Ian MacKaye Quotes
We play loud electric guitar music, and we'd hope that that doesn't mean you have to act like an asshole.
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I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
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If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am! My size is a huge part of me.
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We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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I've personally never had the chance to go to Lambeau Field.
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People think, 'Jack, you do too much.'
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Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.
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I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.
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When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side.
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I do like being busy. I'm not the kind of person who just sits around and goes to a spa when I'm not working.
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As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
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Working with Jack Albertson was one of my great joys.
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
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The way to a man's heart is through his chest.
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If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
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I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that.
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I love the produce section at the grocery store.
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Happy songs are very difficult to write. How many truly great upbeat songs are there?
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Conditional love is love that is turned off and on....Some parents only show their love after a child has done something that pleases them. "I love you, honey, for cleaning your room!" Children who think they need to earn love become people pleasers, or perfectionists. Those who are raised on conditional love never really feel loved.
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I can only speak for myself and my own music, because that is what I am most familiar with, and I write about things that I am living or experiencing.
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Beard's secret is always to be slightly on the edge but to pull back from disaster at the last minute.
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We play loud electric guitar music, and we'd hope that that doesn't mean you have to act like an asshole.
