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Martin Firrell
68 quotes
“I am the conscience of the 21st Century.”
Martin Firrell (born 1963) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in the International Herald Tribune (24 November 2005).
“Never fall for someone with a body to diet for.”
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Recorded in: Quoted in Time Out (12 December 2001).
“Everybody should be entitled to one lie, one failing, one infidelity.”
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Recorded in: Quoted in the International Herald Tribune (24 November 2005).
“When the world’s run by fools it’s the duty of intelligence to disobey.”
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Recorded in: Quoted in The Guardian (25 February 2006).
“It is perfectly reasonable to despair of a world where the Nobel Committee gives the Peace Prize to a man running a war.”
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“Everyone is as confused as I am.”
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Recorded in: Quoted in the documentary The Question Mark Inside broadcast in the UK by Sky Arts (30 October 2009).
“I can accept no responsibility for any changes in your existence, miraculous or otherwise. You must take responsibility for your own life. You must have your own life because if you haven’t had at least that, what have you had?”
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Recorded in: Quoted in What’s On in London (15 August 2001).
“Calamitous collapse is better than mediocre defeat!”
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Recorded in: Quoted in The London Evening Standard (9 August 2001).
“Revolutions have always started in cafés.”
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Recorded in: quoted in The Independent on Sunday (18 April 2004).
“I want to live in a city where the police don’t shoot you.”
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Recorded in: Quoted in The Guardian on the first anniversary of the unlawful shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes by the Metropolitan Police (22 July 2006).
“Why settle for the art world when you can have the whole world?”
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Recorded in: Quoted in the documentary The Question Mark Inside broadcast in the UK by Sky Arts (30 October 2009).
“Ageing is a privilege not a predicament”
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Recorded in: Quoted by Caitlin Moran in The Times (18 June 2007).
“All I need is a hat and a vagina.”
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“Different is not wrong.”
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Recorded in: Quoted in Time Out (17 November 2006).
“Writing adds up to the conscience of our times.”
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Recorded in: Quoted in the documentary Art in a Word by Vera Baghiroli, qoob tv (22 July 2008).
“I have a fundamental faith in folk, that people are interesting and good.”
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Recorded in: Quoted by Ruth Gledhill in The Times (10 October 2008).
“Art is like a fart for the soul. Better out than in.”
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Recorded in: on the topic of public art, quoted at franceinlondon.com (September 2004).
“It is in the nature of truth not to be at fault.”
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Recorded in: Quoted in The International Herald Tribune (19 September 2005).
“Art should help you to navigate the real challenges of being a human being.”
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Recorded in: Quoted in the documentary Art in a Word by Vera Baghiroli, qoob tv (22 July 2008).
“I believe we have to put art back at the center of everyday life rather than allowing it to become a specialist activity at the margins of society.”
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Recorded in: Quoted in The International Herald Tribune (19 September 2005).
“If we’re being told to do stupid or cruel things, then it is morally correct to disobey.”
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Recorded in: Quoted in the documentary Art in a Word by Vera Baghiroli, qoob tv (22 July 2008).
“I realized that the only possible response was to go to my wonderful local café, Maison Bertaux, check everyone was well, eat a little cake and then make art. To me, making art, and in particular public art, is always an assertion of our humanity and our strength.”
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Recorded in: In response to the London bombings of 7 July 2005, quoted in the International Herald Tribune (19 September 2005).
“Quentin Crisp said it to me; now I say it to you: say yes to everything.”
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Recorded in: Quoted at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts website (December 2009).
“Art’s true purpose is to be human as opposed to some rarefied activity set away from real life. I think art should help you to navigate the real challenges of being a human being.”
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Recorded in: Quoted in the documentary The Question Mark Inside broadcast in the UK by Sky Arts (30 October 2009).
“I do see myself as aiming to foment some kind of revolution.”
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Recorded in: Quoted in the documentary The Question Mark Inside broadcast in the UK by Sky Arts (30 October 2009).
“If the great Western experiment fails and we end up living in totalitarian war-on-terrorism states, one day someone’s going to say, 'Well democracy doesn’t work because they had to give it up’.”
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Recorded in: Quoted in the documentary Art in a Word by Vera Baghiroli, qoob tv (22 July 2008).
“When we speak plainly of death we stand equal to it.”
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“My heart pumping 70 times a minute every minute my whole life. What a task! To reach any age in those terms sounds miraculous!”
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“To embrace the fullness of possible experience without fear strikes me as heroic, impossibly heroic.”
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“There is nothing beautiful or noble about death or fear.”
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“War is always a failure. It means we’ve failed in diplomacy and we’ve failed in talking to one another.”
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“There are many ways to be strong.”
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“The other side of reverence is loathing.”
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“Women are much more honourable than men.”
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“The immense beauty, the vast almost unbearable beauty of justice.”
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“The bodily strength, the fierceness and beauty of young women.”
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“There’s not a lesbian hero that everybody can relate to.”
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“Let’s speak of justice as present in the world, as independent and self-perpetuating.”
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“Look to the day when we can say goodbye to all out heroes because their work is done. Justice is alive, independent, unassailable.”
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“Protest is liberty's ally.”
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“Liberty dies where there is agreement without thought or argument.”
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“The purpose of my life is to try out the ideas I have for it.”
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“Feeling is its own law and truth.”
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“Everything is resurrected in memory.”
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“Everything turns only to memory.”
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“Rain has always been connected in my mind with kindness.”
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“You said in that moment on the beach you were entirely happy.”
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“There's an obligation to try every route to happiness.”
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“Every river can be crossed.”
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“A grave and sincere apology to the people of Iraq.”
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