Ian MacKaye Quotes
In the late 90s, there was a reverse. Everyone would stand stock still and be so attentive and quiet. But then, it was almost like, "C'mon people! Engage - make a show with us!" You can hear these different eras pass through in the recordings.
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I care most about how people live their lives, what choices they make, and how they get the best from themselves.
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I'm never nervous about being vulnerable with my songwriting because my favorite artists are ones that are vulnerable. I want people to feel like they know me.
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People should be able to express their culture without getting into all that chauvinistic thing.
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People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.
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When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.
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Religious beliefs are sacred to people, and at all times should be respected and honoured.
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Caring about policy is important - people in washington forget.
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I'm not saying that Sam J. Jones was Flash Gordon - there's no such thing. No actor can be the person, that's a bunch of crap. People pay to see an actor be himself, whether he plays Hamlet or whatever.
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I believe that often people even stay in bad relationships longer than they should because the fear of the pain of dating is scarier than the pain of a bad relationship!
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I have met hundreds of young people doing just what George Romney did: using a hand up in tough times to become part of the American Dream.
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All my life, people have asked me what I was so mad about. 'Why you so mad?' And I was never mad. I'm not mad, I just look mad.
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A lot of the time when people get married in the infatuation, it will go down. That is inevitable. The infatuation stage will not last forever.
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So many people try to grow up too fast, and it's not fun! You should stay a kid as long as possible!
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Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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I think it's difficult to be No. 1. 'There's too much attention, too much expectation from other people.
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A dark house is always an unhealthy house, always an ill-aired house, always a dirty house. Want of light stops growth and promotes scrofula, rickets, etc., among the children. People lose their health in a dark house, and if they get ill, they cannot get well again in it.
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We lived in a flat that you could pretty much fit in my current kitchen. No wonder people drink! I can't understand why they don't throw themselves off the balconies.
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There are things that I love in Iranian cinema and things that I don't. In Iranian cinema, you have to use metaphor because you are living under a dictatorship.
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Every film is faced with the enemy of time. Only so much story can fit into the 90-150 minutes of time that moviegoers are willing to stay in their seats. Naturally, compression is necessary. So are the exclusion and amalgamation of characters so that the viewer does not become bewildered.
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To win a gold medal at Olympic Games has long been my dream ever since I started my career as a table tennis player.
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The most important thing is not to be dogmatic but flexible and consistent.
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In the late 90s, there was a reverse. Everyone would stand stock still and be so attentive and quiet. But then, it was almost like, "C'mon people! Engage - make a show with us!" You can hear these different eras pass through in the recordings.
