"The only place we were really told to tone it down - where other people would use the word censorship, but I wouldn't - was when we did MTV right after the Beavis and Butt-head thing."

-- Penn Jillette

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“Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had.”
“Astronomers do not commonly use Venereal, in favor of the less contagious-sounding Venutian. Blame the medical community, who snatched the word long before astronomers had any good use for it. I suppose you can't blame the doctors. Venus is the goddess of beauty and love, so she ought to be the goddess of its medical consequences.”
“It is man's pretence that because he has choice he is free. Freedom is pure observation without direction, without fear of punishment and reward. Freedom is without motive; freedom is not at the end of the evolution of man but lies in the first step of his existence.”
“Most people will reach a point where, whatever their ideology, they will relent, or conform, and that keeps them kind of in the general mass of people. And for those who find that they can't, all of sudden they leave the general mass, they find that they become exceptions, and exceptional, and often this makes them public.”

Source : The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 23, 2014.
“If you build a better mousetrap, you will catch better mice.”
“I'm interested in music, not in my image. If someone plays something fantastic, that I could never have thought of, it makes me happy to know it exists.”
“Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.”
“Art shouldn't be only the aesthetics we hang on the wall, but a dynamic to shape the society.”

Source : "Concepual Colors of Genco Gulan". Book by Marcus Graf, 2011.

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