"I come from a generation in England that considered making money or trying to promote yourself to be morally suspect."

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Source : "Radiohead Artist Stanley Donwood". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. September 15, 2010.

Stanley Donwood

#Trying Quotes #Generations Quotes #England Quotes

“When Sir Winton Turnbull [who represented a large rural seat] was raving and ranting on the adjournment and shouted: â€œI am a Country memberâ€. I interjected â€œI rememberâ€. He could not understand why, for the first time in all the years he had been speaking in the House, there was instant and loud applause from both sides.”

Source : Gough Whitlam's speech during a debate at the Sydney Town Hall, May 24, 2000.
“Our business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living, and art can help this.”
“I want people to be inspired! To remember how hard-fought the battle for the vote was, the debt we owe to women who paved the way for this more egalitarian society we live in, how critical it is to use our vote and to be counted.”
“The less of one's life one must exchange for money, the more freedom one may enjoy.”

Source : "Give Me Liberty!". Book by Gerry Spence, 1998.
“I believe that the Belgians do possess some surrealistic gene.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd steam! afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car; Or on wide-waving wings expanded bear The flying chariot through the field of air.”
“I don’t have a problem with recognition ... It’s very, very rarely about who I am, it’s always, ‘I love your work.’ ... It’s always in relation to my work, which I think is a really lucky thing to have happen as opposed to, ‘Oh, you’re a famous personality’.”

Source : "Free Software as a Social Movement". ZNet Article, zcomm.org. December 18, 2005.
“Believing in myself and not to be afraid of taking any risks. I have to be better than the average person to succeed. Thatâ€™s why I chose bodybuilding. If I became a world champion, if I could win admiration from my peers, I could do anything.”

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