"There is no rewind button for life."

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Source : Nam June Paik, Hong-hŭi Kim (2007). “Nam June Paik and Korea, from fantasy to hyperreality”

Nam June Paik

#Buttons Quotes #Rewind Quotes

“Taboos are falling across our culture like dominoes. What was unspeakable yesterday dominates talk shows today.”
“The efficiency of a truly national leader consists primarily in preventing the division of the attention of a people, and always in concentrating it on a single enemy.”
“I run down to meet Floriana who is breathless from her hike. She stops in the road, the last light at her back. Prickles of rain cling to her unkerchiefed, loosened hair, capturing in her the flickering russet frame of it. Topaz almonds are her eyes, lit tonight from some new, old place, from some exquisitely secret oubliette, which she must often forget she possesses. We talk for a minute and Barlozzo passes us by like a boy too shy to speak to two girls at once.”
“When discussing organic evolution the only point of agreement seems to be: â€˜It happened.â€™ Thereafter, there is little consensus, which at first sight must seem rather odd.”

Source : "Evolution: Bringing Molecules into the Fold". Work by Simon Conway Morris, January 7, 2000.
“When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.”
“A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.”
“I was a scam artist in high school for a while.”
“If your album sells, that's cool, more people find out about you, more people get turned on to what we're really about-which is a live rock and roll band.”

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