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“I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's death.”
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“To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-ridden, regulated, penned up, indoctrinated, preached at, checked, appraised, seized, censured, commanded, by beings who have neither title, nor knowledge, nor virtue. To be governed is to have every operation, every transaction, every movement noted, registered, counted, rated, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, refused, authorized, indorsed, admonished, prevented, reformed, redressed, corrected.”
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“The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.”
Source : Dalia Judovitz, Marcel Duchamp (2010). “Drawing on Art: Duchamp and Company”, p.56, U of Minnesota Press
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“Every woman has to have something which singles her out, which catches the eyes, which makes her the center of attention. I am going to be french.”
Source : Philippa Gregory (2008). “The Other Boleyn Girl (Movie Tie-In)”, p.15, Simon and Schuster
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“To serve the cause of water adequately... We must get to know it in its true being. And how do we do this? Why, by treating it in the very way exemplified by its own behavior; that is, whenever we encounter it, we wash the tablet of our souls clean of all other impressions in order to allow the being of water to make its imprint on us.”
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“You have to want to listen to it, and then you can hear it. It has a strange, beautiful texture. It doesn't always talk. Sometimes-sometimes it cries, and you can hear the pain of the world in it. It hurts to listen to it then. But you have to.”
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“What we are missing, utterly and completely, in this government is accountability.”
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“The life you are living is your creation, your perception of reality that you can change at any time.”
