"I remain interested in the potential of art, except I've always been more struck by applied modernism than high modernism. It's partly because of feminist theory and being brought up in the '70s, with questioning who is speaking, and why, and what authority they're carrying."

-- Liam Gillick

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“Experience is a grindstone; and it is lucky for us, if we can get brightened by it, and not ground.”
“The loss of music is very painful, and I don't revisit stuff unless there is a solid reason to do it.”

Source : "Q&A: John Lurie and The Invention of Animals". Interview with Joe Keohane, www.esquire.com. January 24, 2014.
“It is one of God's blessings that we cannot foreknow the hour of our death; for a time fixed, even beyond the possibility of living, would trouble us more than doth this uncertainty.”
“Innovative, bottom-up methods will solve problems that now seem intractableâ€”from energy to poverty to disease. Science and technology, powered by the fuel of entrepreneurial energy, are the largest multipliers of resources we have to solve our many social problems.”

Source : " The networker Why Tony Blair is a high-tech company's best friend" by John Naughton, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2010.
“I learnt basic cookery by watching my mum.”
“We are born to a time. What you do with it is on you. Do the best you can. Try to be good. And live.”

Source : Charlie LeDuff (2013). “Detroit: An American Autopsy”, p.184, Penguin
“Doesn't seem right, does it? A split second to lose him and a lifetime to grieve over him.”
“Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.”

Source : Ulysses S. Grant (1990). “The Personal Memoirs Of Ulysses S. Grant”, p.398, Jazzybee Verlag

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