Martine Syms Quotes
I have said it before and I will continue to say that I don't think art is the most effective form of protest. I don't think it changes policy; I think it changes discourse, and discourse can change ideas, and for me, that's what it's about: having that space for conversation.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
Nathan Bedford Forrest
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If you want to grow a beard like mine, the only thing I can tell you is that you have to have patience. You just have to let it grow.
Daniel Bryan
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Barry Eisler
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Wally Lamb
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Gavin Newsom
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J. L. Austin
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Still, failure, success, what is it? Whae gies a fuck. We aw live, then we die, in quite a short space ay time n aw. That's it; end ay fuckin story.
Irvine Welsh
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These are the kids that are the most abused of all kids.
James Young Styx
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I always try to take the unexpected things and make them work for me.
Paul Watson
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The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.
James Russell Lowell
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I have said it before and I will continue to say that I don't think art is the most effective form of protest. I don't think it changes policy; I think it changes discourse, and discourse can change ideas, and for me, that's what it's about: having that space for conversation.
Martine Syms