Ian MacKaye Quotes
Getting your letters or pictures digitized. I don't think it's that important. The more you spend on your materials, you're given the sense that those things are more important due to the total amount spent. You'd probably be better off giving that money to a soup kitchen.
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Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
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Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.
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People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.
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There's no doubt in the world that directing makes you a better actor. Me, anyway. There's no doubt in the world that it makes me a more collaborative actor.
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The box office has become global. I think that factors in to the question of how to portray different ethnicities and cultures.
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I don't think there's a perfect time to have kids. I think first you have to find the perfect person.
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I ain't scared to do another dating show, but I ain't really trying to. I want to do a talk show or something. I've done enough dating on television. I'm ready to spread my wings, and go down other avenues.
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Violence would be a huge gift to those who want a divided Lebanon.
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I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.
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As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.
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Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.
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If you can live in Vegas, or visit Vegas, and leave in one piece, still loving it and somehow laughing about it, you should spend at least part of your last night in town doing something that will serve you well no matter where you go next: thank your lucky stars.
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Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
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Make the wise man within you your living ideal.
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I like to relate to my kids as they are. I enjoy spending that time with them. I see that my girls are so completely different and different from me, too.
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Our soldiers show every single day that they are more than good enough.
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I am not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people's reactions to my aging.
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When I was releasing EPs by myself, I was generating royalties. And when I signed, I thought I'd put those royalties into other artists. And interestingly, streaming is most of the income for those artists.
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My best time is a 3:20 in Paris in 2010, and I trained to try for a 3-hour marathon in New York, but Hurricane Sandy hit, and it was canceled.
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There are always a lot of leading questions and opinions. Of course, our work is creative, and it's subjective.
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I remember once having to stop performing when I thought an elderly man a few rows back from the front was actually going to die because he was laughing so hard.
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In the beginning, I was searching for myself in my music. My music was for me. I didn't have the mental room to be conscious of the listener; I wrote to save myself.
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Eh. Hipster's not really a thing anymore. Plus, hipster or out of touch old dude? Same uniform really.
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Getting your letters or pictures digitized. I don't think it's that important. The more you spend on your materials, you're given the sense that those things are more important due to the total amount spent. You'd probably be better off giving that money to a soup kitchen.
