At this time of year it’s easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity – the lies, the corruption, the abuse.
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Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.
BanksyBanksy I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don’t like it, you can paint over it!
BanksyBanksy I know street art can feel increasingly like the marketing wing of an art career, so I wanted to make some art without the price tag attached. There’s no gallery show or book or film. It’s pointless. Which hopefully means something.
BanksyBanksy Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
BanksyBanksy Fight the fighters, not their wars.
BanksyBanksy I tell myself I use art to promote dissent, but maybe I am just using dissent to promote my art. I plead not guilty to selling out. But I plead it from a bigger house than I used to live in.
BanksyBanksy You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
BanksyBanksy I don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
BanksyBanksy I wanted to highlight the destruction in Gaza by posting photos on my website – but on the internet, people only look at pictures of kittens.
BanksyBanksy If it doesn’t matter, get rid of it. If you can’t get rid of it, it matters.
BanksyBanksy A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
BanksyBanksy 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.
BanksyBanksy The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. 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.
BanksyBanksy Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
BanksyBanksy All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?
BanksyBanksy Nobody knows what you feel inside unless you tell them.
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Jenny AJenny A I care but I’m done trying. I love but I’m done showing.
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Jacklyn TysonJacklyn Tyson The wild is always changing like a reminder. You do not have to be the same to be beautiful.
Sabina LauraSabina Laura Bees and butterflies in my belly with you on my mind they chase each other around.
Jenny WinbladhJenny Winbladh I long for you but you long for someone else, I deny the one who wants me cause I want someone else.
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Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered.
Phyllis DillerPhyllis Diller Christmas Day was special because everybody is watching at home. That’s what I loved about Christmas Day because it shined the spotlight on the Lakers, on our team.
Magic JohnsonMagic Johnson And we knew that all of the other leagues were at home and millions of people were watching. So it made it a special day to play on Christmas.
Magic JohnsonMagic Johnson Christmas for me is all about spending time with my family. I cherish any chance we have to spend all day together making gingerbread houses, baking cookies, or sitting around and watching movies.
Blake LivelyBlake Lively The Christmas message shows us that this love is for everyone. There is no one beyond its reach.
Queen Elizabeth IIQueen Elizabeth II The smell of pine needles, spruce and the smell of a Christmas tree – those to me, are the scents of the holidays.
Blake LivelyBlake Lively I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
William Tecumseh ShermanWilliam Tecumseh Sherman The reason the world is not seeing Jesus is that Christian people are not filled with Jesus. They are satisfied with attending meetings weekly, reading the Bible occasionally, and praying sometimes.
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