"'Lollipop Opera' is the backdrop to Finsbury Park. A place that is very thriving, interracial and lot of music stores, Greek, Turkish, all sorts of immigrant music. It's utter Englishness. It blends the Jamaicans, the Irish. It's like what Jim Reeves did with American country music."

-- John Lydon

#Country Quotes #Greek Quotes #Parks Quotes

“The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.”
“I've got to relearn what I was supposed to have learned.”

Source : Sylvia Ashton-Warner (1967). “Myself”, Harvill Secker
“Acid wasn't getting a whole lot of bad press at the time, and as I saw the whole bad-press thing happen, I became aware that the government had done a whole lie on all the other benign drugs as well. It became clear to me that the government wanted no real drug education.”
“The unconscious mind works without your knowledge and that is the way it prefers.”
“I remember when I was a kid my first real confrontation with space travel was when the Challenger exploded and I remember how traumatic that was for me, because I remember watching that on the news and all the children in our class were watching.”
“Colour is uncontainable. It effortlessly reveals the limits of language and evades our best attempts to impose a rational order on it To work with colour is to become acutely aware of the insufficiency of language and theory â€“ which is both disturbing and pleasurable.”

Source : Gary Hume, Adrian Searle, David Batchelor, British Council (1999). “Gary Hume: British Pavilion, XLVIII Venice Biennale, 13 June-7 Novermer 1999”
“Peace is not just the absence of war. Like a cathedral, peace must be constructed patiently and with unshakable faith.”
“When it comes to dreams, one may falter, but the only way to fail is to abandon them.”

Source : "Fictional character: Dracula". TV Series "Dracula" ("A Whiff of Sulfur", 2013), www.imdb.com. 2013–2014.

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