"There's something strange about a laptop, how you can make the tiniest gesture and make the biggest sound. I don't feel I've resolved working a sense of performance into a piece yet."

-- Anna Meredith

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“Hillary certainly needs the black vote, and Democrats need it. She's not doing anything too soon; she's raising her money and not wanting any issues to come back and bite her later. The black vote will be crucial for Hillary and so will the women's vote.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“The first duty of intelligence is to recognize the obvious.”
“Everything is art. Everything is politics.”

Source : "Weiwei-isms, By Ai Weiwei, trans. Larry Warsh". www.independent.co.uk. January 11, 2013.
“On this earth everyone has his cross. But we must act in such a way that we be not the bad, but good thief.”
“I remember Francis Bacon would say that he felt he was giving art what he thought it previously lacked. With me, it's what Yeats called the fascination with what's difficult. I'm only trying to do what I can't do.”
“You can only look forward as far as you can look back.”
“...culture is useless unless it is constantly challenged by counter culture. People create culture; culture creates people. It is a two-way street. When people hide behind a culture, you know that's a dead culture.”

Source : Muhammad Yunus (2010). “Building Social Business: The New Kind of Capitalism That Serves Humanity's Most Pressing Needs”, p.66, PublicAffairs
“There are probably five songs in the world that I get excited about when I hear them on the radio.”

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