Decontextualizing Quotes

#1. Cutting and pasting is the essence of what hip-hop culture is all about for me. It's about drawing from what's around you, and subverting it and decontextualizing it.

DJ Shadow

#2. You may not realize this, but people have the power to change the world.

Morrissey

#3. Why is Mediocrity now good enough?
When did crap become the new black?

Igor Goldkind

#4. We are watching the beginnings of the defiant self-assertion of a new generation of Americans, a generation who are looking forward to finishing their education with no jobs, no future, but still saddled with enormous and unforgivable debt.

David Graeber

#5. I got to work with my wife, Lena Olin, for the first time, which was great. I thought it might be difficult in some way to talk to one's wife in a different way but it was so not forced.

Lasse Hallstrom

#6. There's a fine line between standing behind a principle and hiding behind one.

Dean Devlin

#7. His memories were too sad, his hopes too thin. To have to say things on paper seemed a terrible task, for it stirred the memories.

Larry McMurtry

#8. Everlasting peace will come to the world when the last man has slain the last but one.

Adolf Hitler

#9. He who has rejected his demons badgers us to death with his angels

Henri Michaux

#10. Obviously when it comes to the question of telling stories about other people's lives in a situation as political as South Africa, you get to be political.

Athol Fugard

#11. The way I see it, people are working hard. They're working their fingers to the bone. Or am I looking at things wrong?
That's not hard work. It's just manual labour.

Haruki Murakami