"Culture shouldn't be a pacifying thing. It shouldn't be something that you just passively accept. I think it should be something that, in some ways, is quite disruptive - makes you think and question things, and actually sparks debate."

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Source : Interview with Scott Plagenhoef, pitchfork.com. April 2, 2007.

Jarvis Cocker

#Thinking Quotes #Make You Think Quotes #Culture Quotes

“I am kind of giant â€¦ on (the True Blood) set.”
“Talk and tea is his specialty," said Giles. "He has about five cups of tea a day. But he works splendidly when we are looking.”
“Anger's not a good emotion.”

Source : "Q&A: Lincoln Chafee". Mother Jones Interview, www.motherjones.com. September, 2008.
“Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.”
“I've had a little plastic surgery. I've had a little lipo. I've had a little Botox. And you know what? None of it works. None of it.”
“Our whole evolution has reached a stage where nearly every man is either ruler or ruled; sometimes he is both. By this the attitude of dependence has been greatly strengthened, for a truly free man does not like to play the part of either the ruler or the ruled. He is, above all, concerned with making his inner values and personal powers effective in a way as to permit him to use his own judgment in all affairs and to be independent in action.”

Source : "Nationalism and Culture" by Rudolf Rocker, translated by Ray E. Chase, Book I, (Ch. 15), 1952.
“Nobody knows the trouble you've seen - and nobody wants to.”
“In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world.”

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