"The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better - it is just turning around as usual."

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Finley Peter Dunne

#Usual Quotes #World Quotes #Growing Quotes

“HIV-positive people can lose custody of their children, lose their housing, and face intimate partner violence.”
“Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.”
“There's no way you can use water to collect waste in zero gravity. So, basically, our toilet on shuttle operations is a vacuum cleaner. The urinal looks like a Shop-Vac hose. It has different-shaped fronts on it for males and females to use. The urine is sucked down that hose and goes into a tank.”
“When you conquer something, it means you fought for it.”
“I'm very little drawn to photographing people that are known or even subjects that are known. They fascinate me when I've barely heard of them.”
“God will forgive me the foolish remarks I have made about Him just as I will forgive my opponents the foolish things they have written about me, even though they are spiritually as inferior to me as I to thee, O God!”
“We're worse off than Freud thought, because many actions proceed without our knowing anything about them.”
“At 6 p.m. I stood in the doorway of my studio facing the Venice boardwalk. A few spectators watched as I pushed two live electric wires into my chest. The wires crossed and exploded, burning me but saving me from electrocution.”

Source : Chris Burden, Alberta College of Art. Gallery (1976). “Chris Burden, February 18, 1976”

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