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A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
Banksy
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Banksy
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: July 28
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Robert Banks
Robin Banks
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Fight the fighters, not their wars.
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People either love me or they hate me, or they don't really care.
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If you don't own a train company then you go and paint on one instead... it all comes from that thing at school when you had to have name tags in the back of something... that makes it belong to you. You can own half the city by scribbling your name over it.
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I originally set out to try and save the world, but now I'm not sure I like it enough.
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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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On Painting Rats, and the Glorification of Them. They exist without permission. They are hated, hunted and persecuted. They live in quiet desperation amongst the filth. And yet they are capable of bringing entire civilizations to their knees. If you are dirty, insignificant, and unloved then rats are the ultimate role model.
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