Food for thot”

“The trick is to make them look real but not to real but real enough to make them look fake.”
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“We've all done things we're not proud of, we've also had a lot of fun doing them.”
Goldie Horn

“Somebody peed in his mother.”
“Amelie” - movie

“Don't steel, the government hates competition.”
Car Bumper Sticker

“Leadership is a marathon, not a sprint.”
Simon Crean - Australian Labor Party Leader

“That women is a sexual theme park and I want a ride on everything.”
“Perfect World” - T.V. Show

“Marriage is like the lottery only you can't tear up the ticket if you loose.”
Dam Edna

“Bush is another word for Cunt.”
Anti-War protestor

“We have shaved our pubic hair, read our lips no more bush.”
Anti-War protestor

“Bombing for peace is like fucking for virginity!”
Iraq Invasion protestor

“A bad days fishing is a good days work.”
Discovery Channel

“Most first dates are like job interviews with cocktails.”
Sex and the City – T.V. show

Death -“do you believe in love?”
Joe Gidion -“I believe in saying I love you; it helps me
concentrate?”
“All that Jazz”- movie

“Don’t bullshit a bullshitter.”
“All that Jazz”- movie

“Faithful. Faithful; Audrey why do you always think so small?”
“All that Jazz”- movie

“This preoccupation with purity; it is like incest. If you keep fucking in the same place, eventually you get a retard.”
Branaslave (Jonathon Cowl’s work colleague)

“Who knows what evil lurks in the minds of men, the shadows do.”
Frank Sinatra- “Sinatra at the Sands with Count Basie and the Orchestra”- Track 20 “Sinatra closing Monologue”

“Zoo York.”
Cap on a Guy at the half time club – Architectural symposium

“Everybody’s a fuck.”
Andre Dice Clay – “The day that laughter died II”

“Rehearsed routine lack the ability to adapt.”
Bruce Lee-“Game of Death”

“No man is completely useless, he can always serve as a bad example.”
UK-tv

“The distance between genius & madness is only measured by success.”
Jams Bond

“You're to arrogant to boast.”
Ayn Rand – “The fountain head”

“I have been asked whether I have changed in these past twenty-five years. No, I am the same-only more so.”
Ayn Rand – “The fountain head”

“Happiness? But that is so middle class. What is happiness? There are so many things in life so much more important than happiness.”
Ayn Rand – “The fountain head”

“What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own sole? Ellsworth asked: "Then in order to be truly wealthy, a man should collect souls?”
Ayn Rand – “The fountain head”

“The shortest distance between two points is not a straight line- it's a middle man.”
Ayn Rand – “The fountain head”

“'Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.”
Ayn Rand – “The fountain head”

“Reasons are fought with reasons. How are you going to fight the unreasonable?”
Ayn Rand – “The fountain head”

“The man who wants to tell you what a house should look like must either be able to design it better-or shut up.”
Ayn Rand – “The fountain head”

“I? I'm the day after tomorrow.”
Ayn Rand – “The fountain head”

“We spend our life without giving a thought to what we are buying.”
“The last minute” - movie

“There is no such thing as a mistake; there is what you do and there is what you don’t do.”
“Unfaithful” - movie

“Change is automatic, progress is not.”
Anthony Robbins –‘Your hour of power’

“Find out were the masses are going, go the opposite direction your chances are better.”
Anthony Robbins – ‘Your hour of power’

“We have done wrong. We have had it easy. We ideated ourselves. Now we must pay. We must don hair shifts. We must impose suffering upon ourselves. Of course, the suffering will fall on others, but that is beside the point.”
John Ralston Saul - “The Unconscious Civilization

“I can identify four real options in western history as the sources of legitimacy. God,a King. Groups. Or the individual citizen acting as a whole.”
John Ralston Saul - “The Unconscious Civilization

“There has never been so much disposable money, yet there is no money for public good. In a democracy this would not be the case, because the society would be centred by general agreement on disinterest.”
John Ralston Saul - “The Unconscious Civilization

"What is true of computers is true of pills. The disorder of new medication gives us the impression of constant movement."
John Ralston Saul - "On Equilibrium"

"Memory is not there to imprison in the past, but to free us from the traps of habit."
John Ralston Saul "On Equilibrium"

“A little unlearning goes a long way.”Richard Kehl

“In the lighted houses of the Meisners of the Schumperts and the persons and the Roots, people were clearly at home – whole families grouped around tables, young heads bent over homework, dens a flicker with T.V., toddlers careening a grandparent testing a tea bags virtue with a third soaking. These were spirited unselfconscious houses.”
Jonathan Franzen - “The Corrections”

“The was the house’s soul
The waking mind was like the light in the house
The soul was like the gopher in this whole
Consciousness was to brain as family was to house.”
Jonathan Franzen - “The Corrections”

“He bowed his head at the thought of how much strength a man needed to survive an entire life so lonely.”
Jonathan Franzen - “The Corrections”

“Being dead’s only a problem if you know you’re dead, which you never do because you’re dead.”
Jonathan Franzen - “The Corrections”

“When she put on a white blouse, an antique gray suit, red lipstick, and a black pillbox hat with a little black veil, then she recognised herself. When she put on a sleeveless white T-shirt and boy’s jeans and tied her hair so tightly that her head ached , she recognised herself. When she put on silver jewellery, turquoise eye shadow, corpse-lip nail polish, a searing pink jumper, and orange sneakers, she recognised herself as a living person and was breathless with happiness of living.”
Jonathan Franzen - “The Corrections”

“All of a sudden I became aware of how very hungry I was to construct and inhabit an imagined world. The hunger felt like a loneliness of which I’d been dying. How could I have thought that I needed to cure myself in order to fit into the “real” world? I didn’t need curing, and the world didn’t, either; the only thing that id need curing was my understanding of my place in it. Without that understanding- without a sense of belonging to the real world-it was impossible to thrive in an imagined one.”
Jonathan Franzen –“How to be alone” – ‘My fathers brain’

“I’m just the shadow on your grave”
“Angels In America” - movie

“A man struggling for existence will naturally look for something of value.”
“The teachings of Buddha”

“When people say "life is short". What the fuck?? Life is the longest damn thing anyone ever fucking does!! What can you do that's longer?”
Billy Connolly

“Blinding ignorance does mislead us. Oh! wretched mortals, open your eyes!”
Leanardo Da Vinci

“If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always got?”
“Un-fold your wealth” - Infomercial

“Sometimes I think that best view heaven is from hell.”
“The exorcist” - movie

“Everybody lives in there own Australia.”
Fred Hollow

“I have never been anywhere that I haven’t been myself… I think that’s the reason that people hate themselves… there sick to death of being around themselves.”
‘Before Sunrise’ – movie written and directed by Richard Linklater

Question: “What is the truest definition of Globalization?”
Answer: “Princess Diana's death.”
Question: “ How come?”
Answer: An English princess with an Egyptian boyfriend crashes in a French tunnel, driving a German car with a Dutch engine, driven by a Belgian who was drunk on Scottish whisky, (check the bottle before you change the spelling) followed closely by Italian Paparazzi, on Japanese motorcycles; treated by an American doctor, using Brazilian medicines.

"This is sent to you by an Australian, using Bill Gates's technology, and you're probably reading this on your computer, that uses Taiwanese chips, and a Korean monitor, assembled by Bangladeshi workers in a Singapore plant, transported by Indian truck drivers, hijacked by Indonesians, unloaded by Sicilian longshoremen, and trucked to you by Mexican illegals.....
That, my friends, is Globalization.”
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"You are born in love and pain.
Given to us for a short time only.
Before we must let you go again, with love and pain.
One day you'll come to know how close they are, one to the other.
You are a treasure, a blessing, a prayer's answer,
A jig in my Irish soul.
You are me, and I am you.
You are both of us, the love of your mother and me.
Let me be worthy of you.
Let me lead you to truth, to beauty, to the mystery of the universe.
You will ask me great questions, and sometimes I will not know the answers.
Perhaps we are not meant to know some things.
That is life too...a seeking.
It may be our only purpose here.
All things are changing, always.
Yesterday is dust, tomorrow a dream.
Our gift is now.
And so, my sweet angel, may you know love, and be loved in return.
May you know truth, and laughter, and peace, and happiness,
And may the great spirit of the universe enfold you in his arms, and keep you safe, for always."
‘A Prayer for My Daughter’ by Gabriel Byrne from the book ‘Pictures in my Head’

"who will cry for the little boy
lost and all alone
who will cry for the little boy
abandoned without his own
who will cry for the little boy
he cried himself to sleep
who will cry for the little boy
who we never have for keeps
who will cry for the little boy
who walked the burning sand
who will cry for the little boy
the boy inside the man
who will cry for the little boy
who new about hurt and pain
who will cry for the little boy
who died and died again
who will cry for the little boy
a good boy he tried to be
who will cry for the little boy
who cries inside of me"
Antwon Fisher

"Novelists want their work to be enjoyed, not taken as medicine."
Jonathan Franzen

"Now, increasingly, the world is binary. You either have or you don't have."
Jonathan Franzen

"I don't suppose that many other people will give away their TVs. I'm not sure I'll last long myself without buying a new one. But the first lesson reading teachers is how to be alone."
Jonathan Franzen

"How to be alone"
Jonathan Franzen -'The reader in exile'

"In describing as "healthy" these responses to the death sentence obsolescence represents, I'm being no more than halfway ironic. Healthy really is the issue here. The pain of consciousness, the pain of knowing, grows apace with the information we have about the degradation of our planet and the insufficiency of our political system the incivility of our society and the insolvency of our treasury and the injustice in the one-fifth of our country and four fifths of our world that isn't rich like us."
Jonathan Franzen

“Make them loose their faith in a happiness as the Sovereign Good and take to believing, instead, that the goal was somewhere beyond, somewhere outside the human sphere, that the purpose of life was not the maintenance of well being, but some intensification and refining of consciousness, some enlargement of knowledge.”
‘Brave new world’- Aldous Huxley

“What fun it would be,’ he thought, ‘if one didn’t have to think about happiness!"
‘Brave new world’- Aldous Huxley

"The clock is ticking backwards not forward."
Billy Kavellaris

"To be in chains, is sometimes safer than to be free."
Franz Kafka -'The Trial'

"Man has also become an architect of his environment but he does not command forces as powerful as thos of nature. His method has been selective and probing, an intelectual approach were action dependans on understanding."
"The Ascent of Man" - Javob Bronawski

"A popular cleche in philosophy says the science is pure analysis or reductionism, like taking the rainbow to peices and art is pure syntheses putting the rainbow together. This is not so; all imagination begins in analising nature."
"The Ascent of Man" - Javob Bronawski

"The notion of discovery and underline order in matter is man's basic concept for exploring nature The architecture of things reveals a structure below the surface, a hidden grain which when it's laid bear makes it possible to take natural formations apart and assemble them in new arrangements. For me, this the step in the ascent of man with which theoretical science begins and it's as native to the way man conceives his own communities as well as nature."
"The Ascent of Man" - Javob Bronawski

"There is one gift above all others that makes man unique among the animals and it's the gift displayed everywhere here. His immense pleasure in exercising and pushing forward his own skill."
"The Ascent of Man" - Javob Bronawski

"The material asserts itself through the hand and thereby prefigures the shape of the work for the brain."(footnote1)...
If the hand serves the brain in art and architecture, then the idea is destined for failure."
Billy Kavellaris
Footnote1- "The Ascent of Man" - Javob Bronawski

"I stand up here to remind myself to look at the world another way."
'Dead poets Society'

"Someone has to die, so that the rest of us will value life."
"The hours" - movie

“I know it! I know it!
If I get out of here the river will swallow me….
It is my destiny: Today I must die!
But no, willpower can overcome everything
there are the obstacles, I admit it
I don’t want to come out.
If I have to die, it will be in this cave.

The bullets, what can the bullets do to me if
my destiny is to die by drowning. But I am
Going to overcome destiny. Destiny can be
achieved by will power.

Die, yes but riddled with
bullets, destroyed by the bayonets, if not, no. Drowned….
a memory more lasting than my name
Is to fight, to die fighting.”
Ernesto “Che” Guevara

“White is not pure and hate is not pride”
Meshelle Ndegeaocello

"Vengence is a lazy form of grief."
The Interpreter

"Do not adjust your mind, there's a fault in reality."
Alen Fletcher

"This modern cult of free sex, there is nothing serious in that; I may as well get a hair cut."
Movie - Surviving Piccaso

"I am a man of deep feelings, you have no feelings, you know nothing except love."
Movie - Surviving Piccaso

"A prime example of my taste in bad taste."
Movie - Surviving Piccaso

"When I work I leave my body outside the door."
Movie - Surviving Piccaso

"Painting cannot be taught, it can only be found."
Surviving Piccaso

"The man falling isn't permitted to feel or hear himself hit the bottom. He just keeps falling and falling. The whole arrangement's designed for men who, at some time or other in their lives, were looking for something their own environment couldn't supply them with. Or they thought their own environment couldn't supply them with. So they gave up looking"
“The catcher in the Rye"-J. D. Salinger

"I didn't want to work for pay, but I wanted to be paid for my work."
Anthony Bourdain

"I dont think that playboy exploits sex no more than sport illustrated exploits sport."
Hugh Hephner

“daddy’s just the blood in my veins shadows in my mind”
Meshell Ndegeocello
Album “comfort Woman” – track 6 ‘liliquoi moon’

"He thinks he is the last Coco-Cola in the dessert"
'Mambo Kings' - movie

"Be traveler not a tourist"
Discovery travel

"If you let emotion trick you into thinking there's something unique or transcendent about human subjectivity-you might find yourself wondering why you've organised your life as if you were nothing but a machine for the unpleasant production and pleasant consumption of commodities."
Jonathan Franzen-"strong motion"

"Everybody likes how old things look, but likes how new things work."
Billy Joel

"I'm so tired of your exaggerations. You always make things 50,000 times worse than they are."
Frasier-TV show

"Unlearn-Relearn"
Lexus commercial

"Educate your thinking"
Mexican American protester

"Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?"
'Captain Corelli's Mandolin' - Louis de Bernieres

Kokolious-'What's the news of the war?'
Iatre-'Germany is taking everything, the Italians are playing the fool, the French have run away, the Belgians have been overrun whilst they are looking the other way, the Poles have been charging tanks with cavalry, the Americans are playing baseball, the British been drinking tea and adjusting their monocles, the Russians have been sitting on their hands except when voting unanimously to do whatever they are told.'
'Captain Corelli's Mandolin' - Louis de Bernieres

'Unhappiness conceals itself in sleep."
'Captain Corelli's Mandolin' - Louis de Bernieres

"Man also knows not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly upon them."
The Jesus incident - Frank Hurbet

"Some things are because you name them."
The Jesus incident - Frank Hurbet

"Speak with your eyes and listen with your mouth and you will be alright."
Pinero

"I'm saving to buy my freedom
God grant me wings
I’m too fly to fly"
Saul Williams-'Seven Mountains'

"cause I’m afraid that all else is vanity
mere language is profanity
I’d rather hum or
have my soul tattooed to my tongue
and let the scriptures be sung in gibberish
cause words be simple fish
in my soulquarium
and intellect can't swim'
Saul Williams-'Untimely Mountains'

The Writer- "I love beginnings!"
Frico- "Why is that?"
The Writer- "Nothing has happened yet but anticipation is in the air, optimism."
Fico- "What about the end?"
The Writer- "Well they don't call it the end for nothing. I hate endings. Unless of coarse your end is your beginning which makes your beginning the end, then I would love the end."
"The lost City" written by G. Cabrera Infante

''Names don't mean, people do."
"The lost City" written by G. Cabrera Infante

"...of an experience of your childhood. Something you remember clearly, something you can see, feel, maybe even smell, as if you where really there. After all you really were there at the time, weren't you? How else would you remember it? But here is the bombshell: you weren't there. Not a single atom that is in your body today was there when that event took place... Matter flows from place to place and momentarily come together to be you. Whatever you are, therefore, you are not the stuff you are made of. If that doesn't make the hair stand up on the back of your neck, read it again until it does, because it is important."
Steve Grand

"Conquer your fear, and I promise you will conquer your death."
Alexander-Film

"What's worse... thinking you are being paranoid or knowing you should be."
"Primer"-Film
written, directed & produced by Shane Carruth

''99% of everything done in the world good or bad is to pay the mortgage; perhaps the world would be a better place if everyone rented."
"Thankyou for smoking" - Movie

"Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery, and I just couldn't believe that someone could be that close to freedom and not take advantage of it."
Miles Davis-the autobiography

"Every time we talk about Look or style we talk about the absence of style, the absence of imposed style."
The Weather Man - Gore Venbiski (Director)

''The enemy of art, is the absence of limitations."
Orsen Wells

"Hey, there's more to life than happiness, get over it!"
The King of Queens-Sidcom

"Never accept mediocrity when excellence is always possible."
Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum, President of Spelman College

"It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value."
Alain De Botton-"The architecture of happiness"

"I remember one morning, getting up at dawn; there was such a sense of possibility...you know, that feeling? And I remember thinking to myself; this is the beginning of happiness, this is where it starts and of course there will always be more! It never occurred to me, it wasn't the beginning; it was happiness. It was the moment!"
The Hours - written by Michael Cunningham

“Time takes too much time”
Moloko-“the time is now”

“Don’t take life so seriously. It isn’t permanent.”
T-shirt

“That’s what romance is. There is no romance without a some lying… a little bit of Vaseline on the camera lens of life.”
Richard Jeni

"…death is suddenly a perceptible thing to me, with definable features."
“The Network”

"I'd hate to be you if I were me."
"Barfly"-Film-Charles Bukowski

"Stupid people do stupid things,
Smart people outsmart each other,
Then themselves, then themselves"
System of the down-'DDevil' (Album-System of the down')

"She has the moronic beauty of youth."
"Closer"-Film by Patrick Marber

"I love everything about you that hurts."
"Closer"-Film by Patrick Marber

"It's not enough to succeed. Others must fail."
Gore Vidal

"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat."
Lilly Tomlin

"I feel like I win when he looses"
Jason Cintolo

"You look like I need a drink."
David Sedaris "Naked''

"It's not a lie; it's a gift for fiction."
Movie - "State and Main""You look like I need a drink."
David Sedaris "Naked''

"A placebo for life."
Guy standing in a queue

"Professor Sandiford: Now, everyone don't be so hard on Jerome. He is attempting to achieve the impossible. He is trying to sing in his own voice using someone else's vocal cords."
"Art School Confidential"

"Your dream is my nightmare"
Jorje Gonzales

Gary Johnston: We're dicks! We're reckless, arrogant, stupid dicks. And the Film Actors Guild are pussies. And Kim Jong Il is an asshole. Pussies don't like dicks, because pussies get fucked by dicks. But dicks also fuck assholes: assholes that just want to shit on everything. Pussies may think they can deal with assholes their way. But the only thing that can fuck an asshole is a dick, with some balls. The problem with dicks is: they fuck too much or fuck when it isn't appropriate - and it takes a pussy to show them that. But sometimes, pussies can be so full of shit that they become assholes themselves... because pussies are an inch and half away from ass holes. I don't know much about this crazy, crazy world, but I do know this: If you don't let us fuck this asshole, we're going to have our dicks and pussies all covered in shit!
Team America: World Police

"Her nakedness betrayed her suffering."
Denise Chong-"The story of Kim Phuc-The photograph and the Vietnam War
"She yearned for something far more complex than happiness."
Denise Chong-"The story of Kim Phuc-The photograph and the Vietnam War."
"In a failed investment scheme
And now guess who's power steering
And grinding negative gearing
And whipping bad luck into cream"
Mathew Belton-''Rhym crime & whisky"-'Copper snake lead.'

"Offence is chosen, not given."
Chris at BBQ

"When you make love to a women you get revenge for everything that defeated you in life."
Elegy-Rustle-movie

"Our lives are one endless stretch of misery punctuated by processed fast food and the occasional crisis or amusing curiosity"
"Running with scissors"- Augusten Burroughs

"Freddy's the grain of sand that irritates me to produce a pearl."
Ray Grounds-reference to Frederick Romberg

"God is either dead or he despises us."
Movie-''Feast of love"

"Is she disappointed in you as she should be."
Movie-"Cactus''

"Christina, you are my beginning and my end."
John Kalemeris

"If you kneel down; life is a mountain, if you stand up, life is at your feet."
Denise Chong-"The story of Kim Phuc-The photograph and the Vietnam War."