Top 100 Dean Cavanagh Quotes
#2. Do clocks tell the time or does time tell the clocks?
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#3. There are no tragedies in life, only violent coup d'etats on the state of irrational optimism
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#4. Celebrity is now so common that its inherent absurdity has rendered it inoffensive
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#5. The audience is now fully interactive, unfortunately the spectacle is a corpse
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#7. Most Politicians Are The Whores at The Establishment Party, But We're The Ones Getting Fucked
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#8. For some it is harder to wake up to the truth of life than it is to fall into the sleep of death
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#9. We can depend on nobody in this world, and sometimes we even betray ourselves
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#10. Entertainment alleviates the fear of life, but art vanquishes the fear of death
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#11. To be and not to be, that is the quantum question
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#12. As Your Life Flashes Before Your Eyes At The Point Of Death, Let's Hope The Ad Breaks Have Been Edited Out
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#13. It's not history repeating itself in Gaza, it's horror repeating itself
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#14. The measuring stick of success in Hollywood is covered in shit at both ends
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#16. Spectacular sporting events are bread & circuses. The Superbowl, for instance, is anything but "super". It is a Petri dish under the lens of mediaocrity, where surveillance of the spectators is just as mind numbing as the incomprehensible homo-erotic beefcake ballet being enacted on the pitch
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#17. Climb above the pack but leave the ladder in place for others to follow
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#18. If you want a vision of the future, imagine someone watching a boot stamping on a human face - forever...and 'liking' it.
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#19. Expect the unexpected like a chain smoking, hard drinking, monochrome world dwelling Noir Detective
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#21. Neo-Liberalism promised us a Global Village and gave us a Potemkin Village.
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#23. In The Past, Andy Warhol Will Be Psychic For 15 seconds
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#24. Lucifer waits in the wings applying his makeup, ready to take center stage once his servants have finished entertaining us into insouciance
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#26. Some would rather fall into the sleep of death than wake up to the truth of life
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#27. The Pre-Historic Age Ended With A Bang. This Post-Historic Age Will End With A Cumshot Of An Auto Asphyxiated Minor Celebrity
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#28. Character assassination of a politician is a victimless crime
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#30. The mother tongue of politicians is that of ancient Babylon: a language designed to severely limit discourse within a tower of praise to elitism, a language carried on breath's reeking of the fecal matter from their paymasters
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#31. How Long Before Monsanto Try to Patent The Milk of Human Kindness
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#32. Jay-Z and Kanye West are to authentic rap culture what diseased rates were to 14th century Europeans
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#33. Ne plus ultra of interactivity: a surgeon operates on his own brain whilst filming and watching it through his phone
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#34. Corporate advertising is simply expensive lying dressed up as brainwashing
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#35. The only "right" answer is one that can be questioned.
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#36. The Oscars Ceremony: a great workout for the gag reflex
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#37. The born again nihilist has nothing to blame for their fall
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#38. The love you make is equal to the love you fake.
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#39. Time Is Speeding Up In Relation To Corruption. Hold On Tight.
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#41. When failing spectacularly the trick is to employ an inverted Schadenfreude. Take ownership of your misfortune.
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#43. When selling your soul it's important to remember that there is no buy back clause in the contract
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#44. Faking your own death is illegal, yet faking your own life is celebrated
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#45. The atheist suicide bomber is unfaithfully committed to his mission
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#46. Fame & fortune come with a price that fame finds insulting and fortune can't afford to pay back.
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#48. De-calcify the pineal gland with the detergent of imagination
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#49. The Devil fights from behind barricades of linguistic complexity, but the war of words will be won by those armed only with simplistic truths
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#50. You Won't Be Thanked For Kicking Down The Doors of Perception And Revealing Infinity To Others.
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#52. The Path Of Least Resistance Is Littered With The Corpses Of The Bored To Death
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#53. The best sleep imaginable is sleeping in your dreams
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#54. Perfection in art is a crime against humanity. Perfect humanity in crime is art
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#57. We don't fall in love, we fall in lust. We ascend to love.
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#58. The body politic: the slow agonizing death of demarcation & the quick Caesarian section birth of chaos.
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#59. The most fulfilling romance is an heroic relationship with yourself. You live and die by your own imagination.
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#60. Atheists are the most faithful people I ever met
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#61. Corporatism trying to redeem itself through charity is akin to a serial killer offering to pay a fine for his crimes.
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#62. Both precious and absurd, this tightrope of existence we walk in both directions; strung only on a rhythm of heartbeats across a void
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#63. The Avant Gardener feeds flowers to his manure and charges prices he believes are not to be sniffed at
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#64. The fictitious kleptomaniac's only crime was stealing imaginations
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#65. The Social Engineers wet dream is to be able to surveil us in our sleep
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#66. Evil triumphs when good men refuse to call it evil
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#67. Culture now spreads at central nervous system speed. It's a shame that compassion doesn't.
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#68. Truth is quantum. It is beyond space and time. Relativity only proves this.
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#69. You can't live in the digital and die in the analog.
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#70. The Establishment Won't Be Satisfied Until They Have Turned Us All Into Plato's Cavemen
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#71. We only set the clocks back and forth in the arrogant belief we have some influence with almighty Time.
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#72. True Love Isn't Hearts & Flowers. It's Blood & Guts & Bouquets Of Barbed Wire
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#73. The Plutocracy's insatiable hunger for pixelated information is enough to put a bulimic Pac-Man to shame
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#74. The shallow of the highs and the depths of the lows
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#75. The ego camouflages itself like a fox born and raised in a hen house. Its only worry is that you fail to notice its presence every so often and start acting without fear
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#76. The obsession with the afterlife is born of a panic at not having memories of a before-life.
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#77. Keeping your mouth shut whilst eating shit will get you far in life but your soul will die of starvation.
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#78. Central Bankers are driving us to Hell in a vehicle We are paying the installments on
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#79. Would a DNA test for love take a sample from the heart or the mind?
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#80. Artist Matthew Barney has made a film about "shit". It is hardly original. Hollywood has made shit films for decades.
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#81. We have an infinite capacity for self interest, yet the infinite has absolutely no interest in us
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#82. It Takes 17 Muscles To Smile and 42 To Frown ... It Takes Only 13 Muscles to Throw A Molotov Cocktail
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#83. In the 18th Century William Blake saw Heaven in a grain of sand. Most people nowadays can't even see the writing on the wall.
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#84. The Present Celebrates Those Who Say "Yes". History Exalts And Remembers Those Who Said "No
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#85. Analytically speaking, Sigmund Freud talked out of his arse
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#87. We buy our chains from our jailers and only when we put need before desire will we escape the prison of neo-liberalism
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#88. The desideratum of the philosophy "better to have never been" is parents being charged with manslaughter for bringing children into the world
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#89. A great irony is that the quest for secular immortality is being funded by foundations and individuals who seem to hate life
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#90. Time is an abstraction of eternity. A glimpse, for mortals, of what could be if we spend ours wisely in life.
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#91. The generation that bought the most shoes and crippled the moral footing
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#93. The only sound I'd like to hear from a Motivational Speaker is a death rattle
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#94. Destruction is as valid an artistic statement as construction. Both statements echo the model of the society we live in. The only invalid art is utopian
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#95. You never know whether you've already experienced your greatest moment or your worst
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#97. Van Gogh would have to cut his cock off to make an impression nowadays
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#98. The Quantum Mechanic will fix your car, but it won't work unless you observe him fixing it
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#99. There's more than enough for the many, but somehow never enough for the few
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#100. Those who understand the true nature of humanity are always loners
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