Ian MacKaye Quotes
It's just hard to have a nuanced discussion with like a thousand people, 30 of which are white-power skinheads.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.
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I don't think auditioning will ever faze me again after the 'Grease' TV experience. It was fierce. There were thousands of people auditioning in four cities. I flew from home in Minneapolis to audition in L.A. I waited in line all day. I arrived at 7 A.M. and wasn't seen until 6 P.M.
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The first complaint we hear from everyone is: 'Why would I want to join this stupid useless thing and know what my brother's eating for lunch?' But that really misses the point because Twitter is fundamentally recipient-controlled - you choose to listen and you choose to leave. But you also choose what to put down and what to share.
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I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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I like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights.
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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.
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In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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I try and groom myself, be it through fitness or dance.
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As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.
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Everyone is handed adversity in life. No one's journey is easy. It's how they handle it that makes people unique.
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By exercising control over a few healthy habits, people can live longer, healthier lives and slow the process of aging.
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To be human is a problem, and the problem expresses itself in anguish.
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I'm done with 'Biggest Loser.'
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I enjoy living in a nice house and having a nice life. So I do two or three commercials overseas a year to sort of fill in, because they pay pretty well.
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It's just hard to have a nuanced discussion with like a thousand people, 30 of which are white-power skinheads.
