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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.

Banksy

If you want someone to be ignored then build a life-size bronze statue of them and stick it in the middle of town. It doesn’t matter how great you were, it’ll always take an unfunny drunk with climbing skills to make people notice you.
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Climbing Drunk Skills
A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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Children Mother Parenting
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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Cities Names School
Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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Authority People Piece Wall
When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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Away Come Fuss Quietly Walk
Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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Graffiti Mind People
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
Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don’t come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they’re having a piss.
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Art Graffiti Smile
It’s a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.
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Feelings People Police
Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
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Graffiti Knows Piece Wall
The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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Art Artist Great Stealing
The Art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of Art. Only a few hundred people in the world have any real say. When you go to an Art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires
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Art People Real
Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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Art Bus Stops Museums
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
I don’t think you should have to pay to look at graffiti. You should only pay if you want to get rid of it.
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Graffiti Pay Think Thinking
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

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