Steve Albini Quotes
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I don't fault my former law firm for running their business like a business or expecting their new hire to be worth the obscene rate she was billed out at, but fun it was not.
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The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate the ground that has been left fallow.
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Justice is revenge.
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My nephew has type 1 diabetes, and it's my goal and hope that in his lifetime there will be a cure for diabetes. There's no place better to give the money to than the Juvenile Diabetes Association.
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I think, the people around home are very supportive to us.
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I want to lay all my cards out on the table and walk away with no regrets.
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The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.
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I've been with some of the most quote-unquote beautiful women in the world. But they're so ugly on the inside.
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One of my side strange abilities is to hear a good song, no matter how it's being performed. Even if you get a bad performance, I can still hear that there's a good song.
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What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
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I don't think that attorneys should be in any way running for governor.
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To people who traditionally charge $10,000 for a 3D animating app, we say you should be free-to-play and generate a revenue stream. Think of a 3D modeling package almost like an RPG.
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My Smiths, my Carters, the Cashes - everybody embraced me and held my arms up when I couldn't do it myself.
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Authenticity is a virtue. But just as you can have too little authenticity, you can also have too much.
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I don't intentionally go: 'Ooh, what is provocative,' and try to do that. I just do stuff, and people go: 'Ooh, that's provocative.'
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I am an honest, straight guy.
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Twitter has been a godsend for travelling.
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If we choose to keep those tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, if we choose to keep a tax break for corporate jet owners, if we choose to keep tax breaks for oil and gas companies that are making hundreds of billions of dollars, then that means we've got to cut some kids off from getting a college scholarship.
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I went through a change in my life and my career where I finally understood how to train and prepare. I finally understood what it meant, and I've had so many fantasies about being able to go back and be 16 again. And redo parts of my high school career. Redo all of my college career. Redo my attempt to make an Olympic team.
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Steroids are not healthy, ... There's a real health issue with steroid abuse. At any level, but particularly a young age level. There are many adverse health effects so I think it's a concern we have to take as a college-level group.
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Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation.
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The thing about impressing your girlfriend is that when you do something like a private island in Fiji, it's all downhill from that point.
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I moved to Chicago in 1980 to go to college