Ian MacKaye Quotes

All we wanted to do was to make live records all available. For us, the idea is to make it all available and let people decide which ones they like better. It's not for us to decide. We don't care about that. What we're interested in is the idea that we made these recordings, and they're not doing anybody a damn bit of good sitting in a closet.

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• Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • War
  • Rules
  • Politeness

• I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Life
  • Me
  • Adversity

• I say I have Spanish in me, but I'm not just Spanish. I'm proud of my ethnicities, and I will always be proud of being a Filipino.

  

  Lalaine Vergara-Paras
  • Me
  • Proud
  • Always

• When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.

  

  Irwin Thomas
  • People
  • Music
  • Think

• There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Time
  • Talent
  • Knowing

• The Strokes are one of my favorite bands... And there's this band called Future Islands that I love.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Future
  • Band
  • Favorite

• I think pulling off, pulling off a kind of fake documentary of me being a, you know, actual dictator would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible.

  

  Sacha Baron Cohen
  • Think
  • Difficult
  • Impossible

• The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.

  

  Ed Markey
  • War
  • Terrorism
  • Engage

• I must stick with Chinese language films.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Language
  • Chinese
  • Stick

• In the tight belly of the dead, Burrow with hungry head, And inlay maggots like a jewel.

  

  Karl Shapiro
  • Dead
  • Head
  • Hungry

• The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • Time
  • You
  • Greatest

• If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that because you're not going to have to do all that, you know, 'Prison Break' stuff where you can't really behave and speak like people do in a maximum-security prison.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • People
  • World
  • Best

• We will naturally pursue our goals on the strength of our own resources, skills and enterprise. But, we know that we will be more successful when we do this in partnership with the world.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • World
  • Goals
  • Strength

• Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.

  

  Samuel Gompers
  • Country
  • Me
  • Liberty

• For me to be as effective as possible, I intend to sharpen those skills I need to successfully lead an organization that is growing in size and complexity with each passing year.

  

  Pamela Nicholson
  • Growing
  • Me
  • Organization

• At the end of the day I want to be the guy who experienced music in all type of ways, with hip-hop being the roots of it.

  

  Flo Rida
  • Music
  • Guy
  • Day

• My husband is a brilliant cook - enthusiastic and good - but he has not mastered the clearing up as you go along.

  

  Samantha Cameron
  • Up
  • Good
  • Husband

• Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Proud
  • Fame
  • Often

• For better or worse, in the 21st century, reality shows are the variety show.

  

  Penn Jillette
  • Reality

• I don't think I'm the only person who sees a cataclysm coming, but I think I'm the only person saying it, and I think that scares people.

  

  Augustus Sol Invictus
  • People

• My December is typically one big, sweaty 'wintry mix' blur, not a punch-laden, heartwarming mixer.

  

  Emily Weiss
  • December

• Liberals like using government to solve problems in OUR country and conservatives are using our government to solve problems in OTHER countries.

  

  Matthew Lesko
  • Country

• The blues are what I've turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life.

  

  Eric Clapton Blind Faith
  • Inspiration
  • Blues
  • Relief

• All we wanted to do was to make live records all available. For us, the idea is to make it all available and let people decide which ones they like better. It's not for us to decide. We don't care about that. What we're interested in is the idea that we made these recordings, and they're not doing anybody a damn bit of good sitting in a closet.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • Good
  • Live