"I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that's great."

-- Damien Hirst

#Artist Quotes #People Quotes #Being Ignored Quotes

“Change is a direct element of hip-hop. That's the whole thing with style.”
“Do you think God gets stoned? I think so ... look at the platypus.”

Source : "Robin Williams's best-loved gags" by Richard Vine, www.theguardian.com. August 12, 2014.
“Horses and jockeys mature earlier than people - which is why horses are admitted to racetracks at the age of two, and jockeys before they are old enough to shave.”
“You should be smart enough to know that you don't know everything. But you have to believe in yourself. I certainly do.”
“Disease an never be conquered, can never be quelled by emotion's willful screaming or faith's symbolic prayer. It can only be conquered by the energy of humanity and the cunning in the mind of man. In the patience of a Curie, in the enlightenment of a Faraday, a Rutherford, a Pasteur, a Nightingale, and all other apostles of light and cleanliness, rather than of a woebegone godliness, we shall find final deliverance from plague, pestilence, and famine.”
“One year of the worldâ€™s military spending equals 700 years of the U.N. budget and equals 2,928 years of the U.N. budget allocated for women.”
“I also think it's still easy for us - as women, as writers and as directors and producers - to let it fall into the same patterns. Like, "and then the woman brings in the food, because the woman's the one who makes food." It's easy for that to happen, because that's what we've always known.”
“Every small wrong, every minor act of cruelty, every act of petty bullying was symbolic of a greater wrong. And if we ignored these small things, then did it not blunt our outrage over the larger wrongs?”

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