Ian MacKaye Quotes

I had a bartender friend once tell me about a $14.00 shot of vodka, this was years ago it's probably more now. I thought that was crazy. From what I understand, vodka has no taste. I think people like the taste of their money.

Ian MacKaye

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• Apparently 'The Office' plays in Brazil. Who would've thought that Brazilians would identify with a bunch of pasty white Scrantonians in a paper company? But the Brazilians I've met have really loved the show.

  

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  • Loved
  • Brazil

• There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.

  

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• One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.

  

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• A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.

  

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• The bad reviews get to me, believe me.

  

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  • Bad
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• I like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
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• I'm not afraid of special effects, but I see them very much as a means to an end.

  

  Daniel Barber
  • End
  • See
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• If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.

  

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• I was a huge comic book fan as a kid. The only problem I had with comic books is how expensive they got. I didn't have a lot of money, so I had to be very specific about what I wanted to collect. I think they're all somewhere in the basement of my folks' house.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Money
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• Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.

  

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• I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Food
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• All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.

  

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  • Action
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  • Thought

• I'm a political conservative.

  

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  • Political
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• I think Hollywood wants to be safe. The things you do first become your calling card, and I think people just sort of go, 'Well, we know he can do that.' They kind of put you in that hole.

  

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• On my desk, I always have a lemon or a lime drying. I love the fragrance. Also, a Staedtler eraser, a brush for the eraser and a pencil sharpener.

  

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• I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff.

  

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• R. Kelly is an image, a brand. That's my job. There's a whole other side of me that's Robert, who is a father, a friend. But then I put on the game face and go into the studio and do the music. That's just another day at the office.

  

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• For many people who are so lost in their minds, so much involved in their thought processes, the only moments they have when they are not trapped in that is when they are relating to their animal, their pet.

  

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  • People
  • Lost
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• I feel quite connected to the past, and my memory. Everything that I've ever done I can still relate to, and feel connected to it in a way. There's no part of my life that I look at and go, 'I don't recognize that person at all.'

  

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  • Life
  • Done
  • Past

• Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society.

  

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  • People
  • Believe
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• I'm just a journalist. I shine a mirror to the culture. I give the cop-out answer.

  

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  • Culture
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• How could such a large door be kept secret from everybody outside, apart from the dragon?" Bilbo asked. He was only a little hobbit you must remember.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Remember
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• I had a bartender friend once tell me about a $14.00 shot of vodka, this was years ago it's probably more now. I thought that was crazy. From what I understand, vodka has no taste. I think people like the taste of their money.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Money