Ian MacKaye Quotes
American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.Ian MacKaye
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An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.
Sam Francis -
The Romantics were whipping boys of the New Criticism, but they appealed to me anyway. I was recalcitrant. It was clear to me that they had thought innovatively.
M. H. Abrams -
There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
Lady Gaga -
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
Abraham Maslow -
I look good. I feel good and not to sound conceited I sound great.
AJ McLean -
I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'
Daniel Curtis Lee
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The West has become the world model; developing countries are dreaming of living like us, which is impossible. They should reject our model, because it is not sustainable. Developing countries should even give us the example, but unfortunately that's not what happens.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand -
Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
Caleb Cushing -
When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
Irving Layton -
My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
Laura Mvula -
Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.
Imtiaz Ali -
I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
G. Willow Wilson
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It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me.
Karl Rove -
Storms and darkness scared me, but somehow it encouraged me to learn about nature and I think nothing's dark, dark is beautiful too.
Bai Ling -
Eighty-five per cent of the crowd is going to fall in love with me - they're going to feel it, wow. But fifteen per cent are going to think, 'This guy is obnoxious.' I spend enormous time with them - every negative review of 'Crush It!' on Amazon has a response from me - and I can probably bring back ten of the fifteen.
Gary Vaynerchuk -
I got a big mouth.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
The challenge is how strange and different my voice sounds, so I have tried to sound like other people and tried to be something I wasn't. I have tried to be a soul singer because someone else thought that a good idea. Not because I did.
Valerie June -
We would like to make it quite clear that we are not migrants into the U.K. But we are the citizens of a state that belongs to the European Union who can take jobs anywhere freely within the European Union.
Viktor Orban
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Male writers don't want to be judged in the room. They want to be able to scarf an entire bag of potato chips while cracking fart jokes and making lewd comments without fear of feminine disapproval. But we're your co-workers, not your wives.
Nell Scovell -
Joyous Sound evolved from a gospel influence. Actually it evolved out of sitting at a piano and just picking out a riff, a gospel type riff. It just seemed to come joyously-something about the song, about living in another place of joyous sounds. I'm not quite sure-that's one I'm trying to analyze. It just came out.
Van Morrison -
If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old.
Martin Luther -
Nelson Mandela can rot in prison until he dies or I die, whichever takes longer.
P. W. Botha -
I think writers can get a little melodramatic sometimes about their work, and it helps me not to do that, to just say, "Well, this is how I make a living, and I need to become a very good craftsman."
Donald Miller -
American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
Ian MacKaye