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If you don’t own a train company then you go and paint on one instead… it all comes from that thing at school when you had to have name tags in the back of something… that makes it belong to you. You can own half the city by scribbling your name over it.

Banksy

If you don’t own a train company then you go and paint on one instead… it all comes from that thing at school when you had to have name tags in the back of something… that makes it belong to you. You can own half the city by scribbling your name over it.
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Citiy Name School
A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.
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Found Males Surveys
Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.
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Inspirational Inspiring Life
A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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Children Mother Parenting
I like to think I have the guts to stand up anonymously in a western democracy and call for things no-one else believes in – like peace and justice and freedom.
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Believe Justice Thinking
People are fond of using military terms to describe what they do. We call it bombing when we go out painting, when of course it’s more like entertaining the troops in a neutral zone, during peacetime in a country without an army.
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Army Country Military
The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It’s people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.
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Art Order People
The one thing you can rely on is if you get disturbed halfway through a painting and it looks a bit naff, then someone will preserve that piece, remove it and a few months later it’ll be paraded round Sotheby’s by people wearing white gloves.
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Looks People White
Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
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Apples Pie Sick
Gaza is often described as ‘the world’s largest open air prison’ because no-one is allowed to enter or leave. But that seems a bit unfair to prisons – they don’t have their electricity and drinking water cut off randomly almost every day.
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Air Cutting Drinking
I don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
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Anything Believe Violence
Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.
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Art Graffiti Littles
It doesn’t take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.
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Artist Needs Successful
Film is incredibly democratic and accessible, it’s probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate it.
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Inspiring Movie World
I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.
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Death Life Time
If you have a statue in the city centre you could go past it every day on your way to school and never even notice it, right. But as soon as someone puts a traffic cone on its head, you’ve made your own sculpture.
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Cities Past School

If you don’t own a train company then you go and paint on one instead… it all comes from that thing at school when you had to have name tags in the back of something… that makes it belong to you. You can own half the city by scribbling your name over it.

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If you don’t own a train company then you go and paint on one instead… it all comes from that thing at school when you had to have name tags in the back of something… that makes it belong to you. You can own half the city by scribbling your name over it.

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