Ian MacKaye Quotes
I appreciate the past, but I want to make new things. That's the problem with the sack on the back - if you carry it around with you, it's like you get hobbled.
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Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
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What I have found most surprising is the amount of damage we have done to environment in the course of my lifetime - not even five and a half decades.
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I didn't agree with what Joe McCarthy was trying to do, but I sure did admire his methods.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.
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A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
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I'm the guy that has written at great length about exactly how we should profoundly reform Social Security. If I were afraid of going after entitlements, I wouldn't have done that, I wouldn't have put Medicaid reform in this budget, I wouldn't have called for the reductions in spending, which people will scream about, but I think are necessary.
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Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren't very dramatic. Life? Liberty? The pursuit of happiness? Nope, it's about stock options.
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My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.
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There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.
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A designer is like a doctor for a woman. He has a specific job, and if he is doing it well, he will have the gratitude of the woman for the rest of his life.
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I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'
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I didn't get into rap to be no lyrical genius. I got into rap to feed my family and help the people in need around me, that's it. A lot of people say, 'Man, Waka Flocka ain't go no lyrics,' so I was like, 'Yeah, you right!'
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
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If it weren't for how esoteric the art world likes to be, I would love actually to play the music in the shows, painting the music that influences me most.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion.
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Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
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Signing up to be an organ donor should be at least as easy as downloading a song to your iPhone.
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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
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Once we know the plot and its surprises, we can appreciate a book's artistry without the usual confusion and sap flow of emotion, content to follow the action with tenderness and interest, all passion spent. Rather than surrender to the story or the characters - as a good first reader ought - we can now look at how the book works, and instead of swooning over it like a besotted lover begin to appreciate its intricacy and craftmanship. Surprisingly, such dissection doesn't murder the experience. Just the opposite: Only then does a work of art fully live.
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In love, there is no distinction between success and failure. If love remains then even separation is union otherwise even union is separation.
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Grief was a terrible and beautiful thing.
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I appreciate the past, but I want to make new things. That's the problem with the sack on the back - if you carry it around with you, it's like you get hobbled.
