Banksy Quotes
All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They've been used to start revolutions and to stop wars.
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I'm resigned to the fact that the corseted history of America is not as exciting as that of Britain.
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As I age, I become more and more happy with what I see in the mirror. At some point, that's going to stop.
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Every time a young girl comes in and asks me for advice, if you start your conversation with, 'How hard is it as a black woman,' or, 'How hard is it as a woman,' I turn you around. Because I cannot - we cannot look at the roadblocks and see the road at the same time.
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The Obama administration and the Democratic Congress have taken the biggest lurch to the left in policy in American history. There've been no - no Congress, no administration that has run this far to the left in such a small period of time. And there is a reaction to that.
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Hungary will stop at nothing when it comes to protecting its citizens.
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I knew that we were clicking when mimics started kidding my voice, I'll know that I'm on the way out when they stop doing their imitations.
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I go where the material is, and I feel like I'm looking for really strong directors. That's the key ingredient. There are some directors I would move the sun and earth for, or stop the rotation of the planets, just to work with them.
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There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identity and slavery and North Africa, but there simply is no American history before black people.
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The biggest challenge is always the governments - they try to stop all good things. I try to stay away from them as much as I can, as I know if someone can destroy something good, it's the government.
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Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
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We should start by allowing drilling in Alaska's National Wildlife Refuge. It can provide billions of barrels of recoverable oil and trillions of cubic feet of recoverable natural gas.
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I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?
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I would love a bowl of Frosties, but I start the day with something healthier like a bowl of yoghurt or berries.
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I love to drive in the Black Hills of Wyoming and South Dakota with Mount Rushmore as the central stop.
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If you gonna challenge my ways, know my history. Don't put nobody in my face that don't know about me, or they here to write an article on someone they thought was hot when they was hot. Come on, man. I been hot.
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I fantasise about what the future could be in terms of aesthetic and psychology. It's the most difficult thing to do because you have to start from the past - your favourite architect, your favourite song - you take it all with you.
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I've been writing fiction probably since I was about 6 years old, so it's something that is second nature to me now. I just sit down and start writing. I don't sit down and start writing and it comes out perfectly - it's a process.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you've lost human scale.
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A lot of people stop short. They don't actually die but they say, 'Right I'm old, and I'm going to retire,' and then they dwindle into nothing. They go off to Florida and become jolly boring.
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With the possible exception of God during the writing of the Bible, every writer in history has needed an editor. So do you.
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I'm sort of obsessed with the news. That is a syndrome. But I don't watch a whole lot of TV.
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It makes a difference doesn't it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?
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All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They've been used to start revolutions and to stop wars.
