Ian MacKaye Quotes

I'd much rather talk to a 30-year old that survived rough times in their lives [practicing Straight Edge] rather than someone that was harmed by a culture of violence.

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• As regards literary culture, it fascinates me that it has been so resilient to the Union. For example, when T.S. Eliot wanted to become poet in these lands, it wasn't as an English poet, it was an Anglian poet he wanted to be.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Culture
  • Me
  • English

• To what extent has each one of us contributed to the rise in violence and hatred?

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Violence
  • Hatred
  • Rise

• Scandinavia was awash with Maoism in the '70s. Sweden had Maoist groups with a combined membership and periphery of several thousand members, but it was Norway where Maoism became a genuine popular force and hegemonic in the culture.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Culture
  • Popular
  • Force

• 'I can't get no satisfaction,' in political terms, has haunted Hungarian politics for 20 years.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Political
  • Years
  • Politics

• I like a walking culture; I need to be in a city where you can walk everywhere.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • Culture
  • City
  • Walking

• Diving has been in the game for years. Probably the coverage the game gets now, with all the cameras around, it gets highlighted a bit more. But it hasn't got any worse.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Game
  • Years
  • Now

• It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.

  

  Eddie Cantor
  • Success
  • Years
  • Overnight

• I started submitting stories for publication when I was about 15, but it was many years before I sold anything. I don't make my living writing science fiction, so in that sense, I'm still not a pro.

  

  Ted Chiang
  • Writing
  • Science
  • Years

• I had auditioned for 'The Vampire Diaries' years ago before 'The Originals' happened, so I was familiar with that mythology.

  

  Nathan Parsons
  • Years
  • Vampire
  • Mythology

• Look, I've always said from the word go many years ago that I felt the whole bonus culture, they need to think very carefully about being detached from the rest of the British public.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Think
  • Culture
  • Rest

• I've always felt very much from a mixed culture – mainly English and French, but also Nigerian, Thai, Mexican. Everything's had its influence on me.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • Culture
  • Me
  • English

• When you consider the concept of vampirism, it is inherently part of a Western culture.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Culture
  • You
  • Concept

• I taught sixth grade for three and a half years.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Years
  • Three
  • Half

• We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?

  

  Jack Welch
  • Country
  • Years
  • Said

• I feel the art world in New York has a stronger following than Britain. If you go to a New York art district on a Saturday morning, it will be so busy with families and openings - art is much more ingrained in the culture.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • World
  • Art
  • Culture

• I imagine a future with no waste; material innovations have already become exponentially more vast, and I do think the future needs to be cradle to cradle. If designed properly, one product could be used for many years before needing to be recycled, or its components reused.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Think
  • Future
  • Years

• We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • People
  • Up
  • History

• Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming theirs were the original ideas. It's all part of the business, unfortunately.

  

  Edith Head
  • Business
  • Ideas
  • Years

• For 50 years my father worked for the railroad.

  

  Harold Evans
  • Father
  • Years
  • Railroad

• Futurism: This was a movement of intellectuals who wanted to replace tradition with the modern world of machinery, speed, violence, and public relations. It proves that we should be careful what intellectuals wish for, because we might get it.

  

  Brad Holland
  • World
  • Wish
  • Violence

• 'The Good Guy' is a totally differently-looking New York than 'How To Make It' portrays. 'The Good Guy' is all about Wall Street and that culture, which 'How To Make It' touches on, but 'How To Make It' also is downtown, Lower East Side loft parties, cool clubs, Brooklyn and that world.

  

  Bryan Greenberg
  • World
  • Good
  • Guy

• 'Feminism' is such an incredibly awkward word for us these days, isn't it? Not to be feminist would be bizarre, wouldn't it?

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Word
  • Feminist
  • Feminism

• To drift with every passion till my soulIs a stringed lute on which all winds can play, Is it for this that I have given away Mine ancient wisdom, and austere control?Methinks my life is a twice-written scroll Scrawled over on some boyish holiday With idle songs for pipe and virelay, Which do but mar the secret of the whole.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Control
  • Wisdom

• I'd much rather talk to a 30-year old that survived rough times in their lives [practicing Straight Edge] rather than someone that was harmed by a culture of violence.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Culture
  • Violence
  • Years