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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Part of being a top-20 firm is mind-share.
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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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Those who get stuck doing the same things for too long are bound to get left behind the strong who press on and re-invent themselves.
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I'm coming to this world not to work. I want to come to this world to enjoy my life. I don't want to die in my office. I want to die on the beaches.
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Videos are a very difficult medium to be good at and also a difficult medium to consume quickly.
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'Harlem: The Unmaking of a Ghetto' is a surprise and a fresh way of looking at Harlem, connecting the black district with the architecture of its historical past.
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Of course, we knew that the official reports were sketchy, if not falsified. But, in terms of information theory, this is precisely where the problem lay: How were we to reconstruct reality from incomplete or false reports? It is not true that virtually all news in a totalitarian state is false. On the contrary, most news is completely correct, albeit tendentiously slanded; it is just that certain information is suppressed. One can adjust for the political slanting of the news, but there is virtually no way to fill in the omissions.
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America's problem is how to free itself from the grip of it's exhausted ideas.
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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.
