Ian MacKaye Quotes
Structures can be manipulated for ill as well, especially when people are dealing with issues of power, or control, or violence.
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I don't like the blame game, though.
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You mustn't upstage the bride.
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The colonel replied that he didn't care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.
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Since we can't count on the meat, egg, and dairy industries to protect animals from the most egregious forms of cruelty, what can we, as consumers, do? Opting out of paying someone to allow animals to die in a barn fire or at the slaughterhouse seems pretty reasonable.
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Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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More than 70 percent of seniors are asking for more time. It is long overdue for Congress to listen and make sure that seniors have a prescription drug plan that works for them.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of humankind.
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Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.
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It's such a weird thing: to sit and look at yourself is so distracting to the psyche. It would be like me standing in front of a mirror and looking at myself all day, trying to find a flaw.
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I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.
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When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
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There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.
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I could imagine actually being a scientist or a detective, but not a detective who puts his hands into gory, bloody things. But more like someone who figures things out. I like to figure things out.
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Experimenting with your own life is the most fundamental medium we have.
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Republicans have never been good at public relations.
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The actors that I admire are able to step into so many different roles.
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Livin amuk, never givin a fuck Gimme the keys I'm drunk, and I've never driven a truck.
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Noah came before the flood. I have come before the fire.
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The commandment 'Thou shalt not kill' does not say it's O.K. to kill some people and not others.
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Folk music - and what people are now perceiving as being folk music - is music that's quite close to the ground. The songs sound quite old, even if they're new. They sound like they've been sung by different people for years.
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The funny thing is, when I ask people with dark skin if they would change their color, they tell me no, and when I ask women if they would rather be men, they tell me no, and I get the same response when I ask people with unusual anatomies if they would take a magic pill to erase their unusual features.
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Structures can be manipulated for ill as well, especially when people are dealing with issues of power, or control, or violence.
