I was listening to a lot of hip hop, music like Public Enemy that was about raising consciousness, and I realised I could feed that directly into my work, using images in a way that was a bit like sampling - taking images from diverse places, exploring the contradictions without trying to hide the seams.


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You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black gu...
CHRIS ROCK
You can tempt me, desert me, or cause me great pain; you can create a dark world that my cause me to...
CHRIS STEWART
I ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers...
CHRIS CLEAVE
Each mistake teaches you something new about yourself. There is no failure, remember, except in no l...
CHRIS BRADFORD
seven times down eight times up like the Daruma doll
CHRIS BRADFORD
The impossible becomes possible if only your mind believes it.
CHRIS BRADFORD
You know, some people say life is short and that you could get hit by a bus at any moment and that y...
CHRIS ROCK
Next Big Thing -- you hear all that crap. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't psyched.
CHRIS O'DONNELL
Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going...
CHRIS BOWKETT
If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is im...
CHRIS EVERT
Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far.
CHRIS EVERT
Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and ...
CHRIS PATTEN
Jesus says, I love you just the way you are. And I love you too much to let you stay the way you are...
CHRIS LYONS
In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks.
CHRIS PATTEN
Every time, all the time, I'm a perfectionist. I feel I should never lose.
CHRIS EVERT
If you're a champion, you have to have it in your heart.
CHRIS EVERT
URLs are the 800 numbers of the 1990's.
CHRIS CLARK
I always looked ahead.
CHRIS EVERT
Black people dominate sports in the United States. 20% of the population and 90% of the final four. ...
CHRIS ROCK
You know when you’re in a movie and you don’t know anybody else in the theater and the most beau...
CHRIS CARRABBA
An open book is an open mind" -Charles Chiltington
CHRIS GRABENSTEIN
Because, my dear friends, these twelve children have lived their entire lives without a public libra...
CHRIS GRABENSTEIN
Books need to have their spines cracked, their covers opened, and their pages ruffled for them to co...
CHRIS GRABENSTEIN
Some people refuse to accept the limits given to them by others.
CHRIS GRABENSTEIN
We all make mistakes. That's why my pencil has an eraser.
CHRIS GRABENSTEIN
I figure when you come to a crossroads, you have a choice: right turn, left turn, straight ahead. Or...
CHRIS GRABENSTEIN
A library doesn’t need windows, Andrew. We have books, which are windows into worlds we never even...
CHRIS GRABENSTEIN
From a distance,' he says, 'my car looks just like every other car on the freeway, and Sarah Byrnes ...
CHRIS CRUTCHER
I'm enjoying the aging process and the gray hair and the wrinkles.
CHRIS PINE
Coldplay fans are the best in the world. If you like Coldplay then you're obviously very intelli...
CHRIS MARTIN
The freedom I have as a U.S. citizen is unparalleled. Despite the fact people may not like American ...
CHRIS CORNELL
Mom spent the time that she was supposed to be a kid actully raising children, her younger brother a...
CHRIS CHRISTIE
Virtual reality is already affecting people on an emotional level much more than any other media, an...
CHRIS MILK
An acoustic show is all about you, and any little nuance or mistake is amplified.
CHRIS CORNELL
There are works of fiction which seek to explain jihadi terrorists as the militant wing of Amnesty I...
CHRIS MORRIS
Whether you like modern incarnations of what country radio hits are, or you like what I'm doing,...
CHRIS STAPLETON
Virtual reality is a technology that could actually allow you to connect on a real human level, soul...
CHRIS MILK
Those who are able to climb up the ladder will find ways to pull it up after them, or selectively lo...
CHRIS HAYES
I try to penetrate the lane like Steve Nash, pass like Jason Kidd, and handle the ball like Allen Iv...
CHRIS PAUL
The 'Bourne' movies are great in their own ways; it introduces a whole other sort of allegor...
CHRIS TERRIO
The difference between me and them is that I'll look at Jesse Jackson and I'll see four Jess...
CHRIS MATTHEWS
Right now, my job is that I'm like an ambulance chaser. I've got to look for movies with whi...
CHRIS ROCK
I love the '40s. I love the '50s. I love the style, I love the clothes. I love how the women...
CHRIS PINE
It's the most amazing feeling to hold your child in your arms.
CHRIS O'DONNELL
There was no animosity in the breakup of Soundgarden.
CHRIS CORNELL
Luckily, I went to school at CalArts, and then ended up here at Disney, starting in the Animation Bu...
CHRIS BUCK
The American audience has really opened up to women being A.) funny and B.) kinda crude. 'Brides...
CHRIS PRATT