Ian McLagan Quotes
I like the fact that Austin's the first place I've ever lived where there's a real sense of community. People care about their neighbors.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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It's for scientists to lay out the data and lay out what they think, and then it's for the public to make up its own mind. We don't live in a priesthood where some small group imposes its views on other people - that's not the way that science works, and it's not the way a democratic society should work.
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In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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The Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center serves as a poignant reminder of our past and a trusted source of education for schoolchildren, community members, and visitors from across the country.
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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.
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There's a lot of garbage, and then there are those ones that just stand out so incredibly. You fight for those roles; you do everything in your power to get it.
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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
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With fandom, people are sensitive, and sometimes defensive, about their experiences.
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Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
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You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
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I feel that my fans have cultivated my talent and they continue to nurture me.
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Men! The only animal in the world to fear.
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The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.
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It's interesting: in the late '80s, there was this really random mix of new wave, industrial, and these early house records. And a lot of it was coming out of Chicago because of Wax Trax! So I always visited Wax Trax Records.
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You can't beat a Diane Von Fostenburg wrap dress; I always tend to go for the wrap dresses with a little more structure. I also love Prada shoes.
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I'm a different person off the court than I am on the court, where I'm very competitive, a perfectionist, and I can be hard on myself sometimes. Off the court, nothing really bothers me. I'm easy-going.
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The advent of cellphones may, in the end, be no more relevant than the ability of laptops to change our written documents into ones using cool new fonts.
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You've just got to be wary around people. You don't know what they want from you. Just in L.A., people have questionable motives. Everybody's kind of got an angle. You've got to be aware of that.
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As a mom, you just don't have time, so you get straight to the point.
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At some point in my life I realized I knew only celebrities, I didn't know any real people. I think it was a master stroke of Fate that in researching the greatest celebrity of them all, I would at last be meeting real people, finding them more extraordinary than celebrities; fascinated by them all and enjoying enduring friendships with some.
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I like the fact that Austin's the first place I've ever lived where there's a real sense of community. People care about their neighbors.
