"We live in a country where there is a lot of animosity. If your politics is radical it antagonises. People might think I am overconfident. I look petulant when I stand my ground."

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Source : Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

Owen Jones

#Country Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“There is a danger one has to really be knowing much more because you can't be too narrow on science.”

Source : Source: www.nobelprize.org
“One of the things my career as an artist might say to young artists is: The things that are close to you are the things you can photograph the best. And unless you photograph what you love, you are not going to make good art.”

Source : "The Dichotomy of Sally Mann: “The Family and the Land” at the Photographers’ Gallery, London" by Marina Cashdan, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 10, 2010.
“He wanted to tell her that he was inspired and vigilant and recklessly alone, that his body contained his unsteady heart and something else, something he felt but could not describe: porous and spiky, shifting with flecks of thought, with urge and memory; salted with brightness, flickerings of white and green and pale gold; something that loved stars because it was made of the same substance.”
“From the classical guitar right through to the furthest electrical experiments and everything in-between, it's amazing what the guitar can actually do. I mean, when one thinks about sounds.”
“OVATION, n. n ancient Rome, a definite, formal pageant in honor of one who had been disserviceable to the enemies of the nation. A lesser "triumph."”
“Like birds whose wings are broken, you live without direction!”
“To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.”
“These are nonviolent people who have lost their freedom simply because they expressed their ideas.... In truth, they are heroes of our time.”

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