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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I have always been driven; I've always wanted to be published, and I wanted to make that happen, so I worked very hard. 'Perfectionist' would be a word to describe me.
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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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Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
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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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I didn't feel the tusk go through me. But I did feel this sort of freight elevator coming down, popping the chicken bones, you know. It blinded me. Everything was black. It was bright noon day sun. You mustn't get walked on by elephants.
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Power corrupts, and there is nothing more corrupting than power exercised in secret.
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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
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So many entrepreneurs view their companies as their babies. They micromanage, and they stall.
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The ultimate tyranny in a society is not control by martial law. It is control by the psychological manipulation of consciousness, through which reality is defined so that those who exist within it do not even realize that they are in prison. They do not even realize that there is something outside of where they exist.
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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.
